tisdag 11 augusti 2026
Trump's business
Billion-dollar loss for Trump Media – scrapping investments
Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology reports a net loss of just over 2.2 billion kronor for the second quarter of this year, reports AP. The company is now scrapping several previous investments, including in crypto and forecast markets.
– We will say no to certain things or change course when it is justified, said the company's CEO Kevin McGurn during a conference call last night.
Donald Trump co-founded Trump Media in 2021 and is very active on Truth Social.
At least ten companies pay for Trump's new "insider service"
At least ten customers have signed agreements for Trump Media's new service Truth API, which provides faster access to market-influencing posts on Truth Social, according to the company's acting CEO Kevin McGurn.
The first customers are mainly financial companies, which pay between 60,000 and 100,000 dollars a month for the service.
– We expect it to be a significant and lasting source of revenue, McGurn said during a conference call last night, according to international media.
Trump Media reports a loss of just over 2.2 billion kronor for the past quarter.
Russian invasion The world's response
Even Europe is running out of Patriots for Ukraine
Ukraine's shortage of US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missiles has made Russian nighttime missile attacks on Kyiv increasingly deadly. Now Europe is also running out of Patriot missiles to send to Ukraine, writes Politico.
Kyiv needs hundreds of missiles, but the Iran war is rapidly depleting the US weapons stockpile, and several of Ukraine's largest European donors have so few missiles left that they barely dare to spare any more.
- In recent months, Russia has fired more missiles at us per week than we receive from our allies in a month, said Ukraine's former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov last week.
At the same time, Russia is receiving help from outside. According to Ukraine, a ballistic missile system from North Korea has been deployed in Voronezh in western Russia, and several North Korean missiles were fired at Kyiv overnight Tuesday.
Analysis: NATO door closed for traumatized Ukraine
In 2024, NATO declared that Ukraine's path to membership is "irreversible." Those were empty words - membership was not mentioned once at this year's summit, writes David Averre for Newsweek.
Ukraine is starting to tire of the empty promises, he continues. Zelenskyy cannot say it openly - but the popular former Prime Minister Valery Zaluzhny, now ambassador to the UK, can. He thinks Ukrainians should realize that it's over.
- I know NATO inside out. For twelve years I worked to ensure that we would live up to NATO's demands, and every year I listened to fairy tales that we were on the verge of becoming a member. Unfortunately, it will never happen, says Zaluzhny.
At the same time, Ukraine is facing the challenge of dealing with an entire generation of children traumatized by war and Russian attempts to eradicate their national identity, writes Luke McGee for Foreign Policy.
In addition to those who have lost parents and loved ones, he points to the millions of Ukrainian children living under Russian occupation. In school, they are constantly force-fed Russian propaganda about the inevitable existential war against the West and NATO, he writes.
– Even if the war ends tomorrow, an entire generation of Ukrainian children will carry it inside them, says Julia Sotska, communications director at the aid organization Children of Heroes.
US-Russia relations
Russia releases American – was “near death”
Former US Marine Robert Gilman has been released from a Russian prison after four years, American media reports.
The Kremlin confirms that he was released for humanitarian reasons. His family and aid organizations raised the alarm last week that he is “near death” after years of mental and physical torture in prison.
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social that he had Gilman released after a conversation with Vladimir Putin.
The 32-year-old was arrested in 2022 and convicted of assaulting an officer after being thrown off a train while he was acting in a disruptive manner.
He was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, but had his sentence extended to ten years after several convictions for alleged attacks on prison staff.
Middle East Crisis Iran War
Trump: No arms shortage – but still Biden’s fault
Donald Trump has no strategy for the Iran war. This is clear from a telephone interview with the conservative television channel Real America’s Voice, writes Reuters.
The president says he has two options:
– One is what I’m doing now: just jump on and watch how badly things go for them.
The US has total control of all of Iran’s money, and Trump is “their banker,” the president claims.
The other option is to “hit them really hard,” he continues.
Trump dismisses warnings from experts and defense sources about the dwindling stockpile of weapons and ammunition. He says the US has plenty of ammunition and is producing more “like crazy.”
To the extent there is a shortage, it is due to all the support Joe Biden gave to Ukraine during his time in the White House, he adds.
Expert on alleged assassination plot: “Unlikely”
It is unlikely that Iran would dare to assassinate a sitting US president. This is what Aron Lund, Middle East analyst at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute (FOI), tells TT.
The veracity of the information is difficult to assess, he adds:
- But it is difficult to see why the US would act in this way if it did not believe there was a risk. You do not make Trump look strong and powerful by sneaking out the back door.
According to sources to the Washington Post, Trump was smuggled off Air Force One and taken to another plane in a catering cart when he was to be flown home from the NATO summit in Turkey in July. This was due to an Iranian attack threat, according to the information.
Reports: Press flew on threatened plane – told to cover windows
When Donald Trump was reportedly smuggled off Air Force One to another plane due to a credible threat from Iran, the journalists and several members of his staff were left behind, reports the Washington Post.
The reporters were instructed to pull down the window shades, but were not informed why. When Trump – who has not confirmed that he was smuggled off – was later asked why, he replied:
– Because you’re probably on a dangerous plane, given the assholes we’re dealing with. [...] But if I fly, you fly, right? You might want to find another job.
When Bill Clinton flew to Pakistan in 2000, the reporters were informed in advance that he would secretly travel on another plane, and about the security measures taken to protect journalists, according to former USA Today reporter Susan Page.
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