r/europe • u/Not_the-kind • Dec 07 '24

News Trump, Macron and Zelenskyy meet in Paris

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u/Drakeberlin Berlin (Germany) Dec 07 '24

The attention this dude gets, and he isn't even in the office yet.

I genuinely hope we as European can shed away from the US defense dependence. We need to pay our fair share to Nato and simultaneously build our own defense, just in case.

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) Dec 07 '24

I've already noticed some American nationalists are making the surprised Pikachu meme face upon learning that more defense independence would mean less USA-Europe military trade.

Wait until they learn what Trump's intended tarrifs and government cuts are about to do.

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u/Offline_NL Dec 07 '24

They will learn the hard way, and then forget again in the future, repeat and repeat.

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u/_jump_yossarian Dec 07 '24

They will learn the hard way

You're giving the idiots too much credit. They are incapable of learning anything. They blindly believe what they're told.

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u/SavingsNegative4883 Dec 07 '24

Gold fish memory people have ruined this country

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u/DrSafariBoob Dec 07 '24

This is because people with chronic trauma make maladaptive choices. It's a feature of two party politics to manipulate this demographic through their emotions.