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This site has a heavy pro Russian bias, see for example https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/europe-still-has-the-power...

Turns out it was founded by an American, who was arrested on suspicion of bias-motivated crimes, second-degree assault and harassment after attacking a reporter in the USA but currently living in Hungary and running some media org there, with ties to the right wing Fidesz party. And he is on paper as being the founded of brusselssignal.eu

His organization received a big loan from an undisclosed source to set up the Brussels organisation and it seems to made up of or advised by a rag tag of European right wing politicians.

The whole thing stinks of Russian meddling in Europe.

Sources https://www.szabadeuropa.hu/a/szazhetvennegy-millios-kolcson...

https://www.companyweb.be/company/0793608171/free-pub/231068...

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/28/us/patrick-thomas-egan-ac...

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Yeah, anyone who wants Europe to move away from Our Holy American Benefactors, are, uh, uhhh, yeah, russian plants!

One of these days Europeans will realize they are also part of the American empire just in a bit of a dominion status. If you host an American military installation, you are part of the empire with a fig leaf of domestic policy control that keep the bulk of the populace from realizing this. Take a look at a map of American military installations. The sun never sets on this latest roman empire.

It took Trump for the Europeans to realize that De Gaulle was right.

The consequences of the European Union realizing the were the USA's protectorate are not going to please the USA though... Buy ITAR-free, buy European !

I still don't think all this talk with trump and ukraine represents any meaningful retreat from american influence. It isn't like military bases are closing. Whoever is in power in a given US allied state very much wants to preserve the status quo that saw them seated in the position of power, aligned with the largest and most comprehensive military on the planet.

Empire has an idiot at the helm. As a Pole, I enjoyed pax americana a lot, I regret deeply its decline, and I blame not just MAGA, but both parties. But no matter what is the reason, you guys are not worth the trust anymore. Europe is re-militarizing.

Well, they are remilitarizing by buying lockheed and raytheon products. I don't think they will ever bite the hand that arms them.

We are slow to wake up, but the hectic mood in the French arms industry is unprecedented and buying American is nowadays considered a stopgap - temporary evil.

Also, European defense firms are getting more competitive, by the simple virtue of larger orders enabling more investment.

Good catch. The OP article is mostly transcript from a Senate hearing, so the bias is limited.

Dunno about op's site, but the news itself comes from a french parliament hearing, has been discussed quite a bit on other news media, and from my experience, is being discussed by people here.

These damn Russians wanting the EU to be digitally sovereign!!

Russia wants broadly anything that sows disharmony/chaos/doubt within or between the NATO countries. It doesn’t matter whether it comes from the political far left or far right.

There is no requirement that the politics of destabilization form a cohesive worldview.

it also has links with Orbán https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-hungary-culture...

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