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by olivierduval 496 days ago
At the same time, "Europeans think US is 'necessary partner' not 'ally'" (https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/12/europeans-thin...)

I wonder why... maybe because it look like US replaced some "moral values" (not talking about "woke values" here, just plain "humanistic values" like in Human Rights Declaration) with "bottom line values" :-)

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> I wonder why

Hmm. > Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenlan...

> The president has said America pays $200bn a year 'essentially in subsidy' to Canada and that if the country was the 51st state of the US 'I don’t mind doing it', in an interview broadcast before the Super Bowl in New Orleans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/feb/10/trump-...