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Kudos to my friend and The Wall Street Journal colleague Sune Engel Rasmussen for winning the Overseas Press Club award for his brilliant book on Afghanistan’s betrayed Generation America.

First we went to the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, which has been ramping up drills and rapidly expanding its military infrastructure as a shadow war heats up in the sea that surrounds it. Hosted by Sune Engel Rasmussen wsj.com/video/series/i…

The US delegation to Greenland will no longer attend a dogsled race and "celebrate Greenlandic culture", but only visit American soldiers on the Pituffik base (far away from potentially angry Greenlandic civilians). Clear retreat after Greenlandic and Danish pushback

It was spun as a feel-good trip to "celebrate Greenlandic culture", but in Greenland, it was met with fury. In Denmark, the PM dialled up her usually diplomatic rhetoric and is now in a full-on spat with the Trump administration. Our story: wsj.com/world/greenlan…

It is unclear what Trump wants w Greenland. A 1951 treaty w Denmark already allows him to beef up US military presence if he wants to. US companies can mine Greenland's minerals but investors won't pay for it. Greenland's worry is that he wants territory, just for the sake of it

I love this story about how Trump specifically asked for a painting of James Polk, the 11th president who oversaw the largest territorial expansion of the US, to hang in the Oval Office. By colleagues Josh Dawsey Vera Bergengruen Alex Ward wsj.com/politics/the-p…

How NATO patrols the sea for suspected Russian sabotage. Dan Michaels reporting from aboard vessels in NATO's new Baltric Sentry mission: wsj.com/world/europe/n…

#متابعات #قراءات كتاب جديد مثير للاهتمام بعنوان: عشرون عامًا: الأمل والحرب وخيانة جيل أفغاني المؤلف سون إنجل راسموسن Sune Engel Rasmussen في عام 2019، أفاد 85% من الأفغان بتعرضهم لصدمات نفسية. عاش أكثر من نصف السكان الأفغان تحت خط الفقر - ​​وهي نسبة سترتفع بشكل كبير بعد انسحاب الولايات

For a long time, the Nordics were known for peace efforts and cozy living. Now they are shedding that persona. Amid Russian aggression and unsure security guarantees from Trump, the Nordics have emerged as a model for Europe’s defense. My story: wsj.com/world/europe/e…

“The Nordic countries have a unified security policy for the first time since the Kalmar Union in the 1400s,” Jens Stoltenberg told me. My story about how the Nordics have pooled their resources to confront Russia, leading the way for European defense wsj.com/world/europe/e…

In Sweden, criminal gangs are using the country's free-choice system to plant students in specific schools to avoid rival gangs and tighten their grip on certain districts, according to report by SVT svtplay.se/video/eb3YwJN/…

»Young people are increasingly drawn into online communities that propagate extremist views«...»While the U.S. has long had a problem with school shooters, the growing teenage threat to Europe comes primarily from Islamists« - Sune Engel Rasmussen wsj.com/world/europe/t… via The Wall Street Journal

Terrorists in Europe are becoming younger and harder to find. My story about how the process of radicalization - of religious as well as right wing extremists - has sped up, and mostly happens at home, online. wsj.com/world/europe/t…

In Europe, most young terrorist suspect are radical Islamists. In the U.S., the problem is mostly with right-wing extremists. One expert told me that, similar to how ISIS' caliphate was a main exporter of jihadism, the U.S. has become a main exporters of far-right ideology

Gotta hand it to him, it's pretty bold: 20 yo Dutch man was caught trying to smuggle 50kg of ecstasy into Ibiza. His two suitcases were filled to the brim with 163,000 pills, covered only by the zip-up partition. nltimes.nl/2025/05/05/man…

To those surprised that one ally would spy on another, remember that under Obama, the Danish intelligence service helped the NSA spy on Angela Merkel and other European politicians wsj.com/world/greenlan…

Cancel culture doesn't exist. Kanzler culture, however, as Troels Heeger points out, has gone too far.

The five Iranian men who were arrested across the U.K. over the weekend are suspected of plotting an attack on the Israeli Embassy in London. Story by Max Colchester and me wsj.com/world/middle-e…