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Read the bold parts of my quote.

Do you believe that the population could win?

Criticising the EU or the US doesn't condone Russia or China. There is no need to copy them.

Do you think having your oligarchs “under control” and throwing them out of the window is so much better?

That depends on what the goal is. Personally I think the independence of the western elite is what brought us the industrial revolution. However, if we take democratic values serious then the elite shouldn't stand above the law or the politicians. Then it's Feudalism in fancy clothes.

So if a party has the last word then it's closer to a democracy than a capitalistic oligarchy where elections are bought. But it's also no full democracy if a party or an inner circle holds the power for the people. The capitalistic elite could have the same noble goals behind their luxeries.

The US has been influencing German elections for a long time, as far as the rumors go. So making a fuss about them influencing the EU now can't lead to serious investigations.

I think it's useless to choose between wrong options. We have to create a system first where the population can't be easily manipulated. Then no group can claim to be responsible for protecting society from itself and society can be a full democracy.

What do you think this is?

Politico Owner Axel Springer Gives Prize to Far Right Billionaire Peter Thiel

https://feddit.org/post/33281280

You can make it true.

Or he started liking asparagus.

no decision could be made since nothing will be good for everyone.

In a good faith situation, people make compromises. The EU is first of all a trade union. If it is maliciously blocked, just wait it out.

To protect against bad faith actors, only the rule has to be changed that one other complice country can block a voting power reduction. That should be part of the discussion.

but they did not used the weight of EU, which is bigger than the sum of the single states.

If the US does control the EU, and China and Russia know whatever it is, then it is smaller.

EU started to move faster ... United States’ Trojan horse in the EU, the UK, was out of the decision process and cannot block things anymore.

Germany is also a Trojan horse, and I have read comments about other countries, too.

I don't know the inner workings, I can't even say anything about the speedup, but the UK preferred free markets whereas France prefers state companies. That must have been an endless source for conflicts. I wouldn't ascribe the entire slowdown to US influence.

I think the Hungary situation was milked to establish the need for a reform. As I wrote at the start, without veto powers, we get closer to the USE. For the USE, that means more power but for the citizens it means less power.

The important part:

According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the authorities were careless, and their initial approach to the robbers nearly compromised the hostages' safety.[7] Enmark criticized Sweden's prime minister, Olof Palme, for endangering their lives. Palme believed that if Olsson saw one of his close relatives, he might be willing to surrender the hostages; however, the police made a careless mistake. They misidentified Olsson and sent a 16-year-old boy who was unrelated into the bank. This caused confusion and resulted in Olsson firing rounds at the boy, who barely escaped. Olsson became much more agitated in general. After that, Enmark and the other three hostages were fearful that they were just as likely to be killed by police incompetence as by the robbers.

Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police, whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers.[10] Enmark spent decades maintaining that she had no affinity for her captors; she only did what it took to stay alive during the ordeal.

The actual issue is actually being fully dependent on a monopolistic supplier.

This has developed over years. China must have published it in their five-year plans. If this wasn't intentional to give China a false sense of security then the actual issue is that our elites don't know what they are doing.

When the AI drones are ready to clear Russian trenches, violence won't be an option anymore. It's important to find good arguments and ways to convince peacefully.

It matches that the US are supposedly preparing a limited ground invasion.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/pakistani-officials-believe-us-could-123417896.html

You could see this coming from decades away

Don't you think that they see it, too? It just takes time to pivot from building up a capitalistic elite that can overthrow the communist party to isolating China and to beat them in a war.