Carl Bildt
@carlbildt
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Co-Chair European Council on Foreign Relations @ecfr. Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden. På svenska på @cbildt.
Joined January 2009
If they were to watch this in the Kremlin 🇷🇺 they might start to understand what they are up against 🇺🇦.
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Putin has obviously suppressed any memory of this, but these are the numbers for the Yes vote in the 1991 referendum in 🇺🇦 on independence. Every single region voted clearly for independence.
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This intervention by @radeksikorski 🇵🇱 in the 🇺🇳 Security Council today will be a classic. Not much left of 🇷🇺 after that.
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Incredible. Now Berlusconi 🇮🇹 defending his friend said that “Putin just wanted to replace the Zelensky government with a government of decent people.” This man is a disgrace.
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Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound.
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Last year there were app 50% more murders only in Orlando/Orange in Florida, where Trump spoke the other day, than in all of Sweden. Bad.
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Tomorrow morning 🇫🇮 will officially announce its intention to seek @nato membership. And 🇸🇪 will follow within days.
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All of us must now face the reality that we will not have peace in Europe until there is regime change in Russia. Then we should seek to welcome a new Russia as a partner for peace.
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These are the scenes that the Kremlin 🇷🇺 did their utmost to prevent. It requires courage by citizens to go there and show their emotions - they are certain to have been recorded by the regime security service.
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I don’t know what the 🇷🇺 ambassador to 🇰🇿 really said, but the rebuttal he got was certainly most powerful.
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A 🇺🇦 soldier is now equipped with 🇸🇪-supplied AT4 light anti-tank weapon. 5.000 will be delivered, and if 20% of those score a hit at some point a thousand 🇷🇺 vehicles will be destroyed.
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Now there is a publicity campaign in Moscow 🇷🇺 saying that 🇸🇪 is a country of Nazis. Are there any limits to these guys? Or are they preparing a ”denazifying” operation against 🇸🇪 as well? I think this will further solidify support for 🇸🇪 joining @NATO.
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It’s indisputable that 🇷🇺 is using indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire against civilian targets in cities in 🇺🇦. These photos from the center of the country’s second largest city shows clearly what is happening.
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Two SU27 fighters and two SU24 fighter-bombers from 🇷🇺 air force briefly violated 🇸🇪 airspace East of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea today. They were intercepted by 🇸🇪 Gripen fighters.
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This is undoubtedly slightly exaggerated. But only slightly.
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Kherson 🇺🇦 right now - a picture Vladimir Putin said would never happen. It’s his third major defeat in this war - Kyiv, Kharkiv and now Kherson. At the end, he will lose the Kremlin as well.
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In the one country after the other what was unthinkable yesterday becomes necessary today. 🇸🇪 now announces sending also 5.000 AT4 antitank weapons to 🇺🇦. That’s substantial. It’s an effective weapon highly regarded by also the US Army.
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George Orwell couldn’t have done it better… This is Sergey Lavrov answering the question on whether 🇷🇺 will invade other countries: “Are we planning to attack other countries? No, we're not planning to. We didn't attack Ukraine.".
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Singers from the renowned opera in Odessa 🇺🇦 performing in front of the tank traps set up to protect their opera building.
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I see that 🇷🇺 continues to demand demilitarization or severe limits on 🇺🇦 armed forces in the future. It’s not too difficult to understand what’s behind that demand. After one invasion will come another - that’s the pattern so far, and the one that must be stopped for the future.
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Reports of White House been in lockdown after someone tried to climb over the fence. Doesn’t say in which direction.
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I have seen it before, it’s now with new pictures as well, and I can see it many times! 🇺🇦
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In informal talks 🇷🇺 is rumored to ask for 🇺🇦 to reduce its army to a fifth. That’s resonable only if the 🇷🇺 army is reduced to less than a fifth of its previous size. Otherwise it’s just an effort by 🇷🇺 to prepare for its next wave of aggression and ought to be treated as such.
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President Trump 🇺🇸 has a seriously distorted view of history. Now he claims 🇪🇺 was set up ”to screw the United States”. It was actually set up to prevent war on the European continent.
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Remarkable exchange. And shows that tensions are building up in 🇷🇺 over the high losses in the war it has started.
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There are facts that Trump 🇺🇸 just refuses to see. His world is often more a world of fiction.
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This is truly disgraceful. Despicable. Any thought of inviting this man to an 🇪🇺 summit should be shelved.
Words fail me that this loathsome man actually just compared the Ukrainian people's current quest for freedom to the UK voting for Brexit. Just when you thought he couldn't sink to new depths 👇
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There are now reports of protests in all the regions of 🇮🇷, and of the streets of Teheran dominated by them.
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The 🇪🇺 Ambassador to 🇷🇺 lays flower at the small memorial in Moscow to those that died under repression. You will not see that reported in any 🇷🇺 media. The authorities are afraid.
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Chilling. Prisoner transport vehicles lining up in Kherson 🇺🇦 after the city was captured by 🇷🇺 after several days of fighting. Darkness descends. An empire of evil has come.
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This was the scene when Putin ordered his nuclear alert. It tells tons about the state of isolation of the man with his finger on the button.
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The attack on 🇮🇱 tonight was of a magnitude that 🇺🇦 suffers on a fairly regular basis. Same drones. Similar missiles. Week after week. Month after month.
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We have no right to ignore what’s said on 🇷🇺 state TV these days. This unfortunately has all the potential for getting much worse.
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This guy - Matteo Salvini - has just contributed to bringing down the Draghi government in 🇮🇹, and now hopes that a new election will bring him to power. Corks are popping in the Kremlin.
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Another 🇷🇺 oil refinery is attacked by long distance 🇺🇦 drones. This must start to begin to take its toll on 🇷🇺 capacities in the energy sector.
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Trying to sell 🇺🇸 defense equipment to European countries will be an uphill struggle over this. Trump won’t be forever, but then there is JD Vance and others…
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Today 🇸🇪 announces that it will deliver a second batch of 5.000 anti-armor AT4 weapons to 🇺🇦. That makes for a total of 16.000 AT4 from 🇸🇪 and 🇺🇸 to help 🇺🇦 stop the aggression. I hope other 🇪🇺 countries are also prepared to step up deliveries.
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I think it’s time to recognize that the 🇫🇷 role of being “a mediating power” with 🇷🇺 - pursued since years - has so far been a spectacular failure.
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There are many confusing discussions on conditions for 🇷🇺🇺🇦 peace. On neutrality it should be remembered that 🇺🇦 had neutrality in its constitution when 🇷🇺 invaded in 2014. And 🇷🇺 had guaranteed its territorial integrity in Budapest memorandum in 1994 as well as other documents.
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Sergey Lavrov 🇷🇺 wasn’t allowed to the @OSCE ministerial meeting in 🇵🇱 and had to restrict himself to a live press conference in Moscow that seems to have attracted 13 viewers.
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Truly remarkable with Vice President JD Vance 🇺🇸 saying that 🇩🇰 “is not a good ally” and indicates 🇺🇸 will do whatever with 🇬🇱 in spite of “the screaming of the Europeans”.
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Bernie Sanders was lucky to be able to get to the Soviet Union in 1988 and praise all its stunning socialist achievements before the entire system and empire collapsed under the weight of its own spectacular failures.
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I don’t think Putin 🇷🇺 gets many awards these days, and whether he’ll appreciate this one might of course be slightly doubtful. But there is little doubt that he fully deserves it.
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As 🇮🇹 approaches its election it should not be forgotten that Silvio Berlusconi joined Vladimir Putin in visiting Crimea after it had been occupied and annexed by 🇷🇺, explicitly endorsing what 🇪🇺 has unanimously condemned.
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Today is the day the rulers in Beijing 🇨🇳 want everyone to forget.
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The #MSC2025 speech by 🇺🇸 VP Vance was significantly worse than expected. At best it was totally irrelevant to European or global security concerns. At worst it was blatant interference in the 🇩🇪 election campaign in favor of far-right AfD.
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This was grain that should have fed the world.
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Here the moment President Vucic 🇷🇸 was informed that he was going to move his Israel 🇮🇱 embassy to Jerusalem.
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The US President is now in open conflict with the US Congress, the US Federal Reserve, the US Secretary of Defense, China, the EU, the World Trade Organisation and a couple of others. Otherwise it’s OK.
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If Putin 🇷🇺 can’t win, it’s going to be very tough going for him. You can see the beginning of the debate here. Much more to come.
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I hear assessments here in DC that after two weeks up towards a quarter of 🇷🇺 military equipment in the 🇺🇦 invasion has been destroyed or disabled. I remember from my old military days that a military unit which has losses of a third is considered unusable.
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Would anyone describe this is a happy and confident trio? Putin obviously doesn’t even want to talk with the commander of the 🇷🇺 armed forces.
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Here the countries that are helping 🇺🇦 defend itself. Where is 🇫🇷?
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It’s certainly an innovative approach to a negotiation to make very major concessions even before they have started. Not even Chamberlain went that low in 1938. That Munich ended very bad anyhow.
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I guess Donald Trump is now preparing to launch a tweet. It will lift off in smoke and fire, and then with a roar disappear into nowhere.
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Just a piece of friendly advice: when you are in a hole, stop digging.
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On this day in 2014 a 🇷🇺 missile unit shot down airliner MH17 over the territory of 🇺🇦.
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A forceful speech by Poland 🇵🇱 FM @radeksikorski prior to the by now famous 🇺🇳 vote on the 🇷🇺 aggression against 🇺🇦, where 🇺🇸 supported 🇷🇺 against 🇺🇦 and 🇪🇺.
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This wasn���t necessarily the most diplomatic of speeches at the OSCE Ministerial in 🇲🇹 , but it was certainly truthful, to the point and effective. @radeksikorski 🇵🇱
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The rule of the law applies to everyone equally and is exercised by an independent judiciary. That’s the way it is in the US, and that’s certainly the way it is in Sweden. Political interference in the process is distinctly off limits! Clear?
Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for being unable to act. Sweden has let our African American Community down in the United States. I watched the tapes of A$AP Rocky, and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers. Treat Americans fairly! #FreeRocky.
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I remember how cold it was in Tallinn and Riga when the then Soviet Republics sought independence and Moscow cut the gas in order to force them back into the fold. Politically it back fired with a vengeance. People got every more determined. Today 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 are free countries.
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Refreshingly clear line on 🇺🇦🇷🇺 by Kamala Harris - in very stark contrast to the Putin-like line we hear from Donald Trump. Let’s be clear - the outcome of the 🇺🇸 election is of fundamental importance for Europe.
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The Putin 🇷🇺 army has been here. There used to be peaceful life here. Now there is neither peace nor life.
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“Peace in Our Time”. We have seen that movie before. People who don’t care about far away countries of which they know little.
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For the first time the 🇸🇪 Chief of Defense sits around the table when all the NATO military commanders meet - this time in nearby Tallinn 🇪🇪. Also 🇫🇮 makes its debut.
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Europe. March 2022. A desperate dictator trying to destroy a European nation.
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It’s difficult not to be moved by this. A still sunny days outside the opera in Odessa.
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It’s really preposterous when 🇷🇺 tells 🇹🇷 that it had nothing to do with the missile attack against the Odessa port. Kalibr cruise missiles are sophisticated weapons launched from ships and submarines of the 🇷🇺 navy and from nowhere else.
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It’s difficult to see this morning’s missile attack against residential areas of Kyiv 🇺🇦 as anything but a deliberate 🇷🇺 escalation and a signal to the G7 meeting in Elmau today.
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A brutal honesty in this message from the 🇷🇺 Kremlin - 🇺🇦 should be erased from the map. A country that’s chairing the 🇺🇳 Security Council this month simply denies another country its right to exist. I think this is unique in the annals of international behavior in modern times.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev believes that no-one in the world needs Ukraine, therefore it will cease to exist, he said in his post on social media:.
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After having gravely insulted 🇩🇰 VP JD Vance now says that different others have been threatening 🇬🇱 and that he will now go there - uninvited. The fact is that the only country that has threatened 🇬🇱 since Hitler is 🇺🇸 under President Trump. His visit is of course a deliberate.
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With the arrest of Leonid Gozman I have to note that all my friends in the politics of 🇷🇺 in the pre-Putin years are now murdered, in prison or in exile - a brilliant generation that could have made 🇷🇺 a great, prosperous and respected country. It’s a tragedy in every sense.
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The @navalny protests in 🇷🇺 today are undoubtedly the largest since the Bolotnaya protests in 2011-2021. Numbers are difficult to compare, but these now seem to be far more spread all over the country. It’s no longer just Moscow.
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I don’t think @SecRubio appreciates this video of what used to be his views of Donald Trump. But he summed things up rather well.
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Highly capable armored fighting vehicles CV90 from 🇸🇪 are now on their way to 🇺🇦.
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Huge numbers of people are trying to leave 🇷🇺. This is from the chaos at the border with 🇬🇪 . Long lines even to 🇲🇳 with people just wanting out.
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I think that’s unprecedented: a head of state embracing a convicted killer. But it speaks volumes.
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I would have expected 🇷🇺 to mount a counteroffensive to eject the 🇺🇦 forces from the 1.000 sq km they have gained control of in the Kursk region the past month, but so far we have not seen any serious such attempt. Why?
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Important lesson: my direct experience with the 🇷🇺🇺🇦 crisis of 2014 is that there is a distinct disconnect between the diplomacy of 🇷🇺 and what they actually do. Their diplomatic noise then had virtually no relation to what they really did on the ground.
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This picture will enter the history books of this age of COVID-19. The Pope is blessing the world alone at a deserted St Peter’s Square in Rome yesterday evening.
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Today we see Trump 🇺🇸 disrupting the global order of the West by stopping military aid to 🇺🇦 - thus greatly boosting 🇷🇺 aggression - and initiating a major trade war with close neighbors 🇨🇦 🇲🇽. It could hardly be worse.
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This is Tbilisi 🇬🇪 yesterday evening. Iconic image on also international women’s day.
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