The fight for Europe is on – POLITICO

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-jd-vance-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-political-divisions-maga/

Two quotes that made my hair stand on end:
Vance’s message couldn’t have been clearer: Our way, or we’ll join Putin in hybrid warfare to roil your domestic politics — something billionaire Elon Musk has already done by boosting the prospects of the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
Kuleba: "In Paris, he literally said, 'Don’t try to compete with us on AI. Embrace our companies, remove all the obstacles, and then everything will be fine.' … Then he came here, and after attacking Europe’s economic model, he attacked its political model."

64 points · 6 comments · view on lemmy.world

6 Comments

Liyabuli@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y

With allies like that who needs enemies.

skvlp@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y

Fuck the US for electing this trash. Thoroughly!

NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)
[ removed ]
Gsus4@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y

Who would have known that the USians would fall for russian-style fascism after the soviets fell for US-style crapitalism :/

WimpyWoodchuck@feddit.org · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Reminder that Politico is owned by Axel-Springer-Verlag, a very conservative, sensationalist, and manipulating German tabloid publisher. There biggest "newspaper" is the Bild-"Zeitung", which is on the same level as the Sun or the National Inquirer. You probably shouldn't read them, they propagate hate and culture war.

azolus@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y

German fox news basically

Foni@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y

I feel like a Latin American in the mid-'50s, reasonably well off but about to be sold like a pig at a fair. If we don't take bold action in the next 30 years we're only going to go downhill.