The same happened with communist parties funded by URSS at the time, and it is still happening with some parties openly supporting Putin.

In the end the blame goes to thee people for being so gullible to vote for parties that do the interests of foreign powers. US, Russia, (China?), doesn’t really matter.

I don’t think so. We imported Halloween and lots of movies, but bigotry is 100% original. After all, aren’t the biggest bigots all right wing nationalist proposing a true European nazi-fascist model?

It could have been Ukraine as the current investigation suggests. I would not be surprised of EU support either.

You mentioned that I may want to deflect the responsibility from Biden. -> I don’t have such interests.

I doubt that it would have been politically acceptable to switch to more expensive gas without blowing up the Nordstream. Whoever did it knew that it was essential to steer the EU against Russia.

That’s very surprising. Why would Germans be interested in US internal politics?

Was there a serial or a movie about it? I can’t imagine how people in the EU would know about that stuff (unless interested in the matter for specific reasons)

Why would I want to deflect blame from Biden? I’m telling you that I’m a European and I don’t care who’s in charge in the US or which president did what. Do you know or care about who is in charge in the EU?

Current US politics, that happens to be Trump’s, is hostile to us and it is alienating the European sympathies. There will be a little nuance in EU response to Trump’s tariff to damage red states more than blue states, but for most people it will be a big f-off to US as a whole.

About the Nordstream I don’t know what to believe because that sabotage was very convenient for every part, also within the EU, and I’d rather have no opinion than a wrong one.

Indeed maybe the readers of a catholic newspaper are obsessed enough with abortion to know the reference.

There is no contradiction. The relationship is not worse because republicans are in charge but because of what they decided.

What what?

Of course, also in the EU there are far right groups like ECR and Patriots. It doesn’t mean that they rule though.

BTW, I struggle to imagine Germans discussing certain topics using American terms.

FYI: in the EU we don’t play the “it was Biden vs it was Trump” game. We stop at “it was the US”. Besides marginal sympathy for some presidents or over the top ridiculous facts, US politics is not that visible or interesting here.

It made it painfully clear to the public opinion how much society relies on gas.

Unfortunately the general public doesn’t understand long term reasoning: nor climate change, nor energy independence. If it doesn’t happen right now, it’s ignored by most people. The high spike in price worked really well to open a debate to support more renewables or nuclear power.

Consider that even now, after all that happened, the EU has a noisy minority trying to shoot down alternatives to gas.

I don’t know what to believe about Nordstream, but I’m not even mad if that accelerates the transition out of fossil fuel.

Another difference. Republicans just convinced Europe that the USA cannot be trusted anymore as a commercial and defence party, and new deals should be made with the rest of the world to move away from the Dollar.

How many beers do you need to debate current politics based on the events of 90 years ago?

That’s the point. If you don’t live nearby, is it ethical to support something that causes trouble to other people? It applies to anything, not just AI.

Spoiler: the world does not seem to care much about that and too bad for who is affected. Rarely there are even form of compensations.

Me four.

I also realised that the attack surface is much greater with my approach with KeePass compared to simply paying a company whose primary mission is to keep my secrets secret.

It helps that I’m just a regular paranoid bloke and not a secret agent or something like that.

The problem there is the immense power and water consumption of data centers and apparently their noise too for the neighborhoods. I have no doubts that AI usage will just grow in the future regardless of that, just like similar concerns never stopped cars, red meat, air conditioners, airplanes, plastic, …you name it…