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"My fellow Europeans, we need to talk about America."

*sigh* Well... if we must. You know the zeitgeist is moving fast when vieux (neo)cons like Ilves become the human embodiment of the I'M NOT OWNED!! drill meme and turn into a corn cob who insists Macron was not right, or that he was right in the wrong way. (Bad faith actors who show their whole arse on twitter do not deserve to be taken seriously, but they can be useful weathervanes.)

"And more importantly, do they understand the sovereignty implications of this invitation by their governments?"

Russia is the only threat to their sovereignity they see. Well, some also fear globohomo EU gays who will make them gay by forcing them to eat gay insects. But for most sane Eastern Europeans America Good and America Benevolent Hegemon and America Convenient and Cheap Sugar Daddy. Sane doesn't mean smart. But Germany is far from the only EU country seemingly incapable (and obviously unwilling) of producing political elites capable of thinking ahead of the next village/land election. So from their vantage point this voluntary blindness used to make sense.

"It’s as if Europe is a child suffering under an alcoholic father, and they just have to wait powerlessly hoping their father stops drinking."

Yup. And nobody likes the uncool parent who tells you you HAVE to make your bed, do your homework and brush your teeth. Especially not this guy

https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1137093145487990784?lang=es

or guys like Speck who are paid to make sure Europe doesn't dare do move on from the protectorate.

“In the end, France only cares about itself”

Which it finds easy to shrug off oh so galically because this accusation comes from GERMANY lmao or countries that have never given a single shit about anybody but themselves in the EU, who treat the EU as a cash machine and refuse to even acknowledge EU law as applying to them. Bof.

"why wouldn’t European Sovereignty be an ideology worth embracing on its own merits? Are Europeans really content to have their fate decided by a handful of voters in Iowa?"

Yes. That's the very essence of being immature and entitled. Until life comes at you fast.

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One angle of this story that I feel is not getting any media coverage is that France is increasingly winning the Brexit relocation sweepstakes of American companies being forced to relocate from the UK to someplace in the EU27. Major American banks and there CEOs such as Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America have spoken quite positively about the business climate of France and Macron's governance. Yet outside of some American and French publications you hear very little about this. You definitely don't see much coverage of BofA moving jobs from London to Paris in the Nordic or Eastern European press. In fact, the view of the Nordic, Baltic and Eastern European press seems to be that "economic" and "business" stories like this are frivolous and what really counts in the world is geopolitical and military hard power.

**I actually think there are a bunch of reasons including a certain degree of embarrassment that no matter how pro American Poland's government is there is simply no way that New York City based JPMorgan was going to have it's post Brexit EU headquarters in Warsaw.

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