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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went to Paris to deliver a speech at the World Summit on Nuclear Energy. That’s like inviting a vegan to a barbecue and asking them to grill their own ribs. Something important happened there for Europe — and for the United States as well. The EU has just admitted a mistake. It’s incredible: von der Leyen has sided with the United States. In 10 days of the Iranian war, Trump managed to convert the sinner von der Leyen in record time, performing the miracle of finally making her see the light. Her speech contains subtle nuances that no one should overlook. She managed to talk about energy without mentioning “climate” or “climate change” even once. That has never happened before. The president of the European Commission has not turned her back on renewable energy, of course, because after the immense amount of money Europe has sunk into that bottomless pit, a change of strategy in a single speech is practically impossible. But the novelty is that she now says nuclear energy is just as clean and necessary as renewables. Even more: she admits that it is impossible to withstand today’s energy tensions while relying solely on renewables — something we Spaniards know all too well, since less than a year ago the Sánchez government left us in the dark for an entire day, in the biggest blackout in Spanish history, after experimenting with renewables at the expense of nuclear power. (RELATED: A Fairly Open Response to ‘An Open Letter to Europe’) I repeat: after years of foolish rhetoric, Europe has made a 180-degree turn on energy thanks to Israel and the United States going out and hunting ayatollahs. “But Europe is neither an oil nor a gas producer,” von der Leyen acknowledges. “For fossil fuels, we are completely dependent on expensive and volatile imports, putting us at a structural disadvantage to other regions. The current Middle East crisis provides a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities this creates.” I repeat: after years of foolish rhetoric, Europe has made a 180-degree turn on energy thanks to Israel and the United States going out and hunting ayatollahs. (RELATED: Europe Is Thus Illuminated, Exactly As It Is) I hope all the far-left idiots who have been trying since the 1990s to fill our countryside with disgusting windmills and shut down nuclear power plants hear this part of the speech: “Nuclear energy is reliable, providing electricity all year round, around the clock.” (RELATED: Thank You, Trump, for Reminding Europe’s Leaders How Utterly Stupid They Are) This is not the first time Ursula von der Leyen has unexpectedly reversed her supposedly firm convictions. I wrote about it here in The American Spectator a few years ago. Ms. von der Leyen was in love with her pony, Dolly. It was very pretty, let her pet it, and made the European People’s Party politician happy (we can talk another day about the number of idiots and woke extremists who make up that party — theoretically center-right, but in the United States it would look almost like Antifa). (READ MORE: An Actual Wolf Exposes EU Official’s Hypocrisy) Von der Leyen, an animal lover (perhaps that’s why she was so fond of Pedro Sánchez), championed a ban on wolf hunting for years. No one in Europe has taken responsibility for the losses suffered by farmers because of this folly. But one night, the wolf identified as “GW950m” — whether native to Lower Saxony or one of the refugees brought in by Merkel, we don’t know — showed up at the farm and ate Dolly. Von der Leyen, distraught, raised her voice against wolves and urged local communities to implement urgent measures to cull them. Her rhetoric changed overnight. Her rhetoric changed overnight. By the next morning, farmers were finally allowed to defend themselves against wolves — a technique primitive man had already invented millions of years ago Donald Trump has become the “GW950m” wolf Europe needed to begin its liberation from the climate farce. Germany — the same country that imposed green policies across the continent in the 21st century — began reversing course on this madness more than a year ago, after seeing how electric cars were destroying its automotive industry and how green energy was undermining its economy. Now, Ursula has fallen from her horse as well. A couple of years ago, fed up with all this madness that Europe and the United Nations were trying to impose hand in hand, I wrote my book, I Will Not Eat Crickets: An Angry Satirist Declares War on the Globalist Elite. It is gratifying to think that in just two years, all that environmentalist and globalist stupidity is already being rolled back, thanks to the efforts of brave men like Donald Trump, Javier Milei in Argentina, and the new European right. These hypocrites who claimed they were coming to save the planet have instead ruined the West. They must return everything they have taken from us through their exorbitant green taxes — and then retire to do penance somewhere as far away as possible from where political decisions are made. And I trust that, in that place of penance, von der Leyen will have to sit at the table with wolves, and that her only food will be the same cricket flour they authorized for the European food industry in order to reduce the ecological footprint of traditional agriculture and livestock farming. READ MORE from Itxu Díaz: Trump at Play What’s Wrong With Spain? It’s Pedro Sánchez. 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Towards the end of last week — the first week of the joint Israeli–U.S. “Operation Roaring Lion/Operation Epic Fury” against Iran — there appeared to be a brief decline in Iranian missile retaliations against Israel. After the opening salvos of the war on Saturday, Feb. 28, Iran responded with expected force, launching daily ballistic missile barrages at Israel over much of last week, and widening its scope to attack U.S. military assets in the Gulf states. The Israeli Air Force (IAF), in coordination with the U.S. Air Force and Navy, spent most of last week targeting Iran’s ballistic missile stockpiles, launch sites, and production facilities. According to the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, more than 3,400 strikes have been carried out by the IAF last week alone, dropping more than 7,500 bombs, twice as many as the entire 12-Day War last June. (RELATED: The First Week of Mission: Iran) By Friday morning of last week, Israelis had the first full night’s rest of the week, uninterrupted by continuous missile attacks. By Saturday, the absence of aerial sirens seemed eerie. Although reports indicate that Iran still possesses around 3,000 ballistic missiles, it seemed too early in the war for the enemy to be slowing down. (RELATED: Shipping Interruption in Persian Gulf Is Yet Another Reminder of the Risks of Offshoring) This changed after the weekend. On Sunday night, officials in Tehran told the Iranian Fars News Agency, “the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC will intensify offensive operations starting tonight, including a 100 percent increase in the use of heavy and strategic missiles, effectively doubling their deployment.” The next day, Majid Mousavi, commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, stated that “From now on, no missile with a warhead weighing less than one ton will be launched. The intensity of missile barrages will increase.” Renewed attacks against Israel began late on Sunday night and carried into Monday morning. Seven missile barrages were fired at central and northern Israel from Iran throughout the early hours of Monday morning, many of which included cluster warheads that hit multiple locations in central Israel, killing one, injuring several others, and leaving suburban neighborhoods outside of Tel Aviv pockmarked with craters and littered with debris. The combination of Iran’s cluster and heavy tonnage warheads presents the greatest threat to the Israeli home front. Cluster warheads are almost impossible to detect on radar, and the cluster bombs remain highly effective even after the missile body is intercepted by Israel’s advanced air defense systems. Likewise, heavy tonnage warheads proved last June to have the capability to penetrate deep into residential buildings, making in-home bomb shelters ineffective. Hezbollah — which joined the war effort last week on behalf of the Iranian regime — also fired multiple drones and scores of rockets into northern Israel over Sunday night. By late Monday morning, long-range rockets from Lebanon had reached the center near Tel Aviv. With Hezbollah now in the game, alert times for Israeli citizens have become crucial, especially in the Galilee and Haifa districts. The Home Front Command’s advanced early alert system sends messages to cell phones upon the detection of every missile launched from Iran. This gives about a 12-minute warning to find shelter — the time it takes the missiles to travel just under 1,000 miles to enter Israeli airspace. Aerial sirens are later triggered if the threat is imminent to a localized area. Nearly 80 percent of all attacks, from Iran and Hezbollah, come in the middle of the night, lately with multiple barrages between midnight and 4 AM. A popular meme last June was a picture of Moses with outstretched arms, as if approaching Pharaoh, and a speech bubble that said: “Let my people sleep.” Rocket attacks from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, however, come with no early warning. The seconds it takes for a Hezbollah rocket to reach the upper Galilee or Haifa means that sirens are triggered almost immediately, leaving groggy-headed sleepwalkers fumbling to throw on clothes or slip on sneakers as they head for cover in the middle of the night. It’s no wonder that many injuries occur while rushing to find shelter. Israelis are nonetheless making the best of the situation, having rehearsed much of this last June. The Jewish holiday of Purim took a more meaningful turn last week as, once again — just as in the time of Queen Esther — the Jewish people are under attack from foes seeking to annihilate them. Purim costume parties were held in bomb shelters as a testament to the perseverance to keep tradition alive. Next to the menus and cash registers are signs with walking directions to the nearest shelter. Makeshift coffee bars and snack stands have emerged in the Tel Aviv underground tram stations, which double as public shelters during times of war. As expected from a hi-tech start-up nation, new dating apps have been created with QR codes placed in many of Tel Aviv’s public bomb shelters, so you can scan and see who else is single and available in your bomb shelter. In the northern city of Haifa, home to two major universities, coffee shops are thriving as hordes of off-campus students and faculty seek new workspaces now that campuses are closed. Next to the menus and cash registers are signs with walking directions to the nearest shelter. When the national alert systems warn of incoming missiles or the local sirens go off, everyone scatters like mice to their holes to wait out the danger, and then resumes the day. The skies over Haifa are filled with a consistent roar of jet engines as IAF fighter jets have been carrying out near round-the-clock strikes on Hezbollah positions 20 to 70 miles away in southern Lebanon and Beirut. Over 100 strikes were carried out over the weekend alone as the IAF pushed into Beirut’s Dahiyeh district, targeting IRGC, Hezbollah, and Quds Force leaders and operatives. The Israeli Navy on Sunday launched a precision strike on a hotel in Dahiyeh, where IRGC Quds Force officers met to liaise between officials in Tehran and Hezbollah’s top command. The activation of Hezbollah will most likely prompt Tehran’s other proxy terrorist group in Yemen, the Houthis, to eventually join the fight. The Israeli Channel 14 News over the weekend reported that “preparations and movements” have been detected at several of the Houthis’ missile launch sites in Yemen. The situation is being monitored closely by the Israel Defense Force (IDF) for a possible coordinated barrage from Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen. READ MORE from Bennett Tucker: The Lion Roars Again US–Iran Talks Only Lead to Uncertainty Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ May Actually Hinder the Gaza Peace Plan

Throughout the course of the Carney era, Canada has unabashedly cast aside its historic relationship with the United States of America in order to openly embrace the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Unfortunately, Canada’s flirtations with the PRC are not some recent development or a deviation from the norm. (RELATED: While Canada Cozies Up to China, Mexico Imposes Harsh Tariffs Due to Chinese Auto Dumping) Rather, it is clear that the past decade of Liberal politics has rendered Canada’s government subject to the PRC and transformed the Canadian nation into a bastion of Chinese influence in the West. (RELATED: Carney Cozies Up to China) First, the Liberal Party itself has long been corrupted by the PRC’s influence and rendered unto the Chinese state. For example, a diverse array of Liberal politicians, such as Peter Yuen, have been exposed as happy bedmates of the PRC and international vectors of the PRC’s communist ideology and influence. Furthermore, various Liberal Members of Parliament (MPs), such as Han Dong and Paul Chiang, have actually been forced to resign, due to their own intimate relationship with the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In addition, Canada’s own Foreign Interference Commission has itself confirmed that the People’s Republic of China has consistently interfered in numerous Canadian elections at various levels of government, in an attempt to direct political discourse in Canada and ensure the election of Liberal politicians who are beholden to the PRC. In fact, the Foreign Interference Commission’s landmark Final Report explicitly stated that the PRC “clandestinely leveraged Canadian officials in an effort to help its favoured candidates win office in 2019” and Commissioner Justice Marie-Josée Hogue has herself emphatically reiterated that the PRC’s “acts of foreign interference…are a stain on [Canada’s] electoral process.” Moreover, for over a decade, the Liberal government has quietly permitted the People’s Republic of China to openly pursue its own respective national interests in Canada. For instance, a slew of political actors and organizations that are synonymous with the PRC, such as the United Front Work Department (UFWD), have been given free reign to permeate throughout Canadian society and pursue the national interests on the PRC in Canada, regardless of any conflict with the Canadian state’s own needs and national interests or any damage to its society. Furthermore, the acclaimed Jamestown Foundation has “identifie[d] Canada as an extreme outlier for Beijing-linked ‘united front’ organizations” and recently warned that Canada is now home to “nearly five times the per-capita density of [UFWD organizations as] the United States.” In addition, since 2015, the Liberal government has permitted the PRC to install countless “illegal police stations” throughout the Canadian state. In fact, Canada’s national police service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), will now support and “work hand in hand with Beijing’s Ministry of Public Security” for the foreseeable future, due to the fact that Mark Carney’s Liberal government recently ratified a “secret police agreement” with Xi and the PRC. CARNEY’S DANGEROUS DEAL Carney signed a SECRET police agreement with Beijing. The RCMP will be directly cooperating with our BIGGEST SECURITY THREAT. It is OUTRAGEOUS to work with a regime that operates illegal police stations & actively threatens the safety of Canadians. pic.twitter.com/9FO65Kn2Tc — Michael Cooper, MP (@MichaelCooperMP) March 5, 2026 Finally, even the Liberal Party’s leadership and its most senior officials have long remained intimately intertwined and enraptured with the PRC. For example, during his time in office as Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau’s own personal relationship with Xi Jinping’s government and status as the PRC’s “favoured leader” was repeatedly exposed by stalwart political actors and media organizations, such as the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and The Bureau. In fact, throughout his tenure, Trudeau personally attended numerous ‘cash-for-access’ fundraisers that were saturated with senior associates of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and infamously ignored various urgent reports from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that the PRC was interfering in Canada’s elections. In addition, Prime Minister Carney has explicitly insulted and imploded Canada’s historic relationship with the United States of America, in order to broker a “new strategic partnership” between the PRC and Canada. In fact, the People’s Republic of China itself is now disseminating “favourable messages on the Chinese-language social-media platform WeChat about…Mark Carney” and the PRC has openly “switche[d] tactics to promote Mark Carney” in Canada and to Canadians. Even Carney himself has declared with impunity that “the progress [Canada and the PRC] have made in the partnership sets us up well for the New World Order.” (RELATED: Canada, California, and Chinese Electric Cars) Unfortunately, it is evident that Canada’s modern relationship with the PRC is a direct consequence of the past decade of Liberal government and not the product of duress or serendipity. Instead, it is clear that the past decade of Liberal politics has rendered Canada’s government subject to the PRC and transformed the Canadian nation into a bastion of Chinese influence in the West. More importantly, it is readily apparent that Canada’s eager embrace of the PRC has not been at all freely given, nevermind innocently received. Rather, for over a decade, Canada’s Liberal government and prime ministers have shamelessly forced the Canadian nation to casually sacrifice not merely its historic relationship with the United States of America, but its pursuit of the very Democratic Ideal itself, in order to extract their own political gain and profit from the flesh of the Canadian people. READ MORE from Will Barclay: Secession in Alberta and the ‘Other-ing’ of Conservatives in Canada Identity, Action, and the Truth About the Massacre in Tumbler Ridge Behind Canada’s Sealed COVID-19 Reports William Barclay is an award-winning political theorist and policy expert, as well as one of Canada’s leading conservative voices. Follow him on Twitter/X @WillBarclayPCBG.