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Trump ‘weakened’ the West as Russian threat rises, warns former NATO boss

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Macron took the nuclear-sharing debate one step further in his marathon TV appearance last night, stating that France was open to discussing the stationing of 🇫🇷 nuclear warheads in other allied European countries on.ft.com/4jOcabW

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The Qatari "gift" to Trump is actually only one in a long list of the administration's corrupt acts and conflicts of interest. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

"Strains bounds of propriety"? How about "shatters every ethical norm of public service"? I truly want to know what the headline writers at the @nytimes.com are smoking, and to what end.

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For 3yrs already, we’ve wondered why exactly Orban sides w Ru over Ukraine. The competing hypotheses are energy policy, appeasement, dictators band together, and irredentism. This news points to the last hypothesis— Orban wants Pu to give him parts of Ukraine.

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When did WWII start? Everyone knows: 1939 But not in the russian version of events. They like to believe that the war started in 1941 because that convincingly ignores Nazi-Soviet alliance. For those in the back, let me say it again: Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia started WWII together as allies!

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

Corruption is the most important story in the world, part 216 (Marine Le Pen got a jail sentence and campaign ban for this sort of thing edition)

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In case anyone had doubts abut the relationship Moscow thinks it’s building with Washington, this is from the website of Russia’s SVR (foreign intelligence service):

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

There we go.

submitted 29 days ago • 435 comments

MUST SEE

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“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

submitted 29 days ago • 162 comments

Europeans must accept their efforts to flatter or cajole Trump into doing the right thing on Ukraine have failed. Trump is on Putin's side. Europe (minus Hungary, of course) now needs either to ensure RU is defeated in UA, or prepare for Putin to attack other parts of the former Russian empire.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Absolutely every business should do this.

submitted 35 days ago • 41 comments

We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.

submitted 36 days ago • 1202 comments

"someone has to stop him, other than me"

submitted 37 days ago • 48 comments

Apple's fall in share price today is worth more than all but 4 EU listed companies. Don't know if that's more embarrassing for Europe or America.

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“It’s like our neighbor is trying to attack us. … I cannot [bring] myself morally to spend Canadian taxpayers’ money in attending U.S. conferences” www.science.org/content/arti...

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It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.

submitted 41 days ago • 118 comments

This alternative scenario is becoming more seductive www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig44...

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The Trump regime - led by a man found guilty of fraud and whose businesses declared bankruptcy six times - slaps punitive tariffs on nearly all US trading partners in shock to global economy likely to hurt relations, business, and people. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

In some cases, wouldn’t it be more advantageous to be sanctioned than to face these tariff rates?

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

Well, maybe the US should stop undermining European security by cozying up to Russia and threatening to invade NATO countries.

submitted 42 days ago • 38 comments

Now they are quoting Goebbels in the U.S. Congress.

submitted 42 days ago • 31 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

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Europeans should take over Radio Free Europe if Trump cuts it - because Europe will need more than just weapons to defend itself, writes @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on.ft.com/42hSOEO

submitted 46 days ago • 44 comments

The US is 24th in the world in the happiness rankings. Not bad. But Denmark is No 2 (after Finland). On a scale of 1 to 100, Freedom House ranks Denmark 97 and the US 84 on freedom – and the US will drop a great deal this year.

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Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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🚨NEW: Major development. German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet. ‼️It includes details of Signal accounts. “It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”

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“There is no administration in the world — beyond this one — where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 48 days ago • 805 comments

What would happen, @housedemocrats.bsky.social, if the current administration unilaterally annexed parts or the totality of Greenland? Would this move meet internal resistance within the US? Would that hypothetical move be reversed after the current administration ends? Allies need to know.

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This is an important reminder for wishful thinkers.

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‘Referring to Dutch willingness to follow America’s lead on export bans, Mr Fouquet says Europe must “decide for itself” and “should not be dictated to”. He would like officials to support their world-leading companies [or]…such firms may not want to remain in Europe.’

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Lies crumble, I rise

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Musk has poured over $18M into the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. He’s adding $100M+ to Trump’s PAC - for the WH Tesla commercial, top level access, security clearances and other perks. He’ll continue to buy elections and reshape the government to best serve his agenda. He. Must. Be. Stopped.

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