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Sunday, June 01, 2025

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Ukraine targets several Russian air bases in large-scale operation ‘Spiderweb’
This weekend showed that America’s allies no longer want what Trump is selling Trump’s plan, much-touted during last year’s US Presidential election, is to leave the defence of Europe to the continent’s governments themselves, while US forces take the lead in the Indo-Pacific. In Trump’s conception, the Europeans police themselves, while America – with its vast Pacific coastline – takes the lead containing China and preparing to deal with any invasion of Taiwan that may follow. ........... Citing efforts by Chinese-flagged ships to disrupt undersea cables in the Baltic, and Chinese cyber attacks on European nations including the Czech Republic, she insisted the bloc would not outsource its ongoing efforts to confront China and will continue “standing up for international law because it protects us and everybody else”. She pointed to Europe’s deepening security ties with Asian partners, citing defence alliances with Japan and South Korea, and saying plans were now afoot to enhance security relationships with India and Australia as well. ........... “freedom of navigation in this part of the world matters to us, just as it matters in the English Channel … we are an active, responsible and reliable partner in the shared cause of global stability”. .............. Hegseth’s coming-out party at the Shangri-La Dialogue presented him with a new world order in which European and Asian governments are not buying the US-dominated vision that Trump is attempting to sell. In Singapore, they made it clear that they do not believe they can automatically trust Trump to take the lead role in the region, nor to come to their own aid in the event of any Chinese or Russian attack. As China expands its “Belt and Road” development initiative to more than 140 countries, its partners in that endeavour now include Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore itself. ....... Much as Trump’s Defence Secretary hoped to rally everyone around the Stars and Stripes in a collective message to Beijing, his visit to Singapore demonstrated a far more complex reality.

Bill Clinton Says Trump Is Paying ‘a Price’ for His Actions Former President Bill Clinton says President Donald Trump is paying a price for his bullying. ....... “We’ve never seen anything like this before in my lifetime,” Clinton said of the Trump administration in an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning. ......... “Somebody that says, ‘Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It’s my way or the highway.’ And most Americans don’t agree with that,” Clinton said. “But I like to think that he’s paid a price for this, you know, name-calling and throwing his weight around. I think it’s made him less popular.” ......... A poll earlier found that about 6 in 10 American adults believe Trump has “gone too far” in using his presidential power to enact his sweeping agenda. ......... Clinton also said Democrats should focus on gubernatorial races and winning back the House of Representatives to counter the Trump agenda. ........ “Look, only elections are going to change this,” Clinton said. “Someone needs to stand up and say, ‘Damn it, what we have in common matters more. We cannot throw the legacy of this country away. We cannot destroy other people’s trust in us.’” ....... Clinton said the court system was the most effective method of stopping Trump, even as Trump has taken a battering ram to the judiciary. ......... “I do think the courts are getting their dander up. I think that him shutting law firms out of representing their clients before federal agencies and in federal buildings because he doesn’t agree with their position—that ain’t America," he added. “We’ve never done that. The whole purpose of having a legal system is to have both sides be heard.”

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