Hopefully this photo become an iconic symbol—a turning point that historians will forever recall as the moment putin's power crumbled and his russian empire fell, akin the images that immortalized the fall of the Berlin Wall.
@EugeneMcParland it's just a shame the Baltic states weren't invited!
@eliasp @EugeneMcParland it's just a shame mark rutte has been invited instead!

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And off camera on the right somewhere, a demented, obese, would-be tyrant shouting, “Mexico will pay for this wall”.

@EugeneMcParland happy to see Canadian representation, strengthening its ties with Europe
@EugeneMcParland @ibboard Baltics should have had their representatives on that summit as well.
@EugeneMcParland I am wondering how they decide the position for each person for the photo!

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I can imagine a 100 page book of protocol rules that have to be followed to establish the photo position relationship. That or someone just yells tallest at the back.

@kaniass @EugeneMcParland I was just thinking this. It's a heck of a coup for Starmer to be front and centre given how the UK has deliberately isolated itself from Europe.

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I so wish Kamala Harris was standing there, but nope, I live in a country with a bunch of racist fuckwits.

@cafechatnoir @EugeneMcParland "fuckwits" is my new 'word of the day' thank you for that.
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I very much hope so. But there are at least 2 spineless cowards on this picture.
Top row left from the #Netherlands; ass kisser #Rutte the Nato chief and next to him the prime minister "I don't look so it did not happen" #Schoof
@EugeneMcParland Pax Americana is over. Europe must now lead the free world alone. The best we can hope for now is that tRUmp does nothing.
@EugeneMcParland anyone got "Trump gives Alaska back to Russia and they do a Pincer movement on Canada" on their end of the world Bingo Card?
@EugeneMcParland Having Scholz in the background is a bit inconvenient, he is unwilling to commit to peacekeeping troops on the ground, which might or might not change with the new chancellor. And the Baltics are missing, but nice to see Turkey being represented here by their foreign minister.

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President Zelenskyy and others, still the tallest person in the room!

@EugeneMcParland I could see this as a starting point for European convergence on defence, but Russia's downfall will not come from this but from its own internal problems

@EugeneMcParland I hope so! Europe is far stronger than it was in the eve of WWII. Russia is also much weaker by comparison.

My worry is: will Trump take Putin 's side to attack Europe since he is a Russian asset? I can't imagine the horror of engaging in a two-front war! 😱

@EugeneMcParland Words, words, words, and a few PR shots. Nice posturing, but action is the tell.
@EugeneMcParland Half of them are supporting a Genocide in #gaza. But hey, they are the "good guys" 😄🔥

@disisdeguey @EugeneMcParland 🇵🇸🇺🇦
#ukraine #gaza
Don't try to create opposition between two peoples who are suffering from imperialism, colonialism AND genocide

100% agree that our politicians have principles with "variable geometry"
Would you have preferred them to support Putin?

Note that the break that is taking place between the EU and the US could lead the EU to review its positions in the Middle East, which would be not modelled on US diktats. I hope

@jifi @EugeneMcParland I'm Just tired of the hypocrisy and the propaganda from both sides. But all these people in that picture (Von Der Leyer i.e) have been supporting Netyanhu and Israel NO MATTER WHAT. STARMER,Macron.... All of them supporting and adding #gazagenocide Their only concern about Ukraine it's purelly economic and about RESOURCES Like "the other two". I think we need less Talk about "weaponazing" Europe (Úrsula, Starmer wet dream) and more diplomatic movements. This is all a scam, I don't trust anyone on that picture. #peaceanlove

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I live in Europe, near Brussels.
Absolutely no link with the apparatchik's of the CE
No trust at all

In Latin: si vis pacem para bellum
no other choice than prepar a war to avoid a war
"Strategic deterrence"
Putin's Russia, and now US are there, and China...

Would you like to pay a tithe to the Russian mafias
to see our schools and hospitals burn down
our children kidnapped
our wives and sisters raped?
Have you heard about Bucha?

These guys respect nothing

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Hope to see Canada's PM in the next one of these