Europe without America: a dark road ahead

Before Trump had even been confirmed as the 47th President of the United States of America, one European think tank had declared that “the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since Suez” is in progress. An EU bureaucrat echoed the same sentiment: “Are there any EU-US relations left?” Panic is ripping through the halls of power in Europe.

Just a week ago Donald Trump gathered some of his young new tech friends to announce the hubristically named Stargate: a colossal government-backed plan to spend $500 billion on AI and associated infrastructure. This, Trump confidently announced, was “the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history”, the purpose of which was to keep ”the future of technology” in the US.

Os tiros silenciaram em Gaza, por enquanto. Após quinze meses, um cessar-fogo trouxe uma pausa ao genocídio implacável que tirou a vida de dezenas de milhares de pessoas e destruiu quase totalmente o enclave palestino.

Recentemente vieram à tona chocantes revelações sobre a perseguição de mais de uma década a Julian Assange. Um juiz britânico, Penrose Foss, decidiu que o Ministério Público do Reino Unido (CPS, na sigla em ingês) deve explicar por que apagou uma série de e-mails entre eles e as autoridades legais suecas sobre a tentativa de extraditar Assange.

Julian Assangen yli vuosikymmenen kestäneeseen vainoamiseen liittyen on tullut hiljattain julki järkyttäviä paljastuksia. Brittiläinen tuomari Penrose Foss on päättänyt, että Crown Prosecution Servicen (CPS) on perusteltava, miksi se poisti joukon sähköpostiviestejä, jotka se oli lähettänyt Ruotsin oikeusviranomaisten kanssa Assangen luovutusyrityksestä.