Anonymous ID: c6ae46 Oct. 11, 2026, 12:16 p.m. No.25130710   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>0743

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March 26, 2014

Remarks by the President in Address to European Youth

Palais des Beaux Arts

Brussels, Belgium

6:16 P.M. EDT

 

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you so much. Thank you. (Applause.) Please, please have a seat. Good evening. Goede avond. Bonsoir. Guten abend. (Applause.) Thank you, Laura, for that remarkable introduction. Before she came out she told me not to be nervous. (Laughter.) And I can only imagine โ€“ I think her father is in the audience, and I can only imagine how proud he is of her. We're grateful for her work, but sheโ€™s also reminding us that our future will be defined by young people like her.

 

Your Majesties, Mr. Prime Minister, and the people of Belgium โ€“ on behalf of the American people, we are grateful for your friendship. We stand together as inseparable allies, and I thank you for your wonderful hospitality. I have to admit it is easy to love a country famous for chocolate and beer. (Laughter.)

 

Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States, and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.

 

Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states. And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle through war and Enlightenment, repression and revolution that a particular set of ideals began to emerge: The belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose. The belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed, and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding. And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men and women are created equal.

 

But those ideals have also been tested โ€“ here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by โ€œusโ€ versus โ€œthem,โ€ or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.

 

In many ways, the history of Europe in the 20th century represented the ongoing clash of these two sets of ideas, both within nations and among nations. The advance of industry and technology outpaced our ability to resolve our differences peacefully, and even among the most civilized of societies, on the surface we saw a descent into barbarism.

moarโ€ฆ

 

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-address-European-youth

Anonymous ID: c6ae46 Oct. 11, 2026, 12:37 p.m. No.25130767   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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>@WikiLeaksQ

>Watch this and have your mind blown.

>They knew it did this 20 years ago

 

It aired February 22, 2016. !0 years, not 20.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_II

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hP5GEYNZkw

Anonymous ID: c6ae46 Oct. 11, 2026, 2:10 p.m. No.25131019   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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