Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias: “Europe relied for decades on…the US. It neglected its own capabilities and must now recognize a new and difficult reality. “Strengthening a common defence policy is not a luxury. It is a necessity. Security can no longer be taken for granted.”

Russia is getting stuck in to trying to elect its puppet Orban in Hungary. Tomorrow a sex tape is being released featuring opposition leader Peter Magyar who is leading in the polls.

Lol. Lmao even. Definitely a great read

Shoulda been the case already

🇪🇪 Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service knows its stuff and russia well They have published their 2026 yearbook. Always an interesting read Here are the top findings:

It is of great joy to me that poles and germans find connection in their shared lands and history, bridging the gap between our cultures and countries. I wish our governments could see eye to eye and do the same. Poles and Germans, through blood and steel, share a bond not easily shattered

It is my family's history that keeps drawing me back to Silesian and Pomerelian history, and therefore, to Germany's shared history with Poland. My current read is "Als der Osten noch Heimat war". It does a great job at portraying the radical changes and societal consequences of the post war years

"Who only thinks of one people's interests is an enemy of freedom" ~ Adam Mickiewicz A timely anecdote from my latest research into my family's silesian history I dream of a Europe for all people, a Europe for freedom abd a Europe for democracy Together, we Europeans can make this dream reality

Sports is literally politics

One thing that fascinates me about US politics is how you regularly find entire families going into politics amd staying there over generations. The Kennedys, Clintons, Roosevelts... Kinda cool

This election is not just a choice of leadership, but a choice where Hungary should stand among the world stage. The hungariam people seem to understand this. Keep choosing Europe, our shared home. Keep choosing a government that stands for its people!

Let's nationalize the elections everyone! Please place your cross to show your admiration for our dear leader Kim Y- Donald J. Trump!

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Russia's army reached a critical tipping point. While they recruit roughly 600 soldiers a day, their losses, with roughly 700 a day, are now higher. Their army is shrinking! Stay strong ukraine!

If Europe ends up buying Russian oil refined in India, through the new India-E.U trade deal, I will have an aneurism.

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

Europe and India are making history today. We have concluded the mother of all deals. We have created a free trade zone of two billion people, with both sides set to benefit. This is only the beginning. We will grow our strategic relationship to be even stronger.

Long live India. Long live the friendship between Europe and India. 🇪🇺🇮🇳

This is how you make friends with India! The amricans have quite a lot to learn from the EU it seems

So Trump has his troops in place for Iran now. We can only hope this invasion doesn't throw the region back into utter disarray. We do however also need the Mullah regime to fall. Stability in the middle east will be achieved by democratic change

There have already been more U.S. measles cases in the first three weeks of 2026 than there were in all of 2023 and 2024 COMBINED: www.jezebel.com/measles-case... #measles #disease #publichealth #quarantine

Hey Minnesota! ICE uses rubber tires. Hey Minnesota ICE puts radiator fluid in their vehicles. Hey Minnesota! ICE uses all your infrastructure in your city to attack you!

His way of shifting the argument over seizing those assets towards his favour. "What do you mean the EU seized russian aasets to fund Ukraine's war? Those assets were meant to reconstruct Ukraine, what a stab in the back from Europe! How dare they?!"

Spoken like a true leader. Very impressed by his speeches in Davos

I wonder at what point the republican party would actually move awqs from Trump. Apparently the "small government" party didn't cross its line when Trump literally called himself a dictator in Davos

Back with my third Tonsillitis in about half a year. Started in the same exact spot again. Guess I'm gonna have to get them chopped. Yay

The soviets destroyed pretty much the entire cuty, destroyed our heritage and history there, and it is a grave offence towards every german! At least with it back under german governance could a scar form to close the bleeding

This is also why I will forever push that Germany regains control of Kaliningrad after Russia is defeated. Not to oppress Russians living there, or neo-colonialism, but because Königsberg is a key city in german history! It's where we crowned our kings when being a king in the HRE was forbidden

It was the right thing to abolish the kingdom of Prussia, as that entity tied our progress down, but nuking it from our history is erasing our heritage, not our militarism. That was erased by european cooperation as equals, ridding us of constant fear of subjugation.

Hitler's fascism was born out of this feeling. We were right in our militarism, look how the french opress us the moment they get the chance again! And out of this, he grew the worst fanaticism in world history. Our militarism was a defense mechanism for national survival, not the memory of prussia

As militarism does it grew into a feeling of superiority. This is where it took a turn tiwards global hegemony and was rightfully beaten into submission by the Entente. Yet, now feeling supreme themselves, the french did what our militarism was born against: a harmful peace to forever opress germans

German militarism was born from a need of survival. Either germans live under french and russian boot, with austria not daring enough to unify germans under them, or we rise up and forge our own Germany. One that stands up against our mortal enemies. This nurtures amd requires strong militarism

After WW2 there was a huge push to abolish Prussia. Not just the entity, but its name entirely. Churchill believed German aggressiveness was rooted in its prussian history and its militancy, so he fought tooth and nail to burry it. I strongly believe he painted the right issue onto the wrong devil

There's an old discussion about merging some of Germany's federal states to become more efficient and centralized again. I fully support any step towards this! Decentralization is a drain on our ressources and economy. I merely ask Brandenburg-Berlin to be called Prussia. Respect our history again

Europe is standing up to Trumps new trade war. Good. We stand together in this.

16 000 dead protestors according to Iranian doctors

Europe’s first sodium-ion cell made with fully domestic components www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/18/e...

So torn on Trump's "aid" for Iran. The people there desperately need aid and Europe is too orderly to help, which I must say has its upsides, although not for Iranians Trump is chaotic enough to actually go in and help, but I am afraid of how his aid would look and especially what it would entail

With these great news from Syria, it is time for Türkiye to follow suit and show it remains committed to peace. Increase peace talk efforts with your kurdish minority and rewrite your constitution to recognize not just non-muslim minorities! The Kurds are your citizens, treat them as such

Very happy to read news of Syria recognizing their kurdish minority and enshrining rights for them. The first arab country to do so! Syria stands for peace and democracy!

Nothing says pathetic fragile crook quite like orange felon accepting someone else’s Nobel Peace Prize and nothing says disgraceful fraud quite like Machado gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to a murderous tyrant like him for power. I hope the Nobel Committee strips it from her.

And of course, this is not to say it is the only reason, or that there's no resistance growing regardless. In studying what Mussolini did, Trump is missing the "why he did it". Mussolini was an intelligent political orator. Trump is a mere mindless copycat. From his speeches, to rule, and expansion

Trump sees this and believes expansion to be his mandate as well. An ideological army to rule what should be US territory. This is his gravest mistake, I believe, since there is no such wish among the american populace. The more he clamps down on this, the more disenfranchised his followers will get

I believe Trump's expansionism is also out of Mussolini's book. It is true fascists rule on constant emergency, but for Mussolini, expansion was his mandate. Ethiopia, Albania, Yugoslavia- The italians felt like this territory was theirs by right and the allies had betrayed Italy by not ceding it

Balbo in his early days was a true believer in his own strength and that an ideological army was stronger than any trained one, like Hegseth. Even tho his views shifted later on, it is ironic Balbo was shot down by the very military he messed up. However, I don't see Hegseth reforming his ways

With power cemented, Trump and Mussolini replaced every ministry with loyal followers regardless of their abilities. He had to feed the dogs and make them feel like they had control. All of them ended up eroding their ministries to a point of systemic collapse One can compare Italo Balbo and Hegseth

Once Mussolini was in power, just like Trump, he used the catholic church to cement it. Made the pope endorse him and the catholic party voted for him. Trump couldn't get the pope's approval, but american catholics freely followed him once he pastured himself as modern Jesus and sold bibles

I would even go so far and say January 6 was copying Mussolini's march on Rome He didn't command his dogs to bite, only to march, but the dogs bit regardless, while Mussolini was far away from it all Only difference now was that King Vittorio didn't back down, which also would have stopped Mussolini

He is copying Mussolini's playbook. He sent his Blackshirts to cause chaos and kill dissidents, then demanded a place in parliament so that he may stop the violence. Giolitti yielded, hoping to build an alliance, just for Mussolini to double down and block parliament from taking action

This actually reminded me of Romania.