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Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
Rubio: "President Trump is most certainly angry and frustrated at the lack of progress in Russia-Ukraine negotiations after having dedicated almost 2 years to it now."
Marco, oh Marco... The cause of your anger and frustration, your lack of progress, sits in the Kremlin and has a name. He is rejecting every ceasefire you propose except the ones where Ukraine is asked to surrender.
You suggested an unconditional ceasefire back in March 2025. Ukraine accepted, so why isn’t it happening? Probably because someone else didn’t. The aggressor, maybe?
We suggested a ceasefire on energy strikes, exactly what you want, too. So why isn’t it happening? Who is refusing? Russia.
I get it, it must be so annoying that some pesky Ukrainians and their fight for literal survival stand between you and your bestie merging in a sweet ecstasy of… dealmaking. But we will not surrender, regardless.
Seriously, what happened to this man???
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
I genuinely sat on a CNN panel last night with the Republican pundits arguing the whole goal was to get the Strait open…
Good grief, no one in charge has any idea what they’re doing.
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
Kan man skylde på noen?
Ja, regjeringen, som absolutt skulle slå sammen Flytoget og NSB.
#togstreik
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
☕️ Here's a question to ponder over your morning coffee. What would have happened if America had simply not spent the last couple of years behaving like a drunk uncle at a wedding, insulting the bride, the groom, the vicar and the man who parked the cars?
The answer is nothing. Nothing at all would have happened to the rest of the world. Life inside America, on the other hand, would have been a great deal more pleasant, because every single problem the country is currently wrestling with was made in America, by Americans, on purpose, and then explained to the public with a lie.
There was no trade deficit emergency. None. So there was no need for tariffs, which means there was no need for the inflation, the diesel and petrol prices heading for the moon, the farmers queuing for bailouts or the bond market clearing its throat every time the president opens his mouth.
Nobody was ripping America off, so there was no need to insult the Canadians until they took their billions and went home, and started filling in the paperwork to become an associate member of the European Union, which is a sentence nobody expected to write in their lifetime. No need to gift-wrap the soybean market and post it to Brazil, and no need to make the average European feel he is doing something noble by putting the bourbon back on the shelf and buying a Mercedes instead.
Iran would have carried on being Iran, which is to say tedious and unchanged. America would still have its bases scattered across the globe with grateful hosts rather than muttering ones, and the allies would still be buying American missiles rather than build their own. Foreign students would still be paying eye-watering sums to attend American universities, tourists would still be queuing in the Florida sun, and the dollar would still be trusted without anyone having to ask an awkward question.
And here is the truly maddening part. Trump would have been more popular than Putin. He would have been sitting on a booming economy, cheap fuel and a world that still picked up the phone, facing a Democratic party so invisible it could have been declared missing, and the midterms would have been a coronation rather than a coin toss.
In other words, the car was running beautifully. And then somebody climbed in, announced that the engine was on fire, and set light to it to prove the point.
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Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."
That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.
Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.
Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
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Som eneste sted i Folkerepublikken organiserte Hongkongalliansen årlige markeringer til minne om etter protestene på Den himmelske freds plass 4. juni 1989. På fastlandet blir enhver antydning til at det skjedde noe eksepsjonelt denne dagen slått ned av sensuren.
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
That the problem when democracy spreads
People start voting for parties they like, rather than for the Russian Empire
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
One year ago today, Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska, called the summit “very productive” and claimed, “We really made some great progress today.” One year later, Putin’s war against Ukraine is still raging.
A total failure.
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
🚨 FIFA's COO Kevin Lamour tells @AP he feels "deceived" by Gianni Infantino.
"What has been announced in recent days and what has been happening behind the scenes in recent months defies belief and imagination.
"To put it very clearly and directly: the project that has sparked so much controversy and debate is not a Fifa project. It is even less a project of Fifa’s administration. It is the project of one person.
"The Fifa vice-presidents, the members of the Fifa Council, the confederations, the federations, the players, the leagues, the clubs, and the fans were not the only ones who were ignored. Fifa’s own administration was also deceived.
“This lie by omission over many months and this unilateral exercise of power are not trivial. They are indicative of a lack of trust, a lack of transparency, a lack of discernment, a lack of good governance. And a serious lack of respect.
"Not only must this project not go ahead - for obvious reasons that need not even be listed here - but the time has now come for football political leaders to ask themselves the right questions and make the right decisions.
“Regarding this project and what comes next, everyone must take responsibility, because it is becoming increasingly difficult for Fifa’s administration to work under these conditions and fulfil its mission.
"Our mission - the mission of the hundreds of passionate, dedicated and exemplary Fifa employees - is to serve football. Not to serve the personal interests of a person who, unfortunately, believes he embodies Fifa when he is supposed to be at its service.
"A president must bring people together, unite them and inspire them. Today, we are experiencing the opposite. I have no authority to speak on behalf of my colleagues, and perhaps I am mistaken. But my feeling is that we all want to be proud to work for Fifa, and today, unfortunately, it seems that is no longer the case for many of us. That saddens me.
"My colleagues - some of whom have dedicated their lives to football - deserve better than contempt and intimidation.
"The ball is now in the court of those who have the power to change things.
"I know I have a duty of loyalty to my employer. But I also, and above all, have a duty of loyalty to certain values and to the upbringing I have received, and a duty to support my colleagues. And if that means I lose my job, then so be it. I will understand and respect that decision. At least I'll sleep well tonight."
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AFC stands in solidarity with UEFA and CONCACAF following recent developments surrounding the proposed establishment of FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE).
the-afc.com/en/more/afc_news…
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
Well done, @UEFA! All 55 nations will boycott #FIFAWorldCup if the crook Infantino sells it out to #Trump Family & Associates 👊👊👊 sbnation.com/soccer/1123415/…
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
UEFA meets tomorrow. There’s only one acceptable outcome.
Not a statement, not “grave concern,” not a strongly worded letter.
@UEFA must boycott every FIFA competition, until the sale of football to Trump’s crooked MAGA goons is dead. FIFA is nothing without Europe.
BREAKING: Gianni Infantino has given football associations until the 19th September to back his plan to sell off part of FIFA to private investors with a $40m incentive to accept, a letter has revealed 🚨
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
Человек, который просрал все. Россия получила уникальный шанс в 21 веке. Десятилетие растущих цен на сырье, масштабные западные инвестиции начала 2000х, и что в итоге? Этот человек слил это все в унитаз в своей бессмысленной попытке править вечно. Итоги его правления страна уже точно не переживет
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
The day after Yesterday!
A principal discussion - nothing to do with England:
1. The ball hits the wire of the Spidercam
a) players and the bench react instantly
b) video-technology from different channels show it
2. FIFA say it did not hit the wire
So two simple questions that need to be answered:
Does FIFA lie?
Is the technology NOT working?
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
Yeah, good luck trying to reach a "peaceful settlement" with this.
‼️ Russian politician Aleksey Zhuravlyov stated in an interview with Ivan Mironov that 20–30% of Ukraine’s population should be exterminated.
Mironov: “Are you calling for 20–30% of Ukraine’s population to be exterminated?”
Zhuravlyov: “They all must be exterminated. If it were 50% — even 50% would have to be exterminated.”
Per Ivar Hoevring retweeted
Egypt's disallowed goal was completely against how this tournament has been refereed.
You can't have a light touch where you don't give fouls for minimal contact and then rule out a goal through VAR for a very minimal hold of the shirt.
#ARGEGY