USA: Friedrich Merz nennt Teile der neuen US-Sicherheitsstrategie „inakzeptabel“

Translation:

It seems there is complete unity in Washington, and the „EU – Fourth Reich“ poster reflects the shared opinion of Trump and his team — not simply Musk’s anger over the imposed fine.

sounds like a heck of an opportunity for Europe, to me… of course, I know nothing…

but work with me here: suppose France and Germany together could agree on terms to become one people. Directed by one parliament. There’d have to be votes for regions and votes for peoples, who knows, sounds like a good idea from a great distance.

But if they could get it done: they’d be a monster. They’d be unstoppable. They could gradually offer those same terms to selected other countries to join up, and who knows, maybe build a real Europe. With real unity and real power. They’d never have to mention shared values to US diplomatic representatives again. Draghi’s report would be all taken care of, and you all could move on and do great things. Right? Huh?

Will we ever stop sucking US dick?

Ukraine had and still has very little, yet it withstood the Russian hordes with minimal support. It’s now withstanding the pressure from the mighty US, a Russian ally.

Europe has so much more now + a great potential, yet we’re gridlocked in perpetual bureaucratic pursuit unable to address pressing issues such as seizing Russian assets and kicking out obvious Russian puppet states out of the EU.

So the only „strategy“ we seem to have any hopes for is to keep begging our enemies for mercy and friendship in exchange for our sovereignty and freedoms.

Are we *that* weak really?

Polite term for ‚full of shit‘.

We are so fucking sorry our european friends! We dont want him as chancelor, but we cant change it.

Love u ❤️🇩🇪💀🇪🇺💔

I don’t think he’s throwing europe under the bus here like other comments suggest, he probably realized that it’s very very very easy to change Trumps mind in person and he’s setting himself up for an invitation

„In my talks with the Americans, I say: ‚America first is fine,‘ but ‚America alone‘ cannot be in your interest.“ His message to the US was rather: „You also need partners in the world, and one of those partners can be Europe. And if you can’t do anything with Europe, then at least make Germany your partner,“

ROFL. How is this guy allowed to be a chancellor?

For those wondering why Europe may be doing this, I think it’s interesting to look at the Prisoner’s dilemma game. I’ll take this from my game theory class I’m in right now.

There are two players. The other player you encounter can be described as „bully 2“. This player will defect and then cooperate on alternating plays (defect, cooperate, defect, cooperate). He will only do this if you continue to cooperate unconditionally in all rounds, and if you defect once, he will then defect unconditionally in all future rounds.

If you accept the bully’s proposition and cooperate unconditionally, then the payoffs every round will be 0 for you and 5 for him when he defects, and 3 and 3 for both of you when he cooperates. This would give you an average payoff of 1.5, and him an average payoff of 4.

If you defected against him once, however, he will defect in all future instances. Since defect is the only rational response to a defection (because cooperating when another defect gives you a payoff of 0 and him a payoff of 5), you and him will be locked into a payoff of 1 for both of you forever.

Therefore, taking the bully’s proposition and getting an average payoff of 1.5 is better than defecting and getting an average payoff of 1. The only logical response to bully 2 under the conditions of this game is unconditional cooperation.

He might even send them a strongly worded letter.