@RoFreudenstein

Lifelong addiction to politics. Model planes. SciFi geek. Global solidarity of democrats. Brussels Freedom Hub. @CEPA Senior Fellow. @GLOBSEC Associate Fellow.

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Well, in my math, there's still a majority of 53 % for maintaining or increasing assistance to Ukraine. Maybe less than a year ago. But still a majority. Which is good news, all things considered.
Thorsten Benner@thorstenbenner20h
Clear erosion of public support for standing with ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ. 43% say too much ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช support for ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ. 41% say level is just right. Only 12% say ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ชdoes too little. 65% of East Germans and 90% of AfD supports say ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ชis doing too much. (RTL/n-tv Trendbarometer/forsa)
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Nico Lange
@nicolange_12h
Die Frage kann nicht sein: Was werfen wir dem Raubtier vor die FรผรŸe, damit es friedlicher wird? Sondern: Wie kรถnnen wir dieses Raubtier einhegen? n-tv.de/politik/Von-einer-Niโ€ฆ

Nico Lange im Interview: "Von einer Niederlage der Ukraine kann keine Rede sein"

Die Vorstellung, nur die Ukraine stehe unter Druck, sei vรถllig falsch, sagt der Ukraine-Experte Nico Lange. "Der Druck auf Russland ist erheblich." Das Problem sei, dass Trump den Druck auf Putin...

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To all the legacy Republicans now clutching their pearls about Trump's Putin addiction: You. Helped. Bring. This guy. Into the White House. You campaigned for him claiming he was the will of the ppl, the lesser evil compared to Biden/Harris. Eyes wide shut. So just shut up, pls!
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Gabriel Gatehouse
@ggatehouse16h
The latest cover of Private Eye is ๐Ÿ˜˜
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Wir Europรคer haben solche Verbรผndeten verdient. Wir kriegen ja selbst nix zustande. Seid doch einfach mal realistisch, Leute. Trumps Amerika sitzt nun mal am lรคngeren Hebel. Da mรผssen wir uns unterordnen, statt weiter rumzukrakeelenโ€ฆ (IRONIE AUS) @ulrichspeck @vtchakarova
Anton Gerashchenko
@Gerashchenko_en18h
Steve Witkoff to Putin: You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.
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Carl Bildt
@carlbildtOct 20
Things go from bad to worse. Trump ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ seems to regret that ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ didnโ€™t conquer ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ immediately, and blame the failure on some incompetent ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ general. Who feeds him this strange stuff? Or does he just invent it because he wishes it was so?
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Russian tanks did use highways to Kyiv in 2022 and took heavy losses. The main reason the 40-mile convoy failed was it lacked fuel and food. Ukraine blew bridges, flooded the Irpin, and ambushed columns. nbcpalmsprings.com/2025/08/15/facโ€ฆ rusi.org/explore-our-reโ€ฆ npr.org/2022/03/01/108โ€ฆ mwi.westpoint.edu/urban-warfare-โ€ฆ euronews.com/my-europe/2025โ€ฆ
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky
@khodorkovsky_enOct 19
"It's Europe that is our main enemy. The Germans, the French, the Poles." Following the diesel deal with the Trump administration, Russian state propaganda is recalibrating its message.
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Neocons returning to their liberal roots. Not the worst evolution I can imagine.
Bill Kristol
@BillKristolOct 18
Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.
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Charles Tannock@CharlesTannockOct 17
All my adult life active in Tory politics I supported the US Republicans & even attended in 1999 the GOP Convention in Philadelphia. Shocking now 27 years later to see what Trump has made of it by cosying up to Putin & I pray Democrats win midterms & paralyse any more mischief. โ€“ at Wolfsthal, ร–sterreich
The Halfway Post
@HalfwayPostOct 16
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly mad at everyone because Republicans are losing Congress, Hegseth, Patel, and RFK Jr. will all be impeached, several staffers are in giant corruption scandals and blackmailing him, and Jared Kushner ruined his presidency with the Iran War.
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Daniel Szeligowski
@dszeligowskiOct 17
Again: the Trump administration, with its own hands, is building China a highway through Ukraine into the heart of Europe. If containing China's rise is a strategic objective of the US, Washington's policy towards Ukraine is making that objective significantly harder to achieve
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Amber
@A_DoggetteOct 16
Replying to @LauraLoomer
Yes, babe, yes. This tragedy does need some comic relief.
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Itโ€™s so hard to make a comedy about something that already IS a dark comedy!!! ๐Ÿฅด
๐•Š๐•ฆ๐•Ÿ๐••๐•’๐•–_๐”พ๐•ฆ๐•ฃ๐•
@SundaeDivineOct 17
Replying to @KatieZacharia
Even Canada adores you.
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What I find most remarkable about the Trump-Musk-Starshield game of passing the buck, is the cowardice of the ppl concerned in the debate: who really betrayed ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ , the civilians, yes, men, women and children, that had to die because of the deranged narcissism of someone in D.C.
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russian consulate in Belgium ะฟะฐั€ะพะดั–ั@russConInBelOct 16
New press secretary announced
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Phillips P. OBrien
@PhillipsPOBrienOct 16
People need to understand that the only reason Trump backed down on SpaceX and Starshield so quickly is that he got push back right away, politically and from Ukraine. He is a bully and a coward. Stop criticising Zelensky for standing up to him.
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Wolfgang Ischinger@ischingerOct 14
At some point - sadly, when it may already be too late - Americans may begin asking themselves: Why and when did we begin abandoning our soft power supremacy, and losing Europe by doing stupid and immoral stuff?
Clemens Wergin@clemenswerginOct 14
Indeed
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He really just said that.
Stuart Dowell
@StuartDowell_Oct 13
โ€œIn under two years, weโ€™ve gone from โ€˜youโ€™ve got no cardsโ€™ to โ€˜donโ€™t play your cardsโ€™.โ€ Ukraine FM Andrii Sybiha at the Warsaw Security Forum. Possibly the line of the conference.
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Darth Putin@DarthPutinKGBOct 10
Good to see Donald buy Russian diesel instead of Canadian. I know its right on USA border but they sell imperialist, woke diesel that makes your truck gay.
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Protect Kamala Harris โœŠ
@DisavowTrump20Oct 10
RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky against Donald Trump!
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Bernard-Henri Lรฉvy
@BHLOct 9
Accord de la honte. Si le Congrรจs ne le bloque pas dans les plus brefs dรฉlais, cela voudra dire que les ร‰tats-Unis d'Amรฉrique financeront les bombardements de Poutine sur lโ€™Ukraine. Trahison de lโ€™occident. Trahison de lโ€™Europe. Trahison du credo amรฉricain.
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrumpOct 9
Trump: I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace
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