A grim parallel between US escalating a trade war w/ China & realising that China has serious leverage in the form of rare earths & US launching a war vs Iran & realising Iran has serious leverage in the form of being able to blow up the world economy. Failure of statecraft.

Easier to raze Gaza to the ground than to bomb the Iranian leadership out of existence. Well played Bibi.

Dunning-Kruger news

We're hearing increasing reports from #Iran that detail how shocked & dismayed many people (even those who were hoping for foreign intervention in early January) are about the level of destruction inflicted on their country by the US and Israeli bombings: www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

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Electing Nawrocki was massive mistake. He really doesn't have Poland's security at heart nor does he believe in the European Union.

Cuba isn’t a threat. Americans don’t care about regime change in Cuba. Just normalize trade and relations.

The US has never been invaded. The US has never been bombed. It has never experienced a direct threat, the sound of sirens, building and people being obliterated. For the US war is abstract, something it inflicts upon others, and here lies the flaw, it's sense of infallibility and immortality.

An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a colorful presence both in satellite images and online, a Reuters investigation found reut.rs/4dgaRC6

Russia is such a dark shadow.

Russia is layering its censorship levels.

Electric car average price falls by €1,800 – analysis @transportenvironment.org - they have already been cheaper to own and run for a long time, but purchase price parity could be a tipping point www.transportenvironment.org/articles/ev-...

Every so often you get a bit of news that puts a smile on your face.

Trump officials privately pessimistic there's a strategy to end war, but they fear telling this to Trump, NYT reports. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this shows perils of "personalist" rule and the total absence of constraints on him: newrepublic.com/article/2076...

There are 3 vulnerable choke points regarding the sea transport of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Baffling that this has never been addressed. Cheap oil and stable shipping created terrible incentives to do nothing.

Perfect analysis.

One month to go.

The UN Security Council has adopted a Bahrain-led resolution on the escalating crisis in the Middle East. RESULT In Favor: 13 Against: 0 Abstain: 2 (China and Russia)

Trump continues to threaten to cut off trade with Spain to “punish” them. But the U.S. runs a $4.8 billion trade SURPLUS with Spain. We are winning that deal. And Spain is in the EU, so you can’t just target Spain alone. This isn’t America First, it’s America Confused.

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu is right. Unanimity principle has to end.

The some of the EU decision making is currently held hostage by these two individuals. We urgently need to change the rules unless we want to become totally irrelevant.

Terrifying read and a real eye opener - how the International Group Protection and Indemnity clubs risk assessment members brought tankers movement through the Straight of Hormuz to almost total collapse because the risk is currently mathematically uninsurable.

A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files. The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.

In 1983, the CIA determined that the most crucial commodity in the Gulf was its desalinated potable water. “Successful attacks on several plants in the most dependent countries could lead to panic flights from the country and civil unrest”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #Warlord #DonaldTrump

I hope this is being broadcasted to Hungarians far and wide. Imagine any other European country that was sto blatantly open to enemy interference.

The damage Trump has done to the rest of the world in just over a year is incalculable. Billions wasted, lives lost. Not going to be forgotten.

Parliament calls for a common defence market and action on flagship EU defence projects. Learn more: link.europa.eu/YxMd46

Huge investments in renewable energy have made Spain more independent from fossil fuel imports, and less vulnerable to the surging prices following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran An end to fossil fuels is better for the climate and people's bills – and takes power away from tyrants

He’s a monster and, in the Caribbean and the Middle East, a murderer and a war criminal. But he’ll be damned if he can’t make press photographers ensure he looks pretty. Hair gel is more important to Hegseth than the troops or the law.

OK, so Putin and Trump are both working together to destroy America... everybody clear on that now? edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...

In addition to easing sanctions on Russian oil, the Administration maintains its perfect record of screwing American friends and rewarding enemies.

Hear! Hear! We need a stronger Europe, one that can stand up to the bullies of the world without losing its founding principles. We have to build our own independence, connectivity and resilience with everything we got.

There was a reason that seven Presidents refused to go to war with Iran. In the end, it took a corrupt, compromised felon, beholden and blackmailed by Israel, to bring about this entirely predictable global economic catastrophe.

Some feasible ideas to work around Hungary on the €90B loan to Ukraine. The only miscalculation is that Orban will back down if he wins. He may temporarily but if there's one thing Brussels should have learned by now is that disruption is in Orban's foreign policy DNA www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Putin and Trump want Orban to win, and are willing to interfere and intervene to get their way. A major test for the EU and liberal democracy in Europe. Also for Hungarian voters. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Witkoff has to go down in history as the most naive and gullible, incompetent idiot on the planet. His last meeting with Putin was without a translator (Witkoff does not speak Russian) and he trusts every word he's told.

Win win for Orban, eagerly backed by the Russian despot and the far right US administration.

Macron's potential successor Attal, in an interview with Dutch media: "We are seeing a mad race between the US and China for new technologies, and we must prevent our children from only serving tea and coffee to Americans and Chinese who only come to Europe for holidays"

Chris Murphy confirms that Trump's only plan is to destroy loads of boats and missiles. That's it. No regime change, no afterthought on what could happen to oil supply if Iran blocked the straight of Hormuz in retaliation. Nothing.

Before the U.S military seemingly blew up a girls elementary school in Iran killing dozens of children, the Trump administration got rid of a civilian protection program designed to avoid just this kind of incident. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

After having destroyed the US, The Trump administration sets forth to destroy the rest of the planet.

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges. www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

Great work by Ben McKenzie on the big bullshit that is crypto. A recent paper, authored by Hyun Song Shin, proves that blockchain's structure and gas fees is not scalable and not designed to give money social value. see: www.ft.com/content/4724...

Hungary is stealing money from a country currently being invaded by Russia.

BREAKING: As ‌many as 150 US troops have ​been wounded ​so far in ⁠the war with ​Iran. Far higher than Pentagon which claims that only 8 have been wounded. This is a REUTERS story, not Iranian propaganda. They have it from two sources.

The only reason we know about yesterday’s call is because the Kremlin revealed it.

Political analyst Mikhail Komin spoke to Meduza this week about the escalating clan war within the Russian Defense Ministry. Lots to chew on: the military's internal division of rents & responsibilities, high-stakes blame games, and how Putin manages amid a drawn-out war. meduza.io/en/brief/202...

"The impossibility of attaining, simultaneously, a ledger that is decentralised, secure, and scalable." In other words, crypto Achilles heal, deconstructing the use of stablecoins for general adoption.