I don’t think tanks, missiles and boots on the ground cares too much about elections! Trump is a facist and he’ll use the American empire military and economic force to bend other nations to his will!
If he decides to go to war on multiple fronts with no one backing him up, I don’t think it will go well for him.
There’s always russia and Isreal.
They’re both a little busy at the moment. I don’t think they have people to send to Greenland and Panama.
Foreign political funding should be banned everywhere by default. It makes no sense to let foreign interests muck about in your domestic policy.
I agree in principle, but in practice it’s tricky. You must have courts that are strong enough to throw out election results if foreign interference can be proven. This has recently happened in Romania, but there are also many examples in which these laws were meaningless. The US is the obvious case where the 2016 election result should have been thrown out, but nothing happened. For the Brexit vote I think some pretty meaningless fines were handed out.
Another question is what should happen with foreign interference that is not financial in nature. For instance, Musk speaking at AFD, or the Meta algorithms pushing political content.
Both EU and UK should do the same.
At least Germany already does it. On the federal level the maximum donation for non-EU citizens/corporations is 1000 Euro, which is why the Bundestag is investigating Musk giving Weidel a platform as if you were to buy that kind of reach you’d pay way more than 1k. It’s generally the parties which get fined for accepting. Donations over 10k must be publicised, over I think 35k immediately. State law is generally similar.
It’s not a bad plan in general, really. Maybe the US should look into and rectify issues that may already exist around political funding.
And Canada
That’s already the law in Canada:
Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions to registered parties, electoral district associations, candidates, leadership contestants and nomination contestants.
Beautiful
