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Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/trump-cybersecurity-policy-is-indistinguishable-from-a-foreign-attack/

Trump pauses all Somali aid programs over reports US-funded warehouse destroyed (Molly Parks/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/4410431/trump-pause-somali-aid-warehouse-destroyed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p130#a260107p130

Trump's foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again (Andrew O'Hehir/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/07/trumps-foreign-policy-vision-make-europe-white-again/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p59#a251207p59

Under new US foreign policy, multiparty European democracies are not free enough because they exclude Nazis, but actual monarchies in the Gulf are free enough for us.

Hague Court of Appeal rules it’s cool that the Netherlands is complicit in genocide.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/6/dutch-court-rejects-bid-to-halt-arms-exports-to-israel-over-gaza-war

Dmitry #Peskov, head of the Russian Presidential Administration, commented on Darth #Trump's attack on the EU and his pandering to #Russia in a ZDF report as follows: “The new US foreign policy is in line with our vis…

The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
#Trump
#Putin https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

New National Security Strategy Is Heavy on Rhetoric, Light on Detail (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-national-security-strategy-ways-means-ends-trump-foreign-policy-china-iran-russia-north-korea
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p139#a251208p139

“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.

"The Department of Homeland Security is directing border-patrol agents to screen all foreign travelers with facial recognition tools as they enter and leave the U.S., seeking to identify immigrants who entered the country illegally or overstayed visas, the agency said"
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Cracks in Democrats' Venezuela response reveal foreign policy muddle (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/08/trump-democrats-divided-venezuela/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p14#a260108p14

2025 was the year of appeasement... of Europe and NATO.
My prediction for 2026 is that this will be the year Trump fully turns his back on Europe completely and officially turns American foreign policy to one of “non-alignment”.
This means the USA will officially or through effective posture, suspend its membership in NATO.
#USPoli #NATO #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
https://mastodon.social/@Ulfh3dnar/115685745861875968

Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman's View of the World (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/politics/stephen-miller-foreign-policy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p154#a260106p154

„Jeffrey Epstein was a warlord. We have to talk about It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy“ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/#<…

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Yeah. It's even more sad for us living in the EU. We don't get to have a sovereign foreign policy until we have cut the dependency on the US for security, financial infra and tech platforms. Working discretely (and far too slowly) on it. Will it be better afterwards? Maybe, not sure.
In the meantime, no po…

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Yeah. It's even more sad for us living in the EU. We don't get to have a sovereign foreign policy until we have cut the dependency on the US for security, financial infra and tech platforms. Working discretely (and far too slowly) on it. Will it be better afterwards? Maybe, not sure.
In the meantime, no po…

Putin playing Trump,
"Kremlin foreign policy Yuri Ushakov said that on the call with Putin today, Trump had been “shocked” by the Russian claim that the Ukrainians had targeted Putin’s Novgorod residence, in northwestern Russia."
https://diplom…

Threatening Nigeria? Leaving Romania? The Chaos of Trump's Foreign Policy (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nigeria-romania-trump-foreign-policy-chaos
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p36#a251104p36

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will unveil a new £4 million project to reinforce cyber defenses in the Western Balkans, and share expertise in countering disinformation and other malign activity from hostile actors.
Foreign Secretary to put boosting security and tackling illegal migration at the heart of foreign policy during meeting of European partners

A digital pass available through the reservation site Recreation.gov includes “America-first pricing” at some parks.
Starting on Jan. 1, nonresidents without an annual pass will have to pay a $100 surcharge to enter 11 of the most-visited places in the system
https://www.<…

Frohe Weihnachten ;-)
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52138124

Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…

For an ageing president, growing more petulant, irascible and incoherent with every day in office – facing diminishing popularity and desperate to distract attention from the Epstein child-trafficking scandal – a tightening embrace of military power is an ominous development.
The attack on Venezuela suggests the allure of foreign lands, oil and minerals is now glimmering brighter than the Nobel prize.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump Pivots Second Term Toward Foreign Policy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pivots-second-term-toward-foreign-policy-08d66474
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p143#a251030p143

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Featuring distinguished speakers from around the globe on foreign policy, defence, politics, economics, aid and development...
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"The calls are part of a broader strategy by the Trump administration to ... turn the state department into an anti-immigration machine. "In the Trump administration migration issues have become a key pillar of our foreign policy, and this may be here to stay for the rest of the century,” a senior state department official told The Guardian."
**Stephen Miller holding secret calls with diplomats every day to push Trump’s immigration agenda across the globe**
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-immigration-diplomats-secret-calls-b2856464.html

RFE/RL Hungarian service Szabad Európa, which was restarted in 2020, shuts down after USAGM's Kari Lake claimed it harmed Trump's foreign policy in a key ally (Anita Komuves/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Rubio on Ukraine:
“It’s not our war. It’s a war on another continent,”
Meanwhile USA bombs Syria.
Schrödinger's foreign policy.
Five key takeaways from US State Secretary Rubio’s year-end briefing | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.

Trump Says U.S. Has Captured Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro (Jasmine Wright/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/maduro-venezuela-captured
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p52#a260103p52

While the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the

Trump fills end of 2025 with foreign policy (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5665946-trump-foreign-policy-focus/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p10#a251230p10

"America Must Reject Trump’s Corrupt Foreign Policy.
A call to action as Trump pressures Ukraine to capitulate to Russia"
https://www.avindman.com/p/america-must-reject-trumps-corrupt?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeO…

From Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Poland
to Taiwan and Japan,
potentially vulnerable nations are all drawing the same uncomfortable conclusion from the past year
—that survival in Trump’s new world order no longer depends on old-fashioned U.S. guarantees
but on making yourself too painful to attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly acknowledged in December that NATO membership,
a cornerstone of his country’s strategic aspirations since th…

There are arguably discrete acts of hypocrisy by earlier presidents, who claimed exceptions from international laws in the pursuit of US interests, but mostly embraced global norms in the knowledge that the “rules-based system” overwhelmingly favoured America.
Trump has complete disdain for that system. He looks at the world through the eyes of a 19th-century imperialist, but with 21st-century weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Five Questions About American Foreign Policy (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/five-questions-about-american-foreign
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p26#a251130p26

You have to realize this: An American #investment banker—lacking any foreign policy experience, an amateur at best—Steve #Witkoff, and a Russian investment banker, Kirill Alexandrovich #Dmitriev—also neither a dip…

Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says

There is is one constant in US foreign policy now, betraying Ukraine and Europe, assisting Russia.

The specific drug allegations made against Maduro by the US are seen by most experts as flimsy, and would not represent convincing grounds under international or US law for the attack on Venezuela and Maduro’s abduction. In repeated statements, Trump has made clear he is more covetous of Venezuela’s oil than motivated by a desire to bring Maduro before a court, or deliver democracy to the people of Venezuela.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/trump-erratic-foreign-policy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p50#a251026p50

It’s sometimes said that presidents pivot toward foreign policy in their second terms.
Unburdened by the prospect of having to face voters again, and sometimes opposed by a hostile Congress, presidents often go overseas in search of a legacy. 
If the past week or so is anything to go by, Donald Trump is doing the same.
My colleagues Shelby Holliday and Lara Seligman reported exclusively Tuesday that a large number of U.S. troops and special-operations aircraft have deployed…

The US House has approved a sweeping defence bill
that bolsters Europe’s security,
in what appears to be sharp rebuke to Donald Trump’s mounting threats
to downgrade Washington’s ties to traditional allies and Nato.
The bipartisan vote came just days after the publication of a White House national security strategy
that said Europe faced “civilisational erasure”
and made explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties
– rattl…

Sen. Kim accused Trump of rejected a “constitutionally required approval process for armed conflict because the Administration knows the American people reject risks pulling our nation into another war.” Kim said the overnight strikes in Venezuela “doesn’t represent strength. It’s not sound foreign policy. It puts Americans at risk in Venezuela and the region, and it sends a horrible and disturbing signal that targeting a head of state is an acceptable policy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

InteractivePolls • @IAPolls...
AP/NORC -
Trump Approval
🔸Approve: 36%
♦️Disapprove: 61%
Trump's net approval on key issues:
Border Security: 2
Crime: -12 (was 8 in Aug)
Immigration: -22 (new low)
Foreign policy: -23
The Economy: -36 (new low)
Healthcare: -40 (new low)

Prosecuting the Powerful -- Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice. (Foreign Policy)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/democracy-prosecution-crimes-sarkozy-trump-berlusconi/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p82#a251028p82

A year into Trump’s second term
MAGA’s internal contradictions can no longer be ignored.
The movement that had promised an end to foreign adventurism has found itself torn between an alliance of ideological noninterventionists and realists and a hawkish national security establishment.
Trumpism promised a revival of domestic manufacturing,
yet neither the president nor his advisers have decided whether this means tariffs, industrial policy, reviving organized labor,…

Donald Trump: America First globalist (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/17/trump-foreign-policy-focus-marjorie-taylor-greene
http://www.memeorandum.com/251017/p15#a251017p15

There were actually a lot of good recommendations from that Committee report, the one on PR was just the final one! Here's a few more.. including some that local #Fediverse proponents could dig into! @… was on the Committee.
—>FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “The Committee heard about a number of issues related to
the electoral information environment. Members recommend
that the provincial government collaborate with Elections
BC and the federal government to review existing legislative
and regulatory measures related to misinformation,
disinformation, and hate speech during elections, including
**mechanisms to ensure the timely removal of harmful content** (**emphasis added)”
—> FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “To better address challenges associated with social media and emergent technologies such as artificial intelligence, Members recommend establishing a working group to propose amendments to BC’s privacy and election legislation. To better protect all users, the Committee recommends requiring digital platforms to act with a duty of care and establish clear safety-related requirements such as data privacy, platform design, and content policy. The Committee also heard about concerns regarding foreign interference, and recommends that these be considered by the Electoral Integrity Working Group.”
—The Committee heard about the critical importance of
civic education to ensure the public’s understanding of
democratic institutions, processes, and participation. The
Committee recommends strengthening civic education
in the K-12 school system with input from experts and a
greater emphasis on applied learning.
— the Committee suggests enhancing data collection by requiring proactive enumeration on an annual basis and ensuring that registered parties and candidates can access poll-by-poll results. Elections BC should review and improve
voter registration practices and communication, as well as
access to and public awareness of voting opportunities. With respect to expanding voter eligibility, the Committee supports further examination of extending voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds as well as permanent residents in BC.
— Committee Members recommend modernizing the candidate nominator verification process, requiring Elections BC to collect and share voters’ contact information with registered political parties and candidates, and strengthening measures related to access to multi-unit buildings for candidates and their campaigns.
Full report to the Legislature: #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ElectoralReform #Democracy #ProportionalRepresentation #Polarization