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EISEN: I wonder if you ever worry that by trashing the president over Iran that it weakens our hand and negotiation position at a critical moment ELIZABETH WARREN: 🤨 Donald Trump weakens Donald Trump's hand when he starts this war without ever consulting with the American people about it
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Deadlock over. The EU just cleared the way for the €90-billion-loan for Ukraine and the 20th sanctions package.
Russia’s war economy is under growing strain, while Ukraine is getting a major boost.
We will provide Ukraine what it needs to hold its ground, until Putin understands his war leads nowhere.
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12 years ago I walked into my boss’s office, 54 years old, and resigned the job I loved a lot.
Me and my husband had just bought our house in Abruzzo, Italy 🇮🇹 and after having spent a few weekends there we realised that we didn’t want to leave.
So we both quitted our jobs and started a journey into the unknown.
What a lifestyle, what a change of perspective and not one minute of regret.
Family, friends, our dog Ruby, a good gym, a lot of walking, running and reading, the vegetable garden, cooking, nice restaurants and the never ending process of trying to beat the market keeps us fresh.
I am so grateful that I dared and that we took the chance.




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Is arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still on the table for Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper? 🤔
Back in November 2024, when she was Home Secretary, she was asked directly on Good Morning Britain, Sky News and elsewhere whether the UK would arrest him if he visited over the ICC arrest warrant.
She repeatedly dodged the question:
“That’s not a matter for me as Home Secretary… there are proper processes… it wouldn’t be appropriate to comment.”
Downing Street later indicated he would likely be arrested if he came here.
Now she’s been Foreign Secretary since September 2025, and Israel’s bombing campaigns have continued. Has her position on this changed in her new role? Has she given a clearer answer directly to her Israeli counterparts during meetings or calls?
Or does it follow the same pattern as Starmer criticising Trump over oil prices one day, then staying quiet the next?
All talk and virtue signalling, with little substance when it comes to follow-through.
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@Microinteracti1 @Libertarec Israel 🇮🇱 used up all the missiles bombing kids
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@Libertarec “US heavily outproduces us” — mate, they went dry after three weeks of their own war.
Three weeks.
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The United States has just nuked its own arms export business. Not with a missile. With a phone call.
Pete Hegseth rang Estonia’s defense minister and told him the HIMARS and Javelin deliveries are on hold.
Indefinitely. Months, not weeks. No timeline. No alternative. Just: sorry, we’re busy bombing Iran.
And that’s it. Twenty years of patient alliance-building, vaporized in a Monday morning call.
Here’s what European defense planners now know for certain: American weapons come with an asterisk. The asterisk reads “subject to cancellation whenever Washington decides its own adventure takes priority.”
You can sign the contracts. You can train your soldiers. You can build your entire defensive posture around US systems. And then one day, the ammo stops. No warning. No plan B.
Estonia is already shopping elsewhere. So is everyone else, with the kind of focus that only comes from genuine betrayal.
The Americans think this is a pause. Europe knows it’s a divorce.

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Let me walk you through the events of the war so far:
1. The United States and Israel tried regime change; it didn’t work. Or rather, they got regime change—Iran became an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–led military dictatorship. That was not an improvement.
2. The U.S. won an overwhelming military victory with air and naval power and scarcely a boot on the ground. But it destroyed less of Iran’s missile- and drone-launching capabilities than at first appeared.
3. Then there was a hostage crisis. Iran took both the Gulfies and the Strait of Hormuz hostage. The result was a massive economic shock for the world that required a rapid resolution.
4. The choice was between 1) military escalation (boots on the ground or strikes on Iranian infrastructure), and 2) a diplomatic deal. Trump chose 2.
5. In Islamabad, the U.S proposed big economic concessions in return for some kind of change in the status of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, as well as the reopening of the strait. Contrary to the president’s social media feed, the Iranians did not accept.
6. In any case, the devil of any deal will be in the details, not the Truth headline. (When the small print finally comes out, every former Obama and Biden official will be ready to tell The New York Times that it’s worse than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.)
7. Meanwhile, the Iranians have survived regime change and discovered that closing the strait is just as powerful a lever in economic warfare as they had always hoped. It’s not, despite the Russian quip, an “economic nuke,” because unlike a nuclear weapon you can use it.
8. Where we go from here is fairly predictable. I would be surprised if Trump now deploys ground forces. There will be more negotiation, so Islamabad, here we come. There may have to be more bombing, if the Iranians dust down the North Vietnamese playbook of stringing the U.S. negotiators along. And the final compromise will take longer to be agreed upon than Mr. Market currently believes. The consensus in prediction markets is this will be over by the end of May, but remember: It took Henry Kissinger more than four months to get the 1973–1974 oil embargo lifted.
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A short while ago, in full coordination with the local community of Debel in southern Lebanon, the damaged statue was replaced by IDF troops. The Northern Command worked to coordinate the replacement of the statue from the moment it received the report of the incident.
The IDF expresses deep regret over the incident, and is working to ensure that it does not happen again in the future.

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We won’t relent in our fight against antisemitism and terror.
Any perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@georgegalloway Disgusting 🤢 Germany 🇩🇪 we are all watching
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A frenzy of fascist violence. In Germany. Where are the European voices? Anyone planning to cut off their hair in protest?
HatsOff@HatsOffff
Footage from Germany shows police using force against a woman at a pro-Palestine demonstration
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@AmirAminiMD Germany 🇩🇪 we are all watching.Your police officers and leaders are a disgrace
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for $250 million over its story on his alleged drinking. cbsn.ws/3Qc2Pku
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