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* Drieu Godefridi: Europeans Dream of Throwing Themselves into the Jaws of the Russian Bear
* Lawrence Kadish: Trump's Triumph: Nuclear Fusion Roadmap, the Next Breakthrough in America's 'Tech Revolution'


** Europeans Dream of Throwing Themselves into the Jaws of the Russian Bear ([link removed])
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by Drieu Godefridi • April 28, 2026 at 5:00 am
* Europe is economically dependent on the United States, not on Russia.
* Russia, for its part, mainly sold hydrocarbons such as oil and gas — 85% of its oil exports to the EU before 2022 — and bought almost nothing from Europe. Europeans have therefore been in a position of unilateral dependence -- not supposed "interdependence."
* Most European states possess no aircraft carriers, no missile defense, and no supply fleet. Europe seems only to have funds for endless welfare benefits handed out to migrants who seem committed to transforming Europe into the extremist, third-world countries that they left.
* German industry is experiencing a severe depression.... The cause, however, is not the loss of Russian gas. It is 100% internal — and 100% ideological. It is Germany's suicidal decision to phase out nuclear power in 2011, then coal in 2030, without a credible alternative.
* The solution exists and is within reach....
* Above all, stop believing that Germany's €5 trillion economy can be "decarbonized" in ten years without causing an industrial, economic, and ultimately democratic collapse.
* Russia is not the solution; it is part of Europe's problem. Those in Paris, Berlin, or Brussels who continue dreaming of a "Brussels–Berlin–Moscow axis" are not realists. They are dreamers.

German industry is experiencing a severe depression. The cause, however, is not the loss of Russian gas. It is 100% internal — and 100% ideological. It is Germany's suicidal decision to phase out nuclear power in 2011, then coal in 2030, without a credible alternative. Pictured: One of the cooling towers of the decommissioned Gundremmingen nuclear power plant is demolished in a controlled explosion on October 25, 2025, in Gundremmingen, Germany. (Photo by Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP via Getty Images)

Some ideas refuse to die. One of these is the notion of a European "reversal of alliances" into the arms of Russia. The phrase refers to the unexpected decoupling from former allies, accompanied by an unexpected alliance with former enemies. In 1756, Austria, which had always been an ally of Great Britain, instead allied with its longtime foe, France. Meanwhile, Great Britain and its old enemy, Prussia, became allies -- resulting in the Seven Years' War.

You hear it in Europe from the "new right" and the far left -- at conferences where people swoon over "multipolarity" and in the corridors of Germany's Bundestag, where desperate industrialists plead for Russia's Gazprom to reopen its taps.

If this reversal of alliances was possible in 1756, why not in 2026?

Europe is economically dependent on the United States, not on Russia

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** Trump's Triumph: Nuclear Fusion Roadmap, the Next Breakthrough in America's 'Tech Revolution' ([link removed])
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by Lawrence Kadish • April 28, 2026 at 4:00 am
Nuclear fusion is yet another historic, trailblazing opportunity that Trump and his team are initiating for the race against China and for the future of America. China has already invested more than $13 billion since 2023 developing fusion energy, and has exported a tokamak (a magnetic plasma confinement reactor) to Thailand. Pictured: The HL-2M tokamak, at a research laboratory in Chengdu, China on December 4, 2020. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

If the US is ever successfully to compete with China for global supremacy in the field of artificial intelligence and other technological advances, much of it will depend on the massive amounts of inexpensive, clean energy to generate the electricity required, helped by the two generous oceans on either side of the US that offer more than enough hydrogen for an endless supply.

China, in a race to displace the US as the world's leading superpower, has already invested more than $13 billion since 2023 developing fusion energy, and has exported a tokamak (a magnetic plasma confinement reactor) to Thailand.

President Donald J. Trump, farsightedly as always, and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, have seen that what is usually meant by "nuclear reactors" -- fission energy -- simply are not providing enough energy for the US to remain the world's leader in AI and technology.

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