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[โ€“] MudMan@fedia.io 48 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The only good thing to come out of this is that the conservative European press is roasting Trump like a stuck pig at the moment. Even a significant chunk of the far-right press, actually. Here's a quote from a medium I'd flag as outright fascist: "Facing the left and keeping a critical position against the so-called progressivism doesn't mean defending Donald Trump unconditionally". They go on to claim this is a wake up call for Europe.

As of right now Le Pen hitching her wagon to this guy looks like a complete idiot and I don't think anybody to the left of Meloni thinks of the US as less than an adversary.

Still too little too late but it has to start somewhere.

[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Which one? Axel Springer, one of the biggest conservative Press Companies in Europe is blaming Selensky. (They're an evil Shit Company, and don't confuse them with the good SpringerNature)

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus255575422/Eklat-im-Weissen-Haus-Selenskyj-hat-mit-seinem-Verhalten-die-Sicherheit-Europas-aufs-Spiel-gesetzt.html

[โ€“] merdaverse@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Not sure about the press, since we'll probably get that in tomorrow morning, but Salvini is being the usual Trump boot licker and Meloni just said some generic rightwing shit about "the forces that want our civilizational decline" (can't blame Muslims for this one, but you can still recycle the same rhetoric).

https://www.fanpage.it/politica/salvini-elogia-trump-dopo-scontro-con-zelensky-forza-schlein-meloni-decida-con-chi-stare/