Bruno Maçães
@MacaesBruno
Followers
122,011
Following
1,784
Media
7,251
Statuses
79,048
Author “Dawn of Eurasia,” “Belt and Road,” “History Has Begun,” “Geopolitics for the End Time,” forthcoming “Masters of the Metaverse.” - Foreign correspondent
Joined June 2013
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
ゴールデンウィーク
• 366372 Tweets
Kristi Noem
• 196640 Tweets
#ニコニコ超会議2024
• 71653 Tweets
GW初日
• 53176 Tweets
Suns
• 44000 Tweets
Middleton
• 34148 Tweets
Clippers
• 32532 Tweets
Westbrook
• 28607 Tweets
#キントレ
• 25871 Tweets
連休初日
• 25332 Tweets
ドキュメンタリー
• 24551 Tweets
アラバキ
• 24329 Tweets
Bill Barr
• 23759 Tweets
Russ
• 22327 Tweets
Kawhi
• 19105 Tweets
Durant
• 18628 Tweets
Timberwolves
• 16461 Tweets
CRフェス
• 13863 Tweets
#Aぇにゅーす
• 13381 Tweets
Booker
• 12618 Tweets
Troy Franklin
• 11321 Tweets
カスハラ
• 10950 Tweets
Payton Wilson
• 10075 Tweets
Every foreign policy expert who used to comment every hour on Trump and then lauded the “return of the adults” seems to have disappeared
248
7K
33K
Twitter could very easily conclude that the whole site incites violence and ban itself
496
6K
30K
Credible report that the US is offering vast sums of cash to the Taliban in order to allow evacuations to proceed. Hope US media is on top of this story
1K
7K
23K
Dozens of photos of Ukrainian civilians with hands tied behind their back, summarily executed. A new Holocaust by bullets. To think so many laughed it off just weeks ago, or days even
408
6K
22K
If you think Russia struck a maternity hospital by mistake you haven't been following world politics the last decade
209
4K
21K
As Israel said in the Hague, they were extremely careful not to hit civilian targets
0
11K
21K
Spain bought 640,000 testing kits from China. They don’t work
2K
13K
18K
I am sorry but if you think a car ride outside Walter Reed with secret service wearing medical grade masks, face shields and gowns is an unacceptable risk to innocent life you could not have applauded thousands of mass street protests during a pandemic
319
4K
14K
Incredible to think very serious people were discussing the Russian collusion idea every day for years, then we find out it was all false but everyone has moved on without being in any way troubled by any of it
425
3K
16K
Seems that many people need to go back to school and relearn that the Soviet Union was not a victim in WW2 but in fact started the war by invading Poland in a joint attack with Nazi Germany
549
3K
17K
President Biden, two days ago you said you were working closely together with the Taliban on security. Today a US airstrike killed a former US interpreter and six children. Did the intelligence come from the Taliban?
194
5K
16K
I am sorry to disappoint my Russian and Indian friends but no, no one is freezing in Europe
2K
1K
15K
A stunning exchange in Berlin between Scholz and Anwar Ibrahim. We live in a new world. Germany just didn’t get the memo. The contrast in public speaking ability also striking
0
7K
16K
This is such an extraordinary speech. I only ask of my followers to watch this. Then I leave you alone
480
9K
15K
World leaders toss a coin at Trevi for good luck fighting the climate emergency
2K
2K
14K
Time to start a debate in Europe on whether we want to stay tightly connected to a US internet where repression of speech will keep growing
444
3K
13K
I am getting quite addicted to a Indian TV. Fox News is so tame...
1K
4K
13K
The humiliation of having the Taliban inaugurate a government on 9/11, twenty years later to the day, full of the FBI’s most wanted list is hard to overestimate
213
3K
13K
Russia needs to make painful concessions for the sake of peace. Moscow needs to be realistic. Complete withdrawal from Ukraine, 1 trillion in war reparations. And fair trials at The Hague
319
2K
12K
Russian ambassador tweets genocidal threats, time for Twitter to delete his account. Please RT
297
5K
12K
As someone who never supported Trump or Biden I think I can be impartial when I say Biden has done more to diminish America’s standing in the world in 7 months than Trump in 4 years. I am slightly surprised by this, by the way
1K
2K
12K
To see Boris walking in Kyiv while German government explains it has to continue funding the Russian war effort not a good look for Germany…
154
1K
12K
India abstains on UN resolution to condemn Russia’s annexation of Ukrainian land. Stunning
1K
2K
12K
All indications are Ukrainian POWs were brutally tortured for weeks, then murdered, then their prison compound shelled as a coverup, then Ukraine was blamed for the shelling… Better to have our eyes open and know what we’re dealing with. Ukrainians do
190
3K
12K
India really gets an odd treatment from global media. I think most people are only now discovering Delta is extraordinarily more contagious. A few months ago it was all about India’s incapacities…
122
3K
10K
My understanding is not a single person has been fired up and down the system for the most spectacular display of incompetence by a Western democracy in decades
391
2K
10K
We have allowed this in Syria since 2015 and we continue to allow it today in Ukraine. But at some point there must be an end
470
2K
10K
I have never seen Russian trolls so mobilised as now trying to kill the visa ban. And I have been watching them for 10 years
237
1K
10K
The United Nations died today (I personally think it was dead already but nothing left after tonight)
544
1K
10K
This photo from Gaza will be in history books but not in the way those posing for the selfie think
1
4K
10K
In a normal state we would now see resignations at the highest level. But in some obvious sense the US no longer a normal state
114
2K
9K
US intelligence agencies who said just 4 days ago that Kabul could fall in 90 days have revised the figure to 72 hours
787
3K
9K
Germany now says it needs time to readjust its economy to energy sanctions. Funny. I was in the Portuguese government 10 years ago. What happened to “faster is less painful”?
154
2K
9K
Five months ago: “impossible Israel could bomb a hospital. Unthinkable”
Today: “I see Israel has bombed every hospital in Gaza … twice. I will avoid the subject”
0
4K
9K
Wasn’t the deal with the Azovstal POWs guaranteed by the UN?
424
1K
8K
Close to 100,000 killed in Mariupol. Population was about half a million, a bit less. Remember than Nazis killed 10,000 in Mariupol
206
2K
8K
There is nothing to distinguish Russia’s invasion from the very darkest pages of Nazism or Stalinism
108
1K
8K
Here is how Indians should understand the war in Ukraine: imagine Britain tomorrow decided India does not exist, it was created by Britain, most people there speak English anyway, so Britain “will solve the Indian problem once and for all”
958
1K
8K
This is true. Country has done well. I arrived in India on January 20. Awareness was already very high
39
2K
8K
Appropriate response to Russia’s terrorist attacks today: 50 more HIMARS to Ukraine
138
832
8K
Selçuk Bayraktar, the man who changed the fate of the Middle East
244
2K
7K
Give Hind the Pulitzer. She is actually doing the job
0
2K
8K
I would think that sending tanks to Ukraine might be a good response for Germany now that Russia blew up its pipelines
412
888
7K
There are two groups of people. Those who think the Kremlin wants a neutral Ukraine and those who think it wants a vassal Ukraine. The first group is not to be taken seriously
114
1K
7K
If you're a young European today would you learn Russian or Ukranian? In 2035 Ukraine will be one of the largest, most vibrant EU members. Russia will be a new Iran, a country almost no one visits or does business with
384
796
7K
It’s just extraordinary how Ukraine touches the deepest memories of the European soul. Th commander in chief kneels before the family of a fallen hero. We see classical Greece, the Roman republic, the medieval knights, the people’s armies and the communes…
142
847
7K
Twitter banned Trump for I can’t even remember for what but finds it perfectly fine to have Russian embassies calling for genocide
115
1K
7K
Kissinger has changed his mind on Ukraine. After seeing what this war has been like, he no longer thinks the problem was Ukrainian alignment with the West. He now thinks it’s the solution. Wish others would be as humble and recognise their mistakes
399
1K
7K
The Taliban now have more Black Hawk helicopters than 85% of countries in the world
392
3K
7K
This same gentleman said two months ago he was not a lawyer and could not opine on matters of international law. Sad to see US officials becoming a social media laughing stock
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”
2K
2K
4K
1
2K
7K
Question for my German friends, including those in government: is funding the new Srebrenica part of your desired legacy?
126
1K
7K
I suspect the question most Americans will be asking is how an underground organization bent on creating social and political chaos was allowed to grow to this size and influence. Nothing to do with the race protests. It really is about antifa
364
1K
5K
Good summary of main statements from Israeli officials on Gaza
2
5K
7K
I have been thinking this for months but haven’t said it publicly yet: I think the US will regret not granting Ukraine the means to defeat Russia swiftly and conclusively
370
642
7K
Why is the Kumbh Mela universally blamed for the violent outbreak in India while the protests in the US were not responsible for a single case? Kumbh involved a lot less people. Yes, people come from everywhere and stay in crowded gueshouses, but there seems to be something else
205
2K
6K
I wonder if Biden’s inability to see India as a privileged partner is in the end about the
@nytimes
view on Modi
183
1K
6K
600,000 masks delivered by China to the Netherlands do not work, offer no protection. Many already in use
606
5K
6K
Note that the people who were wrong on Ukraine were wrong on everything: that there would be no invasion, that Russia would win quickly, that Ukraine would collapse, that Russia could not be humiliated, that Ukraine could not resist, that Ukraine could not fight back…
136
974
6K
Extraordinarily stupid and insulting to be arguing what kind of weapons or munitions Ukraine can use inside Ukraine to expel a foreign occupier. Grow up or shut up
202
825
6K
Imran Khan really has taken leadership over the process. Impressive in his first major crisis. Modi absent
157
2K
6K
“If we don’t give them food, they will leave.” Genocide is agnostic on the end goal. Destroying part of a national group to make them leave is genocide
1
3K
6K
Coverage of India in Western media continues to be universally negative (North Korea gets better coverage: e.g. that they excel at cyberattacks)
71
1K
5K
Stopping support for UNRWA without any evidence will remain as one of the most deplorable and immoral political decisions this century
1
2K
6K
CENTCOM now says “it is unclear what happened” with drone strike
392
2K
5K
If people in India, South Africa or Brazil knew what it said about Africans, Indians or South Americans in Russia (particularly by the elites), there would be no sympathy for Russia left…
259
683
6K
I hadn’t realized the extent to which Nato has completely encircled Russia. Nato borders in red
282
1K
5K
This is serious. Suicide attacker that killed those Marines in Kabul had been freed from Bagram days before
153
3K
5K
Israel Minister of Communications says continuing the war to make life impossible for civilians and force them to leave Gaza is the best way. More important evidence for the ICJ trial
1
4K
5K
This is not Putin’s war. This is Russia’s war. Understand, accept it and rethink everything
93
766
5K
We have gone from structural to open, blasting, in-your face racism, I see
1
2K
6K
A journalist asked me today how I made sense of the Biden administration. My answer, perhaps too charitable, is that I think they live in a world of pure rhetoric, where speeches alone matter and the real world has been lost
240
898
5K
For me the most shocking thing in the end is how the US seized the airport with its limited means and just ran, ran… Even people with booked flights got fucked (first time I write this word on twitter). Ambassador even left thousands of Americans behind
128
2K
5K
Grotesque act from Russia today murdering in cold blood Ukrainian prisoners of war and then trying to blame Ukraine. Last chance for the UN to act when the principles on which it was founded so directly under attack
183
1K
5K
Natural gas in Europe is now cheaper than at the beginning of the war
74
597
5K
Really weak sanctions from UK. So basically the rule is: who spoke the most does the least.
201
961
5K
I heard (privately) from 7 people over the weekend who are ceasing all collaboration with Amnesty. There must be hundreds…
140
471
5K
Odd to me how Germany is gambling its reputation, its political role in the EU, its image, its relation with the past… This coming from a political culture I always deemed risk-averse
198
615
5K
Why on earth can’t you sell aircraft to Ukraine? It’s business. Turkey just sold drones. Make it one billion each jet payable in 2200
181
592
5K
Some people seem to think Britain should have welcomed German tourists in 1944 and 1945. Brits and tourists would then go to pub under German bombs and discuss relative merits of the Holocaust
97
791
5K
What a day in America. First a dictionary was speedily edited for political reasons. Then communication on a base infrastructure was censored for political reasons
37
904
5K
Not liking this celebratory mood. Ukraine needs a massive and fast supply of military equipment. Next ten days will decide the fate of the war. If Russia occupies most of the country Swift won’t dislodge it
83
798
5K
So according to Spiegel the US warned German authorities Russia was planning an attack against the pipelines, but again this was laughed off
167
785
5K
Khamenei called for genocide in this tweet. It’s still up. His account is still up
Our stance against Israel is the same stance we have always taken.
#Israel
is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen. 7/31/91
#GreatReturnMarch
4K
3K
9K
222
2K
4K
The worst speech I have ever seen from an American president. Shocking and embarrassing
154
801
5K