Chris Hagtorn 🇸🇪🇺🇦

Trump has turned our 200+ year ally against us in just months.
Canadians have withheld spending money in our country and/or on our products in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
This is MAGA? BULLSHIT!!!!
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YouTube video by The Economist Donald Trump has started a fight that America can't win

It’s kind of tragic, someone actually believe they can sin a trade war…

Not great.

The fields near Pokrovsk, as well as along the frontline, are littered with fiber-optic cables from FPV drones.

UK, NATO accuse Russia's GRU over malware created to 'destablise' Europe - Breaking Defense The UK government has sanctioned three Russian military units and 18 Russian individuals for “malicious hybrid operations" related to the group's purported "Authentic Antics" malware.

The cyber bastards 👿 strike again.

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“Anyone else find it interesting that DJT can order the National Guard into DC today but somehow he wasn’t able to do so on Jan 6?”

Graphic showing '1.6 billion from frozen Russian Central Bank assets' in blue and yellow.

Ukraine will receive €1.6B from profits on Russian Central Bank assets frozen under EU sanctions. 🇺🇦

The assets stay blocked, but the interest they earn can be used to help Ukraine.

For a strong Ukraine in a secure Europe. #StandWithUkraine

Finland charges captain of Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker over Baltic Sea cable sabotage Finnish prosecutors have charged the captain and two officers of a tanker believed to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet" with sabotage on Monday, accusing them of dragging an anchor along the Gulf of Finland seabed last December and cutting five undersea cables, causing tens of millions of euros in damage.

Finland charges captain of Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker over Baltic Sea cable sabotage

At a studio in central China's Hunan province, a teacher grips an ink brush, gently writing characters of a secret script created by women centuries ago and now being embraced by a new generation.
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Kateryna “Meow” Troian was a legendary FPV drone pilot with over 1000 combat missions for Ukraine’s 82nd Air Assault Brigade.

The 32-year-old with trademark blue hair was killed by Russian fire near Pokrovsk on 8 June 2025 while defending Ukraine.

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“The Russo-Ukrainian war cannot benefit Russia as the aggressor." - said Polish PM Tusk. Ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting, he stressed the West won’t accept Russia’s terms, territorial issues need Ukraine’s input, and Russia will threaten Europe, including Poland, for many years.

Eight Nordic-Baltic nations issue a joint statement rejecting territorial concessions in Ukraine peace talks.

"No decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine, and no decisions on Europe without Europe," the countries declared.
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Australia must confront the perils that lie ahead Like America's allies in Europe, Australia cannot afford to be complacent about the demands of the Trump administration or the aggression of authoritarian powers.

The time has arrived for Australia to face up to its challenges as well as the full measure of its responsibilities as a wealthy democratic nation that exists in the face of powerful techno-authoritarian regimes.

My latest at Engelsberg Ideas

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Young #Ukrainian volunteers from the Garage association have woven more than 700 camouflage nets, made hundreds of trench candles for the Ukrainian Defenders in 2yrs

Kids share they do it because they know they can save soldiers' lives

Opinion | Spain Is an Example to the World

Immigration can be a good thing for a country with an ageing population.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

German Chancellor Merz:

Ukrainian and European leaders cannot accept the discussion or even deciding on territorial issues between Russia and the United States. I assume the American government sees it the same way.

TESS - Launch Event: Announcing The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics

📢 Launch of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics

On August 4, a new report will offer an up-to-date assessment of the links between health and plastic pollution.

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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns.

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

But somehow we did. Twice.

Inciting stochastic terrorism as part of the ongoing attack on the judiciary and the rule of law

Whenever the world seems filled with animosity…find something that can bring us together.

An injured Ukrainian soldier stranded for several days behind enemy lines managed to escape after being delivered an e-bike by a drone.🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Glory to the Heroes 🇺🇦

Margrethe Vestager - Sommar & Vinter i P1 Den före detta EU-kommissionären om vår tids teknologi och om den verkligen är i människans tjänst.

To all here who understand Danish/Norwegian/Swedish an interesting “Summer Special” with a former EU commissioner… a known enemy of Trump & MAGA…

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Samuel L Jackson said this Two
Years ago........

Motherfucking wind farms…

Ukrainians can count their protests over Zelensky stripping their anti-corruption bodies of independence–and then his U-turn–as another street victory. And proof Ukraine remains a burgeoning if imperfect democracy, despite creeping authoritarian tendencies of its leaders, and in contract to Russia.

THIS IS ABSURD!
ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE!
As a fellow gardener, I hope the UK police and ordinary citizens get more educated!
Japanese gardening tools are some of the best in the world. The sharper the knife/blade/saw the cleaner the cut = it makes it easier for the tree/bush/plant to heal.

A lot of us Europeans feel utter disgust.