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Sign the Petition Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns

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🇪🇺 | Buy European and Make ITAR Standards Irrelevant Again !

(It is also time to make British English the standard again !)

The Ukrainian armed forces reported that it had used French Mirage 2000-5F for the first time to repel Russian attacks.

t.me/kpszsu/30161

Porte-avions Charles de Gaulle : la France et le Japon veulent renforcer leur coopération dans le Pacifique DÉCRYPTAGE - Deux bâtiments du groupe aéronaval ont fait escale à Okinawa, alors que la France et le Japon veulent renforcer leurs liens avec les nations du Pacifique.

🇫🇷🇯🇵 | While Japan feels surrounded by the North Korean threat, Chinese expansionism and Russian aggressiveness, France and Japan are keen to strengthen their cooperation in the Pacific.

www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

President Zelenskyy on Twitter :

“We deployed fighter aircraft – F-16s and French Mirage jets, which performed exceptionally well today. Emmanuel, thank you.”

France wants to increase its military spending. In order to rearm the country without weakening its finances, the government is not ruling out tapping into the savings of the French.

Macron wants to double military spending. The aim would be to reach a budget of almost €100 billion.

"L'heure est au réarmement des esprits" : le ministre des Affaires étrangères entame un tour de France pour expliquer la crise internationale aux Français Jean-Noël Barrot est attendu pour une première étape lundi à Nantes. Le ministre souhaite notamment rapprocher son ministère des citoyens.

Jean-Noël Barrot, the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, has decided to embark on a tour de France to explain the international crisis to French citizens.

www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/europe...

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Ukraine hit by largest single Russian drone attack of war on eve of third anniversary A

In other news Vladimir Putin, an ACTUAL murderous dictator, launches a large-scale drone attack across Ukraine, the day before the third anniversary of the war

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

France, if it were occupy in the same proportion as UKR is today

Rachel Reeves would have had no problem meeting Keir Starmer’s demand for more money to revive our armed forces.

In financial terms, the PM would've been able to head to Paris today and lead from the front.

Because of the economic damage done by Brexit, his options are limited. 3/

Who’s in charge of DOGE? Not Elon Musk, White House says A Trump administration personnel official says Musk has "no actual or formal authority to make government decisions."

Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

EU-wide borrowing for defense a ‘no-brainer,’ says Spain’s finance minister The bloc is grappling with a need to increase defense spending, amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden move to end the war in Ukraine.

Cuerpo (Spanish finmin) argued that issuing common debt to finance “public goods” such as defense and electricity interconnectors is a “no-brainer.”

Also: Spain is the NATO country with the lowest ratio of military spending. www.politico.eu/article/eu-w...

When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.

I mean...
He's not wrong.

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Vladimir Solovyov tells Europeans they should disappear

Meanwhile in Russia: emboldened by the words and deeds of the Trump administration, state TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov insists that Ukraine is finished and Europeans should be forever erased from history.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfr9...

“This is a civilisational moment and battle”. Brilliant, courageous work from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . I’ve lived under an authoritarian regime. First thing: recognise it’s happening ..

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot

There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lavrov will eat Rubio alive.
Good. Let this meeting make America look weak. They’ll hate that and try to compensate later.
In the meantime, European countries need to be planning announcements of aid packages, sanctions crackdowns, troop commitments, and Russian asset seizure.

Bribery unbound The most unabashedly corrupt president in American history

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Food for thought here, but I don't find myself agreeing. The transmission mechanism is 'do something to the state.... complex systems can fail catastrophically... the economy is a complex system... so it could fail catastrophically.'

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold — The Telegraph Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations

This is just so awful. apple.news/A9O7E6JV4RcO...

‘The lurch to the right scares me’: could the left surprise in German election? Amid Elon Musk’s meddling on behalf of the AfD, the Linke is gaining strong support from women and young voters As the world’s richest person meddles at will on behalf of the far right in the German election campaign, a leftist party calling for taxing…

‘The lurch to the right scares me’: could the left surprise in German election?

This is Europe’s war now The continent’s future depends on outflanking America. British troops in Ukraine is the first step.

This is Europe’s war now:

The continent’s future depends on outflanking America. British troops in Ukraine is the first step.

By Sam Greene

““Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country,” he told parliament in October. “It’s as simple as that.”

As it is for the U.K..

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned 'neo-reactionary' hollowing out of government is happening in real time

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government – Byline Times

Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals A Byline Times investigation finds members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms

🔴Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals

A Byline Times investigation finds members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

Trump’s Rage at Canada Just Got Worse—and Putin Is Quietly Celebrating As Trump’s threats toward Canada grow more worrisome, an expert in international relations explains why the Trump-Musk duo is doing exactly what Vladimir Putin has long hoped for—on multiple fronts.

"The leaders of the US and Russia both currently agree that if the western alliance gets weaker, that will be beneficial to the two of them."

On the pod, @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is so illuminating on why Putin is celebrating Trump's attacks on Canada and USAID:
newrepublic.com/article/1913...