Even if you are in the 'in-group' you still risk getting shanked if it so suits the big boys. it's still the world of geopolitics anyway, there are no permanent allies or enemies between states, only interests. Even now US dumps the whole Russia-Ukraine stuff on Europe despite them being the major contributor/co-conspirators to the project. EU is also too stubborn or in too deep to get out of dodge, but still.

You act as if this is not the case for every country in the world, past and present with very few and temporary exceptions

Hey, if you take a realist position this war in the west, you are either a russian, a russian asset or a victim of russian propaganda. Any anti-war or Anti-Zelensky force in Ukraine is by these people's definition most definitely a Russian asset.

Poroshenko who's on record publicly speaking about his genocidal intent behind the bombing of ethnic Russians in Donbas, "may or may not" be working for Russia.

Fucking libs I stg, every bit as racist as conservatives and hardly any brighter.

Holy shit they are digging really deep in the search for the ultimate ghoul.

For fucking real. I mean, it is Politico, they're owned by a POS (at least they were last September):

💲 Business Insider & Politico

◾ Owned by Axel Springer SE

In 2021 it was acquired for reportedly over 1 billion USD by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired Business Insider. Unlike employees of its German newspapers, the employees of Politico do not have to sign Axel Springer's mission statement that expresses support for Israel and America's and Europe's transatlantic alliance.

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◾ Mathias Döpfner is CEO

He is the CEO and 22% owner of media group Axel Springer SE. From 2016 to 2022 he was president of the Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers (BDZV).

In 2020, Friede Springer appointed Mathias Döpfner as her successor through a combination of gifting, selling, and transferring voting rights associated with her shares in the company. As part of this transition, Springer sold a 4.1% share directly to Döpfner and gifted him an additional 15%, thereby increasing his direct ownership to 22%. Furthermore, Springer transferred to Döpfner the voting rights for her remaining 22% stake in the company.

In February 2023 The Economist reported on Döpfner's plans to expand the Springer group's media presence in the United States.

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