"The Danish Defense Intelligence Service released a new report that warns the United States can no longer be counted on not to use military force against its own allies.

'The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies,' the report said."

#Trump #Europe #NSS #tourists #travel #NATO
/9

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Pam Bondi Is Low-Key Defying Federal Judges Over DQ’d US Attorneys

INSIDE: Alina Habba ... Lindsey Halligan ... Abrego Garcia

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}

"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
/4

"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
/3

We got back from a trip to Krakow yesterday, but on our last full day, like so many millions before us, we visited this nearby memorial to human wickedness.
Auschwitz-Birkenau is just as humbling and upsetting as you might expect, but it was made worse for us by the thought that there are probably plenty of people in the world today who'd be happy to do the whole extermination of minority groups thing all over again...

#Photography #Travel #History #Politics