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Kaja Kallas:
Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.
We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.
Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGoUW8aMo21/
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Zelinski should fly to Brussels and accept the EU's offer.
Let Trump's legacy be that he lost a half trillion dollar rare earth minerals deal to the EU because of his delicate fucking ego.
Fuck the minerals. Besides our existing commitment according to the Budapest Memorandum, and supporting Ukraine simply being the right thing to do, this will lead to the fall of the US Dollar.
Trump’s play has always been robbing the table and cashing out before he gets caught. What’s he gonna do to escape repercussions? Declare bankruptcy?
Convert it to gold and escape to Moscow.
That’s literally the last place I’d go. Fuck Russia, and our Russian puppet leader.
Sure, but you're not a despotic fascist wannebe dictator who is going to loot the country while running it into the ground then run off with the wealth he has accumulated.
I worry that running off to Russia is a very dangerous thing to do. He's more vulnerable then and he's of no more value. It would not be a good idea I think.
So let’s hope he does then 🤞
Well, Trump is a lot more similar to Assad than you or I so Russia wouldn't be the worst place for him
There are pretty much no rare earth minerals, as far as I've read
So his deal is bullshit anyway - like usual
Oh well, no harm done then when he signs a deal with the EU in a few days.
T&V are absolute fucking disgraces that have no right being where they are. The way they both humiliated the hero Zelensky to his face is shocking and I hope Ukraine can find the nerve to tell the Yanks to shove their mineral deal right up where the sun doesn't shine.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice-President of the European Commission
For anyone that was clueless as to who Kaja Kallas is, like I was
Europe shouldn't be the leader of the free world. Europe should be the leader of Europe. Or better, without any euphemism the EU should be the leader of the EU
It's only the leader of the free world because we look to it for guidance and support. That was the image the US seemed to foster, mercenary truth notwithstanding.
It's just someone else, now.
America is like my uncle who got dementia and keeps reposting chains and conspiracies on FB.
Any suggestions for replacement then? The US has certainly abdicated their position.
How about no replacement? I don't see many countries I want to model mine after.
Politicians postulating.