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Airports in Belgium disrupted again by suspected drone sightings – Europe live
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As a European, I concur. Though I am quite sure there is a lot going on behind the scenes that we're not privy to. For all her faults, I miss Angela Merkel. She was a galvanizing power of the EU, she wouldn't have none of this shit.
edit: upon further review, I have a more tempered attitude towards Merkel's legacy. Getting involved with Russian gas was such a magnificently stupid idea from the start, I remember back then even thinking, what the shit, we are going to let European energy be dictated by the whims of Putin? That doesn't sound like a great plan. But money...
Of course there is support by EU of Ukrainian strikes against Russia.
But EU is not directly targeting russia even though russia is directly targeting the EU (including drone attacks and airspace violations).
The EU can't even arrest Timchenko who is a citizen of Finland.
Not to mention basic counter-intelligencence programs such as a review of all russian citizen and permanent residents (e.g. benefiting form the putin regime, but also evidence of support for genocidal imperialism on social media) in Europe.
Thank god Merkel wasn't the Chancellor when the russians launched the full scale invasion. For Ukraine, she would have been far worse than Trump. She would have sold us out for extermination by the russians (don't forget Bucha and the massive kill list and internment program that was planned by the russians following "victory in three days").
Even in retirement she is working for the russians:
Ex-German chancellor Merkel blames Poland and Baltic States for war in Ukraine (Oct 2025)
I hope she ends up in a russian interment camp. But that is unfortunately unlikely to happen. I will settle for her getting Alzheimer's (I don't say that lightly, close family member had it, it's a nightmare).
This is a big one, I have never heard anyone speak of it. In spite of Russian operatives being caught red handed on sovereign European soil time and again. Just imagine, in the days of the iron curtain and the KGB, when they sent spies and agents to infiltrate the highest level of governments all over the world back then. And today? Why, they can just waltz straight across any border with impunity, they must be laughing at the intelligence defence of Europe. Of course, democracy is kind of predicated upon openness and cooperation, it's a strength, not a weakness, until the fascists come and break up the party.
edit: upon reading the article, I must say that the assertion that she blames the Baltic states is overstated. She was proposing a strategy for dealing with Russia before the invasion that was shot down by the Baltics.
I used to live in russia (this was before they invaded Georgia). I have former friends who I know are supporters of russian genocidal imperialism (that's why they became former friends), you can most probably still find the evidence for this on their social media.
That being said, based on chatting with another friend who uses FB, they are bit more careful these days and tend to go with more implicit public statements of support "I hope there will be peace soon and I can visit Moscow via a direct flight from London".
Yeah everyone is on board with fascist imperialism until it starts interfering with their vacation plans.