AFAIK the problem is more that Romania isn’t that interested.
I’m guessing it will be expensive for Romania like the reunification with East Germany was for West Germany.
And where West Germany was ready to take that cost, Romania is not as economically strong as West Germany was.
If Moldova could qualify for EU membership however, I think that would clearly be an option.

Your claim is completely baseless, USA is going down the shitter, and so is Russia. But when Russia is defeated in Ukraine, the rest of the world will be fine. USA can piss right off, we don’t need them. If they continue their bullshit, there are already talk in EU that we may need to invalidate US patents, to take control of our infrastructure. IDK if you are American, but you definitely sound like it. Americans tend to think USA is the center of the world, but they aren’t anymore. And their political influence is diminishing fast. In Germany even AfD has denounced Trump after his threats against Greenland.
I have no fear for our future in EU, and I have no fear for our democracy, because we still use our democracy actively, as could be seen recently when we demonstrated against USA, a demonstration that far exceeded anything in USA under Trump on a per Capita basis, despite Greenland doesn’t have any impact on daily life in Denmark, and Greenland cost us money because we don’t steal their ressources.

The strength and quality of democracy in EU is without comparison stronger than in USA. When we elect our politicians we have actual choices, and not just 2 right wing parties to choose among.
People with political views like Bernie Sanders and AOC are common in EU politics and have actual power.
EU has acted to resist Trump already within a month of his inauguration. This is not a matter of dying for Greenland, if USA invades Greenland, EU will hit USA on the economy, and there will be no soft power for USA to wield that will be supported by any European country or Canada.

EU has tried to accommodate Trump in many ways until now, for instance the trade deal that allowed a US 15% tariff on EU goods, while EU has a zero % tariff on American goods. This trade deal is now canceled by EU. And the end of accommodating Trump is near.
Trump could have negotiated both bases and mining rights on Greenland, but now I think both Greenland and Denmark will be very reluctant to give USA anything.

USA is dead to us now, more bullying from Trump will not be accepted over here anymore.

Because formally NATO is still NATO.
China, Russia, and South Africa are not BRICS and nothing in the article you linked indicated the exercise had anything to do with the BRICS cooperation that is 100% economic.

But when Brazil and India aren’t in that, it’s per definition not BRICS, the article state the exercise is by 3 BRICS members, but it is not BRICS. BRICS is way bigger now than the original 5 members.
Calling this a BRICS exercise is exclusively something that exist in the head of the author of the article, and there is absolutely zero reference to any BRICS defense pact.
Even if China, Russia, and South Africa make a defense pact, it is per definition not BRICS without including Brazil and India.

Brazil and India are among the founders of BRICS They are the Band I of the acronym.
The cooperation is economic and has no defense aspect AFAIK. So what BRICS related security drills would that be?

Same here, responding from Denmark.

Seems the plan for Venezuela went down the toilet when the new president refused to play ball.

they tell us

Is that what it boils down to? AFAIK you are free to vote for someone who doesn’t say that.
Yes there have been problems, first Covid, then Russia invading Ukraine disrupting oil and gas supplies plus demanding higher defense expenses, and then Trump winning the presidency on USA putting tariffs on EU.

All these are outside factors that have had an impact, but apart from that the general trend in EU is absolutely to improve conditions for the population, which has far from been the case in USA.
Yes they warn that times are bit tighter now than they should have been, but that’s reality and not because we are being choked by our own.
I agree the rich need to be taxed more, and the distribution of wealth is unfair, but at least in EU we have a fighting chance, where in USA they have basically given up on fundamental rights like free healthcare and a living wage.

Yes but Vance is in line for the presidency, Miller is not.

I don’t think I’ll ever stop feeling angry about this.

I 100% get that, it was a moronic decision IMO.

UK has lost about 7.5-10% of their economic potential due to Brexit. Incidentally exactly as I warned would happen during the campaign for the Brexit election, where I warned the UK economy could decline up to 1% per year compared to remaining. Turns out I was pretty much spot on. My guess is this has hit the lower paid workers harder than average, because that is generally the nature of such things, unless there is political will to prevent it. But in situations with tighter economy, such political will almost always evaporates.

For UK workers overall this is a self inflicted wound. But of course if you voted remain, this was inflicted upon you by your countrymen. UK is in a special situation, and can not be used as an example for the rest of Europe.
Hopefully we will see this effect decrease, as UK forms new agreements with EU, and the economy settles on a natural level for the new conditions.

but the rest of you are dragging us down

Where are you from? and who is “you”? If foreigners are buying your real estate nothing is simpler than not allowing foreigners to own real estate in your country. Failing to do that is not the fault of other countries.

China had the right idea to impose severe restrictions around that type of “investing”

China is not all bad, but it is a totalitarian regime, where people can be imprisoned just for expressing a political opinion.
That kind of oppression of the people and ideas makes China clearly worse than EU, where it is a protected right.

The worst countries regarding making land unavailable to ordinary people are way poorer countries than USA and EU and are Asian countries, where land is part of a social construct, and your worth and ability for marriage is tied to how much land you own. Where not the foreigners but the local rich are pressuring out ordinary people.

Yes.

Last I heard Intel had a lot worse PPW than AMD, especially on multi-threading, also CPU Mark is not a very good benchmark AFAIK. The indication of the test if you miss the TDP part is that Intel has not only caught up but also surpassed AMD.
That would be great if true, but this test does not have enough info to be worth much. Let’s wait and see when the real data arrives.

Bonus points if they get Vance too.

I think the idea is if the next president doesn’t play ball, he will be taken out too.
That also seems to have been Trumps entire plan for Venezuela.

It’s a stupid plan, but I don’t think the Iranian regime is much smarter than the Trump administration.

AMD TDP 55W.
Intel TDP NA².

That basically makes the comparison worthless.
Yes it’s a bit faster, but if the TDP is higher, it’s a totally moot point. Obviously AMD can make chips faster at higher TDP too.

Yes, I am European and a supporter of EU in for instance the way EU requires member states to observe human rights.
And also how EU protects democratic rights for all citizens of EU, which again is directly contrary to USA, that undermine democracy on the federal level.

Inflation is an aftermath of Covid, Covid was a major economic challenge everywhere, this was made worse in EU and prolonged because Russia tried to strong-arm EU by closing off the gas. Which meant that EU was forced to source this energy from elsewhere, increasing prices on warming for houses for many people. But people are still paid livable wages in EU unlike in USA. There is always struggle for workers to get their fair share, difference is that in EU this struggle is on a much more even playing field than it is in USA, and AFAIK anywhere else in the world.

There is no class war in either USA or EU, there isn’t in USA because Americans aren’t fighting for their rights.
And there isn’t in EU because workers did fight for it, and we have won the necessary rights that prevent us from getting choked.
There is of course always debate on how the money of society as a whole should be shared. And in EU workers actually have significant political power in that debate, where in USA they don’t.

So apart from a livable wage, we have for instance free healthcare and education, something many Americans dream of.
Romania is among the poorer EU countries, but they have the highest home ownership in EU.
So at least I think I can say with good certainty that we don’t have an EU wide housing crisis.
With major infra structure variables like housing there will always “trouble” show me a country that is completely without problems regarding housing.

In EU the situation today is certainly way better than it was back in the 70’s in most countries, where in USA it’s the exact opposite.