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submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

at some point if you're willing to admit that this salute mimicks another recent famous salute you might as well just say which historical salute both are mimicking. but apparently nobody wants to be the first to say "Nazi"

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

submitted 3 days ago • 564 comments

I welcome the agreement on our 16th sanctions package. With tighter measures on circumvention, new import and export bans, and sanctions on Putin’s shadow fleet, we are closing backdoors for Russia’s war machine to operate. The Kremlin won’t break our resolve.

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

Every word. 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

After jeopardising airline safety, food safety, disease protection, foreign aid & nuclear safety, today Elon Musk starts on his new target: Removing the people who warn communities of incoming hurricanes. If Russia wanted to kill Americans, it would invent DOGE. Or maybe it did.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Sadiq Khan says Brexit was a 'mistake' as he backs major UK-EU scheme The Mayor of London renewed his backing for proposals for a youth mobility scheme - allowing under 30s to work, live and study in both the UK and EU for a fixed period www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

These men aren't planning for peace. They are planning a heist. As bombs continue to fall on Kyiv, US collaborates with the invader, behind the backs of the invaded, to cut a deal to split the spoils of Ukraine's natural wealth. As distasteful a picture as you'll see on the international stage.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

"While Ireland’s trade with Britain has dropped, trade with NI, which is part of the UK, continues to flourish. Unlike the rest of the UK, NI must observe EU trade rules as part of the 2020 Brexit deal, which was aimed at keeping borders invisible for trade on the island of Ireland." Well well.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Time to face the facts. The UK's future is with, and within, the EU. Brexit was, is and always will be a disaster.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The sheer number of hitherto unbelievable things that indicate this is a a US government gone rogue under the influence of right-wing techbro cultists.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Nigel Farage’s Brexit con severely damaged British farming Now he is using them again & inheritance tax issue Farage will push for a free trade deal with Trump’s America which would destroy British farming even further Great video from @femi-oluwole.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=YFfA...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

"One EU diplomat said of the talks: “It's basically stuck, is our assessment.”" Gibraltar is a shining example of the stupidity of Brexit.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry UK, I'm all for deeper UK-EU security cooperation at this moment, but forget about this bridge illusion. The EU will speak for itself. And you cannot pretend to speak 'for Europe' and at the same meeting call for tariff carve outs playing on being 'not Europe'. From: on.ft.com/4gLuvnQ

submitted 7 days ago • 57 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 8 days ago • 312 comments

It’s a cliché to say it—and no two historical scenarios offer a perfectly compelling analogy—but what each American is doing now is what they’d be doing were they a German living in Germany and were it 1936-38 There’s no more doubt about who the appeasers or the bad guys are—they’re in the open now

submitted 7 days ago • 172 comments

America responds to authoritarianism.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If the US helps secure victory for Russia, Putin's war machine will target weaker European nations. Jonathan Fink discusses the state of Russia and what could come next.

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🇺🇦Zelenskyy pleads with Europeans to finally put aside the petty nationalism and unite to put themselves in charge of their own future. "Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

1. Trump and his Death Eaters cannot tolerate any rival power. Europe, when united, is a major trading and diplomatic bloc. They see Russia (much less of a threat to US hegemony) as an excellent instrument for breaking up Europe, by threat or by force.🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

Friends, May we never forget that while negotiations,statements, addresses and the rest of the (undoubtedly important) diplomacy track are happening,exhausted #Ukrainian men &women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines. Without them,there would be no diplomacy track at all.

submitted 7 days ago • 333 comments

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

submitted 8 days ago • 198 comments

"One European diplomat said that “it appears Europe is going to be asked to police a deal that it had no direct hand in negotiating. In the meantime, Donald Trump is seeking to take 50% control of Ukraine’s rare minerals”.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Human intelligence raised us above the level of animal existence and human ego is creating an existential threat to it.

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NEW: A moment in Munich. Zelenskyy says Russia is creating 15 new divisions of 150,000 soldiers: "Maybe these soldiers are for Ukraine. Maybe they are for you.” He ends hoping for peace. A long, standing ovation. What a contrast to Vance, met with silence as he torched transatlantic relations.

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

Closer EU alignment would boost growth, strengthen our hand against an unpredictable US and set a trap for Farage and Badenoch www.theneweuropean.co.uk/alastair-cam...

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 540 comments

JD Vance's Munich speech met w/shock, bewilderment, & 'almost no applause' "'Vance admonished Europe for what he described as the 'retreat' of free speech. Vance said these efforts included restrictions on 'misinformation.'" SUCH a hypocrite. kyivindependent.com/jd-vances-mu...

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

Of course, Vance is angry that Romania annulled its recent presidential election, in which Russian interference was supposed to deliver a pro-Russian victory. He is angry because he is a treasonous friend of Russia who campaigned to halt aid to Ukraine.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

“NNSA maintains sensors in Ukraine to help track nuclear risks, whether intentional or unintentional,” a source said, adding the layoffs are “frightening." "

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Russia has literally invaded a neighbouring European state. Vance is absurd. The transatlantic alliance is dead as long as these folks are in charge on the US side.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Hegseth says US won’t come to rescue of any nation invaded by Russia from now on. Do you get it yet? Time to shut the door on America. They’re not our ally any more.

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

The US and Europe are no longer allies. Following Vance’s disastrous speech pulling the plug on US-Europe shared values and respect, there is no-one senior in the Musk-Trump govt to serve as a friendly & trusted link with Europe. Here’s my TikTok video just out on it —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1kXqqj/

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

submitted 10 days ago • 230 comments

"We would be able to create our own bespoke regulatory system, becoming more efficient than our unwieldy neighbours. This did not happen, of course, and was in fact bullshit."

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Fearful of a renewed European war, world leaders appeased Hitler by agreeing to cede the Sudetenland. They did so just a stone's throw from the Bayrischer Hof, which today will host the Munich Security Conference. Europe fears its second 'Munich moment' has come www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow, the annual Munich Security Conference will start. Munich will briefly become the global capital of diplomacy, but I think it’s worthwhile to remember - especially right now - that Munich was also the site of one of the biggest diplomatic failures of 20th century.

submitted 10 days ago • 69 comments

❗️Last night, a Russian high-explosive combat drone hit the shelter over the nuclear reactor at Chornobyl Nuclear power plant - President Zelenskyy. Radiation monitoring comes back as normal so far - Ukrainian Emergency services. Russia is a danger to humanity.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

Not long ago, we had a president who stood firmly with our allies against the aggression of dictators and authoritarians.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

This is exactly what the UK government is failing to do. Please read this thread to understand the critical risks at the heart of our democracy.

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

Yet again, if these were climate protestors, there'd have been multiple arrests, with some facing years in jail for "public nuisance". But farmers can block the road and drown out the Prime Minister and the police won't touch them. The real #TwoTierPolicing

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

Absolutely grim reading www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment