I dare say we are all personally affected, regardless of when we will start to realize it.

And all of this f**kery when humanity would need to come together to save itself from the impending doom that is the climate catastrophe.

People like Vlad help me to stay sane these days.

And so do I. I wonder what needs to happen to get back to this state, and how many years, if not decades, it will take, and if the EU democracies can withstand the combination of external pressure and internal democratic decline.

Fair point. Generalization is not helpful when we need all the allies we can get to preserve our democracies.

...and does that foreign/domestic distinction actually matter anymore? I guess it does from a U.S. point of view - not so much from a European one.

Gnihihihi.

Oh, they surely can have brain cells, but certainly no heart in their chest.

Steve Witless and Little Marco are symptoms of U.S. imperial decline.

Gnihihihi.

Small hands, big lands! Or something like it.

Und noch einmal bin ich froh, dass die FDP aktuell in der Bedeutungslosigkeit verschwindet.

I wonder why this vital realization seems to be largely ignored by most of the media and politicians.