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Ahh fair enough

The movie has nothing to do with the tree being cut down. They’re saying that the tree was used in a movie, and the “moronic mission” was the two men deciding to cut it down

The article body repeatedly says 1,300

None of those have been caused by EU elections, they’re all national elections. The EU can’t decide how countries run their national elections

Deploying elsewhere in Europe, not in Ukraine. It is for Ukraine’s benefit, but the headline is implying that they are deployed in Ukraine

“Deployment” seems like a weird turn of phrase for what NZ is actually doing here to the point of being probably intentionally misleading

Of note, the Centrist is the recently-founded pet project of a Canadian billionaire who has been attempting to take over NZ’s biggest newspapers

Also his voterbase will believe anything Trump says over anything Xi says

To be honest I’d expect that’s just someone’s interpretation of the huge amount of maintenance any jetfighter (not just the F-35, any modern one) needs. It’s like five person-hours of maintenance per hour of flight. They’re just incredibly complicated machines that can’t really afford for stuff to fail. If Israel is flying them a whole bunch, they’ll need to maintain them proportionately

I have the slimmest of hopes that Nigel Farage’s choice to attach himself to Trump will do Reform lasting damage. Fortunately we’ve got a good while before the next election

If Germany isn’t doing it on its own terms then it’s not Germany doing it, is it? Not only can Germany do it on its own terms, it only matters if Germany does it on its own terms.

Regardless, the responsibility Germany has does not entail giving Russia propaganda fodder for its own imperialism. That helps literally nobody.

The people that committed the crimes of Nazi Germany are dead, and good riddance to them. Modern Germany is doing the right thing by commemorating their defeat. They can do that on their own terms in their own country. People don’t get to just do whatever they want in Germany on the basis of being from a country that suffered under the Nazis.

Nobody is asking Nechayev to make a speech, but nobody is asking him to attend either and he still plans to do that. Nechayev described this commemoration as “part of the path to our reconciliation”, so he clearly thinks of it as something Germany should be doing in order to be friendlier with Russia despite Russia’s actions

Isn’t that exactly the kind of “when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit” that you were advocating for?

The biggest fusion reactor in the world is being built in France right now, with the EU as the leading funder

If Putin is going to make use of it either way, it seems to me like you might as well pick the option that makes it more likely for the event to go ahead without incident. It’s not like Germany is burning any good will with Russia here, there isn’t any to burn

Russian representatives aren’t being banned because of the behaviour of this ambassador. They’re being banned becaue they are expected to misuse the publicity of an event where Ukrainians - the Soviet republic with the second-highest military and civilian casualties - will also be present

You’ve got two parts of the former Soviet Union fighting a brutal war against each other. You probably can’t invite both sides to the same event and expect it to go okay. Which side do you invite? The one that didn’t start the problem

I’d be quite against posting links to Ground News in place of specific articles. It blocks basically everything if you don’t have an account, and there’s no way of knowing which article is actually under discussion

Besides that the OP has replied themselves now, the URL is “european-union-to-boost-pa-funding-with-1-8-billion-over-three-years”, so it would almost certainly have been that headline

The funding is for the Palestinian Authority. OP decided to get creative with the headline because of their opinions on the PA

Those dastardly Portuguese will be the death of us

Canada joins the EU, king relocates to Canada, Canada annexes the UK, Brexit is undone. I see no flaws in this plan.