European Union

Canada and E.U. Pull Together as America Pushes Them Away

Canada signed a defense partnership with the European Union on Monday, the latest indication that two of America’s closest allies are deepening their military cooperation as President Trump pulls away and promises to reduce the United States’ role in international security.

Mr. Trump has been pushing for other countries in NATO — which includes Canada and most European Union nations — to invest far more in their militaries, accusing them of relying too much on the United States.

He has called into question America’s commitment to defending some NATO members and has launched a trade war against some of the closest traditional allies of the United States.

Trump is smart to ditch these parasites.

The EU consists of corrupt, preening authoritarians bleating about democratic ideals while lining their pockets.

Carney’s kind of people.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, European Union, USA

Canada won’t become the 51st US state – but could it join the EU?

Carney, Macron – Neither has an ideal domestic life from the look of it

Joachim Streit has never stepped foot in Canada. But that hasn’t stopped the German politician from launching a tenacious, one-man campaign that he readily describes as “aspirational”: to have the North American country join the EU.

“We have to strengthen the European Union,” said Streit, who last year was elected as a member of the European parliament. “And I think Canada – as its prime minister says – is the most European country outside of Europe.”

Streit had long imagined Canada as a sort of paradise, home to dense forests that course with wide, rushing rivers. But after Donald Trump returned to power, launching much of the world into a trade war and turning his back on America’s traditional allies, Streit began to cast the northern country in a new light.

Oh yea, let’s hitch our wagon to Communism’s zombie offspring.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, European Union, USA, WTF?

EU woke green rules are blocking Europe’s rearmament

By the time the environmental permits are signed off for a new TNT plant in Sweden at the end of this year, Russia will already be producing explosives at a new facility.

Swedish Ballistics (SweBal) is aiming to tap into Europe’s rush to rearm itself by opening what will be the EU’s second factory producing military-grade TNT, used in the production of artillery shells, landmines and grenades.

The firm hopes to produce 4,500 metric tonnes annually by the end of 2027, which will be enough for Europe to produce roughly 450,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition.

Now I understand why Carney wants to hitch Canada’s wagon to the EU. They think like he does.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", EU, European Union

Postcard From Brussels: My Day in the Capital of Declining Europe

Last week at an event at the European Parliament, an MEP asked me a question that I hear often: “Does JD Vance hate Europe?”

My guess is that he does not hate the Europe of tête de veau in a Rive Gauche brasserie in Paris, of Sunday mass at the Duomo in Milan, of Alpine lakes in Switzerland, or of paintings at the Alte Pinothek in Munich. What he hates is Brussels, or rather, “Brussels”—the symbol of official, bureaucratic Europe, and the dictatorship of managerial liberalism administered from there. He hates the Europe of decrees from the European Commission, of the Digital Services Act circumscribing the access of EU citizens to knowledge and information, and of the EU ruling class refusing to face the overwhelming problem of mass migration, and act to stop it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union

‘Tyranny in Disguise’: Will Democracy Survive in Europe?

February 14, 2025. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance delivers remarks in Germany, at the Munich Security Conference. The audience expects him to talk about foreign policy, geopolitics, and threats facing the world.

Instead, he says that the most worrying threat today is “the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values.” He adds that European countries and institutions are undermining democracy and freedom of speech — and gives examples.

“A former European commissioner,” Vance states, “went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, European Union

After Trump’s broad tariffs, Europe reels from the loss of an old ally

ROME — In announcing plans to rebuild post-World War II Europe, then-U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall linked security with economics. Without the United States doing whatever it could to promote “normal economic health in the world,” he said, “there can be no political stability and no assured peace.”

Nearly 80 years later, America’s closest allies in Europe see President Donald Trump’s tariffs as another blow to a fast-fracturing Western alliance that had stood as the most successful peace project of modern times — one whose pillars included shared democratic values, a strategic goal to contain Moscow as well as flourishing flows of trade and investment.

I don’t think anyone expected the Marshall Plan to be a permanent US financial obligation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Euros for Russia’s next invasion – From Paris to Berlin, actions don’t match the grandiose verbiage.

Europe’s hypocrisy is on full display today.

As leaders meet in Paris to plan the continent’s defence, several European countries are sending wads of cash to the belligerent Kremlin in exchange for convenient oil and gas.

Think-tank Ember has found that the EU put €21.9 billion into Russian coffers in 2024, with gas imports up 18% on the previous year. EU support for Ukraine in 2024 was €18.7 billion.

Hungary and Slovakia, the usual suspects, bear heavy responsibility for the stark figures. But also unable to turn off the Russian gas tap is France – who today hosts 31 European leaders to develop plans to counter the Russian security threat.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Europe, European Union

Europe Confronts Reality That Vance’s Hostility Is More Than Just a Show

European leaders had hoped that Vice President JD Vance’s antagonism was a political show to build domestic support. Now, after Vance expressed disdain for Europe in a private text chat about Yemen attack details, officials are coming to terms with a vocal vice president whose antipathy for Europe appears to run deep.

“I just hate bailing Europe out again,” he said regarding planned U.S. strikes against Houthi rebels, in an exchange published by the Atlantic magazine. He told fellow administration officials that the U.S. was “making a mistake” by hitting the Houthis, whose attacks on Red Sea shipping have scrambled global shipping routes.

He noted that only “3 percent of US trade runs through the Suez. 40 percent of European trade does.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth replied to Vance’s comments: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

The ‘Signal Scandal’: Trump’s Cabinet Drops Truth Bombs on Europe

The Trump administration’s leaked—if you can call it that—discussions of war plans made headlines across the globe after a staffer working for National Security Adviser Mike Waltz (inadvertently) added a magazine editor to the senior officials’ group chat.

While American media questioned how on earth this major faux pas could occur, European commenters have been scandalized by the brutality of Team Trump’s behind-the-scenes talk regarding Europe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Why the Trump White House hates Europe

Donald Trump’s cabinet inviting a journalist to a group chat to discuss bombing Yemen’s Houthi rebels must have given American security officials a collective heart attack.

But, for European and British officials, the most alarming aspect of the extraordinary affair was the single dissenting voice in the conversation that played out on Signal.

“I think we are making a mistake,” JD Vance, the vice president, texted from an economics event in Michigan as defence secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA director John Ratcliffe, among others, weighed up striking the Iran-backed Houthis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

The EU wants to censor the global internet

Brussels and Washington are once again at odds over Europe’s sweeping social-media restrictions, contained within the 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA). In a letter sent earlier this month, the EU’s vice-president for tech sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen, rejected claims made by Donald Trump’s team that the DSA is a tool for censorship. She insisted that the law ‘does not regulate speech’ and that the EU remains ‘deeply committed to protecting and promoting free speech’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCensorship, European Union, WTF?

In a world of carnivores, herbivores do not fare well

An “act of faith” worth 5.8 billion euros to the “new Syria”: The Donors Conference organized by the European Union certifies the change of pace in the West’s relations with Damascus after the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime and the arrival to power of Ahmad al Sharaa, known as “al Julani”. The conference raised 5.8 billion euros in loans and grants, 80 percent of which from the EU. From the Commission alone, Ursula von der Leyen announced, 2.5 billion euros are arriving in Damascus.

Six billion a week after the worst religious pogrom in recent history?

A new regime ruled by a former jihadist who until December had a $10 million bounty on his head, who is building an Islamic dictatorship and who has just organized a religious pogrom of Alawites?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", European Union, Syria

The EU Must Stop Undermining Efforts to Save it

The European Union has spent years enriching Iran by choosing economic gain over security, morality, and strategic interests.

While the Iranian regime continues to fuel war, repression and terrorism, the EU has clung to its trade partnerships and business deals, while refusing to take meaningful action against a regime that actively threatens the continent’s stability as well as that of the globe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEuropean Union

Trump: America has been ‘raped and pillaged’ by Europe

The United States has been “raped and pillaged” by the EU, Donald Trump has said in a fresh jibe at European allies amid an expanding trade war.

Addressing his plans to reduce the national debt by imposing trade tariffs, the President claimed that America has been taken advantage of for years by its allies.

“For years, we allowed our country to be raped and pillaged,” Mr Trump told Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night. “Much of it was done by our friends. Look at the European Union.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA