“Every time Trump or members of his administration have lashed out at Europe, including Ukraine, Europeans have absorbed the blow with a forced smile and bent over backwards to flatter the White House.” (…)

“While a systemic answer to Europe’s security conundrum is not in sight, Europeans do have the levers to prevent Ukraine’s capitulation and create the conditions for a just peace.”

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    3 days ago

    Which democracy is not a masked autocracy where the rich control politics?

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      3 days ago

      I’ll take a EU-style “masked autocracy” over an overt autocracy like Russia any day.

      • plyth@feddit.org
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        2 days ago

        What is the EU-style “masked autocracy”? Can we be sure that it exists? If the EU does what the US wants there is not much EU in that autocracy.