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Europe’s security clock is ticking. Ryan swung by the Swedish embassy to talk with Defense Minister Pål Jonson about why time, not money, is now the continent’s scarcest resource.
Listen here: pod.link/682478916/e...
Listen here: pod.link/682478916/e...
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Europe’s security clock is ticking. Ryan swung by the Swedish embassy to talk with Defense Minister Pål Jonson about why time, not money, is now the continent’s scarcest resource.
Listen here: pod.link/682478916/e...
Listen here: pod.link/682478916/e...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
Opinion | The Reasonable Majority Is No Longer Silent
Donald Trump is confronting a backlash of the reasonable.
nyti.ms
December 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
“A significant share of the voters who backed Mr. Trump have decided that he has largely ignored the primary issue that pushed them his way, the cost of living,” E. J. Dionne Jr. says. “A billionaire regularly mocking concern about affordability only makes matters worse.”
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Policymakers must recognize the open source AI ecosystem is where influence is being negotiated: not just which models exist, but which are used; not just who can train a trillion-parameter network, but who can make it deployable, modifiable, and relevant, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
Policymakers Overlook How Open Source AI Is Reshaping Global Power | TechPolicy.Press
To understand and shape the distribution of power in AI, look to the open source ecosystem, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Policymakers must recognize the open source AI ecosystem is where influence is being negotiated: not just which models exist, but which are used; not just who can train a trillion-parameter network, but who can make it deployable, modifiable, and relevant, say Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Shayne Longpre.
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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The cat is out of the bag:
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
USA pekas ut som del av hotbild i Danmark
För första gången pekas USA ut som en del av hotbilden mot Danmark.
www.svd.se
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The cat is out of the bag:
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
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It is, explicitly, political interference. This administration's policy towards Europe is essentially the same as Russia's. And it is hostile.
For friends in the U.S., this is about the same as if the EU decided to pull apart the United States by actively supporting every loon in California, Texas, and any other state with any interest of leaving the union. Both overtly and covertly.
It is what you do to enemies.
It is what you do to enemies.
Apparently it can always get worse. The full version of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, aptly named “NSC-1488” by the wags, calls for actively pulling Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy from the #EU. And supporting far right.
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
December 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It is, explicitly, political interference. This administration's policy towards Europe is essentially the same as Russia's. And it is hostile.
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Nobody treats the Republican base with more contempt or counts on them being stupid more than Republicans
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nobody treats the Republican base with more contempt or counts on them being stupid more than Republicans
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Rand Paul: "It has not been the history of the US to kill people who are out of combat. Even if there is a war, which most of us dispute -- that a bunch of people who are unarmed allegedly running drugs is a war -- we still don't kill people when they're incapacitated ... it's illegal and immoral."
December 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Rand Paul: "It has not been the history of the US to kill people who are out of combat. Even if there is a war, which most of us dispute -- that a bunch of people who are unarmed allegedly running drugs is a war -- we still don't kill people when they're incapacitated ... it's illegal and immoral."
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today that parts of the U.S. administration's new National Security Strategy are terrible from Europe's point of view.
‘Unacceptable’: Germany’s Merz slams Trump’s controversial Europe document
U.S. administration’s foreign policy document roils Berlin.
www.politico.eu
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today that parts of the U.S. administration's new National Security Strategy are terrible from Europe's point of view.
Think this article provides an I interesting expose and perspective that strikes me as well worth considering. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Neocons Were Right
Not about Iraq. But the moral tenor of their political writings could be an antidote to Trumpism.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Think this article provides an I interesting expose and perspective that strikes me as well worth considering. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Ukrainian government system has a problem with corruption.
In the American government corruption is the system.
In the American government corruption is the system.
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The Ukrainian government system has a problem with corruption.
In the American government corruption is the system.
In the American government corruption is the system.
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Europe must have its own tech-infrastructure. It's too dangerous to be dependent on U.S. companies. We need to replace Amazon servers, Google search, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, ChatGPT, Nvidia, What'sApp etc with European versions. Or we might just be destroyed from within by fascist propaganda.
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Europe must have its own tech-infrastructure. It's too dangerous to be dependent on U.S. companies. We need to replace Amazon servers, Google search, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, ChatGPT, Nvidia, What'sApp etc with European versions. Or we might just be destroyed from within by fascist propaganda.
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The Russian government represents Putin and his cronies. Musk represents himself.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The Russian government represents Putin and his cronies. Musk represents himself.
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“America is now saying that key allies are in fact its greatest enemy…The Trump administration’s vision of American greatness is making the country poorer, weaker, and meaner.”
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“America is now saying that key allies are in fact its greatest enemy…The Trump administration’s vision of American greatness is making the country poorer, weaker, and meaner.”
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
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“But these red-faced men and women shouting at modernity and parading their victimhood are no longer fringe figures. Russia and America want to move them from the fringe to the mainstream – and who is to say that they will fail?”
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The fake patriots of the European right
Trump and Putin’s fifth column
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“But these red-faced men and women shouting at modernity and parading their victimhood are no longer fringe figures. Russia and America want to move them from the fringe to the mainstream – and who is to say that they will fail?”
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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“Even if all the gross stupidity and cupidity magically evaporated, the Trump administration lacks the institutional bandwidth to execute the sweeping changes that it proposes. It has hollowed out the coordinating apparatus that the US government uses…”
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“Even if all the gross stupidity and cupidity magically evaporated, the Trump administration lacks the institutional bandwidth to execute the sweeping changes that it proposes. It has hollowed out the coordinating apparatus that the US government uses…”
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
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The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
Europe Needs A New Strategy Too
The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to focus on an own strategy instead.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
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Fifas fredspris?
FIFAs fredspris??
Fifas FREDSPRIS???
Vi är The Onion-land redan där. Diktaturfjäskande korrupta fat-cat-Fifa ska alltså dela ut ett fredspris, till någon som gjort mänskligheten en tjänst.
Undrar just vem som…?
FIFAs fredspris??
Fifas FREDSPRIS???
Vi är The Onion-land redan där. Diktaturfjäskande korrupta fat-cat-Fifa ska alltså dela ut ett fredspris, till någon som gjort mänskligheten en tjänst.
Undrar just vem som…?
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Fifas fredspris?
FIFAs fredspris??
Fifas FREDSPRIS???
Vi är The Onion-land redan där. Diktaturfjäskande korrupta fat-cat-Fifa ska alltså dela ut ett fredspris, till någon som gjort mänskligheten en tjänst.
Undrar just vem som…?
FIFAs fredspris??
Fifas FREDSPRIS???
Vi är The Onion-land redan där. Diktaturfjäskande korrupta fat-cat-Fifa ska alltså dela ut ett fredspris, till någon som gjort mänskligheten en tjänst.
Undrar just vem som…?
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To iterate on Minna's latest point, opinion polls in Europe are terrible for Trump
Having this in mind, it is very much unclear if aligning with the US is a good political strategy for European far-right parties
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Having this in mind, it is very much unclear if aligning with the US is a good political strategy for European far-right parties
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December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
To iterate on Minna's latest point, opinion polls in Europe are terrible for Trump
Having this in mind, it is very much unclear if aligning with the US is a good political strategy for European far-right parties
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Having this in mind, it is very much unclear if aligning with the US is a good political strategy for European far-right parties
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
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The new US #NationalSecurityStrategy is so alarming that I spent hours today on this piece, rather than my real work.
We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves.
jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...
We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves.
jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...
When the umbrella starts to leak: Securing NATO’s Eastern Flank after the new U.S. security strategy
The new U.S. National Security Strategy shifts the United States to an unreliable ally at best – an active threat at worst. Europe and in particular NB8 countries on NATO’s Eastern Flan…
jmkorhonen.net
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The new US #NationalSecurityStrategy is so alarming that I spent hours today on this piece, rather than my real work.
We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves.
jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...
We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves.
jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...
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European reaction to the new American national strategy document
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
European reaction to the new American national strategy document
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Finland really is a nation of ”persons overly interested in military affairs” as the Swedes say (militärt överintresserad person, MÖP)
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Finland really is a nation of ”persons overly interested in military affairs” as the Swedes say (militärt överintresserad person, MÖP)
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I may be overdoing it with the optimism, but I think it’s good to have if black on white. Makes it easier for (or forces) European politicians to adjust.
Also, the policy spelled out in the strategy to interfere in European affairs for the benefit of the far right hopefully backfires.
Also, the policy spelled out in the strategy to interfere in European affairs for the benefit of the far right hopefully backfires.
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I may be overdoing it with the optimism, but I think it’s good to have if black on white. Makes it easier for (or forces) European politicians to adjust.
Also, the policy spelled out in the strategy to interfere in European affairs for the benefit of the far right hopefully backfires.
Also, the policy spelled out in the strategy to interfere in European affairs for the benefit of the far right hopefully backfires.