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Richard Palmer

Stratford-upon-Avon

Assistant Managing Editor at The Trumpet

Assistant managing editor of https://t.co/FpwS9cksTF, writing mainly on Europe.

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  • 1 week ago | thetrumpet.com | Richard Palmer

    A lot has changed since yesterday’s Morning Brief: Let’s start with the Witkoff peace proposal. Hamas has said it will not accept the proposed Gaza ceasefire, and an appeals court has reinstated President Trump’s tariffs. Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire, but Witkoff’s deal would apply for only 60 days. Releasing hundreds of terrorists in return for 10 hostages is bad enough—but at least the current deal allows Israel to get on with defeating Hamas after a couple of months.

  • 1 week ago | thetrumpet.com | Richard Palmer

    May 22 powerfully symbolized Europe’s destiny. The United Kingdom signed away one of its last foreign military bases while Germany held an official ceremony to open its first foreign base since the end of World War ii. One power is retreating, giving up, and making insane foreign-policy decisions; the other is confident, aggressive, strategic and expanding. Insane Foreign Policy The Diego Garcia military base, shared by the UK and the United States, is one of the most important in the world.

  • 1 week ago | thetrumpet.com | Richard Palmer

    Germany overtook Japan to become the world’s largest creditor nation, according to data released by Japan on Tuesday. Japan overtook Germany for the title in 1991 and held it until this week Germany holds $3.99 trillion in net external assets (the value of assets, minus the value of debts owed to the rest of the world).

  • 1 week ago | thetrumpet.com | Richard Palmer

    King Charles opened Canada’s Parliament yesterday, the first monarch to do so since 1977. The monarchy is riding a surge of support thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump. Before he started talking about Canada as the 51st state, nearly 70 percent of Canadians said the monarch should not play a prominent role in Canadian society. A new poll published yesterday showed that has now fallen to 56 percent. How did the King use the spotlight? He spread woke, revisionist nonsense.

  • 2 weeks ago | thetrumpet.com | Richard Palmer

    Israeli Embassy attack: Two Israeli Embassy staffers were murdered by an anti-Zionist activist outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last night. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were planning to get engaged next week in Jerusalem. Lischinsky had already purchased the ring. The two embassy workers were attending a reception for diplomats at the Jewish Museum.

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Richard Palmer
Richard Palmer @R_G_Palmer
20 Feb 25

This is a good case for negotiating a settlement in Ukraine. Unfortunately it's not the one Pres. Trump is making.

JD Vance
JD Vance @JDVance

This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say. For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office;

Richard Palmer
Richard Palmer @R_G_Palmer
20 Feb 25

There's probably a lot of people in US that feel like this right now.

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Richard Palmer
Richard Palmer @R_G_Palmer
18 Feb 25

Once again, really enjoyed talking with Cliff Kinkaid of America's Survival on what next for Europe: https://t.co/SXYLoH0Ijk Great to talk to someone outside our organization, who sees so clearly that Mr Armstrong and Mr Flurry were right