Europeans Leaders are redfining their foreign policies

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Advise you to come to Prague and enjoy

Dude, I HAVE to go over there.


I am dying take a vacation and I have been told Prague is the bomb.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
I am dying take a vacation and I have been told Prague is the bomb.

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[Ted Striker]

[Drake Tungsten]

I'd like to see the alliance repaired, but I don't think it's possible. Euros and Yanks simply have different values and there's no longer any threat big enough to force us back together...

[Ted Striker]

I would normally agree.


However the Internet has transcended the world of mass media and opened up many of us to new possiblities and viewpoints.

[Drake Tungsten]

Just because you've found your communist brothers on the internet doesn't mean the rest of us will...

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
However the Internet has transcended the world of mass media and opened up many of us to new possiblities and viewpoints.

We are still an extremely tiny minority. Most internet forums are either language-based, and as such barely allow an exchange of viewpoints, or the international forums are often inane (I think of the Battle.net forums, for instance).

Among the highly educated, highly politicized students I know, I'm the only one to use the internet in such a way. And this is the very category that is most likely to do so.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Just because you've found your communist brothers on the internet doesn't mean the rest of us will...

You can stick with your bigoted homophobe rednecks while the rest of the world moves forward.

[notyoueither]

You sound about ready to run a campaign, Ted.

[Drake Tungsten]

You really need to escape from your bubble Ted, expand your horizons, learn a thing or two about the world (or the rest of your own country, for that matter)...

[Agathon]

Well, whatever you think of Blair, I have to give him compliments for being the person to attempt bridge the alliance back together

It's a self-serving gesture designed to make him look good. Blair has no credibility and only remains in power because the other side are such complete ****ers that he can't possibly lose.

As for NATO, it is an anachronism. There's no-one to fight any more. Russia would rather trade with Europe than invade it. China is too far away and no one else could do it anyway - not that there is any earthly reason to.

Europe would be better off dumping the United States as an ally. It really has no need of the US anymore, and the relationship just sparks pissing over differences.

The Alliance is the best hope for maintaining world order

I think this is an illusion. The world has been much the same violent place with NATO and would be without it. The real factor in preserving world order is the fact of increased globalization. Why attack the people you trade with and shoot yourself in the foot?

Moreover, the cost of war is just too high, and there's **** all to fight over (not that there was ever very much).

Europe should let the Americans go, and do their own thing. Cold War sentimentalism is a luxury that they can't afford.

Canada on the other hand, will always be America's *****.

[BeBMan]

You really need to escape from your bubble Drake, expand your horizons, learn a thing or two about the world (or the rest of your own country, for that matter)...

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm not really sure I can get any farther away from my bubble. What's the circumference of the Earth, again?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Agathon


It's a self-serving gesture designed to make him look good. Blair has no credibility and only remains in power because the other side are such complete ****ers that he can't possibly lose.

Whether or not it was self serving, it was still a positive step and the right thing to do.

[BeBMan]

Unfortunately the fact that you moved geographically does not prove that you moved intellectually too, Drake