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06.03.2026 22:06
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Can't help thinking it's good for Europe and Canada that the Gulf states must now be realizing what kind of US government this is.
The Rot in American diplomacy, the armed forces and the government generally. America is falling apart because it is run so very, very badly.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
This is a fucking travesty.
“In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.”
(A year’s worth of production or more, btw)
kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...
I found the section on the Russian budget absolutely illuminating. (yes, I've become that person). But seriously, how many of you knew that oil and gas revenues make up only... 20% of the Russian state budget. I assumed it was at least double that.
Russia is not merely "a gas station with nukes".
A little hard to feel sorry for citizens of a country treating its poor immigrants horribly, offering sanctuary to pirates and criminals from all over the world as well as to tax dodging celebrities, and worst: actively supporting mass murder in Sudan.
Only 57% of Americans currently disapprove of Trump. Trump may leave the scene at some point. Those 43% will still be around. Europe needs to decouple, NOW!
Well now I’m very disappointed, as a paying customer of Proton. Are there any worthier alternatives?
Cory Doctorow can now be followed from Bluesky!
we have all but outsourced our military security to these people.
De beste Midden-Oosten expert van ons prachtland heeft een ingelaste uitzending over Iran die ik van harte aanbeveel. Waarom worden ook kleine politiebureaus gebombardeerd? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsHu...
bij hem is het tactiek.
Taking another look at this, a sense I've had for a while is that there is an odd disconnect between how impact of airpower is discussed by American scholars as an abstract policy process and European scholars whose parents and grandparents experienced the impact of airpower as social catastrophe
I grew up watching Derrick and Der Alte with my father.
Als we nou maar gewoon doen wat de grote Trump zegt, dan zal hij heus goed voor ons zorgen.
Denken al die Nederlanders met een Telegraaf abonnement, een WNL lidmaatschap en een autoritaire persoonlijkheid.
Maar zo behandelt Trump de mensen die zijn kant kiezen.
POWs returning from Russian captivity... Europe's heroes.
or perhaps a European fund manager, quietly moving out of US assets.
die pratende klasse is grotendeels irrelevant aan het worden. Kranten en het Journaal zijn bejaardenhuizen, net als de talkshows.
In Nederland zitten we nog net voor dit punt. Het is nog grotendeels impliciet (geweld afkeuren maar er wel 'begrip voor hebben' / bedreigingen gedaan door je eigen achterban niet aanpakken / politieke opponenten deportatie toewensen / glashard liegen).
How do they do this, over at Private Eye? Almost every edition's front page is a banger.
"We came away from our meetings concluding that Russia’s relentless advance is much less impressive and significant than Ukraine’s relentless defense."
This is not regime change. This is country destruction.
So "unarmed Iranians turn out". Then what?
Civil society has been decimated after the CIA destroyed Iranian democracy in the 1950s and then 47 years of revolution. There's no party system. Many regime supporters have blood on their hands...
Yes! Oui! Tak!
Farrage is a French name.
It's almost as if "being shackled to a corpse" (as Brexiteers like to describe EU membership) has its advantages.
good thread. Too much of European diplomacy is viewed through the prism of American politics.
The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.
2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.
Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.
My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"...als betrete man einen Spa-Bereich in einem Provinz-Hotel."
Thank you for this. Also: please, publish this in English!
Juridisch vast heel moeilijk. Beter om een voorbeeld te stellen.