Dave Keating

🇺🇸🇪🇺American by birth, European by choice 📘Read my book: ✍️Read my Substack:

[Clash Report @clashreport]

A U.S. Army guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Pete Hegseth and his advisers after some were seen laughing and chatting near the memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony.

“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!” the guard shouted, interrupting his patrol to address the group.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

As they say in Russia, appetite grows while eating.
Russia’s top negotiator Medinsky says in Abu Dhabi that Moscow’s demands extend to all of Europe, far beyond Ukraine.
“The security system in Europe works very badly. The entire organism is sick. Ukraine is just an abscess that burst. The organism must be cured as a whole, a band-aid will not be enough.”
Dr Putin to the rescue of poor sick Europe…
The more Trump seeks to mollify Putin, the more megalomaniac the Russian demands become.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Since all those Tory Brexiteers were convinced they signed trade deals with individual US states, they must be very concerned!

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Thirteen Republican state attorneys general threatened trade retaliation against the UK and the Netherlands over sanctions targeting illegal Israeli settlements in occupied territories.

Led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, the coalition demanded that both countries withdraw the measures, warning that British and Dutch companies could lose U.S. state contracts or face divestment.

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

"Decorated military officers with decades of experience were withheld from promotion after Pentagon staff printed out internet searches showing they had attended official events like promoting COVID-19 vaccinations or marking International Women’s Day...

Hegseth’s executive office led a planned and deliberate process that involved creating paper-only files filled with printouts from internet searches that were inaccessible to the officers under consideration. Hegseth’s office gave instructions about the new criteria over the phone instead of in writing."
https://t.co/OZ7DXH5Rd7

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Make Europe Ideological Again.

Watch my joint book reading with former Belgian Prime Minister @GuyVerhofstadt last night at the new Waterstones English-language bookstore on Avenue Louise in Brussels: https://t.co/tXzvM2oZz3

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

@mellamonicolas @guyverhofstadt Thanks for coming!

[Nicolás Fuster 🇦🇷🇪🇺 @mellamonicolas]

THINKING EUROPEAN 💡

Yesterday, with @GuyVerhofstadt and @DaveKeating, to talk about their books 'Defeating Trumpism' and 'The Owned Continent'.

🇪🇺 A call for action for the EU – both leaders and mainly citizens

#EU #debate #Federalism
#defence #NATO #democracy

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

WHERE WERE THESE PEOPLE?

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Joint book reading with Guy Verhofstadt at Waterstones starting in 30 minutes!

It's fully booked but if you didn't register never fear, I'll be posting the video on my Substack tomorrow: https://t.co/K1gZV4DbkI

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Tonight at the new Waterstones bookstore on Avenue Louise.

Come hear me and former 🇧🇪PM @GuyVerhofstadt talk about our books and the way forward to liberate Europe.

Register here: https://t.co/vn3IxojSg0

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Wow this has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever seen, even by UK media standards.

Do they really think the UK developed entirely new standards for all these things since 2021?

It's been decades of this lazy EU-bashing from the 🇬🇧press. It's not gonna work any more.

[Karl Brophy @KarlBrophy]

Do the English think the Irish don’t have sausages?

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Tonight at the new Waterstones bookstore on Avenue Louise.

Come hear me and former 🇧🇪PM @GuyVerhofstadt talk about our books and the way forward to liberate Europe.

Register here: https://t.co/vn3IxojSg0

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Rubio: "We believe we can inflict tremendous damage on the ICC unless they see the error of their ways"

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

Since becoming 🇺🇸Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth has purged more than 80 generals and admirals deemed to be insufficiently loyal to MAGA.

How can the incoming Democratic majority not only hold him accountable but also undo those magafication efforts?
https://t.co/OCEXvSTFnW

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

How would Meloni & Frederiksen react if Donald Trump did the same amnesty as Pedro Sanchez? 🤔

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: I think that’s something that’s actually doable.

Q: Doable to create some kind of legal status for the landscapers?

Trump: Yeah. When you go into a hotel and you have a woman that’s worked there as a… You know, as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as a that, as a waitress—a lot of good things, great jobs. And all of a sudden, they’re being taken out of the country. It’s tough. It’s a tough thing.

But there’s a group of people that I would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out.

Q: Do any of those people work in your administration? Are they in the building with us right now?

[Karl Brophy @KarlBrophy]

This is not a new rule. It was passed more than 13 years ago and voted on in the European Parliament by, amongst others, UK MEPs.

The UK continued issuing passports in excess of 10 years of validity for more than two years after they voted for Brexit. And then stopped.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump says Hegseth was one of the guys “most responsible” for the Iran war.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

"There is no discrimination in France" and "France is the least racist country in the world," claims Marine Le Pen.

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of France knows how laughably absurd this claim is.

[Martine St-Victor @MartineMontreal]

Cet extrait de Marine Le Pen, à 60 Minutes ce soir, doit être entendu pour être cru.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

The 24-year-old gunman who killed six people in a mass shooting in Krakow, Poland, on Saturday has died in hospital after being shot by police.

Authorities suspect he may have been inspired by far-right ideology, citing symbols found on his clothing.

Investigators are still examining the possible motive.

Source: Reuters