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Agreed - the Minsk agreement cease-fire of 2019 is more comparable to Chamberlain. Trump 2025 is most comparable to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. One part of Ukraine for Putin, the other part of Ukraine for Trump's minerals.

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This

submitted 13 hours ago • 1612 comments

Bluesky; Anyone aware of national polling of support for EU membership in Sweden, Finland or Iceland divided on a regional level?

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British troops have fought and died alongside the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, just to be written off as non-existent people from "some random country". We have to maintain tolerable relations with this administration to try and minimise damage, but my god it's not easy.

submitted 4 hours ago • 182 comments

This. As I set out in a post, Trump is not a 'transactional' politician, but an anti-transactional politician. Those pundits that trot out that he is 'transactional' don't get his approach to supposed deals. His MO is breaking deals not making them. My post: emptycity.substack.com/p/why-donald...

submitted 7 hours ago • 27 comments

A case for optimism here, that US attempted humiliation of Zelensky has actually been positive for Ukraine in the lack of understanding of Trump and Vance of other countries. www.ft.com/content/2e90...

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future." - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020 www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...

submitted 11 hours ago • 198 comments

A truly vile decision, giving the lie to all Trump’s claims that he is horrified by the killing in Ukraine. Apparently he’s fine with the Russians doing the killing, but is determined to stop Ukraine striking back. Europe must wake up to how serious this is, not just for UA but for its own security.

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

Yesterday's Trump tariffs - 25% with Canada and Mexico (with whom he signed USMCA), an extra 10% on China (with whom he signed a 2020 trade deal). Don't do deals with him. Withdrawal of aid to Ukraine. Because he's on the side of authoritarians, pretty obviously.

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

Yes, but please don't say "punitive". This isn't punishment. This is betrayal. Ukraine did nothing to America that could ever justify "punishment".

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump and Vance in particular were always looking to suspend military aid to Ukraine. Makes the White House confrontation look even more like a set up

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

Germany’s Friedrich Merz: Trump and Zelenskyy’s White House clash a ‘deliberate escalation’ by US. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

There it is. Literally saying the US and Russia are working together to take away the independence of another country. I'm wondering if any of our press is gonna pick this one up? Seems like headline material?

submitted 19 hours ago • 164 comments

words I never imagined writing in my lifetime..... General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio: "I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"

submitted 20 hours ago • 101 comments

We are here. The Trump Administration is simultaneously imposing tariffs on Canada (for no reason) while seeking to drop sanctions against Russia (for no reason)...

submitted 18 hours ago • 28 comments

Another Russian official has fallen out of a window In Moscow, 49-year-old former State Duma deputy and assistant to the head of Dagestan has died after falling out a window www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/03/03/e...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

If Trump was President in 1940

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

After the news about an attempt at sabotaging water supply on the Swedish island of Gotland, now also a sabotage attack at the LKAB iron ore mine in Kiruna in Northern Sweden. www.svd.se/a/Vz21eJ/sky...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Water supply of strategic Baltic island Gotland was sabotaged last night. Someone broke into the pump controls and destroyed them. The pumps serve a large part of Gotland (pop 61k) and had it gone unnoticed could have left all island without water. Security services are notified. Water is ok.

submitted 1 day ago • 185 comments

When the Kremlin hails the Trump administration for "rapidly changing [US] foreign policy configurations" and says the White House now "largely coincides with our vision," think about what Trump’s team are cozying up to. Watch our FT documentary about Russia's executions of Ukrainian POWs👇

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Spot on.

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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

submitted 1 day ago • 848 comments

Indeed remarkable. And make note: This Kremlin statement of alignment with US comes after private conversations between Trump and Putin, and closed-doors meetings over Ukraine.

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Important speech for its principled response and commitment to Germany stepping up ↘️

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

On reflection and reading commentary, I think a) it was a planned ambush to serve both as a pretext to end aid and to signal unequivocal fealty to Moscow. b) VZ had no option to react as he did. Anything else would have appeared weak to Putin, defeatist to Europe, and disloyal to his people.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

The talk in Europe is “how to get a seat at the table.” Respectfully, that’s the wrong question. The right question is, “how can Europe build a new table.”

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

The whole ‘Zelensky should have done …’ is the kind of ‘bothsideism’ that fails to take into account the deep betrayal, the power asymmetry and the decency asymmetry. Against unhinged bulldozing obnoxiousness, siding with authoritarians, by the US P and VP, no preparation will be enough

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Decoupling.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

US's 1994 security assurances in exchange for Ukraine becoming non-nuclear: - Respect Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty; - Refrain from threat of force; - Refrain from economic coercion; - Seek immediate UNSC action in case of nuclear threats. treaties.un.org/doc/Publicat...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Zelensky had no good options. He walked into an ambush with a president who empathizes with the dictator who wants to seize Ukraine’s territory. Everyone who spent years warning about Trump’s affinity for Putin had exactly this kind of disastrous outcome in mind. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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A former White House lawyer under Nixon writes:

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I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

"Germany’s federal election was subject to “clear” and “successful” manipulation by Russia and other foreign actors, the head of the Bundestag’s intelligence committee has warned," www.ft.com/content/35f4...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 3 days ago • 862 comments

This has to be right. Starmer's summit on Sunday has become a potentially decisive moment. If Europeans don't throw their weight behind Ukraine and behind a massive and immediate increase in their defence efforts (& damn the deficits), Europe will find itself at the mercy of Putin & Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

submitted 3 days ago • 716 comments

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

submitted 3 days ago • 461 comments

Zelensky has led the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression for over 3 years. He has aged 30 years in that time. And there he sits in the Oval Office with two mindless gorillas threatening him and shouting utter nonsense at him. Never in my life have I seen anything so undignified.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Painful to watch. Stinks of some sort of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Trump and Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that Putin seems to own Trump’s mind. There is hardly a piece of Russian propaganda about its war of aggression against a peaceful neighbour that Trump hasn't rebroadcast at some point.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Alarming that Trump is able to make his nominees and administration further so obvious lies, only to provide cover for Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

In 2019 Nigel Farage's Brexit Party voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda, calling claims of Russian interference "scare stories" One of his MEPs was Nathan Gill, who has just been accused in court of taking bribes in exchange for defending Russia in the European Parliament

submitted 7 days ago • 62 comments