Donald Trump’s approval rating is now on a par with the low that Joe Biden sunk to after his catastrophic debate preformance economist.com/graphic-deta...

Trump does not mention NATO once in his speech, after threatening in several pre-speech interviews to leave the alliance 🌮 🌮 🌮 apnews.com/article/trum...

Doing deep, lasting damage to America’s already battered image. Let’s hope there is a reckoning for this despicable rhetoric and behavior

The largest Dutch pension fund pulls hundreds of millions in funds from Palantir www.nu.nl/economie/639...

Roughly two-thirds of Americans say Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions in the US, up 10 points since January www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/p...

Leading the world into ruin 👍🏼

Difficult to know what Rubio stands for anymore. When he wakes up each morning and looks in the bathroom mirror, perhaps there is a momentary flicker of acknowledgement that his boss is undermining US interests and that he is enabling that. But these thoughts are soon banished and it's back to work

Macron & Takaichi to sign a rare earths deal today - aim to start a project in France at the end of 2026 to refine heavy rare earths used in EVs Will confirm this "and other plans for building rare-earth supply chains that do not rely on China"

Trump's war with Iran has been a gift to China. European countries are surveying the damage - and scrambling to avoid a two-front conflict with Washington and Beijing. open.substack.com/pub/nbarkin/...

Sorry Ed 👇🏼

The handful of American officials seconded to UK government departments are increasingly being asked to leave meetings when sensitive information is discussed www.ft.com/content/7b96...

Signal-Gate, war crimes and now blatant corruption giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

And if Trump morphs into a benign multilateralist then American leadership can be restored… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran, US officials tell the WSJ. The complex and risky mission would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

WTO reform talks end in “acrimonious failure” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Democratic candidates should pledge to tear down this atrocity www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The US has hit civilian targets in Iran with an untested missile which is designed to detonate just above its target and blast small tungsten pellets outward, according to the NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

“To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people.” www.ft.com/content/3bd9...

Germany could lose “entire industrial clusters” and suffer “chaotic deindustrialisation” without support for its ailing chemicals sector giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

… in awe … youtu.be/ShFHEvo7bHs

Pity the poor souls at US embassies around the world, who have to put out garbage like this while defending an unnecessary war that has killed thousands of civilians, triggered a global energy crisis and shows no signs of ending. They must know their credibility is at zero.

All you need to know: Tiger Woods is friends with Trump and dating the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

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.

The Price of a Vote: A new must-watch documentary on how Viktor Orban secures the votes of vulnerable Hungarians through bribes and intimidation www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCwQ...

I enjoyed speaking with Wenchi Yu about the Germany-China relationship, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's recent trip to China, and how Berlin is responding to the "China shock" that is pummeling German companies across a wide range of sectors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6W6...

Translation: China prepared to actively increase purchases of European high-tech goods that are currently subject to export controls www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Scott Bessent doesn’t seem to like this story from the “tabloid trash” FT or the “pathetic journalists” who wrote it. Confirmation to me that the story is 💯 accurate

Wake me up when the nightmare’s over www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Most people don't admit they're this dumb.

These companies are aware that their platforms do serious harm to children, but they persist in a blind pursuit of profits. The reckoning is long overdue economist.com/business/202...

Merz told German lawmakers today (01.00.27 below) that he can envision an FTA with China. This is a stunning statement. Beijing has pushed for an FTA because it wants to keep the EU market open for its goods. Brussels opposes it. Worryingly naive from Merz. www.bundestag.de/dokumente/te...

Trump’s other attempt at regime change is going well www.ft.com/content/c526...

Trump’s approval rating has hit a new low of 36%. Americans now rate his stewardship of the economy lower than Joe Biden’s at any point during his presidency. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I understand EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic and his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao have set aside a couple hours for talks at the WTO ministerial in Cameroon. This comes after half a year with next to no high-level in-person engagement between Brussels and Beijing.

Going before Congress and explaining the rationale, aims and end-game for a war that was started without adequate planning or consultation is the bare minimum. An epic failure by Senate Republicans (w/the exception of Rand Paul) to hold the administration to account www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Since the 2024 presidential election, Democrats have flipped more than two dozen seats in Republican or battleground states while the Republicans have not captured any Democratic seats. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Rutte on Trump’s Iran gambit: “He’s doing this to make the whole world safe” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Were the domestic terriers wrestled to the ground and shot in the back?

I don’t disagree with what Steinmeier says here. But I’m still waiting for his China speech. And he completely missed the boat on Russia. There is no compass, I’m afraid.

Hungary’s foreign minister admits to briefing the Russians on confidential EU discussions www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

A notable feature of this op-ed from a Danish journalist on the state of affairs in Denmark ahead of elections: it does not feature the word "immigration" once. What non-Danes is assumed to be an endless topic of discourse in Denmark is far less contentious within www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

At a time when countries like Germany, Canada and Britain are reviving the term “strategic partnership” to describe their relationships with China www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Lithuanian PM Ruginienė: opening Taiwanese Representative Office has brought no benefits from Taipei “What did this bring us? Exactly zero benefit from Taiwan and a significant negative one from China,” Ruginienė said in an interview with Lrytas.lt.

There seem to be two possible outcomes for Hungary’s election: - Orban loses, refuses to accept defeat, and Trump backs him, threatening retaliation if he does not stay in power - Orban wins thanks to Russian and US interference I hope the EU is prepared www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

I remember when Reuters was a must-read for its scoops, breaking news and analysis. How far the mighty have fallen. This story illustrates the lack of direction better than most. Looking for Banksy in 8,000 self-indulgent words. Spoiler alert: they didn’t find him. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Making America Corrupt Again www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Danish troops dispatched to Greenland in January took enough explosives to destroy the island’s main runways near the capital Nuuk and at a former fighter base, following Trump’s threats

The Netherlands is back. New PM Rob Jetten strikes all the right chords in this interview with the FT. Particularly like his message that member states need to stop complaining about Brussels and get on with it. Also his signal on coalitions of the willing pressing ahead www.ft.com/content/4261...

It’s one thing for the Trump team to try to sell its foreign policy amateurism as grand strategy designed to split Russia from China. It’s quite another for a news organization like Politico to swallow this line and regurgitate it like this. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...