It’s pretty weird Italy never developed single city syndrome. They’ve been unified for 150 years but we don’t see one breakaway city slowly sucking in all the economic activity and talent like France, the UK, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Austria, and many others.

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Parliamoci chiaro. Non esiste nulla in farmacia che costi meno della controparte online. Niente. Ci sono cose che online costano al pubblico MENO di quanto noi le paghiamo al grossista o, peggio, direttamente alla ditta. Appena finirà la generazione boomer o qualche GenX che ->

I find it wild how strong young women's views are on Gaza. And if pushed, will they be able to explain their position in detail?

Americans as a whole realize that Israel is not a good ally. 60% is a solid majority, and it's only going to grow. A breakup of some kind is coming.

Is it really the case that “liberal elites in academia and the media…have remained silent” over our new war against Iran? If that’s not the case, what is Mearsheimer nailing?

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

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You think this is going to end up with Americans and British people and Canadians tweeting about subcultures and cartoons and jokes. But really, it ends with Japanese people tweeting about goyslop and hoeflation and Palestine.

What an invigorating transformation of a nation. The perfect white pill to all this managed-decline nonsense. You really can just do things! Would love to visit El Salvador soon (and Argentina too!).

Dear Lord

I understand this is not something people want to hear, but has absorbing a large number of people that do not share Western values worked out well for the UK, Sweden or Germany? No, it has not.

In Italy, they expect you to pay for parking in an app, and then print off an email and put it in your car. I wonder if normal Italians are walking around with printers in their cars that I don't know about?

Germany has the most undeservedly good reputation there is.

We’ve love to hear your thoughts about living in Portugal. I’m sure you have plenty of great stories about your day to day experience there. Of course, you’re welcome to continue chiming in on America politics. We just won’t send money overseas for that content.

Trump’s interventions in Venezuela and Iran were both the right moves. They were decisive, precisely targeted aided by technology, potentially effective. He took an approach that a normal person would want to do but his predecessors and normal politicians would be too scared to.