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Anne Applebaum
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@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC find me more often on the blue site
Warsaw, London, Washington Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Let me get this straight.
The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality.
Everything was above board.
Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.
So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”
He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it.
This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness.
Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come.
None of this is America First.
nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…
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A president should not put his name on another man's memorial. He should not hang a banner of himself on the Justice Department. And he should not put his face on a coin. This is un-American.
Charlie Savage@charlie_savage
The Treasury Department is hurtling forward with minting what will now be three different coins with Trump's picture on them -- a $1 that will circulate and two commemorative 24k gold ones nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/…
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It’s clear there’s no strategy in Iran.
Even Tulsi Gabbard admitted we replaced one Khamenei with another—and the new one is even worse.
Trump’s war of choice is making us less safe.
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Quadruple the cost for three years of military support for Ukraine
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Exclusive: The Pentagon asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, according to an administration official, a new ask that will likely run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict. wapo.st/4bt8UQk
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A three-year-old company operating out of a WeWork with reportedly fewer than five employees is being considered for up to $25 BILLION in nuclear energy funds from a trade deal Trump brokered with Japan.
The company has never built a nuclear plant or completed a nuclear project of any kind.
What does this company bring to the table? The father of its CEO donated $2 million+ to Trump and the GOP, and one of its advisors is a former RNC co-chair and Trump appointee.
In this Administration, that’s apparently all you need.
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@michaeldweiss Closer to $50 billion
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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US military aid to Ukraine since 2022: $66.9 billion.
Jeff Stein@JStein_WaPo
SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress
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This is one of the best descriptions of the Ukrainian drone war, and its significance for all of us, that I have read
newstatesman.com/international-…
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W obliczu kształtującego się globalnego (nie)porządku Europa nie musi naśladować wielkich mocarstw, które opierają się na dominacji lub przymusie, ani stać się bezwzględnym drapieżnikiem w świecie drapieżnych hegemonów. Może stać się bezpieczną przystanią w burzliwym świecie, opierając się na następujących ideałach:
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Wciąż mamy wybór. Możemy się podzielić, angażować w drobne spory między narodami i pozwolić, by o naszej przyszłości decydowały siły zewnętrzne. Albo możemy podążać w przeciwnym kierunku – ku większej jedności, głębszej współpracy i silniejszym instytucjom. Tylko krocząc tą ścieżką, mamy szansę sukces.
📍Wykład w Europejskim Instytucie Uniwersyteckim we Florencji
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U.S. allies haven’t forgotten about Trump’s tariffs, his threats against NATO, and his curtailing of aid to Ukraine—so he shouldn’t be surprised that they’re unwilling to help him in Iran, @anneapplebaum argues.
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The GRU are already in Budapest, now Vance is coming too
Hümeyra Pamuk@humeyra_pamuk
SCOOP: Vice President JD Vance is planning to visit Hungary in the coming days in a show of support for the country's long-time nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban, who is facing a difficult election next month, sources familiar with the planning tell me & @JonathanLanday
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🇭🇺 EXCLUSIVE: An in-depth look at how Viktor Orbán and Fidesz underestimated Péter Magyar until it was too late. @Direkt36 reveals how Orbán’s spring offensive against him backfired—fueling internal tensions and exposing cracks inside the government. direkt36.hu/en/kielezett-a…
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A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest with over $1 trillion in annual output. nbcnews.com/business/econo…
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Brilliant @anneapplebaum on how Trump’s tarrifs & insults unraveled NATO
"Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing"
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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"Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines.
It gets dumber: Those four final American minesweepers left the theater in mid-January."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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She wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Breaking news: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s dismantling of Voice of America was unlawful and ordered more than 1,000 employees, who have spent a full year on paid administrative leave, back to work. wapo.st/4cNurFM
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