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🇧🇬 Bulgaria is asking the EU for urgent support to counter foreign interference (especially Russian disinformation) ahead of its parliamentary elections on April 19. Sofia wants to avoid a scenario similar to Romania's 2024 elections and has requested help from the EEAS and the Digital Services Act.

Moldova is turning a historic page. By leaving the Commonwealth of Independent States, Chișinău is making a clear political choice: distancing itself from a system undermined by Russia’s aggression and aligning with European values. This is more than a symbolic break with the Soviet past—it is a concrete step towards democracy, sovereignty and a shared European future built on peace, rule of law and cooperation.

So many longtime NATO supporters saying the same thing right now. I helped bring Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic into NATO. But denying us basing and overflight is inexcusable, as is their failure to help with Strait of Hormuz. No one asking them to bomb Iran, just let us use our bases and help escort ships. If they can’t do that, NATO has no purpose.

“With everything we do, we are undercutting the laws of war,” says former NSC official Gary Sick. At 91, he reflects, “I would never have believed that we would find ourselves in the position that we’re in, as the rogue nation in the world.”

From threatening to invade Greenland to calling Canada "the 51st state" and slapping tariffs on everyone—this isn't "America First," it’s a massive self-inflicted wound. Now Trump wants to abandon NATO. That would be an all-time own goal.

There can no longer be any possible justification for the United Kingdom allowing the United States to use UK territory as a base from which to commit war crimes. Trump's latest address to the nation leaves no room for doubt that the sole purpose of US use of RAF Fairford is to facilitate the continued carpet bombing of civilian homes and infrastructure in Iran. If the US is intent on committing war crimes, let them do it from their own soil. The British people should not be forced to partake in the crimes of the Trump administration...

Dear Europe: if Iran is not your problem, Ukraine is not America’s.

Holy Crap. America asked for a 48 hours ceasefire and Iran said NO. Never has America been so humiliated before.