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NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK.

“Ukraine Hero Ambushed”

“Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky”

“A spectacle to horrify the world”

Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 28 February 2025 at 22:23

Can only accuse one of those papers as being left wing as well, Daily Mirror supports Labour. The Times is centre-right, Daily Mail is known as "Daily Heil" and is far-right tabloid trash, The Sun is known as "The Scum" and owned by Rupert Murdoch, also far-right tabloid trash. But like I keep saying, even Conservatives unlike Republicans aren't up Russia's ass.

Keir Starmer 'Must Cancel Trump's UK Visit' After Zelenskyy Berated | The National

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said: “Starmer had better get back up off his knees and revoke that offer of a state visit.”

The Scottish Greens echoed the sentiment, with party co-leader Patrick Harvie saying that “even [Starmer] must see from the scenes this evening what a profound danger that friendship [with Trump] represents”. “Donald Trump hasn’t changed. He is the same dangerous bully that he was yesterday, and he’s only going to get worse. It is wrong for Starmer and so many others to pretend otherwise,” Harvie said.

First Minister John Swinney also spoke out, saying that the "events in Washington are a clear cause for deep concern, for shock, for anger". "What we need now are cool heads and clear thinking," the SNP leader went on.  "We must stand firm with our European allies in the steadfast defence of Ukraine. That is where Scotland stands."

Tory MP Alicia Kearns, the former chair of Westminster’s foreign affairs committee, said: “Zelenskyy is fighting for the survival of his people. "We just witnessed what can only be described as bullying. Performative bullying for a domestic US audience. Just watching the video shamed me to my core. Utterly shaming.”

Priti Patel, the Tories’ shadow foreign secretary, gave her party’s “unwavering” support to Zelenskyy. “The Ukrainian people have faced horrors that few of us could imagine and we stand shoulder to shoulder with them today and always,” she said.

"President Zelensky has led Ukraine through its darkest hour. His leadership, coupled with the remarkable courage of the Ukrainian people, have inspired us all and crucially held back Russia’s illegal invasion. The Ukrainian people have faced horrors that few of us could imagine and we stand shoulder to shoulder with them today and always. Our support remains unwavering."

Across Europe, governments and officials including from the Netherlands, Czechia, Spain, Germany,  Latvia, Moldova, Lithuania, Poland, and the EU Commission, among others, expressed their support for Ukraine. 

One of the few international voices praising Trump’s actions was Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Putin who nominally served as Russia’s president between the despot’s extended terms.

Keir Starmer 'Must Cancel Trump's UK Visit' After Zelenskyy Berated | The National

Fuck sake, even Priti Patel shows more respect and backbone than Republicans, Wtf. Priti Patel!

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 28 February 2025