Europe has developed a pretty interesting definition of “protecting democracy.”
🇷🇴 Romania annulled a presidential election after Călin Georgescu finished first, then barred him from the rerun.
🇭🇺 Hungary’s new government rewrote the constitution with retroactive limits that block Viktor Orbán from becoming PM again and later approved rules barring long-serving MPs from the next parliamentary election.
🇩🇪 Germany’s domestic intelligence service classified the AfD as extremist, opening the door to much heavier surveillance of the country’s biggest opposition party.
🇫🇷 France upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction, kept restrictions on her political future and ordered her to wear an electronic ankle tag.
🇪🇸 In Spain, more than a dozen people tied to Pedro Sánchez’s political and personal circle have been investigated or prosecuted in separate corruption cases, while Sánchez himself has not been charged.
🇬🇧 Britain postponed local elections during a sweeping reorganization of local government, triggering a petition accusing the government of voter suppression.
🇵🇱 And now Poland has police surrounding its Constitutional Tribunal while the government and opposition accuse each other of trying to seize control of the court.
The real red line in Europe may not be democracy... It may be leaving the club.
Writer: Sol
You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban on the leading presidential candidate and make them wear an ankle monitor (France), every member of your circle can be investigated for corruption (Spain), you can try and cancel local elections because you will lose them (Britain), and you can storm the constitutional court with riot police because you want to control it (Poland).
You can just do all these things. The secret is you just have to be on the right side of the European Commission.
Half of the opposition has been denied from running at the next elections. Yet, all of a sudden, the European Commission has no concerns about rule of law and democracy in Hungary.
"We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev that if a United Germany could remain in NATO, NATO would not be moved Eastward"
(Jack Matlock, US Ambassador to the Soviets 1987-1991 speaking 30 years ago)
That particular moment when Victoria Nuland, in 2016, was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.
She spelled it all out without shame:
🔴US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.
🔴American-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.
🔴The US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.
🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.
Let's cut all the crap,this wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid.
"Unprovoked"
😂😂😂😂
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Miközben össze-vissza hazudoznak arról, hogy mit is csinált a Nyílt Társadalom Alapítvány és a Norvég Alap által pénzelt "Emberség Erejével Alapítvány" az Újpetrei Általános Iskolában 7-8 éves gyerekekkel, annak a társasjátéknak a leírásában, amivel ott játszatták a kicsiket, egyértelműen fogalmaznak: a cél a hagyományos nemi szerepek megkérdőjelezése.
Szó sincs semmiféle "pályaorientációról".
EL A KEZEKKEL A GYEREKEKTŐL!
Germany is now "at war with Russia", according to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
All because Germany was "attacked" by a €199 drone bought at MediaMarkt. Batteries included. VAT not included.
You honestly couldn’t make this up....
😂😂😂😂
UKRAINE: MORE EVIDENCE OF US PLANNING THE VIOLENT MAIDAN COUP IN 2014
The evidence is overwhelming, but still Western politicians, media, and armies paid trolls are still hoping to gaslight the western public to believe it was an “organic grassroots uprising”, “freedom-loving” and “Euro aspiring” etc. It was just another CIA and Soros funded color revolution, designed to destroy the country…
So here we have former NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, admitting that the war did start in 2014.
And from that same year, 2014, NATO has been busy training and arming the Ukraine armed forces.
"Unprovoked"
😂😂
That moment when John McCain in Kyiv in 2013, was openly boasting on CNN that the US delegation was there to "orchestrate" a regime change in Ukraine?
He flaunted it, with Victoria Nuland at his side, actively manipulating the overthrow of the democratically elected President Yanukovych.
No subtlety.
No pretense.
Just raw, brazen intervention.