From the German FAZ, on the "FCAS" defense project. "Letztlich stelle sich aber auch die Frage, ob Deutschland wirklich an eine europäische Verteidigung glaube. [...] Deutschland möchte seine privilegierten Beziehungen zu den [US] nutzen..." This is how Europe fails. www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

If last time around America was saved from the fascist wave by Roosevelt's New Deal. But this time it is succumbing. Can we in Europe then not accept the role reversal and pacify ourselves with a modernized New Deal? Adopt Roosevelt's Four Freedoms as a program, and Eleanor's standard of decency?

“I don’t want my democracy to be driven by an algorithm,” says 🇫🇷 French President Emmanuel Macron, making the case for social media regulation. Macron was delivering a speech after receiving the 2025 Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award tonight in New York City. #GCA2025 #ACAwards

BREAKING 🌍🌡📈 The German Meteorological Society and Physical Society warn today that 3°C of global warming could be reached already by 2050! Global warming is accelerating - A call for decisive action 1/8

🇷🇴🇺🇦 Parfois, je renonce à comprendre. Un drone russe est entré en Roumanie puis est revenu en Ukraine, escorté par des F-16…roumains. Escorté, pas abattu. Quelle logique ? Le laisser tuer des Ukrainiens ? Leur mort sur notre conscience ? Indigne. Nous avons perdu la tête.

Melenchon: « Bayrou est tombé. Victoire et soulagement populaire. Macron est désormais en première ligne face au peuple. Lui aussi doit partir », a déclaré sur X, ... le leader de La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon." Nonsense. with leaders like this the left is incapable of governing.

Der Klimawandel wird den größten Degrowth verursachen- und zwar unreguliert und nicht mit uns abgestimmt. Das kapieren diese Chaoten leider nicht.

Today's Substack post is an excerpt from my upcoming book, which traces the connection between America’s cultural hold over the European mind and the EU’s failure to make itself sovereign.

Mira of Kyiv is an account that is very important for quality information about the war in Ukraine to reach us as viewed by the population.

@safety.bsky.app @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team Please restore the account of Mira of Kyiv (@reshetz.bsky.social) who was banned for posting a screenshot of a Russian state media article calling for Ukrainian genocide. That same article was posted as news here 👇 #NAFO #Fellas

Even if that were truthful, nothing justifies the arguments he made in 2022. About how russia and ukraine were one, Thats not for him to decide.

Point 3️⃣: America shouldn't just be removed from Europe's military bases and banks. It must also be removed from European minds The extent of 🇺🇸cultural dominance over this continent gives Europeans the sense they're in the outer colonies of an American empire davekeating.substack.com/p/an-eight-p...

Mariia Berlinska, the head of the Aerial Reconnaissance Support Center, offers three possible scenarios of how the war might progress: ◾️Ukraine signs a peace agreement, getting security guarantees, starts preparing for a new attack from Russia (making the price of that new attack too high);

And here is a little flower stem of another of the high summer forest shadow flowers, this is Heksenkruid (Dutch) - circaea lutetiana. English call it apparently enchanter's nightshade. I have no idea how it gets to be by name linked with witchcraft. It just grows and enjoys life.

I was in the forest on sunday, the forest is on the inner rim of the dunes, where the sand filtered water wells up and runs into the polders. It is a line rich with beautiful summer flowers. Unfortunately im not so good with telephone fotoing. This is stachys sylvatica - Bosandoorn

Study Shows Bike Commuting Is Still the Smartest and Healthiest Way to Get to Work. momentummag.com/study-shows-...

"The world which gradually emerges from the ruins of the old international order that the US constructed ..., has only contempt for principles of international law. Only force matters, and those who can avail themselves of it." Excellent commentary by Le Monde, FR. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

i dont get out often anymore but today i went to the place, a short distance away from my house where there are orchids growing. It is a valley in a coastal dune belt. Clay accumulates in such valleys and the rainwater cant drain, that creates mini swamps in which these thrive. Now is their season.

Campion, Chickweed, Ragged Robin, Sandwort, Stitchwort and Mouse-ear are just some of the lovely members of the Pink Family or Caryophyllaceae! Find one blooming for this week’s challenge & share for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #PinkFamily 🌸

I saw a moth today. That is a nice thing, although many ppl dont like moths. They are mistaken though, Moths are unmissable. This one is sometimes a little pest though, it eats brassica's. plutella xylostella

It's spring in my country, the Netherlands, and nice things are back :) It grows just in the roadside.

I saw my first moth of the year ♥