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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 SILVER
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Subject: Re: Starmer chooses his side: Iran
Date: 02/20/26 7:34 AM
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Doesn’t matter.
Starmer is either in China’s pocket or someone else’s.


Why? Other countries have domestic politics, too.

We've created a situation where the U.S. is unpopular in Europe. Which makes it more painful in their domestic politics to be helpful to the U.S. It's not a binary - European nations won't be telling us to pound sand at every turn - but at the margins it just imposes a domestic political cost to be cooperating with the U.S. on things.

Weird how if you stop treating Europe like allies, and more like rivals, then they start treating us less like allies and more like rivals.
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