Ivan Herman

Trump team bashed Europe for a year. Now he wants support in war on Iran. European leaders are ramping up their response to the crisis spreading outside Iran but remain wary of a conflict that could have untold ramifications.

Trump team bashed Europe for a year. Now he wants support in war on Iran.

European leaders are ramping up their response to the crisis spreading outside Iran but remain wary of a conflict that could have untold ramifications.

(To bypass the paywall: archive.ph/0JBZV)

YouTube video by Novara Media The History of Iran and Winston Churchill Exposes How the Past Repeats Itself

Right.

www.youtube.com/shorts/eQ54e...

Ollie North's mugshot from his arrest related to the Iran-Contra Affair

Ollie North on Fox "news", a few decades after Iran-Contra

The guy on the left was a US Marine Lt. Colonel who was arrested and convicted for selling missiles to Iran.

The guy on the right is a Fox "news" *snicker* "military analyst" who says Iran shouldn't have missiles.

They're the same guy.

From FT comments

Ukrainian FM claims Hungarian authorities have effectively "taken hostage" seven employees of Ukrainian state savings bank According to the savings bank, the vehicles that were stopped contained US$40 million, €35 million, and 9 kg of gold.

Ukrainian FM claims Hungarian authorities have effectively "taken hostage" seven employees of Ukrainian state savings bank

According to the savings bank, the vehicles that were stopped contained US$40 million, €35 million, and 9 kg of gold.

Of course they are

Putin's GRU-linked Election Fixers Are Already in Budapest to Help Orbán - VSquare.org Moscow has dispatched a team to Budapest to interfere in Hungary's April 2026 parliamentary elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The operation, overseen by ...

Moscow has dispatched a team to Hungary to interfere in the elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The operation, overseen by Putin confidant Sergei Kiriyenko, is designed to keep Viktor Orbán in power — and follows the same blueprint Russia used in Moldova.

JeffRay-Bans — in memoriam Epstein.

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure - The Lancet

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair"

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hungary only EU member state not backing UN resolution urging peace in Ukraine Hungary was the only EU member state to abstain from a recently adopted UN resolution demanding an end to the war in Ukraine. Joining countries like the US and China in withholding support, this move continues Hungary's pattern of refusing to back international measures condemning Russian actions.

Hungary was the only EU member state to abstain from a recently adopted UN resolution demanding an end to the war in Ukraine. Joining countries like the US and China in withholding support, this move continues Hungary's pattern of refusing to back international measures condemning Russian actions.

Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push In previously unreported remarks, the U.S. administration warned Brussels that it will retaliate if Europeans “strong-arm American companies out of the market.”

Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push

In previously unreported remarks, the U.S. administration warned Brussels that it will retaliate if Europeans “strong-arm American companies out of the market.”

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Pure bullshit’: Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech The French president has repeatedly called for restrictions on social media access for younger users.

Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech

“Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech. We are in favor of free algorithms, totally transparent,” Macron said during his remarks in India. “Free speech is pure bullshit if nobody knows how you are guided through this."

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

The US State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, a move Washington views as a way to counter censorship, three sources familiar with the plan said.

Do the British like Donald Trump?

Trump hangs picture of himself with Putin in White House After months of tension the Russian leader has taken pride of place above a photo of the US president and his granddaughter

He treats it like a family photo

www.thetimes.com/article/e9fd...

2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

Don't forget the dozens who've died in DHS detention...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BREAKING NEWS

The Afghan minister of education confirms that access to schools for women in the country is permanently banned.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Afghanistan #Breaking #BreakingNews

Face aux multiples menaces de Trump, les appels au boycott du Mondial 2026 se multiplient Les premières voix évoquant un boycott - voire une annulation - du prochain Mondial de football, notamment organisé aux États-Unis, commencent à se faire entendre avec la volonté américaine de s'empar...

"Nous demandons au gouvernement néerlandais d'interdire à l'équipe nationale de football des Pays-Bas de participer à la Coupe du Monde aux USA."
Aux Pays-Bas, la pétition réclamant le boycott de la World Cup frise déjà les 150 K signatures. On en est où en France ?
www.france24.com/fr/sports/20...

Dessin intitulé "Gaza 2030". Il montre une famille sur une plage de Gaza en 2030. Un tout-petit creuse dans le sable et trouve des os et des crânes humains. L’enfant apporte un crâne à ses parents, qui sont souriants, en train de bronzer face à la mer..

Prix du meilleur dessin de presse 2025 aux Pays-Bas à Peter de Wit, pour "Gaza 2030".

Soit l’Europe choisit d’exercer pleinement sa souveraineté, soit elle accepte d’être le champ de bataille politique et économique d’empires rivaux. La souveraineté est la condition même de notre modèle social, de notre démocratie et de nos libertés.

“Danish citizens are organising a huge boycott that includes cancelling planned holidays in the US, cancelling subscriptions to on-demand services based in the US & more generally, recommending the use of EU services instead of those provided by American platforms.”

So, same as Canadians.

‘Our American Dream is dead’: EU concedes Trump is not on its side The crisis summit in Brussels goes ahead despite U.S. president’s about-face on Greenland tariff threats.

‘Our American Dream is dead’: EU concedes Trump is not on its side

The crisis summit in Brussels goes ahead despite U.S. president’s about-face on Greenland tariff threats.

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English Trump backs down on tariffs, but 'the damage has been done and it's very persistent', expert says

Trump backs down on tariffs, but 'the damage has been done and it's very persistent', expert says

My favourite from his speech is: "without us you will speak here German"... in Switzerland...

Germans occupied Denmark, and now we will too

Putin invited to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza, Kremlin says | CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, his spokesman said on Monday.

The peaceful, helpful Putin on Gaza...

Trump has invited all his chums : Meloni, Erdogan, Orbán...

That makes the future of Gaza really hopeful. Oh wait, that is not the goal; the goal is to make business for a Trump Riviera...

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