Heeft u het ook zo lekker warm? In Ukraine niet! Zelfs de ziekenhuizen en militaire veldhospitalen zitten nu soms zonder stroom. Doneer hier en Vrienden van Ukraine rijden er generatoren naar toe. Juist nu, belastingaftrekbaar nog ook (ANBI). vvodiel.nl/winteractie-...

Trump wil regime change, ook in Nederland, schrijft Caroline de Gruyter. Dat staat in een op 27 mei gepubliceerd document. „Partijleiders in Nederland doen er goed aan om dit aandachtig te lezen voordat zij met hun spindoctors goedkope electorale bokkesprongen gaan bedenken.” buff.ly/2lEObJm

essential context for uk/eu trade deal passed to “reset” their post-brexit relationship

The next general election may not be until 2029.

But we could be only days or weeks away from Labour making a catastrophic mistake that will guarantee a loss.

If they reach a deal with the USA that precludes us ever getting truly close to the EU again, let alone rejoining, then it's "Game Over".

Finally, the correct tariff formula (from Private Eye)

Striking that both Trump’s enemies and diehards are all convinced this is a masterplan. Either that he’s deliberately shorted the market or it’s all a strategy to make other countries negotiate. This is his great ability: he convinces everyone he’s one step ahead. Most of the time he is simply not.

Ah yes, the Germans of old, famous for treating the Jews they’d kidnapped kindly

This is COVID-like selling, but now Trump is the virus and there is no cure. Except the 25th Amendment.

Listening to @restispoliticsus.bsky.social & other media & realising that “to Brexit” is now used (in context of Trump’s tariffs) as “to commit a monumental act of self harm. Yet UK government staggers on in denial

Churchill was right: an appeaser is someone who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last

Trust comes on foot and leaves on an F35

So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.

Meanwhile, in Rome: demonstration in support of Europe
(Yes, you read that correctly - now they’re waving European flags not in Tbilisi or Kyiv, but in the heart of ‘old Europe’)

Was a pleasure to be on with Twan Huys
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