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

[mschuster91]

> Not in the least because to non US people this seems like exactly what one could/should expect when re-electing this guy.

It's not like we are better in that regards... you Dutch elected Wilders, and us Germans are falling for the AfD.

[hvb2 → mschuster91]

Wilders became the biggest in parliament, he didn't become prime minister.

Also, a US president is VASTLY more powerful than either a prime minister in NL or a kanseller in Germany. The US is also a bigger world power than any European country by itself. So the implications are different.

[AnimalMuppet → hvb2]

True. But it is also true that your electorate is susceptible to the same bad judgment that ours is.

[hvb2 → AnimalMuppet]

Wilders has never been prime minister, nor did we make him prime minister twice.

The US elected him twice. With the second time being after pretty much an attempted coup. This is bad judgment on another level IMHO

And again a prime minister in the Netherlands: 1. does not have the same amount of power as NL is smaller and doesn't put as much power in one person 2. Is always the head of a coalition government in which the extreme ideas have been tabled

[Timon3 → mschuster91]

Let's not forget that Trump is propping up the AfD and co. They are openly working together to split the EU apart. It's all financed by the same billionaires.