Only found out the r/cth community in exile moved here, looks like a cool site
Corner Späti is a podcast about the dumb Asian peninsula posing as a continent, Europe. Are you an American sick of hearing that if you become Sweden all your problems will be solved? Are you a European sick of listening to people only complain about the USA? Well, have we got the podcast for you!
Listen at our totally normally named website https://www.operationglad.io/ or all the other pod places and we're on the bird site https://twitter.com/cornerspaeti and twitch https://www.twitch.tv/cornerspaeti
BUT CIARÁN (ME) WHAT ARE GOOD EPISODES TO START WITH?
Personal fave is the episode where I got drunk while we were talking about Germany's left party Die Linke but People like the episode we did on Nazi infiltration in the German Military
DO YOU HAVE ANY EPISODES WHERE OTHER PODCASTERS I MIGHT KNOW WERE ON
Of course
- We had Alex Ptak of Pod Damn America and Ballin out Super to talk Berlusconi
- We had Jeremy Hammond of Ballin Out Super and Generation Loss on to talk Zwarte Piet
- We had Riley of Trash Future on to talk the Ischgl covid outbreak that doomed Europe
- We had Millo of Trash Future to talk Golden Dawn, the Libdems, Russia and that time a Lord proposed moving the people of Hong Kong to Northern Ireland
- We had Alice of Trash Future/Well There's Your Problem on with Riley and Milo to talk about Italian politics in general
Self-promotion done, I hope you like the pod, how's things with everyone else?
Europe has such a good deal ripping off the US for defense, they have no idea. Military might is incredibly expensive and to have an idiot pay for you has got to be the best position in the world. If European governments decided to increase defense spending they would be voted out of office by their own constituencies.
China has no such compulsions and views Europe as a weak, old continent ready and willing to be bribed away. European anti-Americanism is enough to get them to go along with it, too. The Atlanticists in DC won't let Europe go easily, though. We could see US base sieges in the coming decade.
This is such a tired right wing trope. The US isn't Paying For Europe. The US spends militarily because post WW2 a faction realized that they could control their own society and the wider world through the military industrial complex.
They are not paying for anybody. They are paying for their ongoing control.