The Hormuz situation seems so so bad, like gonna-destabilize-half-the-globe-and-tank-the-economy bad, with no obvious resolution even plausible, and it’s still getting the “distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out” treatment in American press
This is a major European victory over Putin and Trump. Let us celebrate.
We are 600 million in Europe. Russia and the US put together not even 500 million.
That must be mount Doom…
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
Fico 👎
Just sent out my free weekend update. This week the big story was that Germany bet on Ukraine, not as a supplicant but as a defense partner. The USA, otoh, bluffed and then, as it always does, protected Putin. Shame on you who fell for it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The constant focus on the "remarkable" and "inspiring" "resilience" of Ukrainians continues to displace the focus from the horrendous psychological trauma Ukrainians are suffering from the endless death and destruction rained upon them by Russia day after day after day.
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Problem solved! 🤣
Total capitulation by the Trump administration. What a complete and utter humiliation!
Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
„I received a call“
It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Very good
Anyone have guesses as to what will actually move the needle for the GOP to take action against the madman in the WH? 🤷♂️
Trump raping a child on live TV?
Trump shooting a protestor while streaming on Truth Social?
Foreign attacks on U.S. soil with mass bloodshed?
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Indeed
Displaced Family Returns Home Following Truce Between Israel and Lebanon www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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"Europe and Ukraine are pushing toward building both the two areas that have kept Europe structurally tied to the United States: air defence and long-range strike."
Last dependencies are being cut off, and along with them, US' leverage over Ukraine and Europe
We need to be honest about what we are seeing here. The Iranian government is still the same theocratic dictatorship and the Iranian people are in desperate straits after the US promised them liberation. The Iranians still control the Strait of Hormuz, still maintain their right to collect tolls...
🚨 So Trump tears up Obama’s deal because he’s jealous, makes a new deal and it’s not nearly as good, and it costs Trump 20 billion dollars? What a fkn idiot.
Please clap.
Same goes for the Netherlands. Americans are to be pitied. Their system was already broken long before the current administration from hell.
I can't get out of my mind something a cab driver said to me in Belfast last week:
"There's something about America I can't understand. It's a country with so much potential and so many good people in it. How could such a terrible man get elected twice to run it?'
🤬 Russians are deliberately “hunting” Ukrainian passenger trains: the moment of a drone attack on a train in Kherson appeared on the network!
Variaties op deze meme doen het al een paar dagen erg goed in Oekraïne
Counting down for “Brexit Betrayed” headlines in the Rupert Murdoch tabloids. 😞
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I know it might feel good to attack Vance for saying it was a great achievement to cut off all US aid to Ukraine. However that was never up to Vance, it was entirely Trump’s decision.
If you attack Vance and don’t mention Trump, you are spreading a false idea.
