“support for regional proxies”, Iran is directly responsible for the massacre of October 7th and all attacks by Hezbollah on Israel. Israel is counter attacking its main enemy.

I am. But sometimes only a war can stop a war, and Iran had been launching several…

No, but the social-democrats aligning with Islamic fascists opens the way for Christian-democrats to align with Christian-fascists. Save this comment till the next Spanish election.

In the end of the day, metrics on quality of life are much more relevant than GDP. For years we heard about the decline of the Japanese economy, it continues however to have indisputably the best quality of life in all of Asia.

You replied to my comment on the Spanish government with “dying for Israeli policy” when no European troops are involved in this so far and you accuse me of making false equivalences and conflation?

Are you now talking about US politics? That was not my point, at all. Again, from an European perspective there’s not reason to get too involved, including no reason to “slam the attack”, as this can very much serve our own interests and it’s in our best interest that the Iranian regimes falls to the ground.

And it did, thousands of Iranians died for it just in recent months.

Hezbollah is attacking Cyprus, Iranian drones kill Ukrainians everyday, opposition in Iran is murdered by the thousands… why is defeating such an aggressive fascist regime an exclusively Israeli goal? It is not.

How could anyone have predicted this!?

Pedro Sanchez hostage of the far-left to keep in power, this won’t end up well. All these concessions to the far-left will only serve to legitimate the center-right making a future coalition with the far-right.

This is in no way a demonstration of courage, it only exposes the weakness of the current Spanish government.

A member state (Cyprus) was attacked by Iranian drones most likely sent by Iranian proxy Hezbollah out of Lebanon.

Ukrainians die every day victims of Iranian drones. Iran sponsors terrorism against Europeans through Russia, Hamas, Hezbollah etc… let them rotten. This is not our war, but this might end up being good for us. We owe them nothing.

Why would Europe defend a country that’s being helping Russia to attack us? We’re not suicidal. Good that those religious fascists are gone.

Why should Europe care for Iran? Nobody cared when Russia attacked Ukraine with Iranian support.

Do you think democracy is not an existential threat to the current regimes of Russia and China!?

A subjugated, without own defensive capacity, better for them? Then they can dismiss our democracies and freedom with the simple accusation of being a “US colony”. A strong, independent and autonomous democratic Europe with a strong social system is the biggest threat to any dictatorship or empire.

They don’t want European competition and especially no European power in whatever shape.

Thank you, the evil this man spreads is not shared enough. He’s at least as hateful and toxic as Le Pen, both terrible for France and Europe. We can thank them both for another delay with the Mercosur deal, just to give a recent example. Putin puppets is just the start of their evilness.

oh, these extremist dudes always love a strong man that shouts loud and aggressively… left or right, the psychological mechanism is exactly the same, the end result also: violence and racism.

The rapporteur is Spanish but I’m quite sure most of the far right votes come from elsewhere… hell, these days they come from all over the continent anyway. The trick is, once again, vote for EP elections and vote for pro-EU parties only. Far-right or -left is made of Russian puppets dancing to Chinese marches…

True, but they’re part of Schengen, symbolically and also from a human perspective, a much more powerful policy than fisheries or customs…