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US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

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  1. harrouet · · focus · HN ↗
    History will remember this administration as a traitor to Europe and its values. Right when the US needs allies.
    1. x______________ · · focus · HN ↗
      > History will remember this administration as a traitor to Europe and its values. Right when the US needs allies.

      Time fixes everything. Give it a few generations and the world will be inhibited by new humans who will carry on doing what life demands of them, unfazed by today's events.

      1. GJim · · focus · HN ↗
        If you think the USA will ever be trusted again as they were post-1945, you are very sadly mistaken.

        Maybe some trust will be restored in a generations time, but there is no going back to the post-1945 hegemony which saw the USA, and the westen world, all benefit so much.

        1. x______________ · · focus · HN ↗
          > If you think the USA will ever be trusted again as they were post-1945, you are very sadly mistaken.

          > Maybe some trust will be restored in a generations time, but there is no going back to the post-1945 hegemony which saw the USA, and the westen world, all benefit so much.

          That's exactly the point. No amount of emotion today will persist the tests of time. You, as an ordinary inhabitant of the planet, like everyone else alive for the next 5 generations, will not exist on this planet anymore.

          There is 0 chance that the opinion of "x country will never be trusted again" will occur as there is absolutely no control over the world you won't live in, nor have any significance of the elements involving discussions between countries happening today.

          Those in charge at that time, who desire to achieve something, will.

          Keep living the dream though, a few more years on this planet may hopefully help clarify the workings of this fact of life.

          1. tencentshill · · focus · HN ↗
            Tribes are still killing each other over their 2000 year old shared stories. Someone must have remembered to keep the hate alive.
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