there is a white supremacist culture

There absolutely is, and they have a sick sense of entitlement, as if they inherited and own the country, contrary to everyone else, who are merely allowed to be there.

I am not American, but from the outside there seems to be a sick level of such thinking. By the same “logic”, the 1% is entitled to their wealth I guess. That is really what they mean by taking the country back. That the ruling class is highest, white people are part of that, and everybody else is below them.

Racism is everywhere, and it is extremely harmful.

That would be awesome, I think that would be about as benign as injection, taking it through mucous membrane bypasses the digestive system, which is generally way more problematic.

This is getting moronic and insane, how is it in any way defensible to prevent China to make research in a place widely used and recognized as the best in the world for the purpose?
USA is a batshit crazy country that believes they are entitled to control everything, including preventing others from having what USA has.
If things truly are as reported in this article, it’s disgusting how USA is behaving as a global bully on something as basic as understanding the universe, something that is generally considered a science project of humanity.

Exactly, Trump doesn’t give a shit about the harm he is doing to others, if it benefits himself.
Starting a war and letting thousands die, is an absolute nothing burger to him. He is a malignant narcissist the worst form psychopath there is.
Just like he doesn’t care that he was taking food stamps away from families with children, and that he has forced millions off medicare.
He doesn’t give a shit either about the children he has probably raped, and allegedly even killed.
He has convinced himself that he is entitled to do all the shit he is doing, merely because he can. Might makes right is an insane attitude. 😡

I hate where USA is now, but so do many Americans, and I bet a good portion of the upvotes to this very US critical post, was actually Americans upvoting it. Because many Americans understand the problems.
You are probably right regarding the MAGA crowd however.

Nixon; Watergate.
Reagan: Iran Contra.
Bush Jr. Iraq invasion.
Trump: Iran war causing the worst oil crisis in history.

The tendency towards ever bigger illegal actions by Republican presidents is insane.

That’s not a viewpoint, that’s a fact.
Trump has undermined relations to all allies in multiple ways, to a degree that the coherence of NATO is in doubt. Trump has single handedly destroyed NATO, forcing NATO allies to seek new alliances.
On trade we are in a shadow trade war, where the response to US tariffs, is for trading partners to seek independence from American technologies.
The Iran War has ruined the reputation of the US military, that is currently the laughing stock of the world. Because USA can’t handle a poor country that has been economically sanctioned for decades. And technically USA has already lost that war from many perspectives.
The Gulf states too are unhappy with how USA has handled this, and the Petro dollar is highly threatened.
Since Trump took the presidency, the use of the USD as the international reserve currency has dropped 30%!!!

USA was already losing their position as world leader before Trump, with EU already seeking greater independence from USA, and China positioning themselves more internationally. But Trump has put a rocket launcher on what was mostly idling along, and he has made it clear for ALL allies and trade partners , that they can’t depend on USA anymore.

If we try to speculate a bit, the position of USA is in eminent danger from several sides. The American economy is held up by AI, but many claim that AI is a bubble, if that bubble burst, it will hit the American economy hard.
The American economy is dependent on total global trade, not just their own, because global trade is often done in USD.
If global trade declines, the demand for USD will decline too. And without a strong reserve currency position, financial institutions will be less prone to seek refuge in USD, but will choose for instance gold instead. So the dynamic that has been the saving grace for USA for 80 years, is coming to an end. And next time USA has a crisis, the world will not help USA finance their way out of it as we used to.

OK I’ll stop here, because I think the point should be clear. USA was already in decline, but after Trumps liberation day (Tariffs), it has been downhill ever faster. Threatening Canada who has been the closest ally to USA since before WW2, threatening NATO allies with taking Greenland by force. Of course threatening numerous other countries, even kidnapping Maduro, and now USA is in the most stupid war USA has ever engaged in, and USA is being embarrassed by an inferior power! And USA has caused the worst oil crisis the world has ever seen.

US democracy has been in decline for many decades now, and this is the result of a dysfunctional democracy.

It was very smart of Americans to elect Trump for President of the USA in 2014. Because just as expected Trump has delivered on all his promises. No political bullshit, just action to help the American people.
He is making USA respected all over the world again, and he has saved the economy, and China is standing in line to kiss his feet together with other leaders from around the world.
Trump is telling the truth, he is saying it like it is. And first an foremost he hasn’t started any unnecessary war, that the people of USA has to foot the bill for.
He also continues the proud tradition of USA to defend democracies, except Ukraine because they don’t have any oil, so they don’t count.

I guess if I was American, I too would choose to live in lala land, or total ignorance, because reality must be unbearable over there.

PS: The economy is absolutely stellar, I have made billions in corrupt deals since I was elected.
So don’t complain, you could just have done the same. Everybody I know does it.
-Trump

Last time Iran was invaded it was by Iraq, are you going to blame Europe for that?

All your examples are either false or interventions to prevent genocide.
Most if not all European countries have stopped selling weapons to Israel. Israel is no longer seen in Europe in general as a country it can be morally defended to support.
And how the fuck can you blame Europe when Arab countries continue to support Israel and USA?
Europe has near zero support for Israel, compared to UAE and Saudi Arabia that continue to support USA and Israel.

Again Europe is actually trying to stand on the side of international law, and none of the examples you use show otherwise.
You are being dishonest and you are propagandizing against the interest of truth.

but the country was stable

Not in 2011 it wasn’t. And the assassination of Gadaffi was 100% on USA.

That’s just wrong, Libya was in a civil war as I described, and Europe tried to go in to stabilize the situation. Inability to solve the problem of another country has nothing to do with colonialism or not respecting the sovereignty of that country. It was a humanitarian crisis that Europe tried to end.

This is not ignorance on my part, I even mentioned this situation, it is a complete abuse of a crisis to make a part that tried to help look bad.
Shame on you. 😡

Europe has nothing to do with Yemen on either side. I also don’t see why Libya is relevant, they’ve been a fucked up country for decades internally, with civil war and crazy leaders like Gaddafi. Sahel is a huge belt in Africa, and I have no idea what you mean with France behaving badly there lately?

Sorry but here you lost me completely?!

But that was never in any way used as an argument against Iraq, only the Kuwait invasion was. The invasion of Iran was politically irrelevant in the west.

There is no proof that suggests that communism was unpopular in east.

There absolutely is a ton of evidence, the fact that Russia had to move in several time to protect the Communist regimes should be enough. But also the wide spread use of secret police, to keep the population politically controlled, the absolute oppression of anything politically different from Communism.
And the extreme rebirth of Christianity that was also oppressed by communism is also a very strong indicator of how unpopular Communism was.
The way Communism was removed in ALL eastern European countries and in the Soviet states too is an extremely clear indicator.

Most of those “rebels” were communist themselves

Obviously they were when that was the only option, but as soon as an alternative was made available they became former communists.

also it wasnt russia but soviet union

Russia was the main power in Soviet Union, just like Russia is the main power in the Russian Federation. The other regions don’t really have much say.

It wasnt occupation but an ideological alliance based on socialism,

No it was not, In Eastern Europe it was a military occupation by the Soviet Union of German held territories, where the Soviet Union instated communist governments, and the countries became vassal states to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet union interfered if the people of any of the countries tried to change that.

IDK how anyone can be so blinded by Russian propaganda, and yes I do mean Russian, because the Soviet Union was a Russian controlled empire, just like the Russian federation is today. You don’t even have facts straight that are extremely easy to check up on, you are either a victim of Russian propaganda, or a propagandist yourself.
What you are claiming is outright delusional.

WTF? how can you be so uninformed? Iran hasn’t even been invaded!!!

Here antisemitism is mostly driven by the Semites themselves, as Arabs are also Semites, and antisemitism is very much driven by Arab Muslims.
Except it’s of course not actually antisemitism, but being anti Jewish and especially anti Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people

Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group.

used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the Middle East
including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Ammonites, Arameans, Canaanites, Edomites, Habesha peoples, Israelites, Jews, Judahites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Samaritans,

So using antisemitism as if it means anti Jewish is moronic to say the least.
Jews is only one among many nationalities that Semites cover.

And Iraq was the aggressor in the 80s not 2003.

Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. But you point is true.

Hell the Iraq invasion would’ve made a better example as that had nothing to do with the UN.

I agree, I was extremely mad at my government for falling for the American lies and joining USA in that.

But the countries in Europe for the most part have taken a stance to support Israel (examples being UK, FRANCE, and Germany) while also leading a military operation on a sovereign country.

This is sadly true, and the times I’ve heard that Israel is a democracy, as if that is an excuse. Why would a democracy have more rights to invade other countries? I am all for democracy, and I believe democracy is by far the best system of governance we have. But that doesn’t mean we have a right to break international law, or help other countries when they do so.

There are many other examples and more the further back in time you’re willing to go.

That is consistent with my point that Europe has generally improved to respect the rights of other countries more. Israel is a sore spot in that regard, other examples since WW2 were typically driven by USA, like instating the Shah in Iran and destroy their democracy. There is no reasonable basis for the way the west has treated Iran after they rebelled against the Shah. Except the insane immorality of having an official government death warrant on Salman Rushdie. But that has never been an argument against any of the sanctions or threats against Iran.

The British were extremely brutal in India, and I can understand that India doesn’t feel comfortable cooperating with UK, especially on for instance defense.
But UK is not in EU anymore, and still India seems to have that anti European sentiment, as if it was Europe and not UK that were the colonists.
Anyways I just find it sad that India prefer to cooperate with Russia, A country that today is clearly worse than Europe and China.
Not siding with USA however, has turned out to be a very good choice. USA has turned to absolute shit, and is extremely unreliable.

It was very clearly an occupation, and as soon as the Soviet Union showed weakness, all eastern European countries left the Warsaw pact, and almost all sought membership of EU.
Russia had military intervention in several European countries when their people rebelled against the communist party in their country. But when the Soviet Union was collapsing itself, all the European countries seized the opportunity, and got rid of the communist regimes.

So not realizing that it was an occupation is denial of the truth.