You can bet that there are people in Europe who go to bed every night wishing their country had a Second Amendment. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
outside the catbox: a thought experiment
in the fine tradition of “cats out on limbs” and “outside the catbox” thought experiments, let’s take a foray into US foreign policy and really see if we can explore some brand new perspectives. after all, it’s just a thought experiment. probably…
a society stands on the brink of internal collapse, beset by invaders it is in no way armed to fight. its government is hopelessly corrupt, venal, kleptocratic, and arrays itself against the interests of the people in service of the oligarchic interests of self-styled “elites.” violence rises, totalitarian rule impends (or already pertains), and the people are ill equipped to resist the main force of power to which no truth may be spoken, much less lived.
a once free people teeter on the brink of conquest by dictators.
if you watch too much CNN, one might suppose i speak of ukraine or russia or myanmar or some other such situation, but i don’t.
i speak of europe.
of the west.
of the UK, germany, and france, of romania and ireland. it’s getting very, very ugly over there and maybe it’s time we stopped worrying about sending guns to the war dwarf to prop up the rotten european elites through forever-war in the increasingly unfunny dark comedy club of ukraine and started getting into the game to protect our traditional allies, the actual european people.
