'Survival-minded' ex-national security officials warn 'guardrails are collapsing' under Trump www.alternet.org/news-politic...

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1. Yesterday, the State Department designated four Antifa-affiliated entities as global terrorist organizations. It’s part of the Trump regime’s effort to inflate the threat posed by “Antifa.” None of these supposed groups is even alleged to have attacked Americans. www.state.gov/releases/202...

Thanks for saying it out loud Commissioner @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu 🙏🏻 🇺🇦 needs to be integrated into European security and defence structures right now! 🇺🇸 continues to obstruct 🇺🇦 NATO membership. That means NATO is obsolete, unfortunately. That’s the reality!

It’s quite rare that I applaud the Trump administration, but their 🇸🇾 policy actually makes sense!

Advarselslamperne for 🇺🇸 demokrati blinker blodrødt! Tidligere kolleger fra CIA, NSA, FBI, State Department og Pentagon konkluderer i ny rapport, at 🇺🇸 med "moderat til høj sikkerhed" er på vej til at blive et "kompetitivt autokrati". Læs på @altingetdk.bsky.social www.altinget.dk/eu/artikel/a...

That’s AfD for ya🥶

The Trump regime is working at 🇺🇳 to legitimise 🇷🇺 conquest in 🇺🇦. Can’t say I’m surprised🥶 www.kyivpost.com/post/63999

Merchant of death🥶

Ukraine is fighting the fight for everyone who cares about freedom and democracy. Catch my briefing from the beautiful St. Michaels Golden Domed Monastery downtown Kyiv right here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

[DK] "der kommer en lind strøm af data, der tyder på, at institutionerne [i USA] ikke vil holde. Det sker i et tempo, så forfatterne bag den omtalte rapport havde svært ved at få den offentliggjort." Prisværdigt nøgtern analyse af @jkaarsbo.bsky.social (som altid). www.altinget.dk/artikel/adva...

Zelenskyy: "Europe fears the word ‘escalation.’ They believe any response is escalation - but Russia sees non-forceful, intellectual responses as weakness." This is exactly right. We are at war a thug, or a school bully. Give them something and they will demand more!

Like I said a million times: a Lukoil exemption for 🇭🇺, the fourth largest importer of 🇷🇺 oil! “Victor is my friend”…and you can add Vladimir to the list. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

The new 🇺🇸 ambassador who handed over his credentials to our King today has a personal stake in President Trump's effort to wrestle 🇬🇱 away from 🇩🇰! Watch my briefing right here👉 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

Trump removes sanctions against Belarus national carrier, Belavia. Trump removing sanctions against Putin’s proselyte Luka and his family is another indication Trump won’t enforce oil sanctions against Russia!

Yep, Viktor helps Vladimir!

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So it’s the non-state solution, the Trump Gaza Riviera🤡

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the answer will be? 🤡

The results of the Trump Xi Summit were modest and neither 🇺🇦 nor 🇹🇼 was discussed. 🇨🇳 oil imports from 🇷🇺 wasn't on the table. It tells us that Trump is unlikely to do much about sanctions enforcement. Watch my 5 min brief right here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

Sanctions always depend on enforcement. It’s essentially a game of whack-a-mole. I’m sceptical we’ll see the Trump administration do what’s necessary. Most likely the Rosneft Lukoil sanctions were performative. 🇨🇳 imports weren’t raised at the Trump-Xi summit either www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Within 24 hrs we see nuclear bluster about the "Burevestnik" missil and a Somali style technical just off the Red Square. The absurd scenes are signs of the trouble Russia is in on many fronts! My analysis👉 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

Live from Mogadishu….no wait Moscow! It’s a technical just off the Red Square😂

Valid question: is Luna a 🇷🇺 OP? Is she a Republican OP? …or is there a difference at all? 🤔

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This is a clear sign that 🇷🇺 is in deep trouble! Don’t forget, at the same time Dimitriev AKA Trump’s handler is in DC where he complements Trump for avoiding WW3 and keeps the innuendos abt WW3 flowing on MAGA channels!

Kirill Dimitriev AKA "Trumps handler" arrived in DC yesterday. Fresh of the plane, Dimitriev made the rounds on cable news network, not least Fox News, appealing to the MAGA base. Today Dimitriev meets his buddy Steve Witkoff. I assess what it means right here 👉 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

According to Stephen Miller, the US in 2024 made Baghdad 2007 look like a summer camp! Went to NY in December 2024. Sounds like I was lucky to get out alive🙈😂

Big day for sanctions against 🇷🇺! 🇪🇺 passed it's 19th package. Trump pulled out a wildcard sanctioning oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil. Also, Hungarian PM Szijjarto met with Secretary Rubio in Washington DC to advance the Budapest Summit. What should we make of it👉 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

Putin doesn’t want to miss an opportunity to manipulate Trump. Preparations for the self-proclaimed “peace summit” in Budapest continue. Putin’s “Trump handler” Kirill Dimitriev is usually a reliable source, so I’d put my money on a summit in a few weeks👀

My Substack should be back up again! Made a short brief on the cancellation of the Budapest summit, the likelihood that 🇷🇺 frozen assets will go to 🇺🇦 and that we could see Gripen fighter jets too. You find it right here: open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

BIG NEWS if true: the Commission looks to have found a solution to use the frozen 🇷🇺 assets to fund 🇺🇦! www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...

In a normal world summits between world leaders would be a good thing. However, the fewer chances Putin gets to manipulate Trump, the better it is. The cancellation of the absurd Budapest summit is absolutely positive!

Media took Trump’s bait as always. So easy to manipulate!

Baltic Sentry was a good move and kudos to 🇫🇮 and 🇪🇪 for their efforts. Now more must be done to enforce shadow fleet sanctions. STOP 🛑 and detain vessels sailing under false flags and with inadequate registration and insurance!

I’ve argued this for a long time. 🇺🇦 contribution to NATO security is increasing by the day. If it hadn’t been for Biden’s handwringing and now autocratic Trump, 🇺🇦 would be on the path into NATO!

Uh what a surprise. No one saw it coming🤡

Unsubtle: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wears a "Russian tricolor" tie to the meeting with Zelensky, while Vice President J.D. Vance wears a black tie fit for a funeral.

Trump manipulates western media and Putin manipulates Trump. That’s the rule. All the nonsense about Hegseth talking tough at NATO, Tomahawks, sanctions etc. So naive. Instead another Putin-Trump summit🤡

No shit Sherlock! Oh you can't do that sort of thing😅

Last week, I was asked whether the new Danish defence bill for the Arctic and North Atlantic is sufficient to defend against Russia? I'd say a more relevant question is, whether it's sufficient to deter the Trump administration! Watch my video brief right here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

Oh shit that’s definitely an insurrection🤡

Usually insurrectionists turn up in chicken costumes🐔🤡

Yep the recently developed "TACO version" of the Tomahawk cruise missile is particularly fearsome🤡😂

Portland, Oregon, clearly a war zone🤡

Two important issues today: 👉 Trump says he has “sort of…almost” made up his mind of selling Tomahawks to the Europeans to deliver to 🇺🇦. 👉 🇩🇪 intelligence reports on 🇷🇺 war plans against NATO. Get my takes in just 5 mins. right here👇 open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaa...

✈️ NATO again scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian planes over the Baltics — three times in a week, - LRT Su-30, Su-35, MiG-31 fighter jets, as well as An-12 and An-72 aircraft, were spotted in the skies over the Baltic Sea, heading from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad region.

Gaza talks kick off in Cairo as we speak. They will be conducted on a knife's edge. As James Carville would have said: "it's about governance, stupid"! Watch my vid right here👇 jacobkaarsbo.substack.com/p/morning-in...

If you read only one thing today, read this letter written from prison, where she has been languishing for several months, by the awesome Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghobeli. She dared to speak the truth to the Moscow's puppets. EU leaders don't have her courage. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.