Europe is an enlightened flame in a dark and savage world. Stand up to protect our continent, our culture and our civilization!

This is a perfect illustration of how all energy and momentum on the right keeps getting squandered on Trump's ego. He is doing something very similar to what they left has been doing for years, namely trying to force people to use made up vocabulary, but - unlike with the left - there is not even a crumb of ideology, strategy or greater plan behind it. The left succesfully managed to have millions of people adopt its terms, speading its ideas far and wide, shaping both political discourse and culture at large, even at moments when it was not in power. Their approach was to say: "You must use this made up word because it will make the world a better place and you are an immoral person if you don't." The right's approach, on the other hand, is to say: "You must use this made up word because Trump says so."

Ah yes, a petty narcissistic power trip by forcing people to use your made up words. I'm sure this will bring lots of voters to your side.

The Netherlands will not participate in Eurovision next year after all because "muh Israel" even though there might be a completely different govt in Tel Aviv by that time.

Macron and Sanchez will probably oppose it.

And your side is losing from these people.

Even the left and centre would suddenly come to their senses and agree to close Europe's external borders from this moment onward (they won't), our situation would still be completely unacceptable. Millions must go.

Every single proponent of open borders needs to have their face rubbed in these statistics.

The entire Western World should do the same, not just from now on, but retroactively.

It's over. Vucic has fallen.

Little more than 2 weeks before the US Midterms and Trump's talk of "rigged elections" to anticipate a possible loss seems fairly limited compared to his previous campaigns. I don't know if that should make us relieved or worried.

There are different levels of Kremlin-apologism across the West, and pro-Ukrainians as well as pro-Russians often make the mistake of lumping these together: 1. Public Russia-supporters: those who openly and unashamedly take Russia side in the war, want their own country to exit the EU and NATO and put the blame for Putin's invasion entirely on Ukraine and the West. These include several ultra-"nationalist" movements in Eastern European countries like Bulgaria's Revival Party, some eastern chapters of the AfD, far-left and communist groups and perhaps the conspiracist Dutch FvD could also be counted among them. This is the rarest group of Kremlin-apologists and they seem to be constantly shrinking, especially since Russia has hardly advanced on the battlefield in years. 2. Cryptic Russia-supporters: these are people who through their words and actions support Russia's war and propaganda efforts while never really openly admitting it. They often talk about just wanting "peace" or about rejecting "warmongers", and they might occassionally even halfheartedly condemn the invasion while at the same time they try to starve the victim of that invasion of the means to defend itself. This is a broad group that includes people like Orban when he was still in power, the mainstream AfD leadership, the far-left Die Linke, freaks like Varoufakis and maybe one should also include Melenchon and Fico, although both are not categorically against any form of military assistance/sales. Trump and Musk occassionally also fall within this group whenever they refocus their attention to the war. 3. Opportunists: people who openly condemn the invasion, support (conditional) aid to Ukraine and have little to no sympathy for the Putin regime, but who, at the same time, do not shy away from instrumentalising things like that aid and the sheltering of Ukrainian refugees, and promises to reduce those, for internal political gains and anti-establishment messaging. This is about the level where people like Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders currently are. Farage might occassionally orbit close to this group, but perhaps it is not entirely fair to include him here as he has been pretty solidly pro-Ukraine in recently years. These categories are in no way monoliths and people often shift between them. AfD's Weidel, for example, was initally close to category 1, but has since then somewhat moderated her stance, while still being obviously in category 2. Melenchon is at the lower end of category 2 because he doesn't reject all military aid in all conditions, but by blaming Ukraine for high gas prices and ordering his party to demonstratively leave parliament when Zelensky came to talk, he is still more of a Kremlin-apologist than Le Pen. You might not agree with this exact classification and perhaps want to move some people or groups to other categories, but my main point here is that we should not paint all of them with the same brush because that would lead us to unwarranted pessimism as these people rise in the polls. There isn't an electoral "wave of support for the Kremlin" coming our way. Farage is not Die Linke and Le Pen is not AfD. These people and groups demonstrate various levels of Kremlin-apologism ranging from hardly at all to clearly wanting Putin to win the war of aggression that he started, and them coming to power will therefore have very different consequences for our support for Ukraine and our stance towards the Russian regime.

Many on the British right don't want to hear this, but Sadiq Khan is correct here. A majority of the British population supports rejoining the EU, and the left is already picking up this issue. On the right, only @cfdownes_ - to his credit - left the door open by suggesting that if the EU turns rightward then perhaps Britain should be part of it again. It's time for the British right to stop treating Brexit like some kind of epic victory for their side and face the truth. Leaving the EU has not just made Britain poorer, but also - Khan oddly enough failed to mention this - demographically less European, delivering the opposite squared of what it was meant to achieve. Moreover, Britain's foreign policy is now more reliant on the whims of either Washington or human rights lawyers, depending on whether the right or the left is in power, instead of deciding on issues together with its neighbours like before. Meanwhile, on issues that really matter like defense cooperation, Brexit seems to have had little impact as Britain simply keeps following the European line. As for the EU itself, the European centre-right has abandoned its long-held "firewall" against the nationalist right in Brussels, leading to the passing of a series of anti-immigration measures by the European Parliament that are stricter than those of many individual countries, including return hubs outside of Europe. Since EU elections work according to a proportional representation system unlike the UK's own "First-Past-the-Post", a rejoined Britain's MEP's would be overwhelmingly on the right, as they indeed were before the UK left the EU, and they would undoubtedly drag Brussels even more rightward. In short, a strong right-wing case can be made for Britain rejoining the EU, and I urge the British right - most likely to no avail - to start making that case. The left surely isn't waiting and is already making overtures to reverse Brexit, linking it to economic insecurity. The fact that the majority of people in Britain are against mass immigration in no way guarantees that this will always be the most important issue for them during elections. They might just as easily vote for someone who promises Rejoin. Combining those two positions would therefore be a solid electoral strategy, but I am afraid most of the British right isn't ready for this conversation yet.

All those Eastern European populists who hire and fly in the international right-wing griftosphere to shill for them are actually doing the opposite of what they claim. Instead of representing their own culture, they are symbolically contesting its uniqueness by reducing everything to a vague, global, americanised, quasi-Trumpian struggle "against the left" or "for christian values."