> man up and contribute and be worthy of us support/partnership you don't receive any support from the u.s. -- it occupies your countries against a non-existent existential threat from russia [economy the size of italy] hyped up by the u.s. media and foreign policy think tanks, and in exchange you agree to isolate yourself from russia and china and become a u.s. economic zone and dependency like whatever manchukuo was for japan. you are trading everything for nothing as a result of an elaborate psyop building upon decades of cold war fearmongering. your oligarchs are basically trained lapdogs and manchurian candidates groomed by american propaganda to act the way they do, as the line dictated by washington has for decades been the only "acceptable" one in europe and this only breeds generation after generation of mentally americanized slave politicians.  the real strategy is to deepen ties with china, lift sanctions on russia, and tell poland and the baltics if they have problems with any of this they can leave the e.u. and forfeit all that welfare money. but this is presupposing the e.u. or german govt. are independent institutions, rather than masses of people existing in an information and decision space tightly controlled by washington.
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