Great pick by @realDonaldTrump . 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

Andy Yen, Proton CEO, on X

Next to diplomacy, punching power can very well come in an economic form, e.g. still multiple tens of billions of euros flow to Russia to purchase fossil fuels.

The parties I talk about are not a fan of NATO, let that be clear. NATO has multiple authoritarian regimes under its wings, not only Trump but also Erdogan and Orban. Meloni’s Italy is not too far off either, so I suppose that makes it hard for leftist parties to get behind it.

Leftist parties in my small country in Western Europe are mainly advocating for more diplomacy.

They’re generally on board with the idea that NATO expanded too much eastwards, undoing a promise made after the fall of the USSR. So they seem to view Russian attacks on Georgia, Crimea and now the rest of Ukraine as a logical consequence. With enough diplomatic maneuvering, they believe the situation can be resolved in a peaceful manner.

They’re spewing enough words. It’s action which Europe needs.

Added extra disks to TrueNAS, got Seafile up and running in a Proxmox VM. Now I’m about to start fiddling with SAS to 4x Sata to get the front drive bays working. Keepin’ busy!

Thanks for the tip, I’m getting pissed off at the Gandi .be prices as well, just ludicrous.