“As ICE grows into one of the most aggressive and controversial law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Canadian companies and public funds are quietly supporting the infrastructure that makes it possible.”—A. Fishman
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Je viens de m’entretenir avec Peter Magyar pour le féliciter de sa victoire en Hongrie !
La France salue une victoire de la participation démocratique, de l’attachement du peuple hongrois aux valeurs de l’Union européenne et pour la Hongrie en Europe.
Ensemble, faisons avancer une Europe plus souveraine, pour la sécurité de notre continent, notre compétitivité et notre démocratie.
Iran has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz. So Trump's response is to blockade the Strait of Hormuz too. Like two overweight men trying to pass in a corridor, neither willing to turn sideways.
Let us be very clear about what the United States Navy will now be doing. It will be stopping ships, and then, inevitably, a Chinese tanker comes along. It wants to move oil. The USS Something pulls alongside and says, actually, no, you don't. And suddenly the man has started an argument with the one country on Earth that makes Iran look like a minor inconvenience – China. Russia, watching from the sidelines.
You cannot Truth Social your way around 39 kilometres of coastline bristling with missiles, mines and men with absolutely nothing left to lose. What you can do, apparently, is turn a regional war into a confrontation with both nuclear powers simultaneously, in a strait you don't control, over shipping that isn't moving anyway.
The double blockade solves nothing. It closes what is already closed, threatens who cannot be threatened, and gives Beijing and Moscow exactly the excuse they've been waiting for.
On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox, accompanied by his friend Doug Alward, dipped his right leg into the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
It began the Marathon of Hope and turned Fox into a Canadian hero and icon.
This is the story.
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The absurd Orban claims of fraud and foreign interference are gonna be a good preview of GOP claims of fraud and foreign interference after the mid-terms.
Congratulations #Hungary and hopefully the road back to #Democracy!
A lesson to every predatory hegemon, but especially to #Trump#JDVance#USA.
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Trump just got humiliated in a foreign election he personally tried to rig in his favour. Vance flew to Budapest and stumped for a losing candidate days before the vote. The full economic might of the United States was promised and the voters didn't care. That's not a small thing. That's a demonstration that American hard power applied to European domestic politics has limits.
As one analyst put it before the vote, an Orbán loss wouldn't just be a defeat, it would be a humiliation. It was both. Today is a good day for European democracy.🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽
Trump just got humiliated in a foreign election he personally tried to rig in his favour. Vance flew to Budapest and stumped for a losing candidate days before the vote. The full economic might of the United States was promised and the voters didn't care. That's not a small thing. That's a demonstration that American hard power applied to European domestic politics has limits.
As one analyst put it before the vote, an Orbán loss wouldn't just be a defeat, it would be a humiliation. It was both. Today is a good day for European democracy.
Truly shocking for the Secretary of Defense to trade fucking stocks and (attempt to) profit off of a war he helped start. Firing this drunk idiot is the bare minimum. @PeteHegseth should be prosecuted.
Russia's foreign intelligence (SVR) offered to stage a fake assassination attempt on Victor Orban to aid his election.
Anyone now wondering if similar occurred in the 2024 US election?
Strong words by @Billbrowder:
"Even if Ukraine repairs the Druzhba pipeline, I'm not sure Orbán would release the €90 billion. He's taking orders from Putin and acting as a 'little Putin' inside the EU. But, one way or another, Europe will get the funds to Ukraine."