that'd cause Holland to be the new Paris

This is not really politics, but I thought I would share here in the Europe section because why not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFNFWTzXGoA

Today some drugged up guy stole a cement truck and started driving around while being chased by the police here in Iceland

Stuff like this does not normally happen. So we got a bit of action for once

Truly we are living in the endtimes

The cement-times

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/greece-warned-by-eu-it-must-uphold-the-right-to-asylum

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And I'm sure all 3 of the actual refugees in this mess will be properly accommodated

Along with 5000 economic migrants and a couple hundred 'freedom fighters'

https://tenor.com/view/tonnin-seteli-pokerface-stare-hate-gif-11427490

@𓆏 𓆏 𓆏 tell them to fly to Germany. Turkey has airports

😏

Nah that's closer to me

Fly them all to the top of an alp

so now the EU is being the EU again

they surprisingly supported greece at the beginning

I bet they are now saiyng that because other nations actually helped greece and you cant have that

They can't be seen to be supporting the actions of Hungary and Poland so they've changed their tune now

sad really... eu could actually be a useful force for balancing against china, russia and usa but instead the bureucrats insist on trying to make everyone's life worse

seems like the people in charge would rather copy the chinese model as much as possible

That's one of the reasons many in the EU want a centralised union

I can actually sympathise with this line of thinking

But everything else the EU does undermines it's own existence

i'm pretty sure there'd be a way to do that without turning into a totalitarian control state ruled by unelected bureucrats though

they don't even have the balls putinistan has

so worst of all worlds really

Guy verhofstadt is right about the world of tomorrow being about Empire

Though, the world has always been that way

Which is why I'm for britain having much stronger ties with her white dominions

Australia, Canada and New Zealand

yeah the world was a better place when birts had the empire still

😄

i mean sure there were bad and questionable policies but on average even the developing areas benefited from it

but as long as the world police is western i think we can maintain a reasonably peaceful world

Why do you thing lefties keep slandering the British empire?

if usa were to go into an isolationist mode and chinese or russian world power were to take over things would be interesting for sure

i imagine there are a variety of reasons ranging from legitimate concerns over peoples' right to self govern to irrational self hatred

but imho it is quite clear not everyone is capable of self governance 😂

> Why do you thing lefties keep slandering the British empire?

Because it was our zenith, and therefore dont want nostalgia for it or even ideas of resurrecting it