“Iran will end the war in a stronger position than when it came under attack. The United States will end the war in a weaker position than before it launched its war. The rest is details.”

Ed Luce: Not all of Trump’s slide stems from Iran. Months before he embarked on his Gulf war of choice, his poll numbers were heading south. Iran is only the latest—though most dramatic—example of Trump’s increasingly volatile switch from the home stage to the world’s (and from Immigration and

Update: exceptions are Finland, Poland & Netherlands - but as we need everything at scale that means most European countries have still failed to aquire vital (air launched) capabilities to suppress Russian air defences, crucial in winning eg Baltic escalation, according to @justin-br0nk.bsky.social

Since 24/02/22 the UK/EU/NL "have done an enormous amount of admiring the problem, but the actual result from an ammunitions aquiring perspective is ZERO." "Mind-blowing", says @justin-br0nk.bsky.social about EU's 4-y FAILURE to buy SEAD to WIN in case of war with Russia 👇 youtu.be/kyhLb42FpO0?...

Apparently the USA has obliterated the Iranians' ability to function as a state, except it's still capable of Olympic level teasing of the US President. Oh, and missile launches

Eens! Luistertip! 👇 @laetitiaouillet.bsky.social @energeia.nl

Let's all be very wary of external autocrats (Putin) who try to sabotage European democratic societies by stirring up (through polarising misinformation campaigns) or even faking (through agents, like fake activists & fake journalists) subcultural protests, as illustrated below:

Supergoeie Energeia-podcast met expert @laetitiaouillet.bsky.social over ons rapport Autonoom & Veilig. De podcast duurt ruim een uur, MAAR is vanaf de start supervermakelijk én enorm inhoudelijk. Bovendien hebben Sabine en Laetitia het daadwerkelijk gelezen 👌👌 (poeh!) 👇 energeia.nl/podcast-zo-w...

Wat ik verder apart vind aan ‘Onze man bij de vijand’: als je de vrijheid hebt om je eigen team samen te stellen, waarom kies je voor je Russische ploeg dan uitgerekend iemand die voor de staatsgestuurde nieuwszender RT werkt? 👉 en.rtdoc.tv/films/456-re...

"Goede propaganda doet een appèl (...) op je afkeer van oorlog. In die geest leidt Erdbrink zijn kijkers naar dat aanlokkelijke, knusse grijze gebied waar alle onderscheid tussen dader en slachtoffer vervaagt." Werkelijk steenharde column over de "neutrale" Rusland-serie van Thomas Erdbrink.

1/2 Just 2 weeks until the elections in Hungary, amid frantic campaigning. Putin, Lukashenko, Fico + Trump are desperate for Orbán to hold on to power. But the polls are growing wider in favour of Péter Magyar's Tisza party, and Orcban is losing control of himself + the country

🇫🇷 Sen. Claude Malhuret: "I compared the Trump presidency to Nero's court. I was wrong. It's a court of miracles. An anti-vax ex heroin addict as Health Sec; a climate skeptic as Econ Sec; an alcoholic TV host as Def Sec; an ex Qatari agent as Attorney Gen; a Putin groupie as Homeland Security Sec."

We have known this for a while, but the evidence is becoming more and more damning. Putin is helping Iran try to kill US forces. And Trump is protecting and helping Putin at the same time. MAGA is perverse. kyivindependent.com/russia-sendi...

😮 (Years late, but we need a European defence industry that is capable of supplying 100% of the kit that we urgently need, including air defence. Depending on the US, even for Patriots, was a giant miscalculation.)

Still unconfirmed: American F/A-18 possibly hit by MANPAD above Iranian coast. Videos in themselves not yet convincing. There are however now multiple angles 👇 - geolocated at southern city of Chabahar 👇 on Gulf of Oman, relatively speaking not far from Pakistan.

A month into the war and Trump is changing his objectives. This is what you do when you're losing.

Suspicions confirmed. Looks like the whole Ust-Luga complex is going up.

Update from Ust-Luga 🔥😎

If anyone was concerned that Putin might re-enter the LNG market now that Trump has wiped out Qatar, no worries - Ukraine just did exactly that to Ust-Luga. The oil & gas port, including an LNG-production site, seems pretty much gone.

“If the U.S. wants to reopen the Strait, it has only two real options: reach an agreement with Iran—or use overwhelming force. There is no third option.” Danny Citrinowicz Former head of Iran branch of Israeli defense intelligence Citrinowicz publicly warned against the Iran War before it began.

if anything like this actually comes to fruition it is inarguable that donald trump started and comprehensively lost a war in less than a month this is an absolute body blow to the idea of american hegemony

American F-18 would have been shut down over Iran? Plane would have crashed in Indian Ocean/Gulf of Oman, with pilot ejected? (If so, in whose hands?)

Trump is slowly figuring out what reciprocity actually means. You do not get to strike Iran and dictate how they respond. They are hitting back, and his entire strategy is collapsing because he never factored in the enemy getting a say. Trump is an idiot

Dag Bluesky, hallo Eurosky! Zo. Alles netjes overgezet van de servers in Amerikastan naar het Heerlijke Europa, 's werelds laatste bastion van vrijheid en pluriforme democratie. Ook alles naar 🇪🇺 overzetten? Zie www.eurosky.tech

Today 77 years ago, on March 25 1949, russian occupation regime forcibly deported tens of thousands of Estonian civilians in cattle cars to Siberia to die Some people died, some lived and returned home after many years Their only “crime” was being an Estonian in occupied Estonia

The attack on Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG production site (+blockade) not only creates another global gas crisis that Trump is now trying to abuse (all this could have been foreseen), BUT ALSO creates a Helium crisis, with stocks running low. Could impact semiconductor industry. meyka.com/blog/helium-...

Global oil supply hit by US-Israeli war against Iran. Oil and gasoline prices up. And... of course some parties in Dutch parliament now ask for (tax) subsidies to keep demand high. President of Central bank DNB: Don't do this! Aim financial support at lower incomes. nos.nl/l/2607642

1/2. Populisten zullen ALTIJD zeggen dat brandstofaccijnzen omlaag moeten, "want dan is het goedkoop aan de pomp". Het is dus aan media om het genuanceerde verhaal te brengen! Maar bij NOS opnieuw GEEN aandacht voor de recente oproep van experts om accijnzen NIET te verlagen. nos.nl/artikel/2607...

Ach kijk, ik krijg gelijk een bevestiging van mijn vermoeden. Wat een corrupte zooi. Los van Epstein, de misdragingen van ICE, en zo voorts, nòg een reden om Trump direct af te zetten.

Nee. nos.nl/artikel/2607...

Corrupt to the bone: Trump's cronies are buying & selling BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF OIL FUTURES minutes before he makes his insane 180° public statements on Iran 👇 Billionaires profit from deliberately destroying the global economy. It's their business model and it deserves way more attention & outrage

Trump: if you don't open Hormuz within 48h I will destroy your power plants. Iranians: no reply (& keeping the strait closed). Trump: we're having excellent negotiations and I will not attack. Iranians: there are no negotiations (& keeping the strait closed). Trump is such an incompetent clown.

The bizarre situation is now that the Iranians only need to WAIT to achieve strategic victory. Trump in the meantime will frantically say one thing one day and the opposite thing the other day - while simply being stonewalled by the Iranians.

Trump pissing on Robert Mueller’s grave is like Trump threatening to conquer our closest NATO allies. It is so far beyond anything we ever tolerated for anyone else & it should end his presidency today.

Because the president of the United States is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. It's just that simple.

IEA spreekt van "grootste energiecrisis ooit" en roept overheden op tot allerhande noodbesparingen, zoals lagere maximumsnelheden. Benieuwd of het nieuwe kabinet besparingsoproepen aandurft. Wij presenteren hier concrete aanbevelingen, óók over noodbesparingen: topsectorenergie.nl/nl/nieuws/au...

😢😢😢 In March 2022 a 9-year-old girl wrote this letter in Mariupol to her deceased mother. It just tears your heart apart, what happened there. It also fills my veins with anger. Not just towards Putin, but also to Trump. To be clear: Trump decided Putin should win, BECAUSE Trump raped children.

See, Iran isn't the only time he's pulled this stunt.

I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

This story by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social is so so good and so so upsetting. Get ready to have your head explode www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

Part of the extreme damage that Trump has caused by attacking Iran with a very poor Plan A and no Plan B, is not only that it hands an almost inevitable strategic victory to Iran, but also that any damage-control "solution" might give huge powers to both Russia and China. And all because of Epstein.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It's turned into some perverted, deranged version of MAGA now that nobody wants"

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "He called me a traitor because I stood with women who were raped when they were 14 and 16. I completely disagree with where the president has led the country ... the American people did not vote for this. This is a complete betrayal of his campaign promises."

Far-right figures have come out unequivocally against Trump's war on Iran, including Steve Bannon, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Infowars kingpin Alex Jones.

👇👇 Which is why everything is tied to the #Epstein #kompromat (videos of Trump assaulting minors) that Trump knows Epstein sold to Putin. This determines everything in US foreign policy under Trump. Just imagine this.

Ik hoop maar dat dit besef inmiddels breed is ingedaald 👇 Bij prijscrisis géén verlagingen van energiebelastingen (zoals accijnzen). Burgers en bedrijven financieel ondersteunen is prima, maar dan met een direct bedrag, losgekoppeld van het energiegebruik. Dan blijft de besparingsprikkel intact 👇

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

* UK PM STARMER: WE WILL NOT BE DRAWN INTO THE WIDER IRAN WAR * UK PM STARMER ON STRAIT OF HORMUZ: OPENING IT IS NOT A SIMPLE TASK * UK PM STARMER: WHEN THE FIGHTING STOPS WE WILL NEED SOME SORT OF NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT WITH IRAN @reuters.com

Hi all, just sent out this piece. What we have witnessed in the last two days is a tragedy the US has brought on itself. Trump is now desperately pleading with US allies to save him, after 14 months of insults and attacks. He is an accelerant of US decline. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Insult Europe, impose tariffs, invade Iran without consulting them and threaten Europe and NATO for not coming to the rescue. Because he forgot one word: “Hormuz”. Genius at work.