Well I'm 40 and lived all over the country and I've never heard it a single time. You sure you don't live in an alternate timeline? Also just to make sure I'm not crazy I looked at iHop's online menu and it's... just pancakes. Never heard anyone call a pancake anything other than a pancake.
Ah, yeah you're thinking of regular pancakes. In this thread, we're talking about crepes made in one of the Scandinavian styles. I haven't heard of IHOP selling those unless it's a special menu item.
Edit: I googled IHOP Swedish pancakes and they apparently had them for awhile and discontinued them a couple years ago.
FWIW you can get pancakes 1cm thick in both the size of a hand and the size of a plate in the US. When they're the size of a plate you usually get a couple just stacked on top of each other. Source: I am American.
There definitely seems a correlation between how close a country is to Russia and how opposed to Russia they are. The ones sharing a border seem very anti whereas the USA seems to have flipped pro Russia.
Xi Jinping must be pleased, he can call countries around the world and be treated as the sane, reasonable superpower... (And he's got the superpower-wannabe Putin on a leash, and to continue the dog metaphor, Putin in turn has Trump licking his balls)
Exactly. Trump has gifted the Chinese a golden opportunity to really step up in a diplomatic, international sense. Even if not all nations agree with everything China does, they at least look like sane, competent adults compared to the shitshow that is the current US government.
And even if we were to get a sane government in 2028 it wouldn’t matter much because Americans have already demonstrated not once, but twice that they will willingly elect an utterly incompetent fool.
It doesn't matter if Trump is actually a conspiratorial russian asset/agent.
The policies of the Trump administration are completely in line with him being one, and it is those actions that are the damage. To review a bit:
- trade and tariff wars with near neighbors and allies
- threatening to steal territory from allies
- parroting openly false propaganda by Putin in the world media
- disrupting the Five Eyes
- mass firings at FBI, CIA, DIA, NSA
- open support of right wing fascist parties in European elections
- withdrawing aid from Ukraine
- threatening Starlink access by Ukraine
Of course he's now stating that the sactions will be ending soon as well.
Honestly, this is actually MORE than I would expect from an agent, because I would assume the KGB or GRU or equivalents would have slow-played him for long term effect.
As much as I'm behind Norway in this little spat, I think Putin's Arctic fleet might smell an opportunity to mess with Norway a bit more, and then who will they beg for help?
Not sure if you follow the news, but the US aren't considered as allies (or dependable, or even stable) by anyone right now. Nobody is happy about it, of course, but it's not like anyone is counting on the US anymore, for better or worse.
It would be worse for the United States dollar, probably. The D in USD historically could’ve been associated with “Diplomacy”— the military was willing and able to globally enforce the value of the US Dollar by favoring countries that willingly supported its hegemony.
When no one relies upon us any more, what makes our dollars and debts so special? What’s to stop everyone from taking their ball and going to play somewhere else? From calling in debts, from reneging on debts to us, from accepting our dollars, from providing land for military bases, from honoring our passports… because that is what happens to nearly every other country not at the Top.
The global order currently only works in our favor because we’re on top. We are the ones who lose the most when other countries don’t need us, not the other way around.
Europe has its own industry, but countries have made sure that they buy a significant amount of weapons from the US to keep them happy. That limits the size of the EU industry.
There have been many stories of EU countries choosing the American alternative, even if it was more expensive. In return, they expected some goodwill from US.
So when you read stories about EU countries not spending enough, consider that a large part of what they do spend goes to the US to appease them.
That won't happen because of Norway's immense oil and gas supply and good relations. If Russia manages to take Norway, USA will be at an incredible disadvantage due to the immense oil and gas reserves on the coastline in addition to the oil-fund. If anything USA will annex Norway.
Incomplete list of places USA bully, attacks or insults: Canada, EU, Ukraine, Mexico.
Complete list of countries USA supports, admires and treats nicely: Russia.
If Russia attack Norway, USA may try to make Norway a colony. Or use to situation to mock Norway, get their oil and then sell them to Russia once they have something.
But Trump loves Putin and is scared of him, so I can see him to make a "deal" and give him Norway with its oil in exchange of something purely ego stroking.
The oil lasts longer than Trump's presidency so hopefully the US will not become a dictatorship within that time and will be able to fix this shit before everything turns to hell.
Jeffries, the top democrat in the house, is too busy with promoting his book and anyway has decided it’s all in gods hands now. He had one stop in Oakland on Feb 20, and is scheduled again on March 7.
Gee whiz good thing there’s nothing else pressing going on to get in the way of his book tour stops! /s
This is very minor, just a friendly little reminder that cooperation is a two way street.
The big ones would be to no longer sell Norwegian oil and gas in USD. Or to move all investments of the Government Pension Fund of Norway out of American companies.
Sadly, the jokes on them, the US will pull back from anywhere near russia to allow them to expand as they see fit, and just park as close to isreal to help them level the region
>The only thing that US bases in the EU are doing at the moment is contributing to the local economies.
Some US bases double as spy bases. For example in the UK, RAF Menwith Hill is an NSA spy base, and RAF Croughton is a CIA spy base. One bargaining chip Europe has is to oust these spy bases from their territory. This would obviously negatively impact the US' global intelligence efforts. In any case, I see little point in allowing a hostile nation have spy bases on one's land.
I'm pretty sure no NATO countries actually consider the US a dependable ally at the moment. So US spending is kind of irrelevant really. And if the US were to actively work against its NATO allies (seems pretty likely at this point), US NATO spending would be considered more of a negative rather than a positive.
As a layman, I think this opinion is wrong. I think it's clear that the EU position vis-a-vis Russia would have been greatly compromised had it not been for the magnitude of U.S. military spending.
If true [1] this is the insanity why Trumps team is right, U.S. warships are currently defending Ukraine.
Based on a 10 minute video, 24 hours later, they are cutting off the supply to the US which supports and defends countries like Ukraine in the region and further abroad like Africa.
The US isn't attacking Ukraine, FFS.
This should be illegal, as critical infrastructure Haltbakk Bunkers should have obligations they have been paid for.
Take their request as serious and stop refueling the US in the broader region. Europe will take up the slack of Ukraine and everything else the US does? Europe will struggle to even defend Ukraine. Trump will get his insanely large budget cuts and Europe can be blamed for dragging the world into disarray.
The US Navy is so large that it's basically impossible to not defend half of Europe while they're deployed. Systems like Aegis provide de-facto area denial to ballistic weapons when they're put anywhere, since we have 11 carrier groups it's not infeasible to send them out on patrol with our (former) allies. It sure beats paying COs merchant marine wages to jerk off in littoral waters waiting to eat a DF-21, fighting to defend America's god-given right to an iPhone 17.
> This should be illegal
Sounds like the US messed up cutting ties with the International Criminal Court then. Maybe one day this heinous act will be brought to justice. Maybe.
This was a private company, not the state of Norway. A democratic country can't force companies to trade.
Please keep in mind that actions of a single company has no effect on the rest of the country. Why does everything have to be blown out of proportions?
Norway's defense minister has made it clear that they support the US presence, and this was the actions of a single company. The ship was given what they asked for.
> Wonder how making the US your enemy is going to pan out lmao
Quiet part out loud: One or more thin-skinned criminals within the US government are likely to abuse the power of their offices to illegally harm the company in revenge.
P.S.: ... And some people imagine that outcome, and their reaction is intense laughter, rather than disgusted anger.
TBF, my initial reply was not particularly charitable or steel-manning.
However I do believe that US international policy and procurement ought to operate without bias around whether potential vendor's CEO has praised/insulted a US President.
Reminds me of "Freedom Fries"...