@MarkoVG87@Ofer_binshtok Our clownish president is why you have the leaders you've elected? 🤣🤣🤣
Right. I'm so sure, Trumpy Trump is why you elected them.
Given the behavior of Western European leadership, there is a chance that President Trump will announce that the U.S. is abandoning the NATO alliance and that European countries will manage on their own with Russia, that the U.S. will no longer intervene in this war. There is also a possibility that he will withdraw all U.S. forces deployed in Europe back to the U.S.
The Real Reason Why Europe Won't Fight: It's Not About the War
When the EU's foreign policy chief declared that the conflict in the Middle East was not Europe's war, she was not making a strategic assessment. She was making a domestic one. The Strait of Hormuz carries a fifth of the world's energy supplies. Daily Gulf oil exports have collapsed by sixty per cent in a fortnight. Germany is facing an energy price shock. Rachel Reeves is watching her fiscal headroom evaporate in real time. France is warning of inflation. These are not countries for whom Middle Eastern stability is an abstract concern. They are countries whose economies depend on that shipping lane remaining open. The idea that protecting it is not their war is not a foreign policy position. It is a fiction maintained for a domestic audience.
The domestic audience in question is not hard to identify. Every government that has refused Trump's request shares the same political constraint. Germany has over five million residents of Muslim background. France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe. Britain has communities whose political representatives spent the past fortnight marching under Khamenei's portrait toward Downing Street. The calculation being made in London, Berlin and Brussels is not about international law or strategic prudence. It is about which communities those governments cannot afford to antagonise and what those communities might do if they felt their governments had taken the wrong side. Not our war means not on our streets. The foreign policy is being written by the demographics.
Trump named it with characteristic bluntness. "Britain used to be the Rolls-Royce of allies", he said. Then he described his phone call with Starmer, in which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom told the President of the United States that he needed to consult his team before deciding whether to send minesweepers. Minesweepers. Not troops. Not bombers. Not a declaration of war. Minesweepers to keep open a shipping lane that Britain's own economy depends on. Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind. That exchange tells you everything about the state of British leadership that a thousand opinion columns cannot.
The humanitarian statement on Lebanon follows the same logic. Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy issued a joint warning to Israel about its ground operations against Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that has spent decades arming itself to destroy the Jewish state and that attacked Israel the moment Khamenei was killed. The statement called for immediate de-escalation. It described the humanitarian situation as deeply alarming. It said a significant ground offensive must be averted. Not one word about the organisation that started the war, built the tunnels, fired the rockets and continues to operate with Iranian funding and Iranian weapons. The language of humanitarianism is being applied selectively, and the selection follows the same demographic logic as everything else.
This is the pattern that has defined the Western European response to this entire crisis. Not principle. Not strategy. Not law. A set of Left-wing governments that have spent twenty-five years building electoral coalitions that now constrain their ability to act in their own national interest. They cannot send ships because of who lives in their cities. They cannot back Israel because of who votes in their constituencies. They cannot name Hezbollah as the aggressor because of who marches in their streets. The Strait of Hormuz is closing and the Rolls-Royce of allies needs to consult its team. This is what the long march through the institutions has produced. Not our war. Just our problem.
"Trump's response was precise: you don't need to meet with your team. You're the Prime Minister. You can make up your own mind."
@TheRealBelindaO@Ofer_binshtok We don't hate USA. Why would you think that? We have weak and woke idiotic leaders. We need to fix that. Unfortunately in toxic combination with your clownish president, anything is possible
Merkel hat Deutschland schweren Schaden zugefügt. Neben dem Ruin unserer Energieinfrastruktur, der offenen Grenzen für jeden aus aller Welt, ruft sie nun eingebürgerte "Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte" dazu auf, nicht die AfD zu wählen.
Merkel unveils her plan and hopes that immigrant votes in Germany will surpass those of the AfD. She has devastated Europe and should be serving a life sentence.
Lithuanian FM @BudrysKestutis said today he would be ashamed to live in a country that buys cheap Russian oil, claiming it means giving up autonomy.
The Baltic states have long been playing from @ZelenskyyUa’s notes, but Hungary will not give in to the blackmail of the Ukrainian president.
No one can tell us where we should or should not buy oil from, and no one can force us to buy oil at a higher price than before.
Families in many European countries pay three or four times more for utilities than Hungarian households. We will protect lower energy costs and defend our sovereignty!
@gidonsaar I don't like Milanović, but you probably were eager to misinterpret the guy. And the fact you immediately mention antisemitism speaks volumes. Be careful not to misuse that term for it might lose it's meaning.
The Croatian President’s offensive rhetoric is unacceptable. His hate-filled language about Israel and Zionism reflects an antisemitic approach.
Croatia belongs to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and has pledged to confront antisemitism. The President betrayed these commitments.
@vort3xfx Because their sides have the same directions (yellow and green), and their bases (blue) are parallel. Triangles are similar even though they appear "twisted".
⚡ @PM_ViktorOrban: The average Hungarian household pays about 250,000 forints a year for energy. In Poland it is 850,000, in the Czech Republic nearly one million. Losing cheaper Russian energy would cost Hungarian families a month’s income. This is not ideology. It is reality.
.@megynkelly is a coward.
@piersmorgan is a clickwhore.
None of that has anything to do with Israel or Jews. And criticism isn’t censorship.
Stop with your whiny Jussie Smollett fake victim routine.
Zorana Đinđića 2003. godine ubila je duboka država u Srbiji. Bio je previše progresivan za Srbiju i ostatak regije. Da je ostao živ, Srbija bi danas s Hrvatskom bila u Europskoj uniji. 🇭🇷🇪🇺🇷🇸
🇫🇷🔴Known as the "Monster of Cherbourg," one of the most horrifying accused criminals in France, Oumar Ndiaye, is now facing trial for his brutal broomstick rape of 29-year-old Mégane.
On Aug. 4, 2023, the then 18-year-old Ndiaye broke into the home of Mégane in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. He had no connection to the victim before the rape and attempted murder.
Standing at 1.90 meters (6'2"), Ndiaye used his size to overpower the victim, brutally beating her across her body and face.
He then repeatedly raped her, both through sexual intercourse, and then with a 29-inch-long broom handle.
Mégane arrived at the hospital with life-threatening internal injuries, including perforations of her colon, small intestine, peritoneum, and diaphragm. She also suffered a collapsed lung and fractured ribs.
Emergency responders who attended the scene were offered psychological care and support, with many emergency responders also breaking down in tears at the condition of the victim, France Bleu reported at the time.
“Investigators are shocked, they have never seen so much barbarity,” one source familiar with the case told France Bleu.
After spending a month in a coma on the brink of death, she finally regained consciousness on Sept. 6, 2023.
Shortly after emerging from her coma, her father said: “(The government) not communicating about this attack gives credit to all these sexual predators and other parasites of society who plague the streets. A wake-up call to the government about the fact that we leave this kind of individual, with a heavy criminal past, in complete freedom, would be welcome. ‘Trust in justice,’ we were told… We only want that."
Though she survived, her life has been shattered. She has undergone numerous surgeries and has been forced to move back in with her mother.
Today, she suffers from recurrent nightmares and severe depression, requiring ongoing medication. She no longer leaves her house alone and has had to give up both her career and her passion for sports.
Ndiaye had long been a known menace in his neighborhood of Octeville, where residents reported he frequently smoked cannabis and terrorized the community. At only 18, he already featured 17 offenses involving physical assault, theft, and the incestuous sexual assault of his younger sister.
Disturbingly, he had been investigated in several previous rape cases, all of which were closed without further action.
According to Le Figaro, the suspect expressed “neither empathy nor remorse” for the crime while he was in police custody.
Ndiaye has been on trial since Wednesday in the Manche Assize Court. He faces charges of rape, torture, and acts of barbarity. If convicted, he faces a sentence of life in prison.