Recent content by Snowygerry

Yes, this effect is noticeable everywhere, doesn't change the trade balance much though, at least not in the direction intended : https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/08/15/belgian-export-to-the-us-down-by-12-5-in-the-second-quarter-of/ For comparison this was the first quarter ...

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-defense-kyiv-ukraine-nato-eu-bogs-poland-war-germany/

It was quite common in the 19th century: https://short-history.com/leopold-ii-mistress-caroline-delacroix-f8c0e292a719

It’s not that you don’t need allies either, your carriers are sitting ducks on their own. https://theaviationist.com/2025/08/27/russian-submarine-search/

The hacking of the DNC you mean ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee_cyber_attacks No it’s not on that level.

Well it’s not the Bay of Pigs, I agree, but it’s poor form, to say the least. 😊

What on earth were Danish soldiers doing dying in Afghanistan of all places, one of the silliest places to go fight a war, ever, and impossible to be further away from the Danemark. And what's up with the Georgians ? Even the Vikings did not travel that far :D

Not without an armed Germany. And the one reason US forces are in Europe is because our ancestors did not want an armed Germany after the war, for obvious historical reasons. They did not come to "defend Europe". They came to occupy Germany.

There are very few US forces here, couple of thousand, family members included. Most of all them belong to your Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Casteau. They have been there since 1967, when Lyndon B. Johnson was US president, they defend bugger all, they are a big fat...

Well obviously we're not going to sacrifice a 246-year old alliance for the sake of one idiot in the White House, US presidents come and go..as Edward points out above. https://www.brusselstimes.com/1667556/a-special-bond-how-the-united-states-sees-belgium

You should fight fire with fire, obviously. Can't be that difficult to disappear a few CIA operatives in vast expanses of Greenland. Let's say a polar bear ate them :D

Sounds like the Sicherheitsdienst doesn't it. Heil Hegseth even has a musical ring to it :D https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/sicherheitspolizei-und-sicherheitsdienst-sipo-sd-german-occupied-belgium-and-northern

If you carefully husband your first units and use them in every war they will gain most of them eventually, depends a bit on your playstyle and map, I can't remember getting them all on a single unit, but I imagine it is doable if you make a point of it. Some are more useful than others, those...

Hm not really, I’m running both Liberalism and New Deal in my current game. I think you need to be in Democracy though.

It’s Belgian French 😊