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Nate Vance, a cousin of JD Vance, has been fighting alongside Ukraine as volunteer in the "Da Vinci Wolves" group, for 2.5 years. His comments on the events in the Oval Office:

Literally the dumbest people in the world are in charge of decisions like this.

I'm still wondering how it's possible as a president or government to fire all these people. Isn't there supposed to be a separation of powers? Clearly not the case in the US. Or is there and are they just ignoring the law?

🇺🇸🇨🇦Reporter: Minister Joly characterized what is going on with Trump as a psychodrama. How do you characterize it? Justin Trudeau: — Thursday 😅

Interessant stuk over de mensen achter de sloop van de democratie in de VS, met op kop Peter Thiel

It seems it's a bit more nuanced than the US prohibiting Maxar to supply data outright, but suspended Ukraine's access to their accounts with access to the data. Not as bad as it looked at first, but still bad enough.

„A friend writes from the front: The crazy thing is - this all started happening when Russia wore out, and we started kicking their ass again! #StandWithUkraine“ Olexander Scherba

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So they now also prohibit every US company to provide any form of intelligence to Ukraine. This is not only pausing aid, this is imposing sanctions on Ukraine!

The mob boss has a new target for extortion, now that he had to postpone tariffs on Mexico and Canada (again). He's isolating the US, making it the least valuable partner.

MAGA wants to overthrow Zelensky by reaching out to Ukrainian oppostion - but contacted opposition figures refuse to collaborate www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Thank you France! The French were right to build a fully independent defense with their own weapons, production, and intelligence.

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Interesting proposal to fill the gap left by the US withholding Patriot system deliveries and to replace the air defense backstop Zelenskyy requested from the US.

Interesting proposals from @volteuropa.org They're small but have strong, sound ideas. Hopefully, more people will see the need for a strong EU and support parties that prioritize the EU over nationalism.

Meanwhile in Canada

Quel discours puissant de Claude Malhuret, sénateur français, sur la situation avec Trump et l'Ukraine.

Er komen alleen maar een paar tienduizend hooggeschoolde Engelstalige onderzoekers op de "markt" die gedumpt worden in de VS en op zoek zullen gaan naar plekken om hun werk verder te zetten. bsky.app/profile/tijd...

We zijn dan toch ergens bij de beste van de klas in Europa.

So much for the efficiency part of DOGE.

Very interesting read calling Trumps government style as patrimonialism and it does seem to fit perfectly. And it does not only describe it, but also points to its weaknesses and a way to fight it. In short: start a consistent campaign showing the corruption of Trump and it's government.

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.