The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now. They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

Trump’s bombs didn’t just hit Iran – they also hit opponents of the EU’s green transition. The Iran war has sent oil and gas prices soaring, reminding Europe how costly and risky it is to depend on fossil fuels from unstable regions. Link 👇

Alternativet har fat i den rigtige pointe. Virksomheder (fåreavlere) må tilpasse sig de omgivelser de opererer i eller også må de skifte forretningsmodel. Det kan ikke hjælpe noget at naturen skal bøde for at de ikke kan tilpasse sig. www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

🎼 The Finding Out is the Har…dest…Part… 🎶

The prescription to #fossilflation? Get off fossil fuels. "Reaching Net Zero by 2050 'cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis'"

Det er ikke fordi det ikke er udfordrende at være virksomhed, ikke mindst SMV i dagens Danmark, det er det. Men nu er det jo sådan at de regler der måtte opfattes som byrder faktisk er der for et formål. Det undlader @smvdanmark.dk og mange andre elegant at nævne hver gang de tordner løs.

1/ Experts issued some pretty dire warnings about Trumpian tariffs and Brexit, and the result was not nearly as bad as it could have been. Now they're issuing dire warnings about Iran. A much smarter friend asked me how I was thinking about the difference. My short answer: control.

The tariff war is still very much alive. If this continues the next 3 years, the only economy left might be the defence sector. Survival is the name of the game.

This is an extremely important new paper by @armida.bsky.social 🚨 Defense can not be an elite project! Creating broad and deep public support is essential… not just to justify spending but also to create a better pool for military personnel and a convincing reason for compulsory military service.

The Strait of Hormuz is a potential minefield—literally. I joined Laura Coates on @cnn.com last night to discuss why Iran’s 5,000-mine stockpile poses a 'hellscape' risk to the global economy and why a mission to secure enriched uranium would be a massive roll of the dice. youtu.be/f7I2O49S8iM

Agree that UK Greens have some major flaws to fix before they can be trusted to be in power even if they are sensible in a broad range of areas. They should look to the German Greens for a good example of how to grow-up.

Krigen mod Iran er det rene gift for verdenshandlen. Det kunne vi måske leve med hvis der var en virkelig god grund til at stække Iran, men Irans evne til at destabilisere har aldrig været i nærheden af feks Ruslands, og er blevet alvorligt svækket i de senere år. www.berlingske.dk/business/ti-...

So, green transition, anyone? The unreliability of fossil fuels is not new or surprising but maybe this time Europe will start turning decisively away from them. Or maybe not......

Many areas of the world experienced this in gas just a couple of years ago. Europe was writing (state funded) blank cheques like it was going out of fashion, and places like Pakistan couldn't get an LNG shipment as the ability to pay evaporated. Wonder want happened there? Read below...

Europe is getting involved. That might have been a not completely awful idea in case the US had a coherent plan and otherwise supported its European allies. Under the current conditions its better to keep as much distance as possible to the US and Israeli war on Iran. Remember Ukraine and Greenland.

Generelt skal vi høre mere om danskerne i EU systemet.

Cracking article, including on constitutional elements of Trump and Maga. Contains wonderful line: “Regime change was the plan, but Trump finds it easier to change plans than regimes.”

Klassisk svindel. Forhåbenligt kan bagmændene findes og straffes.

Imagine how long Ukraine will be dealing with a similar legacy...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Der noget Moskva over denne udtalelse fra Sophie Løhde. Netop når det benægtes at Venstre er i lommen på landbruget må det betragtes som en bekræftelse. Se feks Asger Christensen i EU parlamentet. "Dyr skal behandles ordenligt og fjorde og drikkevand skal være rent" V trackrecord er utroværdig.

Leaders of both parties should be calling for Witkoff's immediate resignation after these remarks. He is a Russian patsy, a traitor, and this has just gone for too long. It is has to end.

Det kan være at sagen falder allerede inden den er kommet i gang. Men man kan måske spørge, hvem kunne teoretisk set have retlig interesse? og hvis man ikke (realistisk) kan finde nogen, så er reglen måske ikke meget bevendt.

Jeg kan ikke helt gennemskue om Rasmus Dahlberg her stiller spørgsmålstegn ved om der var "fremmede droner" over Danmark, eller om der var droner i det hele taget. Hvis det er det sidste, synes jeg det er fjollet. Der er tusindvis af mennesker som har set dem.

Pele Broberg har desværre ret en stykke af vejen, og det er den tilgang der har gjort Danmark relativt upopulær i Grønland. Så den forhandlingsstrategi/holdning er danske politikere nødt til at lægge fra sig. Til gengæld må erkendelsen af gensidig afhængighed gerne sprede sig mere i Grønland.

The world has changed so fundamentally that the EU can no longer just defend a rules-based order that the great powers themselves ignore. Europe must learn to project power – deter, counter aggression and defend its interests more assertively, according to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Quite noteworthy that the same people who years fighting the energy transition are now demanding quick dismantling of climate laws in response to the US/Israel-Iran war-made energy crisis. How much better would we be prepared in Europe if we had more forcefully transitioned to headpumps and EVs?

Schrödinger's War

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice. Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

Valget i Grønland er også vigtigt her i den sydlige del af kongeriget. Her er en god gennemgang af kandidaterne. Findes noget tilsvarende for Færøerne ? #Blålys

Spare a thought to Danish PM Frederiksen, who called a snap election as the Danish rallied behind her over Trump's threats on Greenland, and now suddenly has an election on 24th of March during a global energy crisis.

A tale as old as time

Politikerne taler om, at Danmark bør være mere uafhængig af amerikansk tech. Men MitId og andre essentielle apps i Danmark fås kun gennem Google og Apple ... Jeg har skrevet om problematikken sammen med min kollega Thomas: www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide... #dkpol #digitalFreedom #mitid

One of Sweden’s most dangerous weapons. An equal defence, is a stronger defence. 🇸🇪 Armed Forces, International Women’s Day 2026

Deliberate bombing of civilian water infrastructure is a war crime in almost any scenario. Regardless of which side does it. In the Gulf area where fresh water is scarce its certainly a matter of life and dead.

Mette Frederiksens håndsrækning til de hårdtarbejdende, helt almindelige djøfere #dkpol

Vildt nok hvis det er sandt. Endnu engang må man overveje om Ungarn er en allieret eller en fjende.

❗️Hungary has taken 7 employees of the Ukrainian bank Oschadbank hostage: no contact with them yet, – Ukraine's Foreign Minister Sybiha ▪️The reasons for their detention and their current state of health are currently unknown;

Spain is right.

Disse mennesker har da vidst i månedsvis at der var optræk til krig mod Iran. Alligevel rejser de ind på tætteste hold sammen med deres børn. Hjælpes det skal de efterhånden, også fordi det for nogle er en mellemlanding, men hvilken plan har de mon for at gøre noget selv. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

I have bandwidth for only so many conflicts so #Pakistan 🇵🇰 vs #Afganistan 🇦🇫 has been ignored but this video of #Taliban airdefense is extremely glorious! Remember, they themselves filmed it and decided to post as a propaganda piece. Office jobs have destroyed the jihad!

The US is succeeding in making Europe weaker by putting pressure on areas where Europe is spilt. Its a sad consequence of the modern world. Hopefully it will not continue this way.

Even if you support striking the Iranian regime, do not ignore the blowback. Trump sending oil prices skyrocketing is the exact lifeline Putin needed to survive. He might have just saved the Russian economy

Do read, on EUs industrial policy, out today.

I did not have a submarine torpedo a frigate on my 2026 Bingo Card. The last time it happened was 2 May 1982 when HMS Conqueror sunk the ARA General Belgrano

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law. But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

Trump is raising tariff walls and trying to force companies to move to the US. Now the EU is responding with its own “buy European” initiative. Link below.

Jo, jo. Men hvis de kører traktor og læsser møg af i gaden så er alt godt.

Landmark in knowledge: Jean-François Champollion, French philologist, founder of Egyptology, deciphered Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs by 1822; died #OTD 1832. Discovered in 1799, the granodiorite Stele is most popular display at British Museum. Portrait by Cogniet 1831 Musée du Louvre | British Museum