Not sure people are getting the real importance of the Russians fooling Trump about the Ukrainians attacking Putin's house. It was to demonstrate just how much they control his thinking--how much he is in their pocket. And it worked.

Putin hat sehr leichtes Spiel.

JD Vance has declared that France and the United Kingdom having nuclear weapons is a security threat to the United States. Russia and MAGA want every remaining democracy in the world to be weakened and defenseless.

A transatlantic showdown over tech policy (as opposed to, say, net zero) could actually have a unifying & galvanising political effect within the EU. The union’s digital regulations are broadly popular and many voters actually want more, not fewer, controls on Big Tech. yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

Die Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie der USA ist mehr als nur ein Stück Papier. Und die Schnittmenge mit Moskau im Bezug auf Europa wird immer deutlicher: Es sollen neue politische Eliten mit ähnlicher Ideologie regieren.

„Vladimir Putin is entering a window of maximum danger. We must prepare not for a resurgent Russia but for a desperate one: 2026 will be the year of hybrid escalation.“ www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.

Neuer Epstein Files Release, dies und vieles mehr: „The document further states that an unnamed individual alleged that ‚he raped me,‘ referring to Trump, and that ‚Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.‘“ time.com/7342332/trum...

“Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia.”

Natürlich fragt Trump danach. (Auch wenn man sich gerade fragen kann, wie er allein politisch darauf kommt.) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Important info on the ideologue who wrote the NSS. (I am not in the least surprised, have been following this guy from 2016.) Will our atlanticists bother to read this? Will they stop sanewashing his stuff? nickcohen.substack.com/p/michael-an...

Absolut. Vielleicht nicht mit Trump selbst. Der ist mehr der Typ Kleptokrat. Aber aus seinem Umfeld: definitiv.

Wenn wir einen US-Botschafter in Berlin hätten, wäre jetzt ein guter Moment, ihn einzubestellen. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

USA will nicht nur die Rechte in Europa stützten, ie wollen einzelne Staaten aus der EU herausziehen und vor allem: ein neues politisches Format ohne Europa gründen.

Große Kampagne gegen die EU auf X, von zahlreichen hochrangigen Leuten gepusht wie dem stv US-Außenminister, Vance, Rubio, russischen Funktionären, US-Broligarchen, Rechtspopulisten. Das nachdem die neuen Anti-EU-Nationalstrategie der USA veröffentlicht wurde, die EU eine Strafe gegen X verhängte.

US government adopted the far-right Great Replacement myth and is now demanding NATO countries to dismantle the EU and the European project. They themselves frame it as a binary choice. Essentially the end of NATO as we know it.

Good to finally have it in writing that this US government wants regime change in Europe. (Friedrich Merz, grant him this, has been clear about this since he came into office.) Now: Will this spur the Europeans to act? There are already comments by incurable transatlanticists sanewashing this crap.

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

"The U.S. wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic." www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Schulterschluss des Trump-Regimes zu AfD & Co: Trump administration's update to the US national security strategy: Europe facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” and pledges that the US will support like-minded “patriotic” parties across the continent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

Oligarchie-Vibes

Trump’s job approval rating has fallen five percentage points to 36%, the lowest of his second term, while disapproval has risen to 60%, per @gallup.com news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

"We seem to be hitting a phase in Trump’s second term in which his momentum is in danger of stopping. And the incompetence so endemic in term one is making itself known again, with a vengeance. Suddenly, everywhere you look, you see a White House flailing." www.thebulwark.com/p/amateur-ho...

For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Trump gestattet also eine beinahe einstimmige Abstimmung im Repräsentantenhaus, die ihn letztlich zwingen soll, die Epstein Files freizugeben – was er einfach so tun könnte, läge es ihm an Transparenz. Mehr zum Thema, gut aufgearbeitet von @arimelber.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/t...

Shocked, shocked! (Not.) www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

Vorbereitungen. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Der Riss im MAGA-Lager wegen Epstein wächst: Trump und Greene im Clinch; zusätzlich haben Boebert, Mace und Massie offen für die Veröffentlichung der Files gestimmt; offene Kritik gegen Trump zum Umgang mit Epstein-Files u.a. von Fuentes, Carlson, Owens, Loomer… bsky.app/profile/kyle...

"The restrictions were intended to prevent a repeat of the Nazi rise to power, when anti-democratic forces were able to subvert democracy from within..." www.politico.eu/article/larg...

Könnte hier etwa das Rätsel aufgelöst werden, warum Trump sich Putin so unterordnet? (s. Text) bsky.app/profile/whit...

All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.

The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.

Signal: Freie Fahrt zum Wahlen stehlen.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Democrats "have a pretty good model: find candidates suited to their constituencies and focus on cost of living issues and opposition to Donald Trump’s autocracy. Full stop. It’s not more complicated than that. That’s your opposition message." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

AfD MPs plan to meet Medvedev in Russia: “According to research by @t-online.de, this was preceded by months of contact-building, in which the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is also involved. Russia reportedly wants to influence the MPs to undermine key projects of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.”

"Yesterday showed us what a wave election looks like. And what was the best predictor of the vote, and the source of the wave? Donald Trump. Take a look at the correlation of his approval rating in the exit polls and the actual vote. This bodes well for 2026." www.thebulwark.com/p/vive-la-re...

Demokraten haben gestern so gut wie alles gewonnen, nicht nur in New York. Darunter die wichtige Initiative in Kalifornien, Wahlbezirke neu zuzuschneiden, und viele andere Wahlen (s. Thread)

Der hybride Krieg der MAGA–Bewegung gegen die Bundesrepublik, mithilfe der AfD, nimmt Fahrt auf und wird hier noch viel zu wenig beachtet.

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Weil einige davon ausgehen, dass Trumps Präsidentschaft in 3,5 Jahren ihr natürliches Ende findet: Er selbst hat das nicht vor. Kurzer Thread:

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA www.ft.com/content/1377...

Second article of impeachment of Richard Nixon: “He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...