The EU beat COVID and ditched Russian energy. Now it must learn to live without US security help
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Did Europe not provide COVID vaccines to their citizens? Even in the healthcare hell that is the US the vaccines were free.
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Do grow up.
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Beating COVID would have mean actually taking it seriously, maybe eradicting it, atleast having the vast majority of people vaccinate, mask and properly ventilate.
By all of those metrics, save for total eradication of course, Europe largely DID beat covid, or rather the most critical phase of it, unlike the US.
Last I checked, covid infections are below pre-covid flu infections in most of Europe, as is seasonal flu. Again, unlike the US.
If anything we’re worse than the start of the pandemic now
The entire world is, due mainly to the by now worldwide resurgence of fascism.
A third of europe believes in anti-vaccine conspiracies.
See above.
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They also needed to provide COVID vaccines to those countries that couldn’t afford to buy them themselves in order to successfully eradicate it.
But they couldn’t do that because it would look bad with the voters if there weren’t enough vaccines to use at home.
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They certainly are being pushed. The polls are showing that support for the fascists there has dropped 25% since they've seen the Trump/Musk presidency to the south. The problem is, they don't have the infrastructure such as huge ports to conduct international trade on the scale of the US.
I wish them luck, because we, their neighbors, seem doomed.
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It didn't ditch Russian energy either.
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Europe ditched Russian energy the same way they ditched colonialism: they didn't, they just do it on the down-low now.
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This, plus, the vaccines were mostly developed with public money/university grants, but for the last 10-20% they took the profits and put it under patent to prevent the world from gaining immunity.
The example of e.g.the polio vaccine should be standard procedure
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Eh, colonizing is nothing like it was in the past.
Unpopular opinion, but I'd like to bring it back with improvements.
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If they could read any critcism of Europe/liberalism without treating it as a personal attack, they might understand that we got rid of polio due to a lack of profit from the inventors. COVID will probably never have that until millions more are dead from it.
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Who's gonna colonize the US and make it liveable first?
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the States of America
