Ottawakonventionen formades i en annan tid. I ett förändrat säkerhetspolitiskt läge, med fokus på territoriellt försvar och Nato-interoperabilitet, finns skäl att pröva om Sveriges åtagande fortfarande är strategiskt hållbart. militardebatt.com/2026/01/31/d...

Ja, jag är fortfarande tacksam för att vi gick med i NATO medan tid fanns. Det borde fler vara, skriver jag I Svensk Tidskrift.

Separatister i Alberta vill få loss kreditgarantier om $500 miljarder från USA efter hemliga samtal med representanter för State department. Administrationen uppges uttryckt intresse för att splittra Kanada för att kunna 'absorbera' resterna. Det är alltså fortfarande januari.

"For more than 80 years, the US was the pre-eminent ally of Europe. The end of that alliance has seemed unthinkable, but it has nevertheless arrived, and wishing that things were different will not bring the alliance back to life." I wrote for @cepa.org on a post-US West. cepa.org/article/a-we...

"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world —...

Europeans and Canadians have spent the last year trying to engage with the Trump administration seriously on the most important and sensitive issues of security and international stability. The people they're dealing with are profoundly ignorant, and don't think that matters.

The Trump administration apparently blinking first on economic war with Europe is good news. If everyone can slow-walk talks on a "deal" it will be even better. But it would be dangerous to assume the crisis is definitely over. And I don't think the damage to NATO can be undone.

So, if I understand correctly, the US needs to own Greenland because of the threats from new weapons belong to *checks notes* the US, and from Russia and China whose military technology is apparently a bit rubbish. Makes perfect sense.

If all this is really about bolstering Greenland's capabilities, as Graham is claiming, why is the White House so angry about other NATO states bolstering Greenland's capabilities? And why couldn't the US have done it within existing frameworks that allow for a US military presence?

In the year since Trump's 2nd inauguration, things have been as bad as the worst projections of the most pessimistic of us, and they are rapidly getting worse. But at least the extremity of the crisis has finally forced key European figures to acknowledge where we are.

Update to Nixon's Madman Theory: now with no theory, but with an actual madman.

To all actors who have played crazy tyrannical megalomaniac monarchs, I sincerely apologize that events have overtaken your parody and exaggeration. Please try harder to be unrealistic next time.

Detta är fullständigt vansinne.

Europeans need to accept that NATO only exists now as a zombie alliance being used to undermine their own security from Ukraine to Greenland.

Jaha, det var det, han har tappat det. Dags för mest omfattande möjliga frikoppling tills dess att amerikanerna tagit sitt förnuft till fånga och styrt upp sin egen jäkla röra för en gångs skull.

Trump can put a million-percent tariffs on Denmark, and it still doesn't change the answer about Greenland. There are only two possible endings to this bizarre story. Either Trump gives up, or else he goes through with a military invasion.

Trump slaps allies with Greenland tariffs. From Feb 1, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, and Finland face 10% on all exports. June 1, it jumps to 25%.

Hopefully, this will signal to the EU that the time has come to rhreaten the US with massive tariffs vs US digital services companies doing business in the EU if the US tries to annex Greenland. Note: the EU is the US's largest export market for services in general & digital ones in particular

Basically Trump is threatening to sanction NATO unless NATO commits suicide. And people still think he might sanction Russia. He is doing Putin’s work.

Europeans have real leverage in the face of Donald Trump’s threats towards Greenland and time on their side. They must use it to raise the prospective costs of annexation. @ecfreuropeansec.bsky.social ecfr.eu/article/arct...

The idea that Russia - a state that has spent almost four years throwing everything it has at conquering its neighbour, and failing - is remotely capable of invading Greenland, or is going to be in the foreseeable future, is ludicrous.

Så ja.

Calling Trump :Daddy' won't do the trick

Saceur talar om Sverige och Finlands djupa lojalitet med Nato på #fofrk Nu var det väl inte den som var ifrågasatt...

Efter att ha sett gossarna från stormakt väst försöka låta bli att dratta på ända de välskottade fem meterna mellan bilen och Högfjllshotellets entré kan jag tänka att de borde tagga ner om Grönland.

Had a session with @pkrugman.bsky.social where we discussed US foreign policy and world affairs. Hopefully interesting if not entirely uplifting. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Madness, UK and France should ensure greater versatility and credibility of their nuclear deterrents at all levels. I am not convinced that having strategic nuclear weapons will deter an enemy using tactical nuclear weapons especially on allies

Lyssnar på Aktuellt och min enkla uppmaning är: Köp inte det ryska narrativet om nattens anfall mot Ukraina! Nattens anfall var mindre än många tidigare med robotbanor enligt kartan. RS-26 Oreshnik (röd linje mot Lviv) är inget wunderwaffe som Ryssland gärna vill påskina. Det är dock ett …

Lots of talk again about China, the US, and Russia dividing the world into spheres of influence. One problem with this idea is that after 30 years of trying, Russia's sphere is limited to Belarus, Georgia, and 20% of Ukraine. Another is that if China has a sphere, it includes Russia.

It's not that NATO will collapse if the US invades Greenland; NATO is already dead. The Trump admin could not have been clearer about that over the last year. They refer to NATO as if they're not part of it. They've been threatening at least 1 NATO ally since they took office.

For some reason I’m reminded that the Soviet Afghan war started with an impressive and successful Russian special forces mission to remove the Afghan head of state.

1/ Elon Musk faces a spiralling worldwide crisis and growing legal jeopardy over child pornography and nonconsensual sexual images being generated through his Grok AI chatbot. Multiple countries and jurisdictions have now announced investigations into X and xAI. ⬇️

Is this who the U.S. wants to be?

Det här är så motbjudande!

This is an extraordinary posting by the wife of one of Trump's closest advisers Steve Miller. Combined with recent statements that the US "needs" Greenland and its strive to dominate the western hemisphere, threats against Greenland must be taken very seriously.

How does Moscow view Donald Trump at the end of 2025? One Russian paper today: “The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World…he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold to be destroyed…” #ReadingRussia youtu.be/7EwZNk6KgHU

My latest on the 🇺🇸 NSS: The US adopts a spheres-of-influence approach to the global order. Europe must urgently invest in innovation, military capabilities and readiness, energy security, and societal resilience to fend off an aggressive Russia by ourselves. www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/u...

”Det är ett civilisatoriskt förfall i Vita huset som vi måste förhålla oss till.” www.svd.se/a/XMg91o/nu-...

Genom att utse ett särskilt sändebud för Grönland, i syfte att överta danskt territorium, går Trump i Putins spår, tidigare var det bara Warszawapakten som hotade sina egna medlemmar, nu gör Trump det inom Nato, Norden och EU måste reagera med kraft mot denna fientliga handling,

Indeed. French cow 🐄 disease took pride of place over Macron's strategic ambitions. Pathetic

”Han beskriver att P 7 för fem år sedan taktiskt fortfarande hade ett tungt arv från internationella insatser och uppsättandet av Nordic Battle Group, NBG, när man tänkte ledning. – Vi har haft ganska stora stabsdelar, med bopålarna djupt i marken, säger han.” officerstidningen.se/71a-bataljon...

Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago. The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...

I enjoyed writing this for Foreign Affairs on why the US Military’s most serious Chinese capability problems in the Indo-Pacific cannot be solved with “cheap massed drones”: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Ibland blir man påmind om varför man fortfarande hänger på det andra stället.

Skriver om USA, Ryssland och däremellan Europa, i veckans Svensk Tidskrift.