Who does this description of Kaiser Wilhelm II remind you of? (Written by Christopher Clark in 2015).

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Zelensky just out with a long comment after the latest Ramstein meeting. Optimistic and gives thanks to many partners. Not a single mention of the US helping Ukraine.

The Ukrainians are not hiding the fact that the US is no longer their friend.

Good point.

»Kufiyas in Buchenwald«: Der Holocaust gehört nicht in diesen Konflikt – Kommentar Solidarität mit den Palästinensern ist richtig. Aber nicht auf Kosten von Überlebenden der Shoa.

Solidarität mit den Palästinensern ist richtig. Aber nicht auf Kosten von Überlebenden der Shoa.

Is This the End of NATO? The disputes over the Iran War are unprecedented in NATO's 77-year history. It threatens not just the cohesion, but the very foundation of the Alliance itself.

This is the worst crisis in NATO's history. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...

Dmitry Trenin, formerly Director of Carnegie Moscow and now with Higher School of Economics and IMEMO, was elected to be the next President of the Russian International Affairs Council instead of the former foreign minister Igor Ivanov

Spanien und Italien verweigern den USA die Nutzung von Militärflughäfen, Polen Patriots in den Golf abzugeben und UK schränkt den Zugang amerikanischer Verbindungsbeamter zu sensitiven Informationen ein. Wenn die NATO 2003 eine Nahtoderfahrung hatte, was wird das jetzt?

Not secretly - Hungary and Slovakia openly act as proxies for Russian and Chinese influence in the EU

US directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign ‘hostility’ – with Musk’s help Cable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A graph summarizes one of the major points made by Neue Zürcher Zeitung's discussion of the collapse under Trump of the US dollar as a reserve currency. This will have adverse consequences for the US economy for decades, but major US media are seemingly oblivious to what is happening.

Russians warned not to meet with British diplomats YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg

In today’s Russian newspapers: Russians warned not to meet with British diplomats. Plus, the “list of violations for which foreigners can be expelled from Russia” is set to expand & include ‘abusing freedom of the press.’ #ReadingRussia

If this is where the US ends up, the Trump administration is waving the white flag. Nothing about Iranian nukes, nothing about keeping the Strait open and free, nothing about regime change. A strategic waste and failure of historic proportions.

Going TACO. Aka US loses its war of choice. Israel will be blamed for the whole mess. Gulfies will be dropped like old socks, to use a French expression. And the global economy can croak.

The US violated jus ad bellum (when you can go to war) and US military clearly has violated jus in bello (what you are allowed to do in war).

SecDef has encouraged war crimes to be committed, and POTUS quite clearly wrote US was ready to destroy more civ infrastructure, outside of IHL ‘constraints’

Russian Illusions How the West lost the post-Cold War era

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Am I wrong in fearing that Israel is running out of interceptors more rapidly than Iran is depleting its missiles? I hope my fears are misplaced

Iran targeted Diego Garcia base with ballistic missiles.

Iran has carried out its first-ever attack on a U.S. military base located thousands of kilometers from its borders.

The base in question is Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which is jointly used by the United States and the United Kingdom.

It’s Official: Trump’s Tariffs Have Failed Americans are paying, reindustrialization isn’t happening, and China profits.

Trump is not winning on trade: for @foreignpolicy.com I dig into 2025 data and find that by his own yardstick—making foreigners pay for doing business with America, fuelling a manufacturing boom, narrowing the trade deficit and punishing China—tariffs have failed
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/19/t...

Arrivals of military aircraft to Kaliningrad is on a year high the week that passed with 18 a/c noted. Mean last year 10.

The stats are based on intercepted radio, not available on web services.

There are however many similar highs.

All credit to @rundradion.bsky.social

Francis Fukuyama on Trump:

"The world has become a very dangerous place because the most powerful country is under the control of a ten-year-old boy. That boy discovered a flamethrower in his parents’ backyard and is now enjoying the ability to burn things up with it."

Lesenswert

Here are 10 consequences of the US-Israel attack on Iran - a thread. US soft power is damaged. To launch an attack without clear aims or an exit strategy has upset allies - in Europe, Gulf & Asia - who must bear the economic, political and military consequences. /1

Norwegian police moves counter-hybrid training to northern frontier as Russia prepares law permitting cross-border body snatching As Norwegian police drill for potential armed incursions from Russia, the Russian Duma is preparing to adopt a law that could legitimise armed operations abroad to free detained citizens.

Norwegian police moves counter-hybrid training to northern frontier as Russia prepares law permitting cross-border body snatching
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/norwegi...

Map of the ME showing the two straits

Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.

As long as it takes…

The Hormuz Minefield In the strait, Iran holds the advantage—and America has no good options.

If you want to understand the challenges for the US in the Strait of Hormuz, read this terrific @foreignaffairs.com piece by @proftalmadge.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/hormuz-...

This is something you'd see from Russian media

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.