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BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The three countries voting against it?
🇺🇸 USA
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷 Argentina
Nearly all of Europe abstained.
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@chenweihua @AJEnglish Well, usually they are not killed by their own government
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@AJEnglish The West/G7 would usually call such killings a war crime. But now they are deadly quiet.
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At least 243 students and teachers have been killed since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, an official from Iran’s Education Ministry says.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/rcsjp4
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Congratulations to the future Chancellor of Germany @Alice_Weidel and the @AfD for obtaining 20% of the vote in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
It was great to see you again in Budapest this Saturday, keep up the fight & may God help you claim your beautiful country back! 🇩🇪
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@andybull2012 @chenweihua @POLITICOEurope Last time I checked, no one in those states was hanged for defying God
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@Gelevski37151 @chenweihua @POLITICOEurope US n Israel have theocratic reigme either. Lindsay said it was a war for 2000 yrs ago. Defense Minister Peter is a fan of Crusade...
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COMMENTARY: Trump’s Iran debacle comes at a time when China is competing with the U.S. for global power and influence, and Russia is waging the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Both stand to benefit greatly.
🔗 politico.eu/article/iraq-i…
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@jackprandelli This will all end badly for us once the dust is settled.
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🚨 Trump just weaponized LNG
Ratify the trade deal by Thursday
Or lose access to US energy 🇺🇸⚡
The timing is surgical 👇
Europe's LNG reality right now:
Qatar, force majeure. Offline 3-5 years ❌
Russia, Von der Leyen said no ❌
Hormuz, effectively dead ❌
US LNG ... the only option left at scale ✅
And Trump knows it.
Here's how dependent Europe already is:
2019: 14 bcm of US LNG imports
2025: 83 bcm a +493% surge
US share of EU LNG: 57% and rising
The trade deal details:
$750 billion in US energy purchases by 2028
LNG, oil and civil nuclear technologies
Tariffs lowered to 15% on most EU exports
EU vote: Thursday
Von der Leyen said no to Russian gas✅
NATO said no to the coalition ✅
Now Europe faces a simple choice:
Sign the deal or freeze ❄️
QatarEnergy's CEO said the region was set back 10-20 years.
Trump just used that setback as a negotiating tool.
Europe has 2 days ⏳
I break down every move in this crisis 3x per week.
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#LNG #energy #Europe #Trump
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@Glenn_Diesen Yeah and only if that neighbor didn’t start the largest land invasion after second world war. Who is paying you for this posts?
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If only the EU had a neighbour with an abundance of energy resources, which could ensure that the EU would not be vulnerable to US energy blackmail
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@chenweihua @POLITICOEurope China is defending theocratic regime so that’s really not cool
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@POLITICOEurope Why implicate China? China condemns U.S. and Israel aggression and wants them to stop asap. EU is definitely the loser after emboldening the U.S. aggression.
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@chenweihua @ftenergy It’s not gonna happen cause Ukraine was the tipping point and USA are out of it
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@ftenergy Europeans are now forced to sign unequal treaties by their Daddy Sam after Europeans forced other countries to sign unequal treaties in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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US warns EU to pass trade deal or risk losing ‘favourable’ access to LNG ft.trib.al/bKf4ldp
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: President Trump just told 450 million Europeans: sign my deal by Thursday or I cut your gas. And if you think this is impulsive, you are not paying attention. This is the most calculated energy play in American history. Qatar’s LNG is offline. Force Majeure. Ras Laffan shut after Iranian drones hit it on Day 3. Seventeen percent of global LNG capacity gone for 3 to 5 years. Russia’s pipeline gas to Europe was severed after Ukraine. Norway is maxed. Europe’s LNG prices have surged 35 to 50 percent since Hormuz closed. One supplier remains at scale: the United States. Trump’s ambassador to the EU just told the Parliament: ratify the $750 billion trade deal without amendments by Thursday March 26, or lose “favorable access” to American LNG. Now decode the strategic geopolitical chess game which is being played in realtime. Saturday night, Trump posted a 48-hour ultimatum threatening to obliterate Iranian power plants. That was not about Iran. That was about oil prices. He needed them high enough to terrify Europe into ratifying the LNG deal, but not so high that American consumers revolted before the midterms. The ultimatum spiked Brent past $113 and WTI past $100 on Sunday. Monday morning, Trump posted about “productive conversations” and paused the power plant strikes for five days. Oil crashed over 10 percent in hours. WTI hit $89. The S&P surged $2 trillion. He spiked oil to create the fear. Then crashed it to create the relief. The fear makes Europe sign. The relief makes American voters forgive the war. Both moves serve the same president. Both happened within 36 hours. Both were executed with social media posts, not missiles. The $750 billion deal is the permanent monetisation of Europe’s energy vulnerability. LNG. Oil. Civil nuclear. Locked in until 2028. The EU had been delaying ratification for months. Three wars removed every alternative: Iran removed Qatar, Ukraine removed Russia, Norway’s geology removed Norway. What remains is American LNG. Trump is not selling gas. He is selling the absence of alternatives. The 5-day power-plant pause expires Saturday March 28. The EU Parliament votes Thursday March 26. Europe must ratify American energy dependency two days before the war might escalate again. If the pause collapses Saturday and Iran executes Ghalibaf’s promise to “irreversibly destroy” regional energy infrastructure, European LNG prices spike after the deal is already signed. Trump gets the $750 billion commitment at crisis pricing, then potentially triggers the next crisis 48 hours later. The deal locks in before the leverage expires. This is Trump Doctrine in its purest form. He does not separate trade from security from energy from markets. He operates them as one instrument. The war degrades Iran. The degradation closes Hormuz. The closure spikes energy. The spike terrifies Europe. The terror forces the deal. The deal locks in $750 billion. The pause crashes oil. The crash rallies stocks. The rally preserves midterm support. Every move funds the next move. He used the words “Department of War” in the pause announcement. Not Defence. The pre-1947 name. The name that tells Europe: the man offering you gas can resume bombing power plants on Saturday. Yesterday Russia signed a deal to build Vietnam’s first nuclear plant. Today Trump threatens to cut Europe’s gas. Two great powers selling energy security to two desperate continents during the same war. Both profit from the crisis. Both lock in decades of dependency. Both timed the offer to the moment the customer cannot refuse. The strait closed the alternatives. The ultimatum created the fear. The pause created the relief. The deal monetises both. Thursday is payday. Full deep dive analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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BREAKING: President Trump just told 450 million Europeans: sign my deal by Thursday or I cut your gas. And if you think this is impulsive, you are not paying attention. This is the most calculated energy play in American history.
Qatar’s LNG is offline. Force Majeure. Ras Laffan shut after Iranian drones hit it on Day 3. Seventeen percent of global LNG capacity gone for 3 to 5 years. Russia’s pipeline gas to Europe was severed after Ukraine. Norway is maxed. Europe’s LNG prices have surged 35 to 50 percent since Hormuz closed. One supplier remains at scale: the United States. Trump’s ambassador to the EU just told the Parliament: ratify the $750 billion trade deal without amendments by Thursday March 26, or lose “favorable access” to American LNG.
Now decode the strategic geopolitical chess game which is being played in realtime.
Saturday night, Trump posted a 48-hour ultimatum threatening to obliterate Iranian power plants. That was not about Iran. That was about oil prices. He needed them high enough to terrify Europe into ratifying the LNG deal, but not so high that American consumers revolted before the midterms. The ultimatum spiked Brent past $113 and WTI past $100 on Sunday. Monday morning, Trump posted about “productive conversations” and paused the power plant strikes for five days. Oil crashed over 10 percent in hours. WTI hit $89. The S&P surged $2 trillion.
He spiked oil to create the fear. Then crashed it to create the relief. The fear makes Europe sign. The relief makes American voters forgive the war. Both moves serve the same president. Both happened within 36 hours. Both were executed with social media posts, not missiles.
The $750 billion deal is the permanent monetisation of Europe’s energy vulnerability. LNG. Oil. Civil nuclear. Locked in until 2028. The EU had been delaying ratification for months. Three wars removed every alternative: Iran removed Qatar, Ukraine removed Russia, Norway’s geology removed Norway. What remains is American LNG. Trump is not selling gas. He is selling the absence of alternatives.
The 5-day power-plant pause expires Saturday March 28. The EU Parliament votes Thursday March 26. Europe must ratify American energy dependency two days before the war might escalate again. If the pause collapses Saturday and Iran executes Ghalibaf’s promise to “irreversibly destroy” regional energy infrastructure, European LNG prices spike after the deal is already signed. Trump gets the $750 billion commitment at crisis pricing, then potentially triggers the next crisis 48 hours later. The deal locks in before the leverage expires.
This is Trump Doctrine in its purest form. He does not separate trade from security from energy from markets. He operates them as one instrument. The war degrades Iran. The degradation closes Hormuz. The closure spikes energy. The spike terrifies Europe. The terror forces the deal. The deal locks in $750 billion. The pause crashes oil. The crash rallies stocks. The rally preserves midterm support. Every move funds the next move.
He used the words “Department of War” in the pause announcement. Not Defence. The pre-1947 name. The name that tells Europe: the man offering you gas can resume bombing power plants on Saturday.
Yesterday Russia signed a deal to build Vietnam’s first nuclear plant. Today Trump threatens to cut Europe’s gas. Two great powers selling energy security to two desperate continents during the same war. Both profit from the crisis. Both lock in decades of dependency. Both timed the offer to the moment the customer cannot refuse.
The strait closed the alternatives. The ultimatum created the fear. The pause created the relief. The deal monetises both. Thursday is payday.
Full deep dive analysis:
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@BambBeeker @shanaka86 No that’s why they are the last hit from this energy crisis cause they have the most renewables only 2 percent of energy comes from the hormuz strain. The only one that will actually get the real hit is the petro dollar
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@Gelevski37151 @shanaka86 Europoors did this to themselves.
In 2017 President Trump told them that their Net Zero plan was retarded & to stop their dependency on Russian oil. They scoffed at him. The EU is crying now.
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🚨 BIG: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says “we’ve achieved AGI.”
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Karoline Leavitt, 28, with her 61-year-old husband.
Be honest… what’s your first thought?
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Anthropic CEO:
“I think we might be six to 12 months away from when Claude doing most or maybe all of what we do end to end”.
> AI writes the code
> AI reviews the code
> AI fixes the bugs
> AI secures it
software engineers are cooked.
Claude@claudeai
Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code. When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs.
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Orban now backed by Trump, Vance, Putin and Netanyahu.
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@OrenMarmorstein Yeah it will not be Rome or Paris guess why, cause we are not bombing Iran it’s very simple
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Look at this.
This is in Israel today.
And this could be Rome, Berlin or Paris.
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IDF CHIEF: "Yesterday, Iran launched a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 4,000 kilometers toward an American target on Diego Garcia Island. These missiles are not intended to strike Israel. Their range reaches the capitals of Europe: Berlin, Paris, and Rome are all within direct threat range."
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@mobbs_mentality To help what Israel make a failed state out of Iran and create million refugees that will come to Europe?
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Gosh, you’d think they’d care more and help as this clearly concerns their own safety and security.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Iran could have capability to strike London, Paris or Berlin after launching ballistic missiles at UK-U.S. base Diego Garcia
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