Europe can easily get it's conventional gear to defend itself, but what is lacking is the nuclear balance — ssu

So has Vance.... It's easy to say no when your self-interest is not at stake. — Vera Mont

Not a chance — frank

So do I. But they also have to take a broader view and team up with pro-democratic factions in Asia, Africa and South America. — Vera Mont

Protesters opposed what they saw as widespread government corruption, abuse of power, human rights violations, and the influence of oligarchs. — Euromaidan (2013-2014)

Protesters opposed what they saw as widespread government corruption and abuse of power, the influence of Russia and oligarchs, police brutality, human rights violations, and repressive anti-protest laws. — Revolution of Dignity (2014)

I said it on behalf of my country, to Trump. In semi-jocular response to jorndoe's suggestion that we vote in their elections. Which, as a single state, would only give us 50 seats in Congress - 20-30 of them likely conservative - and two in the Senate. Not much of a bargain in return for our human rights, legal system, foreign policy, health care, oil, bauxite, water and lumber. — Vera Mont

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. [...] — Truth Matters · Feb 14, 2025 · 3m:39s

Trump’s post is a direct threat to the rule of law. This is a constitutional crisis in the making. Stay vigilant. — Eliza Orlins · Feb 16, 2025 · 1m:10s

I think that we should ditch the geographical locations and look more towards national values. Like a EU but globally, for stable democracies who operate on human rights. — Christoffer

Misinformation and “false beliefs” is not a threat, never has been — NOS4A2

The conflict seems fairly far removed from us here in the US. — BitconnectCarlos

Washington DC and Moscow    = 7817 km (4857 mi)
Washington DC and Kyiv      = 7828 km (4864 mi)
Washington DC and Jerusalem = 9490 km (5897 mi)

(a) study the scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes, including the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, Government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism; — ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN COMMISSION · The White House · Feb 13, 2025

In diplomacy you engage the sides, not leave them out and decide on yourself. And the attempts on war-profiteering are made by Trump. — ssu

Sides have been engaged, which is a far cry from what Europe and NATO has done. — NOS4A2

Ukraine wasn't invited.

No way. Trump and Musk tried to fire 300 nuclear officials—then realized they were the ones overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal and scrambled to rehire them?

You can’t make this level of incompetence up. These are the people who claim they’ll “restore order.” — Brian Allen · Feb 14, 2025

Already, the Post reports, candidates for national-security posts in the new administration are being asked whether they accept Trump’s false claim to have won the 2020 election. At least two candidates for higher positions at the FBI were also asked to state who the “real patriots” were on January 6, 2021.

In some government departments, minority employees have set up affinity groups, purely voluntary forums for conversation or social events. A number of government agencies are shutting these down; others are being disbanded by organizers who fear that membership lists will be used to target people.

Democracy has always contained the possibility of its own undoing, it just takes a majority vote of someone non- or anti-democratic. — Dec 27, 2023

You don’t think people wanted DOGE? — NOS4A2

So it doesn't make any difference to you if you live in a democracy or a dictatorship. It's the same thing either way. — frank

Canada, Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, to join extended EU, and form defense alliance which includes Greenland (and California) — now the largest democratic cooperative around — hypothetical news headline

Every illegal alien has committed a crime. That’s a 100% crime rate. — NOS4A2

the president of the United States

Limiting anthropogenic warming remains the most sound strategy for avoiding the most severe heat events

South Asia and West Africa seem at most risk at the moment

Do peruse that article linked in the OP. — Wayfarer

Mr. Musk, who leads a cost-cutting initiative the administration calls the Department of Government Efficiency, boasted on Saturday that his willingness to work weekends was a “superpower” that gave him an advantage over his adversary. The adversary he was referring to was the federal work force.