toomas hendrik ilves
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom. @[email protected]
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Joined May 2012
Oh hell, I guess there's nothing left to do but to move over to @ilvestoomas.bsky.social. It seems civilised there. Hope it lasts. Will be double posting for awhile weaning myself off this hellsite.
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fullthroated Polish support for our European Rearmament Bank project -- great interview by @BartoszKielak
https://t.co/iMYSE0PetB. .
thetimes.com
Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s defence minister, says a much bigger version of the €150 billion Security Action for Europe initiative is required
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Media: Ex-adviser to Trump, who told Ukraine to forget about Crimea, has become a consultant for “Lukoil” 🙃
ЗМІ: Ексрадник Трампа, який говорив Україні забути про Крим, став консультантом “Лукойла” Його фірма бере участь у переговорах щодо активів компанії, продовжуючи дедлайни їхнього продажу у Штатах. Все погоджено з урядом https://t.co/vYbujVQGdK
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Analysis | Assassination Culture: majority of left-leaning voters would justify killing Trump or Musk and approve of destroying Teslas https://t.co/DviVA3AY39
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A report by the Network Contagion Research Institute warns that the number of people who would endorse violent acts has skyrocketed and the mythologizing of acts such as the murder of the UnitedHea...
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EU Foreign Policy Chief, Kaja Kallas: "The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilize Russian assets. This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. We keep increasing the
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American foreign policy must be grounded in the conviction that America is a gift and a beacon to the entire world. Those who elevate foreign autocrats as phony champions of “traditional values” while demeaning our own system have no right to call themselves conservative.
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A Russian from Estonia says it’s okay to occupy Crimea, loot Ukraine, and not okay to be arrested in Europe for doing all of that
Бутигин уже четверть века копает Крым. Зачем надо преследовать учёного за его работу? Больше некого? Это, в первую очередь, дискредитация самих преследующих. Понятно, что война. Но даже на войне есть правила: иммунитет у дипломатов, достойное обращение с пленными,
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i will not tolerate your malicious remarks about China’s internal affairs
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Imagine buying your kids this plush toy and it starts scolding them for insulting Xi Jinping and demanding they respect the Chinese government’s territorial claims
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Navalnaya's omission of the obvious — that it is an even more terrible time for Ukraine — won't gain her many plaudits inside Ukraine. Tone deafness of Russian opposition is somewhat surprising, but it reflects high levels of mutual distrust. An alliance was, still is possible.
"I really have big hopes for Russia," @yulia_navalnaya said in an interview at our #POLITICO28 Gala in Brussels. "I understand that it’s very difficult moment. It’s very difficult moment for Europe, and, of course, it’s an awful time for Russia." 🔗 https://t.co/bWlZL65myq
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According to VIGINUM, the French agency for countering foreign digital interference and disinformation, @MyLordBebo account is closely connected to Russia's Storm-1516 operation.
Storm-1516 is Russia's big information war project targeting Europe. Disinformation, lies, fake websites, forged documentaries and AI-generated deepfakes... sounds scary, right? So far, this massively funded project has mostly produced a lot of noise with minimal impact.
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The Russians are literally telling you that they intend to violate any ceasefire that does not give them the lands they want. And the Western idiots even now are blaring about “peace,”“guarantees,” and “NATO made them do it.”
Putin's aide Ushakov suggested having Russian police or Russian National Guards in the Donbas. He said a ceasefire would only be possible after Ukraine leaves Donbas. "In any case, whatever the situation may be, this territory belongs to Russia and will be under the control of
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I don’t think 🇺🇸 has either the competence nor the mandate to discuss 🇪🇺 enlargement timelines or details. What is says on that subject hardly has much relevance.
New @FT: Ukraine would be earmarked to join the EU by 2027 under a fast-tracked proposal being discussed in US-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war, in a move that would rewrite the bloc’s accession procedures. w/ @HenryJFoy @maxseddon
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They have no excuse. They are simply afraid that admitting what is going on they would have to act
Attribution is the key issues when dealing with the hybrid warfare waged by #Russia against us. This investigation led by @henkvaness shows how much evidence can be obtained even from open sources. Moral: governments have no real excuse for pretending not to know who is behind.👇
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Attribution is the key issues when dealing with the hybrid warfare waged by #Russia against us. This investigation led by @henkvaness shows how much evidence can be obtained even from open sources. Moral: governments have no real excuse for pretending not to know who is behind.👇
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. https://t.co/NPWlepQz70 (1/6)
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“This is not America having priorities that don’t involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe, because one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy.” https://t.co/2O5NRZINCa
thebulwark.com
The things we won’t be able to fix even if we wanted to.
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Important and much needed development.
The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.
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So we're now unwilling to condemn Russia striking Chernobyl. Good to know.
The US is clearly on the side of banana republics and the world's worst dictatorships. The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on Chernobyl: The US and Russia voted against it. The UN General Assembly supported a Ukrainian resolution aimed at strengthening
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The best guide to predict Trump's behavior remains: What would a New York real estate entrepreneur with no knowledge of geopolitics and defense do?
How Trump thinks about geopolitics: "It's sort of like a complex real estate deal". He is still living in the business world of the bygone era of (hyper-)globalization.
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Huh?
Italy is throwing its weight behind Belgium in opposing the EU’s plan to send €210 billion of Russia's frozen state assets to Ukraine, according to an internal document seen by POLITICO. https://t.co/SKM9mW1KKn
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Russia telling us we’re on the right track.
Russia's central bank today filed a lawsuit in Moscow against Brussels-based Euroclear, which houses most of the frozen Russian assets that the EU wants to use to finance aid to Ukraine. https://t.co/gf0iBHy8MN
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