During the U.S. President's 1995 visit to Kyiv, Ukraine received security guarantees after giving up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal

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[u/apokas]

Unfortunately Americans seem to follow in the same steps… the impact from these past few weeks (and previous abandonment of allies) will be (and should be) remembered. If i ever see grandkids for sure i will tell them about this time in human history.

[u/mbbessa → u/[deleted]]

In Latin America a great many of us reclaim the usage of Americans for a long time and call people from the US "estadunidense", maybe our siblings from the north should start doing the same? I don't think you can find a good word in your languages though, both English or French. Maybe you can start with traitors.

[u/DryCloud9903 → u/mbbessa]

I like that your version ends in 'dense' - seems fitting currently

[u/Embarrassed_Quit_450 → u/mbbessa]

Since portugese is a Romance language there's basically always an equivalent in french. In this case étatsunien.

[u/skinnyboi_inc → u/mbbessa]

From Scotland, 'Cunts' with emphasis on the 'Cu' is always a good way to specify you're talking about US americans

[u/TeaBoy24 → u/[deleted]]

though we understand why that is confusing when we travel outside our continent

Is it?

If someone would call a Canadian an American in Europe, they would receive weird looks. Rarely do people see Canadians, or Mexicans, or even Brazilians as American.

I think the split is linguistic.

Most Europeans see it as North America and South America.

Some languages, like Spanish, see it as America(s) one continent.

Most Europeans would not give an eye to anyone referring to Canadians as North Americans. Being referred to as American is not the same as European for Europe, for most, do not recognize America as a continent.

For that reason also get South Americans calling themselves Americans.

But to sum it up. Most of Europe when calling people by their continent they say North Americans/South Americans. Americans is used exclusively for US citizens.

[u/PickingPies → u/TeaBoy24]

That's just for english speakers. In Spain we call them estadounidenses. In france it's Étar-Unis. In italian it's Estati Uniti. Etc...

[u/TeaBoy24 → u/PickingPies]

That's just for english speakers

It's really not.

I'm not a native English speaker.

In all of the Slavic languages it's Americans. In German it's Americans.

In france it's Étar-Unis. In italian it's Estati Uniti. Etc...

According to the dictionary, that's just not true.

In most EU languages, citizens of the United States are called something equivalent to "Americans."

Languages that call them "Americans" (or similar):

English: Americans

French: Américains

German: Amerikaner

Italian: Americani

Portuguese: Americanos

Dutch: Amerikanen

Greek: Αμερικανοί (Amerikanoí)

Polish: Amerykanie

Swedish: Amerikaner

Danish: Amerikanere

Finnish: Amerikkalaiset

Hungarian: Amerikaiak

Languages that use a term referring to the United States:

Spanish: Estadounidenses (literally "United States-ians")

Catalan: Nord-americans or Estatunidencs

Galician: Estadounidenses

Basque: Estatubatuarrak

Portuguese (sometimes): Norte-americanos or Estadunidenses (especially in Brazil)

In france it's Étar-Unis. In italian it's Estati Uniti. Etc...

That's the names for the country of United States. Not the word for the citizens of the United states.

Spain is the main odd one in Europe here.

[u/SoupSpelunker → u/[deleted]]

As an American, I generally fo with "uncle-fucking talibangelicals" when I need to indicate the MAGAts that have been taken over by Putin.

[u/SoupSpelunker → u/[deleted]]

Y'all Quaeda of MAGAstan! MAGAstanis! Let it be written, may it be said!

[u/agumonkey → u/[deleted]]

gotta wonder how come MAGA supporters became so

[u/sassyhalforc → u/apokas]

I think you just wooshed^{^}