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Europe Is Rearming - The Friday AM Quickie 3/7/25

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THE BIG NEWS

Europe Confronts the Threat from Putin – and Trump

Caught between Aspiring Tsar Vladimir Putin and wannabe dictator Donald Trump, European countries are about to "spend, spend, spend" on a historic military buildup. Under the terms of agreements reached at a European Union summit yesterday, massive sums approaching one trillion dollars could be spent on "defense and deterrence" and military aid to Ukraine. It's a matter of reluctant necessity, prompted by Trump's increasingly transparent alliance with Putin's Russia, his abandonment of Ukraine in its hour of need, and his withdrawl from America's post-World War II commitments to European security.

With authoritarianism spreading around the world, European democracies are looking to their old allies, the United States, as a potential threat. Trump's foreign policy turn has Europe so nervous that leaders are prepared to cross longstanding taboos; Germany, the Wall Street Journal reports, may even build its own nuclear weapons. "I want to believe the US will stay by our side," French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech on Wednesday. "But we have to be ready if that isn't the case."

Yesterday, Trump punctured that hope. Musing about reneging on American commitments to the NATO military alliance, Trump told reporters that the US would not defend NATO countries that don't follow his decrees, saying, "it's common sense, right? If they don't pay, I'm not going to defend them. No, I'm not going to defend them." He also said that he was considering revoking the temporary legal status granted to 240,000 Ukrainian refugees living in the US, setting them up for "deportation back to an active war zone."

Historically speaking, arms races in Europe don't end well. But this is the reality the world is facing, thanks to Putin, Trump and his Republican Party. The reality is, without the US, Europe's front-line defenses would reportedly last "weeks at best" should Putin expand his war on the continent beyond Ukraine.

Europeans increasingly see further Russian invasions as a matter of time – on a schedule accelerated by Trump's return to power. Calling Trump "a traitor" and his oligarch ally Elon Musk "a ketamine-fueled jester," center-right French Senator Claude Malhuret warned his peers that "Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin." With regards to Trump's America, he observed that it took the Nazi Party "only one month, three weeks and two days to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution." Nevertheless, he held out hope that "the confiscation of democracy" can be repelled, because "in American history, the freedom fighters have always prevailed."

"Our parents defeated fascism and communism at great cost," Malhuret said. "The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century."

Trumpocalypse: Agency Staff Who Stood Up to DOGE Forced to Flee US Marshals

  • DOGE Demoted: Trump Tells His Cabinet to Take the Lead on Illegal Job-Killing Cuts – But Elon Musk May Still Take Over The white supremacist oligarch's DOGE goons have shacked up with their wives and kids inside some federal agencies they are gutting, installing IKEA furniture and even a $25,000 washer and dryer so they have more time to "terrorize the civilian workforce." via HuffPost, Politico, the Washington Post, NBC News, the New York Times, and the Associated Press.
  • After Cashing in Big on Crypto, Trump Orders Creation of $17 Billion 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve' Trump recently netted an estimated $350 million from his presidential "memecoin," which is not his only cryptocurrency venture. via the New York Times, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg.
  • Trump Blames 'Globalists' for Market Chaos Caused By His Whiplash Tariff Policies Canadian provinces, meanwhile, are carrying on with their plans for economic retaliation despite the latest one-month delay Trump announced on his plans to tax imports from the largest US trade partners. via NBC News, the New York Times, and Politico.
  • The Muslim Ban Is Coming Back, With Exceptions for the Rich Human rights advocates, meanwhile, are concerned about a State Department plan to scour social media using AI to find pro-Palestinian international students to deport. via the New York Times, Reuters, and the AP.
  • Purge of US Military Ranks and Historical Documents Somehow Skips Over New, Nazi-Friendly Pentagon Spokesperson Defense Department Deputy Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, 26, espouses antisemitic conspiracy theories, has appeared on Kremlin-funded Tim Pool's podcast, and also happens to be the daughter of a former Trump adviser, Steve Cortes. via the AP, NBC News, and Politico.
  • Trump Team Backs Vile, Violent Misogynist Andrew Tate Over 'Communist' Ron DeSantis Ric Grenell, the Trump envoy who lobbied for Andrew Tate's release by Romanian authorities who had accused him of human trafficking and other grave crimes, shared a Tate post calling Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier communists; Uthmeier opened a criminal investigation into Tate this week, prompting him to flee the state. via NBC News and Media Matters.
  • 'We Shall Overcome': Progressives Rally Around Texas Rep. Al Green, Who Stood Up to Trump During His Speech, But 10 Democrats Vote for Censure Democratic pollsters, meanwhile, have found that a plurality of voters think the party has lost its way, with fear of retribution silencing many who criticized Trump during his first term. via the AP, Politico, and the New York Times.
  • Trump 'Is Not a King' or a Dictator, Says Judge, Reinstating Fired Democratic National Labor Relations Board Member Another federal judge meanwhile set a Monday deadline for the administration to pay nearly $2 billion in outstanding foreign aid invoices. via NBC News and the AP.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Yet Another SpaceX Rocket Explosion Disrupts Florida Air Travel The company's power over the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates it, continues to grow thanks to oligarch Elon Musk's role as Donald Trump's No. 2. via the NBC News, Politico, and the Washington Post.
  • Measles Outbreak Claims Another Life: Unvaccinated Adult in New Mexico "With measles cases, 1 in 5 require hospitalization and approximately 3 in every 1,000 cases result in death, the New Mexico health department said." via the Washington Post.
  • The Bad Strike: New York Prison Guards Win Concessions at Inmates' Expense At least nine prisoners have died during the 19-day wildcat strikes, which kicked off over guards' objections to a new state law limiting the use of solitary confinement, which some countries define as torture. via the New York Times and the Associated Press.
  • White Supremacist Thug in California Finally Convicted for Attacking Protesters During Trump's First Term Robert Boman of the far-right Rise Above Movement, convicted this week of violating the anti-riot act, had his charges dropped "at least twice" by a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush; the judge complained that prosecutors didn't charge "Antifa." via the Los Angeles Time.

SOME NUMBER

$870,000

That's how much Valere Public Schools Superintendent Salvador Cavazos takes home each year in salary and bonuses to run a Texas charter school network with fewer than 1,000 students, ProPublica reports. Board members at the public charter school district have voted to increase Cavazos's pay 14 times over the past four years. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's plans to sign an executive order abolishing the Department of Education were delayed, per Politico, by the publication of an "incomplete" draft, and the White House is now considering gutting the department more quietly, without an order making it official.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

3/7: Happy Friday! Sam and Emma chat with Ryan Grim, reporter at and co-founder of Drop Site News, co-host of Counter Points, to round up the week.

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Democrats Must Do More of This

Tim Walz gets it.

Gavin Newsom Teams Up With Charlie Kirk to Throw Trans People Under the Bus

More on this disgrace below.

PARTING WORDS

"History doesn't remember those who waver — it remembers those who refuse to back down. Our message to Gov. Newsom and all leaders across the country is simple: The path to 2028 isn't paved with the betrayal of vulnerable communities — it's built on the courage to stand up for what's right."

-- Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson, responding to Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom's anti-trans comments on his new podcast, titled "This is Gavin Newsom," in which he sat down for a friendly chat with Republican operative Charlie Kirk. Newsom told Kirk he "completely agree[s]" with him on banning transgender athletes from sports because "I revere sports" and trans equality is "deeply unfair."

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