EU is trying to be smart by accusing D Trump of not following through with an agreed plan. How dare he! Of course he does not care, unless EU threatens with serious measures and follow through with them. Will be hard though, given stance of Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, and perhaps Ireland

US risks being isolated as more countries will turn to closer cooperation with China - Canada already showed the way. UK is preparing to engage with China more.

Such a sad interview - zero content and full of cliches. I always found it very strange that in the UK ministers are often people with zero experience in their ministry. Sadly, this is the case here as well... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Another data point in support of my theory that techbros pushing Trump to annex Greenland - minerals, cold weather, ice - perfect setting to set up some mega data centers.

It demonstrates that ruling by consensus is really not working. Especially in current circumstances. EU needs to seriously re-thing how it makes decisions

It’s like Czechoslovakia vs USSR after the Prague Spring

Despite all talks, China continues to expand its production, exceeding expectations, while consumption side is desperately underperforming

1/ So, should the EU retaliate against Trump's Greenland tariff threats? There are roughly three schools of thought, each progressively more interesting than the last. A brief tour through the logic of escalation and deterrence: 🧵

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

@safety.bsky.app why has U24 official account been suspended? This is a vital charity for Ukraine. Please re-instate.

Hypothesis: Trump pushes for Greenland is to make Techbros happy cause they need Greenland to cool down their data centres

Parallels in history: Witkoff - Dmitriev pact

World Cup 2026 is getting more of the 1936 Nazi Olympics vibes. It is a pity Denmark is not participating; it could have been an epic battle.

There are two ways to deal with the current US trade policies: 1. ignore, since introducing counter-tariffs is a self-defeating tactic in a narrow economic sense. This is the optimal policy for most countries, except for China and the EU. 2. fight back as hard as you can (i.e. China rare earth)

Trump Greenland saga will be a long, exhausting soap opera - packed with cliffhangers, vague threats, and “sources close to the matter.” It will end up as a whopping, extra-large nothingburger… except millions of people will have burned through sleep, nerves, and half a news cycle’s dignity

Waters always was ego-maniacal prick, everybody knows about it. Russian use him to connect to tankies in UK and US with some success Thanks god there are also David Gilmore, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason, otherwise it would be hard to listen to Pink Floyd.

Trump will charge 10% tariff on countries that stand with Denmark in protecting Greenland, which will go up to 25% in summer. It is time for the EU to stop appeasing the mad king of tariffs and get serious

Benny does not thinks, he just emits sounds resonating with the MAGA leader.

With rumours of Kadyrov seriously ill and this incident, Chechnya may be on the brink of another calamity and the end of Kadyrov's family rule

He reminds a doctor who treat all diseases with the same medicine. And most already developed immunity against it.

Edward Hugh Dempsey is a disgrace and Putin's useful idiot

Despite all Russian attacks, Ukraine is moving forward. Great news and great hope.

Forthcoming article “The New Causal Macroeconomics of Surveys and Experiments” (Schumpeter Lecture 2025) by Olivier Coibion and @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."

⚠️❗️Russian military equipment has been discovered on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia NPP. At the end of the video, the parking and storage locations of the Russian occupiers' vehicles, which were discovered by aerial reconnaissance, are schematically indicated.

Free speech latest.

1/ Trump’s threat of a 25% tariff on any country trading with Iran is effectively a secondary sanction delivered via tariffs. It weaponizes access to the U.S. market to enforce Iran policy on third countries. #Trade #Economics

1/ China and the EU have reportedly struck a deal to swap steep anti‑subsidy tariffs on Chinese battery EVs for a minimum price system. This is a move from blunt protectionism toward managed trade in a strategic green-tech sector. #Trade #Economics

Much of Ukraine on air alert due to drone and missile attacks by fascist Russia. Over about an hour, Russia launched about 20 ballistic missiles at the county. Power outages in Kyiv city and oblast after energy infrastructure targeted. Kharkiv, Kryvyi River/Zelenodolsk also hit.

Russia’s takeover of Crimea did not begin in 2014. In the first part of a new documentary, the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigation Unit looks at how Russia began moving to seize the peninsula immediately after Ukraine gained independence in 1991. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDn_...

October US trade numbers look like a victory lap: **exports $202.8B** (+9.3% m/m), **imports $274.2B** (-0.5% m/m), deficit down to **-$71.4B** (improved +$18.6B m/m). So what “real economy” engine suddenly kicked in? (Wrong answers welcome.) #USTRade #TradeBalance #MacroData

1/ The EU is pushing ahead with the long-delayed EU–Mercosur FTA, covering Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. This deal could reshape trade in agriculture, autos and manufactured goods across the Atlantic. #Trade #Economics

1/ The EU is being accused of funding Putin’s war while sanctioning it. In 2025, over 15m tonnes of Russian LNG from Yamal landed in EU ports, worth an estimated €7.2bn to the Kremlin. Pipeline gas is down, but LNG is the loophole. #Trade #Economics

And Marinera/Bella 1 is now captured after a crazy pursuit across half of the Atlantic ocean. Russians are cross but they have no army and no navy -- all being destroyed in the fields of Ukraine and in the depths of Black Sea giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

In fact blue collar employment overall is falling. Good post from @josephpolitano.bsky.social www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

Russia has sent a submarine and military ships to protect Bella 1, while the US is amassing military forces in an attempt to capture it. Too much noise around "an empty tanker", don't you think? @FT shows the last know location of Bella 1

@alphaville.ft.com is at its best. Clowns should be called clowns, even if they are rich and powerful giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

1/ Trump’s renewed bid to “acquire” Greenland and claim over 50m ($2.8B) barrels of Venezuelan oil marks a break from rules-based trade toward coercive resource grabs. This isn’t normal deal-making; it’s a challenge to the postwar economic order. #Trade #Economics

Ukrainians continued a borrowing spree in 2025, suggesting that households and companies are settling into a new normal as the country approaches the fifth year of Russia's full-scale invasion. Learn more: kyivindependent.com/chart-of-the...

Chasiv Yar 🥺

UK new car sales topped 2m in 2025 for the first time since 2019, but the real story is trade policy: Chinese brands nearly doubled UK market share to 9.7% (196k vehicles), powered by EVs and the UK’s decision not to copy US/EU China auto tariffs. #Trade #Economics

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This winter will be a disaster for Russians near Pokrovsk, like in 1942 for Germans near Stalingrad. Russians, go home!

Trump didn't tell Congress, but of course DID tell..

Disgusting twat who black-moused Ukraine as "very corrupt" country, when talking about Russian aggression now points out that it is irrelevant when discusing an act of aggression.

Will J Sachs and J Mearsheimer point out that D Trump has been provoked and press Venezuela to give up some of its parts to avoid WWIII??? I think not. J Sachs already quaked his usual anti-US mantra. Disgusting hypocrite...

MAGA is a cult with no principles rather than grift and power grab

Nobody could have predicted this.

Russia is bogged down in Ukraine with no exit in sight. It has no resources to spare helping it's autocratic allies