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That we should have kept the old road to India instead of listening to Christopher Colombus and his whack ideas?
Chocolate was worth it.
Potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla
We had fava beans in Europe I think. But add to that list peppers, turkey, tobacco…
Turkey was called the ottoman empire back then and didn’t need help in making itself known.
Yes, yes, and Istanbul was Constantinople
But is Europeans’ coming to their senses enough to compensate for Americans’ losing theirs?
Hmmmm…
… Europe “didn’t believe a full-scale brutal war, like what we saw last time during the Second World War, was possible.”
Now, Tsahkna said, his European allies have realized their error. …
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I’ll go one further, I reject the entire framing. It’s the Trumpist framing where Europe wasn’t pulling its weight because its military investment in dollars was too low.
The change Europe needs to make isn’t just about investment (although there is that), and certainly not about investment at the expense of lower standards elsewhere. The change is the decoupling from a major ally in all sorts of areas to secure some semblance of an independent strategic position.
The problem is that process isn’t finished. Orban is blocking European cohesion more than Trump is. Romania is about to join that club. Germany isn’t looking great going forward. I’d put money on the UK effing it up before they do, though. How does a liberal European alliance come together under fire from external pressure and internal fifth columnists? This isn’t a cold war of blocs. At least not yet.
We have bigger questions to answer than whether we should have spent more money on tanks, unfortunately. Should definitely be spending more money on tanks, though.
