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If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak. He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected. France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy. Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust. Honestly? Understandable. Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

THE NEW EASTERN BLOC 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇭🇺 Nobody would greenlight this as a film script. Too implausible. Too stupid. Rewrite. And yet. There is a war in Europe. Russia started it. Tens of thousands are dead. And the President of the United States has decided the correct response is to audition as Moscow’s defense attorney while cutting weapons to the people being shelled. Rubio flew to Budapest in February to publicly endorse Viktor Orban. Viktor Orban. The man who spent a decade strip-mining Hungarian democracy while cheerfully pocketing EU money and blocking NATO decisions for sport. Rubio sat with him like a pilgrim at a shrine. Now Vance is heading there too, days before Orban’s election, because apparently one American pilgrimage to Budapest wasn’t enough. Marco Rubio, who once called Putin a gangster, now carefully avoids saying anything that might upset the gangster. The ideology is identical across all three capitals. Independent courts: dangerous. Free press: the enemy. Allies with opinions: a problem to be managed. This is not coincidence. This is a shared operating system, running simultaneously in Moscow, Budapest, and Washington DC. Which is the sentence that should make you put down your coffee. Washington DC. Economist Anders Aslund spent years documenting exactly how Putin built it. In Russia’s Crony Capitalism he shows how the system was never accidentally corrupt – it was engineered that way. Loyalty is purchased with state contracts and immunity from prosecution. The loyal get rich. The disloyal get imprisoned, exiled, or defenestrated. Orban read the manual. Now someone in Washington appears to have found a copy. The Europeans feel it. The Canadians feel it. Tokyo and Seoul feel it. The sensation is specific and unpleasant: the feeling of having been betrayed by someone you trusted with your life. They are not rebuilding their defenses against Russia anymore. They are rebuilding them against an axis that now includes their oldest ally. American military planning, American intelligence, American nuclear guarantees – all of it now sits inside a regime that shares its worldview with the people those guarantees were supposed to deter. And ordinary Americans feel it too. The judges removed. The universities targeted. The law firms that dared to disagree, publicly broken. The civil servants who asked questions, gone. The institutions that took two centuries to build are being methodically hollowed out, and the people doing it are not hiding. They are filming themselves doing it and posting it online. This is what the early chapters always look like. The ones nobody acts on because it still seems recoverable. Because surely someone will stop it. Because this is America and these things don’t happen here. They are happening. The Soviet Union needed seventy years to collapse under its own contradictions. It had the decency to be obviously monstrous from the start. This is worse. This came wearing a familiar face. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1 The video was made with AI. (Obviously.)

@BSapag Yoy have mercifully left out the 1960's horror at the end of the street from your clip 😉

Admiring the beautifully preserved Art Nouveau houses of Huvilakatu (Villagatan) in #Helsinki while listening to The Kinks! #Finland

The U.S. will never fully recover from this. Eighty years of carefully built branding as the anchor of the free world just went up in smoke in a single vote. When you’re in the same pen as Russia and North Korea, and you still won’t stand with Ukraine and your European allies. It’s reputational self-destruction.

@BSapag Been there. Magnificent!

Torres del Paine National Park #Patagonia #Chile 🇨🇱 #Photos by brother & nephew 🫶🏻

@Microinteracti1 Everyone

🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Who’s watching the hockey game between Canada and the USA right now?

@BSapag "little pub"? It's the spookiest, darkest bar around - and their drinks are absolutely splendid.

Little pub around the corner. #Helsinki #Finland

@PontusLindberg @Nylandsbrigad @NylBrGille @AGardberg Tack!

@RobinGElfving @Nylandsbrigad @NylBrGille @AGardberg Bra understreckare, välskrivet!

Grundad av Gustav II Adolf 1626 fyller @Nylandsbrigad i dag 400 år. @NylBrGille har gett ut en historik, författad av @AGardberg. Läs om historiken och brigaden i min understreckare i Svenska Dagbladet: svd.se/a/0pKjVJ/nylan…

Someone send this to JD Vance before he goes on another rant about 'mismanaged' European allies. Alexander Stubb just reminded the world that the Nordics own the Top 10 lists for justice, clean government free from corruption and equality. While Trump and JD Vance are busy obsessing over 'dominance' and crude GDP, the Finnish President is over here dropping facts. Turns out, when you actually invest in your people instead of just billionaire tax cuts, you end up the happiest people on earth. Stubb is 'bloody happy' because his country actually works for everyone. Alexander Stubb: “You're asking a question from the second happiest country in the world and the happiest country in the world, you know.” Moderator: “Who better to answer this?” Alexander Stubb: “And the third? No?” Moderator: “Oh, they're very happy.” Alexander Stubb: “Yeah, yeah. No, I sometimes, you know, sometimes when I hear the discourse, especially of economists who are looking at crude GDP as the save-all measurement, I think us coming from Nordic countries, we value welfare societies which are a combination of open market economies and clear safety nets. And if I look at our Gini coefficient, if I look at all the measures of international data—which five countries are in top ten, whether it's justice, whether it's least corrupt, whether it's open, whether it's welfare, whether it's environment, whether it's open media, gender equality—they are the Nordics. So I don't buy the argument that we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy.” #NordicModel #Finland #HappiestCountry #JDVance #Stubb

🇪🇪 Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service knows its stuff and russia well They have published their 2026 yearbook. Always an interesting read Here are the top findings:

@CaolanReports Good initiative, will follow. You have a very consistent reporting of Ukraine/Russia grounded in a no-illusions analysis of Russia. We need more of this kind of reporting. Big heart with Ukraine, cool analysis of Putin & co. Keep it up!

Please read my first article and let me know what you think I would love feedback ❤️

Peter Thiel destroyed Gawker. The Lebedevs bought the Evening Standard. Elon ruined Twitter. Bezos has gutted the Washington Post. Billionaires are destroying our media. So l've just launched my own platform that can't and won't be bought. Ever. caolan.report/billionaires-b…

The Nordic countries—none of them major military powers individually—have built something that rivals the air power of nations with five times their population and ten times their defence budgets.

Suomenruotsalainen puolustuspäivä järjestetään tänään Upinniemessä, @rannikkopr’ssa. @SininenReservi on yksi järjestäjätaho. Osallistujia yli 230.

Den finlandssvenska försvarsdagen ordnas i år i Obbnäs. På programmet Ukraina, Europas försvarsindustri och Autonoma vapensystem. #Marinreserven är medarrangör. Över 230 deltagare!

@AGardberg @Nylandsbrigad @NylBrGille BZ

14 månaders projekt i hamn! Igår utgavs @Nylandsbrigad 400 års historik, utgiven av @NylBrGille. I Finland distribueras boken med titeln "400 år i torrt och vått" via #Libraria, i Sverige med titeln "Finlands svenska soldater" av #Medstroms bokförlag.

Tänä vuonna @Nylandsbrigad täyttää 400 vuotta. Juhlavuoden kunniaksi @SininenReservi jäsenyhdistys @NylBrGille julkaisee prikaatin historiikin, eversti evp @AGardberg kirjoittamana. Kilta on myös lahjoittanut kirjan prikaatin koko henkilökunnalle. Ohessa tuore arvostelu.

Lukemisen arvoinen kolumni ajattelemisen tärkeydestä. Luku- ja kirjoitustaito ovat demokratian edellytyksiä. hs.fi/paakirjoitukse…

@BSapag "Uuniluukku" - the sound between Uunisaari and Stora Räntan is called uuniluukku - literally the "oven hatch"

There’s ‘snow’ ❄️place like #Finland #Helsinki #Baltic