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In practice, it's a bit more difficult. We rely a lot on US tech. But obviously, the right thing to do is to just send whatever's needed to win the war in Ukraine.

You cannot mess around with your own security.

It's generally important, as a journalist, to take a neutral and dispassionate attitude to the news. But this was a hard one to do that with.

"We're cutting off lifesaving support for babies. God Bless America."

www.devex.com/news/god-ble...

Emmanuel Macron has told the FT that Trump's return to the White House is the jolt Europe needs to 'muscle up' and secure its own future.

Read @roulak.bsky.social's exclusive interview with the French president here: www.ft.com/content/1ee4...

This feels big. A judge has just ordered the reversal of the stop work order.

But it also feels like a test.

Can USAID comply? Has too much of the infrastructure been demolished?

Will State obey? Or will it just ignore this order? What happens then?

www.devex.com/news/judge-o...

The problem is interoperability. We’ve become more interconnected by comms. We have to be connected as markets. The US has reaped all the benefits of tech and finance sectors because of an interconnected economy.

Basically, Europeans need to get on the same page, or get used to being bullied.

"Coristine, as WIRED previously reported, appears to have recently graduated from high school and to have been enrolled at Northeastern University. According to a copy of his resume obtained by WIRED, he spent three months at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company, last summer."

SCOOP: John Voorhees, USAID’s director of security, has been placed on administrative leave after refusing to allow officials from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, access to the agency’s sensitive compartmented information facility. ⤵️
www.devex.com/news/scoop-u...

Over the next few months the US is going to look increasingly unhinged. It’s an opportunity for the UK.

We have to look like a better place to base your finance or tech business than the US.

Things that could need include:

a) Visa reform
b) Access to Europe
c) Good comms

Can we do that?

My colleague Elissa Miolene will be at #G20 this week for Devex. She's compiled a fantastic explainer on what's happening (£). TLDR here are the key issues:

1. Hunger
2. Climate
3. Taxation of the mega rich
4. Debt
5. MDB reform

www.devex.com/news/the-g20...