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Germany’s €80B defense shopping list leaves little room for US weapons

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- one a handful of the world's Jewish heads of state -- is calling on on Israel to end ‘genocide in Gaza.’ www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Tuesday’s Irish Indo #TomorrowsPapersToday

Ah yes. Tr*mp sides again with poor Mr oppressed Putin against his own NATO ‘allies’.

This is some tremendous research… excited to see it develop here @ucdpolitics.bsky.social Delighted too to welcome @monikadesilva.bsky.social and if you have an EU foreign policy interest, give her a follow!

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

There goes the argument that it is better to continue buying US weapons because Europeans can get them quicker 'of the shelf'

Finns know what they’re talking about.

"Security guarantees for #Ukraine require readiness to fight #Russia, says #Finland ’s president" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🇨🇿✈️ The Czech Republic call for shooting down Russian military aircraft that invade the airspace of third countries. 🗣️Petr Pavel: "Russia will very quickly realize that it crossed the permissible limits. This is balancing on the verge of conflict, but in the face of evil, one cannot retreat."

Precisely when Russia repeatedly violating NATO airspace…. Tell more about NATO’s credibility?

💯…TBF I think most European leaders know/accept this but they will not acknowledge it because to give it voice is to give that reality a purchase in the public mind.. It would also crystallise it vis a vis US. The death of the transatlantic alliance is a reality that dare not speak its name

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

Bit by bit, Russia is testing the strength of Article 5, trying to prove it’s nothing more than a paper tiger. Three Russian warplanes violated NATO airspace over Estonia. Not drones, but war planes. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/e...

Commission and Council/EUMS appear not to care much about - once again and illegally - undermining the EU's rule of law toolbox for reasons of political expediency... If they do so, let's hope the European Parliament will - again - sue them for misuse of powers (see Case C-225/24 against Comm)

NATO not proving itself especially well in either Estonian or Polish cases. Russian provocations can only be expected to accelerate.

Today's violation of Estonia's airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation. This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region. The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia (1/2)

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1304 1. 🇬🇧 & 🇨🇦 sign agreements with EU to join 150bn € SAFE arms funding mechanism 2. Kuybishev refinery suffers multiple hits from 🇺🇦 drones 3. 15 Shahed leakers out of 86

“Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ireland has committed at least €350m in non-lethal military support to Ukraine.” www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen: "We do not want either a conflict or a war with Russia. No one in Europe wants that. There is only one aggressive party, and that is Russia… If we do not dare to stand up for ourselves&do what needs to be done,we will simply be too easy a target at some point”

UK set for talks over access to EU defence loans www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Ally’? ‘Partner’? None of the above

Small, inconsequential, superficial, probably pointless - but bloody satisfying!! 🤣 Screw you MAGA Mickey. 🤣

He’s not wrong. But from the European side there is absolutely no trust in the US as an ally in this struggle. None.

Wonderful to welcome @ces-europe.bsky.social to @ucddublin.bsky.social this with @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. The 32nd international CES conference theme is "Integrity, Solidarity, and Unity: Hopes and Realities of the European Future" See here for details ces-temple.secure-platform.com/a

They are so weak they have to resort to silencing you. Do not be quiet… they have no power, and the weak little boy Donald withers when challenged every time

Undergraduate student generated list of threats to European security..

I honestly do not know what is next for America. I don’t think it’s good. I think the world must go on without it. What I do know for sure, is that it will take decades to repair its global image. If it doesn’t destroy the entire planet first.

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

My opinion piece for the Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Damn…. 👀👀👀

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

At the *very* least Europeans should cease feeding the malevolent beast of ‘X’ with content!!! This is doubly true for civil society groups, NGOs, journalists/media and governments/democratic politicians. His algorithms throttle democratic voices and profile nutters and screwballs.

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

Very ‘X’ Manages to hit 10 percent of his target and manages to screws up even getting that much.

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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer set of fascists.

We would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn’t. And we know it.

Pleased as punch that @ucdpolitics.bsky.social has received the Athena Swan silver award for its promotion of gender equality. A testament to both colleagues and students - and a point of huge pride for us all @ucddublin.bsky.social

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

If Trump does nothing in response to a Russian attack on Poland, "Europeans will have to stop fooling themselves and face the fact that the Americans really aren’t there for them," Robert Kagan argues:

Allies are aghast as US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker fails even to show up at the NATO emergency meeting following the incursion over Poland. Guess he was too busy measuring men's urinals again.

Overheard walking between classes @ucddublin.bsky.social “… it’s ridiculous old people voting. They have dementia.. they have no idea.. when they get super old… like 60… they should be banned from voting.” 😂😂😂

This very much aligns with my view: eulogy for the transatlantic alliance has now to be written. Time for Europe to move on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The concept of 'European NATO' although not (yet) institutionalised, may come to be a critical agent of security.

In her address to the European Parliament, Ursula von der Leyen condemned Israel’s “man-made famine” in Gaza and presented plans for sanctions. The unprecedented announcement drew both applause and uproar from MEPs. We're inside the room: ow.ly/CTbT50WUmCZ