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Does Europe Finally Realize It’s Alone? Washington’s new National Security Strategy ratifies an adversarial relationship.

Does Europe Finally Realize It’s Alone?

by Nathalie Tocci

Washington’s new National Security Strategy ratifies an adversarial relationship

Europeans lulled themselves into the belief that #Trump is unpredictable and inconsistent but ultimately manageable.

This is strangely reassuring, but wrong.

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America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?

“America is now saying that key allies are in fact its greatest enemy…The Trump administration’s vision of American greatness is making the country poorer, weaker, and meaner.”

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Being Pavel Durov in 2025 means exclusively lying and complaining about EU regulation while never addressing censorship in Russia or China, acting like a true Russian propagandist

Maga’s strange rage against Europe The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it

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There is movement

EU plans strategic overhaul to fix energy grid bottlenecks, FT reports The EU will take a top-down approach to building a cross-border energy grid, as the bloc's Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen warned of billions lost from bottlenecks and failures to match supply with demand, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.

EU plans strategic overhaul to fix energy grid bottlenecks, FT reports reut.rs/3KE0jRn

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Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.

Norway to spend $6.4 billion on two more submarines, long-range strike Norway will help finance a second production line in Germany to ensure the new submarines can be built quickly enough.

Norway will help finance a second production line in Germany to ensure the new submarines can be built quickly enough.

Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week,...

Complete insanity: "US tells NATO may withdraw from some NATO planning mechanisms if Europe does not "take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities" by 2027"
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According to French media reports the 🇫🇷 navy last night shot down five drones flying over the Ile Longue, in Brittany, home to France’s SNLE nuclear-armed submarines, the naval component of France’s nuclear deterrent

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:

The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

As far as I can see, this nat sec strategy is far harsher on Europe than on Russia. There is no mention of a threat from Russia or of deterrence, only that "re-establishing strategic stability" is a priority. Europe is cast as a major threat to freedom. A radical, dangerous document.

Things this NSS is not: conservative, Republican, strategic, reality-based, credible, American.

Will they actually follow the NSS? probably not, no. Is it still bad they let the turbo chuds write US national security policy? yes

A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.

US Urged Europeans to Oppose EU Plan for Loan to Support Ukraine The US lobbied several countries in the European Union in an effort to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats famil...

🚨 Explosive report by Bloomberg:

The US has lobbied “several” EU countries to derail the reparations loan for Ukraine, arguing the Russian assets are needed to achieve a peace deal and shouldn’t be used to “prolong the war”.

The US national security strategy is a clear rejection of the ideal of a united liberal democratic Europe

But it's also a contradiction - they want to undermine the EU and constrain NATO, while calling for Europe to handle its own defence and stability in Ukraine

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A brutal shutdown of the dodgy funding flows should also be a priority across Europe.

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.

Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...

Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
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Michael, why do you hate the future? Do you want China to win? If we don't subsidize the jenkem habits of ten thousand """entrepreneurs""" whose best day is reinventing the harop-2, then Taipei may as well be Beijing!

People got extremely pissy at me over at the other place a couple years back when I explicitly said most people in defense ventures land would fail a drug test on any day of the month, and well

The discourse on those frozen russian assets should start mimicking their own cynical language. Things like "acknowledging territorial realities".

Top US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.

Let's be clear here.

The Trump administration does not actually want Europe to be able to independently take care of its own security.

They want to maintain a system of vassal states who are dependent on American weaponry, but in a new order that no longer comes with protection guarantees from 🇺🇸.

EU plans looser environmental rules to allow more mining Brussels wants to dig up more critical minerals in the bloc but says ‘regulatory bottlenecks’ are slowing things down.

The European Union plans to ease water, chemical and permitting laws to spur new mines in the bloc as it works to end its dependence on China for critical raw materials.

Some people are feeding their private medical information into chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, only to receive generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response (Maggie Astor/New York Times)

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Historisk ny norsk-britisk forsvars­avtale Norge og Storbritannia inngår i dag sin mest omfattende forsvarsavtale i nyere tid. Britiske styrker skal være mer til stede og få en større rolle i forsvaret av Norge.

Norway and the UK has signed a historic defence cooperation pact. British forces will have greater presence in Norway, cooperation will be deepened in many domains. www.nrk.no/urix/histori...