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https://www.threads.net/@politicoeurope/post/DG3HRKwOtAH?xmt=AQGzmo5UXPLMo6KgIZPG4K8hrBL2f7IODjFq-moV4fzq5A 

Polish and Danish leaders signalled openness today to French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to discuss how France’s nuclear deterrent can protect Europe.

politico.eu/artic…

 
^This is a good move. If Europe extends the nuclear umbrella it negates a lot of US leverage.
 
 
Romania has detained six people — including a 101-year-old, Holocaust-denying, retired general — on charges of treason for allegedly plotting a russian-backed coup against the government in Bucharest
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^Tangently related.
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2 hours ago, DixonHur said:

Cross posting, because it is news 

Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/

We're going to deport people to a fucking warzone? Awesome. Maybe we can just go ahead and remove some limbs ahead of time to speed up the process. 

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3 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^French Senator is not holding back about the abandonment of Ukraine. Sounds like forces are moving to unite typically opposing parties in both UK and France in supporting Ukraine. 

The UK and France both are keenly aware of what happens when you give a dictator an inch. And they aren't separated by an ocean, so they can't just play fuck fuck games in their legislatures 

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35 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

We're going to deport people to a fucking warzone? Awesome. Maybe we can just go ahead and remove some limbs ahead of time to speed up the process. 

Well I guess instead of creating an asylum policy to remedy the wrongs of turning away a ship full of refugees running from Hitler and sending them home to war, torture, and death - we decided we wanted to embrace that tradition and repeat it on a larger scale 

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Just now, Pig Bellmont said:

Well I guess instead of creating an asylum policy to remedy the wrongs of turning away a ship full of refugees running from Hitler and sending them home to war, torture, and death - we decided we wanted to embrace that tradition and repeat it on a larger scale 

See, but if they were rich and had $5M we would welcome them. It is there fault for being poor and in need.

Ok, gotta go, some burmese generals want to look at some Florida properties.

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Here is my take on it-
Russia and China have never truly been partners. Their historical relationship is competitive, not cooperative. Covertly supporting Moscow’s war effort (while not giving them enough to achieve an actual battlefield victory) was a strategic play to counter US influence.
Now that it has become clear that the US is hell-bent on self-immolating, the biggest victory they could achieve would be strengthening their economic and political ties with Europe. If they can present themselves as a stable and sane partner, there’s a lot of money and influence to be gained.

TLDR; Russia and the US are busy shooting themselves in the dick, and China is all

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15 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

Here is my take on it-

Russia and China have never truly been partners. Their historical relationship is competitive, not cooperative. Covertly supporting Moscow’s war effort (while not giving them enough to achieve an actual battlefield victory) was a strategic play to counter US influence.

Now that it has become clear that the US is hell-bent on self-immolating, the biggest victory they could achieve would be strengthening their economic and political ties with Europe. If they can present themselves as a stable and sane partner, there’s a lot of money and influence to be gained.

100% this.  It's China's best play.  Long game - China has it.

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3 hours ago, Foosters said:

My daughter's 3rd grade class has a Ukrainian boy. Mom, dad, and kid all here since 2022. Lovely family. Guess they have to go back. Maybe I should have them reach out to @HellesBier so he can explain to them why this will be good for them.

We've got a Ukrainian first grader at my school that my daughter is friends with.  Great family as well.  I'm hoping they are able to stay - they are from an area that was under threat.  Thankfully the dad has a work visa (his company does business between Ukraine and the US) so maybe they get to stay.

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3 hours ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@ukrpravda_eng/post/DG3DNrtt6UO?xmt=AQGzkSWB8kAup5W969dQj0juf88spk6aS216M-wJEkd71w

😯 🇹🇷 Türkiye reportedly says it is ready to send to troops to Ukraine "if necessary"

We are leaving a power vacuum and France and Turkey are stepping up.  Kind of embarrassing, but great that somebody is.

2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

^What is going on!? Even China is piling on. Is this just to be antagonistic to the US regardless of what stance we take, or are things so bad even the friend of our enemy is siding with our friends over us? We live in a crazy world. 

China would love for Russia to collapse.  When Putin dies, they are going to hoover up a lot of stuff.  Not by sending troops over the border, but through financial means.

35 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

Russia and China have never truly been partners. Their historical relationship is competitive, not cooperative. Covertly supporting Moscow’s war effort (while not giving them enough to achieve an actual battlefield victory) was a strategic play to counter US influence.

Now that it has become clear that the US is hell-bent on self-immolating, the biggest victory they could achieve would be strengthening their economic and political ties with Europe. If they can present themselves as a stable and sane partner, there’s a lot of money and influence to be gained.

China has also been dancing around crossing the line that would get them sanctioned, but they have happily tried to buy oil & gas, lumber, etc. at well below-market prices from Russia.

Europe is the US's largest trading partner, and you nailed it - China wants to replace us.

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16 hours ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@kyivpost.official/post/DG1EMp2s1ha?xmt=AQGz0i2iTOx7P00SgZ0GaWyJzMzlARCp7EzXUibljV64pA

Macron doesn’t rule out the deployment of European troops in Ukraine.
He also announced his decision to start a discussion on the use of France’s nuclear weapons to defend the entire EU.

 

https://www.threads.net/@reuters/post/DG1yHWOuzX-?xmt=AQGz0i2iTOx7P00SgZ0GaWyJzMzlARCp7EzXUibljV64pA

France's Macron says he will hold meeting of European army chiefs in Paris next week reut.rs/3F8z7…

 

^I'll take back every French surrender joke I've ever said if France swoops in and saves the World.

We make surrender jokes about France, but that overlooks a few big points about France and French history that are at play here:

1) France is historically the power player in Western Europe.  From the Thirty Years War straight through to World War II, France was the power that dictated the course of European history.  Broadly speaking, coalitions were formed to counter French influence and expansionism.

The French actually teach history in their schools, and the French people are aware of their historical role in Europe.  There is a strong constituency in France that would like to see that country regain its role of military and diplomatic preeminence on the continent.

2) That constituency largely overlaps with the Gaullists.  De Gaulle envisioned France as a third pole in a tri-polar world with the United States and the Soviet Union.  It never really worked out because the UK was so closely tied to the United States and Germany was largely unwilling to join in a French-led European military/diplomatic project.

But this is de Gaulle's dream come true--the United States sidelining itself and taking itself out of European affairs.  That severs the Anglo-American relationship and aligns the UK much more closely with France (kind of reverting to the status quo ante World War I).  France has always been a leader among the post-WWI Eastern European democracies, and so that just leaves Germany to get in line.

France right now is ascendent.

3) And France has the military capability to back it up.  It has a real nuclear deterrent.  It doesn't have counterforce capability like we do.  But it has enough warheads to really fuck Russia up.  And apart from its current nuclear force--France has plenty of access to material and reactors to build additional weapons quickly.  It can also build a bunch of intermediate-range missiles if it wants.

And by the way--if it combines nuclear forces with the UK, the count of total warheads goes up to around 300.  It's still not enough to present a counterforce option.  But it is enough to be a really strong deterrent.  

3 hours ago, MillerEP said:

https://www.threads.net/@kyivindependent_official/post/DG2ge2nopWz?xmt=AQGzkSWB8kAup5W969dQj0juf88spk6aS216M-wJEkd71w

️ France providing intelligence to Ukraine, minister assures after US freeze."We have intelligence resources that we are providing to the Ukrainians," French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on air on France Inter.

 

https://www.threads.net/@ukrpravda_eng/post/DG3DNrtt6UO?xmt=AQGzkSWB8kAup5W969dQj0juf88spk6aS216M-wJEkd71w

😯 🇹🇷 Türkiye reportedly says it is ready to send to troops to Ukraine "if necessary"

You know--we haven't had a good Russo-Turkish war in more than a century.  It used to be that those things would come around every 20 or 30 years.

I like that we're getting back to basics.

And the "basics" are that the Russians and the Turks fucking hate each other.  They have overlapping spheres of influence from the Balkans clear through to Central Asia.  Erdogan doesn't get the press that Putin does for his expansionist views, but don't be misled--Turkey has its eyes on being the leader of a pan-Turkic coalition that includes everything from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan straight through to Albania.  And yeah--that's real contrary to Russia's goals in Central Asia and the Black Sea regions.

You want to see a Turk get a hard-on?  Tell Recep Erdogan that if Turkey helps Ukraine retake the Crimea, then Turkey could have basing rights at Sevastopol akin to the American navy's rights at HMNB Clyde.   

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https://www.threads.net/@infantajo/post/DG3zQ10SoTh?xmt=AQGzewUctFRRbmfiAYITk8Y2wPEzJ-yDvgFM-rF8F9ApNA

France is now launching spy satellites. france24.com/en/li…

 

^France is serious about leaving US behind

 

https://www.threads.net/@24hoursofukraine/post/DG4Azb9oplT?xmt=AQGzDcLceH31b2SdHatCF4_3JkzGuk3bPbe4yZXrt8OmYA

He is bacccckkkk 🤗A war veteran removes a banner with his face from the Alley of the Missing in Action. He turned back from russian captivity.

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