Lea Deinzer Konrad
@leakonrad.bsky.social
Security Researcher & Teaching @JLU Gießen; PhD-ing on NATO Politics of Cyber Security/Defence; 🇩🇪 & 🇺🇸 Security Policy.
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Was kann Trump noch stoppen?
www.deutschlandfunknova.de
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Trump appears to now be posting a private text from the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte.
Rutte’s message congratulates Trump on his work in Syria, says he will highlight Trump’s achievements in Davos this week.
Rutte’s message congratulates Trump on his work in Syria, says he will highlight Trump’s achievements in Davos this week.
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Trump appears to now be posting a private text from the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte.
Rutte’s message congratulates Trump on his work in Syria, says he will highlight Trump’s achievements in Davos this week.
Rutte’s message congratulates Trump on his work in Syria, says he will highlight Trump’s achievements in Davos this week.
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Tfw the dog won’t wag
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Tfw the dog won’t wag
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Our response to geopolitical security crisis - more 🇪🇺 unity.
Unity starts with collective leadership to discuss most important defence issues.
We need to discuss setting up European Security Council, first proposed by President Macron & Chancellor Merkel
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ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Unity starts with collective leadership to discuss most important defence issues.
We need to discuss setting up European Security Council, first proposed by President Macron & Chancellor Merkel
⬇️
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Introductory remarks by Commissioner Kubilius for a discussion on geopolitics during the “Conclave 2026”
Good morning, \nI am very glad to be here at the Conclave, the intellectual Conclave on the future of the European Union.\nYou asked me to share some comments about geopolitics and, of course, how the...
ec.europa.eu
January 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Our response to geopolitical security crisis - more 🇪🇺 unity.
Unity starts with collective leadership to discuss most important defence issues.
We need to discuss setting up European Security Council, first proposed by President Macron & Chancellor Merkel
⬇️
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Unity starts with collective leadership to discuss most important defence issues.
We need to discuss setting up European Security Council, first proposed by President Macron & Chancellor Merkel
⬇️
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Trump sent this letter to PM of Norway and NSC staff forwarded it to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. The letter has been obtained and verified by PBS.
![Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President
DJT"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nb6uhiglzowsdcbgwv2itwa7/bafkreifg5t4bol6v4l7f7sojoc7c23w7su5dcsepzbikx7jhtn7wvetujm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Trump sent this letter to PM of Norway and NSC staff forwarded it to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. The letter has been obtained and verified by PBS.
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One thing that now even the most hopeful have to admit, is that the unctuous European tactic of flattering, praising, massaging Trump has been a catastrophic failure and made things worse.
January 19, 2026 at 8:52 AM
One thing that now even the most hopeful have to admit, is that the unctuous European tactic of flattering, praising, massaging Trump has been a catastrophic failure and made things worse.
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Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?
January 19, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?
Trying to fit the Trump admin in our own understanding of rational foreign policy is strategically dangerous and has put us in the bad situation we are in right now always catching up always surprised. We are offering the wrong things and responding in an insufficient way…
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Trying to fit the Trump admin in our own understanding of rational foreign policy is strategically dangerous and has put us in the bad situation we are in right now always catching up always surprised. We are offering the wrong things and responding in an insufficient way…
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#Starmer obviously overwhelmed by Trump and hesitating to act, still just hoping.
Leaving it to his opponent Zack Polanski to tell Britains what has to be said on Greenland.
Leaving it to his opponent Zack Polanski to tell Britains what has to be said on Greenland.
Zack Polanski: Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president
www.newstatesman.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:32 AM
#Starmer obviously overwhelmed by Trump and hesitating to act, still just hoping.
Leaving it to his opponent Zack Polanski to tell Britains what has to be said on Greenland.
Leaving it to his opponent Zack Polanski to tell Britains what has to be said on Greenland.
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Anong the international bodies from which the US is withdrawing:
- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Anong the international bodies from which the US is withdrawing:
- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
- International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law
- European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- UN Office on Violence Against Children
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:
Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.
bit.ly
January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that an attack on Greenland would end NATO. This is not an exaggeration.
US intentions towards Greenland threaten NATO’s future. But European countries are not helpless
US threats to annex Greenland following the attack on Venezuela should be taken seriously. European countries have important leverage they should be prepared to use.
www.chathamhouse.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that an attack on Greenland would end NATO. This is not an exaggeration.
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Agree, the threat of retaliation has to be both more personal to Trump - he's done in Europe - and also economic (trade deal dead, massive retaliation vs. US tech/stock market).
These comments -- "Danish prime minister says a US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO" -- are getting a lot of press... but, given the politics of DC today, I doubt they form the deterrent Danish leaders hope for. DNK needs a different line of argument. www.npr.org/2026/01/06/n...
Danish prime minister says a US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO
Her comments came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to come under U.S. control in the aftermath of the weekend military operation ...
www.npr.org
January 6, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Agree, the threat of retaliation has to be both more personal to Trump - he's done in Europe - and also economic (trade deal dead, massive retaliation vs. US tech/stock market).
🎙️ Mein heutiges Interview zur geopolitischen Bedeutung Grönlands 🇬🇱 , Einschätzung der US Ambitionen 🇺🇸 und Handlungsmöglichkeiten europäischer Staaten und Partner 🇪🇺im Deutschlandfunk Nova Podcast „unboxing history“: www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/groe...
Was kann Trump noch stoppen?
www.deutschlandfunknova.de
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 PM
🎙️ Mein heutiges Interview zur geopolitischen Bedeutung Grönlands 🇬🇱 , Einschätzung der US Ambitionen 🇺🇸 und Handlungsmöglichkeiten europäischer Staaten und Partner 🇪🇺im Deutschlandfunk Nova Podcast „unboxing history“: www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/groe...
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh... 🚨 Significant statement (18.7.25) NATO has only published such a statement (outside summits) exclusively focusing on condemning malicious cyber activities a handful of times. Russia has been named as a malicious actor in cyberspace before but the tone is more decisive ⬇️
July 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh... 🚨 Significant statement (18.7.25) NATO has only published such a statement (outside summits) exclusively focusing on condemning malicious cyber activities a handful of times. Russia has been named as a malicious actor in cyberspace before but the tone is more decisive ⬇️
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⚡Zelensky arrives at NATO summit in The Hague as Netherlands pledges new aid.
"Let me be clear: Ukraine is part of the family that we call the Euro-Atlantic family," Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof told Zelensky in front of reporters.
"Let me be clear: Ukraine is part of the family that we call the Euro-Atlantic family," Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof told Zelensky in front of reporters.
Zelensky arrives at NATO summit in The Hague as Netherlands pledges new aid
Welcoming Zelensky at the Catshuis official residence, Schoof presented a new military aid package for Ukraine, including 100 drone radar systems, front-line vehicles for evacuating the wounded, and 8...
kyivindependent.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
⚡Zelensky arrives at NATO summit in The Hague as Netherlands pledges new aid.
"Let me be clear: Ukraine is part of the family that we call the Euro-Atlantic family," Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof told Zelensky in front of reporters.
"Let me be clear: Ukraine is part of the family that we call the Euro-Atlantic family," Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof told Zelensky in front of reporters.
#NATO #5ProzentZiel ist 1) signaling an USA (burden-sharing) und Russland (abschrecken). 2) 2% wurden 2014 beschlossen, die meisten Staaten haben es erst nach RU Angriff auf UA erfüllt. 3) Mil. nutzbare Infrastruktur ist Auslegungssache (Bahn, Häfen etc 4) NATO hat keine Instrumente zu sanktionieren
June 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
#NATO #5ProzentZiel ist 1) signaling an USA (burden-sharing) und Russland (abschrecken). 2) 2% wurden 2014 beschlossen, die meisten Staaten haben es erst nach RU Angriff auf UA erfüllt. 3) Mil. nutzbare Infrastruktur ist Auslegungssache (Bahn, Häfen etc 4) NATO hat keine Instrumente zu sanktionieren
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Mützenich und Stegner, die Ewiggestrigen der deutschen Sicherheits- und Außenpolitiker. Ihr „Manifest“ ist ein realitätsverweigerndes Pamphlet voller fataler Fehleinschätzungen. Wie sehr kann man eigentlich übersehen, was nicht erst seit über einem Jahrzehnt bereits in Europa passiert?
June 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Mützenich und Stegner, die Ewiggestrigen der deutschen Sicherheits- und Außenpolitiker. Ihr „Manifest“ ist ein realitätsverweigerndes Pamphlet voller fataler Fehleinschätzungen. Wie sehr kann man eigentlich übersehen, was nicht erst seit über einem Jahrzehnt bereits in Europa passiert?
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Also it violates both the NATO Articles of Agreement and the UN Charter, both of which are treaties ratified by the Senate & therefore also part of US law.
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Under US law, the president has no authority to unilaterally order military action v. Canada, Greenland, or anyone else unless responding to an actual or imminent attack. Outside of this emergency scenario, unilateral presidential action is unconstitutional. everything trump muses about is illegal
WELKER: Would you rule out military force to take Canada?
TRUMP: I think we're not gonna ever get to that point. Something could happen with Greenland. I'll be honest. With need that for national and international security.
TRUMP: I think we're not gonna ever get to that point. Something could happen with Greenland. I'll be honest. With need that for national and international security.
May 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Also it violates both the NATO Articles of Agreement and the UN Charter, both of which are treaties ratified by the Senate & therefore also part of US law.
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Q: "Would you rule out military force to take Canada?"
Trump: "I think we're not going to ever get to that point. Something could happen with Greenland, I'll be honest."
Q: "You are not ruling out military force to take Greenland?"
Trump: "I don't rule it out."
Trump: "I think we're not going to ever get to that point. Something could happen with Greenland, I'll be honest."
Q: "You are not ruling out military force to take Greenland?"
Trump: "I don't rule it out."
May 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Q: "Would you rule out military force to take Canada?"
Trump: "I think we're not going to ever get to that point. Something could happen with Greenland, I'll be honest."
Q: "You are not ruling out military force to take Greenland?"
Trump: "I don't rule it out."
Trump: "I think we're not going to ever get to that point. Something could happen with Greenland, I'll be honest."
Q: "You are not ruling out military force to take Greenland?"
Trump: "I don't rule it out."
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Ende August soll der Entwurf einer neuen Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie der #USA vorliegen; gestaltet von Elbridge Colby. Der entwickelte schon Trumps NSS von 2018. Colby vertritt wie kein anderer eine radikale Fokussierung der US-Streitkräfte auf China/Asien, weg von Europa.
May 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ende August soll der Entwurf einer neuen Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie der #USA vorliegen; gestaltet von Elbridge Colby. Der entwickelte schon Trumps NSS von 2018. Colby vertritt wie kein anderer eine radikale Fokussierung der US-Streitkräfte auf China/Asien, weg von Europa.
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FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS to oppose the Trump administration...there is a strategy worth pursuing, one familiar to underdogs the world over: Push the aggressor beyond their limits.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
What the First 100 Days Taught Us About Resisting Trump
For starters, it’s better to push back than to appease.
www.thebulwark.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS to oppose the Trump administration...there is a strategy worth pursuing, one familiar to underdogs the world over: Push the aggressor beyond their limits.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
My latest, on Columbia, Harvard, immigration, Abrego Garcia, the Supreme Court, and why appeasing fascists does not work.
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CBS reports NSA Mike Waltz & NSC's Alex Wong are leaving. This is bad news for European allies—many have been concerned that Waltz's firing would expand influence of MAGA types. The loss of Wong, who was subject to racist conspiracy theories by Laura Loomer, will also concern China hawks.
May 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
CBS reports NSA Mike Waltz & NSC's Alex Wong are leaving. This is bad news for European allies—many have been concerned that Waltz's firing would expand influence of MAGA types. The loss of Wong, who was subject to racist conspiracy theories by Laura Loomer, will also concern China hawks.
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Here is a brief breakdown of the differences between the US and Ukrainian/European (UA/E.) proposals for ending Russia's war against Ukraine.
The UA/European proposal is a response to the US one-pager that emerged from Wittkoff's trip to Moscow last week.
The UA/European proposal is a response to the US one-pager that emerged from Wittkoff's trip to Moscow last week.
April 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Here is a brief breakdown of the differences between the US and Ukrainian/European (UA/E.) proposals for ending Russia's war against Ukraine.
The UA/European proposal is a response to the US one-pager that emerged from Wittkoff's trip to Moscow last week.
The UA/European proposal is a response to the US one-pager that emerged from Wittkoff's trip to Moscow last week.
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Governor JB Pritzker just announced that Illinois will be defunding investments in companies controlled by El Salvador to punish the country for holding American residents without due process.
More of this.
More of this.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker acts against El Salvador over Kilmar Abrego’s detention
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has announced that the state will take punitive actions against El Salvador for holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia in custody, while a federal judge has ordered the Trump admini…
www.mystateline.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Governor JB Pritzker just announced that Illinois will be defunding investments in companies controlled by El Salvador to punish the country for holding American residents without due process.
More of this.
More of this.
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but does he have the cards
April 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
but does he have the cards