Threatens to Cut Support for Ukraine if Elected

I am reading this as an easy instruction: Do not vote for her.

Unfortunately most will read it as "if I vote for her, no more money goes there and I get more of it".

nek minute, Russian drones in Paris

Le Pen’s far right served as mouthpiece for the Kremlin, says French parliamentary report from 2023, and nothing has changed since ...

I hope this political bet will make them lose support the same way their Frexit threat did a few years ago.

Putin can't beat the Ukranians, but he can sure beat the weak in France (Le Pen), Germany (AfD), UK (Reform), Canada (Alberta), and US (Republican/Pedophile party).

"He's hurting the wrong people"

"I voted for the ephemeral others to suffer based solely on my own vibes of hate and ignorance"

I wouldn't be surprised if tankies cheer on Marine Le Pen for this policy alone.

Don’t forget the Netherlands…

We take the cake when it comes to right-wing extremist parties: PVV, FvD, BBB, JA21 and Project2029 (yeah, the latter isn’t a joke).

The first two are confirmed to have received funding from Russia and the first four advocate a pro-Russian stance on the Ukraine war.

Plenty of simpletons in the Netherlands.

Does she not even see the protests that are ongoing in her own country?
She's almost ready for the guillotine.

She doesn't know what she is doing

I think she does. I think she follows the bidding of her master, Vladimir Putin.

Edit: Correct pronouns, damn autocorrect.

Oh yes she does. Of all the fuckwits we have on the far right, she's probably the smartest, most of the others are moronic yes men.

Keeping Europe small and fragmented, so it is an easier target for the larger powers to play with.
Somehow that's the single common thing all of these politicians all over Europe that like to call themselves 'patriotic' want to do.

Be it Le Pen in France, the AfD in Germany, ..., if all of these really were so great for us Europeans, how come they are so staunchly supported by our global adversaries in Moscow and Mar-a-Lago?

Authoritarianism is kind of their thing

just so you know, LFI (France) are also playing the collabo card reagrding Russia and Mélanchon even considers Taiwan (and of course Tibet) to be a part of China.

Didn't it all start with the FPÖ in Austria? I think they fit the list.

If it makes you feel any better, the referendum question in Alberta on having another one about leaving Canada is expected to lose in a landslide.

Republicans will almost certainly lose their majority in the House and it's quite possible that they also will in the Senate.

Of course she will, what else would you expect from a Putin sock puppet. The only news worth element here is that she is openly admitting it.

She is a traitor like her colleagues in other member states. Putting Russian interests above French interests.

They've been in open alliance for over a decade, there was never any doubt that would be the case. Putin bankrolled them back in like 2014 or something with a 8 figure loan.

Correct and they all are conservative and right leaning. Even far right, similar to Nazis, no wonder they Support Naziism, so Russian current regime in the Kreml. Nothing too hard to understand.

You are right but the sad and harsh reality is that French people will vote who they think can solve their problems, not the problems of other countries.
Is it short-sighted ? Of course, but it also seems extremely logical.

I don't think the protests are strictly against her... after all she and her parties are not in the government.

Superpowers love smaller countries' nationalism.

Why yes, please do isolate yourself from your allies while shouting about national pride. How did you know I was hungry for another vassal state?

Correct and they all are conservative and right leaning.

Tbf, the romanticised view towards Moscow / Beijing is something also found regularly on the left side of the spectrum. The passed on opposition towards Washington and "the Western World" is so engrained that they don't realise that the guy in Washington and the guy in Moscow meanwhile are happily holding hands, while Beijing (the "Moscow surrogate" after 1991) has left the spheres of socialism long ago and is becoming more capitalist and power-hungry by the minute.

None of these are our friends, none of these have our interest in mind, none of these want a striving, strong and independent Europe. Yet, a remarkably high portion of people here on the continent (on either side of the political spectrum) can only see us as the small, dependent fosterling of a "large power" and their whole debate is limited to whether that supervisor should sit west or east of us.

Musk and Thiel are literally funding all of this. If one country had the balls to do what we are all thinking, it could help the whole world

also found regularly on the left side of the spectrum.

Like lunatics that in my point of view already fell of from what left should mean, or my understanding and position is the real middle which nowadays is already put into far left?
Left is not anti-west, whatever "west" should mean as a unit (that actually doesn't exist).

I agree with your sentiment, especially the second paragraph.
It's also not just left or right and you have to decide. We already have a lot of good rules written down and ratified by the majority of humanity and do not need to argue about basic human rights anymore. if you break them, that's bad and wrong, no matter where you stand and as what you call yourself.
The best options we have so far is individual freedom restricted by sane rules, so law and democracy with a closely regulated free market. Nowadays infrastructure might be handled more like in a planned economy, so that part can become more "left" imho.
Free elections would also be more sane and clear, if not a strong minority would be able to pay a lot to steer public opinion and media, as their expenditure for it makes sure they can get even more and not pay their fair share.

Still i understand why it is so easy to say and like other weak groups/minorities are the cause for the regular persons hardships.

Social media is still allowed to mislead with impunity

Why are so many countries electing criminals? And why do they all seem to have the same agenda.

Capitalism overruling democracy.

Name a more iconic duo than far-right and Putin

What these people don't recognize is that if Ukraine stops impeding Russia, it will be their problem.

Russia buys the bots that influence people, and may be also hacking election infrastructure to boot.

I met Thiel once briefly about a decade ago. The guy was a total cunt. I interacted with him for all of 10 seconds and he pissed me off to the point I wanted to punch him in the face... I truly regret not doing it.

Trump and Epstein.

The ambiguously pedophile duo!?

"yeah but not today" -some moron voting

more like one in the same, since mister putty funds the far right all over the world, which also includes christian nationlism groups.

he has a wierd obssesion with using young blood from his male model sidepieces(at least for the defenestrated one) apparently the side piece was causing problems for him and thiels husband, so he had "fallen out of a florida apartment building"

IIRC it was "only" 7 million Euros. Though in rubles it likely has more digits.

Importantly, it became a loan because French courts ordered the Le Pen to pay the money back.

Oh thanks for the correction I had thought it was 17 actually but didn't look it back up.

Solution: break their bots, use better bots against Russia.