Comments by "" (@EbenBransome) on "why do I dislike Vance?" video.
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In Purgatorio, Canto 16, Dante discusses good and bad government. His character says:
"Onde convenne legge per fren porre;
convenne rege aver, che discernesse
de la vera cittade almen la torre."
Therefore the laws were needed as a brake (i.e. curb on bad men)
And there is need of a king who can at least make out the tower of the True City."
Trump, Vance and Musk reject and ignore the laws, and have no higher goal in mind than their own power and wealth.
If Vance is correct in saying that Europe has not invested enough in its security, he is saying it for the wrong reason: because we are in this situation due to the US attempt to take over the world, starting in 1990, and using Europe as a tool. Without NATO in the post-1990 era, without the US bases, Europe could have Europeanised Russia, to the benefit of everybody but with a great relative reduction in US power.
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