1/ Short 🧵 on elections and felon candidates for all my American fellas.

I am Italian and I lived through the Berlusconi era. In a lot of ways Berlusconi was to Italy what Trump is to the USA.
If you want to know what will happen, look at Italy 20 years ago. 2/ Like Trump, Berlusconi was an entrepreneur who decided to enter politics on his own agenda, was misunderstood and underestimated by his enemies, had a LOT of trouble with justice, but nonetheless gathered unbelievable support from the people.

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I don't understand the media-sponsored doom & gloom over the French parliamentary election. It looks like nobody knows how the French political system works.
1. France is a presidential republic, with separate elections for the president & parliament. They are voting now for parliament, not for the president. This means that until Macron is president (next 4 years) there will be no major shifts in French foreign policy anyway.
2. France has mixed double turn elections. Whatever happens in the first round may be easily undone,

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I am happy to see that Europe is stepping up its support for Ukraine: artillery shells, rocket launchers, warplanes, missiles, IFVs. That's a lot.
We are reacting to the US betrayal of democracy, and we are doing it collectively. Europe is taking its place on the 2/ international stage as a union, rather than a loose bunch of countries. The US is committing suicide like Europe did in 1914. When European powers finally fell, the US stepped in. Western Europe has been in the US sphere of influence for almost a century, and it was not