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Time wake up to our new reality and get serious and real fast. The rest of us in NATO and the democratic West can no longer count on the US. Indeed, if the US withholds intelligence as a political cudgel, we are all subject to blackmail. This is existential. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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submitted 10 hours ago • 142 comments

Romania declared the Russian embassy's military air&naval attache&his deputy persona non grata.They must leave the country Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated - reason was"for carrying out activities that contravene the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961"

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 comments

Om inte republikanska kongressledamöter hittar sin ryggrad närmaste dagarna, så är det för sent.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Utvecklingen går snabbt utför nu…. Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu... via @ukdefjournal

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Elon Musk, head of the United States Department of Government Efficiency, has backed calls for the United States to leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/elon-musk-ba...

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

🇪🇺‼️ European officials in conversation with Bloomberg: "Trump puts Europeans in a position where they have to choose between the US and Ukraine. Most, if not all, will choose Ukraine. For Europe, this has existential significance."

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Inte längre ”We stand with Ukraine”, en skam,

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Boykin: Vance didn’t even know enough about the topic to be having the discussion. When Zelenskyy asked him if he’s ever been to Ukraine, he said no, he’s seen it on TV. Are you kidding me? Seeing it on TV is your excuse for being able to lecture him while he’s in the middle of a war.

submitted 5 days ago • 161 comments

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

submitted 5 days ago • 869 comments

yep, makes sense

submitted 5 days ago • 5 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 5 days ago • 861 comments

Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 7 days ago • 480 comments

RFK Jr has cancelled the US’s participation in creating next fall/winter’s flu vaccine. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...

submitted 7 days ago • 132 comments

And the Chinese abstained. The US is now a greater friend of Putin than the Chinese

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Trump’s numbers on US & European aid to Ukraine are completely fabricated — Europe has given more to Ukraine and the US hasn’t reached anywhere near $350 billion.

submitted 9 days ago • 145 comments

BREAKING: Trump just got humiliated and fact checked by the French President. You’ve gotta see this:

submitted 9 days ago • 75 comments

A lot of people at the rally for Ukraine in Stockholm, Sweden tonight! We are sending a very clear message: We 🇸🇪🇪🇺 will continue and increase support for Ukraine and we demand Russia to leave Ukraine! @nordicukraine.bsky.social @gunnarhokmark.bsky.social @cillalundstrom.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Caption this photo? I'll start: Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv. Your captions ⤵️

submitted 9 days ago • 198 comments

Meduza and Mediazona can now reveal that an estimated 160,000–165,000 Russian soldiers, officers, contract troops, mobilized personnel, and other fighters have been killed since February 2022. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Voting with Russia, Trump has placed the US together with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Nicaragua & rogue African military dictatorships friendly with Russia. Trump has taken the US out of the family of democratic countries. Even China, Cuba & Iran abstained. Shame!

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

submitted 10 days ago • 259 comments

WATCH: "We are in a new era… where international relations aren’t going to be determined by rules… they're going to be determined by strong men." Former MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger on Trump, Putin and changes to global diplomacy. #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=FocQITpJnaQ

submitted 12 days ago • 45 comments

Russian propaganda today admitted 252 soldiers from just the town of Stary Oskol died in Ukraine, this extrapolates to 350,000 total dead. Zelensky estimated Russian casualties in the war on Ukraine 3 weeks ago: - 350k Russian soldiers killed - 50k-70k missing - 600k-700k wounded

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Här är min Trumpiad från förra veckan utan betalvägg. Fortfarande giltigt. https://www.glasnost.se/2025/trump-ger-putin-allt-han-pekar-pa/ #trump #ukraina #putin

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

submitted 12 days ago • 44 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 12 days ago • 95 comments

No words…

submitted 12 days ago • 61 comments

Poland’s PM Tusk

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

You may not like Bolton but he worked day in and day out next to Donald Trump. He knows the man.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

submitted 13 days ago • 653 comments

Now Trump has gone full Putin. No democrat can defend him any longer.

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

Mick Ryan är en pensionerad generalmajor från Australien som ofta levererar insiktsfulla reflektioner, så även denna gång. open.substack.com/pub/mickryan...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance complains about state of Sweden's freedom/democracy. * Sweden 3rd in Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom ranking. US 55th. * Sweden tied 2nd in Freedom House ranking on political rights and civil liberties. US tied 17th. * Sweden 4th in The Economist Democracy Index. US 29th.

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

There is an estimated 1 in 10k - 100k years chance that all 8 of the Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 Baltic Sea cable breaks are coincidental. Background data is hard to get by but no matter which real data or reasonable assumption one picks it is extremely unlikely all 8 of them are explained by chance. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Amidst the mass of accusations of corruption and crime from Trump and Musk they have not presented one single piece of evidence. These characters are inveterate liars. Treat them as such! Never believe any of the nonsense Trump and Musk spread!

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

these guys are touching every stove with every hand at the same time cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 28 days ago • 617 comments

Så Trumps kritik mot det han kallar woke betyder alltså att kvinnor och minoriteter ska strykas från historien?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment