It’s been every week marked by brutality, brinkmanship and political theatre.
In Iran, a 3rd week of protests spiralled right into a nationwide rebellion because the regime shut down the web and telephone traces. Graphic accounts of a violent crackdown emerged through Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, with human rights teams reporting hundreds killed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in what they describe as an unprecedented bloodbath — at the same time as President Trump urged protesters on, earlier than showing to shift his tone.
In the meantime, pressing diplomacy unfolded within the Arctic, as Denmark and Greenland pushed again towards renewed US stress to annex Greenland. President Trump insists America “wants” the island for strategic defence, prompting European allies to spice up NATO’s presence — and leaving Greenland’s management confronting an unsettling new actuality.
And throughout Europe, politics turned unstable. France’s minority authorities survived two no-confidence votes sparked by anger over the EU’s Mercosur commerce deal, as farmers clogged the nation with tractor protests. Within the UK, a dramatic defection noticed a senior Conservative sacked and swiftly unveiled by Nigel Farage’s Reform celebration, whereas Prime Minister Keir Starmer added contemporary chew to his rhetoric.[/gpt3]
