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Tobias Schumacher retweeted
Serbia continues protesting. Political crisis is deepening by day.
👉🏻This Thursday citizens from all parts of Belgrade will meet in front of the High Prosecutor’s office to demand justice
👉🏻This Friday there will be a general strike in 🇷🇸
👉🏻15 March all 🇷🇸 will meet in Belgrade
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
In the coming weeks, a massive information attack against Ukraine will emerge from the U.S. We will hear claims that Ukraine is an artificial country, a creation of Austria & USAID, a dictatorship ruled by Nazis, and that it illegally produces WMDs.
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Tobias Schumacher retweeted
This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine. It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine. I know foreign policy is not for the faint of heart, but right now, I am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to democracy and U.S. values around the world.
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
This is how PM Starmer 🇬🇧 welcomes the leader of the Free World. What a difference a day makes. And English manners...
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
Zur Erinnerung: Hillary Clinton hat gewarnt, dass Trump eine russische Marionette ist.
Trump: No puppet, no puppet.
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
What seemed impossible just a few days ago happened. IAEA has deployed its personnel to Zaporizhzhia NPP via 🇷🇺occupied territory without 🇺🇦 approval.
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
This might be the most extraordinary tweet of the day - the ambassador to ukraine translating this and posting it - a sign of how quickly all the institutions are rushing to show loyalty to Trump.
A career diplomat who’s lived the whole war in Kyiv applauding Ze’s humiliation.
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
Dette er slik FrP tenker bak lukkede dører (Teigen var lenge Listhaugs rådgiver). Dette er en god grunn til å markere tydelig avstand til FrP i (valg)år. (Vance stemte forøvrig mot støtte til Ukraina da han var senator.)
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
#ResistanceUnited
Advertisement at a London bus stop… ya gotta love the British
Geht wählen und steht ein für die Demokratie!
What matters in today's German election:
1. That the victory of the pro-European centre-right party CDU /CSU is as clear as possible, so there is no space for interpretations.
2. That AfD, the populist, extremist, anti-European party, which wants to weaken Europe and to cozy with Russia, obtains a poor result.
3. That #Germany has a pro-European government.
4. That Germany will be able to form a government fast and for this to be stable. For this, a two-party coalition is desirable.
#Merz #BTW2025 @CDU @CSU #Bundestagswahl
Tobias Schumacher retweeted
The American team has almost no experience in high-level international negotiation, no regional expertise on Ukraine and Russia, and no relevant foreign language knowledge. Not true of the Russians, to put it mildly. Looks like a bloodbath by design.
The Russian negotiating team in Riyadh is to consist of:
- Yury Ushakov, the Kremlin's chief foreign policy adviser, who has worked in diplomacy for over half a century;
- Sergey Naryshkin, Ushakov’s top spy, who served alongside Putin in the Soviet KGB;
- Kirill Dmitriev, a financier educated at Stanford and Harvard, who has ties to the Kremlin chief’s family and, according to the publication, could play a key role as an unofficial "backchannel" to Trump's negotiators.
A rumour says that Vladymir Medinsky is to join the Russian team in Riyadh. He is a former Minister of Culture. Now he is Putin's key adviser on ideological aspects of Russian aggression on Ukraine.
And here comes the real thing. It goes step by step, by step...
In Russia, the State Duma approved the bill ratifying the bilateral treaty with Belarus "on security guarantees within the Union State". It was signed in December last year.
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Tobias Schumacher retweeted
Ich sage es mal so: Ich war immer äußerst skeptisch gegenüber der Idee, Deutschland oder die EU bräuchten eigene Atomwaffen.
Aber ohne die USA halte ich das nukleare Abschreckungsdispositiv Frankreichs und des Vereinigten Königreichs nicht für ausreichend, um die gegenwärtige Sicherheit Europas ausreichend zu gewährleisten.
Deshalb sind wir jetzt, denke ich, an einem Punkt, an dem sich eine Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse zumindest lohnt.
Eine nukleare Aufrüstung Deutschlands und Europas wäre extrem teuer—finanziell, aber vor allem politisch. Darüber sollten wir uns keine Illusionen machen. Sie wäre auch hochriskant. Trotzdem sollten wir uns nun ernsthaft mit dem Wann und Wie befassen.
Das würde zudem die Kalkulationen in Washington und Moskau komplizierter machen und es erschweren, Europa einfach zu ignorieren.
Europeans had enough time to prepare for this, but they chose not to. And now they are shocked?! Remarkable! theguardian.com/world/2025/f…
