Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.
Danish Defense Minister: Continue.
PSYOP 2026: no need to drop leaflets when you can hijack push notifications.
Israel hacked BadeSaba, one of Iran's most popular apps, with 37 million installs, used to track daily prayer times.
Tiniest violins for the many European tax exiles and gangsters who never quite understood how much of a geopolitical house of cards the UAE is
Note to Europeans: The US is (once again) firing all these precious missiles that are also earmarked for use in a contingency in Europe.🙃
If you need further proof that US extended deterrence in Europe is becoming more and more porous by the day.
Rubio’s speech at Munich was a massive free dose of fentanyl to an addict desperate not to get clean. And it worked. Europe is full of suckers.
New piece on the strategic vacuum in Washington when it comes to understanding what a more independent, sovereign Europe actually means.
I worry that even a more transatlantic-minded future administration will adapt very poorly to no longer being able to call all the shots in the alliance.
Come on, seriously, a single speech by Colby is not going to suddenly glue back together all the rubble left behind by the Trump administration gleefully smashing the foundations of the Transatlantic Alliance to bits over the past year
If the government won't bail out my crypto losses, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
cultural illiteracy is a deeply-rooted way of life for silicon valley's worst actors
If the U.S. pulled back from NATO, could Europe really defend itself? My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com tackles that critical question from both history and capability www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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Exhausted Danish infantry soldiers during operation Panther's Claws in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, July 2009
Helmand, July 2009. Danish soldiers resting after 8 hours of breaching minefields and clearing houses. Seconds later, I had to wake them to move forward again.
To claim allies weren't on the front lines is a lie and an insult to those who served and lost.
We stepped up. That's what allies do.
Some Europeans will be reassured by this, and wind down the (cautious) assertiveness of recent days.
But it shows that displays of European resolve move Trump in ways that the misguided sycophancy of previous 12 months never did. It's a reason to press forward, not pull back.
Can’t be emphasized enough that the US-led global order has been to US advantage.
Trump’s complaint is basically: You accepting that we’re No. 1, with international institutions and conventions tilted in our favor—because you benefit from it too—was really unfair to us, let’s make it worse for all.
This effort to curry favor by acting like an insult comic will be forgotten within the Trump administration in a day, but will make headlines and be remembered for decades in the countries being insulted.
Trump ruling out the use of military force does not defuse this crisis
Europe & Denmark's red lines are territorial integrity & the right of self-determination for the people of Greenland. They do not want to join the US
Trump has to give up his ambition for sovereign control
It is very naive to think that the tensions over Greenland have been reduced, along with the threat it represents, after Trump's speech.
Latching on to a single phrase, glossing over the rest of it, is sticking ones head in the sand.
Hoping it just goes over isn't a strategy.
Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.
If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.
How hard is it to read a book?
Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading.
paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
Despite tariff threats France is sending more military support to Greenland.
The frigate Bretagne is deployed, and Arctic elite troops will follow, France’s ambassador says.
“The very existence of the Kingdom of Denmark is at stake. And so is the fate of NATO and the EU.”
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.
2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
US discourses that frame Europe as in eternal decline that have been embedded in American culture since the mid-18th century have left America's elites unprepared for the potential strategic implications of European integration
I want to be clear about what I’m saying here. The only way to restore credibility as a reliable and safe ally is to totally and utterly repudiate this administration. That cannot happen at the ballot box. It has to be done by the Republican Party. That is the only way to regain any level of trust.
Trump can put a million-percent tariffs on Denmark, and it still doesn't change the answer about Greenland. There are only two possible endings to this bizarre story. Either Trump gives up, or else he goes through with a military invasion.
