@rochowanski Avatar @rochowanski Almut Rochowanski

Almut Rochowanski posts on X about russia, the world, ukraine, war the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social category influence countries 38% travel destinations 7% technology brands 3% celebrities 3% social networks 2% finance 1% stocks 1%

Social topic influence russia #806, the world #3114, ukraine 8%, war 7%, in the 7%, countries 5%, austria 4%, up to 4%, spain #2045, und #2795

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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"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, 19.7K 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

"What did you all think would happen when oligarchs start buying up media That they're in it because they love quality journalism"
X Link 2026-02-04T19:01Z [----] followers, 17.7K 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

"A [----] study for UK police chiefs found that up to [--] million men in the UK perpetrate violence against women and children of whom [--] in [--] are victims. "Youve got millions of men in the country who pose a risk to women and children" (Met police chief). https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/04/met-chief-says-millions-of-men-are-danger-to-women-and-girls-in-england-and-wales 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"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:59Z [----] 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

"@sleuthrwalt @G__Kar The people trying to enter the Baltic states are not "illegals". By definition once they request asylum at the border as they have a right to their status is legal until further determination. The people Spain regularized aren't asylum seekers since those cannot be illegals"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@sleuthrwalt @G__Kar I have already outlined why asylum-seekers are not "illegal" and since you are not willing or able to accept facts as the basis for a conversation I can't continue this conversation"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:39Z [----] 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

"@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

"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

"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

"@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 @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

"My heart just shattered into a thousand pieces. How absolutely devastating"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:46Z [----] followers, [---] 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

"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

"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, 17.4K 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, 359.2K 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

"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, 14.1K engagements

"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, 169.7K 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 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

"@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 @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 @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

"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

"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 @souljagoyteller: All three of those are abstractions"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:08Z [----] 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

"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

"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

"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 @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

"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

"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

"@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

"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

"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, 18.6K 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

"@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

"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

"@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

"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

"@venzie_m Perchten. They extend into Switzerland and Bavaria. But similar things exist in Hungary too. Even in Spain (Fiesta Sant Antoni). Truly practices like this exist across all humanity"
X Link 2026-01-25T16:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Here's Politico explaining that the EEAS and the role of its head the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy occupies a systemically dysfunctional place in the EU's structures. This goes a long way to explain Kallas and her problems. https://www.politico.eu/article/5-hard-jobs-brussels-mark-rutte-paula-pinho-kaja-kallas-balint-odor-maros-sefcovic/ Quite a few countries around the world won't talk to her. But let's not forget that that's only partially due to her personal failings. Her office itself is a contradiction in terms. She doesn't speak for the member states or"
X Link 2026-01-26T09:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"These problems are not caused by mismatched personalities. They are structural. EU member states have failed to create a functional supranational structure for foreign policy arguably because they don't actually want one. Back to the drawing board to first principles. EU's Kaja Kallas privately calls von der Leyen a dictator. Source: Politico https://t.co/4cSVs26do0 EU's Kaja Kallas privately calls von der Leyen a dictator. Source: Politico https://t.co/4cSVs26do0"
X Link 2026-01-26T11:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@DonatJelly @zpaikin Kallas' mandate ends in 2030.The Commission could fall before then (rare but does happen). Mainly though it's gaslighting for Russia to suggest that they have no one to talk to because Kallas is the HR. The HR cannot "make peace with Russia" no matter who holds that position"
X Link 2026-01-26T13:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@pptamburelli If we indulge in this as misogynist soap opera we can easily overlook that the exact same personality traits mix of low competence and high confidence and conduct would be seen as nothing out of the ordinary among male politicians"
X Link 2026-01-26T13:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@pptamburelli He did have some real doozies though like the thing about the garden and the jungle. I feel he just drew less attention and media coverage. People perceive a white-haired man with a Spanish accent differently from a young-ish woman who sounds like Pippi Longstocking"
X Link 2026-01-26T14:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@zdrdim It's not like we only figured out yesterday that the only way to be truly independent would be to develop renewable resources right at home. I've been hearing that all my (already quite long) life"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I've been thinking about what should be Europe's grand strategy (I hate that term. It's so pompous.). How we haven't even (been) asked this question. Here @AntonJaegermm has a beautiful answer: let it go. Decline can "free Europeans of the burdening neurosis of mastery." Amen"
X Link 2025-12-18T13:03Z [----] followers, 132.2K engagements

"Since Russia has made perfectly clear that it will not accept Western troops in Ukraine and will therefore not agree to end the war this declaration of intent makes perfectly clear that Macron Starmer etc don't want an end to the war. Transparent political theater. Zelensky Macron & Starmer sign declaration of intent to deploy multinational forces from France UK & other Western countries in Ukraine after end of war. Carney says that Canadian forces deployment is possibility. Russia stated that this is red line. https://t.co/nyzbTJu4CL Zelensky Macron & Starmer sign declaration of intent to"
X Link 2026-01-06T20:25Z [----] followers, 145.1K engagements

"Late last year @HavryshkoMarta @Volod_Ishchenko Milica Popovi @TarikCyrilAmar and I had an event about forced mobilization cancelled after a pressure campaign. On Friday 01/23 at 16h CET/10am EST the event will take place hosted by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. Forced mobilization is one of the most sensitive issues of the war in Ukraine. "Busification" Ukraine's word of the year for [----] describes the mass forced mobilization (word of the year 2023) of Ukrainian men that involves stuffing them into unmarked minibuses and often https://t.co/1JwcdXFYlq Forced mobilization is one of"
X Link 2026-01-21T21:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Here is the link. You can join online via Microsoft Teams. I'm looking forward to your joining our discussion https://www.sns.it/en/node/1079360 https://www.sns.it/en/node/1079360"
X Link 2026-01-21T21:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Last month Ursula von der Leyen crowed that the EU had reached "energy independence" - because it now imports 50% of its gas from the US. That's the same share it imported from Russia by [----] which was then rightly decried as high-risk dependence. China understood in the early 1990s at the latest that relying on fossil fuels was a dead end in terms of geopolitics for a country with limited domestic supplies. Going green was the only way. It took Europe until the year [----]. Not even Trump [---] & [----] was enough to wake up. https://t.co/S5w9q2Ttn2 China understood in the early 1990s at the"
X Link 2026-01-21T22:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"When the Trump people and some Europeans call on Europe to deregulate tech in order to stay competitive they mean firms like Palantir should be able to cannibalize our lives and privacy unhindered and for free so they can put Europeans in domestic terrorist databases too"
X Link 2026-01-25T07:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Quite a few countries around the world won't talk to her. But let's not forget that that's only partially due to her personal failings. Her office itself is a contradiction in terms. She doesn't speak for the member states or the EU and has no power to commit either. The Kremlin says Russia will never discuss anything with Kaja Kallas - and so will simply wait for her to leave her job. https://t.co/xy4VOSlk5X The Kremlin says Russia will never discuss anything with Kaja Kallas - and so will simply wait for her to leave her job. https://t.co/xy4VOSlk5X"
X Link 2026-01-25T11:59Z [----] followers, 15.8K engagements

"Rutte takes the dead-ender cake. Multi-tiered extra icing cherry on top hallucinogens baked right in. NOW - NATO Chief Rutte: "If anyone thinks here again that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S. keep on dreaming." https://t.co/HlJU2mZuVE NOW - NATO Chief Rutte: "If anyone thinks here again that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S. keep on dreaming." https://t.co/HlJU2mZuVE"
X Link 2026-01-26T19:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"As of now Europe gets about 50% of its gas from the US about the same as it did from Russia in [----] (added benefit: it costs a lot more). So much for "we have to make sure that we will have no dependencies on other countries outside Europe". Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: I think or I hope that all Europeans can now see that it was a huge mistake to be dependent on Russian fossil fuels. We should never have been. And now we have to make sure that we will have no dependencies on other countries outside https://t.co/J9o6c0HXYe Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: I think or I hope"
X Link 2026-01-26T20:21Z [----] followers, 48K engagements

"@bohdanstasiuk1 @NikhNakh The critical difference is that in Austria if he wore those badges he would go to prison for that. It's frustrating that these types keep cropping up in Austrian politics but the law and political etiquette force them to keep their bad ideas to themselves"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@bohdanstasiuk1 There is no reason to think it is a matter of "when". Putin is not The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Russia has never in its history attacked Austria and even if for some strange reason he decides to do so now the Russian army is not in any meaningful way able to do it"
X Link 2026-01-27T21:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Imagine thousands of high rises in need of having water heating sewage pipes replaced. Plenty of walls and floors too. This isn't something Ukraine's excellent emergency services can do. It will take armies of plumbers and builders. I dont think people fully appreciate the scale of humanitarian catastrophe in Kyiv and now also in Kharkiv (two of Ukraines largest cities) because much of the impact is postponed. It takes time for people to get their head around evacuation as they sleep in unheated I dont think people fully appreciate the scale of humanitarian catastrophe in Kyiv and now also in"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"In these odd deficient negotiations has anyone drafted contingency plans for: - safe evacuation of locals - resettlement according to their wishes and needs - adequate compensation for property lost or left behind - protection of their rights and safety if they choose to stay In a whole year of negotiations no one stepped forward to offer a third Solomonic solution centering the communities of the Donbas. It was all arm-twisting and zero-sum stakes from the parties with the occasional spoiling thrown in by the Europeans. Now it's probably too late. https://t.co/YTetoLY22u In a whole year of"
X Link 2026-01-28T08:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

""Since we're now doing great power rivalry the EU should have a dictator and also it should be me" says the German MEP who's been told before no one wants him anywhere near power"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Link: https://www.politico.eu/article/one-president-europe-conservative-chief-calls-manfred-weber-eu-power-merger/ https://www.politico.eu/article/one-president-europe-conservative-chief-calls-manfred-weber-eu-power-merger/"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"By Monday night temperatures in Kyiv could drop to -25C/-13F. I can't imagine heat will be restored to most buildings given the damage to pipes. If Ukraine and its partners don't start massively evacuating people I can't see how this ends well. Heated tents won't do the trick. Was mir wirklich Sorgen bereitet: das Wetter in Kiew fr die nchsten Tage. https://t.co/pqRcG0LWqf Was mir wirklich Sorgen bereitet: das Wetter in Kiew fr die nchsten Tage. https://t.co/pqRcG0LWqf"
X Link 2026-01-28T20:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@tothcsabatibor They want Roma to be "authentic" because that restores authenticity to all of Hungary even if the rest just do their own thing"
X Link 2026-01-29T09:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Look at the dates on these"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"In half an hour I'm on a panel about Europe in this new era. One question I'm supposed to talk about is "will Europe get closer to the Global South again" Repression cannot go unanswered. EU Foreign Ministers just took the decisive step of designating Irans Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation. Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise. Repression cannot go unanswered. EU Foreign Ministers just took the decisive step of designating Irans Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation. Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@EconomicEthics The Copenhagen criteria are the vaguest of the aquis but also in a sense the easiest to achieve. I would argue that compliance with the aquis in the built environment production standards etc is far harder to achieve"
X Link 2026-01-30T09:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@waltertauber1 I'd say this time is now. Sure India and Mercorsur want trade deals. But that's a very tentative start of a relationship that will require a lot of nurturing"
X Link 2026-01-30T09:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Board of Peace has echoes of Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority. It too came out of American right-wingers' arrogance about best practices of post-conflict management and transition that the UN had developed over the decades. We know how that turned out"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@image_1221 Liberation by definition cannot come at the cost of another's oppression. That's not me saying it that's standard feminist theory. The fact that the whole experiment failed confirms it"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"In a city where Kaja Kallas calls Europe "Washington's center of gravity" Colby must be an isolationist If I'm being generous applying the label of "isolationist" to @ElbridgeColby is a category error. More likely it's just childish name-calling. In Brussels media isolationist now seems to mean wont subordinate US strategy to European preferences. By that standard https://t.co/JcU1JXo55K If I'm being generous applying the label of "isolationist" to @ElbridgeColby is a category error. More likely it's just childish name-calling. In Brussels media isolationist now seems to mean wont subordinate"
X Link 2026-01-30T14:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The world order may be "rupturing" but I was at Surva in Pernik all day out in the late-winter cold yesterday surrounded by thousands of masked horned dancers of all ages from all over Bulgaria and Europe. Civilization I assure you is not erased here. https://www.youtube.com/live/c3isQ7aEciAsi=7MPrGpBBXcyAvKI5 https://www.youtube.com/live/c3isQ7aEciAsi=7MPrGpBBXcyAvKI5"
X Link 2026-01-25T15:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Europe is not a "great power" in any meaningful sense beginning with the obvious fact that it is not one state. Citizens of Europe have never consented to the destruction of our democratic institutions that would be required to play great power rivalry with the other bullies. EUs Kaja Kallas: Europe is no longer Washingtons primary center of gravity. The shift has been ongoing for a while. It is structural not temporary. No great power in history has ever outsourced its survival and survived. The risk of a return to coercive power politics and https://t.co/fTsool2E2s EUs Kaja Kallas: Europe"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Bartaway If you believe the remaining residents of these territories face genocide then why do you reject the notion that those with political responsibility and capacity should make plans for protecting them and restoring their livelihoods"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Merz is saying out loud what everybody is saying behind closed doors: no fast-track accession for Ukraine (do they do straw polls in Brussels about who has to play bad cop). He embellishes it with Copenhagen criteria references but that's gaslighting. Germany's Merz: Ukraines accession to the European Union on January [--] [----] is out of the question. All members including Ukraine that wish to join the European Union must fulfill the Copenhagen criteria. These processes usually take several years. We can gradually bring https://t.co/emojKgEDOz Germany's Merz: Ukraines accession to the European"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Look at the Danish numbers in both responses. Lots of things have changed over the last years but one of the most dramatic is the image of Scandinavians: from mild-mannered if slightly aloof good global citizens to inveterate supremacists with a lemming-like militarist streak. Greenland episode has seriously US image in Europe Just 18% of EU citizens polled think Europe should align with the US in great power rivalry with China. 52% now want it keep the same distance between the [--] 64% said US foreign policy is defined by "colonisation & predation" https://t.co/chd6vXMr7V Greenland episode has"
X Link 2026-01-30T07:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"For once I'm with Merz on something because think about it this way: who would be the commander in chief of that army Ursula von der Leyen Kaja Kallas Weber Or maybe the rotating Council presidency Or someone appointed ad hoc in a process not covered by the treaties German Chancellor Friedrich Merz today poured cold water on a suggestion by Manfred Weber leader of the center-right European People's Party that a joint European army could play a role in postwar peacekeeping in Ukraine. https://t.co/UNqGC1L7z2 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz today poured cold water on a suggestion by Manfred"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Listening to even the more thoughtful original European leaders I realize their imagination is not up to what's ahead. It's all "how can we maintain an unjust perch at the top of the world w/o the US" never "how can we be co-creators of a safer fairer world for all""
X Link 2026-02-02T08:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Phrases like "Europe cannot Europe has Europe must" make my alarm bells ring. Who is "Europe" who has agency and power here Arguably no one but Europe's citizens. EUROPEANS. I don't think he's talking about them. Europe cannot afford to stay a loose club of vetoes and hesitations. In Leuven Belgium Mario Draghi put it clearly: coordinating national interests is not the same as acting as one power. Where Europe has chosen federation trade competition the single market it is https://t.co/xVlTaBOEhL Europe cannot afford to stay a loose club of vetoes and hesitations. In Leuven Belgium Mario"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Truth. No one has eyes for the visible invisibility of women and with that they fail to see the world for what it is. An aspect not considered: Epstein never invited extraordinary female scientists & financiers lawyers etc. We now know why. But notable how no one remarked on this during his heyday or now. Their exclusion should have been a sign. An aspect not considered: Epstein never invited extraordinary female scientists & financiers lawyers etc. We now know why. But notable how no one remarked on this during his heyday or now. Their exclusion should have been a sign"
X Link 2026-02-03T09:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"A joint EU envoy for talking to Russia would only make sense if there was EU-wide consensus for what they want from Russia and are prepared to give in return. Short of that even if they can find a candidate of the necessary stature and skill he/she would be set up to fail. Macron sent his diplomatic adviser to talk to the Kremlin today. This is happening while more governments talk about the need for a single EU-level negotiator to talk to Russia. Macron is just doing it. Macron sent his diplomatic adviser to talk to the Kremlin today. This is happening while more governments talk about the"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@NikhNakh It's a hobby for rich people. Like Lions Club. But most importantly the handful of well-connected women (compared to hundreds of men) who went to the island did not go there to rape and torture children. That is the fundamental and decisive difference"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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