• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 hours ago

    Choice quote from Tusk at this meeting:

    This is a paradox, listen to how it sounds: 500 million Europeans ask 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians. If you know how to count, rely on yourself,


    Out of curiosity, where’d you get this version of the photo OP? Meloni did do an eye-roll (it appears at something the photographer said, not Trudeau), but most of the press releases went with a more dignified still.

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    24 hours ago

    Trudeau, Rutte and the one brown guy (who is that?) apparently missed the memo on looking miserable.

    Edit: It’s Antonio Costa of Portugal.

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    Unpopular take maybe…

    Canada does not need to join the EU to increase trade and partnerships. More trade agreements and joint projects. The EU is a complicated political structure and joining it is unnecessarily complicateted.

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    2 days ago

    You beat me to it!

    I was going to post this with the caption “Democracy’s last stand” or something similar.

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    2 days ago

    with so many foreign troops fighting for russia in ukraine, there is zero justification for european troops not to be fighting with the ukranians as well. zero. every day that uk & france aren’t mobilzing and deploying troops to ukraine is just more european stalling until complete abandonment

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      This is not accurate, there a lot of different peoples fighting in the war but conflict within Ukraine is fought under Ukrainian and Russian flags only. North Koreans are deployed in Kursk region of the Russian Federation.

      Edit: Korean under NK flag, they have military engineers deployed in donas region in support role but i think they are actually under RF flag

      But technically Russia already popped the cherry on this, I will agree… if NK can deploy into Russia for combat operations why would not an EU state do the same?

      nUclEaR wAr🤡

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      2 days ago

      Pack your bags and go to the front yourself otherwise don’t advocate for more troops to be sent there thanks.