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Trump's attack on Iran has raised the risk of terror attacks by sleeper cells and proxy groups in Britain and Europe.
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Rob Fleming feddit.uk WhereTheFortiesRoar@feddit.uk
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comrade_twisty feddit.org comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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Yep, this is all part of Trumps plan to boost right wing parties accross Europe.

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unexposedhazard discuss.tchncs.de unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Britain is part of Europe, these headline writers are so incompetent.

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Senseless feddit.org Senseless@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-23
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Yep, this is all part of Trumps plan to boost right wing parties accross Europe.

This guy is too much of a sociopath to care about that. He tries to cover his hairy orange ass by diverting news to something else than the Epstein files.

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Maeve kbin.earth Maeve@kbin.earth
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These types of people are afraid of their own shadows

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Tomassci sh.itjust.works Tomassci@sh.itjust.works
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This guy is too much of a sociopath to care about that. He tries to cover his hairy orange ass by diverting news to something else than the Epstein files.

Trump himself is just a puppet of the oligarchists.

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CyberEgg discuss.tchncs.de CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-22
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Britain is part of Europe, these headline writers are so incompetent.

It's a british website. Media often explicitly name their location even for news of supraregional relevance to pull in their audience. Just basic media stuff.

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Frozengyro lemmy.world Frozengyro@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-03
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Britain is part of Europe, these headline writers are so incompetent.

It sort of makes sense with Britain no longer being part of the EU. At least, that's the only reason I can think to put it that way.

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unexposedhazard discuss.tchncs.de unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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It's a british website. Media often explicitly name their location even for news of supraregional relevance to pull in their audience. Just basic media stuff.

Thats fair tbh if they want to directly address their local audience.

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linule lemmy.world linule@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-20
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This guy is too much of a sociopath to care about that. He tries to cover his hairy orange ass by diverting news to something else than the Epstein files.

I think it’s pretty likely that this is part of the plan. Massive refugee waves will destabilize the EU just in the way they want. Either the EU goes full “don’t come here”, with walls, camps, deportation, etc. which will dwarf the current US immigration situation (thus improving their image), or they go “refugees welcome” again, which will skyrocket right wing parties. And not few mainstream politicians will be too intimidated or otherwise compromised to call it out, so the uniformed citizen will just see that somehow “it’s raining immigrants” again and “politicians are not doing enough”. Not unsolvable, but close to a checkmate.

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NoneOfUrBusiness fedia.io NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-06-13
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I think it’s pretty likely that this is part of the plan. Massive refugee waves will destabilize the EU just in the way they want. Either the EU goes full “don’t come here”, with walls, camps, deportation, etc. which will dwarf the current US immigration situation (thus improving their image), or they go “refugees welcome” again, which will skyrocket right wing parties. And not few mainstream p...

Either the EU goes full “don’t come here”, with walls, camps, deportation, etc. which will dwarf the current US immigration situation by far (thus improving their image),

It'll also directly lead to fascism in like half of Europe, which I think would be more impactful than some good PR for Trump.

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linule lemmy.world linule@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-20
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Either the EU goes full “don’t come here”, with walls, camps, deportation, etc. which will dwarf the current US immigration situation by far (thus improving their image), It'll also directly lead to fascism in like half of Europe, which I think would be more impactful than some good PR for Trump.

Yeah basically either the main stream parties become right wingers or are voted out. But also, why are voters so stupid to not see through this obvious trap. Essentially, it is the right wingers who are “flooding” their beloved “western civilization” with immigrants, for their short-sighted goals. The least the opposition can do is call this out crystal clear on a 10 minutes tact. Hate the immigrants, then hate what’s sending them, not poor displaced people that don’t even want to be here and politicians with little realistic options.

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NoneOfUrBusiness fedia.io NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-06-13
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Yeah basically either the main stream parties become right wingers or are voted out. But also, why are voters so stupid to not see through this obvious trap. Essentially, it is the right wingers who are “flooding” their beloved “western civilization” with immigrants, for their short-sighted goals. The least the opposition can do is call this out crystal clear on a 10 minutes tact. Hate the immi...

But also, why are voters so stupid to not see through this obvious trap.

Desperation. They want someone to do something for them, and with leftwing politics being moribund in the developed world and the only option promising that is the far right. Everything else is ultimately secondary.

The least the opposition can do is call this out crystal clear on a 10 minutes tact.

Except the mainstream opposition is also pro-capitalist imperialism. They hate leftwing politics more than they hate fascism, because one is much worse for their donors, so when it's either or they'll throw their lot with the fascists.

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linule lemmy.world linule@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-20
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But also, why are voters so stupid to not see through this obvious trap. Desperation. They want someone to do something for them, and with leftwing politics being moribund in the developed world and the only option promising that is the far right. Everything else is ultimately secondary. The least the opposition can do is call this out crystal clear on a 10 minutes tact. Except the mainstream o...

Moribund politics is center, not left wing, which is seeing increases all across the west as well. Not as much as right wing, because it’s not well funded, but that’s not intrinsically necessary.

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ohulancutash feddit.uk ohulancutash@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-16
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It sort of makes sense with Britain no longer being part of the EU. At least, that's the only reason I can think to put it that way.

We’ve always referred to it as the continent or europe. Britain has never seen itself as fully part of Europe. Only for the 40 years of membership in the EEC/EU and then only politically in certain circumstances, not culturally.

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Frozengyro lemmy.world Frozengyro@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-03
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We’ve always referred to it as the continent or europe. Britain has never seen itself as fully part of Europe. Only for the 40 years of membership in the EEC/EU and then only politically in certain circumstances, not culturally.

That makes sense. Thanks for further background

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