[Tubby Isaacs]

Trunp seizing Greenland was always a long shot. Even the Republican Party has enough people connected with it who'd kick off at that. Pulling a stroke that concedes Ukraine is scarily likely. and that's what Starmer and the other European leaders have been afraid of. Anybody can see it. Apart from the media apparently, who think that some "weak Starmer" rubbish is better copy.

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Meanwhile, "normal" service has been resumed, with something that has a familiar ring to it:

Trump sues JPMorgan Chase and Jamie Dimon for at least $5bn

Donald Trump has sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, for at least $5bn after accusing America’s largest bank of “debanking” him.

The US president alleged that JPMorgan stopped offering him banking services in the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Earlier this month, he claimed it had “incorrectly and inappropriately” discriminated against him.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That's the thing with Republicans, they're fundamentally opposed to silly lawsuits.

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Posted without comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr444j671vo

Donald Trump has sparked fresh outrage in the UK after saying Nato troops stayed "a little off the front lines" during the war in Afghanistan.

Labour MP Emily Thornberry, the chair of the foreign affairs committee, called it an "absolute insult" to the 457 British service personnel killed in the conflict, while Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: "How dare he question their sacrifice?"

Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty, who served in Afghanistan, said it was "sad to see our nation's sacrifice, and that of our Nato partners, held so cheaply".

The UK was among several allies to join the US in Afghanistan from 2001, after it invoked Nato's collective security clause following the 9/11 terror attacks.

The US president told Fox News on Thursday that he was "not sure" the military alliance would be there for America "if we ever needed them".

"We've never needed them," he said, adding: "We have never really asked anything of them."