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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: SuisseBear ✶☼🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Trump unites Europe
Date: 03/16/26 5:42 PM
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… looks like allies are hard to get with the current attitude:

BRUSSELS — Europe's message to Donald Trump on Monday was clear: We're not helping you secure the Strait of Hormuz. “Europe has no interest in an open-ended war,” EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Monday evening after the meeting. “This is not Europe’s war, but Europe’s interests are directly at stake.”

“The Americans chose this path, together with the Israelis,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said, adding that Germany’s main responsibility was to defend NATO territory. “We did not start this war,” Pistorius stressed. …. “NATO is a defensive alliance, not an interventionist one. And that is precisely why NATO has no place here at all,” Merz said. "I hope that we will treat one another with the necessary respect within the alliance,” Merz added, in an apparent rebuke to Trump’s grousing.

Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel went even further, stressing his country would not give in to "blackmail" from Washington. “Don't ask us” to send troops, Bettel told reporters in Brussels.

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