Matthias Bruggmann

The New US National Security Strategy Trump Says Openly That the US Wants to Dominate Europe and Make it MAGA

The new US National Security Strategy, fully Vancian, shows its hostility towards Europe & its cozy relationship with Russia.
Chilling, but at least clear: the US is no longer our ally, just the opposite.
Perfect points from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social.
phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...

In more normal times, one would quip that @rikefranke.bsky.social typo'd and mistook whitehouse.gov with whitehouse.ru, but, alas...

Germany, France, and Britain should have summarized their response to Washington in three points:
Nein.
Non.
No.

@jconstant-fd.bsky.social , @europe1.bsky.social , @lefigaro.fr vous pensez pas que ça, c'est un peu plus une histoire d'intérêt public que des dealers qui détournent un OS sécurisé ?

Bref, même si @grapheneos.org était et faisait ce que prétendent les FDO, ça a l'air quand même déjà vachement bien défini au niveau pénal, hein @jconstant-fd.bsky.social...

IANAL, mais on va quand même rappeler un ou deux trucs au @lefigaro.fr et à @europe1.bsky.social...

D'abord, les conséquences de ne pas donner un mot de passe: www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/articl...

Ensuite, dans les lectures, peut-être essayer les articles 434-1 à 434-48 du Code Pénal.

Deux articles du Parisien hier, suivis aujourd'hui d'un article du Figaro, ont lancé une offensive honteuse contre GrapheneOS, un système d'exploitation open-source pour téléphones, gratuit et accessible à tous et toutes.

archive.is/202511190825...

Je connais pas mal de journalistes et décideurs qui feraient bien de lire ce qui est dit dans le papier du Parisien et d'en tirer les enseignements pour leur propre hygiène numérique...

@leparisien.fr , @grapheneos.org est un outil extraordinaire qui mérite d'être soutenu, et pas villifié.

What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.

Louis Menand, for @newyorker.com , on the sorely missed Catherine Leroy... it's such a pleasure to see her work in the wild, and to see her slowly re-emerge in the public consciousness.

www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Tony Clifton, who then worked for @newsweek.com, Beirut, 1983.

We have even been seen as a little bit paranoid talking about Russia’s threats [in the past]. But right now, everything we in the Baltics or Poland or the Nordics have been talking about has come to life."

Source: thetimes.com/world/europe/a…

Estonian PM Kristen Michal: Russia is an acute threat to every sane country and Europe is only at the beginning­ of rebuilding its defences.

Key points from the interview with The Times:

▪️ "Russia is an acute threat to Europe, to Nato, to every sane country in the world.

While we're at it, Marianna Patrona's From Victim to Avenger: Trump’s Performance of Strategic Victimhood, is also worth a read www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/6/... .

Though I personally remain to be convinced that the message is this shallow, both this video and the article linked below (cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/lost-in-th... ) are worth your time.

On the same topic, oilab.eu/frozen-antag... is as well.

There's one more subset of the pro-Palestine, pro-Russia group that deserves mention: the left-of-the-left fringe who simultaneously believe that Russia has a legitimate claim to Crimea, NATO manipulated Ukraine into defending itself, and are pro-Palestine (and were often pro-Assad despite Yarmouk).

Pretty soon, we'll get to the point where they're demanding to be on all the organ transfer lists because they have a private jet, and we'll be very lucky if there's an organ available and the metastasis isn't already all over the place. 2/2

Western societies are like Steve Jobs, only they'll kill you with them: they've got a perfectly treatable cancer, and chose to treat it with fruit juice because screw the professionals they know better. 1/2

We’re already at 25% of his goal! 🥳 If we can get just ten $100 donations, we’ll be nearly halfway there.

Help a refugee student, feel good all day!

I see that the CiC of the 2nd best army in Ukraine is not only being welcomed and treated as a peer, but that for all we know, he also gets to dictate the conditions of armistice. And that's not getting into the EU stuff.

What am I missing ?

I respectfully beg to differ: I can't think of a historical precedent of a diplomatic humiliation of the United States as thorough as what has just been inflicted by Trump's fault.

This, in itself, is a momentous win for Putin.

You don't understand what this has to do with sanitation ?

Well, if you have enough WASHTA, you can be connected to the right people in the right NGO and ask them yourself (preferably done at one of those team-building-event-slash-security-trainings the paper-pushers love to attend).

Today in know your shitcoins: WASHTA, international currency of NGO bullshit.

This is of course universal, and not specific to Syria (Libya is a better example AFAIK, the fall of the regime is naturally more interesting and complex than "Idlib takes over, done"): an uncomfortable truth for diplomats and policy wonks is that in these situations, power wears Adidas, not Armani.

The most frustrating aspect being that no one seems to be clearly stating that anyone who purports to speaks from authority on when or where this all ends is absolutely, resolutely, and completely full of shit.

Oui, mais c'est aussi, toujours sauf erreur de ma part, pas la question... à moins, quitte à taper dans la doublette point Godwin et antienne antisémite, de considerer que parce qu'un Juif ne se sent pas Allemand, c'est acceptable que le gouvernement Allemand le gaze...

Si je ne m'abuse, techniquement, les Gazaouis sont la propre population de Netanyahu de la même manière que les Idlibis ou les Yarmoukais étaient sous la responsabilité d'Assad, ou les Kurdes sous celle de Saddam... Hamas, Autorité Palestinienne ou pas, tant qu'ils ont pas leur pays...

On est entièrement d'accord. Mais entre ça et ce qui est, activement, fait pour soutenir le génocide que les Israéliens commettent, il y a un gouffre...

J'entends, j'imagine que si Assad avait bombardé l'Arabie Saoudite, quasi personne aurait dit "on va défendre Assad".

La grosse différence, c'est que Netanyahu bénéficie d'une impunité dont Assad n'aurait même pas pu rêver.