Excellent article from Adam Thomson for @theeln.bsky.social — I would endorse his recommendation that "instead of focusing on 'substance principles', we should develop and insist upon a set of “process principles” to guide Russia-Europe relations." europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/a...

“Putin is determined to curtail Ukraine’s sovereignty...keeping Ukraine within Russia’s sphere of influence and preventing its Euro-Atlantic integration is paramount,” says Lokker. Some comments from me on the 4th anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. www.firstpost.com/world/four-y...

Anthropic's co-founder on AI's current state: "The way that I think of these systems now is that they’re like little troublesome genies that I can give instructions to, and they’ll go and do things for me. But I still need to specify the instruction just right" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

"Nearly 40 percent of Russia’s federal budget is now devoted to the military and security. Another 9 percent goes to interest payments on the debt that Mr. Putin has decided to take on to finance the war, a departure from years of tight fiscal discipline." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

"Listening to Rubio, the reality is that the US seeks to move to a 19th-century concept of the world, as a duty to those who need to be rescued from non-Western civilisation, by force." www.euractiv.com/opinion/rubi...

Rubio has a personal interest in saying nice(ish) things to Europe; the Trump administration as a whole has a strong interest in Europe not acting on the rupture the White House has created. None of this means an actual change of direction in US foreign policy.

🚨🚨 #NATO SG Mark #Rutte is to my mind massively undermining European #unity and efforts to build up their #defence and #security in what I see as a statement which only plays in the hands of #Putin and #Trump. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-defense-nato-mark-rutte-us-politics-threats-gdp/

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

In my view, repression at home and thuggery abroad - most recently Greenland - are two sides of the same coin. Both reflect the worldview of people who think violence, power, threat and coercion are all that's required to push your agenda through & secure your interests.

Border Patrol murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this morning. He was a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a U.S. citizen, a legal gun owner. Video shows he was holding a phone when they killed him. This is the second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in 17 days. A legal thread 🧵

To Atlanticists who've insisted for years that Giorgia Meloni is not far right, I ask: why is she appearing in a video alongside 🇫🇷Le Pen, 🇩🇪Weidel, 🇮🇱Netanyahu & 🇪🇸Abascal? And why is this supposed friend of Ukraine endorsing Orban for re-election so he can keep blocking 🇪🇺 aid to 🇺🇦?

Insane it had to come this far, but it is the right move and a major step for Europe’s security

BREAKING part 3: Denmark is not acting alone. Several European allies are in dialogue with Copenhagen about providing military reinforcements to Greenland. Preparing for the arrival of allied forces is a key task for the advance unit now on the ground. www.dr.dk/tjenester/ki...

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

It's a repeat of Trump's business failures. You can ride the attention economy — all the way to the presidency, it turns out — but if all of your "productive" ventures have a negative return on investment? You'll eventually go bankrupt.

With BRICS cooperation formally expanding to the military domain, this serves as an important reminder that the #AxisofUpheaval continues to strengthen. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

There's "compartmentalising" the transatlantic relationship... and then there's the mental gymnastics required to reconcile this ⬇️ with any sort of meaningful US security guarantees for Ukraine. Europe's on its own.

Realism. Restraint.

It’s just kids playing Risk now. 🤡

"For Donald Trump, the preservation of something close to the status quo makes sense, given that his goal is extortion, not political transformation. Rather than the moralistic imperialism of George W. Bush, Trump’s foreign policy is imperialistic gangsterism." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

Pretty sure this is the plan

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

What to make of the EU decision on funding for Ukraine? It is a good outcome in my opinion. Here is why:

There’s gonna be a lot of hyperbolic talk about EU failing to meet the moment, yada, yada. But a 90 BILLION EU loan is a huge step for the EU and Ukraine! Europe just borrowed for war! EU crossed the joint borrowing rubicon. And they can still do the reparations loan in 2026.

Putin is in no mood to compromise. Under current conditions, there is no realistic peace deal that preserves Ukrainian sovereignty and the broader norms underpinning global stability. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The war in Ukraine is a critical inflection point for the norm against conquest. Preserving this principle requires a settlement that upholds Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty, ensuring the costs to Russia of its aggression outweigh the benefits. My analysis for @inkstickmedia.com:

🚨🚨This is worse than we could have imagined: Full version of #Trump's national #securitystrategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from #EU”. 🧵 notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...

People continue to be surprised by this stuff as if we don't already know that the main point of strategy documents for the Trump admin is throwing far-right talking points together in exactly the way that produces maximum trolling.

The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

The OSCE was established to keep war away from Europe. Yet, Russia blatantly violates international law and OSCE principles. The EU will stay the course. Only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance. My statement at OSCE Ministerial Council ↓

Part of a pattern with Hegseth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

“It is America, not China, that seems determined to spring Thucydides’ trap…As its primacy fades, the United States now faces a choice: meet rising nations as respected partners in building a new, more equitable multipolar world or seek the costly, brittle power that comes from domination.”

What if it was ChatGPT’s peace proposal?

It isn't even clear that the Kremlin likes this plan

“MAGA’s policy agenda is the reactionary technocrat’s attempt at slavishly trying to impose coherence on the whims of a mad king who does not feel beholden to the form or content that the new technocrats treat as religion.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/washington...

Glad to have offered some thoughts to this @euronews.com piece on the U.S. approach to EU enlargement. While enlargement has largely been out of focus of the Trump administration, supporting it nonetheless remains in the U.S. interest. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

Interesting news from Northern Cyprus -- a potential opening to resolve a frozen conflict that has posed a headache for the European Union for decades. on.ft.com/470be0h

"Vladimir Putin on Monday signed legislation withdrawing Russia from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, marking another step in Moscow’s systematic exit from Western institutions since launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine." meduza.io/en/news/2025...

As Albania makes rapid progress toward EU accession, PM Edi Rama says of the European Union: "This is an empire we want to be part of, an empire of values, rights, and security." www.eunews.it/en/2025/09/1...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

"Contrary to what top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, have suggested as major concessions, Lokker says that there is little evidence that Russia’s stance has changed following Trump’s separate talks with Putin, Zelenskyy, and other European leaders." bit.ly/467qszZ

In this morning's newsletter, I wrote about an under-appreciated problem for liberalism — its total failure to cultivate young talent www.vox.com/on-the-right...

To put it simply: Putin played Trump. Again. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I shared my thoughts with @dgprawna.bsky.social on a potential Zelensky-Putin summit, suggesting that Geneva or Istanbul could be suitable locations for the meeting given the relative neutrality of Switzerland and Turkey in the conflict. Read here (in Polish): www.gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/k...

Interesting move by Trump here -- real pressure from the White House on Budapest to unblock Kyiv's EU accession could make a significant difference. This is one potentially positive outcome of European leaders' visit to Washington on Monday. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...