“We are focused on the breakdown of our relationship with Europe, but our Asia relationships are also breaking down.”

“We are losing all of our alliances around the world. And let me just say, we are really losing them.”

“More than 100 experts on international law have signed an open letter expressing ‘profound concern’ about serious violations of international law by the US, Israel and Iran in the Middle East war. They say the US-Israeli decision to attack Iran was a clear breach of the United Nations Charter.”

“America refuses to ratify the UN Convention on Laws of the Sea but is trying to claim international law as a reason for keeping the Strait open while defying international law in every other direction. & it gives many things to China if they want to stop vessels going through the South China Sea.”

“We’re bearing the consequences. Italy is in real trouble financially. The consequences for Europe are really intense. We didn’t ask for this war. The US is demanding to use our bases, our overflights, criticising us, while our economies are suffering much more, then we’re being insulted.”

“America is no longer dependent on Middle Eastern oil in the way that other people are. It just doesn’t bear the costs in the same way. So it doesn’t need to think as hard about basic questions or strategies such as whether Iran really is or isn’t a threat. And the same would apply to Cuba.”

“It’s like the 2008 financial crisis: the risk is taken by the US: the costs are born elsewhere. Gas prices are going up, but nothing like as much as in the rest of the world. Absolutely no equivalent to the kind of damage you’re seeing in Gulf economies or South Korea or Pakistan or Egypt.”

“Britain & Europe are being made to feel completely powerless, no choices, suck it up. We’re not going to consult. We’re going to damage your economies. We’re going to do illegal things & make you participate. Then we’re going to insult you. I don’t know how long an alliance can survive this.”

“There is a humanitarian issue here. There are about 20,000 sailors stranded on vessels, about 3,200 vessels stuck inside the Persian Gulf, unable to leave. What happens to those people is a matter of increasing concern to their governments and to shipping companies and, of course, their families.”

“Saudi friends and Jordanian friends and Emirati friends, their biggest concern right now is that there will be a ceasefire and yet Iran still has considerable ability to strike at them and that the US’s attention will be diverted elsewhere and Iran will exact revenge on these countries.”

“It’s really very optimistic to assume that any of these operations would open the straits. And, even if you did, they’re only open as long as you can maintain troops in the area.”

🏦🇺🇸 Foreign central banks are dumping US government bonds en masse, - Reuters and Bloomberg According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, since February 25, foreign central banks, governments and international organizations have sold US government bonds worth $82 billion.

“If everyone starts moving towards some degree of self-sufficiency, we lose the magic of the West.”

“This week, a report published by a joint group of UK members of Parliament with a specific interest and expertise in national security concluded essentially that Britain can no longer rely on America as being its primary ally when it comes to strategic defence matters.”

“At this point, and I think this is a very important shift, Israel has really become the military superpower of the Middle East.”

“Trump’s war is now funding Putin's war.” At the same time as Putin is helping Iran target US armed forces assets and personnel.

“NATO is a defensive alliance and specifically exists only in a defined geographic area. That was put in the founding act of NATO at the insistence of the United States so that it wouldn't have to go to war, for example, in the Middle East.”

“How is it that Americans have allowed one man to have such global power? They’re literally closing universities in Bangladesh one day a week because Donald Trump woke up one morning in Mar-a-Lago and decided to do something.” When are Americans going to take responsibility and get rid of him?

“Ukraine is at the centre of this whole collapse of the old order, the so-called rules-based order. I think if we could only concentrate on Ukraine and fix the Ukraine problem, which basically means defeating Russia, then you will start to fix everything else.”

Remembering Bucha four years on. 🕯️🇺🇦 😭 1/

It’s the 4th anniversary of russia’s appalling massacre of civilians in Bucha. “Ilya Ponomarenko, when he went to Bucha after its liberation, saw a man, dazed, walking in circles on a basketball court. Approaching him, Ponomarenko asked if he could help. 1/2

It’s ridiculous to expect the loneliest man in the world to comprehend the disaster of America Alone.

Ukraine’s “attacks on the Baltic oil infrastructure, which previously handled around 40% of the Russian export capacity, has dented that significantly, more than wiping out the financial benefit that Russia would have accrued from the Iran War. It’s really quite a remarkable development.”

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

The whole Iran war is looking more and more like a gimmick to drop energy sanctions on Russia and pressure Europeans to do the same. A war to make Russia’s much larger war easier and possible to sustain.

The EU will send much needed aid to Cuba, directly defying the increasingly hostile United States.

Um … we already know.

“The USA is responsible for this and therefore should be held accountable.” No notes.

“Trump’s address was largely a rehash of what he has been saying for days about the Iran war. There was little here for those hoping for clear answers on where this war is heading or potential exit ramps for the US. There were glaring omissions which leave a plethora of questions unanswered.”

This.

“Trump’s invective underlines again his misunderstanding of how this 32-member alliance works.“

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Again and again and again we see the EU fundamentally unable to meet the moment: structurally hampered in an ability to make the decisive, unanimous and rapid decisions required in our current geopolitical context. Only major structural change will solve this.

“It’s basically a lot of EU leaders hiding behind Victor Orbán on certain decisions that is blocking a. Ukraine from getting its money and b. the EU being transformed from a clumsy super tanker when it comes to quick decisions to a nimble speedboat.”

During “Peter Magyar’s time when he was working as a civil servant for the Hungarian government in Brussels, he was nicknamed ‘baby Orbán’ by some of his European counterparts.”

“Last May when Ukraine played the red team in a NATO exercise in Estonia, after ~12 hours of fighting, they destroyed 17 to 20 NATO vehicles. War is done differently now. The head of Rheinmetall would be more useful acknowledging drones do have a role to play rather than trying to sell his product.”

“Moscow is apparently preparing to temporarily suspend all gasoline exports as of April 1st, likely in response to domestic gasoline price increases, partly caused by Ukrainian strikes. The Kurishche refinery, last week, was still burning late on Friday.”

“An incredible fact for you: Iran is now earning nearly twice as much from oil sales each day as it did before the bomb started falling on February 28th.”

I definitely need therapy to cope with Trump’s derangement.

Trump’s signature is the repeated stabbing of a knife.

“From fertiliser to helium to sulphur, the block on shipping through the Strait carries other key commodities used by the tech industry, hospitals and farmers. The war will almost certainly cause a global food shock in 2027.”

The Pentagon notified Congress it intended to divert ~$750 million in funding provided by NATO countries through the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program to instead restock the US military’s own inventories, rather than use it for what it was provided: to send assistance to Ukraine.

Utterly unconscionable. Utterly untrustworthy. America is a bandit rogue state.

“Someone need not be a spy to become valuable to an adversary. He need only reward the adversary’s narratives, weaken his own country’s institutions, and normalize exactly the kind of cynicism on which authoritarian regimes thrive.” www.kyivpost.com/post/72674

Putin is helping Iran kill American armed forces personnel and destroy and degrade US assets. Trump is helping Putin. Trump is a traitor. Why is this not obvious to everyone?

1/ Nur um das geordnet zu bekommen: - Trump beginnt völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg - Iran kontrolliert infolge des Krieges Straße von Hormus - Und wird dies auch nach dem Krieg tun - US-Außenminister sagt den G7 ist dumm gelaufen. Ist jetzt euer Problem - Europäer halten weiter an NATO fest

“The war sparked by America and Israel now has a new front – adding a new layer of complexity to a war that is already spilling out of control.”

“Some old truths about warfare have been knocking on the door of the Oval Office. The failure to learn from the past means that Donald Trump now faces a stark choice. If he can not get a deal with Iran, he can either try to declare a victory that will fool no-one, or escalate the war.”

“Iran has diversified their command and control. Tehran doesn’t control this anymore. This is what they planned after the 12-day war. So, even if something were to be agreed, is it possible that everyone really does lay down arms? After this war, everything that could have been relied on is gone.”

Ukrainian Orthodox Patriarch Emeritus Filaret, who died last weekend, as early as 2015/16 predicted that there would be a great war, that Russia would lose, and that Russia would cease to exist as a state by 2030.