Per Nielsen
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You are not better than Trump because you dislike him. If you refuse to act while a war burns next door, you are in fact worse. Your values do not count if you will not pay for them
You are not better than Trump because you dislike him. If you refuse to act while a war burns next door, you are in fact worse. Your values do not count if you will not pay for them
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With "friends" like Greece, Ukraine doesn't need enemies...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu @antoniolscosta.bsky.social
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu @antoniolscosta.bsky.social
Greece is reportedly blocking the EU's 20th sanctions package. Since the invasion, Greece has on every occasion obstructed, causing the people of Ukraine immeasurable harm. Worst of all, Greece helped Russia build its shadow fleet. How much more of this?
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-does-t...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-does-t...
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
With "friends" like Greece, Ukraine doesn't need enemies...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu @antoniolscosta.bsky.social
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu @antoniolscosta.bsky.social
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Good frame: “Trump wants far-right nationalism to reign, to erode the EUs common market and institutions, and the continent to give up on renewable energy
A recipe for the balkanisation of Europe into a collection of small and medium economies vulnerable to US coercion – and dependent on its gas.“
A recipe for the balkanisation of Europe into a collection of small and medium economies vulnerable to US coercion – and dependent on its gas.“
@james-r-green.bsky.social - the CERs new tech fellow - with a good piece on this weeks EU Leader summit - and the huge stakes involved.
Spicy title, too.
encompass-europe.com/comment/trum...
Spicy title, too.
encompass-europe.com/comment/trum...
Trump is right about Europe’s weakness — and wrong about the cure
US President Trump believes Europe is facing civilisational erasure, European leaders are weak and unable to protect Greenland, and Europe has bankrupted…
encompass-europe.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Good frame: “Trump wants far-right nationalism to reign, to erode the EUs common market and institutions, and the continent to give up on renewable energy
A recipe for the balkanisation of Europe into a collection of small and medium economies vulnerable to US coercion – and dependent on its gas.“
A recipe for the balkanisation of Europe into a collection of small and medium economies vulnerable to US coercion – and dependent on its gas.“
Sarah Paine talking about grand strategy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwkj...
for the US, China, Europe and Russia. She has an interesting framework focusing on "maritime" and "continental" powers and breaking down issues into strategic, operational and tactical issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwkj...
for the US, China, Europe and Russia. She has an interesting framework focusing on "maritime" and "continental" powers and breaking down issues into strategic, operational and tactical issues.
ICE Policy: Mussolini 2.0 — Sarah Paine on Trump’s Strategy and the Risk of World War III
YouTube video by This Is The World
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Sarah Paine talking about grand strategy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwkj...
for the US, China, Europe and Russia. She has an interesting framework focusing on "maritime" and "continental" powers and breaking down issues into strategic, operational and tactical issues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwkj...
for the US, China, Europe and Russia. She has an interesting framework focusing on "maritime" and "continental" powers and breaking down issues into strategic, operational and tactical issues.
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Greece is reportedly blocking the EU's 20th sanctions package. Since the invasion, Greece has on every occasion obstructed, causing the people of Ukraine immeasurable harm. Worst of all, Greece helped Russia build its shadow fleet. How much more of this?
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-does-t...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-does-t...
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Greece is reportedly blocking the EU's 20th sanctions package. Since the invasion, Greece has on every occasion obstructed, causing the people of Ukraine immeasurable harm. Worst of all, Greece helped Russia build its shadow fleet. How much more of this?
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-does-t...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-does-t...
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Den amerikanske stat myrder videre, mens verden ser til. Mindst 121 mennesker er nu blevet dræbt på denne måde. Ingen rettergang, ingen beviser for noget som helst kriminelt.
US military says 2 killed in boat strike, with 1 survivor | CNN Politics
The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people with one survivor, according to US Southern Command.
edition.cnn.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Den amerikanske stat myrder videre, mens verden ser til. Mindst 121 mennesker er nu blevet dræbt på denne måde. Ingen rettergang, ingen beviser for noget som helst kriminelt.
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Europe is facing a “geopolitical and geo-economic state of emergency”, declares Emmanuel Macron. If the continent does not invest in its economy and lift barriers to growth more quickly, it will be “swept aside” by technology from America and imports from China.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Emmanuel Macron declares a European state of emergency
He urges the EU to move fast or be swept aside
www.economist.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Europe is facing a “geopolitical and geo-economic state of emergency”, declares Emmanuel Macron. If the continent does not invest in its economy and lift barriers to growth more quickly, it will be “swept aside” by technology from America and imports from China.
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
This whole thread is really worth a read.
About the failing transatlantic alliance, the new world order and how, unfortunately, the European politicians have given up the fight for the narrative..
About the failing transatlantic alliance, the new world order and how, unfortunately, the European politicians have given up the fight for the narrative..
I had a long chat with Luuk van Middelaar – one of Europe’s sharpest political thinkers – and his verdict is stark: Trump’s 2nd term is blowing up 80 years of transatlantic certainties and dragging the world back into a harsher age of great‑power bargains and spheres of influence
February 10, 2026 at 7:56 AM
This whole thread is really worth a read.
About the failing transatlantic alliance, the new world order and how, unfortunately, the European politicians have given up the fight for the narrative..
About the failing transatlantic alliance, the new world order and how, unfortunately, the European politicians have given up the fight for the narrative..
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Germany, he suggests, is central to this hesitation: its democratic history is bound to the US and NATO since 1949, creating an almost existential attachment to the transatlantic bond that slows Europe’s strategic and narrative emancipation – even as the old world falls away
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Germany, he suggests, is central to this hesitation: its democratic history is bound to the US and NATO since 1949, creating an almost existential attachment to the transatlantic bond that slows Europe’s strategic and narrative emancipation – even as the old world falls away
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For van Middelaar, Europe now has to learn both to “speak the language of power” and to grasp “the power of language”: build hard capabilities and a compelling story of what Europe is – somewhere between small‑nation nationalism and vague universalism.
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
For van Middelaar, Europe now has to learn both to “speak the language of power” and to grasp “the power of language”: build hard capabilities and a compelling story of what Europe is – somewhere between small‑nation nationalism and vague universalism.
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Europe has begun to respond on hard power, he says, with talk of defence, tech and energy autonomy dating back to Macron’s “European sovereignty” agenda. But on the propaganda front, “there has not been any response” – Europe has abandoned the battlefield of narrative.
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Europe has begun to respond on hard power, he says, with talk of defence, tech and energy autonomy dating back to Macron’s “European sovereignty” agenda. But on the propaganda front, “there has not been any response” – Europe has abandoned the battlefield of narrative.
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As a result, he warns, others are defining Europe: Americans, Russians, Chinese. It's time for Europe to start defining itself... one of the spoils of this narrative war.
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
As a result, he warns, others are defining Europe: Americans, Russians, Chinese. It's time for Europe to start defining itself... one of the spoils of this narrative war.
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The trajectory from, “Trump will give Ukraine to Tomahawks to attack Russia” to “Trump has starved Ukraine of Patriots to help Russia” is the single greatest example of the failure of people to understand what Trump is and has always been.
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The trajectory from, “Trump will give Ukraine to Tomahawks to attack Russia” to “Trump has starved Ukraine of Patriots to help Russia” is the single greatest example of the failure of people to understand what Trump is and has always been.
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
youtu.be/Mx0W0FuKg18?...
So be it. One hour of Perun on Greenland.
As a Dane I'm really looking forward to this.
So be it. One hour of Perun on Greenland.
As a Dane I'm really looking forward to this.
The Greenland Crisis - The Arctic, Alliances & A U.S. Strategic Folly
YouTube video by Perun
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
youtu.be/Mx0W0FuKg18?...
So be it. One hour of Perun on Greenland.
As a Dane I'm really looking forward to this.
So be it. One hour of Perun on Greenland.
As a Dane I'm really looking forward to this.
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Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world?
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.
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OTD in 2022 I gave Emmanuel Macron my personal assurances that I would not invade Ukraine.
So you can trust any promise we make now.
So you can trust any promise we make now.
February 8, 2026 at 9:21 AM
OTD in 2022 I gave Emmanuel Macron my personal assurances that I would not invade Ukraine.
So you can trust any promise we make now.
So you can trust any promise we make now.
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The EU's 20th sanctions package bans Western oil tankers from transporting Russian oil. In the Baltic, such ships are now only 15% of capacity, so the 20th package - like previous ones - dodges the hard stuff. It's the shadow fleet that must be shut down...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/das-recht-...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/das-recht-...
February 8, 2026 at 9:03 AM
The EU's 20th sanctions package bans Western oil tankers from transporting Russian oil. In the Baltic, such ships are now only 15% of capacity, so the 20th package - like previous ones - dodges the hard stuff. It's the shadow fleet that must be shut down...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/das-recht-...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/das-recht-...
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Updated my Substack to reflect this important point: Very low subsidies to the social funds late in the year were a big reason why Russian federal budget spending seemed so strangely low late in 2025. See last paragraph: janiskluge.substack.com/p/russias-co...
February 7, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Updated my Substack to reflect this important point: Very low subsidies to the social funds late in the year were a big reason why Russian federal budget spending seemed so strangely low late in 2025. See last paragraph: janiskluge.substack.com/p/russias-co...
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North Korean troops in Kursk are being rotated regularly under a bilateral agreement with Moscow to gain combat experience. 🇰🇵 forces are operating surveillance drones, clearing mines, & conducting artillery strikes from southern Russia, according to 🇺🇦 mi. intelligence. www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...
North Korean Soldiers Provide More Advanced Support for Russia’s War on Ukraine
Forces from North Korea are now operating drones and removing mines, illustrating the improvement in their combat skills.
www.wsj.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
North Korean troops in Kursk are being rotated regularly under a bilateral agreement with Moscow to gain combat experience. 🇰🇵 forces are operating surveillance drones, clearing mines, & conducting artillery strikes from southern Russia, according to 🇺🇦 mi. intelligence. www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...
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There is way too much optimism about the peace process between Russia and Ukraine. In reality, there is little reason to believe that the current talks will lead anywhere. In this video, I give a status on the talks and discuss why Trump's efforts to stop the war have failed.
Why are the peace talks not working?
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:10 AM
There is way too much optimism about the peace process between Russia and Ukraine. In reality, there is little reason to believe that the current talks will lead anywhere. In this video, I give a status on the talks and discuss why Trump's efforts to stop the war have failed.
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Russia trades with Iran, yet Trump has still not put any tariffs on Russia.
It doesn't specify rates that could be imposed, but uses 25% as an example,says it will apply to goods imported into the US from nations that 'directly or indirectly purchases, imports, or otherwise acquires any goods or services from Iran'
@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
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@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
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Trump signs executive order threatening tariffs for countries trading with Iran
The order did not specify the rate that could be imposed, but used 25% as an example.
www.bbc.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Russia trades with Iran, yet Trump has still not put any tariffs on Russia.
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President von der Leyen's 🇪🇺Commission took more meetings with American companies last year than companies from any other country.
table.media/europe/analy...
table.media/europe/analy...
February 6, 2026 at 8:24 PM
President von der Leyen's 🇪🇺Commission took more meetings with American companies last year than companies from any other country.
table.media/europe/analy...
table.media/europe/analy...
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A few months ago a GOP state legislator resigned over racist texts, and the staffer of a NY GOP assemblyman was fired for comparing Black people to monkeys and other racist remarks. Let's see how GOP leaders respond now when it's the leader of their party (who has a long history here).
Vermont Legislator Resigns Over Racist Texts in Republican Group Chat
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
A few months ago a GOP state legislator resigned over racist texts, and the staffer of a NY GOP assemblyman was fired for comparing Black people to monkeys and other racist remarks. Let's see how GOP leaders respond now when it's the leader of their party (who has a long history here).
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Jeg vil stærkt anbefale at lytte til denne udgave af @Krigskunst.dk hvis man vil forstå hvilken rolle den danskledede Multi-National Division North i forsvaret af Baltikum og hvordan den er transformeret fra at være en rådgivende, trænende og uddannende organisation til krigsorganisation. Vigtigt!
Den danskledede Nato-styrke Multinational Division North har ansvaret for forsvaret af Letland, hvis det skulle komme til en krig med Rusland. I januar-udgaven af Krigskunst Podcast talte vi med generalmajor Jette Albinus, der er chef for divisionen.
Afsnittet er nu ude som video.
Afsnittet er nu ude som video.
Er NATO klar til krig i de baltiske lande?
YouTube video by Krigskunst Podcast
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Jeg vil stærkt anbefale at lytte til denne udgave af @Krigskunst.dk hvis man vil forstå hvilken rolle den danskledede Multi-National Division North i forsvaret af Baltikum og hvordan den er transformeret fra at være en rådgivende, trænende og uddannende organisation til krigsorganisation. Vigtigt!