‘Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row
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The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challenge

The EU foreign policy chief has declared that “the free world needs a new leader”, as European leaders threw their support behind Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after the stunning White House confrontation between him and Donald Trump.

Leaders from across Europe expressed their solidarity with the Ukrainian leader after the fractious exchange with JD Vance, the US vice-president, and Trump, who claimed he was not “ready for peace” and accused him of “gambling with world war three”.

Although in general, the European leaders did not name the US president, their comments late on Friday laid bare the gaping rift between the US and its traditional allies in Europe over the war in Ukraine.

In a social media post, Kaja Kallas, the EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, wrote: “Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the aggressor.

“Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.”

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  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    386·
    1 day ago

    European here. Sorry America, but you’re going to have to step up and remove your corrupt leaders I think. And I’ll be happy when you do.

    I’m getting a bit pissed off with this type of message.

    1. We already have been leading. Funds and weapons have been relatively free flowing from European nations. Getting anything out of the US has been like pulling teeth even under Biden.
    2. We know a shit ton of burden has fallen on us because a nation we considered a friend has turned traitor. You’re not telling us anything new.
    3. As a US citizen you can’t wash your hands of the fact that your leadership is corrupt. “Oh, sorry!”. They’re your collective responsibility. You all put them there. Only you can replace them. Get off your arse and organise.
    • stickly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      1 day ago

      “Sorry Russia, you’re going to have to step up and remove your corrupt leaders and I’ll be happy when you do”

      Fucking how? Organize? Organize what, a fucking civil war? Sorry you’re a “bit pissed” that 70% of Americans have to live under a captured techno-fascist state they didn’t vote for.

      You really don’t understand how America works if you think we can hold some magical snap election or wave our pea-shooter 2nd amendment shotguns in the face of the largest and most advanced military in the world…

      This doesn’t get solved without major moves by internal government factions or foreign intervention, no matter how warm and fuzzy videos of a big protest will make you feel.

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        21·
        12 hours ago

        The UK expelled a disastrous Prime Minister in 50 days in 2022. Trump is doing fundamental damage to your country far worse than Truss did and you’re telling me the 70% of the American people are powerless until the next election and just have to watch it happen on TV? It’s pathetic.

        Your representation is failing to do their constitutional duty. The voice of 70% of the people can’t be ignored if it’s united. That’s why you all need to come together in real life and not inside social media. Start campaigning. Start protesting. Start being angry.

        • stickly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Yes, in terms of any official political mechanisms to remove him. Its not pathetic, it’s how our constitution works! He would need to be betrayed by about 1/3 of the hundreds of party members who just worked to install him. These representatives aren’t from locations people want to see massive protests at, those cities are already blue.

          My elected representatives are not republicans, am I supposed to move to another state to protest on their behalf? Are we gonna get millions of people waving their picket signs in the potato fields of Idaho? There aren’t even mechanisms to remove their representatives before their term is up. The GOP can just skip the angry town halls and vacation at Mar-a-Lago until the coup is done.

          This is the exact type holier than thou bullshit I’m sick of. These are the mechanisms baked into our constitution; the voting population has made their vote. Any removal from office would happen by red state electors acting in good faith to protect the rule of law, and they’ve spent multiple decades proving they want to do the opposite.

          You have just as much power to fly to any random red US state and protest somebody who doesn’t represent you and can’t be legally removed from office. What the fuck is your excuse?

          Edit: all of that official removal process would only work under the assumption that Trump would concede to them. The SCOTUS ruled last year he could have the traitors locked up or executed for treason, so long as his stack of personally appointed judges approved. (There are no constitutional mechanisms for us to remove these judges BTW, they aren’t even elected)

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
        6·
        21 hours ago

        a fucking civil war?

        Sure, that might work. Oh and that “largest and most advanced military” is made up of those same people who you think are 70% of the population. Maybe see what happens when people actually take some action, instead of just giving up and bitching about it.

          • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            12 hours ago

            The military is also under direct attack.

            The Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs is being replaced by a Lieutenant General that, according to Trump, got the job through being a sycophant who wore a MAGA hat with his uniform.

            There’s a lot of troops under leaders that will find that abhorrent.

          • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
            5·
            20 hours ago

            What? Not that I have seen. And even if they did, you think people don’t have an issue with this as long as they are “on the right”? You can not out of one side of your mouth say “70% of americans don’t want this” and from the other “But there is nothing we can do, they are too many” (I know this was not you but that other dood, but the idea is the same)

              • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
                2·
                19 hours ago

                Troops see rising political tension in the ranks, poll shows

                Please tell us how tensions rise if everyone in the armed forces agree? You also realize this is a poll, and that it also breaks down very different by branches and that is a touch more pressing. Say you have all the marines and army willing to put jackboots on necks but the air force or navy says “no”. Hell what happens if just the doods who run the Triad are like super gay and pissed off, this idea that there is no 5th column possible is funny in its absurdity.

      • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
        31·
        20 hours ago

        Organize what, a fucking civil war?

        Isn’t that what all your guns are for? Killing your government, should they become dictatorial?

        • stickly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          15 hours ago

          You have to really drink the kool-aid to believe that shit. If the weapons they allowed us to keep were a threat to anything other than soft targets and school children they wouldn’t let us keep them