❗️🇵🇱Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: "As if anyone still doubts who benefits from all these anti-European talks about sovereignty. Those who want to make money by spreading hatred, and those who want to conquer Europe. If anyone still doubts who these anti-European sovereignty talks serve —

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

Ukrainian children abducted by Russia are being sent to military camps in North Korea. Legal expert Rashevska told U.S. Senate that a 12-year-old from Donetsk and a 16-year-old from Simferopol were taken to Songdowon camp, 9,000 km from home, exposed to militarized training and propaganda.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The one thing I still order on Amazon is loo roll, in bulk. Make of that what you will.

❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦 There is no progress on the issue of territories, Russia refuses to discuss a ceasefire, and Ukraine refuses to withdraw from the territory of Donbas, — ABC News with reference to the results of yesterday's talks between Ukraine and the United States.

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Russia started this war and Russia is the only country that can stop this war.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

I just spoke with President Gitanas Nausėda. The situation at the border with Belarus is worsening, with the growing incursions of smuggling balloons into Lithuania’s airspace. Such hybrid attack by the Lukashenka regime is completely unacceptable.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Putin has signed Russia’s 2026 budget, allocating at least $166 billion to the war against Ukraine, one-third of all spending and the highest military outlay since the Soviet era. To fund it, Russia slashed social programs.

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

With a four-page letter, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has set the bar impossibly high for approving the reparations loan for Ukraine. As the deadlock deepens, the EU consider an emergency funding solution to plug the gap. Here's where we are now.

The 'peace plan' unveiled by Washington to end the war in Ukraine has served at least one purpose: It has reminded everyone of Donald Trump's hostility toward Kyiv, observes Le Monde's columnist Gilles Paris. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

It’s not that complicated, people.

There is never any daylight between the positions of Russia and JD Vance.

“Donald Trump is a sociopath. Donald Trump is evil. Donald Trump is trying to destroy democracy because he only thinks of himself. These things are all inescapably true”

War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism

Fogh Rasmussen is saying everything the Danish government can’t say right now.

JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.

The UK: now poorer and angrier. And still, somehow, with Farage leading in the polls.

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

“Healey said last week that there had been a 30% increase in Russian vessels threatening UK waters in the past two years.” 👁️

Russia has destroyed the last functioning power unit in Chernihiv region, The Guardian reports. The facility was hit directly, its equipment completely obliterated. Concrete walls were in place, but the roof was unfinished, and a full underground shelter would have required months of work.

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

I guess the challenge here is that while this might be personally lucrative for MAGASuperFan1488 from Uganda (which fine I guess, go get that bread Grifter King), the West descending into technofascism is not going to be good for ANYONE. Those deaths because of USAID cuts weren't in Kansas.

Kaja Kallas on Russian (Soviet) negotiating tactics.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki says Trump’s peace plan must reflect the reality that Russia cannot be trusted to honor agreements. He insists any deal must be approved by Kyiv and warns that peace must not come at the cost of Russia achieving its strategic goals.

European leaders should realise the urgency of giving Ukraine the frozen Russian assets to purchase defence systems NOW, and going further to stop Russian drone attacks and sabotage in other European countries. Our fate is bound up with Ukraine’s. The US is no longer our friend.

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: I've spoken about-- TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

A beautiful family was killed by the russians in Ternopil. One boy was seven years old, and the other was not even a year old. On November 20, russians hit a residential building in Ternopil. At least 31 civilians were killed, including 6 children.

Cheeseburger-eating surrender monkeys 🇺🇸🍔🐒 Call it what it is: betrayal.

❗️The Prime Minister of the 🇺🇸United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, stated that the path to a just and lasting peace in Ukraine must begin from today's reality, but emphasised that 🇺🇦Ukraine itself must decide its own future under full sovereignty. "This is a principle we must uphold."

"The restrictions were intended to prevent a repeat of the Nazi rise to power, when anti-democratic forces were able to subvert democracy from within..." www.politico.eu/article/larg...

Just in the past 3 days, I happened to speak to an academic, a US politician and a former Biden official who had all received death threats and severe harassment from the MAGA movement. It's now a common experience. I am sorry MTG has to live through the same thing, but she can't be surprised

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

I think the American public has the right to see the secret protocols of the Witkoff-Dmitriev pact. What business deals have been agreed?

Russia and their new allies’ terms of Ukrainian surrender should immediately be denied by this group of countries. As Kennan wrote back in 1946: “Russia is deaf to the logic of reason but very sensitive to the logic of power.”

❗️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Trump warned Zelensky that if he does not sign the agreement by next Thursday, arms supplies and intelligence sharing will be suspended, — The Sun

Amazing 👀 We in the UK have become so used to politicians facing no personal consequences whatever for screwing over their electorate and sacrificing their country’s interests for personal short term gain. When they finally do, it seems almost surreal.

Who did this??! 😂🤣🐖

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

🇺🇸🇩🇪 The US would like Germany to take over the command of Nato forces in Europe, Whitaker said, - The Times In remarks that elicited shock from a German Nato general seated next to him, Whitaker said it was US long-term “aspirational goal” that Berlin should appoint supreme allied commander Europe.

#Russia recruits over 18,000 foreigners for its war against Ukraine #Ukraine has identified over 18,000 foreign nationals from 128 countries who have fought or are currently fighting as part of the 🇷🇺 armed forces. At least 3,388 of them have been killed. global.espreso.tv/military-new...