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To anyone who thinks Trump can bring peace and equality to Iran – I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Going cheap | Marina Hyde If POTUS can really bomb peace, stability and women’s rights into the Middle East, I’ll take my hat off to him. Judging by his role in Gaza, I won’t hold my breath, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Is US warfare pushing Europe and China closer? Around 20% of people in Europe's biggest countries now consider the US 'a major threat', higher than North Korea and China.

Around 20% of people in Europe's biggest countries now consider the US 'a major threat', higher than North Korea and China. #EuropeInMotion

All Europeans will pay the price for their leaders' reaction to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran this weekend.

European leaders (all except Pedro Sanchez) have now accepted the end of international law.

The consequences of this will be felt not for weeks, not for years, but for decades

If only we still followed international law. Those days are sadly behind us. Dark days ahead now

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism.

WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens?

GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.

Or maybe free like Venezuela....Or Afghanistan. So much freedom

Trump’s strikes on Iran are an illegal war of choice—and Europeans should say so – European Council on Foreign Relations As the conflict threatens to escalate, European governments must make an assertive case for diplomacy and prepare for humanitarian catastrophe

Trump’s strikes on Iran are an illegal war of choice—and Europeans should say so: ecfr.eu/article/trum...

In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

Yet another war in violation of international law. Without the pretence of seeking UN approval.Unleashed while talks ongoing, making a laughing stock of diplomacy. Trump’s foreign policy is sickeningly predictable, with the only predictable effect being a decline of US power

I have now heard several times that “NATO has never been as strong as it is today” and I think I am going crazy.
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Trump is Europe’s best enemy yet Lack of a common foe enfeebled Europe — but not any more

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Merz is right to reject Germany’s nuclear phase-out, IEA chief says Germany should build as many nuclear plants as possible, Fatih Birol proclaims.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s admission that this country's nuclear phase-out was a "serious strategic mistake" has won an emphatic endorsement from the head of the International Energy Agency.

Read our full interview with him here:

Indeed! Not only is it insane to expand access to European personal data for US authorities, but the existing schemes for access to data should be suspended. Those schemes were never compliant with EU law in the first place. It is dangerously naive to think our data are safe

If the Russians or Chinese had done this, we’d be expelling their ambassador…

"The world has changed. Washington has changed. There's almost nothing normal in the United States. That's the truth".

- Prime Minister Mark Carney

And to be fair, Trump can't be trusted to "rule out" force. Nothing stopping him from waking up tomorrow and choosing violence. The EU has to proceed accordingly

Europe can’t defend itself without the US, NATO’s Rutte warns The EU should stop dreaming of creating a European pillar for NATO and continue to build ties with the U.S. despite Trump, the alliance secretary-general said.

🚨🚨 #NATO SG Mark #Rutte is to my mind massively undermining European #unity and efforts to build up their #defence and #security in what I see as a statement which only plays in the hands of #Putin and #Trump. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-defense-nato-mark-rutte-us-politics-threats-gdp/

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Europeans, do not look away from the horrifying images you see coming out of America.

This is your future if you do not urgently separate yourselves from the United States.

You are running out of time.

Trump makes Carney's allusion to Soviet Czechoslovakia even more applicable. Carney used the Havel quote to illustrate living in a lie as a self-protection strategy. This shows the Trump admin trying to convert its allies into vassals of the Soviet satellite type-- if you stray, we'll attack you.

As far as I understand, provisional application should only take place after the ECJ review. The Commission could push for it, but its by no means guaranteed that it'll be provisionally applied

If we want to survive in this world, we need to be ready to just do things. It'll be imperfect and some people will inevitably lose out but if we cannot find the strength to agree to a trade deal that has been negotiated for more than 25 years (!) at a moment like this, we will get destroyed

Into my veins www.ft.com/content/e2ae...

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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Would be amazing if European leaders would also start throwing out truth bombs like this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.

A source confirms to me that this disturbing letter from Trump to the Norwegian PM is real.

Agree with @gideonrachman.bsky.social excellent column. European appeasement hasn't worked. It's time to try a different approach.

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Paris has a post on just that! disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

Oh yeah, and tell me about how great the US treated its indigenous groups? Maybe time the US was liberated by China