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Canadian/Irish who made a life in UK.
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Andreas Umland
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On 13 June,
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published a collective letter concerning Russia’s war & attacking Dr
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, the chancellor of Durham University & one of the principal authors of the UK’s strategic defence review. As UK-based or British-educated experts in matters pertaining to Russia, we disagree.
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There is only one warmonger on the European stage: Vladimir Putin | Letter
Letter: Experts on Russia, Ukraine and international security respond to a letter that criticised Fiona Hill for her assessment of the Russian threat to Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/20/there-is-only-one-warmonger-on-the-european-stage-vladimir-putin
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Apparently the answer is to elevate him to replace Walz in Nat Security
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Alexander Clarkson
9 months ago
Worth noting how far right MAGA US intellectuals often now claim that Canadian national identity is fake and Mexicans are not capable of managing a state. All reminiscent of the predominant narratives in Russia claiming that Ukrainian identity does not exist and Kazakhs are incapable of statehood
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Ok, who inserted the crickets?!
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Anton Gerashchenko
9 months ago
A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England.
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Ed Price
9 months ago
"Trump seems to give Putin carrots he didn't ask for while also taking away the stick. I haven't read the Art of the Deal. Maybe that's how it's supposed to be." Great to talk to
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Mujtaba Rahman
9 months ago
‼️🇫🇷 President Emmanuel Macron accused Vladimir Putin of lying about Ukraine today but the real, and scarcely disguised target, of his comments was Donald Trump. “France’s position is unchanging,” Macron said. “We believe in the sovereignty of peoples & territorial integrity” 1/
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It’s time for UK and Europe to make clear to the Trump administration that this peace plan, including the abandonment of Crimea to Russia, is a load of utter bollocks.
www.wsj.com/opinion/russ...
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Opinion | Trump’s Ukraine Ultimatum
The President puts pressure only on one side—not on Russia.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/russia-ukraine-settlement-donald-trump-ultimatum-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelensky-87eb20b8?st=jTmeRQ&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Naomi Smith
9 months ago
"The EU is our largest trading partner and this government is determined to work to reduce barriers to trade across the economy to help drive growth." says Nick Thomas-Symonds in his oped. Note 'across' not just agrifood.
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A new deal with the EU is exactly what Britain needs. Here’s how Labour will achieve it | Nick Thomas-Symonds
This isn’t about politics – it’s about pragmatism. Working with our allies will make British people safer, more secure and more prosperous, says Nick Thomas-Symonds, minister for EU relations
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/new-deal-european-union-what-britain-needs-labour-keir-starmer
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Slowly, slowly we will get back that which we had
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An epitaph for Trump: “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.”
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Trump’s shameful Crimea ultimatum to Ukraine
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Trump’s shameful Crimea ultimatum to Ukraine
Washington is trying to force on Kyiv a peace deal on Russia’s terms
https://on.ft.com/3S3gkjR
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Little chance the CBP can keep up with and appropriately apply the constantly shifting landscape of tariffs and the likelihood of tariff arbitrage is high.
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Excellent Unhedged, as always. Here’s hoping that “moron risk premium” makes it into finance lexicon.
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Katie Martin
10 months ago
As I wrote the other day, when the safe stuff sells off in a crisis, you are in trouble. So anyway yeah here we are
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Markets could get a lot worse — and quickly
[FREE TO READ] The concern now among bankers and hedge fund managers is that something, somewhere could break
https://on.ft.com/3RErGe2
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Simon Nixon
10 months ago
Why Mark Carney is the leader the rest of the west needs right.m now - not only has he served as Governor of two central banks but he knows how to deal with ignorant populists who have managed to grab hold of the levers of power in a G7 country and triggered a monumental act of economic self-harm
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What Can Stop Trump plus other critical issues
Thoughts on how to stop a trade crisis turning into a financial crisis, Carney's bid for global leadership, the rise of American poligarchy, and why imperialism is making a return
https://open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/what-can-stop-trump-plus-other-critical?r=2rn9s0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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But it continues with him as president, 100%.
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10 months ago
Check out the latest edition of my
@financialtimes.com
newsletter. (1/2) Why Trump's tariffs won't last long:
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Henry Mance
10 months ago
"One day, son, our thriving export business will be yours."
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“Paweł Kowal said in an interview that a “red line” would be crossed for Poland and the rest of central Europe if expanded Russian borders were legally recognised as a result of the invasion of a neighbouring country”.
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Poland warns Donald Trump against ‘historical mistake’ over Russian expansion
Tusk government adviser Paweł Kowal says Ukraine peace talks must not lead to recognition of Moscow’s territorial claims
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Mujtaba Rahman
10 months ago
What a flop. Marine Le Pen’s public fight-back against her legal ban from the 2027 French presidential election started badly today. She hoped for up to 20,000 supporters at a rally in Paris. Her party claimed 10,000. An independent count suggested only 6,000. 1/
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Excellent piece. “The tariffs announced on Wednesday are roughly 10 times as high as those of most other industrialized countries, and higher than the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariffs (of Great Depression fame)”.
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John Burn-Murdoch
10 months ago
3) That was just the US version. What’s particularly impressive is that he’s managed this on a global scale. Starting to get the feeling that “Trump” annotation is going to be the chart equivalent of a layer of volcanic ash in the fossil record.
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
10 months ago
Parents over the body of their dead 15-year-old son in Krivyi Rih Speechless 💔
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Radosław Sikorski
10 months ago
I presented the following figures on defense spending at the NATO ministerial meeting. In 2016 (before Donald Trump's first term) as European allies, together with Canada, we spent $255.6 billion. In 2024 - $506.7 billion. A 98% increase. We are stepping up.
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Katie Martin
10 months ago
Global markets continue to respond as renewed American greatness takes hold. Investors will not forgive the US for this. Even if He's out next time, we can't do this every 4/8 years
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“If it endures, Donald Trump’s decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history”.
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America’s astonishing act of self-harm
Trump’s tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity
https://on.ft.com/4j9QKp4
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This is exactly the issue. The notion that Lutnick proposes on the superiority of American beef is just nonsense.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
10 months ago
The unpredictability of America for the foreseeable future is more serious than the tariffs themselves. Companies can’t make long-term decisions if policy is made and changed on a whim. Much of the rest of the world will respond by creating U.S.-free supply chains.
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I have yet to see any active groups sharing alternative purchase options, as they have in Canada, but I hope they appear.
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The popular alternative to Zelenskyy, such as one exists, is Zaluzhnyi. If a free and fair election results in Zaluzhnyi, do they really believe he would be more malleable than Zelenskyy?
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Henry Foy
10 months ago
Perhaps no coincidence that this welcome dose of Trump realism about Putin’s objectives and approach to peace in Ukraine came straight after the US President spent hours with Finland’s
@alexstubb.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/784b...
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Trump threatens secondary tariffs on Russian oil if no deal on Ukraine
US president says he is ‘pissed off’ with Vladimir Putin for dragging feet in ceasefire talks
https://www.ft.com/content/784b4869-2a47-4ce1-8009-c0183ace30a0
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Perhaps domestic crises will put his many dangerous geopolitical initiatives on the back burner.
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Very curious that Poilievre refuses to get his RCMP security clearance. Apart from the obvious question why, how could he effectively govern as PM without it?
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney calls Poilievre 'irresponsible' for security clearance refusal after reports of meddling in leadership | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s refusal to get his security clearance is back in the spotlight on the campaign trail following reports the Canadian Security Intelligence Service learned that In...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-security-clearance-india-1.7492527
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David Rothkopf
10 months ago
It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.
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“Presidential idiocy is temporary . . . Anti-Americanism is akin to amputating your broken leg instead of waiting for it to heal” Temporary, but also on the cards every four years.
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Anti-Americanism is a mug’s game
Boycott Tesla if it makes you feel better — but the best critiques of Trump and Musk will come from the US itself
https://on.ft.com/3FKDIzX
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Marie Le Conte
10 months ago
when another boy has lost his balloon
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Judah Grunstein
10 months ago
So I just don't see how any US allies and partners can allow him to visit their territory after this and Munich. Beyond the lack of respect, it's a national security threat.
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Brandon Friedman
10 months ago
He's making the case for invasion. Very late-2002 remarks.
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David Frum
10 months ago
Danes and Greenlanders must wonder: if the US government is using its leased base on Danish/Greenland territory to threaten Danish/Greenland sovereignty... then why the hell are Denmark and Greenland leasing that territory to an unfriendly foreign power?
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Tim Bale
10 months ago
Can't help feeling that, at some point in the next few months (or maybe years), Starmer is going to have to make this speech. It's painfully obvious that he wants to be able to avoid doing so - but at all costs? Really?
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Presumably he said this after PM Carney stated the old relationship is over.
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Brittany
10 months ago
I’ve seen even folks on this site scolding Canadians for “overreacting” which I think misreads the power dynamic quite a bit. America is the biggest military power to have ever existed and I don’t think people understand what it’s like to contemplate being on the other end of that
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Tony Tassell
10 months ago
How Europe can make it easier for start-ups to scale - Brent Hoberman makes the case for a voluntary pan-European legal framework for start-ups dubbed EU Inc. It could be one that the UK could join despite Brexit
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Shashank Joshi
10 months ago
This is a really important point. It's assumed that Russia just needs sanctions relief from America. That is not the case. "Without Europe on side, Russia’s trade, access to payment systems and foreign investment would all remain severely limited."
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy
Even if America lifts sanctions, the old continent has its own weapons
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/24/how-europe-can-hurt-russias-economy
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Ben Ansell
10 months ago
I think the Atlantic piece is probably the scoopiest scoop of the last few decades. And it has clarified one thing - other than the total idiocy of sending opsec over group chats - Hegseth and Vance have a genuine animosity towards Europe. Something for us all to ponder.
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Duncan Weldon
10 months ago
Apart from the absolute clown show ineptness of including a journalist, the really interesting thing about that Signal chat is the venom towards Europe. It clearly isn’t for show.
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Mujtaba Rahman
10 months ago
The Carlson/Witkoff interview makes clear to my mind that a fundamental rupture is coming, between the US and Europe.. over Ukraine America's perception of its self interest and Europe's assessment of its self interest are now fundamentally divergent, and unbridgeable
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