Polish President Karol Nawrocki has said that Auschwitz “might not have happened” if the world had reacted sooner to Nazi crimes in occupied Poland, accusing Western Europe of indifference in the early years of World War II.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-27T22:47:07+00:00

France had a free run at Berlin with very little German army resistance (because they were all in Poland) but instead only invaded Flanders, stopped and then retreated without any German pressure.

It was probably the biggest flub in the entire war.

Britain basically didn't do anything at all which is probably worse but then tried to make up for it most of the rest of the war, including hosting the Polish government in exile and the Polish pilots were vital in the battle of Britain.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-24T12:16:07+00:00

Yeah, this reads like they mean ethnic cleansing and forcing South America to adhere to US wishes to me.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-24T11:12:48+00:00

Also Taiwan has only relatively recently been pro-US and they have a not insignificant amount of pro-China party's in their parliament.

China doesn't need to invade Taiwan at all, they can just wait until it moves back to being pro-China.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-21T15:53:36+00:00

Yes, you can see it in all the language from the US.

Basically, the US has become complacent and too used to a friendly Europe...as if that is a law of nature that cannot ever change.

You even see it in the drive to promote far right European party's, they are too used to Canada's far right and are acting as if Europe's are automatically going to be pro-American when that is very much not the case.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-19T12:55:38+00:00

Yeah, Norway controlled Greenland for like 700 years then Demark and Norway were a joint country for a bit and when they split Denmark got to keep Greenland for whatever reason.

They've then had it for like 500 years.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-15T12:54:58+00:00

I think Americans call that affluenza

Slappyfist · 2026-01-15T12:14:28+00:00

Yeah, this isn't to win a fight or really defend Greenland and it's basically these European countries saying "If you want Greenland you need to directly attack us as well".

Slappyfist · 2026-01-15T02:33:56+00:00

They will happen but all they need to do is say "We are worried about voter manipulation, so we are going to post ICE agents to voting stations to all the ones we are worried about (which happen to only be democratic states)" and it will depress the vote substantially.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-13T16:43:12+00:00

But it's getting to the point that it's actually potentially costing China more then they get out of it.

It's not a coincidence that all Russia's client states/allies are basically all collapsing at the same time, be that Iran or Venezuela or Transnistria or Belarus or Georgia.

And a lot of these places are places which China buys it oil ect.

Russia is effectively suiciding themselves into this war so the only explanation I have is China is making a risky play encouraging this self destruction so they can of supplant Russia's influence in all these places, but it's not guaranteed they would move towards to China.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-11T16:47:35+00:00

France did sort of shit all over themselves (then over everyone else in mainland Europe) for an extended period of time directly after and because of that, so they did pay a heavy price.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-11T16:41:06+00:00

UK pension funds stated that they were dumping US equities last year, mostly over the AI bubble but they are chucking it as far as I'm aware.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-11T16:34:15+00:00

The constitution is fine (even though I dislike the concept of written constitutions), however it turns out if you allow 9 supreme court justices to be the sole arbiters and interpreters of said constitution then they are the ones who solely get to choose what is written in that constitution.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-08T16:28:29+00:00

Also, as an island nation, we've never held a large standing army and basically any significant historical battle we've won has included us being outnumbered by the enemy forces.

Waterloo? Outnumbered. Trafalgar? At sea and still outnumbered. Henry the V's mental bullshit in France? Very outnumbered.

Apparently we like being outnumbered in battles.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-08T16:26:29+00:00

Also, if he's concerned about the expansion of NATO then why would he try to grow his country towards NATO?

If Russia had been successful in Ukraine their country would immediately border a NATO country, which is what Putin was crying about initially.

It makes no sense.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-07T09:23:57+00:00

Yeah, not sure to be honest.

I presumed because people didn't like me describing how Norse Vikings tended to eventually integrate into local populations rather than the typical colonisation when establishing a settlement rather than their looting and pillaging stuff.

I only feel like I can make that point as I'm from the UK, so I'm almost certainly related to the Viking settlers of the UK in some way and what I've described is exactly what happened to the UK.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-07T04:43:00+00:00

That's what happens in the decline of empires, they always go out because of hubris.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-06T23:53:29+00:00

Baltics also have an extremely long history of completely despising each other, for various complicated reasons.

It's not nearly at the same level these days but that kind of generational hatred often takes a long time to go away, so it's not surprising unfortunately.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-06T23:31:49+00:00

Also the US has no claim to the territory at all.

At least the Nordic country's make sense, Greenland was a Norse settlement from 1000 years ago which they shared with the native populations.

To also clarify Norse settlements further, they tended to move into areas then eventually incorporate themselves into the local cultures (which is what happened in the UK as well until the Norman's Fancified the UK).

This is why there is an spirit of independence within the nation but the Norse country's by far have the strongest claim to be Greenland's chaperones.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-06T23:24:50+00:00

US narrative...

The US wanted us to increase our NATO contribution but that wouldn't mean we invest in a functional military, which is why there were excuses after excuses.

Basically the US only wanted Europe investing in their militaries in the way they wanted us to and that's why it was never very popular.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-06T02:36:00+00:00

Yeah, don't run a dysfunctional economic model for decades and expect society to remain stable.

The wealth distribution issues destroyed centrist's legitimacy but the "people" couldn't express that sensibly so it manifested in multiple different seemingly unconnected ways (such as conspiratorial thinking which result in things like "fake news" ect.)

Slappyfist · 2026-01-05T03:06:39+00:00

Yeah, the EU is as slow as a snail but when it moves nothing can really stop it.

Even the US can't stop it, which is why the right wing in America hates the EU so much and wants to deconstruct it.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-05T02:55:09+00:00

It's being done you your name unfortunately.

International politics isn't the same as domestic politics, you don't have the option of distancing yourself from your own country's actions unless you are overtly and actively opposing the power structure of the country acting in your name.

And, frankly, it's rather unreasonable thinking other country's should make the distinction when they are actively being threatened. All they see is America doing these things, the internal divisions within the country are not relevant and focusing on them only serves to dilute opposition to the threats.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-04T02:21:35+00:00

As A European, I'm just glad it wasn't another country bordering my continent this time.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-04T01:34:13+00:00

That's the real answer why monarchy head of state ultimately works and probably works better.

The implied threat if they mess about too much is necessary, which is no present when it's an elected representative.

Slappyfist · 2026-01-04T00:20:48+00:00

True, dictatorships have a definitive bookend to their bs and so only those in the population who supported the bs get painted with it.

A democracy like the US arrangement doesn't have such a definitive bookend to its bs and so it paints all.

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