The Daily Populous Tuesday February 25th, 2025 morning edition
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Sparky265 on February 24th, 2025 at 22:19 UTC »

I'm surprised musk hasn't sent an email to all of France's government workers asking what 5 things they did this week.

we_are_sex_bobomb on February 24th, 2025 at 22:24 UTC »

I recognize that shit eating grin he’s doing. My asshole narcissistic boss used to make that face all the time when he knew he was wrong about something.

Not_a_N_Korean_Spy on February 24th, 2025 at 22:25 UTC »

French President Emmanuel Macron interrupted President Donald Trump Monday at the White House as the U.S. president was saying, “Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They’ll get their money back.”

Putting his hand on Trump’s arm, Macron corrected: “No, in fact, to be frank, we paid 60 percent of the total effort: it was through, like the U.S., loans, guarantees, grants. We provided real money, to be clear.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-macron-corrects-trump-after-he-says-european-support-for-ukraine-was-a-loan

https://commission.europa.eu/news/eu-reaffirms-unwavering-support-ukraine-anniversary-invasion-2025-02-24_en

EDIT: to express it clearly, Europe paid 60% of the bill so far, but they didn't want to carve up Ukraine, so neither them nor Ukraine got a seat at the table when USA and Russia did their Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

EDIT 2: Here an article with a graph showing the spending https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-3-years-of-war-aid-flows-remain-low-but-steady-shift-towards-weapons-procurement/