Matt Steinglass

Similarly, I would not advise anyone to hold assets in the United States, if they are planning a terrorist attack on the United States

Will the EU’s bid to use frozen Russian assets hit the euro? Some fund managers see potential fallout affecting the currency’s global status from controversial plan

I can see where fund managers are coming from. Natural that the EU proposal to use frozen Russian assets to secure a loan to Ukraine might might make holding euro assets look more risky, to countries that are planning to invade Europe. www.ft.com/content/0642...

Je hoopt toch dat ook rechts-radicale politici snappen dat het doel van de Musks en hun vrienden in Washington DC (en Moskou, en Beijing) is dat de EU moet versplinteren, opdat zij de Europese landen weer tegen elkaar uit kunnen spelen en zo economisch koloniseren? (via @mattsteinglass.bsky.social)

Het voordeel van het Nederlandse kiesstelsel is dat iedereen kan kiezen om op het laatste moment te stemmen voor de partij aan hun kant die dit jaar de grootste lijkt te worden

“In the first 10 months of the year, Tesla sales dropped 29.6% to 180,688 units, per the ACEA. Tesla's overall market share in Europe dropped to 1.6% from 2.4% a year ago. Tesla's Chinese competitor BYD reported sales jumping 207%“

I give it like 5 years before Russians lured by promises of call-center jobs in Addis are dying on the front lines in human-wave attacks in Tigray

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Opinion: "How much longer will the Russian people tolerate their mass-murderer dictator-president – the Salisbury poisoner, the indicted war criminal – who, refusing all peace overtures, is now threatening war with Europe?" asks Simon Tisdall at @theguardian.com
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Ukraine, Europe and the new economics of war By maintaining stability and innovating to hold out against Russia, Kyiv has shown that size matters less in conflict than it used to

Important to keep in mind what Ukraine has achieved. With budget support for perhaps a few more years, a much smaller, much poorer democratic country will exhaust and defeat fascist Russia. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Crushing Austria once and for all?

I mean the state gallery in Budapest is filled with portraits of this woman as some sort of Hungarian national heroine. This is the woman who conspired to eliminate the existence of Poland as a country for 123 years

It would be productive if Polish popular history would focus more of its opprobrium on that eternal villain and perfidious enemy of the Polish people, Maria-Theresa of Austria

Russian army destroyed the railway station in Fastiv near Kyiv tonight. Just bombed it into obliteration. Fire that broke out ate up the construction. It’s gone. This is more than just about a railway. This is exactly what Russia is trying to do to my people : to make us gone. Either by

OK but who is the person filming the guy whose glasses were broken and the woman who supposedly did it

Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy Allies may panic; despots will cheer

Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
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from The Economist

However, I think you are being ungenerous to the Dutch. They were rapidly developing defense capacity, but far too late. IIUC Dutch armed forces carried out their national strategy bravely and slowed the Germans enough that Hitler ordered Rotterdam firebombed to force a surrender.

Also what the Vikings observed about Ireland

Ahem, my term paper is on American strategy. According to Webster’s Dictionary, a “strategy” is defined as www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

She seems to be completely in agreement with the Trump White House, according to the new National Security Strategy

I think the Trump administration is aware of that rule, though

Jokes aside, this seems concerning

Were the drones flying in a widening gyre www.thejournal.ie/drones-analy...

Trump makes peace almost as if he were touched by the hand of god

Whoever designed the FIFA trophy seems to be unclear on the single most basic rule in soccer

Executive summary – World Energy Employment 2025 – Analysis - IEA World Energy Employment 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

"The electricity sector is now the largest energy employer, surpassing fuel supply for the first time, as the Age of Electricity gathers pace."
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