Tomasz Pugacewicz
@t_pugacewicz
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Assistant Professor, @JagiellonskiUni, Poland. U.S. & Polish Foreign Policy Decision Making; Transatlantic Relations; Security in CEE and South Caucasus. RT≠End
Kraków, Poland
Joined September 2011
Russian logistics ship ADLER is at anchor IN Sweden. Possibly broken down. Usually runs heavy weapons to Russian bases in Africa / Middle East. Was inspected by military aircraft 2h ago. Swedish Coast Guard just arrived to area. Tnx @butafly over at the better site.
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Russian citizen in Israel on work permit indicted for spying for Iran | The Times of Israel
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Prosecutors accuse Vitaly Zvyagintsev of sending Iranian agent footage of military vessels and strategic area before he was arrested at airbase earlier this month
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1/2 Bloomberg: "The share of Chinese bonds with maturities beyond 10 years has climbed to around 31% of outstanding central and local government debt, the highest level in a decade and up from a low of 11.6% in 2018." https://t.co/8gulQTOrjf
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China is issuing a greater proportion of longer-maturity sovereign debt to secure financing, but the increase in supply risks pushing up yields and weighing on already-weakening demand.
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Australia's M1A1 Abrams tanks for Ukraine offloaded at a secret location in Poland. The first 37 tanks arrived in July, and the final 12 arrived in the past fortnight. 📸ABC News: Daniel Pannett Source: https://t.co/eVIQpwcEu1
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New Yorker - How America Gave China an Edge in Nuclear Power: Though the two countries are now in a race to develop atomic technology, China’s most advanced reactor was the result of collaboration with American scientists https://t.co/0ReDiJEKSf
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Couple of amazing charts from Goldman Sachs on the Chinese property sector collapse. Starts are still falling, down 80% now. Cumulative drag on GDP growth since the campaign against the developers began will be ~10% (!!!) by next year
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Nvidia and Huawei both published their AI chip roadmaps this year – which make clear Huawei’s chips are falling even farther behind. Nvidia's best chips today are 5x more powerful than Huawei's. By 2027 that grows to 17x. The gap isn’t closing. It’s accelerating.
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NEW: U.S. intelligence warns Putin intends to seize all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe once under Soviet control, contradicting claims that he wants to end the war - Reuters https://t.co/v1BE4DCre4
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UK rules out using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine
ft.com
Britain had only been planning to deploy the plan in lockstep with Australia, Canada and the EU
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Euractiv banned from EC background briefings ---> "At the beginning of this year, we set about infusing the ‘EU Bubble’ with a heavy dose of critical journalism. Not all recipients reacted well, least of all the Commission, which banned us from its background briefings, the
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US has "sold" $1.3 billion in gold cards so far, Commerce @howardlutnick tells Trump at White House event. "That goes all toward reducing debt, goes into the treasury of the United States," Trump says
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It's hard not to have déjà vu in the context of the🇷🇺-🇺🇦when reading about how the Polish government-in-exile used Turkey as an intermediary with the USSR in Dec 1939 re Polish prisoners of war. The USSR claimed the prisoners were safe, yet in 1940 carried out the Katyn massacre.
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This happened in October‼️ And yet there is such an obsession to visit China to “boost economic ties”.
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I'm sorry, but this reads like 2015, not 2025. Will Europe keep pretending that China is not Russia's most important partner in the war in Ukraine? Will Europe keep pretending that the potential for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will not reshape European security as well?
Europe can no longer accept lasting economic imbalances with China. France calls for a clear and cooperative rebalancing of trade, failing which, Europe will have to adopt protectionist measures to save jobs. Global rebalancing will be a core priority of France’s G7 presidency.
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This is a good sign of faith from Turkey, but the S-400 systems cannot go back to Russia. It will undoubtedly be used to support the war effort against Ukraine. There are many other options on the table that would address longstanding U.S. concerns. President @AAsumanErdogan must
Turkey seeks to return the S-400 defense systems it bought from Russia — a move aimed at boosting ties with the US
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Pretty amazing the Belgian PM is doing victory laps after shifting the burden of supporting Ukraine from Russian taxpayers completely to EU taxpayers.
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A victory for Putin - engineered in Belgium.
What a disaster for Germany and all other well-governed EU countries. The decision to do joint EU borrowing for Ukraine protects Russia’s frozen FX reserves and does the bidding of broken, high-debt sovereigns who use every opportunity to federalize debt.
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“China makes more than the world can take” Nice, pithy quote from the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Lizzi C. Lee Good article https://t.co/ghnGZYScYJ
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European Union carmakers like Volkswagen AG got their wish this week when a combustion-engine ban for 2035 onward was effectively abandoned. It was seen as too ambitious, too costly and a dream for...
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‼️ EU commits €90bn to Ukraine for 2026-27 through UNPRECEDENTED use of enhanced cooperation for budget-backed borrowing: 24 member states in, 3 out (HU, CZ, SK). But the constitutional implications are significant. 🧵 1. Enhanced cooperation has been used approx. 10 times for
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This CNN “Exclusive” into Russian spies using cargo ships to conduct intelligence operations comes over a week after we revealed the very issue. Surprisingly, it makes no mention of our report. Odd
EXCLU - Des agents russes liés à l’armée et aux services de sécurité se seraient livrés à des activités d’espionnage dans les eaux européennes, en travaillant clandestinement à bord de navires transportant du pétrole russe, selon des sources de renseignement occidentales et
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