Europe has had enough of Trump

Was kommt, wenn die Lokalzeitung geht? Das ist die Leitfrage einer neuen Studie. Um sie zu beantworten, muss man verstehen: Es geht nicht nur die Zeitung. www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...

I wrote on AI trashing literary life, and spoke to Alex Preston about the NYT book review scandal

The question is no longer whether Viktor Orban and Fidesz will lose on 12 April - they will. It's whether Orban will accept the result and concede power

Quite the numbers… “In the first 16 days, the US, together with coalition forces, burned through more than 11,200 munitions, according to RUSI. Among these were more than 1,200 RTX Patriot missile-defence systems, hundreds of its long-range Tomahawk missiles and more than 300 Thaad interceptors.”

Escaping through literature was not the escape I had hoped for.

Not one, but two waves of bombings appear to have struck the area of an elementary school in Minab, Iran. Local media reports 175 people were killed, mostly children. In this video we explain how we analysed footage of the attack on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. youtu.be/yy9pzWul4mA

"Trump has options to end the war with Iran, but they all come with serious liabilities."

The Trump administration’s conduct in the Iran war is accelerating global chaos and deepening America’s dangerous isolation, Robert Kagan argues.

Wenn Washington nicht mehr einspringt, muss Europa selbst handlungsfähig sein: eigene Aufklärung, Führung, Kommunikation, Luftverteidigung, Cyber, Weltraum, Deep‑Strike, gemeinsame Munition & Logistik. Ohne diese Enabler bleibt Europa verwundbar und politisch erpressbar. 2/

Die USA werden nicht mehr das verlässliche Rückgrat europäischer Sicherheit sein. Deshalb braucht Europa – und besonders Deutschland – endlich eine eigene strategische Verteidigungsökonomie. 1/ www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kolu...

"If Trump had true believers around him, he might at least gain a vicarious insight into how some foreign governments think. Instead, he has the likes of Vance, a former moderate who turned hard right when it became convenient to do so."

Shutting Hormuz is a template for China in Taiwan ft.trib.al/TBDOWf8 | opinion

FT Exclusive: Officials familiar with the discussions said that the US president threatened to stop supplies to Nato’s weapons procurement initiative for Ukraine. ft.trib.al/aBrhS4k

Trump weighs withdrawing from NATO amid Iran war tensions, as European allies resist U.S. demands over the Strait of Hormuz.

FT Exclusive: A broker for the US defence secretary attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/EIVizV7

From last night's @semafor.com media newsletter: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner courting the right in the UK, meeting privately earlier this month with Badenoch, Farage, and Boris (among others) www.semafor.com/article/03/2...

This point from @ldfreedman.bsky.social (who's been in Washington this week) is key. Out of malice and stupidity the Trump administration has destroyed its own decision-making capabilities.

1/ A very strikingly gloomy summary from the great Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman - here's an extract to whet your appetite: "It is hard to convey the gloom that has overtaken Washington. All the structures that are vital to crisis management have either been attenuated or disbanded."

How the Iran war will cement China's superpower status Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter: as.ft.com/r/1f7ba68f-1...

Iran accuses US of seeking talks while preparing to invade ft.trib.al/ipfoEhu

Protesters gathered in cities across the US on Saturday to join a massive “No Kings” demonstration against Donald Trump, which organisers promoted as “the largest day of protest in US history”. ft.trib.al/mZDgCS2

Trump administration is taking money Europeans and others have paid for arms for Ukraine and other purposes, not delivering said arms, and spending their cash to help with self-created Gulf mess. This is not a trustworthy power. Credibility incinerated.

Trump has always wanted to end NATO. Is the Iran war giving him the pretext for the breakup he's long dreamed of? my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

By closing the Strait of Hormuz, “Iran has learned the lessons of American foreign policy,” Edward Fishman writes. “It has used the tools at its disposal to exacerbate risk, forcing private actors to become unwitting tools of its statecraft.”

Worum geht es in der Anklage gegen Sigi Wolf? Wie der Investor wegen 630.000 Euro Steuerschuld Gefängnis riskierte. Was eine Autobahnraststätte damit zu tun hat, und wie wehrhafte Beamte alles richtig machten. Eine Einführungsvorlesung mit zwei Texten aus dem Archiv. www.falter.at/zeitung/2021...

Angeblich supersubversiver Sexismus war das Erfolgsrezept des deutschen Schauspielers. Jetzt wird ihm vorgeworfen: Was er als Perversion seiner Kunstfigur ausgab, setzte er mutmaßlich bei seiner eigenen Frau, der Moderatorin Collien Fernandes, in die Realität um ↓

Warum zahlte ein russischer Unternehmer 125 Millionen Euro für die Kaution von Dmytro Firtasch? Und warum floss das Geld jetzt direkt an den ukrainischen Oligarchen zurück? @evakonzett.bsky.social​ grub sich durch alte U-Ausschuss-Akten, um die Staatsaffäre zu verstehen.

War der Knicks vor Putin ein Jobinterview? Eine Podcastserie untersucht Karin Kneissls Fall. @tessaszy.bsky.social​ hat reingehört ↓

Very much worth listening to: General Stanley McChrystal on the limits of what American military power can do podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e...

“Early in 1948, Raymond Chandler had two main gripes. One was with the Oscars; the other was with The Atlantic’s editorial department.” Jake Lundberg looks back at the famous writer’s grievance in Time-Travel Thursdays:

Das Vorgehen von Kulturstaatsminister Weimer @bundeskultur.bsky.social wirkt stümperhaft. Aber es erzielt den gewünschten Effekt: Selbstzensur in der Kulturbranche taz.de/BKM-laesst-J... via @paulinejaeckels.bsky.social @taz.de

Russia built a new secret assassination unit after GRU Unit 29155 was burned across Europe. Center 795 was designed to be harder to trace, more autonomous, able to do from battlefield sabotage in Ukraine to killing abroad. It was compromised by Google Translate, The Insider. 1/

Ukraine is building its own Iron Dome — for a country 30 times larger than Israel. Israel never shared its system. Ukraine had no choice but to design one from scratch — El País. 1/

Putin is apparently so spooked by reports that Israelis hacked Tehran's traffic cameras to kill Khamenei, that he has stopped coming to the Kremlin, started taking his meetings virtually, and shut down cell service in Moscow. My latest. puck.news/putins-post-...

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies,” said Winston Churchill. The truth inside Donald Trump’s tornado of piffle is that he wants get out of the mess he created." My column. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/f31ffe53-7...

OB-Wahl in München: Dieter Reiters Social-Media-Profile verschwunden

Das sind so Hoffnungsschimmer, transnational gedacht, Rheinland-Pfalz mal außen vor: #Paris mit @egregoire.bsky.social, #Marseille weiter mit Benoît Payan und nicht dem Rechtsextremisten, #München wählt den behäbigen Reiter ab.

Bonjour 🇫🇷 Bei den #Kommunalwahlen in #Frankreich scheint die politische Linke wichtige Siege über Konservative & Rechtsextremisten von Marine le PEN eingefahren zu haben. Die Sozialisten & Verbündete verteidigten #Paris und #Marseille, der Rassemblement National scheiterte in mehreren Großstädten.

Israel und die USA zerstörten im Iran viele militärische Ziele, doch das strategische Ziel eines Regimewechsels scheint nicht erreichbar. Trump wirkt überfordert und sendet Signale der Deeskalation und der Eskalation gleichzeitig. 🧵

A message from the president of the United States:

Wenn Du Deinen vermeintlichen Endgegner (🇨🇳) um Hilfe bei der Öffnung der Strasse von Hormuz bittest, dem Gegner (🇷🇺) seine von Dir selbst sanktionierten Ölexporte erleichtern musst und das Öl des Kriegsgegners (🇮🇷), das bereits auf Schiffen unterwegs ist, auf den Markt lässt, wie nennt man das?

Wow. If I'm not mistaken, this marks the longest-range use of ballistic missiles in warfare to date. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Trump's war on Iran continuing to go well. 1/ Seems Iran could have capacity to fire missiles at Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid 2/ US is easing sanctions on Iranian oil 3/Trump says he's winding down the war while sending thousands of troops and three warships to the Middle East

Wolfram Weimer hält sich für liberal, gibt sich aber autoritär. Und er sagt, er wolle keinen Kulturkampf. Nur warum führt er ihn dann? www.mdr.de/altpapier/da...

A Trump friend in a custody fight came up with a novel way to try to get his son back: He called ICE and told them his ex-girlfriend was in the country illegally. She has since been deported. By Megan Tuohy @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Danish military sent explosives and blood supplies to Greenland in January as part of contingency planning for a US attack ft.trib.al/hqXmKfw

Europe needs to prepare now for an extended energy shock ft.trib.al/XTi399J | opinion