Trump's main accomplishment in foreign policy is that he has broken up all US alliances by insulting all & offering nothing.
For 80 years, the US had lots of allies, but now only Israel, which seems to dictate its policies to its lapdog Trump.
What a disastrous US decline!
"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026
A move pretty certainly linked to the French-led efforts of an increased European nuclear deterrence
www.politico.eu/article/finl...
It seems weird that the world's largest petrostate is so invested in making its product as volatile as possible, turning electrification into a national security imperative. But here we are.
⚠️ Russia is planning to interfere in the elections in Hungary, the aim of which is to keep Orban and his party in power, — VSquare citing sources in European security services
Ten years ago, Cambridge Analytica was the dominant narrative. Now it’s which company is going to kill our democracy with maximum efficiency.
❗️Dubai has roughly 10 days of fresh food remaining as Gulf ports and airports are largely shut down, Kühne+Nagel CEO Stefan Paul told SRF. He warned prolonged disruption will cause shortages, while 18% of global air freight capacity has been knocked out. #MiddleEast
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
US forces struck the drone carrier "IRIS Shahid Bagheri" this morning. The vessel is now burning off the coast near Bandar Abbas, Iran.
The ship has a displacement of 42,000 tonnes, almost the size of a WW2 Midway-class carrier.
I need this on a t-shirt. I will definitely give you my money if you can make this happen.
Zelensky highlighting the moral and strategic poverty of the USA under Trump. In the last year Trump has ended all military aid for Ukraine, has undermined Ukrainian air defense, has tried to bully Ukraine in handing over territory, and has rolled out the red carpet for Putin.
Quite an opening paragraph.
Can’t have her squealing like a narc
Iraqi police in Basra say their forces have been dispatched to search for a U.S. pilot who reportedly fell within the province’s borders and has not yet been found. -Al Jazeera
Letting Noem do a presser without notifying her she's been fired is such a perfect encapsulation of how everyone who sides with Trump always, always gets fucked over and betrayed by him in the end. And yet they never learn
Kristi Noem’s tenure at DHS will be remembered for policies that eroded oversight, undermined civil rights protections, and intensified fear in immigrant and protester communities.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
Invasion would be a disaster for Trump.
It would be the dumbest thing the admin could do.
So they'll probably do it by Tuesday.
There it is: Noem out, Mullin in
NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED
WE’VE GOT THE MOMENTUM! 💪
In Texas, Democrats outperformed Republicans in early voting for the first time in over 20 years. North Carolina Democrats also turned out to vote in massive numbers — nearly 50% higher than Republicans — and surpassed both 2024 and 2022 levels.
SpaceX probably has revenues of less than $20bn and loses money after the merger with xAI, but is targeting a $1.75 TRILLION IPO.
So Alphaville got two experts to go through how Musk will probably try to pull off what could be the biggest bagholder operation in history. www.ft.com/content/5bf1...
AI use in real life is not beating the rap that it will pick the deadliest outcome
www.commondreams.org/news/ai-nucl...
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
Do you know anyone in the Middle East right now?
It's scary.
It's like a scene out of a disaster movie. The worse thing is that the Americans there are getting almost no help from our government.
Some desperate people are paying up to $232,000 for tickets on chartered flights out of Dubai.
Still can't believe we torpedoed a ship an ocean away from the "not war" in Iran. There's like an 80% chance it was purely for Trump's amusement.
It's par for the course now for Whiskey Pete, but this attack was very likely illegal. It was also illegal not to render aid to the shipwrecked sailors. (We seem to have left them in the water for Sri Lanka to attempt rescue.)
