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Swedish artist & designer. Prone to typos. Also passionate gardener and history nerd. Animal lover. Follow me for an international view on Trump's world: A convicted felon as President!! Will the USA implode?
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‘Donald Trump Recruited as Moscow Asset,’ Says Ex-KGB Spy Chief Former Soviet intelligence officer Alnur Mussayev reveals Moscow recruited Donald Trump in 1987. For decades, Trump has been groomed as a Russian asset, operating under the codename “Krasnov” — which means…

US refuses to label Russia as aggressor in G7 statement Washington’s shift in policy threatens to undermine the G7’s traditional display of unity, the report adds. www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/ft-us-refuse...

Whatever the reasons, we must rid ourselves of anything American that is important. We can continue getting diabetes from Coca Cola and get fat from McD, but anything above that we need to produce ourselves. No American dependencies. It's way too risky.

The EU is exploring more aggressive ways to seize part of Russia's frozen central bank assets amid signs the US will pare back assistance.

"Hundreds, if not thousands of people" have gathered in London to voice their support for Ukraine. #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #UKprotests #StandWithUkraine

Per @juliadavisnews.bsky.social: “The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times, with no security guarantee in exchange. Some of the terms appear even worse than in a previous draft.”

The USA today

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

Of course...

"the idea for his first trip to Moscow came after he found himself seated next to the Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin. Dubinin’s daughter Natalia “had read about Trump Tower and knew all about it,” Trump said in his 1987 bestseller, The Art of the Deal."

Verkligen toppen att landets säkerhet vilar i händerna på en heilande miljardär Avslöjar: Kustbevakningen använder Elon Musks satellitsystem Starlink www.aftonbladet.se/a/eM0yRa

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

The U.S. insistence on claiming a share of Ukraine's mineral rights has been compared to a "mafia shakedown" by liberal critics, who point out that the country would lose land and mineral rights and get little in return, - Axios. 👇

My question: How on Earth will I as a civilian know if these figures are real estimates or the wet fantasies of trigger happy generals?

youtu.be/6SD6F803xW0?...

Ryktet säger...

China conducts second live-fire drill near New Zealand

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

Read: ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ & ‘They Knew’ by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social AND ‘House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia’ & ‘American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery’ By Craig Unger

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

Trump's DC reminds @sbg1.bsky.social of Putin's Moscow 25 years ago -- "the sudden, fearful silence of critics who had previously spoken out, the business tycoons rushing to kiss the president’s ring, the lying and reality distortions to fit the official narrative." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

After Trump falsely called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and as reports emerged of U.S. and Russian officials meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss a possible ceasefire without input from Ukraine, even some of Zelenskyy’s domestic opponents have begun defending him. apnews.com/article/ukra...

The main focus for Europe: ◾️Strategic autonomy; ◾️Own security; ◾️Reviving European military potential and military production; ◾️Ukraine is not an instrument but a partner: Ukraine has the knowledge and experience in defense and military production.

In this article, a Nobel Prize winner is comparing Trump w/ Perón, and how Argentine (some 40 years later) still is trying to recover from 10+ years of Perón's rule. The article also compares Trump's US with several South American countries. fof.se/artikel/nobe... Scary stuff (article in Swedish)

"Kremlin denies" is, as you know, a confirmation of what they did or said.

"BETRAYED"

Some thoughts: Trump 2 isn't Trump 1. While the day to day working level relationship could remain stable, the new uncertainty is political, and both the uncertainty and the risks will increase with increasing tensions. Therefore we need to hedge our bets.