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I spent a few months exploring one of Europe's forgotten corners — Kosovo. With cameo appearances by George W. Bush's little brother, Madeleine Albright and
@JoeNBC
.
“How the U.S. broke Kosovo and what it means for Ukraine”
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Imagine if Germans put as much time and energy into arming Ukraine as they have into their debate about why they should not do so. Russia would have been defeated by now.
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„We misjudged Putin,“ Merkel‘s longtime foreign policy adviser Christoph Heusgen says on German TV.
#NoShit
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It becomes clearer with every day of suffering in Ukraine that Russia‘s war has not only exposed the cravenness of Merkel/Schröder/Steinmeier, but of Germany’s entire political and public media establishment, which now faces a legitimacy crisis of a scale not seen since WW2.
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Extraordinary exchange in German TV: respected CDU MP
@RKiesewetter
, a retired army colonel, says he doesn’t believe that Olaf Scholz wants
#Ukraine
to win the war.
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“We want to see a strategic defeat of Russia,” U.S. NATO Ambassador
@Julie_C_Smith
tells
#Strategic_Ark
in Warsaw. “We want to see Russia leave
#Ukraine
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Unbelievable. German public broadcaster ZDF is sending news alerts based on unconfirmed Russian media reports claiming Ukrainian forces have killed civilians in Kherson.
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“Germany’s refusal to deliver battle tanks is a classic example of policy driven by Schwarzmalerei. Rooted in fear, the German reluctance doesn’t just threaten Ukrainian security; it undermines the stability and cohesion of the European Union and NATO.“
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Observing Berlin’s debate from the outside, one could be forgiven for thinking the entire war is about Germany and its struggle to find its moral compass. 🧵
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To review: Merkel blocked UA joining NATO in 08. She refused to send weapons after Crimea/war in Donbas. Despite that aggression,she led an effort to force UA to accept a peace deal designating Putin as a guarantor. She then ok’d NS2 against UA objections...1/2
This is what is implied in the next sentence: "At a time when several of Germany’s eastern partners, from Poland to the Baltics, are urging Berlin to pursue an honest public reckoning of the role Germany played in paving the way for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine" Paving the way??
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🚨The Dirty Dozen Returns! Starring Angela, Frank-Walter and Comrade Gerd with a supporting cast of…millions
“Germany didn’t sell its soul to Russia overnight; It was a process that took years, by the end of which the entire country was complicit.“
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Fairly twisted logic from the German chancellor here. He says his top line in long phoner with Putin was a ceasefire. Shouldn’t it have been: ‘Leave Ukraine now.’The Ukrainians are pushing Russia back. They need more and better weapons to liberate their territory.Not a ceasefire.
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Given the fog of war surrounding what Olaf Scholz said when over the past few months re Ukraine, I thought a timeline of his statements might be useful. On the key questions of arms deliveries, sanctions and the terms for peace, he has been all over the map 🧵
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This speech just shows how woefully out of touch the German defense minister really is. You can’t neglect your allies for years and then lay claim to a “leadership” role when the shit hits the fan. German has no standing to lead anything. No one in NATO trusts it. End of story.
Germany must meet NATO's 2% of GDP military spending target over the long term, according to Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht.
She also says Germany must accept a military leadership role that it had earlier shied away from.
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“Austria is certainly the EU’s soft underbelly concerning Russia,” one senior Commission official said, pointing to Moscow’s infiltration of the country’s establishment over the years.
Our print cover story on Austria‘s Russia connection is now online.
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Ukraine is fighting for its survival, in large part because Germany systematically fucked it over over a decade. Topic on Germany’s top Sunday talk show? How to help the poor Germans cope with higher energy costs.
#annewill
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No joke: German kindergarten named after Anne Frank is changing its name because the people running it worry that “parents with a migration background” (read Muslims) could be offended by the Holocaust victim.
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It's really sick how Germany's neo-communist Left party is trying to discredit Ukrainian ambassador
@MelnykAndrij
by calling him a "Nazi apologist," parroting Kremlin propaganda about the invasion.
Wer den
#Nazi
-Versteher
#Melnyk
jetzt nicht ausweist, hat jede Selbstachtung verloren.
#Scholz
#Bundesregierung
#Ukraine
#Russland
#BeleidigteLeberwurst
#Bandera
#Asow
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Merkel, who spent 16 years misreading Putin, is dispensing advice on how the West should deal with him, ironically on the same day the Nord Stream, which she supported to the bitter end, went up in smoke. Her pearl of wisdom: Don’t assume he’s bluffing.
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Turns out some of the rockets Germany agreed to send Ukraine are 35-year-old leftovers from the East German army that don’t work and have been rotting in moldy wood boxes. It’s the thought that counts!
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Ich wurde ausgeladen. Aber jetzt verstehe warum. Beim ÖRR dürfen nur echte Amerika-ExpertInnen auftreten! 🤡🤡🤡
Bei den Republikanern gebe es niemanden mehr, der
#Trump
Grenzen aufzeige, sagt
@ardenthistorian
. Die zunehmende Radikalisierung der Partei mache ihr Sorgen: Bei jeder der kommenden Wahlen in den
#USA
stehe nicht weniger als die amerikanische Demokratie auf dem Spiel.
#presseclub
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Only 22% of Germans consider US a trustworthy partner, down from 59% under Obama. Now on par with Russia.
#Trump
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So, as Ukraine sits with a gun to his head, Germany's main public TV channel
@ard
is discussing the degree to which "Putin feels threatened by NATO's eastward expansion" with Putin's German hagiographer Hubert Seipel. Extraordinary.
@maischberger
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What I love about Germany’s discussion of America is how measured and nuanced it is.
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Gorbachev's death has really brought to the for what a fantasy world Germans reside in. In almost every news report, public media assert that German reunification "would have been impossible without him." No mention of George H.W. Bush, the driving force behind reunification...
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Reporting this, I stumbled on the German bestseller "America's Holy Warriors," a scorching portrait of U.S. culture and politics. Curious as to where the author, Annika Brockschmidt, had researched the book, I was surprised by the answer -- Berlin 1/5
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I hazard to say
@ManfredWeber
would not have gotten this treatment.
#vonderLeyen
in today’s
@faznet
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Ich schiebe’s lieber auf die Chinesen.
Wenn mich meine Tochter in 2045 fragt, wieso der Planet brennt und das Klima kollabiert, werde ich ihr zeigen, wie in der deutschen Politik in 2023 mit "Dafür gibt's noch keine Mehrheiten" gegen den umgehenden Stopp der Zerstörung der Lebensgrundlagen argumentiert wurde.
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This headline tells you just how successful Xi has been in normalizing China’s brutal anti-Muslim crackdown for a western audience.
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This week saw a violent protest against corona restrictions in central Berlin. 80 police injured. Then yesterday’s incursion by far-right hooligans into the parliament building, where they harassed the economy minister and others.And German elites are worried about US democracy?
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Where this leads is anyones guess.
My prediction:
A generation from now, after years of “Vergangenheitsbewältigung,”Germany will apologize to Ukraine for betraying it to Russia, rename a street in Berlin’s government quarter after Zelenskyy and once again pledge “Never Again!”
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Most German headline ever on Ukrainian government:
“Likable, but often inaccurate”
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Meanwhile, nearly a month after promising to send heavy weapons, Germany has yet to find ammunition for the Gepard tanks and Scholz has so far refused to greenlight the Marder tank sale. End
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In other words, NATO (to which DE remains a member, at least nominally) is already well beyond the red line Germans are having panic attacks over. So thIs debate that has consumed seemingly every news program, op-ed and talkshow for days — is completely divorced from reality.
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This is the image that will remain from the visit. Merkel looking on helplessly as a journalist is dragged out of her chancellery. His crime: wearing a T-shirt calling for press freedom in Turkey.
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Listening to the Berlin bubble talk about its ‚Zeitenwende,’ one gets the impression the US should be grateful that Germany, after giving Washington the finger for the past 20 years, is gracious enough to allow America to continue to protect it.
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Unlike Germany’s foreign office, some of us have no qualms about meeting with with the courageous
@AlinejadMasih
to discuss the crimes of the Islamic Republic!
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Who knew there were so many US constitutional experts in Europe?
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So yes, “paved the way” by signaling to Putin that he wouldn’t face serious consequences by going even further.
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Germany wants Ukrainian war wounded to pay for for prosthetics: "A local official spent weeks checking if the Ukrainian or his spouse had property in UA and money in the bank, refusing to believe the account could not be accessed." by
@grinaldi97
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Starting to wonder if
@JosepBorrellF
has concluded that his office is completely superfluous and is trying to destroy it from the inside.
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So just to be clear, the EU’s foreign policy czar is not worried about China’s military, but he has ‘serious concern’ about US stance on the Intern. Criminal Court. Got it
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Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, imprisoned in Moscow, says in a letter read by his wife Evgenia at the Axel Springer
#AwardforCourage
that he hopes the West won’t just remember the “kleptocrats and war criminals in the Kremlin, but also the people standing up to them.”
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Just when you though Germany couldn’t sink any lower…
Zelenskyy‘s Churchill moment is nothing more than „an act of desperation,“ German state TV‘s Washington correspondent Gundrun Engel tells us.
#Ukraine
"Diese Reise nach
#Washington
von
#Selenskyj
, sie ist ein Akt der Verzweiflung." Die Meinung von
@gudrun_engel
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What exactly is German position on Russia/Ukraine? Baerbock didn’t get steamrolled by Lavrov. Ok, but what does that mean in the real world? Is Berlin going to halt NS2? No. Send arms to UA? No. Reverse its stance on SWIFT? No. Germany has effectively left the western alliance.
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Scholz‘s op-ed is bizarre on many levels. Most worryingly, it displays a degree of self-delusion one has come to expect more from leaders farther east. 🧵
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1. Das ist ein Gastkommentar.
2. Der Terminus “Mainstream Medien” kommt aus den USA und ist kein “AfD-Sprech”
3. Die
@NZZ
war und ist eine der besten Zeitungen Europas.
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Important sentiment, which underscores the degree to which the USA remains the linchpin of European security. Though no one in the region ever really trusted the French or Germans, their handling of Ukraine has erased any lingering doubt that they could be relied on. 1/3
We, Eastern and Central Europeans, can’t trust 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷 anymore. After the war in Ukraine, we should rethink our security and make security pacts with 🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧.
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That someone who appears have no first-hand knowledge of the U.S. can sell a book full of distortions about the country to Germans speaks to the potency of anti-American sentiment in German society today. 4/5
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@ronzheimer
Und wenn’s die Grünen nicht gäbe, hätte man ausreichend Strom aus Atomkraftwerken.
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“If Austria’s history since the collapse of the Habsburg empire in 1918 has shown anything, it’s that the country needs outside supervision. Left to their own devices, Austrians’ worst instincts take hold.”
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Europeans refused to accept that decades of immigration from the Middle East would reshape their politics. Now, many worry it’s too late to do anything about it.
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Is there still time to switch Ukraine for Germany in NATO?
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Bin gespannt, ob die ganzen türkisen Hofberichterstatter der letzten Jahre, wie Hans Bürger,
@TomMayerEuropa
und Martina Salomon, am Dienstag die "Konsequenzen ziehen" werden. Spannend!
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Western liberals will swoon over the courage of Germany’s progressive leadership. And the NYT will declare the country’s longtime chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, “leader of the free world.”
The End
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This is so disingenuous that it’s difficult to know where to begin. The US has literally sent 25 times as much military aid to Ukraine as Germany. Last I checked, the US economy was not 25 times larger than Germany’s…
Scholz very effectively uses Biden as key witness to support his decision not send 🇩🇪Marder or Leopard tanks to 🇺🇦 accusing proponents of irresponsible solo trips.
Unless Biden publicly states US not opposed to 🇩🇪sending 🇩🇪 made tanks things won't move.
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Greens still have 15% in latest poll. Who knew there were so many journalists in Germany?
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Popular German public tv “comedy” show compares
@elonmusk
to Goebbels.
Dank Elon Musk darf jetzt wieder jeder alles sagen auf Twitter! Totale Meinungsfreiheit!
#heuteshow
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In March, the research unit of the Bundestag (for many the gold standard of non-partisan analysis) opined that training Ukrainian would indeed be a bridge too far. Given Putin’s slavish adherence to international norms, this is clearly a key question.
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My favorite innovation at Berlin’s new state-of-the-art airport are the steps you get to carry your luggage down at the gate.
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Austria might be small, but it's political scandals and the cast of characters who populate them are larger than life. My latest on the goings on in my ancestral homeland. "The House of Kurz"
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After years of downplaying the threat of Putin using gas as a strategic weapon, Germany’s political class is now convinced itself he’s going to turn it off altogether. But why would he? 🧵
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Here’s Roth, who refused to condemn the anti-Israel BDS movement in a Bundestag vote in 2019, giving a high-five to alleged Iranian mass murderer Ali Reza Sheikh Attar at the Munich Security Conference. Just “diplomacy”
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This episode tells you everything you need to know about German-US relations. 71 yrs after Berlin Airlift, Berlin mayor and deputy accuse Trump/US of being „inhumane“ and of „piracy“ in connection with a mask shipment. Only problem is whole story is false. Apology? Of course not
.
@washingtonpost
: “A
#Berlin
official, who accused the U.S. administration of “piracy” after 200,000
#masks
for the city police went missing, backtracked Saturday and said the masks were ordered from a
#German
firm.”
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Während die Deutschen über Gendersprache und Klimakleber debattieren, bröckelt das wirtschaftliche Fundament des Landes. Die breite Öffentlichkeit hat diese Realität noch immer nicht begriffen…
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More seriously, it appears to have escaped the German intelligentsia’s notice that the US and the other guarantors of German sovereignty are not only providing heavy weaponry, but intelligence that has led to the killing of Russian generals the sinking of the Moskva etc.
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New Austrian chancellor will be interior minister
@karlnehammer
, party leaders confirm. He will be the sixth chancellor in 5 years. Top that, Italy!
#schnitzelmeetsdolcevita
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“My mother is extremely sad and worried“
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The degree to which antisemites have seized control of Germany‘s cultural life was on full display this weekend at the Berlinale film festival. A small sample from the past 24 hrs:
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Germany will be remembered for blocking Ukraine’s NATO bid, shivving it in peace talks with the “Steinmeier formula,” and selling it out for NordStream2.
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Senior EU official in Brussels tells me they think the war will end soon and Russia will “win,” which can only mean that Ukraine is on the cusp of a victory.
#UkraineRussianWar
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Funny that this speech is literally everything Trump demanded Germany do, from defense spending to the investment in LNG terminals. Makes you wonder if Scholz is secretly working with
@RichardGrenell
;)
Here it is in English - the changing of an era speech -
#Zeitenwende
statement by Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and Member of the German Bundestag, 27 February 2022 in Berlin
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Learned today that all you need in Germany to qualify as a top expert on any given subject is a degree in war studies and a twitter account.
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Maybe it's me, but I find this whole German "Day of Liberation" narrative quite problematic. Makes it far too easy to slip into 'we were all victims' state of mind. Fact is, they were defeated at the cost of millions of lives. And thanks to grace of Allies granted 2nd chance.1/2
Yesterday evening the
#BrandenburgGate
was lit to say:
Спасибо! Thank you! Merci! Danke!
to mark the
#DayOfLiberation
and to
thank all those brave men and women who have freed Europe from the horrors of the Nazi terror.
#8May
#VEDay75
#NeverForget
#NeverAgain
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Is it just me or is it a bit weird that the Germans still haven’t said what killed their ambassador in China?
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We asked Brockschmidt several times if she did any research for the book in the U.S. or if she had ever visited the country. She didn't respond. 3/5
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Can’t help but thinking that if these people had been in charge, the Russians would already be marching through central Berlin — probably to cheering crowds ;)
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Funny how the Europeans are so eager to cast themselves as great champions of human rights. Where were Borrell and Maas when journalist Ruhollah Zam was executed in Iran today? Why didn't they intervene with their good friend Zarif. They always seem to have time for photo-ops...
Thank you
@JosepBorrellF
for nominating me. I, too, support
@mbachelet
's call for human rights - on
#HumanRightsDay
as well as on any other day. We all need to
#StandUp4HumanRights
. So I nominate
@Klitschko
,
@simoncoveney
, and
@AymanHsafadi
.
@UNHumanRights
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And how classy the English players were in taking off their medals as if they were hot coals. Little England, indeed.
Go through life like Giorgio Chiellini goes through English fans booing the Italian anthem
#ENGITA
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Signed by prominent authors and actors, it’s offers a wonderful example of the dim-witted, reductive politics that define Germany’s self-absorbed cultural scene (“Never Again!”).
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In der Ukraine gibt es einen Krieg, der die Zukunft des Kontinents entscheiden wird. Deutschland schickt keine Panzer hin und beschäftigt sich lieber mit seinen verwöhnten Kindern, die sich an Straßen kleben und Kunstwerke verschandeln. Habidehre.
#AnneWill
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Very welcome display of solidarity. Just strange that Ukraine hasn’t received similar treatment from „neutral“ Austria. Wonder why 🤔
As a sign of solidarity with
#Israel
and the population of Israel, the Israeli flag has been hoisted on the Federal Chancellery & the Foreign Ministry.
We stand with Israel in the fight against terrorism. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. There is no excuse
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A current German obsession revolves around the question of whether it could be considered an active participant in the war under international law if it trains Ukrainian soldiers how to use the heavy weaponry it plans to provide.
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Has someone hijacked Der Spiegel? Reporter for magazine says he agrees with Amb. Grenell’s criticism of German minister who compared US to China
Ich sag's wirklich ungern, aber hier redet US-Botschafter
@RichardGrenell
ausnahmsweise mal kein dummes Zeug: Dass
@peteraltmaier
die USA und China in Sachen Massenüberwachung vergleicht, ist schon ziemlich daneben.
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Starke Argumente von
@thorstenbenner
re
#5G
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"Kritischer als 5G geht kritische Infrastruktur kaum...Wir brauchen deshalb in ganz Europa eine grundlegende Debatte um die Sicherheitsrisiken, auch in Österreich."
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Vielleicht hätte der Kevin das Studium doch nicht abbrechen sollen!
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“We’re so naive about Russian influence...It wants to remake us in its own image as a criminal mafia state,” says
@carolecadwalla
at
#iq2de
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It’s impressive how quick Germans have been to congratulate themselves for canceling a pipeline their allies have been begging them for years not to build or put into operation. What good people they are. Danke Schland!
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The original headline was actually “Putin’s willing executioners.”
But I was feeling generous…
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Ein „unabhängiges Team der Redaktion“ der „Presse“ stellt innerhalb von ein paar Tagen fest, dass die Zeitung, ein wichtiges Rad im System Kurz, keine Grenzen überschritten hat. Da bin ich aber erleichtert!
#nowak
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Wie schön, dass
@ArminWolf
einer der wenigen ist, der seinen Posten wegen Schwarz-Blau nicht räumen musste.
#ZiB2
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If
#Nehammer
is trying to divert attention away from the scandal over how his bodyguards got drunk with his wife and then caused a car accident, he’s doing a good job!
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Das wahre Gfries der ÖVP: Journalisten verklagen, wenn sie zu goschert san. Na Hawi d’Ehre. Wenn der Figl das wüsste, tät er nimmt an Ö glauben!
Wie konnte man diesen linken Agitator zu
#imzentrum
einladen? Stocker sollte ihn verklagen, es gibt Grenzen. Und der beschwert sich dann noch, dass die #ÖVP die
#FP
Ö nicht als Regierungspartner ausschließt? Die SPÖ ist ja wohl die Letzte, die man in eine Regierung lassen darf!
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@Jay_Conz
It’s already happening. That said, some of us never had any illusions about her legacy
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Despite that (or maybe because of it), the letter has received intense attention in German public media, itself a bastion of the German Left that for years pushed for rapprochement with Russia in the face of Putin’s persistent aggression.
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The German chancellor managed to fill an entire newspaper page today on European security without a single mention of the United States of America. What a strange little man.
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Choice of SPD justice minister Lambrecht, a politician with no profile, influence or military experience, to become Germany‘s new defense minister confirms that all things military will be nothing more than an afterthought for the new coalition.
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Interesting that DerSpiegel is trying to explain its fraud in English. A big reason
#Relotius
could get away with his fabrications for so long was that he wrote in German about foreign subjects who couldn’t/didn’t read him. Reminder of what a bubble German-language media is.
In recent years, DER SPIEGEL published just under 60 articles by reporter and editor Claas Relotius. He has now admitted that, in several instances, he either invented stories or distorted facts.
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