The fact that the Russians use the current talks about Ukraine to again pitch their idea of a new Yalta, where Putin and Trump aspire to divide Europe into their spheres of influence should enrage every European, regardless of their political affiliation.

Leaving the integrated military command is something different than leaving NATO completely.

In the past, France has only done the former while Melenchon now also wants to do the latter.

This account is only active to post articles, not to interact in the comments. I doubt you’ll receive an answer.

As I said: enjoy your primitive hatred based on nationality. Ironically, that puts you so much closer to the ideology you proclaim to detest than you apparently realise, because both you and they evidently have crude yet identity-generating bogeymen based on nationality alone. If that’s the way you want to choose in life, I’m not stopping you. But I also won’t listen to you, so don’t bother replying. Bye :)

That would be pure speculation, and the pointlessness of that is precisely my point. Neither you nor me know why the situations in these snippets happen the way they happen. Yet, only one of us is making claims to know for what these situations happen the way they do.

This comparison is a little one sided. Do the same things during a politcal demonstration and see who gets bruzalized by the police.

But what are they brutalised for? Being Muslim? Wearing a keffiyeh? The general escalation with the police on these demonstrations cannot be separated from occurrences of calls to destroy Israel, antisemitic ones and others that aren’t legal. That’s not to say the police is entirely right to do what they do or the protesters are entirely to blame. But at least to me, these occurrences of criminal conduct is more reason for that escalation than waving a Palestinian flag or wearing a keffiyeh. Let’s be honest: Germany isn’t opposed to a Palestinian state and has also heavily funded Palestine for ages. Germany is opposed to a Palestinian state instead of an Israeli state, and who could be surprised by that?

As always is the case, different kinds of discrimination (here antisemitism and anti muslim racism) need to be fought together instead of playes out against each other.

Absolutely.

Also I wouldnt advise anyone to wear Keffiyeh in Saxony or in general in the country side…

Yea. But the same applies to wearing a kippah or holding hands with your same-sex partner or doing anything else that does not fit in the narrow worldview of those people. Their hate is ‘universal’…

These videos are posted every single day.

I can imagine. But they only show an excerpt, without context what and why is happening there. That might be enough for those that already have their opinion and only want to see it assured. For me, that’s not enough. The for what isn’t shown in these snippets.

Everyone knows the truth about German love of genocide.

Ah nice. We also once had a time when people attributed characteristics based on nationality alone. You’ve chosen some ‘great’ role models! But hey, stay angry and hateful and narrow-minded. There probably is no other topic that is this toxic and futile to discuss about online. So if this is your way of venting your prejudices, go ahead, I absolutely don’t care. :)

What? Be my guest and walk through any German city: one time with a Palestinian keffiyeh, one time with a kippah.

One of these items is openly and regularly worn on the streets for decades, almost like a fashion piece in certain subgroups. The other you’ll almost never openly find. Not now, not before October 7.

Na wollen wir hoffen, dass sich Bayern an Schleswig-Holstein orientiert und nicht andersrum.

But they are so big on a map! And their leader is so masculine!

Who wouldn’t want to be friend with someone who lives the wet dream of everyone aspiring to be rich and powerful: controlling an entire country with no rules and boundaries whatsoever, brazenly stuffing his own pockets to heart’s content with the riches of the nation.

That’s why Putin desperately needs to seem powerful and hence, ironically, needs to participate in these sports contests. The more people realise what a sad, weak, wrinkling loser he actually is, sitting on a giant throne with feet of clay, the worse for him and the better for everyone else on this planet.

Yes, Liechtenstein is included. The Swiss voted against it in 1992, whereas the Liechtensteiners voted in favor.

It is a map of the EEA, which is EU + EFTA*

'* excluding CH, since they voted no.

If they complain, we’re doing it right.

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.

Oh ja, den kleinen Fitzel habe ich völlig übersehen… :D Schande auf mein Haupt!

Also mal ganz davon ab, dass ich der Grafik auch skeptisch gegenüberstehe, finde ich es eher unglücklich, dass der Artikel gleich zu Beginn damit kommt:

Mindestens seit dem 11. Oktober verbreitet sich eine Grafik, die eindeutige Fehler aufweist: Zum Beispiel weist sie Werte bis einschließlich 15. Oktober aus – also bis zu einem Zeitpunkt, der noch in der Zukunft liegt.

Tut sie doch gar nicht. Die X-Achse hat zwar eine Unterteilung für 15. Oktober, aber die eigentlichen Datenpunkte und das Liniendiagramm (e: tut es ja doch, mein Fehler!) gehen nur bis ein paar Tage vorher. (Wenn man das mal ausmisst, müsste der letzte Datenpunkt eher am 13. Oktober liegen, was trotzdem mit der Veröffentlichung bereits am 11. kollidiert, aber gut… :) ).

Ich finde diese Faktenfinder-Formate gut, weil sie die Leute dafür sensibilisieren, etwas vorsichtiger mit Informationen aus dem Netz umzugehen. Dafür sollte aber auch das eigene Handwerk entsprechend sorgfältig sein, sonst diskreditiert man sich direkt selbst.

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.