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Björn Fägersten
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European affairs, political risk, geoeconomics, intelligence. CEO Politea, senior fellow UI Sweden
A wild ride worth reading in full: all the bravado, emoji overload, Europe-bashing, and peak amateur hour. What a gang. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Haters gonna hate men croissantsemlan är det bästa som hänt. Det ursvenska är blott barbari som Reine sa.
March 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hur påverkas Nato och Europas säkerhet av att USA närmar sig ryska positioner? Och vilka krafter är i rörelse just nu för att stärka Europas förmåga att värna sin egen säkerhet? Färsk intervju inför kritisk vecka: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hur-...
Hur blir Natosamarbetet efter bråket i Vita Huset? - P1 Morgon
Hur kan bråket i Vita huset mellan Trump och Zelenskyj slå mot Europa och Natosamarbetet?Natos generalsekreterare Mark Rutte sa i en intervju med BBC att ...
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March 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Extremt viktigt möte på söndag i London med europeiska ledare. De enda vänner Zelenskyj har kvar. Starmer som måste omvärdera sitt eget möte med Trump. Kristersson som rimligen måste visa korten. Macron som fem i tolv får medhåll för sina ambitioner om europeisk egenmakt.
February 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I think Trump wanted to sign a deal, after some staged humiliation. Why else talk it up during the Starmer presser and drag Zelensky over? He’s just so morally deranged that he couldn’t stand someone not being sufficiently subservient—a lesson for every European.
February 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Alla ”lyssna inte på vad han säger, titta på vad han gör”apologeter kan med fördel titta på vad Trump gör med Zelenskyj just nu.
February 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Det är inte upp till Putin hur Ukraina ska säkras. Diskuterade Europa, Trump och Ukraina i dagens Studio 1
Björn Fägersten on LinkedIn: Kan Europa ändra Trumps syn på kriget i Ukraina? - Studio Ett
Det är inte Putin som bestämmer hur Ukraina ska säkras. Gästade Studio Ett idag för att diskutera Macron och Starmers besök hos Trump denna vecka. Europa har…
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February 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hör en expert (kollega dessutom!) argumentera för att vi inte behöver oroa oss för USAs engagemang då ”USA är beroende av ett fritt Europa”. Sant i teorin men i slutändan måste människan som tar beslut tror på detta. Det kan man idag inte förutsätta.
February 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The quality of European leaders can really be judged by the honesty and urgency with which they react to the onslaught on core European values and interests that Trump, Hegseth, and Vance have displayed this week. A few clearly still living in a fantasy world.
February 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Quite amazing for the American VP to be giving lessons on liberty to Europeans while his boss bans the Associated Press from news briefings because it calls the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name.
The White House says it is banning the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.
February 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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It's horrific that JD Vance would go to Dachau yesterday, talk about being "deeply moved," then spend today telling Germans to welcome into government the Holocaust-minimizing, far-right AfD. But it also needs to be the final nail in the coffin of "Holocaust museum as ritual penance for bigotry."
February 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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What an international embarrassment our government of frauds and grifters is.
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Lib Dems respond to JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference

Foreign affairs spokesperson @calummillerld.bsky.social says:
February 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Wouldn’t need a zeitenwende 2.0 if Scholz had actually delivered on 1.0
Scholz calls for Zeitenwende 2.0 in response to recent US initiatives.

“Requires clear, fast and decisive European answer. Not someday but now”.

Calls for massive expansion of military spending, reform of debt brake and advancing discussion in EU on investment in defense.
February 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Quick, slightly frustrated take on the US, European security and a generation that did little to prepare us for the current situation
OK Boomers – What Now? De-risking European Defence
As the U.S.
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February 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Grått ute men alltid något som händer utanför kontorsfönstret. Idag ful/snygg finsk robotbåt på besök! Gedigen svensk bestyckning dessutom.
February 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Special European Council on defence, including dinner with UKs PM. High time to restart EUUK security cooperation
Europe needs to assume greater responsibility for its own defence. We have a common interest in doing more and better at European level.

That’s why I have invited leaders to discuss European defence on 3 February at the Château de Limont. #LimontRetreat

Read it here ↓
europa.eu/!vGg6QY
Invitation letter by President António Costa to the members of the European Council
European Council President António Costa invited the EU leaders to an informal meeting on defence. The retreat will take place in the Château de Limont, in Belgium.
www.consilium.europa.eu
January 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trångt på plattan i Sälen idag
January 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Och här gick vi och oroade oss för att USA skulle tappa sitt säkerhetspolitiska intresse för Europa…
www.dn.se/varlden/trum...
Trump: Kan inte utesluta militära åtgärder mot Danmark
USA:s blivande president Donald Trump hotar Danmark med strafftullar om de inte kommer överens om Grönland. Han utesluter inte heller militära åtgärder.
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January 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Snart jobbstart. Detta år tänkte jag ge denna plattform en chans. Men först vinterövning inför Rikskonferensen i Sälen. Viktigt med motståndskraft.
January 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Northvolt’s struggles spark debate on pension fund investments. I’d rather have my future pension back a greener, safer Europe than risky subprime mortgages or other crappy products they bet on before. Both carry risks—that’s life
November 22, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Dutch foreign minister Veldkamp: "we're implementing the Rome Statute for 100%" and will thus arrest Netanyahu when he visits NL. NL will also cut all non-essential contact with Netanyahu nos.nl/artikel/2545...
Veldkamp: we zullen Netanyahu arresteren als hij in Nederland is
De minister van Buitenlandse Zaken zegt dat Nederland het Statuut van Rome 100 procent uitvoert.
nos.nl
November 21, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Interesting that the various Russian perspectives on Ukraine below completely omit the role of Ukraine's path toward EU membership, which would impact all the areas discussed—particularly security commitments from NATO countries that are also EU members. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Putin, ascendant in Ukraine, eyes contours of a Trump peace deal
Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, five sources with knowledge of Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Nytt avsnitt av Europapodden ute, om EU, USA, Ukraina och Scholz telefonsamtal, finns här: sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/tysk...
November 19, 2024 at 3:48 PM