Buy European

Maybe we don’t want to do that again… people have some really short memories.

I'm not getting out of bed for anything less than spices or gold.

You can do it, Europe. Everyone that cares about "the west" is rooting for you.

It’s nazis all over here, that said, it can’t be worse than United States of Gilead right now

Cause it worked out so well last time...

Perhaps let someone from global south take the controls (if humans even have more than few decades as species)

"Become a world power"

You know, we've had that experience before, "everywhere else" would pretty much prefer that didn't happen again, thank you very much.

As an American, yes please, because we can't get our shit together as the mutated, corrupt, idiotic half's monster is running roughshod over our wishy-washy, whiny, "centrist" half's.

They need to poke the planet, then we can all work together to get the fuck off this rock. We've fucked it up enough and there are plenty of planets to mine resources from. Let's all band together for an exit. Then go our separate ways after launch.

I remember watching Gundam 00 and thinking "man, the US being in a separate power block from Europe sounds crazy!"

It always has been…

You want Europe, the continent that killed and tortured the people of Congo for rubber to become a super power? What in the imperialist scum post is this?

Europe needs to be strong enough to stand on its own at all levels, but I think it's a pretty bad idea for it to become a neo-Imperial power in the style of America.

For all the great things of Democracy, the one thing people forget in their rosy propaganda-tainted view of it (living inside of it, we're constantly bombarde by political messaging about its greatness) is that by definition even the most perfect Democracy only has the duty to represent the will of its citizens, not of people who are not citizens of that Democracy.

So there is no ideological element in Democracy to make it less nasty at exploiting people from other countries than authoritarian regimes.

All this to say that Europe shouldn't get into the business of power projection like the US has done for decades (leaving a long trail of death, suffering and destitution all over the World, especially the Middle East and Latin America).

And I say this as an European and somebody who would stand to gain indirectly from Europe going systematically (it's already done by businesses and some governments in it, just not openly and systematically) into the business of exploiting non-Europeans.

A peacefull when not provoked giant would probably be the best philosphy for a strong Europe, IMHO.

(Edit: for avoidance of doubt I want to state that for me Russia trying to advance westwards by invading Ukraine counts as a provocation)

please don't try to do this again.