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Yeah, lady, whatever. I used to work for a Dutch company, and I don't recall ever meeting or seeing another Dutch person so frazzeled and discombobulated as dear Karel. You sound like you just woke up to find your house full of frat boys in the midst of an international kegger. Gee wilikers, Karel, at least you must be well rested after that 30 year nap you've been enjoying. We'll ignore for a moment the fact that your parents and grandparents have been living off the American tit (editor: if you wish to use "teat" instead, fine) since June 6, 1944, after all, Karel, you have been living in the glow of that day since the moment you were born. Or would you prefer to be speaking Russian? In truth, it was never your choice, sweetcheeks, again, it was your parents and grandparents decision, but you (and the rest of us) are stuck with it. So grow up and stop whining. Europe has been ever so content to let the US spend big piles of cash to keep the EU's ungracious derriere out of the nearest segment of the Gulag; which, in an apparent demonstration of industrial strength hubris, your squeal "NATO has for some time now been a liability for the European Union" is just plain stupid. F U Karel. Go get you own army and start spending 50%+ of your GDP for defense and let's see how many microseconds your vaunted 'EU' continues to exist.

America treats the EU like a pet chihuahua because that's the way the EU acts, and has acted since 1944.

Karel, if you want to live in Russia, go live in Russia. Or Pago Pago, or the Antarctic, or wherever you tiny heart desires. But, wherever you freely choose to live, you can thank an American for that option. If you want it all to get better, then get with your friends and find and empower true leaders of men, not that gaggle of pederasters, creeps, thieves, and just general psychotic gutter-trash scum that you keep coming up with for national leaderships. Yeah, yeah, we got the same problem over here, and we are starting to work on it. Maybe. But my point is, you and the rest of Europe are still looking to the US for the answer to your problems. Realizing that you have never ever known any different action taken by any member of the EU in your entire lifetime is a reason for your current situation, it is not an answer. You have to break the habit sometime, Karel, it might as well be now.

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