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Mounting a full military parade for a president’s birthday survives today only in a handful of highly centralized states: North Korea, Turkmenistan and Equatorial Guinea. We are now adding the great nation of USA to the list

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

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There are no words to describe the disaster on all fronts happening in Trump-US right now, yet there are 171,476 words in the English language.. entirely new words needs to be invented

Bessent says the tariff pause gives markets "more certainty." But investors warn the volatility could lead to lasting damage "US exceptionalism went out of the window a long time ago," says @jnordvig. "Now it is a question of if people fear US assets." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

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"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order" from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

Very important point not seen much in the news

frivarld.se/sakerhetsrad... ”I en värld där demokratin antingen är utsatt eller präglas av polarisering som försvagar dess ledarskap står de nordiska länderna ut samtidigt som de nordiska samhällena präglas av en ekonomisk stabilitet och en välfärd som trots alla de problem vi möter ger trygghet, ”

Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

"Europe needs to understand—if the USA is willing to help Russia kill Ukrainians today, it could easily be willing to help Russia kill other Europeans tomorrow." - Philips O'Brien

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Music to our ears

What a front cover...

NATO is already done. The United States of America is now an ally of the Russian Federation, and an adversary of European democracies.

Europe must enter into an arms race with Russia — and win it, Polish PM Donald Tusk told reporters before today’s extraordinary European Council summit in Brussels. Follow on-the-ground updates from this special EU leaders meeting via our live blog 👇 ow.ly/ZoNh50VbJr1

“I’m hearing language like ‘we have to be prepared for a b******’, that’s Donald Trump, ‘to do mad things’” Nick Watt says there’s concern among both Labour and Conservative MPs over the US President’s approach to Ukraine and global diplomacy. #Newsnight

Nailed it

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

British troops have fought and died alongside the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq, just to be written off as non-existent people from "some random country". We have to maintain tolerable relations with this administration to try and minimise damage, but my god it's not easy.

Now that Trump has declared economic warfare on his allies and “paused” military aid to an ally fending off an invasion, I’ll need more knowledgeable minds than mine to explain how the June G7 summit can go ahead.

Capitulation

We need to trust our eyes. Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.

And there it is. Putin’s lifelong dream. After years of relentless Russian propaganda, now fully embraced by the American president and the world’s richest oligarch, millions of Americans are convinced that this is a good plan because Europe is an enemy and Putin is our friend.

Good one

After watching the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting in whole, I’m feeling prepared to comment on it in a proper way. Long thread incoming:

www.dn.se/debatt/krige... Trumps självskadebeteende bäddar för en pyspunka eller krasch i USA:s ekonomi. Även Kina och Ryssland haltar fram. Samtidigt har AI-baserad drönarteknik blixtsnabbt eroderat värdet av deras vapenlager.” Stefan Fölster,senior fellow Frivärld, i DN om Europas möjligheter,

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On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

Ett skamligt överfall på president Zelenskyj i Ovala rummet. www.dn.se/ledare/peter...

This isn't about Zelenskyy, a patriot and hero. This is about an American administration penetrated and compromised by America's enemies.

Few people in American politics have ever exhibited less moral clarity than Nikki Haley has since 2016.