I find it very interesting to read how US Americans (sorry, I am assuming now, I don't know if you are) are seeing their home country from their perspective, which is actually a shared perspective, from here across the Atlantic, with other European people. I mean, we all are holding our breaths, aren't we? For the past 6 years, I have been consuming news more and more, and I wonder when I will stop. I was never this much into global news. I feel like everything is changing. And too much. It is like watching a painfully slow-motion film, or something being sucked into a black hole, as it once happened in Star Gate SG-1. I don't know why I got this reference in my head, but. it, is, just, so, slow. Yet it feels like every time I blink, things have shifted.

I don't know what my point was here, but I can only imagine how it must feel to see your world (and me seeing someone else's world) going completely upside down. What a time to be alive.

I can definitely agree that EU has to become stronger also with defence and take a stronger stance for peace. But we are still affected with the World Wars that left a devastating memory to my grandparents, and I can feel it within my family, and the whole nation. And I recognise the collective memory of war within other European nations and their people. It's still a trauma that carries over generations. And now we are there again, because there are too many wars going on at the moment and they are too close, and I feel anxiety about it.