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Simple question for Nigel Farage: "Would you support retaliation against the Trump administration if its policies endangered the jobs and security of UK citizens?"

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 471 comments

Remarkable: Trump's own pollster just found that in swing House districts, Dems lead by 5 points and voters want tax policy to prioritize working people, per Politico. Yet GOP is about to brutally slash the safety net and give the rich huge tax cuts! New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1918...

submitted 15 hours ago • 233 comments

If you considered posting something critical of the Trump regime but then decided against due to fear for retaliation, then you are no longer living in a democracy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

The Financial Times´ editorial board is correct: 1. America has turned on its friends 2. Donald Trump’s abandonment of allies is real and will endure 3. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s hard not to read this news and conclude that they were fired for being female or black. That is in the end what the reverse of DEI is www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

John with a powerful sally for Europes liberal order. Europe has all the resources to rapidly rearm and stand on its own two feet - the urgency could not be greater as the US abandons NATO. Will EU leaders please stand up.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Trump loses the first emergency plea of his second term at the Supreme Court. The case concerns Trump‘s removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Listening to Trump rant about the “great golden domes” of the Donbas, I am reminded that he is basically a human ChatGPT, aggregating general trivia (in this case, “something something Slavic, something something Orthodox”) and hallucinating with unwavering confidence.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Strong words from Dmytro Kuleba. I'm not sure there is a 'West' after the last 10 days of US bomb-throwing. But it's time for Europeans to realise that Ukraine’s success is our vital national interest too - we cannot leave Putin & Trump to destroy the foundations of post WW2 European security.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Such hostile nonsense from Americans in power just now. I wish we would listen to people who have suffered for reporting the truth, like Stanislav Aseyev, combat veteran and survivor of a Russian torture camp.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

“As Washington alienates its allies and squanders 80 years of international credibility, Trump is helping Russia and China achieve their explicit mission of replacing the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 2 days ago • 535 comments

When these people tell you exactly who they are, make sure you listen.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

We need to re-emphasise the idea that politicians going abroad to slag off this country to foreigners in return for money or prestige is a shameful thing to do. Because even though I would guess 75% of normal people instinctively understand this, certain others do not.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

absolut wild, was da in der gerüchteküche schwebt. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-21/-mar-a-lago-abkommen-spekulationen-treiben-die-wall-street-um?cmpid=marketsgermany&sref=izhOYBqJ

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Tried to explain the end of "Strategic Competition" as an organizing concept to a mid-level official (albeit one running a big "Strategic Competition" program) this afternoon and...some people are just not engaged with the topic at hand. What unfolded at Munich and in KSA is just not registering.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

If you were wondering how Orbán's media is reacting to Zelenskyy's pushback against Trump: Tamás Pilhál, one of Orbán's most eager media henchmen, has just called Bucha a "false flag operation" in Magyar Nemzet, a leading propaganda rag masquerading as a daily. 444.hu/2025/02/20/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Mit dem Stop d US-Gelder öffnen sich weitere Büchsen Pandoras. Es könnte auch zur Freisetzung vieler IS-AnhängerInnen kommen correctiv.org/aktuelles/in...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Einmal daran erinnern, dass das Recht frei zu wählen, ein echtes Privileg ist. Werft es nicht weg.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Und das versteht auch die große Mehrheit der Bevölkerung nicht. Es droht Krieg. In Europa. In Deutschland. Wenn wir nicht JETZT handeln und SOFORT die politischen Entscheider danach ihr Handeln ausrichten. Die Zeit des Friedens ist vorbei.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

So many EU defence initiatives were blocked by people saying it would undermine NATO So now we have neither

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Bold and honest. Merz: “we need to have discussions with both 🇬🇧 and 🇫🇷 about whether nuclear sharing… could apply to us” “Merz acknowledged that Macron has repeatedly extended such an offer to Berlin —only for previous 🇩🇪 governments to leave the question unanswered”

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Europa. Zeit sich zusammenzureißen!

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I understand this sentiment among military personnel (you’ll hear the same from Finland too) who have exercised fighting together intensively over the past 3 years and beyond. But unfortunately politics can end up breaking the cameraderie.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Yes, Merz talks big but doesn’t seem willing to accept fiscal realities.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I think Trump-watchers urgently need to retire the idea of a "transactional" foreign policy. In the light of what's happening, this is another rationalization of something much darker.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

It also plays right into the hands of those who don’t want a confident Europe that takes care of itself. As long as we believe that transactionalism can give us US protection, we won’t do enough to protect ourselves, hence increasing our dependence and our urge to pretend all is ok. Vicious circle.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Doxing von kritischen Journalisten mit Namen und Foto - die neue Einschüchterung dee freien Presse durch Trump und Musk. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Merz: “We must prepare for the possibility that Donald Trump will no longer uphold NATO’s mutual defense commitment unconditionally” “it is crucial that Europeans make the greatest possible efforts to ensure that we are at least capable of defending the European continent on our own.”

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

POLITICO's rightwing owner is "praising" Vance's Munich speech as he gets closer to Germany's Nazi-tainted AfD party. This all out in the open I guess? www.ft.com/content/cb1c...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Trump's admin facing public criticism from a Generic Republican after the environment of fear that's been written about within a month of the inauguration is...really something

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments