by Oui
Sun Dec 14th, 2025 at 03:30:32 AM EST
Breaking up the European Union started after 1999 and the Maastricht Treaty initiating the Euro 💶 currency. See my earlier diaries @BooMan ... the Iraq 🇮🇶 war and coalition of the willing ... a compliant New Europe ... torture, rendition and war crimes. Black shit holes ...
America distances itself from Old Europe ... Brussels has no one to blame but itself ... the saga continues to this day.
If the US forces me to choose between my two nationalities, I choose France - and Europe | The Guardian Opinion |
Last week, a Republican senator from my home state of Ohio, Bernie Moreno, introduced the Exclusive Citizenship Act. The proposed legislation would strip me of my American citizenship, because I chose to be French too. Just as Moreno seeks to bully me into choosing citizenship, the US is bullying Europe, trying to force it to pick between total submission to its erstwhile partner, or a break with it.
It is now official US policy that Europe is facing "civilisational erasure", and that the US will actively support far-right, ethnonationalist, neofascist parties hostile to the EU. Standing by historic alliances is out, protecting Elon Musk and his fellow techno-nihilist broligarchs is in - as is reaping the Kremlin's praises for it.
What should have been clear as early as November 2024 should, by now, be abundantly so. This version of the US is worse than simply "not our friend": it is an actively hostile actor seeking to fracture European society in the same way that Russia sought to fracture British society by promoting Brexit, and US society by fuelling disinformation, Maga and Trump. And yet Europe (the UK included) has spent the past year coddling, backtracking, cajoling and capitulating. It has ignored insult after insult from the White House, punitive measure after punitive measure.
Have we not yet had enough of the humiliation?
My call as early as 2013 … today it is happening in secret behind closed door … Starmer not invited 😊
US/Russia Should Lead – A Yalta Conference on Middle East | Oui @Booman – 22 Aug. 2013 |
Though I’m not happy with the outcome of the Yalta Conference – Stalin-Churchill-Roosevelt(ill) – in 1945, looking at the stalemate and massacre of civilians across the region, this may be next best.
Trump sitting at the table of Putin in the Kremlin once again dividing the World in spheres of influence.
New Security Policy Trump Monroe doctrine revived ☹
Brazil | Trumps new national security strategy aims at reviving the Monroe Doctrine | TeleSUR |
Donald Trump criticises ’decaying’ European countries and ’weak’ leaders | BBC News |
Trump's Revival of anti-EU Sentiment in Warsaw | Oui @Eurotrib – 6 July 2017 |
Front paged - Frank Schnittger
NATO Deterrence with puzzle piece USA missing
GTFO Tours to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 😂
GTFO Tours is owned and operated by Bethany Quinn and Jana Sanchez, two American expats both living in the Netherlands. They created the tours as an extension of their calling to help Americans who want to immigrate to the Netherlands.
Bethany Quinn is a campaigner and social entrepreneur at heart. When she’s not helping Americans GTFO or figure out how to build up their businesses abroad, she’s mulling how to build centers of resistance in places of relative safety. She is a business strategy nerd with training in trauma-informed design and a passion for moving the needle on diversity in venture capital and entrepreneurship. She also recently joined the first AtVenture Angel investor cohort.
She moved to the Netherlands on the DAFT visa in December 2022, where she met her Dutch partner, Robin. (She is now on a partnership visa, FWIW.) They live in a beautiful, green part of Amsterdam, a block or two from a metro, a giant park/nature preserve, two playgrounds, and a grocery store. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, and is a queer foodie who loves cooking, travel, and karaoke.
Jana Sanchez helps Americans move abroad by connecting them to all the resources and people they need to meet and advising them through the entire process from visas, housing, education, work and other topics.
She’s a former nominee for US Congress who has lived in the Netherlands and the UK over two decades. She is a former journalist and once ran a pan-European public relations agency with partners. She has a BA in political science from Rice University and speaks Dutch well enough to get by. She lives in Haarlem, the Netherlands, with her Dutch husband and two rescue dogs.
Damn … we already have an immigration crisis … 💪
