To anyone who believe Putin’s right hand is controlling Trump’s mouth:I know where Putin’s left hand is — allow me to introduce German AfD party leader Alice Weidel.The full interview with this Kremlin proxy is mind-blowingly scary — especially from 18:00 where she starts unfolding her Kremlin script about Ukraine.If you want to know what happens if she and Marine Le Pen in France get the power, watch the full video here:youtu.be/_cGGDu8sgXY

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    3 days ago

    Finland is a small country, it could never win against russia. Also does german call ukraine “the ukraine” or did she also read that straight from the script? Cause if im correct calling ukraine “the ukraine” is a common thing amongst people who dont believe ukraine is independant from russia.

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      I used to say die Ukraine as well. But just Ukraine also works in German so me and many people adopted that. This one not so much, who would have guessed

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      Might be a dog whistle, might be a simple mistake stemming from her being German. Your guess is correct, in German the country’s name has an article and is called “die Ukraine” (no, not meant as a Bart Simpson reference).

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        Yeah, some already pointed out the German mistranslation. BUT there’s no “the” or “a” in Ukrainian nor in Russian, yet a dogwhistle exists of using “on Ukraine” instead of “in Ukraine”.