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#Sanctions were tightened again under President #Biden after #Lukashenko allowed #Belarus to serve as a staging ground for #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine in 2022.
The exiled Belarusian opposition expressed gratitude to #Trump [🙄] & said the fact that Lukashenko had agreed to release prisoners in return for the concessions on potash was proof of the effectiveness of [Biden’s] sanctions [again, not #tariffs. Tariffs are idiotic].
"Meanwhile, millions of average, harmless travelers — fans coming for the World Cup, families planning a California road trip, Canadians who used to drive across the border to buy gas and discount Oreos — are instead being greeted with a digital strip-search and a bill for extra fees, background checks, and biometrics more suited to a dystopian sci-fi reboot."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"Human rights violators who make the TSA look like the Girl Scouts. People who do not care what nonsense the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) asks for, because their 'online activity' doesn’t exist or is conveniently curated by a PR team large enough to staff a minor embassy."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"What kind of person has both $5 million in liquid assets and a pressing need for American residency without scrutiny?
I’ll tell you who.
Money launderers. Drug traffickers. Russian oligarchs whose yachts have been seized more times than Trump has contradicted himself in a single sentence."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption
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Your Profile Pic Better Be Patriotic
A surveillance circus with Trump selling backstage passes, America now demands your DMs, biometrics, and dignity; unless you’ve got a million dollars to buy your innocence.Michael Cohen (Meidas+)
Philip Bump offers a chart based on UN vote data to show US support for Russia or for Europe from the Reagan presidency through the Trump presidency.
#Trump #UN #Europe #NSS #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #Zelensky #NATO
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Data is anti-fascist
Last week, this newsletter was refreshingly apolitical. Well, that was then. Chapter 1 What they want you to believe about immigrants You don't need to travel too far up the branches of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's …Philip Bump (How To Read This Chart)
This fucking guy
He's one for the ages
Ukrainians are angry at a tone in Western #media lately that #Ukraine is losing
#Disinfo from the usual #socialMedia #troll farms and #plutocrat influenced channels shilling a #narrative for a corrupt #agenda
So what does #Zelensky do?
He goes to the frontline in #Kupiansk and films himself there
While the #West repeats #Kremlin lies that #Russia controls it
😂
Zelensky is something else
Tough, crafty, true
In a world of dipshits
"That strategy is consistent with Trump’s belief in his prerogative to tell our European allies how they should run their countries. Unsurprisingly, that means urging them to embrace right-wing extremist political parties and white nationalism if they want to avoid what he deceptively calls 'civilizational erasure.' That same person is fine with the desire of Russia’s Vladimir Putin to erase Ukraine’s free society."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #NSS #Europe #Russia
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Come to Trump's America...If You Dare
The Trump regime is pushing a paranoid new policy that will further discourage international travelers. The reputation of America's aggression is growing.Steven Beschloss (America, America)
"Donald Trump hasn’t hidden the fact that he disdains Europe, even to bemoaning that 'Paris is no longer Paris.' But his—and, by extension, America’s—role in sowing discord on the continent seems far greater than what is publicly known."
~ Bulwark
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #Russia #China #Brexit
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Trump’s Hand-Picked RNC Chair Predicts Doom
This is not your usual party committee script.Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)
"What should have been clear as early as November 2024 should, by now, be abundantly so. This version of the US is worse than simply 'not our friend': it is an actively hostile actor seeking to fracture European society in the same way that Russia sought to fracture British society by promoting Brexit, and US society by fuelling disinformation, Maga and Trump."
~ Alexander Hurst
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #Russia #China #Brexit
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If the US forces me to choose between my two nationalities, I choose France – and Europe
Proposals to change US citizenship rules leaves dual citizens like me caught in the crossfire. If push comes to shove, I know where my loyalty lies, says Guardian columnist Alexander HurstAlexander Hurst (The Guardian)
"The Trump administration wants to persuade four more countries to leave the European Union to 'Make Europe Great Again', according to reports of a longer, still-classified version of the US national security strategy released last week.
There are also suggestions of creating a new elite C5, or Core Five, forum of world powers to sideline the G7, comprising America, China, India, Japan and Russia."
~ David Charter
"Over the summer, President Trump made headlines when he lamented the expulsion of Russia from the Group of Eight—now the Group of Seven—as a 'very big mistake.' He even suggested that he’d like to see China added to form a 'G9.'
His national security strategy proposes taking this a step further, creating a new body of major powers, one that isn’t hemmed in by the G7’s requirements that the countries be both wealthy and democratically governed."
"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, [Trump's NSS document] is what it would spit out. ...
It’s not an overreaction to call this 'soft power suicide,' as Jamie Shea, a former NATO official, told the New York Times."
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #NSS #NationalSecurity #Europe #NATO #Russia
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We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.Lisa Needham (Public Notice)
Germany is inviting the United States to join a high-stakes meeting in #Berlin early next week on a potential Ukraine ceasefire, Chancellor Friedrich #Merz said Thursday after talks with NATO Secretary-General Mark #Rutte.
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#Ukraine #Russia #EU #US #Germany #NATO
Germany asks US to join Ukraine peace talks in Berlin
European countries sent a territorial proposal on a peace deal to Washington as pressure grows for a deal to end the war.Chris Lunday (POLITICO)
“This is a national security document which actually poses a national security threat to Europe, because it’s saying to us, that this terrible invasion inside Europe that’s been led by Vladimir Putin, is essentially something we should normalise.”
“This is a major wake up call for Europeans. Whether you are on the left or the right, you need to look at this document and recognise it for what it is – an unprecedented declaration of interference in European politics.”
~ Nafeez Ahmed
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #Russia #WhiteSupremacy
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Has Trump Just Declared War on Europe?
Byline Times' Head of Investigations Nafeez Ahmed talks to Adrian Goldberg and the Byline Podcast about what really lies behind the new Kremlin-aligned US National Security StrategyAdrian Goldberg (Byline Supplement)
"The White House national security strategy paper and the US president himself have laid it out in black and white: Mr Trump seeks a fragmented, weakened Europe that is reliant on US industry and tech, and will therefore meekly comply with its aggressive demands. Europeans deserve far better than a continent made fit for Elon Musk. Time to fight back."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #Russia #WhiteSupremacy
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The Guardian view on Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance
Editorial: The White House is aggressively seeking to weaken and dominate the United States’ traditional allies. European leaders must learn to fight back.Editorial (The Guardian)
Russian-directed saboteurs sent explosive #DHL parcels that blew up in UK, #Poland and #Germany in July 2024, blasts strong enough to down a plane. Officials say they planned to hit US-bound flights next to cause more disruption to the airline industry.
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Russia’s hybrid warfare puts Europe to the test
Officials suspect a campaign of sabotage that once looked opportunistic may be a strategic escalationJana Tauschinski (Financial Times)
"It comes as no surprise to learn that it will be U.S. strategy to support so-called 'patriotic European parties,' for which we should read the overtly racist Nazi-worshipping Alternative For Germany political party that Vice President Vance praised so effusively in February that he practically drooled down his shirt at the Munich Security Conference."
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism #GreatReplacement
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"Now he has admitted the truth. His unhappiness with NATO is racist. For Trump and adherents to his cause, European nations have become insufficiently white. Trump’s national security strategy supports 'unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history.' That would be the kind of lily-white history he wants taught in American schools and universities."
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism #GreatReplacement
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"Trump has now formulated a new racism expressed in [the National Security Strategy] document as 'civilizational.' He states outright that Europe and our NATO allies are facing 'civilizational erasure' by allowing immigration from other countries that go unnamed but are clearly not 'European.' This is formulating the Great Replacement Theory as U.S. national policy."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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Trump makes the racist Great Replacement Theory official U.S. policy
Trump did it with the nation’s official National Security Strategy report that was published late last night on the White House website.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
The US lobbied several countries in the European Union in an effort to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats familiar with the matter.
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