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The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum
A reader writes: " www.electoral-vote.com, a site of daily updated maps of the US electoral college based on a number of polls is probably a site that the policially inclined check daily. Well, it has been revealed that the person behind the site, AKA the votemaster, is none other than Andrew Tanenbaum, noted author of numerous CS books." He's also known for a little discussion with someone named Linus Torvalds.
It's easy to tell his sites apart from others. They're hosted on dial up.
Great. The "Votemaster" hasn't lived in the United States for twenty years.
European governments would have to convince their besotted (with social programs) populace that spending more than 2% of their GDP on defense is required. How do you evaluate the chances of this happening, and people taking a hit in quality of life for it? I sense a zero chance unless directly attacked, which is doubtful.
However much I support activist defense of the North American mainland, I don't consider Europe a threat, and neither does this administration. Most of your nations still operate under a US-provided nuclear umbrella. "Asserting leadership" is impossible without military might. Europe gave up on that in 1945 or 1956, depending how you look at it.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.