▲ 213 ▼ Donald Trump calls for Taiwan to ‘pay’ for its own defence (www.ft.com) submitted 2 years ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/world@lemmy.world 50 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18088686 https://archive.is/xwXzz
[–] Naich@lemmings.world 97 points 2 years ago (2 children) Trump is literally a foreign agent, working on behalf of China and Russia. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* Don't forget the Saudis! They'd love to entice Trump with a tacky golf resort in the middle of the desert in exchange for some more environmental deregulation and looking the other way on human rights violations permalink fedilink source parent [–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) I feel like that’s the case for all the far-right populists around the world. Viktor Orban in Hungary, Erdogan in Turkey, the AfD party in Germany, etc. AfD members of the European parliament literally got caught taking money from the Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies, and in exchange doing some stuff in the parliament. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* Erdoğan doesn't fit the list in my opinion. He's obviously a right wing stooge that uses religious extremism to his advantage, and I hope his reign ends soon, but he's only been blocking stuff temporarily to advance his position (to get EU membership for example, or to advance at the borders), but he has been an important ally to Ukraine and NATO during the war. I haven't seen him repeat Russian propaganda at all. Correct me if my feeling is wrong though. I didn't look deeper into it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* Don't forget the Saudis! They'd love to entice Trump with a tacky golf resort in the middle of the desert in exchange for some more environmental deregulation and looking the other way on human rights violations permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) I feel like that’s the case for all the far-right populists around the world. Viktor Orban in Hungary, Erdogan in Turkey, the AfD party in Germany, etc. AfD members of the European parliament literally got caught taking money from the Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies, and in exchange doing some stuff in the parliament. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* Erdoğan doesn't fit the list in my opinion. He's obviously a right wing stooge that uses religious extremism to his advantage, and I hope his reign ends soon, but he's only been blocking stuff temporarily to advance his position (to get EU membership for example, or to advance at the borders), but he has been an important ally to Ukraine and NATO during the war. I haven't seen him repeat Russian propaganda at all. Correct me if my feeling is wrong though. I didn't look deeper into it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* Erdoğan doesn't fit the list in my opinion. He's obviously a right wing stooge that uses religious extremism to his advantage, and I hope his reign ends soon, but he's only been blocking stuff temporarily to advance his position (to get EU membership for example, or to advance at the borders), but he has been an important ally to Ukraine and NATO during the war. I haven't seen him repeat Russian propaganda at all. Correct me if my feeling is wrong though. I didn't look deeper into it. permalink fedilink source parent