America is experiencing the charisma juggernaut that is Liz Truss. They are not ready.

Philipp Sands, East West Street

Impossible to forget.

Wow - Brussels police have shut down today's far-right National Conservatism conference where Viktor Orban, Suella Braverman, Nigel Farage and Eric Zemmour were due to speak.

I'm afraid this just feeds into their persecution narrative... politico.eu/article/brusse…

If you get this joke, you've reached intermediate Bubble insider status on the 'This EU life' video game

It’s publication day for “NEW COLD WARS: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion and America’s Struggle to Save the West.” And how better to launch it than with Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show? Enjoy the laughs. And if you like this taste of it, pls. read the book. youtu.be/0CeLoP730sY?si…

Plenty of French diplomacy passes under the news radar. Last night a Paris summit raised €2bn in humanitarian aid for those caught up in the crisis in Sudan. That makes up a full 50% of what the UN has appealed for

review of David Sanger book

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/04/13/boo…

Chapeau, David Carretta

Commission choice for top SME tsar job resigns following media coverage of his party connections to VDL and other candidates who outperformed him in interview process

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Peter Baker Steven Erlanger Farnaz Fassihi Important. The obsessive policy & media focus on Gaza, and relative neglect of Iran and proxies have distorted Israel's complex threat environment. The launch of 350 warheads from Iran were a wake-up call

Had just one missile or drone gotten through and killed a lot of Israelis, American officials feared....
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Israel's strike on Iran’s embassy in Damascus followed by Iran's strike on Israel represent a dangerous new chapter in the long shadow war between Israel and Iran, which says it wants Israel wiped off the map. ⁦Steven Erlanger⁩ ⁦Farnaz Fassihi⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/14/wor…

Looking forward to discussing this new examination of superpower conflict. If in Philly, please join us!

Israel scored a huge tactical security/political success in defending against Iranian missiles and partnering w/ US and Sunnis. Question now is how to turn that into a strategic opportunity w/o courting regional war. No Israeli government can accept Iran's strike as new normal.

I recommend posting his speech transcripts in their entirety in newspapers. When you write this down it is even more apparent that it’s utterly insane rambling.

Der erste Tag der Reise von Olaf Scholz nach China war etwas surreal. Im warm-feuchten Klima der 32-Mio-Einwohnerstadt Chongqing fühlte sich #Israel sehr fern und sehr nah zugleich an. Mein Text für ZEIT ONLINE hier: zeit.de/politik/auslan…

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Russia and its links with the AfD?.... by Erika Solomon nytimes.com/2024/04/15/wor…

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/04/14/wor…

'Khamenei himself ordered the strikes on Israel from inside Iran to send a clear message that Iran was shifting from “strategic patience” to a more active deterrence, acc to four Iranian officials, two of them IRGC members.' Steven Erlanger, Farnaz Fassihi nytimes.com/2024/04/14/wor…

Putin-critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has concluded that sacrificing himself is the price he will have to pay to galvanize opposition to Russia’s president wsj.com/world/russia/t… via The Wall Street Journal