Comment by m3nat33
12 days ago
> My POV is Americans are not an ally in any case
So you are an enemy of someone because of where they were born?
12 days ago
> My POV is Americans are not an ally in any case
So you are an enemy of someone because of where they were born?
no it means u_sama has (correctly, IMO) observed that the US has made it very clear in the past year that they don't regard the EU as an ally. I mean the openly talk about annexing EU territory right now.
That assumes that all Americans support the actions of the current administration. I know of no one that supports these actions.
> That assumes that all Americans support the actions of the current administration
This is making the mistake of trying to distinguish between what individual voters want and what the American government and large businesses do. If you’re, say, a Dane wondering if it’s safe to use Windows, iOS, or Chrome, you don’t care about a hundred million Democrats think but instead can only go by what you think the people in power will order and the odds that Satya, Sundar, or Tim will resist requests to compromise your interests. The number of people involved fit on a private jet.
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I think this will answer both comments, I said Americans and not America because *both* Democrats and Republicans would antagonize Europeans if they went to bat for their interests (using China as a counterpower to America, protecting industries and becoming as agressive as American administrations have been with protectionism, heavy brain drain, financial abuse and retorting to diminish EU power etc etc)
As a counter to what you say, that is true but in large most are ok with the current administration or the earlier ones. It was under Bush that there was a renaming of French fries to Freedom Fries as a backlash to Gerlany/France not joining the Iraq war. Not every German was a nazi in WW2, yet if you fought a German you will not stop and give him a questionaire to understand his ideology. You lump them as heuristic and act on that.
I don't see mass protests across USA against Grenland policy of current US regime.
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Unless your government is entirely forced upon you, they're is only so far the populace can distance itself from them. The majority of the bad crap this American administration is doing and has done was predicted, heck a lot of it they effectively promised during & before the election, yet nearly two thirds of the population either directly voted for it or sat on their elbows and let it happen.
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Which EU territory would that be? If you're referring to Greenland, it's actually not part of the EU.
Why not taking two seconds to look it up before making such a false statement? From Wikipedia:
> Citizens of Greenland are full citizens of Denmark and of the European Union. Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
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Why do you make such a pointless distinction in the context of this argument?
No, you become enemy if someone unlawfully, and uni-laterally annexes a part of your territory. For example see Ukraine.
I don't have any enmity against poisonous snakes.
Rightfully so, poisonous snakes won't hurt you unless you eat them.