Europe Increases Its Resistance To The Regime’s Illegal War | Resistance Brief
Unprecedented defiance from European allies and widening fractures within the MAGA coalition provide hopeful signs of growing regime weakness.
The One Big Thing: Growing European Resistance
If you ever doubted the fragility of the Trump Regime’s unilateral power projection, look to Europe today. Over the past 48 hours, three European allies have taken significant action against the illegal U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. France, Italy, and Spain have all explicitly refused one or the other counties’ use of their airspace and/or military bases to transfer weapons or conduct operations for the Middle East conflict.
At a time when Trump is desperately calling for allies to rescue him from his own blunder, these European countries have not only decided not to help but make things even harder for the United States and Israel.
It’s a humiliating geopolitical defeat for the regime. Authoritarian consolidation requires an aura of omnipotence, both at home and abroad. By closing their airspace and/or denying access to bases, some of our European allies are doing on the international stage what we are doing in the streets: engaging in structural noncooperation.
Just as the Apartheid regime in South Africa was ultimately strangled by international isolation and domestic resistance working in tandem, the Trump Regime is now facing increased global rejection of its aggression. Crumbling pillars of international support can help to undermine the regime’s domestic authority too, providing a morale boost to the pro-democracy resistance movement. This is a moment to escalate our pressure, not retreat.
Daily Inspiration: The Power of the Dilemma Action
Lady Liberty Arrested, A Masterclass in Laughtivism
The regime’s enforcers rely on projecting terrifying strength, but they are uniquely vulnerable to looking absurd. In a brilliant “dilemma action,” an activist dressed as the Statue of Liberty forced LAPD officers to publicly arrest “Lady Liberty” herself.
This forces a lose-lose scenario on the authorities: either they allow the disruptive protest to continue, ceding public space, or they arrest the literal symbol of American freedom on camera, generating a backfire effect that exposes their inherent tyranny. It is this brand of creative, strategic civil disobedience that breaks the spell of fear.
The Resistance Round-Up
Here is what you missed while the regime was reeling:
🌍 Global Solidarity
The European Blockade: Italy, France, and Spain have formally refused to allow the regime to use their airspace and military bases for its war of aggression in Iran.
Millions Take the Streets: The “No Kings” movement mobilized a historic 8 million people worldwide, demonstrating that the global public utterly rejects the regime’s legitimacy.
🏛️ The Courts Strike Back
Calling Out the Cover-Up: Fulton County officials and a federal judge are pushing back against the DOJ, exposing how the regime weaponized an FBI raid to seize 2020 election ballots and circumvent civil litigation.
Voter Rights Win: A federal appeals court officially blocked Arkansas’s restrictive, baseless “wet signature” registration rule.
Judge Saves Public Broadcasting: A federal permanently blocked President Trump’s executive order that would have halted federal funding for NPR and PBS, ruling the order violated the First Amendment.
⚠️ The Threats
The Imperial Boomerang: The regime is continuing to bring the War on Terror home. U.S. counterterror officials are organizing an “antifa” summit, yet one more clear indicator that they intend to weaponize the state’s national security apparatus to criminalize domestic, nonviolent dissent.
💥 Cracks in the Pillar
The Base Fractures: The MAGA coalition is increasingly splitting over foreign policy. CPAC highlighted a severe generational divide over support for Israel, while far-right propagandists like Alex Jones and Fox News anchors are increasingly questioning the regime’s erratic military operations in Iran.
🌱 Economic & Grassroots Resistance
Community Sovereignty: The Choctaw Nation’s acquisition of a former Big Lots serves as a blueprint for economic resistance. Rather than let ICE acquire the space to be used as one of its growing network of concentration camps, the Choctaw Nation purchased it.
From Protest to General Strike: On Saturday, in Minneapolis, the organizers of No Kings said that their next event will not be “just another protest,” but instead a general strike. This will serve as “an economic show of force.” This announcement comes in the wake of growing criticism that the No Kings’ strategy of symbolic weekend protests needs to evolve into something more disruptive and, hopefully, effective.
Tactical Analysis: Exploit the Isolation
The regime is losing control of its narrative and its international leverage. Now is the time to pivot to the offensive and exploit these structural weaknesses.
Amplify the Fractures: Do not interrupt the adversary when they are making a mistake. Weaponize the right-wing infighting over the Iran war to pull anti-interventionist conservatives away from the regime’s base.
Secure Your Communications: With counter-terrorism assets explicitly targeting activists, you must prioritize OPSEC immediately. Move organizing to encrypted platforms and clean your digital footprint.
Design Dilemma Actions: Study the “Lady Liberty Arrested” incident in Los Angeles. Plan local actions that force regime paramilitaries and local compliant police to either stand down or look ridiculous on camera.
The regime wants you overwhelmed and isolated, but we are increasingly organized, historically grounded, and fighting a battle we can win.
Stay vigilant,
The Resistance Sentinel