Well, first of all, Europe has gone all in on lawfare to prevent their own people from electing candidates on the Right. I guess I can paraphrase this as. “If you can’t beat them at the ballot box just round them up and jail them.”
“Monday’s court sentence declares Le Pen ineligible to stand for president in 2027 and gave her a four-year prison sentence – half of it suspended – for embezzlement of European parliament funds.
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League party Matteo Salvini called the court’s ruling a “declaration of war by Brussels”.
“A bad film that we are also seeing in other countries like Romania,” wrote Salvini on social media.
“We don’t let ourselves be intimidated, we don’t stop: full speed ahead my friend!”
Romania’s electoral bureau in early March rejected the candidacy of far-right politician Calin Georgescu for the re-run of presidential elections in May.
The fierce EU and NATO critic shot to prominence last November, when he unexpectedly topped a first round of presidential voting before the constitutional court annulled the election after claims of Russian interference and a “massive” social media promotion.
Georgescu, who denies any links to Moscow, has slammed the vote annulment as a “formalised coup d’état” and the subsequent banning as “a direct blow to the heart of democracy.”
So that’s interesting. It’s kind of what they tried against Trump only their people are so cowed that it’s successful. I guess the question I’ll ask is are their people such slaves that they’ll put up with that forever? I guess we’ll find out.
The other big “international” development is that the New York Times admitted that the United States military has boots on the ground in Ukraine. And in fact, the CIA is coordinating missile attacks on the Russian homeland.
Ultimately, the U.S. military and C.I.A. were allowed to help with strikes into Russia.
The hardest red line was the Russian border. But in spring 2024, to protect the northern city of Kharkiv against a Russian assault, the administration authorized the creation of an “ops box” — a zone of Russian territory within which U.S. officers in Wiesbaden could provide the Ukrainians with precise coordinates. The box’s first iteration extended across a wide swath of Ukraine’s northern border. The box was expanded after North Korea sent troops to help fight the Ukrainians’ incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. The U.S. military was later allowed to enable missile strikes in an area of southern Russia where the Russians staged forces and equipment for their offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Longstanding policy barred the C.I.A. from providing intelligence on targets on Russian soil. But the C.I.A. could request “variances,” carve-outs to support strikes for specific objectives. Intelligence had identified a vast munitions depot in Toropets, 290 miles north of the Ukrainian border. On Sept. 18, 2024, a swarm of drones slammed into the munitions depot. The blast, as powerful as a small earthquake, opened a crater the width of a football field. Later, the C.I.A. was allowed to enable Ukrainian drone strikes in southern Russia to try to slow advances in eastern Ukraine.
So, we’ve been playing chicken with the Russians for several years in Ukraine. Is this still going on? Why? Have we officially lost any personnel to the war officially? Unofficially? Is there any reason why we should?
From what I can see of Europe’s approach to “democracy” I don’t see any meaningful difference between Russia, Ukraine, France or Romania. None of them are really democracies in any real sense. So why are we choosing winners and losers there? They’re supposed to be grown-ups. Why can’t they sort out their own messes? Why should American money and blood be involved in any way?
From what I can see we have no more place telling the Russians or the English how to run their lives than we do the Afghans or the Chinese. They’re not us. We’re not them. If they don’t shoot at us, they can do whatever they damn please. They can even say mean things about us. Now as far as buying whatever crap they make in their country, as long as we have the same tariffs on them as they have on us, have at it. The crap we get from China is no better or worse than the crap we get from Mexico or Canada. It’s all still crap. If they want to make their crap here and pay Americans to make it, well, that’s another story. Now we’ve got something to talk about. If Toyota builds a plant in Tennessee, then God bless Toyota. They’re my kind of foreigners. We can do business and we can even be friends!
I hope Donald Trump understands that blowing people up to “make the world safe for democracy” is just a globalist bumper sticker. Minding our own business to make America safe for Americans is a policy that can help make America great again.
Just my two cents today.