Le Pen: no political office for you & your crooks. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/frances-le-pen-awaits-verdict-in-embezzlement-trial.html
#EU #LePen #France #EuropeanPolitics

Le Pen: no political office for you & your crooks. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/frances-le-pen-awaits-verdict-in-embezzlement-trial.html
#EU #LePen #France #EuropeanPolitics
"We in #Europe must finally take care of our own problems with our own #militaries. And we’ll do it our own way, thank you very much. Without the help of this testosterone-fueled boy band from the #WhiteHouse, which places greater value on using the right emojis than hitting the right targets."
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/europe-us-independence-relations-english/komplettansicht
"What #Vance and his colleagues seem to have forgotten, though, is that what #America now wants — essentially for other #countries to have the capability to fight #wars all by themselves — is exactly what, until very recently, America did not want at all."
#USpol
#usdefense
#USdefence
#EuropeanPolitics
#Europendefencespending
#EU
#History
#Allies
#americanexceptionalism
"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
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/20/europe-donald-trump-western-alliance-nato
#EuropeanPolitics
#americanpolitics
#EuropeanAllies
#Europeanalliance
"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
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/trump-populism-britain/682055/
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
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5220x56pqt?post=asset%3A5779b7ff-ad0b-44a8-80e4-023e746f7ecb#post
“Russian officials and Moscow’s media outlets reacted with predictable glee to the dramatic clash between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump at the White House on Friday”
#putin #russia #trump #maga #gop #usa #us #america #american #uspol #USPolitics #zelensky #ukraine #SlavaUkraini #musk #elonmusk #jdvance #eu #europe #uk #krasnov #europeanpolitics #nato
“ U.K.’s Starmer says ending Russia’s war in Ukraine ‘can’t be peace that rewards the aggressor’ “
#putin #russia #trump #maga #gop #usa #us #america #american #uspol #USPolitics #zelensky #ukraine #SlavaUkraini #musk #elonmusk #jdvance #eu #europe #uk #krasnov #moscow #kierstarmer #starmer #europeanpolitics #eupolitics #europolitics
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.
Trump - The best investment russia has ever made
#putin #russia #trump #maga #gop #usa #us #america #american #uspol #USPolitics #zelensky #ukraine #SlavaUkraini #musk #elonmusk #jdvance #eu #europe #uk #krasnov #eu #europeanpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security
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.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/ukraine-krieg-news-liveblog#event_id=enjB5vrJ5n1T7TMTSKBo
Diese dürren, kraftlosen Worte tun's nicht mehr
Is it time for another "whatever it takes, an believe me, it will be enough" moment?