It's also not new - the US has been exporting ideologies since the end of WW2. Europe is just it's latest target, and nativism the new ideology to export and propagate
globalaffairs.org/commentary/a...
06.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 35 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
I said this would happen - to anyone's who's been following this White House's ideological turn it was obvious this would eventually happen.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
06.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1
Great to be back on BBC New The Context last night, to unpack the informal EU Council and Greenland.
23.01.2026 11:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome @james-r-green.bsky.social! Do follow my new CER colleague for all things tech policy.
23.01.2026 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy
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As I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
23.01.2026 09:15 — 👍 657 🔁 150 💬 8 📌 11
We’ve spent years trying to fact-check our way out of this, and it failed. Democratic decay isn’t about bad information versus good information, it’s about the collapse of the systems that turn information into reality. If every bot and Russian troll vanished tomorrow, the rot would still be there.
23.01.2026 09:12 — 👍 966 🔁 179 💬 12 📌 7
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
23.01.2026 09:07 — 👍 1613 🔁 582 💬 41 📌 126
Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
21.01.2026 14:16 — 👍 6936 🔁 1861 💬 154 📌 185
True... But think you're right. He referenced the daddy thing as some weird power play though so that's backfired
21.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That makes much more sense. But the first time was Rutte no? And ref to 'daddy'
21.01.2026 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trump coming for the North Sea next: "The UK sits on the North Sea, sits on all that oil, and they don't do anything with it. They don't allow the oil companies to drill."
21.01.2026 14:03 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
A strong episode overall thanks to @rynning.bsky.social's analysis, but this final part on minilateralism is especially important.
The new energy put towards these formats show something is broken within NATO. They are not used to reinforce the alliance, but to push pol agendas through other means.
19.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The past few days have underlined why it's problematic to go along with Trump's rationale - it assumes a basis of reason which is not there. My comments to the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
18.01.2026 15:26 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Brussels hold’em: European cards against Trumpian coercion – European Council on Foreign Relations
Faced with an aggressive United States, Europe has more leverage than it realises. Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relati
Good moment to repost my paper from last year, mapping the cards Europe could play in response to US coercion.
Most of them could be played via the anti-coercion instrument. Digital services charges and (de facto) export controls are the keys.
ecfr.eu/publication/...
18.01.2026 14:44 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
18.01.2026 03:04 — 👍 1996 🔁 621 💬 37 📌 93
"What possible scenarios can you see for a US takeover of #Greenland, whether that is political, economic or through military coercion?” @armida.bsky.social asked @rynning.bsky.social in the latest #CERpodcast 'Unpacking Europe' episode.
Full episode here: buff.ly/jLyY2SW
16.01.2026 13:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
🎙️ Listen to our new #CERpodcast ‘Unpacking Europe’ on the implications of the latest #Greenland crisis for the future direction of the #NATO alliance with @armida.bsky.social & @rynning.bsky.social. 🎙️
Listen here: buff.ly/3nsjpU4
15.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
For as long as Europe is limited by the military capabilities it can deploy independently of the US, security dependence will cloud any course of action or response to US policy that European leaders can consider wrote @armida.bsky.social in @theguardian.com.
15.01.2026 12:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
This is something I have been wondering about as well - not only putting NATO to the edge, but also the short attention span and threat of military action across the world (Venezuela, Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, Iran...) must overstretch even US military forces.
14.01.2026 20:56 — 👍 93 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 0
OR... does it in the medium-term just create a divide *within* Europe between those European NATO allies wanting to keep the US on board (the North/East), and those whose electorates see straight through that and are fed up with placating Trump (South)?
14.01.2026 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The tripwire force is finally here... But instead of being in Ukraine to deter Russia, it is within NATO territory to deter one NATO ally from violating another NATO ally's sovereignty.
The world turned upside down.
14.01.2026 17:25 — 👍 93 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2
🎙️ In our latest Unpacking Europe podcast @armida.bsky.social & @rynning.bsky.social discuss possible scenarios for a US takeover of Greenland and the consequences of this on the #NATO alliance.🎙️
Listen here: buff.ly/ZiqRiAP
14.01.2026 12:30 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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