Zumindest zeigt es einmal mehr unverhohlen sein Gesicht.

Trotzdem werden viele es hierzulande immer noch nicht verstehen (wollen).

Correct and they all are conservative and right leaning.

Tbf, the romanticised view towards Moscow / Beijing is something also found regularly on the left side of the spectrum. The passed on opposition towards Washington and “the Western World” is so engrained that they don’t realise that the guy in Washington and the guy in Moscow meanwhile are happily holding hands, while Beijing (the “Moscow surrogate” after 1991) has left the spheres of socialism long ago and is becoming more capitalist and power-hungry by the minute.

None of these are our friends, none of these have our interest in mind, none of these want a striving, strong and independent Europe. Yet, a remarkably high portion of people here on the continent (on either side of the political spectrum) can only see us as the small, dependent fosterling of a “large power” and their whole debate is limited to whether that supervisor should sit west or east of us.

Keeping Europe small and fragmented, so it is an easier target for the larger powers to play with. Somehow that’s the single common thing all of these politicians all over Europe that like to call themselves ‘patriotic’ want to do.

Be it Le Pen in France, the AfD in Germany, …, if all of these really were so great for us Europeans, how come they are so staunchly supported by our global adversaries in Moscow and Mar-a-Lago?

Why not? It is perfectly fine and sensible to oppose both China and the US. You don’t have to pick one of them.

Looking at the meme, I knew exactly I wouldn’t need to scroll far for a comment complaining about this. :D

Based Latvia indeed!

At this point, I’m waiting for a EU country that simply vetoes everything until we finally get rid of unanimous voting. The current system is too prone to blackmailing individual countries, offering a leverage for our opponents to use againt us. One country’s particular interests, such as France’s in this case or Putin’s pawn in Bratislava, should never block the EU as a whole.

And it will pave the way for other sanctioned oligarchs to go to court over their “unfair” treatment compared to Usmanov and Fridman, leading to potentially even more oligarchs being removed from the list.

If he’s mad, you’re doing right.