The former commander of Poland's GROM special forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has condemned Donald Trump for questioning the contribution of America's allies "This is the cynicism of a coward who hasn’t been on the front lines himself," said General Roman Polko.

We really don't care if wind energy hurts Trump's feeling.

A prelude to the Handmaid's Tale.

You will see a lot of these fabricated claims prior to Hungary's elections this April. Orban is doing a Trump and when he loses he will call the results fake and point the finger to Ukraine.

I don't want any of my taxes going to Hungary and I suspect the majority of other tax payers around the EU feel the same. It is time our politicians came up with proper actions to deal with Hungary. If needs be abolish the EU and recreate it without Hungary.

Let's show some support to Greenland✊ ✔cancelled Netflix ✔cancelled Google yearly subscription ✔no longer using Amazon ✔ditching Microsoft for Linux

US dollar headed for its worst week in seven months. #$DXY

Europe needs a new buffer zone which includes a democratic Belorussia.

Of course, Trump is a dangerous, incoherent ignoramus, but just think how much more stupid these clowns are to give him a billion clams so they can join his meaningless club of authoritarians and war criminals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Lessons from this farrago: 1. He rules by whim. Be ready for anything, however absurd 2. Things said yesterday are irrelevant today 3. Favours will not be repaid. Sucking-up gets you sweet FA 4. ”Friends” & ”allies” = meaningless terms* 5. A strong United front works 6. Hurt the markets, hurt him**

The connection between Epstein >Russia >Trump should be given a lot more scrutiny.

Some men will burn their nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. -Sun Tzu

My question is what will happen to this 'board of peace' once Trump hits the sack?

Trump is a complete anomaly as a head of state. In an autocracy he would have been retired for medical reasons with an heir taking his place (same in a monarchy). In a democracy he would be in jail. The US is different.

All the EU should do the same in solidarity.

"A disruptive threat is emerging: swarms of collaborative, malicious AI agents,” the authors said. “These systems are capable of coordinating autonomously, infiltrating communities and fabricating consensus efficiently. By adaptively mimicking human social dynamics, they threaten democracy.”

Comparing China's massive drive towards clean energy and the US with it's lump of coal mascot.

AI is turning electricity into a strategic input like semiconductors: whoever can route vast, reliable, low carbon power to dense data centre clusters can scale model training, inference, & industrial automation faster & cheaper. The UHV corridor bridges frontier generation & coastal compute:

2026 about to become the most absurd year in human history. "..Moscow is willing to contribute $1 billion to President Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza, but that would require unfreezing Russian assets held in the United States, President Vladimir V. Putin said on Thursday.

🗓️ Update: Two weeks ago today, #Iran was cut off from the world by an extremist regime as the people went out on the streets to call for change. With the digital blackout silencing Iranians' voices, authorities perpetrated one of the deadliest crackdowns in modern history.

Good news! The OSCE Democracy Office suggests sending a full election observation mission to Hungary, with 200 observers on election day. Highly necessary, considering the charged situation and persistent fairness issues. @europarl.europa.eu should send a mission too! odihr.osce.org/node/661804

The minute Kushner proposed the insane idea of paving over Gaza’s problems in order to build a little Las Vegas in its place we should have known the idea was so corrupt and vile that Trump would try to make it a reality.

i see the US is swapping mines and bases on Greenland for mines and bases on Greenland BUT crucially everyone hates them now, fill in your own Art of the Deal joke here www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today, the EU provided the first €10 million for a new Special Tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for their role in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s leaders are responsible for this war, and they must be held accountable. There can be no impunity. (1/2)

So neither the Greenlanders nor the Danish were involved in Trump's imaginary "deal". If you think this absurd situation could not get anymore stupid, it just did.

The demise of Orban will, hopefully, be one of the few positive highlights of this year.

Yeah the "Board of Peace" appears to be an entity created by Trump personally through which people can pay him personally

Consider the following. Two founding members of the board of peace can't be part of the signing ceremony, because they have an arrest warrant for war crimes issued against them.

Europe has no option but to try to make sure more of the continents’ vast savings are invested at home

Perhaps more emphasis and clarification should have been given to that detail before the deal was taken to court by over half of the European parliament.

'A Nato spokesperson later stated that Rutte did not propose any compromise on Greenland’s sovereignty' 𝑅𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑟; ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝐼𝑛 𝐷𝑢𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 (𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙. 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑃𝑀) 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡.

The general passivity of Americans watching their country slide into autocracy is a source of wonder to many of us. Yet, much of the answer lies in the social isolation, a car dependant culture, towns designed like military grids, and way too much land. The Atlantic did a great piece on that.

So, according to anonymous sources, the US has been loaned / given small areas of Greenland to build military bases, similar to the agreement the British have in Cyprus. Have the Greenlanders been consulted on this?

The violent abuse of power made by ICE in Minnesota with the abduction of children is making international news. Shameful and beyond comprehension.

The transition to a fully electric model cannot come soon enough.

China understood in the early 1990s at the latest that relying on fossil fuels was a dead end in terms of geopolitics for a country with limited domestic supplies. Going green was the only way. It took Europe until 2026. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This is the other viable possibility.

Inaugural members of Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”: Six monarchs, three ex-Soviet apparatchiks, two military-backed regimes and a leader sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes. www.ft.com/content/a500...

Iceland looks the size of Europe when set at the edge of the Mercator map. Apparently it belonged to the US before it was loaned to Viking explorers in exchange of furs, back in 874.

Mark Rutte has handed Donald Trump a piece of paper with ‘turn over to read our Greenland offer’ on both sides & that will occupy him for weeks

Wondering if Rutte has a copy of the Epstein files 😎

Turns out that all you need to do to make bad things go away is to call Trump "daddy".

The EU must respond decisively to any form of coercion against EU member states, say MEPs. Learn more ↓

It's -12 (10.4°F) in Kyiv tonight.

Trump's speech lasted 70 minutes. That's 3 minutes longer than the silent German expressionist masterpiece, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. And much like that film - he was weird and nightmarish while saying nothing at all.

Can't see negotiations for Greenland going well. Trump gave no indication he's open to anything other than acquiring it & ominously described it as core national interest. Likely that talks will collapse, he goes through with tariffs & Europeans respond. He's then liable to use Ukraine as leverage.

The far left and the far right will be Europe's undoing.

The European Parliament has confirmed it will not proceed with ratification of US tariff deal Bernd Lange, the chair of trade committee said, representatives of the political groups have just met and decided untii “the threats [on Greenland] are over there will be no possibility of compromise”.

Here's a cheerful thought: this dribbling incoherent ignorant prat could kill everyone on earth right now.

@president.ecb.europa.eu that's the spirit! 😎