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Wenn Putin die Ukraine überfällt, müssen wir unsere Wirtschaft mit Sanktionen in den Ruin treiben, obwohl diese rein gar nichts dazu beitragen, den Krieg zu beenden. Wenn Trump den Iran überfällt, ist es dagegen kein Problem, dass wir uns immer tiefer in die Abhängigkeit von überteuertem US-Frackinggas begeben. Diese Doppelmoral muss endlich ein Ende haben! Kein anderes Land der Welt schießt sich derart ins eigene Knie wie Deutschland unter dieser Bundesregierung. Schluss mit den sinnlosen Russland-Sanktionen, die immer mehr Unternehmen in die Pleite oder aus dem Land treiben und die Bürger zunehmend ärmer machen!

Wow the Whitehouse Ball room is….quite something. To put it mildly

No surprise that western governments are running short of China experts. People with genuine China expertise in western governments find themselves often regarded as too understanding of Chinese positions. Their expertise is exploited when expedient and more often disregarded as politically inconvenient. They usually will have a boss who is hostile to China, not by accident. Their promotion prospects will tend to depend on confidence that although expert, they are not interested in China and, preferably, hostile to China. Seeing all this happening, younger staff steer clear of making too much investment in acquiring Chinese experience and skills. Anyone with actual recent experience of living in China is likely to be excluded from ability to get a security clearance and so unemployable in government. The result is western governments flying ever blinder and more prejudiced on China.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski on Russia: Nothing will ever be the same as before the war. It is a civilizational problem, a problem with the country's political culture. There are these Mongol-Tsarist patterns, followed by Bolshevik ones. There were attempts at some kind of new beginning, but they failed.

AI stocks climb after trillions wiped from market values bbc.in/4iszOg5

Vildt resultat i USA i nat! Jeg er forsigtig optimist på Europas vegne. Ikke fordi alt nu ændrer sig til det bedre, men fordi det kan gavne støtten til Ukraine, den grønne omstilling og forholdet til omverdenen. Men EU skal fortsætte kursen om at stå stærkere og stå på egne ben. Det er ikke til debat. #eudk #Midterms2026

One other country named in econ bit in commission work report 🇨🇳 "Cheap imported energy & raw materials, open global trade, access to rapidly growing Chinese market & balanced tech progress are no longer the foundation for a thriving EU economy... independence is our priority"

Around 2,000 Canadian Armed Forces personnel, together with whatever heavy equipment can be deployed in the field in the working conditions, are taking part in an exercise near the Russian border, alongside approximately 1,000 other NATO troops. The media are busy portraying this as an escalation of tensions, with headlines and posts about Russian aggression, deterrence and other such nonsense. Let's put things into perspective. This is a field exercise designed to test coordination, operational capabilities and combat readiness. Military forces routinely conduct such exercises, involving deployments and simulated defensive operations along a hypothetical axis of a "potential Russian attack". There is nothing particularly unusual or dramatic about it. These exercises are necessary. Hopefully, the DEI agenda hasn't filtered down to the combat units, even if its influence appears to have become embedded within the senior ranks. Exercises of this nature take place regularly, both in Canada and overseas, ranging from company-level activities to brigade-level manoeuvres. During Canada's involvement in Afghanistan, for example, troops underwent extensive training in Canada and the US before deployment. There is therefore no reason to treat this particular exercise as something extraordinary. As a reminder, Canada deployed approximately 2,000 troops & support staff to Afghanistan at any given time while there, yet the overall strategic outcome was, at best, questionable. In other words, after years of involvement, considerable expenditure and the loss of Canadian lives, we ultimately achieved nothing in Afghanistan.

The problem is simple. Unelected bureaucrats in Brussels do not know, nor care, anything about history. They do not believe that countries should lead foreign policies that are in their own interest. They behave like Stalin in 1948 who told Yugoslavs what they should do & then cut all economic ties when they refused. This is why, to clarify & really help the relations between EU and Serbia, I argued that Serbia should formally abandon the idea of joining the EU, and expand as much as possible economic and even legal relations with the Union in the areas of mutual interest (ecology, judiciary, education). But not an inch more!