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Europe is also overrun with moslem immigrants, legal and illegal that have made their countries unsafe for their own citizens. Thankfully the US has a president willing to put a stop to the same thing happening here. They all need to grow some and deport if they don’t want shariah law.

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Trump is a mixed bag but he's certainly going to do some needed things for America. Circling the wagons and all that. Will he make it great again? What makes countries great is energy resources primarily, followed by a rich supply of all the other resources that energy allows them to further capitalize upon. America became great because until 1970 they were with regards to domestic oil endowment what Saudi Arabia became after that, in addition to sitting on a vast untapped landmass in all the other ways that matter. Now? Their last big energy deal is the Permian Basin, and its best days - by the math - were done by 2017. It's been a huge reserve, but the economic terms of producing it have never been anywhere remotely close to being favorable as compared to pre-1970 conventional oil that made America great. America can maintain a while longer on Permian oil, but the terms cannot make them great, regardless of policy or innovation or anything else. America may still be a big deal, but they are in decline, and they are losing their hold as the globe's hedgemon. So what made Europe great (or Germany at least, the countries driving Europe)? Where did Germany get the energy to drive that economy? As i understand it, it was cheap oil from Russia. But you've royally fucked that golden goose backing Ukraine, a stunningly stupid stratetic error given the dependency, perhaps fatal to life as you've known it. I think you would have been far better off aligning yourselves with the BRICS nations than with the USA, but i suspect you've burned that bridge. Pundits are predicting that while the 20th Century was the century of the U.S. - "the US" - the 21st will be the century of "The Other" - BRICS. You'd have maintained proximity in your favor maintaining Russian allegience. Proximity is a big economic deal, and you will now be forced to get your energy from the far side of the globe on the terms of a country in its own state of energy decline that doesn't much care about you. At any rate, i doubt Europe has any other choice than to accept Trump's deal, now. You don't have your own energy reserves sufficient to maintain your status. You can be assured it will be good for the huge but nonetheless falling star that is America. I doubt it will be so good for Europe. We're gonna find out!

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I wrote this article with the same title. I think it's worth reading. I hope you like it: https://open.substack.com/pub/newtonfreeman/p/make-europe-great-again?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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We need to slowly disengage from the defense of Europe and let that rich group of nations spend the money necessary for their own survival. Similarly, if anyone believes that the American people will allow their children to be sacrificed to prevent the ultimate and unavoidable reunification of Taiwan with mainland China is quite insane.

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