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If Europeans (incl.🇪🇺), will not support 🇺🇦 at a substantial level, who will? If “no” to the Reparation Loan, what is a real alternative? If 🇺🇦 is left without our support & forced to surrender, how much will it cost Europeans to stop the inevitable Russian aggression against 🇪🇺?

Musk causing thousands of deaths by cutting USAID funding is not discussed enough

🇬🇧 Britain is close to losing the Atlantic to Russia for the first time since the end of the Second World War, the first sea lord has warned, - The Times

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins said the Royal Navy would struggle to keep pace without rapid transformation and the support of Nato allies.

https://x.com/GavinBarwell/status/1997356463488983232

And that's the truth for anyone who is fundamentally against the EU. It has kept unprecedented peace between rivals within, as well as been the only reason we have been able to safeguard (and improve!) our unique set of rights and freedoms. There simply is no real alternative to this.

Verden vi kjente kan bli borte Den nye sikkerhetsstrategien til USA viser hva som står på spill: En verdensorden der alle er like mye verdt, der stormakter respekterer de små og borgere kan stole på velferdsstaten.

Trumps nye sikkerhetsstrategi bryter med 150 år med utvikling av en regelbasert verdensorden, velferdsstat og internasjonalt samarbeid.

Der USA tidligere så autoritære stormakter som trusler, framstilles EU nå som problemet – mens Russland og autokratiske stater omtales som samarbeidspartnere. 1/

China's massive surge in auto exports isn't about advanced economies (blue). It's primarily about emerging and frontier markets (red). This is where the battle for dominance in global autos is now being fought and where auto producers in Europe and Japan have the most to lose...

Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/kremlin-says-new-us-security-strategy-accords-largely-with-russias-view-2025-12-07/

What a strange coincidence

National Park Service removes free entry on Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth The Trump administration is adding Flag Day, which is also President Trump's birthday, to its list of fee-free entry days at national parks.

Unhinged.

US National Park Service removes free entry on Martin Luther King and Juneteenth (celebrates end of slavery) Day. Replaces with free entry on Trump's birthday.

King Donald removes MLK & Juneteenth public holiday, replaces with flag day which is Trump's birthday.

US Congress asleep.

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.

When far right authoritarians team up to “defend democracy” by dismantling multilateral institutions, you know it’s an absolute con job.

Europe is finding its feet again Europe is about to agree an era-defining support package for Ukraine, supported by the European Commission. In economic policy matters, however, the Commission president seems to have lost her way.

Europe is about to step up in security matters, starting with the main to Ukraine, but Commission President has been distracted from her job leading the economic reform agenda. Three recent reports illustrate the wilderness she is in.

open.substack.com/pub/independ...

Should Europe fund Ukraine? It can’t easily afford not to Funding Kyiv’s war effort is a better return on bloc’s buck than having to deter a victorious Moscow itself

Rapporten vår om Ukraina er i Financial Times idag. Vi anslår kostnadene ved 1) Å hjelpe Ukraina til en (del)seier og 2) Russisk (del)seier.

Vi viser i detalj hvorfor 2) vil bli mye dyrere for Norge og Europa. Med dagens støttenivå er vi på vei mot utfall 2.

www.ft.com/content/eb10...

We are much less safe with these people in charge.

This is abject incompetence and insanity, rejecting sound public health policy and science.

Bech Holte slår effektivt ben under sitt eget prosjekt Martin Bech Holte forholder seg til data som fanden leser bibelen. Det er synd, fordi det ødelegger det som kunne vært en konstruktiv debatt om hvordan Norge bør se ut.

«Enten har han gjort en ærlig feil, som igjen er greit, men bør i så fall rettes. Eller så har han fabrikkert data. Ingen andre enn Bech Holte vet fordi han nekter å legge frem dataene sine»

Meget godt fra @blomhoff.bsky.social

www.dn.no/innlegg/okon...

As clear as it gets

I've been sending chapters from my upcoming pop-sci book to expert fact-checkers and it's useful but also WAY more stressful than sharing work with the general public. It's like you go out to do karaoke with your friends and the original musician is in the front row telling you which notes are off.

Klokt fra Matlary. Vi kan ikke lenger stå utenfor og si «Alt går nok snart over» til oss selv. Det har vi forsøkt, og det funker ikke.

Debatt: Dette er årets minst sympatiske julekampanje Rema 1000 profitterer på nestekjærlighet, mener Oda Louise Toven.

Debattinnlegg:
«Reitangruppen, som i fjor hadde et overskudd på 4,4 milliarder kroner, skal gi bort 1 million kroner til trengende i julen. Ikke spesielt imponerende.»

US making the war longer and worse for Ukraine and the world, and hurting obvious US interests in the bargain. And for what?

(+) Så mye vil en russisk seier i Ukraina koste Ukraina er ikke dømt til å tape krigen, men Europa trenger en plan, skriver Aage Borchgrevink.

God artikkel av @aageb.bsky.social . Det er helt mulig for Norge og Europa å hjelpe Ukraina til en (del)seier. Det handler om vilje og evne til å tenke lenger frem enn egen nesetipp. Lar vi Ukraina tape, vil det bli kostbart, både økonomisk og sikkerhetsmessig.

www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/sa-m...

Europe’s fateful moment [FREE TO READ] The EU faces a historic choice: whether or not to unlock frozen Russian assets and save the Ukrainian war effort

"Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise". My Swamp Notes with @martinsandbu.ft.com on why Europe must make those frozen Russian assets work for Ukraine. The time for that is now. as.ft.com/r/9144c41b-7...

NOU 1990: 20 Forenklet folketrygdlov.

Ved siden av NOU 2019: 23 det mest omfattende arbeid med lovspråket. Har nourdene eksempler på andre omfattende prosesser med lovspråket i NOUer?

urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-n...

USA vil i praksis utslette EU. Ambisjonen er å hindre Europa i å være en global aktør. Det er vanskelig å skjønne at nordmenn ikke forstår hvor alvorlig dette er. Vi burde melde oss inn i EU umiddelbart, for å støtte opp om den demokratiske verden som stadig færre forsvarer.

But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation

US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.

Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.

Konsekvensene av bistandskutt er umiddelbare og katastrofale for verdens barn. Norge må ikke kutte i bistanden, men trappe opp for å veie opp for bortfallet av bistand fra USA og andre land.

www.wsj.com/health/for-f...

Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."

Jeg står her som et stort spørsmålstegn
Hun kan neppe ha vært riktig frisk
For jeg gav henne alt hun trengte
Jeg overøste henne med fisk!

Russia’s economy is not doing well.

Now you know why Trump is working so hard to save Russia

Tenk deg du er barn i 1991 og får se de greiene her