• eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 day ago

    The US spent decades telling Europe to trust the transatlantic relationship, then somehow managed to make a literal cable across the Arctic look like the more reliable connection. That’s an impressive achievement in diplomacy: when your allies start routing around you like a network failure.

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        Calling Trump “senile” downplays the traitorous duplicity.

        At this point, he’s done so much shit that “ineptitude” no longer cuts it as a plausible explanation. Occam’s razor says he’s trying to destroy the US on purpose.

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      23 hours ago

      They don’t seem to have a problem using the current ~20 cables running between Europe and the US.