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The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).

The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures of the EU.

The “closed-door workshop” featured a debate on a new paper produced by the lobby groups MCC and Ordo Iuris entitled: “The Great Reset: Restoring Member State Sovereignty in the 21st Century”.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 15 points 18 hours ago

US looking to destabilise and destroy a democratically formed group / nation state for their own interests? Shocker.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The American Heritage Foundation needs to pound sand.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemm.ee 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

They need to be put on a terrorist watch list.

Sounds like an act of war

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 43 points 1 day ago

They reallllllllllllly hate unions

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 20 points 1 day ago

I really think any countries which may try to leave the eu should think about how well that went for Britan.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not the first and it's not going to be the last.

Most EU members are small and easy to bully for a country the size of the US if on their own (and in fact many were bullied by the US before becoming EU members) and even the mid-sized ones could be pushed around, but a block of 470 million people with a larger GDP than the US cannot be pushed around just like that, so it's absolutely in the best interests of the elites which control the US and a very large fraction of its Economy (and hence stand to gain the most from any bullying by the US of other nations) to want to dismantle any association of small and middle sized countries that makes them capable of dealing with the US as equals.

Why do you think it was wealthy Americans who funded the Leave side of the Leave Referendum in Britain (for example, by paying Cambridge Analitica to use Facebook to manipulate people into voting Leave)?! It's just that, no doubt to their great disappointment, removing Britain from the EU did not significantly weaken the EU, only Britain, and they already had vast influence in British politics so don't really gain much from Britain leaving the herd to go out all on its own.

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

shit like this reminds me how much I love the EU

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ugh I'm so sick of these Heritage assholes. There's needs to be an American progressive counter organization.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oops, all fed boi honeypots!

[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 133 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Heritage Foundation is a treasonous organization. They need to be stopped. I fail to understand how Project 2025 isn't outright sedition, and it should've been treated that way by Biden.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's been clear to anyone who read it that P2025 planned to dismantle the government and shred the constitution. If they were left leaning, the FBI would've been so far up the Heritage Foundation's ass, they would've been looking through their eyes like a Scooby doo painting.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the whole "they go low, we go high" mantra of liberals.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

While in reality they're going nowhere but the hotel bar.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 206 points 1 day ago (9 children)

ok so let's do these quickly:

  1. declare the AfD unconstitutional in Germany
  2. make Marine Le Pen ineligible in France
  3. destitute Viktor Orban in Hungary
[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Romania already banned its fascist candidate. The others should do the same

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Great plan! I’ll tell all my EU family to vote for you—haha

I like this list. Should have been done already. Especially Le Pen and Orban—they have been on our radar for so long it’s absurd how they’ve been allowed to fester. AfD needs to go. I also am extremely skeptical and have my eye on Sahra Wagenknecht with her praise of Putin.

Sovereign countries have the right to remain sovereign and defend against foreign and domestic interlopers who wish to end their sovereignty. I’m rooting for you and if I gets bad enough I hope I can be allowed to lend myself to your fight.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 22 hours ago

ha <3 keep your vote for someone more competent than me, you'll find me on the barricades but not in the parliament :-)

Wagenknecht belongs to these people who believe that appeasement works with the extreme right. You give them what they want and they'll be happy, they'll keep their word and you'll be safe. Yes of course you had to sacrifice a few marginalized people on the way, but that's a fair price to pay for peace, right? RIGHT? oh shit, now the leopard is also eating MY face. 😱🙀

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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 141 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Alright guys, it’s time to roll out the guillotines again

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I hear certain parts of the European Union can teach us a thing or two about those!

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is America, sniper rifles would be more useful.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They already tried that. We forgot about that guy because a much more attractive shooter caught our attention.

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[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Seriously, how are these clowns getting away with having workshops? They need to be scared for their lives

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

There are huge protests in Serbia, that last several months. Did the people in power went down? No. People literally need to eat grass to say fuck this shit.

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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 59 points 1 day ago

No tolerance for intolerance

[–] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think America needs an American solution for this American problem

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

A guillotine made of... guns

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[–] turnip@lemm.ee 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Weird they dislike the ECB and the European Union, they give us bangers like bank bail-ins and CBDC, to deal with their strangulation of productivity investment and diminishing living standards.

To demonstrate my skepticism towards the Europeans’ ability to leave behind their zombie banking system, unmarketable debt, and complete dependence on suppressing price discovery - consider the following policy reactions orchestrated by the European Central Bank (ECB) since the 2008-09 crisis:

• European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)

• European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM)

• European Stability Mechanism (ESM)

• Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT)

• Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO)

• Long Term Refinancing Operation II (LTRO)

• Long Term Refinancing Operation III (LTRO)

• Tripartite Committee consisting of ECB, IMF, EC agreement (TROIKA)

• Forced austerity and bailouts of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain

• Activation of FED USD Swap Lines

• Asset Purchase Program (APP)

• Corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP)

• Public sector purchase programme (PSPP)

• Asset-backed securities purchase programme (ABSPP)

• Covered Bond Purchase Programme (CBPP)

• Covered Bond Purchase Programme II (CBPP)

• Covered Bond Purchase Programme III (CBPP)

• Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP)

• Quantitative Easing (QE)

• Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP)

• Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP

etc..

[–] Munichjake@feddit.org 56 points 1 day ago (20 children)

I am truly, honestly and in all seriousness scared. I have already sought professional help, have my First Session tomorrow but i must say... The Things that Happen These days worry me to a Point where i am truly afraid of the Future.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Ive never been more worried in my life. Not for myself so much, I'm older so i won't have to live that long in their authoritarian future. I'm extremely worried about my 25 year old son, and my 3 year old niece. This will be their world.

It is really affecting my son, who is losing hope, and so are his friends. They don't see a future of freedom and pride in their country. My son made friends from all over the world when he was in college, and even they are worried about the future of the world with a Nazi regime in America.

If there isn't a Musk file on me yet, there will be, and eventually the list will reach my name. I've been thinking about what would radicalize me beyond propagandizing on Lemmy (now that im permabanned from Vichy Reddit after 12 years and nearly a million karma for anti-Trump posts), and all patriotic, loyal Americans should be thinking about it, too. I have to stick around as long as possible for my wife and son, but if something were to happen to them, especially my son, then I've got nothing to lose, and it's on, and i go full on guerilla warfare.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago

The US wants to add the US to this list United States involvement in regime change. They are not our friends!

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 58 points 1 day ago (18 children)

The ”everything is a russian conspiracy” theory seems more plausible every day…

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[–] sucius1@lemdro.id 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The way it's going I think we're closer to seeing the USA dismantled

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