@rochowanski Almut RochowanskiAlmut Rochowanski posts on X about russia, ukraine, war, the world the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence countries 46.28% travel destinations 5.79% finance 4.13% celebrities 1.65% social networks 1.65% technology brands 1.65%
Social topic influence russia #1636, ukraine #1782, war 12.4%, the world 9.09%, in the 8.26%, this is 5.79%, germany 5.79%, all the 5.79%, und 4.96%, china 4.96%
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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Here the Germans were so happy that a nice American had come to Munich one that lets them dream of a factory reset with the US and then she ruins it all by saying "genocide". AOC💪at the Munich Security Conference: In a rules-based order hypocrisy is vulnerability.kidnapping heads of state threatening allies colonizing Greenland or looking the other way on a genocide. https://t.co/7Yk1jppgqA AOC💪at the Munich Security Conference: In a rules-based order hypocrisy is vulnerability.kidnapping heads of state threatening allies colonizing Greenland or looking the other way on a genocide."
X Link 2026-02-13T18:56Z [----] followers, 170.3K engagements
"Routine sexual abuse of teenage girls isn't the prerogative of decadent elites immigrant grooming gangs polygamous cults etc etc. Every women's rights activist I ever met from every part of the world has stories about this from her community. Ordinary men do this everywhere"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:05Z [----] followers, 359.5K engagements
"Rubio's version of Western civilization is no less rancid than JD Vance's (=The Sound of Music only this time the Nazis are not the baddies). It's literally Mission Civilisatrice [---] unreconstructed global white supremacy. That standing ovation looks like Heldenplatz 1938"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Last year Europeans were told they must sacrifice social welfare schools hospitals days off to buy weapons and get ready for war. Now they're told they must give up democracy accountability the very states they're citizens of so that Europe can become a great power"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The neo-militarism sweeping Europe has reached neutral Austria. The Austrian army has published a children's book (🤬🤢). On page [--] young readers are told to write their name onto the dog tag. Teach them young that one day their torn bodies will be scraped off the battlefield"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:08Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements
"Pedro Sanchez is the man of the hour but the invisible men/women of the hour are Spain's civil society who have pushed their country on a pathway of solidarity reform justice and shared prosperity. Spain today is the essence of Europe at its best. They care for aging parents work in small and large companies and harvest the food on our tables. On weekends they walk in our parks and play on the local amateur soccer team. For me the choice is clear. Here is my article for @nytimes: https://t.co/a0Mjxm8SSl They care for aging parents work in small and large companies and harvest the food on our"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:47Z [----] followers, 229.5K engagements
"Like a chihuahua snapping at the heels of an elephant This is bigger than most people realize: Lithuania's Prime Minister now officially admits it was a huge "strategic mistake" (like "jumping in front of a train") to be the first and only EU country to open a "Taiwanese" representative office in [----]. https://t.co/4umRndX5gb She This is bigger than most people realize: Lithuania's Prime Minister now officially admits it was a huge "strategic mistake" (like "jumping in front of a train") to be the first and only EU country to open a "Taiwanese" representative office in 2021."
X Link 2026-02-06T05:34Z [----] followers, 42.4K engagements
"This thread reads like a manic obsessive having a bad episode. The idea that the EU can knock all of Russia's energy sales out of the global economy and strangle Russia until it collapses was always absurd but to try for the 20th time after [--] failed attempts is mental. Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles. We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive. Today we present our 20th sanctions package. Sanctions severely hurt Russias economy. And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. Moscow is not Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles. We are"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Latvia's FM says that "democracy" entitles Latvians to the opportunities of international mobility and then in the same breath that Latvia will keep its borders walled off to refugees fleeing war and persecution. https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/29.01.2026-braze-latvia-will-not-accept-new-migrants.a632182/ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/29.01.2026-braze-latvia-will-not-accept-new-migrants.a632182/"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"After nearly [--] years of pointless squabbling about whether or not Johnson tore up a perfect peace deal we need to move on and acknowledge that the entire West failed by showing a cold shoulder to these negotiations instead of throwing its full diplomatic weight behind them"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Link to the article: https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/this-was-johnson-czech-prime-minister-shocks-1770508679.html https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/this-was-johnson-czech-prime-minister-shocks-1770508679.html"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Peace deals can fail for [----] reasons; most do a few times before they stick. But a counterfactual imagining of spring [----] in which all parties support negotiations in good faith and with all they got leads to far better outcomes for Ukraine than our current reality"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@postsocialismus I see this as a classic diplomatic move. Something like "if we can do clunky lame gestures of consiliation in each other's presence it means we're beginning to feel safe with each other again". You wouldn't believe what's in the talking points at such meetings"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Much of the world has to make do without one of those stupid ruinous umbrellas and it would do Europeans a lot of good to free themselves from their imaginary umbrellas too American officials sniff at the idea that the much smaller British or French arsenals could replace the American umbrella https://t.co/rxoUWJUcH3 American officials sniff at the idea that the much smaller British or French arsenals could replace the American umbrella https://t.co/rxoUWJUcH3"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Isn't it astonishing how they always turn into wise elder statesment five minutes after losing office The former German chancellor seems to have a far better understanding of Iran than his successor. The former German chancellor seems to have a far better understanding of Iran than his successor"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:56Z [----] followers, 47.3K engagements
"Link: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/dont-mention-article-5-finland-warns-us-on-ukraine-00766043 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/dont-mention-article-5-finland-warns-us-on-ukraine-00766043"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The world is finally catching up to the evolutionary quantum leaps happening in Austria An Austrian cow named Veronika is surprising scientists with her ability to deliberately use a tool specifically picking up a broom with her mouth to scratch her back. "Despite millennia of domestication for productivity livestock have been almost entirely excluded from https://t.co/mgRpgMNuaT An Austrian cow named Veronika is surprising scientists with her ability to deliberately use a tool specifically picking up a broom with her mouth to scratch her back. "Despite millennia of domestication for"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Not just in Russia: that's how we lived in our New England Victorian while fixing it up room by room ourselves. You'd have to be independently wealthy to pay contractors to do it all at once while renting elsewhere. Or get a loan that costs more than the house is worth. Putler has vowed to make Russia the world's first 4th world nation by [----] https://t.co/k61ajm3OZI Putler has vowed to make Russia the world's first 4th world nation by [----] https://t.co/k61ajm3OZI"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:54Z [----] followers, 32K engagements
"I'm not being polemic here: concessions by Russia in return for what from Europe For Europe to stop funding Ukraine's war To unfreeze Russian assets Revoke sanctions Meet with Russian diplos again I hope someone is drawing up an actual list of serious bargaining chips"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@barbiedreamed "Inefficiency" is the price we pay to protect workers small businesses nature animals our data and privacy health and safety and the quality of the goods and services. Sure there are regulations that are just irrational. But deregulation means the good ones get axed too"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Watch this. Merz calls for a "regulatory clean slate": question/ditch all regulation. At home in Germany he tells people to work more until later in life not take sick days and not whine so much. For less pay. This is what he means by a clean slate"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:18Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements
"In Vienna the long-neglected 1930s modernist Villa Beer designed by Josef Frank has been restored and I was joking with my sisters that I want to spend a night there in a perfectly furnished room in 1930s silk pajamas and guess what YOU CAN DO THAT http://villabeer.wien/uebernachtung http://villabeer.wien/uebernachtung"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I am smitten https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-house-modernism-tried-to-forget/ https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-house-modernism-tried-to-forget/"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DeCharlus11 Here's more info about it. It's a truly unique house: https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-house-modernism-tried-to-forget/ https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-house-modernism-tried-to-forget/"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @leonidragozin: This is of course little more than cheerleading rhetorics but lets parse it anyway. A reduction of the Russian army c"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @tothcsabatibor: The Russian threat (that was handled for [--] years without escalating into a shooting war) today became a fig leaf to co"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @ChristophLieven: Wichtig wie hier die Parlamente und PolitikerInnen verplant werden sollen die irre Aufrstung zu rechtfertigen:"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"When they twist the Epstein story into a Russian spy plot it's no longer children and vulnerable young women being raped hurt and possibly killed but about ice-cold Slavic honey traps. No longer about powerful men being violent abusers but hapless victims of manipulation"
X Link 2026-02-05T19:00Z [----] followers, 29.7K engagements
"Ausgezeichnet und super-aktuell zum Thema Militarisierung Gewalt(-soziologie) neue Weltordnung. Es ist ein Trost dass es Leute gibt die unsere Situation so scharf beobachten und so gut verstehen. Mein Interview mit Teresa Koloma Beck ber Militarisierung Gewalt und die Normalisierung des Ausnahmezustands. Premiere heute auf YouTube bei Nullpunkt. https://t.co/RDUV1JRxKd Mein Interview mit Teresa Koloma Beck ber Militarisierung Gewalt und die Normalisierung des Ausnahmezustands. Premiere heute auf YouTube bei Nullpunkt. https://t.co/RDUV1JRxKd"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"RT @Anna_Muenchen: So ist es; man msste viel frher beginnen mit Prvention und mehr Sozialarbeit an Schulen. Aber dafr hat man kein Geld"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @harryliebs: Gleichzeitig mssen wir aber gewaltig aufrsten sonst berrennt uns der Russe an den Seelower Hhen"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @nikhil_palsingh: Rubio used the word civilization more than any other in that speech by which he means supra-national consanguinity"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @AgnesCallamard: What matters is not what people say in private but what they are prepared to express in public. And confronted with Rub"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @torte81: Realsatire im Berliner Ensemble: Habeck hat Waffen fr den Genozid geliefert hat. Seine Minister- und Parteikollegin hat ohne"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"RT @phl43: But it's not [----] and you have to be a moron to believe that it's [----]. Unfortunately European leaders are morons but even the"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@weirderdoors That's why we must think of something different. We are a giant collectively we can't help that: there's lots of us and we're rich. But from that it doesn't follow that we must dominate and exploit others and project violence. There has to be a better way to be in the world"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @moorehn: "With the Epstein files were confronted with exactly what all the Edge men from Pinker to Dawkins to Musk to Gates did w"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@weirderdoors No contest from me. This is our reality especially among the upper and professional-managerial classes. It's shameful. You've got a point that we need to transform this or else we cannot transform our role in the world"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Four years ago we would rather have a war than admit that NATO's "open door" was cynical gaslighting. Now a million+ dead people later with millions in exile and not coming home and entire cities erased the moment of truth arrives and it is beyond bitter"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:30Z [----] followers, 19.9K engagements
"Translation: "we joined your disastrous forever wars that covered large swathes of the world in blood and that makes you the good superpower so please love us again so we can together defeat the bad superpower" EU's Kaja Kallas to Mike Waltz: When Russia goes to war they go alone because they dont have allies. When America goes to wars a lot of us go with you and we lose our people along the way. You also need us. https://t.co/rROJpSc1tv EU's Kaja Kallas to Mike Waltz: When Russia goes to war they go alone because they dont have allies. When America goes to wars a lot of us go with you and we"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:02Z [----] followers, 14.3K engagements
"The #EpsteinFiles expose a key feature of the unipolar moment: the cooptation of social justice and resistance movements by international organizations and their leaders careerist hacks at best card-carrying members of the oppressing classes at worst. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/norway-jagland-epstein.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/world/europe/norway-jagland-epstein.htmlsmid=nytcore-ios-share"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Rubio's speech shows that European elites fear the end of the Western alliance not bec they're afraid of Russia or "vassals" but bec they love behaving badly around the world and enjoying the spoils without consequences. The thought of facing the world as equals makes them panic. A lot of shocking moments at @MunSecConf this year but the one that really stood out to me was how the Europeans gave Rubio a standing ovation. Though I disagree with much of it his was clearly a strong and clever speech. But it was shocking to me to see the Europeans so A lot of shocking moments at @MunSecConf this"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:42Z [----] followers, 35K engagements
"@greenschoolbus That was [--] years AFTER half of the EU joined the US in its attack on Iraq and by then a number of others had come in to assist with the occupation"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Smoke___Mirror @greenschoolbus It was [--] of the current [--] EU member states plus the UK (=15). Including Italy Spain Netherlands big countries in terms of population and political weight in Europe"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"RT @davidrkadler: Standing ovation for Rubio in Munich. Standing ovation for Netanyahu in Washington. We are ruled by a transatlantic cliqu"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"RT @gyude_moore: Kinda sad that all that Italian culture and history was lost when those Italians selfishly migrated to the US and settled"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"My heart just shattered into a thousand pieces. How absolutely devastating"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If I were to imagine Europe's new grand strategy I would call it "Gentle Giant": a friend to all an enemy to none holding power with not over others"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Nadimo1312 The global economy isn't just one zero-sum cake. It grows. China lifted a billion out of poverty without impoverishing a billion elsewhere quite the contrary. Europe has so much accrued human development that even if we transformed our economic system we'd still be a giant"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Between Greenland and Davos I realized that Europe now has a chance to escape the sad fate of militarization. Counter-intuitive I know but trust me it makes total sense"
X Link 2026-01-21T00:44Z [----] followers, 18K engagements
"This is a brief and plain text by @IuliiaMendel but one of the most heartbreaking and sincere I have read about the war against Ukraine and especially where it is at this point. Not doing everything to stop this war right now is above all cruel. https://iuliiamendel.substack.com/p/how-inhuman-the-human-world-has-become https://iuliiamendel.substack.com/p/how-inhuman-the-human-world-has-become"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Let's not be blinded by how stale historically illiterate and pathetic these people's vision of Europe is. Blinded to their other agenda besides White Nationalist Imperialism: removing Europe's ability to collectively resist the onslaught of America's oligarchic capital. https://t.co/hM4UOgwdzy https://t.co/hM4UOgwdzy"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"RT @souljagoyteller: All three of those are abstractions"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I interacted with Swedes a lot in the 2010s on Russia and Ukraine and I partly agree with this. There was broad elite (not public) consensus in Swedish FP circles for joining NATO by [----]. Even so the chance of being part of fighting Russia in [----] was too good to pass up. I had a long discussion recently about why Sweden and Finland joined NATO after the start of the Ukrainian War. Neutrality had served them very well through the Cold War in a more threatening geopolitical environment. Then it hit me: The purpose of a system is what it does. https://t.co/eAeU1QC2zf I had a long discussion"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One thing I observed repeatedly is that while most European foreign policy types know nothing about Sweden's imperial shenanigans in what is today Ukraine Russia Belarus the Baltic states Poland Moldova () the Swedes certainly remember and so do Ukrainian taxi drivers"
X Link 2026-02-15T20:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ausgezeichnetes Interview mit @Volod_Ishchenko in der @fr (ohne paywall) ber Zwangsrekrutierung Zivilgesellschaft und Politik in der Ukraine. https://t.co/jMGsQmloej https://t.co/jMGsQmloej"
X Link 2026-02-17T07:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This by @lilyslynch should be required reading for any EU citizen: how von der Leyen's personal ambition dubious neocon ideology and ethics deficit dismantle democracy human rights and the very laws of the EU in favor of militarism and the far right. https://unherd.com/2024/03/the-eus-american-queen/ https://unherd.com/2024/03/the-eus-american-queen/"
X Link 2024-03-04T13:30Z [----] followers, 105.4K engagements
"The most astonishing thing is that this happened out of the blue amidst peace and orderliness across Europe and only evil orcish Russia so hated quaint little Estonia's stubborn insistence on being its quaint little Estonian self that one day it just bombed them Today [--] years ago #Tallinn was devastated by the March bombings which destroyed a quarter of the city overnight. Up to [---] Russian aircrafts were bombing us & their primary targets were residential districts & cultural landmarks. Russian playbook is the same today in 🧵 https://t.co/kWNB5Pd2td Today [--] years ago #Tallinn was"
X Link 2024-03-10T14:14Z [----] followers, 24.5K engagements
"If you don't know Salzburg you can't grasp how extraordinary this is. It's the most snobbish classist provincial-bourgeois unequal Catholic city in Austria with the least working class tradition. The conservatives who ran it forever screwed up bad for this to happen. In Salzburg the Communist party (KP+) vote soars ensuring a run-off between them and the Social Democrats for the new mayor In Salzburg the Communist party (KP+) vote soars ensuring a run-off between them and the Social Democrats for the new mayor"
X Link 2024-03-10T21:43Z [----] followers, 29.8K engagements
"War brings it all out in old men doesn't it Marching beardless round-cheeked teenagers to fields of mud and blood where their" young bodies of growing strength" can be sacrificed so crusty armchair generals can feel vicariously brave heroic and redeemed. In Ukraine the age of conscription is [--] that is when people have started to work & have children. Naturally not many show up. Now they are discussing lowering the age to [--] still absurd. [--] is the right age with bodies of growing strength. The Ukraine army is much too small In Ukraine the age of conscription is [--] that is when people have"
X Link 2024-03-17T16:02Z [----] followers, 18.8K engagements
"Now do Aliyev. Oh wait you already did. Would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory in the elections starting today. No opposition. No freedom. No choice. Would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory in the elections starting today. No opposition. No freedom. No choice"
X Link 2024-03-19T13:22Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"In all the conflict regions I worked people told me stories like this of the pain and horror that their grandparents had endured and passed on to them. They told me to explain the current conflict they were embroiled in. In Gaza we're seeding the wars of [---] years from now. Swedish report from Gaza: A little boy with a bruised face no more than [--] or [--] exited the ambulance. I asked if he was okay and saw blood dripping from his backpack. "Do you know what I have in the backpack" he asked. "My little brother Ahmed." Swedish report from Gaza: A little boy with a bruised face no more than [--] or"
X Link 2024-03-28T17:28Z [----] followers, 169.3K engagements
"Not a good look https://x.com/DiEM_25/status/1778812550907318562t=oWzEZe8QIQ91TA7pwzQp5A&s=19 BREAKING German police are now arresting people outside the building where the event was taking place. Those arrested include Udi Raz from Jewish Voice for Peace. Disgusting behaviour from the police but unfortunately not surprising #PalaestinaKongress #WeAccuseGermany https://t.co/ddgTY2Qw2M https://x.com/DiEM_25/status/1778812550907318562t=oWzEZe8QIQ91TA7pwzQp5A&s=19 BREAKING German police are now arresting people outside the building where the event was taking place. Those arrested include Udi Raz"
X Link 2024-04-12T18:23Z [----] followers, 226.2K engagements
"I encourage everyone to follow @AuschwitzMuseum. It does one of the best jobs of humanizing the dehumanized of making oppression hatred and violence tangible and immediate. It is so much more than education. For the upcoming 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz we hope to reach [--] million followers. Achieving this goal would not only be a tribute to the memory of Victims but also crucial support for our educational mission. Your engagement is vital. Everyone can help. https://t.co/CXquPbMO8W For the upcoming 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz we hope to reach [--] million"
X Link 2024-07-04T15:49Z [----] followers, 88.4K engagements
"So that non-German-speakers don't miss this: the German army plans to honor and celebrate more members of the Wehrmacht as part of instilling a sense of tradition in its troops. Das ist wirklich befremdlich: die Bundeswehr will strker als bisher Wehrmachtsangehrige in ihre Traditionspflege integrieren. Taugen Soldaten zu Vorbildern die in einem Vernichtungskrieg kmpften 1/3 https://t.co/dqGOcODBsS Das ist wirklich befremdlich: die Bundeswehr will strker als bisher Wehrmachtsangehrige in ihre Traditionspflege integrieren. Taugen Soldaten zu Vorbildern die in einem Vernichtungskrieg kmpften 1/3"
X Link 2024-08-10T18:53Z [----] followers, 56.6K engagements
"Among all the bizarre and ruinous things going on in the world Western attempts to whitewash Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing (a crime against humanity) as an unfortunate side effect of a war fought fairly and squarely is one of the most ominous A year ago Nagorno-Karabakh was once again the scene of military conflict. Thousands of people fled their homes towards Armenia. Since then #Armenia and #Azerbaijan have continuously worked to live side by side and have started peace talks. 1/2 A year ago Nagorno-Karabakh was once again the scene of military conflict. Thousands of people fled their homes"
X Link 2024-09-25T00:39Z [----] followers, 15.7K engagements
"I had doubts in [----] when I felt compelled to walk away from [--] yrs of working with local NGOs in Russia Ukraine etc because I was so revolted by how Western geopolitical militaris agendas had been marshalling civil society for their aims but I don't have doubts anymore"
X Link 2024-10-02T03:50Z [----] followers, 76.2K engagements
"Random Nordics telling Ukrainians to stop being such wimps and finally get on with committing demographic suicide for their own good and for the armchair generals' titillation"
X Link 2024-10-15T21:07Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"It's election season in Germany so the Greens say in TV discussions that they took money from kindergardens to buy weapons in Ukraine the govt's economic advisor says spend 4% on defense not just [--] let alone [--] and news anchors keep asking how soon Ukraine will win the war"
X Link 2024-11-13T21:43Z [----] followers, 35.9K engagements
"Cannot overstate the cognitive dissonance I experience watching German public TV news where almost daily military experts give lenghty interviews to hipster-styled anchors about how no later than 2027/28 things will start looking grim for Russia and Ukraine will finally win"
X Link 2024-11-17T18:25Z [----] followers, 37.5K engagements
"German FM Baerbock's feminist foreign policy has gone into meltdown inevitable due its inherent contradictions and hypocrisy. It took with it its brain trust a major German women's NGO and embroiled leading feminist activists from around the world. 1/3 https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-feminist-foreign-policy-gaza https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-feminist-foreign-policy-gaza"
X Link 2024-11-18T03:39Z [----] followers, 42K engagements
"German left-progressive daily TAZ has a good laugh at the news of ATACMs being fired into Russia with "Last-minute flights to Russia". How very [----] of them"
X Link 2024-11-19T20:28Z [----] followers, 39.2K engagements
"German retired general: "I hear German politicians saying 'Ukraine will win because Ukraine MUST win'. That sort of thing reminds me of another period in our history.""
X Link 2024-11-23T16:35Z [----] followers, 87.6K engagements
"European migration insanity: Germany is negotiating an agreement with Colombia to bring Colombian care workers to Germany to meet desperate labor demands while preparing to deport [--] Colombian care workers because they have the wrong legal status. Wow aus Pflegeheim sollen [--] Menschen aus Kolumbien abgeschoben werden 1/4 der Belegschaft. Das Heim msste schliessen. Gleichzeitig wird Abkommen mit Kolumbien verhandelt zur Anwerbung von Pflegekrften. Aber Hauptsache Ordnung & Abschiebeergebnisse https://t.co/RN5gm3wllP Wow aus Pflegeheim sollen [--] Menschen aus Kolumbien abgeschoben werden 1/4 der"
X Link 2024-11-25T12:14Z [----] followers, 64.2K engagements
"We're now at the "let's cancel elections to save democracy" stage"
X Link 2024-12-06T16:33Z [----] followers, 16.4K engagements
"We learn that it wasn't Russia that paid for that TikTok campaign in Romania. Still there's now a precedent that when European centrist elites see their power threatened they will dispense with democracy and the rule of law while shrieking "the Russians are coming". Link"
X Link 2024-12-23T04:04Z [----] followers, 18K engagements
"Another occasion for "I'm old enough to remember": in this case the 90s when China was only a glint in the milkman's eye but in the West everyone was crowing about how industry was totally pass and all the smart countries were moving into a bright future of only desk jobs The Chinese government strategy is to deindustrialize the United States. It's not complex. They also seek to deindustrialize every other wealthy country. The question is how to respond not whether it's happening. The Chinese government strategy is to deindustrialize the United States. It's not complex. They also seek to"
X Link 2024-12-25T19:03Z [----] followers, 16.4K engagements
"AFTER ships were seized and sailors detained; AFTER the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force launched an AI-assisted reaction system to "track potential threats"; AFTER NATO strengthened its Baltic Sea presence. .we learn that the supposed Russian sabotage was an accident"
X Link 2025-01-19T19:57Z [----] followers, 43.6K engagements
"This guy has probably said a hundred times "Ukraine will be in NATO". Until today when he helpfully explains that it wasn't actually a "promise". What was it then A dare A bait-and-switch https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250213-nato-s-rutte-says-that-ukraine-was-never-promised-nato-membership https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250213-nato-s-rutte-says-that-ukraine-was-never-promised-nato-membership"
X Link 2025-02-13T19:35Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements
"If you spend [--] years pontificating that all wars must end in victory that negotiations are not a thing and even if they are then never ever with Russia that all diplomacy is appeasement then don't be surprised if you don't get invited to peace talks https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/russias-lavrov-says-no-point-in-inviting-european-leaders-to-ukraine-talks-a88046 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/russias-lavrov-says-no-point-in-inviting-european-leaders-to-ukraine-talks-a88046"
X Link 2025-02-17T15:54Z [----] followers, 18K engagements
"Kallas had her mtg with Rubio canceled while she was already in DC. Sounds like confirmation of something @MarkAmesExiled reported: in Munich she scolded Hegseth to this face called him an appeaser which did not go down well. She's being cut by the Trump administration. The meeting between High Representative Kaja Kallas and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been cancelled and will not take place during her official visit to Washington. The meeting between High Representative Kaja Kallas and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been cancelled and will not take place during her official"
X Link 2025-02-26T15:50Z [----] followers, 67.9K engagements
"Not the EU as such nor its collective member states have ever in any way state or form committed to "defeating" China. Kallas doesn't just have no mandate for her megalomanic pronouncements. She creates threats costs and harm for the EU out of thin air. EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas: "If together we are not able to put enough pressure on Moscow then how can we claim that we can defeat China" https://t.co/i3cb99hJMe EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas: "If together we are not able to put enough pressure on Moscow then how can we claim that we can defeat China" https://t.co/i3cb99hJMe"
X Link 2025-03-01T02:38Z [----] followers, 38.4K engagements
"Honestly these people are beyond help. They call a frantic emergency summit because the US is pulling away from European security and then conclude at the summit that they must continue working closely with the US. Lots of wishful thinking at today's emergency summit on European security in London. "There was broad convergence on the importance of continuing to work closely with the US namely in the context of NATO" says an EU official. There were "strong agreement that future European Lots of wishful thinking at today's emergency summit on European security in London. "There was broad"
X Link 2025-03-02T19:46Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements
"European elites do not fear Russia. They don't diagnose an actual threat of Russian attack. They are afraid of losing power and status the position of global dominance they enjoyed vicariously via US military protection. The idea of dealing with others as equals horrifies them. The war the geopolitical uncertainty and the new arms race started by Putin have left Europe with no choice. Europe must be ready for this race and Russia will lose it like the Soviet Union [--] years ago. From today Europe will arm itself more wisely and faster than Russia. The war the geopolitical uncertainty and the"
X Link 2025-03-06T13:35Z [----] followers, 48.8K engagements
"All the defenders of VoA RFE etc are now basically saying "this is a great propaganda tool it would be stupid to deprive ourselves of it" after swearing up and down for decades that we just believe in independent journalism and reporting the truth without second thoughts"
X Link 2025-03-16T12:58Z [----] followers, 17.4K engagements
"Germany's earnestly pro-EU @faznet: things are not going well for Kaja Kallas. Her "arm Ukraine" plan is tanking she has alienated her staff and key member states and been snubbed by the US govt. The chipper war groupie shtick doesn't cut it. Thank god. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/es-laeuft-nicht-gut-fuer-die-eu-aussenbeauftragte-kaja-kallas-110361825.html https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/es-laeuft-nicht-gut-fuer-die-eu-aussenbeauftragte-kaja-kallas-110361825.html"
X Link 2025-03-17T18:51Z [----] followers, 26K engagements
"Let's be very clear about what this means: Ukraine has agreed to this ceasefire and now the EU says no you can't have it keep fighting Brussels has rejected Russias demand to lift EU restrictions on a key agricultural bank as part of a partial ceasefire deal https://t.co/numr7PSbQx https://t.co/BT6jcaMD7m Brussels has rejected Russias demand to lift EU restrictions on a key agricultural bank as part of a partial ceasefire deal https://t.co/numr7PSbQx https://t.co/BT6jcaMD7m"
X Link 2025-03-26T19:05Z [----] followers, 36.1K engagements
"For the one-millionth time Dugin is not "Putin's most influential philosopher". How did this nonsense go on auto-pilot Fareed Zakaria on his GPS has just interviewed Aleksander Dugin Putin's most influential philosopher. As a liberal I believe we should listen to everyone. But would @FareedZakaria have invited Alfred Rosenberg Hitler's philosopher during the 2nd World War and be so kind with Fareed Zakaria on his GPS has just interviewed Aleksander Dugin Putin's most influential philosopher. As a liberal I believe we should listen to everyone. But would @FareedZakaria have invited Alfred"
X Link 2025-03-30T17:17Z [----] followers, 13.1K engagements
"I have no idea what the EU needs so desperately from Azerbaijan that they keep sucking up to a third-rate dictator but I assume it's something about values Azerbaijan is an important partner in the region. Together the EU and Azerbaijan have made significant progress in strengthening their ties. We discussed ways to further increase trade and improve connectivity. Press conference with @Bayramov_Jeyhun https://t.co/dNGR8fktYd Azerbaijan is an important partner in the region. Together the EU and Azerbaijan have made significant progress in strengthening their ties. We discussed ways to further"
X Link 2025-04-25T16:40Z [----] followers, 36.8K engagements
"It's grim and disturbing how much of the European establishment endorses a war of aggression but it shouldn't be a shock. They attacked Serbia in [----]. Half of the current EU members + UK invaded Iraq together with the US in [----]. Then Libya in [----]. They have form in this"
X Link 2025-06-16T13:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who is that senior EU official who thinks the Irish have not experienced "atrocities mass deportations suppression of culture and language" Why it's Kaja Kallas. An Irish MEP has asked the EU's most senior foreign affairs official to apologise for suggesting Ireland's policy of neutrality is in part due to Ireland not having a modern-day understanding of 'atrocities mass deportations suppression of culture and language' An Irish MEP has asked the EU's most senior foreign affairs official to apologise for suggesting Ireland's policy of neutrality is in part due to Ireland not having a"
X Link 2025-06-20T01:22Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements
"Finally like the little boy saying the emperor has no clothes a major European state has called out spending 5% of GDP on defense as the ruinous undemocratic absurdity it is. Let's hope the rest will now start dropping their pretense that this was a sound and serious policy"
X Link 2025-06-20T01:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In Germany a Jewish activist is arrested and charged with public incitement for supposedly "glorifying the Holocaust". What did he actually do He carried a sign reading "Jews against genocide". His father's entire family was murdered at Auschwitz. Zur Ergnzung: Er bekam von der Polizei eine Anzeige wegen Volksverhetzung da er in seiner Rede "den Holocaust verherrlicht" habe. Make it make sense. Zur Ergnzung: Er bekam von der Polizei eine Anzeige wegen Volksverhetzung da er in seiner Rede "den Holocaust verherrlicht" habe. Make it make sense"
X Link 2025-07-07T00:06Z [----] followers, 165.7K engagements
"The Economist's photo editor got the memo"
X Link 2025-07-22T20:39Z [----] followers, 15K engagements
"My aunt who used to be a doctor once had a patient who had survived Nazi concentration camps - and was overweight. She could never lose weight even when she ate next to nothing. It saved her life in the KZ when the thin weak-looking ones were selected for extermination. 1/2"
X Link 2025-07-27T17:11Z [----] followers, 2.7M engagements
"I was reminded of this story because there are people zooming in on images from Gaza pointing out that some woman still looks a bit plump as if that meant the famine is fake or that she hogs all the food and lets her children starve (a common tale to dehumanize others). 2/2"
X Link 2025-07-27T17:11Z [----] followers, 512.1K engagements
"@DonatJelly Absolutely. The people who do this do so out of malice"
X Link 2025-07-27T18:29Z [----] followers, 18.5K engagements
"@enPorcelain Concentration camp. It's the German abbreviation"
X Link 2025-07-28T18:11Z [----] followers, 146.9K engagements
".@yashalevine has a point and it's actually much bigger. Nobody cares much anymore about corruption in Europe either. A lot of the problems Westerners archly diagnosed in 90s Russia have become ours like oligarchy or political parties lacking ideologies and constituencies"
X Link 2025-07-28T18:38Z [----] followers, 49.8K engagements
"Ursula von der Leyen proclaimed a 'geopolitical EU" in [----] dragged Europe into war arms race genocide wrecked relations with most of the world all w/o legal power or democratic mandate. The one thing she's supposed to do trade with 3rd countries she has run into a ditch"
X Link 2025-07-29T04:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Militarism is when the public goods we can't normally have because they're supposedly too expensive unnecessary better provided by the market or there is no money or the rich want tax cuts.can all of a sudden be paid for because we need them for the death machines of war"
X Link 2025-07-29T10:29Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements
"Those who have been clamoring the loudest (and correctly) about no peace without justice in Ukraine are now just as loudly celebrating a peace without any justice for ethnically cleansed Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh"
X Link 2025-08-09T07:05Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements
"69% of Ukrainians want a negotiated end of the war and what feels like 99% of Western media and commentariat types really REALLY don't want negotiations or an end to the war"
X Link 2025-08-16T08:46Z [----] followers, 57K engagements
"This is almost worse than that WWII take. A simplistic essentialist racist view of the world combined with the snobbery of thinking that the burning problems that roil Europe's publics are all just "tiny issues" artificially inflamed by our opponents. @kajakallas It's quite a bizzarre caricature to describe the Chinese as very good at technology but not that good in social sciences while the Russians as super good in social sciences but bad at technology. This cartoonish framing sounds Trump-ish.so perhaps in Ms. Kallass world https://t.co/0Gicp7oCRb @kajakallas It's quite a bizzarre"
X Link 2025-09-05T13:43Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements
"I recently testified in Congress about the pernicious impact of foreign funding on civil society and was scolded by the chairman who explained that we finance NGOs so they write human rights reports that we then use as a cudgel against their countries which we don't like anyway"
X Link 2025-09-16T05:37Z [----] followers, 29.8K engagements
"Lots of people across the West daydreaming of a general strike and Italy just goes ahead and does it BREAKING Italy's 24-hour general strike for Palestine called by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) has shut down schools railways and retail stores across the country. BREAKING Italy's 24-hour general strike for Palestine called by the Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) has shut down schools railways and retail stores across the country"
X Link 2025-09-22T17:26Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements
"A bus during today's strike in Rome"
X Link 2025-10-03T12:58Z [----] followers, 32.4K engagements
"The worst part about the Empire is how it covers the planet in death and destruction. But a close second-worst part is how much it is in love with itself and its narcissistic myths. Oh my god I have no words. Listen to the emotional moment this years laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute shared the news with her directly before it was https://t.co/OCUpNz752k Oh my god I have no words. Listen to the emotional moment this years laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been"
X Link 2025-10-10T19:42Z [----] followers, 30.8K engagements
"Finland's FM visits Georgia in her role as OSCE chairperson which rotates among member states annually. Imagine a Georgian OSCE chairperson doing this spiel at a protest in Berlin Amsterdam or Helsinki. You can't All you need to know about sovereign equality and legitimacy. Peaceful protestors have gathered in front of the Parliament Building in Tbilisi Georgia to voice their concern over the repressive direction of their country. They have every right to democracy to freedom of expression and basic human rights. We are here to support them. https://t.co/6axn6usXay Peaceful protestors have"
X Link 2025-10-15T09:27Z [----] followers, 14.8K engagements
"The Bundeswehr has pressed charges against a high school student for "insulting" it. The teenager made a meme about officers visiting schools to motivate young people to enlist. It shows an officer and the line "alright children who of you wants to go die on the eastern front" Bundeswehr versteht keinen Spa mehr und zeigt einen Schler wegen eines kritischen Memes nach einem Besuch des Jugendoffiziers an der Schule an. Vorab war bereits die Abteilung fr Militrische Sicherheit eingeschaltet fr eine Einschtzung mglicher Straktionen. https://t.co/JciXR43sGh Bundeswehr versteht keinen Spa mehr und"
X Link 2025-10-30T09:17Z [----] followers, 80.6K engagements
"There is no sport in mocking The Economist's bad bad takes but this one is just supremely demented: the war in Ukraine is a "giant opportunity for Europe" to establish dominance over Russia once and for all. The cost a mere $390bln would be high but still "excellent value""
X Link 2025-10-31T22:21Z [----] followers, 68.8K engagements
"Clumsy gaslighting. The Commission says Europe can either use frozen Russian assets or borrow on the market to send [---] billion to Ukraine leaving out the obvious third option: Europe could lean into peace-making end this war and not spend any more money on weapons. EU countries will have to make interest payments of up to 5.6bn a year indefinitely if they fail to reach agreement on a 140bn loan package for Ukraine backed by Russian frozen assets the European Commission has warned. https://t.co/zc4iwatWN9 https://t.co/9s08PWBmsj EU countries will have to make interest payments of up to 5.6bn"
X Link 2025-11-07T17:44Z [----] followers, 12.8K engagements
"2 months ago EU foreign policy rep Kallas said it was news to her that China and the USSR had won WWII and that only people who don't read books would believe such an absurd thing. So deputy to the European Parliament @FabioDeMasi sent her a written inquiry to clarify and"
X Link 2025-11-09T15:57Z [----] followers, 132.4K engagements
".she basically doubles down on it. Her response gives grudging credit to China but does not spell out that the USSR defeated Nazi Germany. Instead she accuses Russia of "rewriting history". (Screenshot above is auto-translated) https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/geopolitik/eu-kallas-de-masi-russland-china-li.10004771 https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/geopolitik/eu-kallas-de-masi-russland-china-li.10004771"
X Link 2025-11-09T15:57Z [----] followers, 17.3K engagements
"The comments are all "she is sooo stupid" but this isn't about her intellect or erudition it's about her ideology. Kallas and her type are extremists fundamentalists. They're not just blinded by their beliefs but willing to forego facts and reason to achieve their goals. [--] months ago EU foreign policy rep Kallas said it was news to her that China and the USSR had won WWII and that only people who don't read books would believe such an absurd thing. So deputy to the European Parliament @FabioDeMasi sent her a written inquiry to clarify and. https://t.co/GdSHsRj1x7 [--] months ago EU foreign"
X Link 2025-11-10T13:08Z [----] followers, 18.8K engagements
"Germans having a normal one. [--] hours after agreeing to bring back conscription chief whip of the CDU Jens Spahn now tells young men "Your fatherland needs you". I can't overstate how much this language reeks of musty rot of the early 20th century"
X Link 2025-11-13T21:33Z [----] followers, 29.7K engagements
"In Germany (and Austria which has the same system) anyone who cares at all knows that migrant children are sorted at age [--] onto the manual labor track away from higher ed. Decades ago before Gastarbeiter etc they used to do it by class. It has long been well-documented. Studies show that Germanys school system is systemically racist https://t.co/sEtHMlIkaA Studies show that Germanys school system is systemically racist https://t.co/sEtHMlIkaA"
X Link 2025-11-14T12:17Z [----] followers, 84.9K engagements
"They make it sound like wars usually end when one side one day just stops and goes home for no particular military or political reason and that all you need to do is to keep fighting the war until that day comes which it surely will. Russias overnight strikes on Kyiv make clear that Russia intends to press on with war. In Berlin today we discussed how to increase our support to Ukraine while building up Europes defence. My press remarks here https://t.co/BSpdwje8pw Russias overnight strikes on Kyiv make clear that Russia intends to press on with war. In Berlin today we discussed how to"
X Link 2025-11-14T23:04Z [----] followers, 11K engagements
"Until now it was only rabidly russophobic Baltic leaders proposing to ban all Russians from Europe. Now too. It is a shockingly 'un-European' idea: collective punishment discriminatory profiling at least as wrong as Trump's "Muslim travel ban". https://www.ft.com/content/33173b4e-aa75-46b6-ae6b-83c2591c1c10 https://www.ft.com/content/33173b4e-aa75-46b6-ae6b-83c2591c1c10"
X Link 2022-08-09T12:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Dance of the partisans" created not under "late Putin" but soon after WWII to honor Soviet (and not only) partisans fighting against Nazi Germany. Created by one of the 20th century's great choreographers of Ukrainian Romanian and Jewish heritage. Global audience favorite. russia the land of culture no. The Great russian Ballet of the late putin era acrobatic dances with machine guns. russia is a stinking dictatorship. https://t.co/4qbXYLaKxs russia the land of culture no. The Great russian Ballet of the late putin era acrobatic dances with machine guns. russia is a stinking dictatorship."
X Link 2025-11-03T15:12Z [----] followers, 27.7K engagements
"I've been watching the McFauls of this world all my adult life. They like their Russians miserable humiliated and knowing it. The only Russians they like to see confident well-dressed and -nourished are those who tell them how miserable and humiliated all other Russians are. @McFaul Poor Mikey was so traumatized by Russian speakers in Barcelona in August of [----] (most of which likely were Ukrainian refugees) he now repeats this story every year to justify blanket visa restrictions that if implemented would have null effect on regime enablers in Russia. https://t.co/hiyUUYjccO @McFaul Poor"
X Link 2025-11-08T23:29Z [----] followers, 26.5K engagements
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