I don't think my psyche could handle witnessing the EU collapse or be reduced to an irrelevant institution by far right """reforms""". But that is just the outcome that is becoming increasingly more likely with each passing year.
How do I cope?
391 posts and 47 image replies omitted.>>2260623>everyone who refute russia as imperialist (aka anyone who can read and understand lenin) is russian>internal inequalities are in any way indicative of the imperialist character of a stateyou're truly retarded
>>2260648>delusional idiot still hasnt understood EU is the neoliberal project of the porkies of the US led western empire, and everything in it is made to prevent socialism and independence of europekeep supporting the very thing that cause the consequences you deplore, but dont come here to cry about it, because we gonna call you out on your total lack of comprehension of the political systems around you
Why are you talking about Russia? Russia isn't part of the EU. It's like you are obsessed.
The EU sucks and is a neoliberal project to the core. I like the idea of a pan-European union (where we could include even Russia, Belarus, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, everyone basically) and the Schengen area in the sense that you can go and live anywhere in every country who are part of it without a visa, as long as you have the citizenship of any member state.
However, the Schengen area was not nice to Russian citizens who wanted to dodge the draft to the Ukrainian meat-grinder, and that sucks, and was even counterproductive for pro-Ukrainian libs. If you are outside of it, it might be pretty complicated to enter in it.
But more importantly, the EU economic treaties are above national laws, and these treaties support privatization of the industry among other neoliberal measures, you cannot escape it. The Eurozone is even worse because every member state has to manage their economy according to the whims of Germans, and that's the indirect reason why Greece has a six-day workweek now.
Sorry but if you want socialism, even the mildest form of it, or even Keynesian reforms to boost the industry (which aren't socialism), the EU has to go. We can always rebuild a pan-European union over its ashes, it would be foolish to not do so, but the EU as it exists is completely incompatible with socialism.
>>2238398>Le Pen is more communist despite being anti-communistI wish people who don't talk French or don't know anything about the history of the Front National would stop voicing their stupid opinions about her.
Marine Le Pen was born in one of the richest suburbs of Paris, Saint-Cloud.
Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the FN, was thoroughly pro-petite bourgeoisie, we used to call people like him "poujadistes". He tortured people in Algeria during the war of liberation. He was also pro-Reagan.
His daughter, Marine, sought to make the party more respectable, because her father couldn't help but say anti-semitic (not anti-zionist, straight up "da Joos" shit) out loud, and she changed the name of the party to Rassemblement National, but she is still pro-privatization, pro-business, there are very powerful people who wish she would get elected, like Vincent Bolloré, a billionaire who owns quite a few media outlets, and more importantly a large logistics conglomerate operating in Africa called Bolloré Logistics.
I could go on and on, but I need to run some errands, so I will just say this: I find it ironic that some self-described communists who are in favor of national liberation and cheer for the national bourgeoisies to become independent from the West, are cheering on a party that was founded by someone who tortured Algerians when they tried to get their independence. Think about it for more than two seconds.
>>2261228>In that case, any attempts at breakout is only a natural right.So you support European federalism then?
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>>2261953consistent multipolaroids should support Europe as a pole
>EU is le vassallol no
burgeroids can't even force EU to open their markets to their "food"
>>2255887It is so on the nose, how they got their marching orders and everytime a politico gets on TV they talk about this need to double the military budget as a matter of fact. With little to no pushback form the media, which them selves are also struggling to justify it.
Because just saying "teh Russians!" over and over only gets more retarded every time they have to follow it up with Ukraine war propaganda about how they are actually losing. And cop-speak reports of Israel's latest atrocity. Oh and of course, some innuendo about China. Then Trump threatening to rape our economy and them asking for more.
The cold war has flattened liberal politics but we have to pretend the resulting fascism has shades to it. And the insane response to this is ditching national politics and directing the public's eye to the USA's political theater, in hope of importing TDS like we are actually a powerless colony.
>>2262249europe will never be a pole while EU exist, europeans countries had way more independence and power before it existed. The foundation of EU is open market and capital circulation, and they also have contradicting interests between each others, which means it simply doesnt allow any sensible policy fitting of a big power.
>lol nolol yes. They are a vassal on the geopolitical stage and on the military level (just look how when US ask for more military budget to buy US weapons they immediately obey, and kneecap their economy through energy prices because of a proxy war staged by the US). They also took their tariffs without retaliation like good little bitches, and their finance sector is subservient to the US too.
They are a heavily subsidized agricultural power themselves with lots of regulations, so opening their food market means destroying a significant part of their economy, so ofc theres pushback, but if trump really wanted he could still make them kneel on this (and euros have kneeled already on allowing ukrainian grain which is indeed causing big problems for farmers).
Meanwhile.
>Five MEPs of the European People's Party (EPP) asked the Commission to ban the hammer and sickle - which they shamelessly equate with the Nazi swastika (!) - just a few days after the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory of the Peoples, led by the Soviet Union and the Red Army.
>Tomas Zdechovsky, Ondřej Kolář, Danuse Nerudova, Jan Farsky, and Andrey Kovatchev, members of EPP, signed a deplorable, unhistorical letter to the Commission, requesting the ban on "Soviet and Russian military symbols, which are now widely considered symbols of totalitarian violence and war crimes"!
>They argue that "throughout Europe, we continue to see the glorification of repressive regimes through symbols such as the Soviet hammer and sickle
>>2266623It continues
>These symbols have no place in the public spaces of the EU, which should represent peace and the rule of law (…) We have drafted a letter to the Commission requesting the ban of these symbols, following the example of the ban on Nazi imagery."
>In their hideous anti-communist frenzy, they add: "Soviet communism, represented by the hammer and sickle, is responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people worldwide. Regimes based on the Marxist-Leninist doctrine have destroyed entire nations, obliterated democratic institutions, imprisoned, tortured, and murdered their opponents. The totalitarian ideology of the Soviet Union was built on the same foundations of evil and hatred as Nazism. There is no justification for treating their symbols differently!"Also it's a petty excuse to further attack Russia. Because capitalist Russias "Z" is apparently the same as the Hammer and Sickle.
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