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[-] rdca@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

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!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

There's always russia and Isreal.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 139 points 12 hours ago

Foreign political funding should be banned everywhere by default. It makes no sense to let foreign interests muck about in your domestic policy.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 81 points 12 hours ago

Both EU and UK should do the same.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 27 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] tiefling 13 points 12 hours ago
[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] tiefling 5 points 10 hours ago
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