“Macron and Scholz are clinging on to power with their last remaining strength,” says head of Russia’s State Duma.

Russia was definitely watching the results of the EU election.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s shock decision to call a parliamentary election following his party’s crushing defeat in the EU polls, as well as the success of the far right in countries across the Continent, made headline news.

With Macron recently spearheading an initiative to deploy Western forces to Ukraine, it is perhaps unsurprising that the tone was gleeful.

  • @SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2•20 days ago

    Always a good time to remember the old joke:

    <<An agent of the CIA and an agent of the KGB are together at a bar, chatting after taking what’s probably too much alcohol given their occupations.

    The CIA agent tells the Russian: “You know, I must admit that you guys are really good at propaganda. The way you paint capitalism is great. People swallow it everywhere!”

    The KGB agent replies: “Thank you, thank you, we put a lot of work into it, but American propaganda is something else. It is so good that you guys think you don’t have propaganda!”

    And the CIA agent says: “But we have no propaganda.”>>