EU Macron calls emergency European summit on Trump, Polish minister says - It was not immediately clear which European leaders would be invited to the emergency meeting.

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The meeting would take place on Monday, according to two EU officials. | Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images

French President Emmanuel Macron is convening European leaders for an emergency summit in Paris on Monday, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

"I'm very glad that President Macron has called our leaders to Paris," Sikorski said, adding that he expects the European leaders to discuss "in a very serious fashion" the challenges posed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

"President Trump has a method of operating which the Russians call razvedka boyem —reconnaissance through battle: You push and you see what happens, and then you change your position. ... And we need to respond," the Polish minister said.

The meeting will take place on Monday, according to two EU officials.

It was not immediately clear whether the meeting would involve all EU leaders, or only a smaller group of countries, and if other European leaders like U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer would also be invited.

A French spokesperson was not immediately able to comment. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, who was on the panel with Sikorski in Munich, didn’t confirm or deny the emergency summit.

Sikorski said later that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will travel on Monday at Macron's invitation to the meeting. "We need to show our strength and unity," Sikorski said in a post on social media.

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Britain, Netherlands and Poland are confirmed as attending so far. I would suspect Denmark will show up and maybe a couple of the worthless Baltic States too. Germany not mentioned so far though considering that the ruling party is going to lose badly no matter what they do, they might show up.

It will go about as usual. Macron will fly lots EU flags and talk about the need for an EU Army. The Germans will explain to him that any EU army will simply be used by every country in the EU other than Germany to further reduce their military budgets and leaving Germany holding the bag militarily for all of Europe. The French and Germans will stare at each other. Poland will step up at that point and demand 100 billion dollars from everyone just cause. Lithuania will demand immediate total war with Russia. The British will make a nice speech and then everyone will remind them that they are not in the EU and really don't have a meaningful army or navy anymore. So they should be quiet.

The german polls are admitting to the afD being at 22% now. The CDU/CSU are down to 29%. Its quickly reaching a point where there will be no way at all to keep the afD out of government short of giant coalition that will be short-lived and discredit every other party in Germany other than the afD.
 
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These Europeans are in over their heads. China is the latest Great Power, they provoked Russia with NATO expansion, and now China is supplying Russia with armaments. The Europeans have cemented the Russia-China alliance.

None of these European countries are even close to the might of Russia and China. The USA is the preeminent Great Power but it cannot drag itself to a war over Ukraine, it has military treaty obligations to Israel and East Asia.

Ukraine is the last buffer state between Russia and NATO, incorporating it into NATO was never acceptable, and not worth risking American intervention.
 
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The Backwards Man said:
What's Ishiba doing to deserve such ire?
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Its not necessarily Ishiba. Its that the almost always ruling LDP party in Japan is becoming hated. Its a hatred for rather corrupt and incompetent politics combined with many years now of just bad leaders. The LDP also from a practical point of view lost the last election (and its overall majority) but stayed in power anyway. Ishiba is personally hated within the LDP party itself by the LDP politicians as a lifelong political snake and backstabber. His bad reputation and bad relationships within politics leads to a government that isn't great about getting things done.
 
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Instead of having a EU that is independant on all fronts, we have Jupiter and Van der Layen pissing and shitting their pants angrily because le ebil Durnal Glumpf is rude on Xitter and doesn't want to be the World Police for free while they welcome the rapefuggees.
Also the current Ukraine-Russia conflict was started by the US (Obama-Biden) so nobody else should have a word in a piece proposal other than the US and Russia.

Sparkletor 2.0 said:
Dear Donald Trump, we are declaring war on you. Please send us weapons because we have none of our own. Love, Europe.
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or "because we gave everything to Zelensky's army and PMCs".
 
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