Keep on dreaming...

Ah yes talking about extremists, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is well over this threshold and definitely a danger to democracy.
So far most others don't want to get in a coalition with them.

Uneducated fool.

I've never seen a two-party system as democratic.
Yet for large and important countries like the US, UK and France it is a way to establish their influence on the world stage.
China and Russia manage with one party :)

What I like to warn against is a system like we have in the Netherlands with 15 parties in parliament, that's a recipe for instability.
Do like the Germans do and set a hurdle of, say, 5%.

Not saying they are much better but you could transfer to SAP.
Several of the companies I worked for did so around 15 years ago and they still live.

How's that?
Any company that wants to make significant money in Australia has an office there.
And any company that holds an office in Australia can be called into court.

At least in the States they could join a gun club.

Would/could a new version of uBlock Origin catch it?

I'm glad for two things, first my age bracket does no longer need to feel threatened.
Second I learned a trade and I've yet to see an AI (robot) run cables, pipes and fix switchboards.
But yes, the AI might be helpful designing the lay out.

A neat example :)

Those that implement this AI in their companies to save on real people only look ahead 1, 2 or at the most 3 quarterly reports.
So by the time you see them jump ship the AI plan is over.

Obama spoke out but we Europeans still believed in protection under the US nuclear umbrella.
It sure helped that Trump made the US expectation of more European investments clear.
But before anyone in Europe could actually improve their defenses it was only Trump that in his usual unpredictable way effectively withdrew from the written and silent agreements.
And then his lies...

At first I moderated you Troll but then reconsidered, you commenting on this topic while not knowing (or explaning) Inseat is worse than being a troll.

Indeed, the difference is the nuclear power of the Russians, if they would not have flexed that part of their threats Europe would long have defeated them.

I agree with much of what you just wrote.
At the end of WWII Europe was given safety guarantees called the US Nuclear Umbrella that did not require them to keep huge armies.
Although, during the Cold War most European nations did have significant armies but after the fall of the Soviet Union they quickly started to spent their money on more profitable subjects.
Then this criminal Putin came to power but heh, we have a NATO chapter 5 and like in WWII the US will come to our rescue, one of the reasons most countries did not invest in nuclear weapons.
But now along comes this unusual friend of Putin, Trump, and he wants to retreat to his side of the Atlantic.
Many but not all European nations realize they'll have to invest in and set up their own defense, just a pity not all see the need for rearmament and some like Viktor Orban look at Putin as a trading partner, Orban already gave up on an independent legal system and free press so the Russian system is not so different, right?