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#EuropeanPolitics

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"Today, confronted with an aggressive tyranny and faced with an #isolationist #US, the nation states of #Europe, with #Canada, are attempting to uphold the moral and #political recasting of the world that took place after 1945.

Europe doesn’t need #Trump to form a #westernalliance – and one is already taking shape | Martin Kettle | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#EuropeanPolitics
#americanpolitics
#EuropeanAllies
#Europeanalliance

The Guardian · Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shapeBy Martin Kettle

"So far, the net effect of #MAGA foreign policy has been to get exactly zero concessions from Moscow, while simultaneously reviving the fortunes of #Canada’s #LiberalParty and helping the mainstream center-right win in #Greenland."

The Global #PopulistRight Has a MAGA Problem - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/international/

#populism
#EuropeanPolitics
#NigelFarage
#USpol

The Atlantic · The Global Populist Right Has a MAGA ProblemBy Helen Lewis
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It would be one of history's little ironies if highly visible U.S.A. multinationals like McDonalds and KFC got let back into Russia by #DonaldJTrump lifting U.S.A. sanctions at the same time as people in #Canada and Europe decided to start boycotting them.

History will probably not record swapping the European+Canadian markets for the Russian market as a smart business move, though.

(Last I heard, Burger King was still operating in Russia.)

“ Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, says the "unspeakable" row between Trump and Zelensky has "underlined that a new age of infamy has begun". In a televised statement she adds:

"Sadly, this was not a bad dream, but a heavy reality."

#putin #russia #trump #maga #gop #usa #us #america #american #uspol #USPolitics #zelensky #ukraine #SlavaUkraini #musk #elonmusk #jdvance #eu #europe #uk #krasnov #europeanpolitics #nato #germany #deutschland

bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5220x56p

When #DonaldJTrump in the days or weeks to come proposes sending U.S.A. armed forces in some way or other in to support and defend "our friend" "poor" Russia weakened in its war against the "out of control", "foolish", "warmongering", "undemocratic", "dictatorial" and whatever other ironic namecallings xe can come up with, #Ukraine

… then remember that you read it here first, and it was predictable.

The new alliance - Europe needs to get its (our) act together. On the negative, the breakdown will effect everyone negatively on both sides of the Atlantic, on the positive, Europe will be less dependent politically and technically.

But what appears incontroversible is that both Trump and Puting wish to weaken Europe. Starmer needs to 'get with the program' - the US is no friend or even an ally.

archive.today/2025.02.28-21331 (archived)