#  @DaveKeating Dave Keating Dave Keating posts on X about $dave, eu, maga, white house the most. 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(DAVE)](/topic/$dave) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympicsCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympicsCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2020484481283404233) 2026-02-08T13:06Z 57.1K followers, 245.8K engagements "Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America. But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe it has been harder to take the blinders from peoples' eyes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/06/western-europeans-turning-against-us-after-greenland-threat-poll-finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/06/western-europeans-turning-against-us-after-greenland-threat-poll-finds" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019812814790259117) 2026-02-06T16:37Z 57.1K followers, 339.8K engagements "Is there any end to this regime's hypocrisy https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5720096-jeanine-pirro-gun-laws-dc https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5720096-jeanine-pirro-gun-laws-dc" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019849517445853562) 2026-02-06T19:03Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements "🚨🚨Breaking: after [---] days with no government in Brussels we finally have one after all parties were locked in a conclave past [--] days New Brussels gov: Francophone Liberals Socialists & centrists Flemish Liberals Greens Socialists & conservatives https://www.brusselstimes.com/1968979/white-smoke-brussels-finally-has-a-new-government-tbtb https://www.brusselstimes.com/1968979/white-smoke-brussels-finally-has-a-new-government-tbtb" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022019130245693841) 2026-02-12T18:45Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "A reminder about who Germany is partnering with now: Giorgia Meloni is the leader of Brothers of Italy a successor party to Mussolini's fascists. It is the rebranded version of National Alliance which in turn was the rebranded version of the MSI that went through a "post-fascismo" scrubbing in the 1990s. MSI was a neo-fascist party founded in [----] by Mussolini's inner circle following their defeat in the war. The names have changed but has the ideology Brothers of Italy still maintains as its symbol the same tricolour flame that the MSI used. The media outside Italy have treated this fact as" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022217541569900685) 2026-02-13T07:53Z 57.1K followers, 15.5K engagements "As #Merzoni waste the Council's time with an obsession over red tape and bureaucracy some like Lithuania's foreign minister are urging Europe's leaders to focus on what actually matters. A Letter to Europe Dear Europe The world is shifting beneath your feet. The power structures are being revisited. Alliances are under scrutiny. Imperial thinking back on the stage. You are prosperous. You are democratic. You are admired. But admiration without strength invites A Letter to Europe Dear Europe The world is shifting beneath your feet. The power structures are being revisited. Alliances are under" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022233648414576715) 2026-02-13T08:57Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "Sounds like the EU Defence Union that the UK spent [--] years blocking while it was a member of the union. Rearmament would be a lot cheaper with such a union and would actually give Europe the capacity for autonomous defence which the current NATO spending plans do not. Starmer set to call for multinational defence initiative to cut cost of rearmament https://t.co/WAe36fW0As Starmer set to call for multinational defence initiative to cut cost of rearmament https://t.co/WAe36fW0As" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022344447888130347) 2026-02-13T16:17Z 57.1K followers, 10K engagements "He's speaking as if he has nothing to do with it Like he's an observer The US is dismantling the old world order. He's doing it. That's their prerogative. But don't act like it's happening to you rather than because of you. .@SecRubio: "The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone . We live in a new era in geopolitics and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be." https://t.co/wgPrl2xJZC .@SecRubio: "The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone . We live in a new" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022229450155598273) 2026-02-13T08:40Z 57.1K followers, 16.3K engagements "Desperate Europeans give Rubio a standing ovation clinging to the crumbs he left them to think the transatlantic alliance still holds. Absolutely pathetic. A room full of people still keeping the sign in the window. Wer htte vorausgesagt dass die Mnchner Sicherheitskonferenz so👇 aus die Rede des US-Auenministers reagieren wrde #MSC @ZDFheute https://t.co/CQKy10J5AV Wer htte vorausgesagt dass die Mnchner Sicherheitskonferenz so👇 aus die Rede des US-Auenministers reagieren wrde #MSC @ZDFheute https://t.co/CQKy10J5AV" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022713768107495511) 2026-02-14T16:45Z 57.1K followers, 32.5K engagements ""We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every [--] years" says France's Europe Minister "Let's get out of collective denial. Europeans must take their destiny into their own hands regardless of who is elected president"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1849915556335407543) 2024-10-25T20:46Z 57.1K followers, 5.9M engagements "If the Americans are given Greenland next they will demand French Guiana. Then they will demand Bermuda. ThenAruba. Then Azores. Who knows what next. It's amazing these establishment European politicians can understand this concept with Ukraine but not with Greenland" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2014045789970939961) 2026-01-21T18:41Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "It is so bizarre to include Poland in this and not Belgium. spent past [--] decades blocking action especially on climate. They had a far-right government in power until [----] has always been pro-federal. Is this just punishment for frozen assets veto How incredibly myopic. EU at [--] blocked. The E6 move. When unanimity paralyses the Union it is legitimate that the willing and most committed Member States move ahead. Not to fragment Europe but to break the deadlock towards a federal Union. #E6 #EUreform #EuropeanFederalism https://t.co/joS5PZ3Pf7 EU at [--] blocked. The E6 move. When unanimity" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2017617246168715568) 2026-01-31T15:13Z 57K followers, 93.5K engagements "Interesting chart today from the FT. Europeans' first instinct is to talk themselves down. So many people here happily nod along with Anglo-Saxon bullies trashing this continent. But their negativity is usually not justified by the facts. https://www.ft.com/content/af70a8e2-d8c4-4990-a043-83489f2b5133 https://www.ft.com/content/af70a8e2-d8c4-4990-a043-83489f2b5133" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2018306548171145482) 2026-02-02T12:52Z 57K followers, 24K engagements "The man who once saved the Eurozone from itself now wants to save the EU from America. "Power requires Europe to move from confederation to federation said Draghi. The EUs current model of a 27-state confederation with individual veto rights on key issues does not produce power but a group of states . . . each vulnerable to being picked off one by one. We are all in the same position of vulnerability whether we see it yet or not he said. The old divisions that paralysed us have been overtaken by a common threat. But threat alone will not sustain us. What began in fear must continue in hope." [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2018379518612795647) 2026-02-02T17:42Z 57K followers, 85K engagements "November is going to be a nightmare. Anyone in Europe thinking the midterms are going to save them needs to wake up. America's broken democracy isn't going to save us. We in Europe need to save ourselves. Steve Bannon: Were gonna have ICE surround the pollsWell never again allow an election to be stolen. https://t.co/9R9tZdolHx Steve Bannon: Were gonna have ICE surround the pollsWell never again allow an election to be stolen. https://t.co/9R9tZdolHx" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2018987471657382144) 2026-02-04T09:58Z 57K followers, 106.2K engagements ""Today Spain experienced something unprecedented: the founder of a major private platform used his absolute control to send direct political propaganda to millions of citizens attacking a democratically elected government." 📲 No es libertad de expresin; es poder sin contrapesos. Hoy Espaa ha vivido algo indito: el fundador de una gran plataforma privada ha usado su control absoluto para enviar propaganda poltica directa a millones de ciudadanos atacando a un gobierno elegido democrticamente. https://t.co/H5GODJid30 📲 No es libertad de expresin; es poder sin contrapesos. Hoy Espaa ha vivido" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019172929309671822) 2026-02-04T22:15Z 57K followers, 53K engagements "The idea to dump President @VonDerLeyen before the end of her 2nd term "is circulating" writes Morning Post today. "Across Europe hawks and doves are clashing over how to deal with an American president who is increasingly hostile to the EU and ready to deploy tariffs as punishment. So far Europeans have chosen submission tasking the Commission with avoiding any confrontation with Washington. Ursula von der Leyen has followed this line zealously." "But in doing so von der Leyen has alienated parts of the Council and even members of her own College of Commissioners."" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019331609678274898) 2026-02-05T08:45Z 57K followers, 13.2K engagements "A new report shows the enormous pressure EU lawmakers are coming under from American big tech giants. https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1952810/us-tech-giants-pressuring-eu-to-keep-us-addicted-to-social-media https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1952810/us-tech-giants-pressuring-eu-to-keep-us-addicted-to-social-media" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019340992823038084) 2026-02-05T09:23Z 57K followers, 20.2K engagements "It is really important for Europeans to understand who is running policy at the White House right now. Everyone should read this explainer. https://samf.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america https://samf.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019536588334608517) 2026-02-05T22:20Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "Indeed a very privileged man from a very privileged country. Why does give red carpet treatment they would never give any other country even as insults & threatens We know why. This is an owned continent. Despite the US' repeated threats the European Parliament welcomed the US ambassador with open arms. Unbelievable. https://t.co/eTgCHxzvpS Despite the US' repeated threats the European Parliament welcomed the US ambassador with open arms. Unbelievable. https://t.co/eTgCHxzvpS" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019691675669656049) 2026-02-06T08:36Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "The European Commission is preparing to fine TikTok for its addictive algorithm design. I'm sure that the Americans will say this is being done now because TikTok just switched from to control. We have announced our preliminary finding that TikTok is in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design. More info: https://t.co/WCchTYE4zE https://t.co/1sK9FW0tGa We have announced our preliminary finding that TikTok is in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design. More info: https://t.co/WCchTYE4zE https://t.co/1sK9FW0tGa" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019808474964840798) 2026-02-06T16:20Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "In next week's foreign policy debate in the European Parliament the list of trouble spots includes Sudan northeastern Syria and.Minnesota. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/agendas.html https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/agendas.html" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019816822724518031) 2026-02-06T16:53Z 57K followers, [---] engagements "I would also note there are problems here for the Atlanticist leaders of Britain Germany and Italy. Their fawning positioning toward the US do not match their citizens' opinions with 64% 72% and 63% unfavourable opinions about " [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019820934996324707) 2026-02-06T17:10Z 57K followers, 10.9K engagements "And the trend goes both ways by the way. The US government is telling Americans to hate Europeans and Canadians. And many have dutifully changed their opinions. https://x.com/MosiniElisa/status/2019832718490583143s=20 Source: Economist/YouGov Trump is teaching a growing segment of Republicans to view Canada and the EU as unfriendly or enemies (Canada: from 12% to 27% EU: from 17% to 29% among Republicans). Canada and the EU need stronger independence and closer mutual collaboration 🤝 https://t.co/nVMzyVHoIB https://x.com/MosiniElisa/status/2019832718490583143s=20 Source: Economist/YouGov" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019902505325342832) 2026-02-06T22:34Z 57K followers, 11.2K engagements "A good outline from the former Obama team of the very real possibility that MAGA is going to interfere with the election in November in [--] ways: -Trump's proposal to nationalise the elections or have Republicans take them over -Deployment of ICE outside polling stations having people vote at the barrel of a gun -Disqualifying votes by using the politicised FBI -Mike Johnson refusing to seat the Democrats that won because he alleges fraud https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bMDzOtrX9jMd3XhLuLyFAsi=8fA9DjiiSuexVuGCcOZwTg" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2020040355513548993) 2026-02-07T07:42Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "It isn't just "abolish the EU". Theregime is also trying to dissolve the Canadian federation by supporting #Albexit Same play: It's easier for America to vassalise a small/medium country whether it be Alberta Hungary or UK than it is to control a large federation https://www.readtheline.ca/p/the-line-podcast-federalists-unite https://www.readtheline.ca/p/the-line-podcast-federalists-unite" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2020072858391597551) 2026-02-07T09:51Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "Those poor traumatised anglophone Americans who had to witness a halftime show in a language other than their own last night Other cultures exist 😱 Welcome to the world of Europeans who constantly have to sit through American singers at their sports and award shows" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2020844011808870563) 2026-02-09T12:55Z 57K followers, 10.1K engagements "@dkdebur11 Yes but then unfortunately they have to sit through halftime performances by the likes of Madonna and Justin Timberlake (Thanks for that Israel and Sweden)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2020852543094501515) 2026-02-09T13:29Z 57K followers, [---] engagements "The political class and media elite should be asking themselves wider questions about what the Mandelson-Epstein scandals says about the UK's complicity in and even embrace of the Trump era of darkness. An era Starmer has never been suited for. They all knew what Mandelson was and yet they celebrated his appointment as ambassador not in spite of that but because of it. They've eagerly embraced Starmer's overtures to Trump thereby mimicking his cynical gaslighting politics because they have no instinct other than to go the way the US is going. Do the media & politicians want to examine that" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021109388732153927) 2026-02-10T06:30Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "I think the changes in consumer sentiment *so far* are exaggerated in this piece. IMHO it should be more and have greater urgency but the American hold over the 'western' mind is powerful and hard to shake. But the rejection of will come. And this piece explains why. https://t.co/rBEmrDUvLi https://t.co/rBEmrDUvLi" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021110916339700138) 2026-02-10T06:36Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "@Neither_A_nor_I But as Goodall points out the political and media establishment didn't find it baffling. To them it made complete sense and was a smart move by Starmer" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021112307510559133) 2026-02-10T06:41Z 57K followers, [--] engagements "In tonight's Substack Live with @MarkLGoldberg on #GlobalDispatches we discussed how the other EU leaders have ostracised Spain's Pedro Sanchez because he's refused to toe the line on Trump appeasement. Has Greenland changed that Watch Full video here: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/spains-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez https://davekeating.substack.com/p/spains-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021302944398713037) 2026-02-10T19:19Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "The German chancellor thinks that the solution to the humiliation Europe has endured at the hands of its former ally over the past year is to make the Eu smaller - dismantling EU law and diffusing power to Europe's small nation-states. The opposite message from Mario Draghi. Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor corrections to laws are not sufficient. We need to systematically review the whole set of existing EU legislation. https://t.co/zYW4Sm6MEr Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021802386587529479) 2026-02-12T04:23Z 57K followers, [---] engagements "The leaders of the new German-Italian 'axis of surrender' are coming to today's #EUCO summit with a bilateral pact. It calls for national capitals to seize control of EU lawmaking in order to start a bonfire of laws as and big business have demanded. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021817952354365685) 2026-02-12T05:25Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "The truth is that nothing is going to come out of today's #EUCO leaders' summit - because this 'EU overregulation' bit is a red herring to distract from national leaders' own failures. Merzoni are simply wasting time when the EU does not have time to waste. Time that could be used to liberate from - something these [--] Atlanticists are not interested in doing" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021820174375022634) 2026-02-12T05:34Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "Europe does indeed have a competitiveness problem but Dr #Merzoni's prescription to dismantle EU law will make the patient even worse argue three leading think tanks. Simplification will not restart growth and FTAs alone save Europe from the collapse of the Western world order. The problem is not in Brussels but in Europe's national capitals where powerful interests dominate. By attacking 'EU bureaucracy' the leaders of Germany and Italy are simply trying to distract from national failures. And their idea for a 28th regime is a significant admission" of the actual problem: "rather than" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021842621891567871) 2026-02-12T07:03Z 57K followers, [---] engagements "Europe does indeed have a competitiveness problem but Dr #Merzoni's prescription to dismantle EU law will make the patient even worse argue three leading think tanks. Simplification will not restart growth and FTAs alone cannot save Europe from the collapse of the Western world order. The problem is not in Brussels but in Europe's national capitals where powerful interests dominate. By attacking 'EU bureaucracy' the leaders of Germany and Italy are simply trying to distract from national failures. And their idea for a 28th regime is a significant admission" of the actual problem: "rather than" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021843119528952094) 2026-02-12T07:05Z 57K followers, [----] engagements "@LisaLeveler The problem is that any such new institution needs to be democratically accountable. It is very hard to build something like that from scratch and it would duplicate functions of the EU. Europe already has these institutions with the EU. Why not use them for defence" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022538297621303490) 2026-02-14T05:08Z 57.1K followers, [--] engagements "Allow me a little #CrossBorderRail rant. Barcelona-Brussels should be an appealing train route. At [--] hours it's a little over the cusp of what people are willing to endure but it's doable. However the lack of cooperation between & makes it very difficult. 🧵1/6" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1687026285141188608) 2023-08-03T09:03Z 57.1K followers, 363.4K engagements "President von der Leyen's Commission took more meetings with American companies last year than with companies from any other country. https://table.media/europe/analyse/lobbykontakte-zweite-vdl-kommission-trifft-sich-oefter-mit-unternehmen https://table.media/europe/analyse/lobbykontakte-zweite-vdl-kommission-trifft-sich-oefter-mit-unternehmen" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019870167665451385) 2026-02-06T20:25Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "The German chancellor thinks that the solution to the humiliation Europe has endured at the hands of its former ally over the past year is to make the EU smaller - dismantling EU law and diffusing power to Europe's small nation-states. The opposite message from Mario Draghi. Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor corrections to laws are not sufficient. We need to systematically review the whole set of existing EU legislation. https://t.co/zYW4Sm6MEr Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021814321794183579) 2026-02-12T05:11Z 57.1K followers, 14.6K engagements "There is a reason why these Republicans in Congress are calling for EU member states to rise up and destroy the European Union. It's the same reason why Russia has been spreading this message for years. Small/medium countries on their own are easier to control. The nation-state sovereignty are selling to Europeans is an illusion that suits interests. And Washington & Moscow give away the game by dictating to Europeans what they should do in order to be "independent". Europeans can be individual vassal states of Washington or Moscow or they can be collectively sovereign through union. It's" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022043718589853875) 2026-02-12T20:22Z 57.1K followers, 14.4K engagements "Just a few weeks ago this same congresswoman was calling for the US to steal territory from a European country through extortion. Now she pretends to be concerned about their sovereignty They don't want Europeans to be sovereign. They want them owned. https://newrepublic.com/post/205498/republicans-greenland-cake-us-flag https://newrepublic.com/post/205498/republicans-greenland-cake-us-flag" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022196285647073649) 2026-02-13T06:28Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "It's the scandal that everyone in Brussels is talking about. The EU's former foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini (also former foreign minister) was taken into custody following dawn raids on the EU's foreign ministry the College of Europe and private homes yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1996206538772697349) 2025-12-03T13:15Z 57.1K followers, 130.4K engagements "The West is over. What awaits us in the new world order WE IN AMERICA HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING POLITE AND ORDERLY CARETAKERS OF THE WESTS MANAGED DECLINE https://t.co/b0A1n8FANs WE IN AMERICA HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING POLITE AND ORDERLY CARETAKERS OF THE WESTS MANAGED DECLINE https://t.co/b0A1n8FANs" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022644109618672081) 2026-02-14T12:08Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "The supposed free speech champions over in the US government are demanding that US tech companies hand over data about Trump critics. And guess what - that means Europeans' data also. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2019510220356256058) 2026-02-05T20:35Z 57.1K followers, 43.7K engagements "EU leaders have just started their castle retreat with [--] rival visions for how to save Europe: #Merzoni are coming with a deregulation pact calling for less EU #Manchez are calling for more EU with eurobonds & "made in Europe" preference https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2021883260247392422) 2026-02-12T09:45Z 57.1K followers, 19.8K engagements ""PM Snchez the only true socialist left around the Council table found himself relegated to the outer circle of Europes decision-making on Thursday by all led by right-wingers whose vision for reviving growth differs wildly from his." https://www.euractiv.com/news/rapporteur-sanchezs-quiet-affordability-win/ https://www.euractiv.com/news/rapporteur-sanchezs-quiet-affordability-win/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022195072058737040) 2026-02-13T06:24Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "The story of how Britain aided by sabotaging efforts toward EU autonomous defence is one I recount in my new book Until [----] blocked. Then Poland & Baltics joined & also blocked. Because said no. And didn't trust their fellow Europeans. http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022367848904233276) 2026-02-13T17:50Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "Spain's PM says the truth that other European leaders won't admit. The NATO increased spending plan will actually make Europe *more* dependent on the US because it just shovels money to the US military-industrial complex without developing independent command structures. Spanish PM Pedro Snchez: What we have to do is to strengthen the European defense industry. And that means that paradoxically if we agree with this idea of 5% at the end of the day we will become more dependent on the US defense industry. https://t.co/YebD2jWapG Spanish PM Pedro Snchez: What we have to do is to strengthen the" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/2022761575099355283) 2026-02-14T19:55Z 57.1K followers, 62.7K engagements "@a1_bloke I'm in Turkey at the moment and I've been impressed by how many Visa/Mastercard alternatives they have for payment. They're Turkey-only but European countries are really behind on this" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1957414226701504813) 2025-08-18T12:08Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements "Exhibit A for how distracted the world has become from climate change now that more immediate concerns of war authoritarianism and genocide are top of mind. Climate activists are now refocusing their activities. The climate fight is paused. Lawmakers have reacted accordingly" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1957449639721837005) 2025-08-18T14:28Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "It seems Merz didn't get the memo not to smile The family picture at the White House. https://t.co/RvG0Osgfbg The family picture at the White House. https://t.co/RvG0Osgfbg" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1957522265161290075) 2025-08-18T19:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Europeans keep allowing themselves to be lulled into relief by Trump only to be disappointed days later says @ecfr's Matthias Matthijs. Will this time be different https://www.cfr.org/article/major-takeaways-trumps-meeting-zelenskyy-and-european-leadersutm_source=announcement-202508ukraine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UkrainePromo2025Aug18&utm_term=Announcement_20250818Ukraine https://www.cfr.org/article/major-takeaways-trumps-meeting-zelenskyy-and-european-leadersutm_source=announcement-202508ukraine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UkrainePromo2025Aug18&utm_term=Announcement_20250818Ukraine" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1957674624847622315) 2025-08-19T05:22Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Spot on from Draghi: "For yearsbelieved that its economic dimension [---] million consumers would itself bring geopolitical power and leverage in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which that illusion evaporated" https://www.meetingrimini.org/en/turn-skepticism-into-action-mario-draghis-speech-at-the-meeting/ https://www.meetingrimini.org/en/turn-skepticism-into-action-mario-draghis-speech-at-the-meeting/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1959732710181924874) 2025-08-24T21:41Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Europe's current situation resembles that of the colonies Europe subjugated and humiliated [---] years ago notes Politico today. But so many Europeans refuse to acknowledge that truth and are living in a fantasy world of imagined strength. https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-century-of-humiliation-could-be-just-beginning/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-century-of-humiliation-could-be-just-beginning/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1960464090985292106) 2025-08-26T22:07Z 55.4K followers, 35.5K engagements "I really wonder what these people think capitalism is if the forced government acquisition of a private company for less than it's worth falls under their definition. Lutnick: Intel agreed to give us 10% of their company which of course was worth $11 billion. So it's not socialism. This is capitalism. https://t.co/TMiRYRt7Py Lutnick: Intel agreed to give us 10% of their company which of course was worth $11 billion. So it's not socialism. This is capitalism. https://t.co/TMiRYRt7Py" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1960638485187920006) 2025-08-27T09:40Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Ive been outside the Brussels bubble this summer spending time in . In talking to Europeans a grim reality has become apparent. We are facing a crisis of confidence in facing thethreat. How can we make Europeans believe in themselves https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-has-all-the-tools-it-needs https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-has-all-the-tools-it-needs" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1961027404022837576) 2025-08-28T11:25Z 55.4K followers, 10.2K engagements "The one person in von der Leyen's Commission being honest about the "trade deal" is now apparently being disowned by the Commission" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1961035723399696706) 2025-08-28T11:58Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "President @vonderleyen's former digital commissioner eviscerates her 'surrender deal' with Trump (and also by implication Keir Starmer's surrender deal). "We were told to accept humiliation to avoid instability. Now we have both." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/eu-donald-trump-tariffs-us-europe-techCMP=share_btn_url https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/eu-donald-trump-tariffs-us-europe-techCMP=share_btn_url" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1961692258807226444) 2025-08-30T07:27Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "I gotta say I'm sitting here in Naples right now as this article is published and I think this is a bit exaggerated. It's weird to me that this article focuses so much on @Airbnb and never mentions the cruise ships - which are the obvious problem here. https://www.politico.eu/article/naples-italy-tourism-housing-cities/ https://www.politico.eu/article/naples-italy-tourism-housing-cities/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1961886119332577664) 2025-08-30T20:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Before the cruise ship people skipped Naples. As the city has improved they started flooding in. If people in Naples really think there's over-tourism problem there's an obvious solution - ban the cruise ships. But there are powerful vested interests who will resist that" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1961888355907518819) 2025-08-30T20:26Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "I'm in the city center right now and it's almost all locals. Everyone is speaking Italian. Why Because the cruise ship people aren't here at night. The problems this article describes are true for other cities like Venice Florence and Rome. But Naples I don't think so" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1961889302096343163) 2025-08-30T20:30Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements ""Just days after Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump in the White House the president took to his Truth Social account to press foreign countries to change their laws." How big tech is teaming with Trump to use America's power for regime change: https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/they-want-regime-change-in-europe-how-tech-firms-and-trump-are-piling-pressure-on-the-eu/ https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/they-want-regime-change-in-europe-how-tech-firms-and-trump-are-piling-pressure-on-the-eu/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1962807808446894528) 2025-09-02T09:20Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "These were the words of Tony Blair in [----]. Can you imagine what a different place the UK and EU would be in if people had listened to him and he had not been discredited by the Iraq War https://www.trreid.net/the_united_states_of_europe__the_new_superpower_and_the_end_of_american_supremacy_88373.htm https://www.trreid.net/the_united_states_of_europe__the_new_superpower_and_the_end_of_american_supremacy_88373.htm" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1963974544596643930) 2025-09-05T14:36Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Friday night news dump from the Berlaymont. In the end the rumours about the Commission's trade department squashing the fine against Google for fear of upsetting Trump either weren't true or the competition department balked. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-slaps-google-with-2-95b-fine-for-adtech-abuse/ https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-slaps-google-with-2-95b-fine-for-adtech-abuse/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1964005618798170529) 2025-09-05T16:40Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "The flattery continues. Ahead of Trump's state visit ambassador to (and former Commissioner) Peter Mandelson says recent developments showshould be even *more* connected to and demonstrate its utility to Washington to stay in their favour. It's a servility addiction" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1964355601191903463) 2025-09-06T15:50Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "And also when will it dawn on von der Leyen Rutte Merz Macron and Meloni https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/07/donald-trump-keir-starmer-world-leaders-state-visit-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/07/donald-trump-keir-starmer-world-leaders-state-visit-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1964619077361578028) 2025-09-07T09:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "This pretty accurately sums up the mood in Brussels right now after our leaders prostrated themselves before Donald Trump this summer. It's the gloomiest rentre season I've ever seen in this town. People are despondent. https://open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/europes-century-of-humiliationr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/europes-century-of-humiliationr=wx462&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1964779496164470932) 2025-09-07T19:55Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements ""Being an American protectorate is not inevitable - there is an alternative path" argue Belgium's former prime minister and the EU's former foreign policy chief in this op-ed in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/het-zou-inmiddels-duidelijk-moeten-zijn-dat-trump-niet-onze-bondgenoot-is-en-dat-ook-nooit-zal-wordenb7251045/ https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/het-zou-inmiddels-duidelijk-moeten-zijn-dat-trump-niet-onze-bondgenoot-is-en-dat-ook-nooit-zal-wordenb7251045/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1964968820763939115) 2025-09-08T08:27Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "France's government collapsed tonight and President Macron will have to try to find his 5th prime minister since his second term started in [----]. As the French president is further hobbled it's bad news for Europe's leadership crisis at this moment" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965139820445049192) 2025-09-08T19:46Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "Europe is leaderless as it faces its most dangerous moment in decades facing aggressive threats from Russia to the East and America to the West. President von der Leyen is the face of that weakness. My take on the French government collapse and #SOTEU: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/frances-government-collapse-is-more https://davekeating.substack.com/p/frances-government-collapse-is-more" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965373687500341686) 2025-09-09T11:16Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "Breaking: Macron chooses 39-year-old armed forces minister Sbastien Lecornu as the new French prime minister. https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-france-chooses-sebastien-lecornu-as-new-french-pm/ https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-france-chooses-sebastien-lecornu-as-new-french-pm/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965480829465039127) 2025-09-09T18:22Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "@vonderleyen Now the big announcement that will generate the most news from this #SOTEU: VDL is bypassing the disagreement among EU govs by launching Commission sanctions on Israel herself. EU payments to Israel will be frozen and some "extremist ministers" ingovernment will be sanctioned" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965686805262729446) 2025-09-10T08:00Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements "@vonderleyen Left MEPs stand wearing shirts supporting Gaza for this section of #SOTEU. President VDL condemns Israels man-made famine in Gaza & Netanyahu's clear attempt to undermine the two-state solution. For this she is loudly heckled by far-right MEPs in the back" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965687528356548649) 2025-09-10T08:03Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "@vonderleyen "But I want to be clear on one point" says VDL. "Whether on environmental or digital regulation we set our own standards & regulation. Europe will always decide for itself." So then why did she commit in her Trump deal to adjust EU legislation https://davekeating.substack.com/p/washington-gains-veto-power-over https://davekeating.substack.com/p/washington-gains-veto-power-over" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965694859765043272) 2025-09-10T08:32Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "@vonderleyen VDL still defending her Trump deal: "The deal provides crucial stability in our relations with at a time of grave global insecurity. Think of the repercussions of a full fledged trade war with . Picture the chaos. Then put that image next to the one from China last week."" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965695759069921284) 2025-09-10T08:36Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "@vonderleyen VDL still obliquely referencing Trump'swithout mentioning it by name "We will step up where others have stepped away. Take research. Science has no passport no gender no ethnicity & no political colour" The "Choose Europe" package of 500m will lure those scientists over" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965696500052439372) 2025-09-10T08:39Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements "@vonderleyen Now VDL obliquely referencing RFK JR: "must take lead on global health. We are on the brink of another global health crisis.I'm appalled by the disinformation that threatens global progress on everything from measles to polio" Announces new -led global health initiative" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965697568853332004) 2025-09-10T08:43Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements "MEPs' #SOTEU responses reveal a left-right split in the perspective on VDL's deal with Trump. @TheProgressives leader @IratxeGarper asks Where was Europe when you signed an unfair deal with Trump "You went to Scotland to bury Europe's strategic autonomy under a golf course"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965706099404996896) 2025-09-10T09:17Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements "@TheProgressives @IratxeGarper Centre right & far right are defending deal. @ManfredWeber leader of VDL's @EPP says centre-left opposition to the deal is splitting governing centrist coalition. @ecrgroup leader also defends the deal as "better than a trade war between allies who need each other"" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965707879048212741) 2025-09-10T09:24Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements "NATO held an emergency Article [--] meeting in Brussels today in response to last night's Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace. It's the 1st time NATO forces have directly attacked the Russian military since the outbreak of the war. https://youtu.be/ZKyvAEbMuJgsi=C6D3eokbls8umAY9 https://youtu.be/ZKyvAEbMuJgsi=C6D3eokbls8umAY9" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1965826516069265739) 2025-09-10T17:15Z 55.5K followers, 12.9K engagements "I shudder to think what the consequences of this are going to be. https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-declares-war-after-charlie-kirk-shooting https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-declares-war-after-charlie-kirk-shooting" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1966026277061636469) 2025-09-11T06:29Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "I know Europeans don't want to hear it. I know it seems inconceivable to many here. But the US is headed toward a very dark place and that will also shake the foundations of our continent here. Everyone needs to have their eyes open. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nation-edge-experts-warn-vicious-spiral-political-violence-after-kirk-killing-2025-09-11/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nation-edge-experts-warn-vicious-spiral-political-violence-after-kirk-killing-2025-09-11/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1966031859797651801) 2025-09-11T06:51Z 55.4K followers, 15.4K engagements "If the White House didn't care about Russia's incursion before they certainly don't now after the Kirk assassination. It's the nightmare scenario people have been warning about for years: a US distracted by domestic turmoil is unwilling to defend Europe. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1966102207700545608) 2025-09-11T11:31Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "But who's going to do the grovelling to Trump now Side note: it is wild that the only person facing consequences over the latest Epstein revelations is a gay man. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/europe/uk-ambassador-us-peter-mandelson-epstein-starmer.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/europe/uk-ambassador-us-peter-mandelson-epstein-starmer.htmlsmid=tw-share" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1966118514403545573) 2025-09-11T12:35Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "Asked about Russia's drone incursion into Poland Trump defended Putin yesterday saying "It could've been a mistake" The nightmare scenario so many warned about is now here. As descends into domestic turmoil it is unwilling or unable to defend Europe. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1966439379628446197) 2025-09-12T09:50Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements "It honestly mystifies me why any European would even think about visiting the United States right now with these political screenings at the border. Unless they are far right themselves or apathetic about being under far right rule" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1966842222948872406) 2025-09-13T12:31Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Violence is coming.you either fight back or you die" the owner of the main communications tool used by Europe's politicians & journalists told a far-right mob yesterday. "We dont have another [--] years or whenever the next election is its too long" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/13/elon-musk-calls-for-dissolution-of-parliament-at-far-right-rally-in-london https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/13/elon-musk-calls-for-dissolution-of-parliament-at-far-right-rally-in-london" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1967169282590257270) 2025-09-14T10:11Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "It's the nightmare scenario that's been warned about for years. As the US transitions to an era of domestic political violence and possible civil conflict it becomes very unlikely that Washington would defend Europe from Russia. My Substack piece: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1967511815103172805) 2025-09-15T08:52Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "It was clear the direction of travel since Bezos cancelled the Post's endorsement of Harris. It is frightening how so much of the US media has been so rapidly intimidated into submission. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1967671923833458832) 2025-09-15T19:28Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "It was only a matter of time before the Trump regime started arresting journalists. Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you you treat me unfairly you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech your https://t.co/MCMDjhQoMh Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you you treat me unfairly you have hate in your heart. ABC paid" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1967964879081574858) 2025-09-16T14:52Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Trump's justice department will apparently now deem journalistic reports that the president doesn't like as "hate speech". What he's specifically talking about here is when ABC News described his civil guilty verdict for "sexual assault" as "rape". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/us-abc-news-to-pay-donald-trump-15-million-in-defamation-case/104727362 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/us-abc-news-to-pay-donald-trump-15-million-in-defamation-case/104727362" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968014283058602252) 2025-09-16T18:09Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "As Donald Trump launches a crackdown on left opposition at home the sight of Britain's left prime minister rolling out the red carpet for him will be hard for many to bear. Even more so because of the implications of the pact he will sign with him today. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-surrendering-its-right https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-surrendering-its-right" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968189912517316925) 2025-09-17T05:46Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "The classic playbook. From Pod Save America: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/pod-save-the-world/id1200016351i=1000727122394 https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/pod-save-the-world/id1200016351i=1000727122394" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968270311989850319) 2025-09-17T11:06Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "President @vonderLeyen has followed through on her #SOTEU promise last week. Commission just announced EU tariffs on 5.8bn in imports from Israel (which VDL can do on her own) and sanctions on Israeli ministers (which need unanimous approval from national governments)" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968282325739053370) 2025-09-17T11:54Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Trump said Jimmy Kimmel would be next after Colbert. And sure enough now he's gone. Before long we're going to be left with nothing but pro-MAGA corporate media. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968564420545536462) 2025-09-18T06:35Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Unions representing journalists writers actors and musicians have all come out condemning Kimmel being fired for daring to say that MAGA is "working very hard to capitalise on the murder of Charlie Kirk." From AFM President Tino Gagliardi:" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968574100667797702) 2025-09-18T07:13Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "All of this free speech stuff from Vance and MAGA was bullshit. It was self-evidently so at the time. Yet so many self-flagellating Europeans bought into this hook line and sinker. JD Vance: "Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people.Under Donald Trump's leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square." (Feb. 2025) https://t.co/cQWAIZzCV1 JD Vance: "Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people.Under Donald Trump's leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968618399426097466) 2025-09-18T10:09Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Vance's MAGA regime is now on a witch hunt to get people fired for saying negative things about Charlie Kirk or for criticising their response to his murder. Last night's Kimmel cancellation is one of the most high-profile. This is MAGA cancel culture. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968634189013467210) 2025-09-18T11:12Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "The government is encouraging people to report on their neighbours who are saying negative things about Kirk - even just directly quoting him. MAGA cancel culture. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0r5y33pj5o.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0r5y33pj5o.amp" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968635022287491314) 2025-09-18T11:15Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "Republican lawmakers are even (successfully) pressuring media companies to fire reporters who dared to ask them about gun control after the assassination. MAGA cancel culture. https://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-reporter-suspended-after-texting-maga-congressman-to-ask-if-he-still-supports-campus-carry-after-kirk-shooting/# https://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-reporter-suspended-after-texting-maga-congressman-to-ask-if-he-still-supports-campus-carry-after-kirk-shooting/#" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968636651170656542) 2025-09-18T11:22Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "Republicans officials are engaged in a campaign of intimidation to get private businesses to lower their flags for Kirk falsely claiming that Trump's order applies to all flags. In fact it only applies to *federal* government buildings (not state or city). MAGA cancel culture" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968637756365488411) 2025-09-18T11:26Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "What we are witnessing right now is the most prolific and rapid crackdown on free speech in American history. From the same people who claimed to be "free speech absolutists" bemoaning their persecution by "cancel culture". They now preside over a cancellation regime. Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times Wall Street Journal and [--] Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS ABC and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times Wall Street" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968651085851087011) 2025-09-18T12:19Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "@Nymne TBH I can see a British person saying that even before Brexit. I've heard them say so many things like this over the years before [----]. They just had no idea what the EU was. I think ironically enough they know more now than they did then" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968729545663467698) 2025-09-18T17:31Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "@Nymne When I was living in London in [----] and I told (highly-educated) British people that I had just gotten Italian citizenship so that I could work in Belgium I got a lot of confused looks" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1968730405382561853) 2025-09-18T17:34Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "Live soon: What next for Europe's subservience strategy as Donald Trumps moves to crush American opposition 4pm 3pm10am Watch here: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/60866 https://open.substack.com/live-stream/60866" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1969024292516933883) 2025-09-19T13:02Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "Russia has yet again incurred into EU/NATO airspace flying MiG-35 fighter jets capable of carrying hypersonic missiles over Estonia yesterday. Italian jets were scrambled to intercept them. has triggered NATO Article [--] as Poland did last week. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=JNkaicsclN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=JNkaicsclN0" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1969358701011017760) 2025-09-20T11:11Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Absolutely staggering levels of corruption. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1969712768925524279) 2025-09-21T10:38Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Here we go. https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-will-shoot-down-encroaching-russian-aircraft-warns-pm-tusk/ https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-will-shoot-down-encroaching-russian-aircraft-warns-pm-tusk/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1970121110927867971) 2025-09-22T13:40Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Mario Draghi & Christine Lagarde are pleading with Europeans to wake up and realise - federalism is the only way to survive in this new strongman era. But Europe's centrist Atlanticist establishment won't listen and nationalists are winning the argument. https://lamatinaleeuropeenne.substack.com/p/le-mur-nationaliste-contre-lutopie https://lamatinaleeuropeenne.substack.com/p/le-mur-nationaliste-contre-lutopie" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1970399063137816583) 2025-09-23T08:05Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "2 months ago President von der Leyen agreed for the EU to make $1.35 trillion in tributary payments to in a surrender to Trump's trade war extortion. Trump's treasury secretary told Fox Business it will be used as a US 'sovereign wealth fund'. https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/135-trillion-the-great-transatlantic-overpromise https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/135-trillion-the-great-transatlantic-overpromise" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1970795993433354730) 2025-09-24T10:22Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "These are not just authoritarian tendencies these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government. You saw what Stephen Miller said last week he called the Democratic Party a terrorist organization. Saying theyre going after their enemies."" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1970841824643404083) 2025-09-24T13:24Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "A new report from the European Council on Foreign Relations explains why there is such cognitive dissonance in the European brain right now as they are attacked by America a country which owns our European cultural sphere. My take: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/maga-is-waging-a-culture-war-on-europe https://davekeating.substack.com/p/maga-is-waging-a-culture-war-on-europe" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1971173978938241164) 2025-09-25T11:24Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "I just watched this fascinating documentary about the Belgian politician Lon Degrelle whose Rexist party had enormous influence in the 1930s despite never getting more than 11% of the vote. It struck me - he reminds me so much of Nigel Farage. https://youtu.be/WDcHjDf2Hv4si=d6-EQ2H30rI0jzbW https://youtu.be/WDcHjDf2Hv4si=d6-EQ2H30rI0jzbW" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1971207047392993639) 2025-09-25T13:35Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Latest on proposal to sanction far-right members of Netanyahu's cabinet: National reps discussed it today. Hungary indicated nothing will persuade it to drop its veto on those sanctions (which need unanimity) were quiet - they can hide behind Hungary's veto for now" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1971571467222761477) 2025-09-26T13:44Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "In light of the Hungarian veto several EU countries said the issue of sanctions should be put on the agenda for the informal #EUCO summit of national leaders in Copenhagen on [--] October. So far it has not yet been added as a discussion point" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1971576312428216754) 2025-09-26T14:03Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "Moldova's pro-EU ruling party scored a surprising victory in yesterday's national election in a vote that was marked by intense Russian involvement including alleged vote-buying. "Citizens defeated a furious attack not with weapons but with democracy" says MEP @DanBarnaUSR" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1972631189598126251) 2025-09-29T11:54Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "It looks like Europe's brief flirtation with reviving its night trains is coming to an end - thanks to changing government priorities. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250929/breaking-night-trains-from-paris-to-berlin-and-vienna-to-be-axed https://www.thelocal.fr/20250929/breaking-night-trains-from-paris-to-berlin-and-vienna-to-be-axed" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1972638293725716728) 2025-09-29T12:23Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "If there was any doubt that Germany is failing to meet this moment the talking points of its chancellor in Copenhagen should put it to rest. The European vision of candidate Merz have vanished What a contrast with the courage shown by Moldovans yesterday https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1972667372780622326) 2025-09-29T14:18Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "European leaders arrive at the Copenhagen #EUCO summit this morning amid Russian drones facing an unravelling world where Europe is menaced by all at once. What's the German chancellor coming with A laundry list of complaints about red tape. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1973284801521275036) 2025-10-01T07:12Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "US generals were sent home from their European posts to be told the military's focus will now be turned inward toward the people It is now clear that if Russia invades the EU America's focus will be elsewhere - perhaps dealing with its own internal war https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-has-not-ended-7-foreign-wars https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-has-not-ended-7-foreign-wars" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1973649769747849235) 2025-10-02T07:22Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements ""Von der Leyen has become the face of EU surrender of a union powerless in the face of ever-growing global threats. It is an ironic position to be in for someone so obsessed with amassing power within the institution she controls" My IPQ profile of VDL: https://ip-quarterly.com/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-queen-commission-servant-council https://ip-quarterly.com/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-queen-commission-servant-council" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1973712921554506164) 2025-10-02T11:33Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Following the closure of airports in Denmark and Norway due to suspected Russian drone overflights last night [--] flights were cancelled and [--] diverted from Munich airport in Germany. In Belgium [--] drones flew over a Belgian army base last night. https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/03/apres-l-aeroport-de-munich-la-belgique-a-ete-survolee-par-des-drones_6644144_3211.html https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/03/apres-l-aeroport-de-munich-la-belgique-a-ete-survolee-par-des-drones_6644144_3211.html" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1974039357318119548) 2025-10-03T09:10Z 55.4K followers, 11.7K engagements "I see people cheering the idea of an EU with Ukraine in and Hungary out but it's important to keep in mind that this would effectively lead to a second Kaliningrad situation within the EU. The prospect of a Russian-controlled island inside shouldn't be taken lightly. 🤡 Orban: Hungary Doesnt Want to Be in NATO or the EU if Ukraine Joins At the EU summit in Copenhagen Viktor Orban openly declared that Hungary does not want to belong to any alliance not NATO not the EU if Ukraine becomes a member. In plain words: Hungary refuses to https://t.co/RJocGfB6sO 🤡 Orban: Hungary Doesnt Want to Be in" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1974074327906840684) 2025-10-03T11:29Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "A report published today by ENTSO-E seems to rule out either a Russian cyberattack or renewable energy as being the cause of April's blackout in Spain & Portugal. Instead it was a perfect storm of coincidences following a not uncommon oscillation. https://davekeating.substack.com/publish/post/175187097 https://davekeating.substack.com/publish/post/175187097" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1974098330209956317) 2025-10-03T13:04Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "According to the US Secretary of Homeland Security only US citizens will be allowed into the Super Bowl in February - and ICE will be there to enforce this. Is it any wonder that foreign tourism to is plummeting" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1974536900670333129) 2025-10-04T18:07Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Words cannot describe how tone-deaf it is to publish this article at this moment. But The Economist has been consistently tone-deaf in their Europe coverage for years. They will never get over their obsession with America even as the US descends toward dictatorship or civil war" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1975176092768989611) 2025-10-06T12:27Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "I'm sure flag carriers will follow budget airlines in charging for rolling carry-ons. 🛩They always have before when budget policies make their flights look cheaper on search engines. 🛩Current budget policy guarantees space for suitcase if you paid. With flags you never know" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1976230611393315114) 2025-10-09T10:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "If I need to take a rolling carry-on I'm now finding myself choosing @Ryanair @easyJet or @vueling instead of @FlyingBrussels because I know I can bring it on the plane if I've paid for it. For certainty sometimes I pay more for budget than for flag https://davekeating.substack.com/p/should-the-eu-ban-carry-on-luggage https://davekeating.substack.com/p/should-the-eu-ban-carry-on-luggage" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1976235424524951895) 2025-10-09T10:36Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Europeans watching the unravelling of America right now are getting a crash course on what the misleadingly named National Guard is. Over the years when I've told Europeans that US states have their own militaries they've been shocked. Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command. The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other statesand in at least one case deploy the Guard from one state into anotheris extremely https://t.co/mlFCQ9Rgmc Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1976373046303916173) 2025-10-09T19:43Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "@joelbasson Indeed and this is what so many people don't understand about the proposed "EU army". It wouldn't be one single military. It would work like the National Guard in the US. But since most Europeans don't know what the National Guard is this has been a difficult metaphor to use" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1976567670028816794) 2025-10-10T08:37Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements "@joelbasson @benbawan Yes that's also a possibility but I don't think it could work like in the US where the federal military is so much bigger than the state ones. I think it would have to be the inverse" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1976578226232467698) 2025-10-10T09:19Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements "Smart. Given that Trump may be about to declare war on Venezuela to support that opposition it will be harder for him to complain. Harder but he'll probably still do it. https://www.politico.eu/article/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-venezuelan-opposition-leader-despite-trump-lobbying/ https://www.politico.eu/article/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-venezuelan-opposition-leader-despite-trump-lobbying/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1976579596519964714) 2025-10-10T09:24Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Based on current polling if a general election was held tomorrow in the United Kingdom the far right would win 2/3 of seats. That's Hungary levels. The government support is really having an impact. 🚨 The Uniparty is dead. PLMR Poll with Electoral Calculus If a General Election was held tomorrow. Reform [---] MPs Labour [--] MPs Lib Dems [--] MPs Your Party [--] MPs Tories [--] MPs Greens [--] MPs https://t.co/hijCotbO5B 🚨 The Uniparty is dead. PLMR Poll with Electoral Calculus If a General Election was held tomorrow. Reform [---] MPs Labour [--] MPs Lib Dems [--] MPs Your Party [--] MPs Tories [--] MPs Greens 6" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1978442486595879205) 2025-10-15T12:47Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "It is wild that the Vice President is calling senior Republican staffers men in their 30s "young boys" in order to excuse their leaked racist sexist and Hitler-praising text messages. https://open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/the-gops-nazi-youthr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/the-gops-nazi-youthr=wx462&utm_medium=ios" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1978749468867477902) 2025-10-16T09:06Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Spain's Pedro Sanchez is cutting a lonely figure in Europe right now as he balks at Trump's extortion. Sanchez is among the only PMs seriously talking about setting up sovereign European defence. For that he is being vilified. https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-europe-nato-gdp-spending/ https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-europe-nato-gdp-spending/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1978807285854900296) 2025-10-16T12:56Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "While the rest of Europe's leaders (including a politically hobbled Macron) fall into line with Trump's tributary demands Spain's prime minister is the only one delivering a resolute no. In Europe's North and East they see this as a betrayal of Ukraine. https://www.economist.com/international/2025/09/09/meet-the-leader-of-europes-anti-trump-resistance https://www.economist.com/international/2025/09/09/meet-the-leader-of-europes-anti-trump-resistance" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1978808146417111510) 2025-10-16T13:00Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements "Who in their right mind could actually believe this after they saw the Republicans get Jimmy Kimmel pulled off air use lawsuits and approvals to stifle free speech at American media outlets and launch a crusade to fire people who said things they didn't like about Charlie Kirk Johnson: The last time I checked Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over It's the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind. That's the most obvious irony of the hate America rally. https://t.co/Udg8OMwY3R Johnson: The last time" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/1979216798009483407) 2025-10-17T16:03Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements "Irish PM Kenny on Cameron and budget: "You sign on for Europe you sign on for the rules and rules have to be obeyed" http://t.co/dwvsh5pDCU" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/525680830451290113) 2014-10-24T16:10Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements "England to the EU Scotland Ireland and the whole world: https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6gDVsVuKZPlhJnqg/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6gDVsVuKZPlhJnqg/giphy.gif" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/746449523359227904) 2016-06-24T21:06Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements "The #BayerMonsanto merger is now complete. Here's why you'll never hear of #Monsanto again: http://www.dw.com/en/what-the-bayer-monsanto-merger-means-for-food-farmers-and-the-environment/a-19296103 http://www.dw.com/en/what-the-bayer-monsanto-merger-means-for-food-farmers-and-the-environment/a-19296103" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/776408701317984256) 2016-09-15T13:13Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements "#AntiTrump protest outside the US embassy in Berlin which also happens to be next to the Brandenburg Gate" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/797487303551811584) 2016-11-12T17:12Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements "I'm looking for an expert on #smog for a news article anybody know one" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/806092214782885888) 2016-12-06T11:05Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements "Michel Barnier EU chief #Brexit negotiator giving presser now on adoption of negotiating text. Speaking in English - gesture of good will" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/859696364745355264) 2017-05-03T09:09Z 55.5K followers, [--] engagements "HA Moldova brought the mini sax from [----] to #Eurovision2017" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/862034989512351748) 2017-05-09T20:02Z 55.5K followers, [--] engagements "Moldova's epic sax is back #Eurovision2017" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/863488157500809216) 2017-05-13T20:16Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements "UK media paint #Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as inflexible ideologue. Its a caricature few in Brussels recognise http://berlinpolicyjournal.com/close-up-michel-barnier/ http://berlinpolicyjournal.com/close-up-michel-barnier/" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/865513893073797120) 2017-05-19T10:26Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements "Despite Climate Objections New Southern Gas Corridor Gets 1.5bn In EU Funds @ceebankwatch #TAP #Gazprom #EIB https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/02/07/despite-climate-objections-new-southern-gas-corridor-gets-e1-5bn-in-eu-funds/#72e554ac552e https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/02/07/despite-climate-objections-new-southern-gas-corridor-gets-e1-5bn-in-eu-funds/#72e554ac552e" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/961169892522291200) 2018-02-07T09:28Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements "At the end of the day this is what Ive got for the [--] EU countries who decided today to expel Russian diplomats (plus UK) : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : 23" [X Link](https://x.com/DaveKeating/status/978299212797444096) 2018-03-26T15:54Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. 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"Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympicsCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympicsCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:06Z 57.1K followers, 245.8K engagements
"Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America. But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe it has been harder to take the blinders from peoples' eyes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/06/western-europeans-turning-against-us-after-greenland-threat-poll-finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/06/western-europeans-turning-against-us-after-greenland-threat-poll-finds"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:37Z 57.1K followers, 339.8K engagements
"Is there any end to this regime's hypocrisy https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5720096-jeanine-pirro-gun-laws-dc https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5720096-jeanine-pirro-gun-laws-dc"
X Link 2026-02-06T19:03Z 57.1K followers, [---] engagements
"🚨🚨Breaking: after [---] days with no government in Brussels we finally have one after all parties were locked in a conclave past [--] days New Brussels gov: Francophone Liberals Socialists & centrists Flemish Liberals Greens Socialists & conservatives https://www.brusselstimes.com/1968979/white-smoke-brussels-finally-has-a-new-government-tbtb https://www.brusselstimes.com/1968979/white-smoke-brussels-finally-has-a-new-government-tbtb"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:45Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A reminder about who Germany is partnering with now: Giorgia Meloni is the leader of Brothers of Italy a successor party to Mussolini's fascists. It is the rebranded version of National Alliance which in turn was the rebranded version of the MSI that went through a "post-fascismo" scrubbing in the 1990s. MSI was a neo-fascist party founded in [----] by Mussolini's inner circle following their defeat in the war. The names have changed but has the ideology Brothers of Italy still maintains as its symbol the same tricolour flame that the MSI used. The media outside Italy have treated this fact as"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:53Z 57.1K followers, 15.5K engagements
"As #Merzoni waste the Council's time with an obsession over red tape and bureaucracy some like Lithuania's foreign minister are urging Europe's leaders to focus on what actually matters. A Letter to Europe Dear Europe The world is shifting beneath your feet. The power structures are being revisited. Alliances are under scrutiny. Imperial thinking back on the stage. You are prosperous. You are democratic. You are admired. But admiration without strength invites A Letter to Europe Dear Europe The world is shifting beneath your feet. The power structures are being revisited. Alliances are under"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:57Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Sounds like the EU Defence Union that the UK spent [--] years blocking while it was a member of the union. Rearmament would be a lot cheaper with such a union and would actually give Europe the capacity for autonomous defence which the current NATO spending plans do not. Starmer set to call for multinational defence initiative to cut cost of rearmament https://t.co/WAe36fW0As Starmer set to call for multinational defence initiative to cut cost of rearmament https://t.co/WAe36fW0As"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:17Z 57.1K followers, 10K engagements
"He's speaking as if he has nothing to do with it Like he's an observer The US is dismantling the old world order. He's doing it. That's their prerogative. But don't act like it's happening to you rather than because of you. .@SecRubio: "The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone . We live in a new era in geopolitics and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be." https://t.co/wgPrl2xJZC .@SecRubio: "The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone . We live in a new"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:40Z 57.1K followers, 16.3K engagements
"Desperate Europeans give Rubio a standing ovation clinging to the crumbs he left them to think the transatlantic alliance still holds. Absolutely pathetic. A room full of people still keeping the sign in the window. Wer htte vorausgesagt dass die Mnchner Sicherheitskonferenz so👇 aus die Rede des US-Auenministers reagieren wrde #MSC @ZDFheute https://t.co/CQKy10J5AV Wer htte vorausgesagt dass die Mnchner Sicherheitskonferenz so👇 aus die Rede des US-Auenministers reagieren wrde #MSC @ZDFheute https://t.co/CQKy10J5AV"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:45Z 57.1K followers, 32.5K engagements
""We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every [--] years" says France's Europe Minister "Let's get out of collective denial. Europeans must take their destiny into their own hands regardless of who is elected president""
X Link 2024-10-25T20:46Z 57.1K followers, 5.9M engagements
"If the Americans are given Greenland next they will demand French Guiana. Then they will demand Bermuda. ThenAruba. Then Azores. Who knows what next. It's amazing these establishment European politicians can understand this concept with Ukraine but not with Greenland"
X Link 2026-01-21T18:41Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"It is so bizarre to include Poland in this and not Belgium. spent past [--] decades blocking action especially on climate. They had a far-right government in power until [----] has always been pro-federal. Is this just punishment for frozen assets veto How incredibly myopic. EU at [--] blocked. The E6 move. When unanimity paralyses the Union it is legitimate that the willing and most committed Member States move ahead. Not to fragment Europe but to break the deadlock towards a federal Union. #E6 #EUreform #EuropeanFederalism https://t.co/joS5PZ3Pf7 EU at [--] blocked. The E6 move. When unanimity"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:13Z 57K followers, 93.5K engagements
"Interesting chart today from the FT. Europeans' first instinct is to talk themselves down. So many people here happily nod along with Anglo-Saxon bullies trashing this continent. But their negativity is usually not justified by the facts. https://www.ft.com/content/af70a8e2-d8c4-4990-a043-83489f2b5133 https://www.ft.com/content/af70a8e2-d8c4-4990-a043-83489f2b5133"
X Link 2026-02-02T12:52Z 57K followers, 24K engagements
"The man who once saved the Eurozone from itself now wants to save the EU from America. "Power requires Europe to move from confederation to federation said Draghi. The EUs current model of a 27-state confederation with individual veto rights on key issues does not produce power but a group of states . . . each vulnerable to being picked off one by one. We are all in the same position of vulnerability whether we see it yet or not he said. The old divisions that paralysed us have been overtaken by a common threat. But threat alone will not sustain us. What began in fear must continue in hope."
X Link 2026-02-02T17:42Z 57K followers, 85K engagements
"November is going to be a nightmare. Anyone in Europe thinking the midterms are going to save them needs to wake up. America's broken democracy isn't going to save us. We in Europe need to save ourselves. Steve Bannon: Were gonna have ICE surround the pollsWell never again allow an election to be stolen. https://t.co/9R9tZdolHx Steve Bannon: Were gonna have ICE surround the pollsWell never again allow an election to be stolen. https://t.co/9R9tZdolHx"
X Link 2026-02-04T09:58Z 57K followers, 106.2K engagements
""Today Spain experienced something unprecedented: the founder of a major private platform used his absolute control to send direct political propaganda to millions of citizens attacking a democratically elected government." 📲 No es libertad de expresin; es poder sin contrapesos. Hoy Espaa ha vivido algo indito: el fundador de una gran plataforma privada ha usado su control absoluto para enviar propaganda poltica directa a millones de ciudadanos atacando a un gobierno elegido democrticamente. https://t.co/H5GODJid30 📲 No es libertad de expresin; es poder sin contrapesos. Hoy Espaa ha vivido"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:15Z 57K followers, 53K engagements
"The idea to dump President @VonDerLeyen before the end of her 2nd term "is circulating" writes Morning Post today. "Across Europe hawks and doves are clashing over how to deal with an American president who is increasingly hostile to the EU and ready to deploy tariffs as punishment. So far Europeans have chosen submission tasking the Commission with avoiding any confrontation with Washington. Ursula von der Leyen has followed this line zealously." "But in doing so von der Leyen has alienated parts of the Council and even members of her own College of Commissioners.""
X Link 2026-02-05T08:45Z 57K followers, 13.2K engagements
"A new report shows the enormous pressure EU lawmakers are coming under from American big tech giants. https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1952810/us-tech-giants-pressuring-eu-to-keep-us-addicted-to-social-media https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1952810/us-tech-giants-pressuring-eu-to-keep-us-addicted-to-social-media"
X Link 2026-02-05T09:23Z 57K followers, 20.2K engagements
"It is really important for Europeans to understand who is running policy at the White House right now. Everyone should read this explainer. https://samf.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america https://samf.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-man-in-america"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:20Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"Indeed a very privileged man from a very privileged country. Why does give red carpet treatment they would never give any other country even as insults & threatens We know why. This is an owned continent. Despite the US' repeated threats the European Parliament welcomed the US ambassador with open arms. Unbelievable. https://t.co/eTgCHxzvpS Despite the US' repeated threats the European Parliament welcomed the US ambassador with open arms. Unbelievable. https://t.co/eTgCHxzvpS"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:36Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"The European Commission is preparing to fine TikTok for its addictive algorithm design. I'm sure that the Americans will say this is being done now because TikTok just switched from to control. We have announced our preliminary finding that TikTok is in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design. More info: https://t.co/WCchTYE4zE https://t.co/1sK9FW0tGa We have announced our preliminary finding that TikTok is in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design. More info: https://t.co/WCchTYE4zE https://t.co/1sK9FW0tGa"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:20Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"In next week's foreign policy debate in the European Parliament the list of trouble spots includes Sudan northeastern Syria and.Minnesota. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/agendas.html https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/agendas.html"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:53Z 57K followers, [---] engagements
"I would also note there are problems here for the Atlanticist leaders of Britain Germany and Italy. Their fawning positioning toward the US do not match their citizens' opinions with 64% 72% and 63% unfavourable opinions about "
X Link 2026-02-06T17:10Z 57K followers, 10.9K engagements
"And the trend goes both ways by the way. The US government is telling Americans to hate Europeans and Canadians. And many have dutifully changed their opinions. https://x.com/MosiniElisa/status/2019832718490583143s=20 Source: Economist/YouGov Trump is teaching a growing segment of Republicans to view Canada and the EU as unfriendly or enemies (Canada: from 12% to 27% EU: from 17% to 29% among Republicans). Canada and the EU need stronger independence and closer mutual collaboration 🤝 https://t.co/nVMzyVHoIB https://x.com/MosiniElisa/status/2019832718490583143s=20 Source: Economist/YouGov"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:34Z 57K followers, 11.2K engagements
"A good outline from the former Obama team of the very real possibility that MAGA is going to interfere with the election in November in [--] ways: -Trump's proposal to nationalise the elections or have Republicans take them over -Deployment of ICE outside polling stations having people vote at the barrel of a gun -Disqualifying votes by using the politicised FBI -Mike Johnson refusing to seat the Democrats that won because he alleges fraud https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bMDzOtrX9jMd3XhLuLyFAsi=8fA9DjiiSuexVuGCcOZwTg"
X Link 2026-02-07T07:42Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"It isn't just "abolish the EU". Theregime is also trying to dissolve the Canadian federation by supporting #Albexit Same play: It's easier for America to vassalise a small/medium country whether it be Alberta Hungary or UK than it is to control a large federation https://www.readtheline.ca/p/the-line-podcast-federalists-unite https://www.readtheline.ca/p/the-line-podcast-federalists-unite"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:51Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"Those poor traumatised anglophone Americans who had to witness a halftime show in a language other than their own last night Other cultures exist 😱 Welcome to the world of Europeans who constantly have to sit through American singers at their sports and award shows"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:55Z 57K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@dkdebur11 Yes but then unfortunately they have to sit through halftime performances by the likes of Madonna and Justin Timberlake (Thanks for that Israel and Sweden)"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:29Z 57K followers, [---] engagements
"The political class and media elite should be asking themselves wider questions about what the Mandelson-Epstein scandals says about the UK's complicity in and even embrace of the Trump era of darkness. An era Starmer has never been suited for. They all knew what Mandelson was and yet they celebrated his appointment as ambassador not in spite of that but because of it. They've eagerly embraced Starmer's overtures to Trump thereby mimicking his cynical gaslighting politics because they have no instinct other than to go the way the US is going. Do the media & politicians want to examine that"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:30Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"I think the changes in consumer sentiment so far are exaggerated in this piece. IMHO it should be more and have greater urgency but the American hold over the 'western' mind is powerful and hard to shake. But the rejection of will come. And this piece explains why. https://t.co/rBEmrDUvLi https://t.co/rBEmrDUvLi"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:36Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"@Neither_A_nor_I But as Goodall points out the political and media establishment didn't find it baffling. To them it made complete sense and was a smart move by Starmer"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:41Z 57K followers, [--] engagements
"In tonight's Substack Live with @MarkLGoldberg on #GlobalDispatches we discussed how the other EU leaders have ostracised Spain's Pedro Sanchez because he's refused to toe the line on Trump appeasement. Has Greenland changed that Watch Full video here: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/spains-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez https://davekeating.substack.com/p/spains-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:19Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"The German chancellor thinks that the solution to the humiliation Europe has endured at the hands of its former ally over the past year is to make the Eu smaller - dismantling EU law and diffusing power to Europe's small nation-states. The opposite message from Mario Draghi. Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor corrections to laws are not sufficient. We need to systematically review the whole set of existing EU legislation. https://t.co/zYW4Sm6MEr Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:23Z 57K followers, [---] engagements
"The leaders of the new German-Italian 'axis of surrender' are coming to today's #EUCO summit with a bilateral pact. It calls for national capitals to seize control of EU lawmaking in order to start a bonfire of laws as and big business have demanded. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:25Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"The truth is that nothing is going to come out of today's #EUCO leaders' summit - because this 'EU overregulation' bit is a red herring to distract from national leaders' own failures. Merzoni are simply wasting time when the EU does not have time to waste. Time that could be used to liberate from - something these [--] Atlanticists are not interested in doing"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:34Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"Europe does indeed have a competitiveness problem but Dr #Merzoni's prescription to dismantle EU law will make the patient even worse argue three leading think tanks. Simplification will not restart growth and FTAs alone save Europe from the collapse of the Western world order. The problem is not in Brussels but in Europe's national capitals where powerful interests dominate. By attacking 'EU bureaucracy' the leaders of Germany and Italy are simply trying to distract from national failures. And their idea for a 28th regime is a significant admission" of the actual problem: "rather than"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:03Z 57K followers, [---] engagements
"Europe does indeed have a competitiveness problem but Dr #Merzoni's prescription to dismantle EU law will make the patient even worse argue three leading think tanks. Simplification will not restart growth and FTAs alone cannot save Europe from the collapse of the Western world order. The problem is not in Brussels but in Europe's national capitals where powerful interests dominate. By attacking 'EU bureaucracy' the leaders of Germany and Italy are simply trying to distract from national failures. And their idea for a 28th regime is a significant admission" of the actual problem: "rather than"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:05Z 57K followers, [----] engagements
"@LisaLeveler The problem is that any such new institution needs to be democratically accountable. It is very hard to build something like that from scratch and it would duplicate functions of the EU. Europe already has these institutions with the EU. Why not use them for defence"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:08Z 57.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Allow me a little #CrossBorderRail rant. Barcelona-Brussels should be an appealing train route. At [--] hours it's a little over the cusp of what people are willing to endure but it's doable. However the lack of cooperation between & makes it very difficult. 🧵1/6"
X Link 2023-08-03T09:03Z 57.1K followers, 363.4K engagements
"President von der Leyen's Commission took more meetings with American companies last year than with companies from any other country. https://table.media/europe/analyse/lobbykontakte-zweite-vdl-kommission-trifft-sich-oefter-mit-unternehmen https://table.media/europe/analyse/lobbykontakte-zweite-vdl-kommission-trifft-sich-oefter-mit-unternehmen"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:25Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The German chancellor thinks that the solution to the humiliation Europe has endured at the hands of its former ally over the past year is to make the EU smaller - dismantling EU law and diffusing power to Europe's small nation-states. The opposite message from Mario Draghi. Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor corrections to laws are not sufficient. We need to systematically review the whole set of existing EU legislation. https://t.co/zYW4Sm6MEr Germany's Merz: We must deregulate every sector. I call for a regulatory clean slate. Minor"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:11Z 57.1K followers, 14.6K engagements
"There is a reason why these Republicans in Congress are calling for EU member states to rise up and destroy the European Union. It's the same reason why Russia has been spreading this message for years. Small/medium countries on their own are easier to control. The nation-state sovereignty are selling to Europeans is an illusion that suits interests. And Washington & Moscow give away the game by dictating to Europeans what they should do in order to be "independent". Europeans can be individual vassal states of Washington or Moscow or they can be collectively sovereign through union. It's"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:22Z 57.1K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Just a few weeks ago this same congresswoman was calling for the US to steal territory from a European country through extortion. Now she pretends to be concerned about their sovereignty They don't want Europeans to be sovereign. They want them owned. https://newrepublic.com/post/205498/republicans-greenland-cake-us-flag https://newrepublic.com/post/205498/republicans-greenland-cake-us-flag"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:28Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It's the scandal that everyone in Brussels is talking about. The EU's former foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini (also former foreign minister) was taken into custody following dawn raids on the EU's foreign ministry the College of Europe and private homes yesterday"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:15Z 57.1K followers, 130.4K engagements
"The West is over. What awaits us in the new world order WE IN AMERICA HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING POLITE AND ORDERLY CARETAKERS OF THE WESTS MANAGED DECLINE https://t.co/b0A1n8FANs WE IN AMERICA HAVE NO INTEREST IN BEING POLITE AND ORDERLY CARETAKERS OF THE WESTS MANAGED DECLINE https://t.co/b0A1n8FANs"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:08Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The supposed free speech champions over in the US government are demanding that US tech companies hand over data about Trump critics. And guess what - that means Europeans' data also. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:35Z 57.1K followers, 43.7K engagements
"EU leaders have just started their castle retreat with [--] rival visions for how to save Europe: #Merzoni are coming with a deregulation pact calling for less EU #Manchez are calling for more EU with eurobonds & "made in Europe" preference https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-merz-meloni-axis-would-take-europe"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:45Z 57.1K followers, 19.8K engagements
""PM Snchez the only true socialist left around the Council table found himself relegated to the outer circle of Europes decision-making on Thursday by all led by right-wingers whose vision for reviving growth differs wildly from his." https://www.euractiv.com/news/rapporteur-sanchezs-quiet-affordability-win/ https://www.euractiv.com/news/rapporteur-sanchezs-quiet-affordability-win/"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:24Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The story of how Britain aided by sabotaging efforts toward EU autonomous defence is one I recount in my new book Until [----] blocked. Then Poland & Baltics joined & also blocked. Because said no. And didn't trust their fellow Europeans. http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu http://www.TheOwnedContinent.eu"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:50Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Spain's PM says the truth that other European leaders won't admit. The NATO increased spending plan will actually make Europe more dependent on the US because it just shovels money to the US military-industrial complex without developing independent command structures. Spanish PM Pedro Snchez: What we have to do is to strengthen the European defense industry. And that means that paradoxically if we agree with this idea of 5% at the end of the day we will become more dependent on the US defense industry. https://t.co/YebD2jWapG Spanish PM Pedro Snchez: What we have to do is to strengthen the"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:55Z 57.1K followers, 62.7K engagements
"@a1_bloke I'm in Turkey at the moment and I've been impressed by how many Visa/Mastercard alternatives they have for payment. They're Turkey-only but European countries are really behind on this"
X Link 2025-08-18T12:08Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Exhibit A for how distracted the world has become from climate change now that more immediate concerns of war authoritarianism and genocide are top of mind. Climate activists are now refocusing their activities. The climate fight is paused. Lawmakers have reacted accordingly"
X Link 2025-08-18T14:28Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"It seems Merz didn't get the memo not to smile The family picture at the White House. https://t.co/RvG0Osgfbg The family picture at the White House. https://t.co/RvG0Osgfbg"
X Link 2025-08-18T19:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Europeans keep allowing themselves to be lulled into relief by Trump only to be disappointed days later says @ecfr's Matthias Matthijs. Will this time be different https://www.cfr.org/article/major-takeaways-trumps-meeting-zelenskyy-and-european-leadersutm_source=announcement-202508ukraine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UkrainePromo2025Aug18&utm_term=Announcement_20250818Ukraine https://www.cfr.org/article/major-takeaways-trumps-meeting-zelenskyy-and-european-leadersutm_source=announcement-202508ukraine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UkrainePromo2025Aug18&utm_term=Announcement_20250818Ukraine"
X Link 2025-08-19T05:22Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Spot on from Draghi: "For yearsbelieved that its economic dimension [---] million consumers would itself bring geopolitical power and leverage in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which that illusion evaporated" https://www.meetingrimini.org/en/turn-skepticism-into-action-mario-draghis-speech-at-the-meeting/ https://www.meetingrimini.org/en/turn-skepticism-into-action-mario-draghis-speech-at-the-meeting/"
X Link 2025-08-24T21:41Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Europe's current situation resembles that of the colonies Europe subjugated and humiliated [---] years ago notes Politico today. But so many Europeans refuse to acknowledge that truth and are living in a fantasy world of imagined strength. https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-century-of-humiliation-could-be-just-beginning/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europes-century-of-humiliation-could-be-just-beginning/"
X Link 2025-08-26T22:07Z 55.4K followers, 35.5K engagements
"I really wonder what these people think capitalism is if the forced government acquisition of a private company for less than it's worth falls under their definition. Lutnick: Intel agreed to give us 10% of their company which of course was worth $11 billion. So it's not socialism. This is capitalism. https://t.co/TMiRYRt7Py Lutnick: Intel agreed to give us 10% of their company which of course was worth $11 billion. So it's not socialism. This is capitalism. https://t.co/TMiRYRt7Py"
X Link 2025-08-27T09:40Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive been outside the Brussels bubble this summer spending time in . In talking to Europeans a grim reality has become apparent. We are facing a crisis of confidence in facing thethreat. How can we make Europeans believe in themselves https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-has-all-the-tools-it-needs https://davekeating.substack.com/p/europe-has-all-the-tools-it-needs"
X Link 2025-08-28T11:25Z 55.4K followers, 10.2K engagements
"The one person in von der Leyen's Commission being honest about the "trade deal" is now apparently being disowned by the Commission"
X Link 2025-08-28T11:58Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"President @vonderleyen's former digital commissioner eviscerates her 'surrender deal' with Trump (and also by implication Keir Starmer's surrender deal). "We were told to accept humiliation to avoid instability. Now we have both." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/eu-donald-trump-tariffs-us-europe-techCMP=share_btn_url https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/eu-donald-trump-tariffs-us-europe-techCMP=share_btn_url"
X Link 2025-08-30T07:27Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I gotta say I'm sitting here in Naples right now as this article is published and I think this is a bit exaggerated. It's weird to me that this article focuses so much on @Airbnb and never mentions the cruise ships - which are the obvious problem here. https://www.politico.eu/article/naples-italy-tourism-housing-cities/ https://www.politico.eu/article/naples-italy-tourism-housing-cities/"
X Link 2025-08-30T20:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Before the cruise ship people skipped Naples. As the city has improved they started flooding in. If people in Naples really think there's over-tourism problem there's an obvious solution - ban the cruise ships. But there are powerful vested interests who will resist that"
X Link 2025-08-30T20:26Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm in the city center right now and it's almost all locals. Everyone is speaking Italian. Why Because the cruise ship people aren't here at night. The problems this article describes are true for other cities like Venice Florence and Rome. But Naples I don't think so"
X Link 2025-08-30T20:30Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
""Just days after Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump in the White House the president took to his Truth Social account to press foreign countries to change their laws." How big tech is teaming with Trump to use America's power for regime change: https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/they-want-regime-change-in-europe-how-tech-firms-and-trump-are-piling-pressure-on-the-eu/ https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/they-want-regime-change-in-europe-how-tech-firms-and-trump-are-piling-pressure-on-the-eu/"
X Link 2025-09-02T09:20Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"These were the words of Tony Blair in [----]. Can you imagine what a different place the UK and EU would be in if people had listened to him and he had not been discredited by the Iraq War https://www.trreid.net/the_united_states_of_europe__the_new_superpower_and_the_end_of_american_supremacy_88373.htm https://www.trreid.net/the_united_states_of_europe__the_new_superpower_and_the_end_of_american_supremacy_88373.htm"
X Link 2025-09-05T14:36Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Friday night news dump from the Berlaymont. In the end the rumours about the Commission's trade department squashing the fine against Google for fear of upsetting Trump either weren't true or the competition department balked. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-slaps-google-with-2-95b-fine-for-adtech-abuse/ https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-slaps-google-with-2-95b-fine-for-adtech-abuse/"
X Link 2025-09-05T16:40Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The flattery continues. Ahead of Trump's state visit ambassador to (and former Commissioner) Peter Mandelson says recent developments showshould be even more connected to and demonstrate its utility to Washington to stay in their favour. It's a servility addiction"
X Link 2025-09-06T15:50Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"And also when will it dawn on von der Leyen Rutte Merz Macron and Meloni https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/07/donald-trump-keir-starmer-world-leaders-state-visit-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/07/donald-trump-keir-starmer-world-leaders-state-visit-ukCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2025-09-07T09:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This pretty accurately sums up the mood in Brussels right now after our leaders prostrated themselves before Donald Trump this summer. It's the gloomiest rentre season I've ever seen in this town. People are despondent. https://open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/europes-century-of-humiliationr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p/europes-century-of-humiliationr=wx462&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-09-07T19:55Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
""Being an American protectorate is not inevitable - there is an alternative path" argue Belgium's former prime minister and the EU's former foreign policy chief in this op-ed in Belgian newspaper De Morgen: https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/het-zou-inmiddels-duidelijk-moeten-zijn-dat-trump-niet-onze-bondgenoot-is-en-dat-ook-nooit-zal-wordenb7251045/ https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/het-zou-inmiddels-duidelijk-moeten-zijn-dat-trump-niet-onze-bondgenoot-is-en-dat-ook-nooit-zal-wordenb7251045/"
X Link 2025-09-08T08:27Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"France's government collapsed tonight and President Macron will have to try to find his 5th prime minister since his second term started in [----]. As the French president is further hobbled it's bad news for Europe's leadership crisis at this moment"
X Link 2025-09-08T19:46Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Europe is leaderless as it faces its most dangerous moment in decades facing aggressive threats from Russia to the East and America to the West. President von der Leyen is the face of that weakness. My take on the French government collapse and #SOTEU: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/frances-government-collapse-is-more https://davekeating.substack.com/p/frances-government-collapse-is-more"
X Link 2025-09-09T11:16Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Breaking: Macron chooses 39-year-old armed forces minister Sbastien Lecornu as the new French prime minister. https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-france-chooses-sebastien-lecornu-as-new-french-pm/ https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-france-chooses-sebastien-lecornu-as-new-french-pm/"
X Link 2025-09-09T18:22Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@vonderleyen Now the big announcement that will generate the most news from this #SOTEU: VDL is bypassing the disagreement among EU govs by launching Commission sanctions on Israel herself. EU payments to Israel will be frozen and some "extremist ministers" ingovernment will be sanctioned"
X Link 2025-09-10T08:00Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@vonderleyen Left MEPs stand wearing shirts supporting Gaza for this section of #SOTEU. President VDL condemns Israels man-made famine in Gaza & Netanyahu's clear attempt to undermine the two-state solution. For this she is loudly heckled by far-right MEPs in the back"
X Link 2025-09-10T08:03Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@vonderleyen "But I want to be clear on one point" says VDL. "Whether on environmental or digital regulation we set our own standards & regulation. Europe will always decide for itself." So then why did she commit in her Trump deal to adjust EU legislation https://davekeating.substack.com/p/washington-gains-veto-power-over https://davekeating.substack.com/p/washington-gains-veto-power-over"
X Link 2025-09-10T08:32Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@vonderleyen VDL still defending her Trump deal: "The deal provides crucial stability in our relations with at a time of grave global insecurity. Think of the repercussions of a full fledged trade war with . Picture the chaos. Then put that image next to the one from China last week.""
X Link 2025-09-10T08:36Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@vonderleyen VDL still obliquely referencing Trump'swithout mentioning it by name "We will step up where others have stepped away. Take research. Science has no passport no gender no ethnicity & no political colour" The "Choose Europe" package of 500m will lure those scientists over"
X Link 2025-09-10T08:39Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@vonderleyen Now VDL obliquely referencing RFK JR: "must take lead on global health. We are on the brink of another global health crisis.I'm appalled by the disinformation that threatens global progress on everything from measles to polio" Announces new -led global health initiative"
X Link 2025-09-10T08:43Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements
"MEPs' #SOTEU responses reveal a left-right split in the perspective on VDL's deal with Trump. @TheProgressives leader @IratxeGarper asks Where was Europe when you signed an unfair deal with Trump "You went to Scotland to bury Europe's strategic autonomy under a golf course""
X Link 2025-09-10T09:17Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@TheProgressives @IratxeGarper Centre right & far right are defending deal. @ManfredWeber leader of VDL's @EPP says centre-left opposition to the deal is splitting governing centrist coalition. @ecrgroup leader also defends the deal as "better than a trade war between allies who need each other""
X Link 2025-09-10T09:24Z 55.5K followers, [---] engagements
"NATO held an emergency Article [--] meeting in Brussels today in response to last night's Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace. It's the 1st time NATO forces have directly attacked the Russian military since the outbreak of the war. https://youtu.be/ZKyvAEbMuJgsi=C6D3eokbls8umAY9 https://youtu.be/ZKyvAEbMuJgsi=C6D3eokbls8umAY9"
X Link 2025-09-10T17:15Z 55.5K followers, 12.9K engagements
"I shudder to think what the consequences of this are going to be. https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-declares-war-after-charlie-kirk-shooting https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-declares-war-after-charlie-kirk-shooting"
X Link 2025-09-11T06:29Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I know Europeans don't want to hear it. I know it seems inconceivable to many here. But the US is headed toward a very dark place and that will also shake the foundations of our continent here. Everyone needs to have their eyes open. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nation-edge-experts-warn-vicious-spiral-political-violence-after-kirk-killing-2025-09-11/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nation-edge-experts-warn-vicious-spiral-political-violence-after-kirk-killing-2025-09-11/"
X Link 2025-09-11T06:51Z 55.4K followers, 15.4K engagements
"If the White House didn't care about Russia's incursion before they certainly don't now after the Kirk assassination. It's the nightmare scenario people have been warning about for years: a US distracted by domestic turmoil is unwilling to defend Europe. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable"
X Link 2025-09-11T11:31Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"But who's going to do the grovelling to Trump now Side note: it is wild that the only person facing consequences over the latest Epstein revelations is a gay man. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/europe/uk-ambassador-us-peter-mandelson-epstein-starmer.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/europe/uk-ambassador-us-peter-mandelson-epstein-starmer.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2025-09-11T12:35Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Asked about Russia's drone incursion into Poland Trump defended Putin yesterday saying "It could've been a mistake" The nightmare scenario so many warned about is now here. As descends into domestic turmoil it is unwilling or unable to defend Europe. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable"
X Link 2025-09-12T09:50Z 55.5K followers, [----] engagements
"It honestly mystifies me why any European would even think about visiting the United States right now with these political screenings at the border. Unless they are far right themselves or apathetic about being under far right rule"
X Link 2025-09-13T12:31Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Violence is coming.you either fight back or you die" the owner of the main communications tool used by Europe's politicians & journalists told a far-right mob yesterday. "We dont have another [--] years or whenever the next election is its too long" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/13/elon-musk-calls-for-dissolution-of-parliament-at-far-right-rally-in-london https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/13/elon-musk-calls-for-dissolution-of-parliament-at-far-right-rally-in-london"
X Link 2025-09-14T10:11Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"It's the nightmare scenario that's been warned about for years. As the US transitions to an era of domestic political violence and possible civil conflict it becomes very unlikely that Washington would defend Europe from Russia. My Substack piece: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-russia-attacks-poland-an-unstable"
X Link 2025-09-15T08:52Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"It was clear the direction of travel since Bezos cancelled the Post's endorsement of Harris. It is frightening how so much of the US media has been so rapidly intimidated into submission. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/media/washington-post-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare"
X Link 2025-09-15T19:28Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"It was only a matter of time before the Trump regime started arresting journalists. Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you you treat me unfairly you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech your https://t.co/MCMDjhQoMh Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going after hate speech a lot of allies say hate speech is free speech. Trump: Probably go after people like you you treat me unfairly you have hate in your heart. ABC paid"
X Link 2025-09-16T14:52Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump's justice department will apparently now deem journalistic reports that the president doesn't like as "hate speech". What he's specifically talking about here is when ABC News described his civil guilty verdict for "sexual assault" as "rape". https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/us-abc-news-to-pay-donald-trump-15-million-in-defamation-case/104727362 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/us-abc-news-to-pay-donald-trump-15-million-in-defamation-case/104727362"
X Link 2025-09-16T18:09Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As Donald Trump launches a crackdown on left opposition at home the sight of Britain's left prime minister rolling out the red carpet for him will be hard for many to bear. Even more so because of the implications of the pact he will sign with him today. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-surrendering-its-right https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-surrendering-its-right"
X Link 2025-09-17T05:46Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The classic playbook. From Pod Save America: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/pod-save-the-world/id1200016351i=1000727122394 https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/pod-save-the-world/id1200016351i=1000727122394"
X Link 2025-09-17T11:06Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"President @vonderLeyen has followed through on her #SOTEU promise last week. Commission just announced EU tariffs on 5.8bn in imports from Israel (which VDL can do on her own) and sanctions on Israeli ministers (which need unanimous approval from national governments)"
X Link 2025-09-17T11:54Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Trump said Jimmy Kimmel would be next after Colbert. And sure enough now he's gone. Before long we're going to be left with nothing but pro-MAGA corporate media. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2025-09-18T06:35Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Unions representing journalists writers actors and musicians have all come out condemning Kimmel being fired for daring to say that MAGA is "working very hard to capitalise on the murder of Charlie Kirk." From AFM President Tino Gagliardi:"
X Link 2025-09-18T07:13Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"All of this free speech stuff from Vance and MAGA was bullshit. It was self-evidently so at the time. Yet so many self-flagellating Europeans bought into this hook line and sinker. JD Vance: "Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people.Under Donald Trump's leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square." (Feb. 2025) https://t.co/cQWAIZzCV1 JD Vance: "Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people.Under Donald Trump's leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to"
X Link 2025-09-18T10:09Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Vance's MAGA regime is now on a witch hunt to get people fired for saying negative things about Charlie Kirk or for criticising their response to his murder. Last night's Kimmel cancellation is one of the most high-profile. This is MAGA cancel culture. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-liveCMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"
X Link 2025-09-18T11:12Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The government is encouraging people to report on their neighbours who are saying negative things about Kirk - even just directly quoting him. MAGA cancel culture. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0r5y33pj5o.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0r5y33pj5o.amp"
X Link 2025-09-18T11:15Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Republican lawmakers are even (successfully) pressuring media companies to fire reporters who dared to ask them about gun control after the assassination. MAGA cancel culture. https://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-reporter-suspended-after-texting-maga-congressman-to-ask-if-he-still-supports-campus-carry-after-kirk-shooting/# https://www.mediaite.com/online/florida-reporter-suspended-after-texting-maga-congressman-to-ask-if-he-still-supports-campus-carry-after-kirk-shooting/#"
X Link 2025-09-18T11:22Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Republicans officials are engaged in a campaign of intimidation to get private businesses to lower their flags for Kirk falsely claiming that Trump's order applies to all flags. In fact it only applies to federal government buildings (not state or city). MAGA cancel culture"
X Link 2025-09-18T11:26Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"What we are witnessing right now is the most prolific and rapid crackdown on free speech in American history. From the same people who claimed to be "free speech absolutists" bemoaning their persecution by "cancel culture". They now preside over a cancellation regime. Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times Wall Street Journal and [--] Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS ABC and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times Wall Street"
X Link 2025-09-18T12:19Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Nymne TBH I can see a British person saying that even before Brexit. I've heard them say so many things like this over the years before [----]. They just had no idea what the EU was. I think ironically enough they know more now than they did then"
X Link 2025-09-18T17:31Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Nymne When I was living in London in [----] and I told (highly-educated) British people that I had just gotten Italian citizenship so that I could work in Belgium I got a lot of confused looks"
X Link 2025-09-18T17:34Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Live soon: What next for Europe's subservience strategy as Donald Trumps moves to crush American opposition 4pm 3pm10am Watch here: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/60866 https://open.substack.com/live-stream/60866"
X Link 2025-09-19T13:02Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Russia has yet again incurred into EU/NATO airspace flying MiG-35 fighter jets capable of carrying hypersonic missiles over Estonia yesterday. Italian jets were scrambled to intercept them. has triggered NATO Article [--] as Poland did last week. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=JNkaicsclN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=JNkaicsclN0"
X Link 2025-09-20T11:11Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Absolutely staggering levels of corruption. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568 https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568"
X Link 2025-09-21T10:38Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Here we go. https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-will-shoot-down-encroaching-russian-aircraft-warns-pm-tusk/ https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-will-shoot-down-encroaching-russian-aircraft-warns-pm-tusk/"
X Link 2025-09-22T13:40Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Mario Draghi & Christine Lagarde are pleading with Europeans to wake up and realise - federalism is the only way to survive in this new strongman era. But Europe's centrist Atlanticist establishment won't listen and nationalists are winning the argument. https://lamatinaleeuropeenne.substack.com/p/le-mur-nationaliste-contre-lutopie https://lamatinaleeuropeenne.substack.com/p/le-mur-nationaliste-contre-lutopie"
X Link 2025-09-23T08:05Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"2 months ago President von der Leyen agreed for the EU to make $1.35 trillion in tributary payments to in a surrender to Trump's trade war extortion. Trump's treasury secretary told Fox Business it will be used as a US 'sovereign wealth fund'. https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/135-trillion-the-great-transatlantic-overpromise https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/135-trillion-the-great-transatlantic-overpromise"
X Link 2025-09-24T10:22Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"These are not just authoritarian tendencies these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government. You saw what Stephen Miller said last week he called the Democratic Party a terrorist organization. Saying theyre going after their enemies.""
X Link 2025-09-24T13:24Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"A new report from the European Council on Foreign Relations explains why there is such cognitive dissonance in the European brain right now as they are attacked by America a country which owns our European cultural sphere. My take: https://davekeating.substack.com/p/maga-is-waging-a-culture-war-on-europe https://davekeating.substack.com/p/maga-is-waging-a-culture-war-on-europe"
X Link 2025-09-25T11:24Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I just watched this fascinating documentary about the Belgian politician Lon Degrelle whose Rexist party had enormous influence in the 1930s despite never getting more than 11% of the vote. It struck me - he reminds me so much of Nigel Farage. https://youtu.be/WDcHjDf2Hv4si=d6-EQ2H30rI0jzbW https://youtu.be/WDcHjDf2Hv4si=d6-EQ2H30rI0jzbW"
X Link 2025-09-25T13:35Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Latest on proposal to sanction far-right members of Netanyahu's cabinet: National reps discussed it today. Hungary indicated nothing will persuade it to drop its veto on those sanctions (which need unanimity) were quiet - they can hide behind Hungary's veto for now"
X Link 2025-09-26T13:44Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"In light of the Hungarian veto several EU countries said the issue of sanctions should be put on the agenda for the informal #EUCO summit of national leaders in Copenhagen on [--] October. So far it has not yet been added as a discussion point"
X Link 2025-09-26T14:03Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Moldova's pro-EU ruling party scored a surprising victory in yesterday's national election in a vote that was marked by intense Russian involvement including alleged vote-buying. "Citizens defeated a furious attack not with weapons but with democracy" says MEP @DanBarnaUSR"
X Link 2025-09-29T11:54Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"It looks like Europe's brief flirtation with reviving its night trains is coming to an end - thanks to changing government priorities. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250929/breaking-night-trains-from-paris-to-berlin-and-vienna-to-be-axed https://www.thelocal.fr/20250929/breaking-night-trains-from-paris-to-berlin-and-vienna-to-be-axed"
X Link 2025-09-29T12:23Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"If there was any doubt that Germany is failing to meet this moment the talking points of its chancellor in Copenhagen should put it to rest. The European vision of candidate Merz have vanished What a contrast with the courage shown by Moldovans yesterday https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes"
X Link 2025-09-29T14:18Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"European leaders arrive at the Copenhagen #EUCO summit this morning amid Russian drones facing an unravelling world where Europe is menaced by all at once. What's the German chancellor coming with A laundry list of complaints about red tape. https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes https://davekeating.substack.com/p/as-moldova-chooses-eu-merz-bashes"
X Link 2025-10-01T07:12Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"US generals were sent home from their European posts to be told the military's focus will now be turned inward toward the people It is now clear that if Russia invades the EU America's focus will be elsewhere - perhaps dealing with its own internal war https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-has-not-ended-7-foreign-wars https://davekeating.substack.com/p/trump-has-not-ended-7-foreign-wars"
X Link 2025-10-02T07:22Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
""Von der Leyen has become the face of EU surrender of a union powerless in the face of ever-growing global threats. It is an ironic position to be in for someone so obsessed with amassing power within the institution she controls" My IPQ profile of VDL: https://ip-quarterly.com/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-queen-commission-servant-council https://ip-quarterly.com/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-queen-commission-servant-council"
X Link 2025-10-02T11:33Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Following the closure of airports in Denmark and Norway due to suspected Russian drone overflights last night [--] flights were cancelled and [--] diverted from Munich airport in Germany. In Belgium [--] drones flew over a Belgian army base last night. https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/03/apres-l-aeroport-de-munich-la-belgique-a-ete-survolee-par-des-drones_6644144_3211.html https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/03/apres-l-aeroport-de-munich-la-belgique-a-ete-survolee-par-des-drones_6644144_3211.html"
X Link 2025-10-03T09:10Z 55.4K followers, 11.7K engagements
"I see people cheering the idea of an EU with Ukraine in and Hungary out but it's important to keep in mind that this would effectively lead to a second Kaliningrad situation within the EU. The prospect of a Russian-controlled island inside shouldn't be taken lightly. 🤡 Orban: Hungary Doesnt Want to Be in NATO or the EU if Ukraine Joins At the EU summit in Copenhagen Viktor Orban openly declared that Hungary does not want to belong to any alliance not NATO not the EU if Ukraine becomes a member. In plain words: Hungary refuses to https://t.co/RJocGfB6sO 🤡 Orban: Hungary Doesnt Want to Be in"
X Link 2025-10-03T11:29Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"A report published today by ENTSO-E seems to rule out either a Russian cyberattack or renewable energy as being the cause of April's blackout in Spain & Portugal. Instead it was a perfect storm of coincidences following a not uncommon oscillation. https://davekeating.substack.com/publish/post/175187097 https://davekeating.substack.com/publish/post/175187097"
X Link 2025-10-03T13:04Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"According to the US Secretary of Homeland Security only US citizens will be allowed into the Super Bowl in February - and ICE will be there to enforce this. Is it any wonder that foreign tourism to is plummeting"
X Link 2025-10-04T18:07Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Words cannot describe how tone-deaf it is to publish this article at this moment. But The Economist has been consistently tone-deaf in their Europe coverage for years. They will never get over their obsession with America even as the US descends toward dictatorship or civil war"
X Link 2025-10-06T12:27Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm sure flag carriers will follow budget airlines in charging for rolling carry-ons. 🛩They always have before when budget policies make their flights look cheaper on search engines. 🛩Current budget policy guarantees space for suitcase if you paid. With flags you never know"
X Link 2025-10-09T10:17Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"If I need to take a rolling carry-on I'm now finding myself choosing @Ryanair @easyJet or @vueling instead of @FlyingBrussels because I know I can bring it on the plane if I've paid for it. For certainty sometimes I pay more for budget than for flag https://davekeating.substack.com/p/should-the-eu-ban-carry-on-luggage https://davekeating.substack.com/p/should-the-eu-ban-carry-on-luggage"
X Link 2025-10-09T10:36Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Europeans watching the unravelling of America right now are getting a crash course on what the misleadingly named National Guard is. Over the years when I've told Europeans that US states have their own militaries they've been shocked. Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command. The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other statesand in at least one case deploy the Guard from one state into anotheris extremely https://t.co/mlFCQ9Rgmc Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very"
X Link 2025-10-09T19:43Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@joelbasson Indeed and this is what so many people don't understand about the proposed "EU army". It wouldn't be one single military. It would work like the National Guard in the US. But since most Europeans don't know what the National Guard is this has been a difficult metaphor to use"
X Link 2025-10-10T08:37Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@joelbasson @benbawan Yes that's also a possibility but I don't think it could work like in the US where the federal military is so much bigger than the state ones. I think it would have to be the inverse"
X Link 2025-10-10T09:19Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Smart. Given that Trump may be about to declare war on Venezuela to support that opposition it will be harder for him to complain. Harder but he'll probably still do it. https://www.politico.eu/article/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-venezuelan-opposition-leader-despite-trump-lobbying/ https://www.politico.eu/article/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-venezuelan-opposition-leader-despite-trump-lobbying/"
X Link 2025-10-10T09:24Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Based on current polling if a general election was held tomorrow in the United Kingdom the far right would win 2/3 of seats. That's Hungary levels. The government support is really having an impact. 🚨 The Uniparty is dead. PLMR Poll with Electoral Calculus If a General Election was held tomorrow. Reform [---] MPs Labour [--] MPs Lib Dems [--] MPs Your Party [--] MPs Tories [--] MPs Greens [--] MPs https://t.co/hijCotbO5B 🚨 The Uniparty is dead. PLMR Poll with Electoral Calculus If a General Election was held tomorrow. Reform [---] MPs Labour [--] MPs Lib Dems [--] MPs Your Party [--] MPs Tories [--] MPs Greens 6"
X Link 2025-10-15T12:47Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"It is wild that the Vice President is calling senior Republican staffers men in their 30s "young boys" in order to excuse their leaked racist sexist and Hitler-praising text messages. https://open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/the-gops-nazi-youthr=wx462&utm_medium=ios https://open.substack.com/pub/jill/p/the-gops-nazi-youthr=wx462&utm_medium=ios"
X Link 2025-10-16T09:06Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Spain's Pedro Sanchez is cutting a lonely figure in Europe right now as he balks at Trump's extortion. Sanchez is among the only PMs seriously talking about setting up sovereign European defence. For that he is being vilified. https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-europe-nato-gdp-spending/ https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-europe-nato-gdp-spending/"
X Link 2025-10-16T12:56Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"While the rest of Europe's leaders (including a politically hobbled Macron) fall into line with Trump's tributary demands Spain's prime minister is the only one delivering a resolute no. In Europe's North and East they see this as a betrayal of Ukraine. https://www.economist.com/international/2025/09/09/meet-the-leader-of-europes-anti-trump-resistance https://www.economist.com/international/2025/09/09/meet-the-leader-of-europes-anti-trump-resistance"
X Link 2025-10-16T13:00Z 55.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Who in their right mind could actually believe this after they saw the Republicans get Jimmy Kimmel pulled off air use lawsuits and approvals to stifle free speech at American media outlets and launch a crusade to fire people who said things they didn't like about Charlie Kirk Johnson: The last time I checked Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over It's the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind. That's the most obvious irony of the hate America rally. https://t.co/Udg8OMwY3R Johnson: The last time"
X Link 2025-10-17T16:03Z 55.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Irish PM Kenny on Cameron and budget: "You sign on for Europe you sign on for the rules and rules have to be obeyed" http://t.co/dwvsh5pDCU"
X Link 2014-10-24T16:10Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements
"England to the EU Scotland Ireland and the whole world: https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6gDVsVuKZPlhJnqg/giphy.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6gDVsVuKZPlhJnqg/giphy.gif"
X Link 2016-06-24T21:06Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
"The #BayerMonsanto merger is now complete. Here's why you'll never hear of #Monsanto again: http://www.dw.com/en/what-the-bayer-monsanto-merger-means-for-food-farmers-and-the-environment/a-19296103 http://www.dw.com/en/what-the-bayer-monsanto-merger-means-for-food-farmers-and-the-environment/a-19296103"
X Link 2016-09-15T13:13Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements
"#AntiTrump protest outside the US embassy in Berlin which also happens to be next to the Brandenburg Gate"
X Link 2016-11-12T17:12Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements
"I'm looking for an expert on #smog for a news article anybody know one"
X Link 2016-12-06T11:05Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Michel Barnier EU chief #Brexit negotiator giving presser now on adoption of negotiating text. Speaking in English - gesture of good will"
X Link 2017-05-03T09:09Z 55.5K followers, [--] engagements
"HA Moldova brought the mini sax from [----] to #Eurovision2017"
X Link 2017-05-09T20:02Z 55.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Moldova's epic sax is back #Eurovision2017"
X Link 2017-05-13T20:16Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
"UK media paint #Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as inflexible ideologue. Its a caricature few in Brussels recognise http://berlinpolicyjournal.com/close-up-michel-barnier/ http://berlinpolicyjournal.com/close-up-michel-barnier/"
X Link 2017-05-19T10:26Z 55.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Despite Climate Objections New Southern Gas Corridor Gets 1.5bn In EU Funds @ceebankwatch #TAP #Gazprom #EIB https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/02/07/despite-climate-objections-new-southern-gas-corridor-gets-e1-5bn-in-eu-funds/#72e554ac552e https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/02/07/despite-climate-objections-new-southern-gas-corridor-gets-e1-5bn-in-eu-funds/#72e554ac552e"
X Link 2018-02-07T09:28Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
"At the end of the day this is what Ive got for the [--] EU countries who decided today to expel Russian diplomats (plus UK) : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : [--] : 23"
X Link 2018-03-26T15:54Z 55.4K followers, [--] engagements
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