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Who blew up #NordStream?
Was @CIA involved? Who pulled off the greatest sabotage in modern history-and why?
My new book's out June 16:“part geopolitical thriller, part true-crime detective story, part gritty war chronicle.”
Already a bestseller in Germany.
Order now.Links below:
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The author of the now celebrated Ukrainian battle cry “Russian warship, go f… yourself” serviceman Roman Gribov, is awarded a medal for displaying the “strength of Ukrainian, Kozak spirit.” He was captured and then exchanged by the Russian invaders in a prisoner swap
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Massive protests in Ukrainian cities occupied by Russia, making short work of Putin’s outlandish claims that the @UN-condemned invasion is “liberation.” This is Kherson after the Russian conquest
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Masses of ordinary Ukrainians are braving Russian invaders’ barrages to protest in occupied Kherson. A woman named Valentina Maganova says to the tune of gunfire: “We’re not afraid. Repost this across the world. Please, support us. Kherson is Ukraine!”
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Game changer: Germany has delivered its cutting edge aerial defence system Iris-T SLM to Ukraine. The €140m system can protect an entire city the size of Kyiv from any aerial attack, including missiles, drones etc. Three more will be delivered soon spiegel.de/politik/deutschla…
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Bellingcat investigator says Russia's defense minister Shoigu and other senior officials, possibly including Putin, are residing in nuclear bunkers near Ufa in the Ural mountains, according to recent flight data
Вот эта свободная дискуссия о войне с классной командой из @novaya_gazeta считается незаконной по новым севернокорейским законам России. Поэтому смотрите здесь. piped.video/XzkRtcOcgiA
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Germany's former president Gauck, a pastor & theologian who refused to visit Russia while in office, said German pacifism "cements the dominance of evil." If Germany were under attack like Ukraine, he would pick up a rifle and shoot at the enemy, he said.
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Wolfgang Schäuble, a veteran German politician, said that Lech Kaczynski was right in 2008 to say that Putin will first attack "Georgia, then Ukraine, then the Baltic states and then Poland...we knew everything, and we refused to see it" tagesspiegel.de/politik/wolf…
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Complaints rise that Germany is blocking stronger sanctions and refusing to send substantial military aid to Ukraine. Via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/germany-fac…
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How ordinary Russians feel about their country invading Ukraine nitter.app/spideesense1/status/15…
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Astonishingly bold move: Prime ministers of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia go to Kyiv, which is under Russian shelling, to meet @ZelenskyyUa and show solidarity with Ukraine euractiv.com/section/europe-…
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Germany has today allowed itself virtually unlimited spending on defence and Ukriane, with the upper chamber of parliament adopting legislation that will enable the government to take up to €1 trillion in debt. This is the single most important thing that has happened or will happen regarding defence and Ukraine in Europe. All the other news you will hear from the EU etc is just noise. It remains to be seen how the money will be spent but this is a game-changing boost
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People from around the world are bypassing Putin’s censorship to send millions of text messages/emails about the invasion of Ukraine to ordinary Russians by using a new tool developed by Poland-based @squad3o3 & disseminated by @YourAnonNews wsj.com/articles/using-a-new… via @WSJ
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How does Russia lose in Ukraine?
After Ukraine's triumph in Kherson, let's recall how other relatively recent invasions by the Russian/Soviet Empire against weaker opponents ended in disasters that could offer lessons for Moscow's current war of conquest:
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Spain rejects EU proposal to cut gas consumption by 15% with a jibe that was overused by Merkel officials during the eurozone crisis: "Unlike other countries, we Spaniards have not lived beyond our means from an energy point of view" elpais.com/economia/2022-07-…
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Incredible @derspiegel Angela Merkel interview:
She regrets nothing, even NordStream 2 was a good thing & Germans are partly to blame for failing to integrate mass migration.
She blames others for catastrophic consequences of her governments' policies
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Did you know that Finland, population 5m, has stronger armed forces than Germany, a country of 83m and Europe’s largest economy? By @minna_alander fourninesecurity.de/2022/08/…
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Number of #coronavirus infections per 1 million inhabitants (7 day average). Germany is a giant, comparatively clean island smack in the middle of Europe. via @Welt
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#Merkel, Europe's preeminent leader, clearly not amused to be sat next to Trump's daughter Ivanka during WH official talks. Bonkers nepotism
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My dispatch from #Sweden, which is experiencing an unprecedented surge in shootings, bombings and sexual crime. The crisis is mainly restricted to areas predominantly populated by immigrants, so ordinary Swedes read the news with disbelief: thetimes.co.uk/edition/world…
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This is hilarious: PMs of Nordic states trolling #Trump & his Saudi orb moment
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Amazing western obsession with Sweden as a bad/good example bc of no lockdown. Yet South Korea has 5x the population, much lower death rate & never had a lockdown. Same in Taiwan, Hong Kong. They brushed off both Sars 1 and Sars 2. Why's the west not learning from best practices?
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Bare-handed Ukraine civilians of all age and gender resist Russian occupation in the areas where the invaders prevailed
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The German airforce transporting #COVID19 patients from Bergamo to Cologne, where they will be distributed to German hospitals for treatment
Gelebte europäische Solidarität: seit 6.00 Uhr morgens fliegt das @Team_Luftwaffe italienische #Corona-Patienten von #Bergamo nach @koeln_de, die dann in nordrhein-westfälischen Kliniken behandelt werden. 🇪🇺 #covid19 #gemeinsamgegencorona
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Chancellor @OlafScholz said he’s not going to Kyiv, partly because @ZelenskyyUa refused to receive Germany’s president. Ukraine ambo to Berlin @MelnykAndrij responds: not “very statesmanlike to behave like an offended liver sausage” politico.eu/article/war-in-u…
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Germany is blocking @NATO ally Estonia from giving military support to Ukraine. Via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/germany-blo…
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The reality of Jews in western Europe despite the "never again" mantra: A student was assaulted by three men in Vienna's metro for reading a book about Jews; police asked her whether it was appropriate to read a such book during a “time of such conflict.” algemeiner.com/2021/05/28/wh…
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Putin said his invasion would "denacify" Ukraine, a country run by president @ZelenskyyUa, a Jew and grandson of a WWII veteran who fought against Nazism and lost family in the Holocausts.
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Ukraine’s government video showing the death and destruction caused by the Russian invasion
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Lots of ill-informed commentary about the passing of the Queen, especially from U.S. pundits. Here she is in 1961, when racial segregation was law in America. Later, she clashed with Margaret Thatcher over the PM's refusal to slap sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime
Queen Elizabeth II dances with Ghana’s then President Kwame Nkrumah at a ball in Accra, Ghana in 1961, while her husband, Prince Philip dances with Ghana's then First Lady, Madame Fatia Nkrumah.
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France has announced plans to boost the teaching of the classics in schools in an initiative that supporters say will counter wokeism and reinforce the European Union. thetimes.co.uk/article/frenc…
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🚨A New Spy Unit Is Leading Russia’s Shadow War Against the West
We identified the lethal unit behind plots to send firebombs via @DHLGlobal and murder western executives such as the @RheinmetallAG, as well as sabotage and cyber-strikes
My investigation via @WSJ
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The King of Spain is trying to calm angry crowds in Paiporta, a Valencia region town affected by the floods.
He’s braving mud and rock throwing to talk to people while the prime minister Sanchez and other politicians seem to have been evacuated
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Germany is now probing its total financial aid to Palestinians, which nears half a billion a year, for fears that it's been facilitating terror in Gaza, controlled by the Hamas dictatorship
Bund prüft sämtliche Palästinenser-Hilfen tagesschau.de/inland/debatte… #Israel
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Germany’s @BioNTech_Group says it takes ~2 weeks to establish whether the new strain eludes the vaccine. If a new vaccine is needed, it can be developed within 6 weeks and the first batches will be delivered within 100 days.
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2. Russo-Polish War of 1919-21
The Bolsheviks tried to overrun Poland to spread their revolution westward under the motto “the road to world conflagration leads over Poland’s corpse,” but got hammered instead in a war that cemented the reborn Polish nation
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Scoop: Wagner's Prigozhin planned to capture Russia's military leadership as part of his mutiny but had to rush the operation after Russian intelligence FSB learned of the plot some 48 hours in advance, which could in part explain its failure. wsj.com/articles/wagners-pri… via @WSJ
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4. Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979-89
Despite the world's largest nuclear and conventional force, the Soviets were humbled by a sandal-wearing Afghan guerilla and kicked out after a ten-year occupation, a defeat that catalyzed the breakup of the USSR
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3. Winter War 1939-40
Moscow invaded Finland & eventually grabbed ~10% of its territory, but only after suffering horrendous losses that debilitated its armed forces and, according to many historians, encouraged Hitler to invade the USSR shortly after
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1. Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5
Moscow severely underestimated Japan, partly due to racist misconceptions and its own corruption, and proceeded to lose virtually its entire Eastern/Baltic fleets before suffering a humiliating defeat and suing for peace
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Kremlin learning that the bravery that stopped Hitler in the USSR is not a exclusively Russian trait: amid street battles in Kyiv Ukraine leader debunks Russian disinfo that he fled: “This is our land, our country, our children…we will keep defending them.Glory to Ukraine.”
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Russian telegram reports Wagner entered Moscow oblast, 2hrs from the capital. Mayor declares state of emergency, Monday no work.
Prigozhin’s Moscow blitz could prove more successful than the run on Kyiv.
Wagner progressing like Taliban, RU army useless like Afghan govt forces
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China has warned Russia against threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, in a rare departure from its usual tacit support for Moscow. Via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/china-rebuk…
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The Swedish #Covid-19 experiment is over. After a severe second #coronavirus wave - which authorities said won’t happen - the government imposed some mandatory restrictions to curb hospitalisations and deaths. My report via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/long-a-hold…
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The German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania that created a shady foundation to circumvent US sanctions against the Russian gas pipeline NordStream2 has now voted down a proposal to use the millions left in the foundation as humanitarian aid for Ukraine
1/4 In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern haben Grüne, FDP, CDU beantragt, die Millionen aus Manuela #Schwesigs Gazprom-Stiftung zur "Wiedergutmachtung" für humanitäre Hilfe in der 🇺🇦 einzusetzen. Das wurde mit den Stimmen von SPD, Linke und AfD niedergestimmt ... ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/n…
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#Merkel about corona-deniers: "I believe Europe is were it is thanks to the Enlightenment. I decided to study physics in the GDR because I was very certain many things can be manipulated, but not gravity, not the speed of light, and not other facts. And this will remain true."
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Merkel-worship was liberalism at its worst, says this succinct @FT evisceration of the ex-chancellor, her legacy, and her fandom:
A one-person case for constitutional term limits, the most damaging European leader since 1945, a sphinx without a secret.
on.ft.com/4g2KYEB
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This tells you all you need to know about the intel in Germany/Europe & how they misjudged the situation: Germany’s chief spy was caught up in the Russian invasion on Ukraine during a work trip and had to flee by road after the Russians started bombing wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-…
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A young German woman was murdered by Hamas while attending a music festival in Israel before the militants desecrated and paraded her body on the back of a truck.
Some even claimed she was an Israeli soldier
dailymail.co.uk/news/article… via @MailOnline
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Earlier delivery was not possible: the system, which was originally purchased by Egypt, had to be manufactured first. Egypt agreed to give way to Ukraine. Germany itself doesn’t have these systems - because they are too expensive
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The married couple Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, founders of @BioNTech_Group, invented the first #COVID19 vaccine to be authorized in the West. But their jab is a byproduct of 30 years of cancer research. My piece via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/how-a-coupl…
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Extraordinary speech by Germany’s Green vice chancellor: too few Muslims have distanced themselves from antisemitism and Hamas in Germany: if they are foreigners they risk deportation and Germans risk prosecution.
Anyone living in Germany must live by the rules of Germany
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted new criticism of Angela Merkel, whose policies in office, critics say, paved the way for Putin’s aggression.
My @WSJ essay about the former chancellor's ever-more controversial legacy: wsj.com/articles/did-merkel-…
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Anti-Semitism & immigration in Sweden: A 2013 study showed that 51% of anti-Semitic incidents were attributed to Muslim extremists. Only 5% were carried out by right-wing extremists; 25% were perpetrated by left-wing extremists. @paulinaneuding in @nytimes nytimes.com/2017/12/14/opini…
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Russia systematically destroys Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure: one of Europe’s largest steel and iron works, Azovstal in Mariupol, was targeted by Russian shelling on Friday. The owners said the plant was fully shut down for the first time since the 1941 Nazi invasion
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Interesting how Macron put up a full-on military parade, with heavy hardware including tanks rolling down Champs-Élysées and bombers flying low (like every year), yet there was no backlash or Soviet comparisons? stripes.com/france-trumpets-…
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Spiegel interviewed the family of the victim, who attended a music festival with friends from Mexico when Hamas terrorists attacked them.
They not only desecrated her body, they also robber her: Spiegel says her credit card has been used in Gaza.
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President Trump has invited via @RichardGrenell to the White House the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia in a bid to broker a resolution to a decades-long dispute that prompted U.S. military intervention. The meeting should be on June 27 via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/trump-to-ho… via @WSJ
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New German migration poll:
%52 don't want refugees from Islamic countries;
%54 fear Germans becoming a minority;
%57 say certain homeland areas no longer feel like Germany;
%58 say migrants not integrated;
%75 say migration overwhelms schools.
By @insaresearch via @niusde_
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Some facts on EU vaccine procurement:
1. The EU only ordered 200m doses from @BioNTech_Group & @pfizer on *November 11,* when it was already behind in the queue (the US ordered on July 22). The EU *refused* an offer to order 500m doses.
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Caliphate is trending in Germany because anti-Israel protests demand a caliphate, with men and women marching separately under black Islamic flags. Not only Jews but also Yazidis and other minorities persecuted by Islamic State are terrified
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As children, they fled to Russia to escape the Nazis. Now Ukrainian Holocaust survivors flee to Germany from Russian bombs which Putin justified with “denazification.” My report via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/ukrainian-h…
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First country to answer Spain's distress call is #Czechia, donating 90 life-saving ventilators and protective gear to its bigger & richer partner via the @NATO system (not #EU). Czechia has been extremely quick in its response to #coronavirus and is now helping others.
The 🇪🇦 Air Force #C130 #Hercules just landed in #TorrejónDeArdoz Air Base with 10000 units of protective gears and 90 ventilators donated by the #CzechRepublic.
The first answer to 🇪🇦's request to @NATO #EADRCC is already in #Spain.
#WeAreNATO 🇪🇦🇨🇿
📸 @EjercitoAire
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Most European authorities are reopening schools, admitting it was a mistake to keep them closed for so long & determined not to have blanket closures again even as #coronavirus infections are on the rise. Our report via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/schools-in-…
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'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours'
Absolutely amazing @bbc report about how Israel warns civilians via private mobile phones to evacuate buildings before targeting them. Real-life @FaudaOfficial bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea…
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The number of allegations and investigations of corruption related to the Spanish government and the family of the prime minister @sanchezcastejon is extraordinary.
Spain’s PM fled the floods crisis, was silent on the power cut and is mired in claims of dirty tricks and a fake bomb plot — and now faces protests in Madrid ⬇️ thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
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Amazing: German municipality where the Nord Steam Russian gas pipelines land *rejects Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian bombs* for security reasons related to its critical infrastructure… are they really worried refugees would bomb the Russian pipes? ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenbu…
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Officials in Germany & Austria complain about a "prevention paradox" in public debates: because both countries managed #coronavirus well & averted the horrors seen in Spain, Italy etc, people now criticize their measures as excessive. "If prevention works, it's seen as useless"
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Germany is reeling after violent anti-Semitic rallies have yet again brought the Middle East on the streets of Europe. Radical Islamists & other rioters clashed with police and in some cases went after reporters. Merkel & other leaders vowed to prevent this from repeating
Gewalt und antisemitischer Hass in #Berlin: Unsere Auswertung zu den heutigen pro-palästinensischen Demonstrationen unter Beteiligung islamistischer und extremistischer Gruppen.
Hintergrund und Bericht: bit.ly/3ygPgm2
#b1505 #Antisemitismus #IsraelUnderAttack
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A major humanitarian disaster in Mariupol, Ukraine: constant indiscriminate shelling; supply of water, electricity and gas deliberately cut off by Russian invaders; starving, freezing people making fires outside to warm up & cook. The Mayor’s office sent me these photos yesterday
Audio sent to us today from MSF's emergency coordinator Alex Wade - huge concerns on the situation in Mariupol, Ukraine.
"The city has been heavily shelled day and night for the last several days... supermarkets have been hit...there's no electricity, no heating...no water."
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Mariupol authorities say that a Russian aerial bomb destroyed a children’s hospital less than a hour ago #Ukraine
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Extraordinary address the president of Serbia, the largest #EU membership candidate now banned from importing medical kit. "European solidarity does not exist. It was a fairy-tale...the only country who can help us out of this difficult situation is China." #coronavirus
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The small world of stable liberal democracies.
Despite everything, still such a beacon of good life that millions and millions of people from everywhere else relentlessly migrate to a handful of countries that created the best societies in human history.
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So much for Russians rejecting the war: President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating in Russia has soared since he launched his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24—to 83% from 71% last month, according to Levada wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-… via @wsj
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Ambassador @RichardGrenell, Mr. Trump’s special envoy for the negotiations, dismissed the skepticism as complaints by Brussels bureaucrats.“For 18 months we have been pushing to break the political stalemate of the last 21 years, “Mr. Grenell said wsj.com/articles/trumps-balk…
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Exclusive: @Huawei can covertly access mobile networks through back doors meant for law enforcement, U.S. tells allies in bid to show firm poses security threat. My report via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/u-s-officia…
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In Ukraine, a Surge in Amputations Reveals the Human Cost of Russia’s War:
Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have lost limbs since the start of the war, according to previously unreported estimates
wsj.com/articles/in-ukraine-… via @WSJ
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How a Little-known German Biotech Firm Founded by the Children of Turkish Immigrants Became a Leader in Global #Coronavirus Vaccine Race. My report via @WSJ: wsj.com/articles/how-pfizer-…
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Ukraine’s @ZelenskyyUa uses EU video conference to tell Viktor Orban of Hungary to decide whose side he’s on in the war, reminding him of the mass murder of Jews in Budapest at the hands of Hungarian fascists in WWII (English subtitles)
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Ukraine's running out of ammo but will now get huge shipments of shells it needs most.
Not from the U.S., or any big power, but thanks to Czechia, which clinched a global deal because it operated outside EU/NATO bureaucracies & used Cold War relations
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🚨Netflix Alert
In a daring midnight raid, heavily armed Finnish elite forces dropped from helicopters onto a Russia shadow fleet tanker & captured the vessel that cut multiple undersea cables in the Baltic.
After 2 years of sabotage, Finland says enough
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#Austria will be the first European country to start exiting the #coronavirus lockdown already on 14.04, with a plan to fully restart the economy on 01.05., according to @sebastiankurz
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Amazing footage of a Rotterdam metro accident: the train flew off the rails but was saved by an artwork in the shape of a giant metal whale 🐳
Bij metrostation De Akkers in Spijkenisse is een metro door het stootblok heengereden. Het treinstel bungelt zo'n 8 meter boven de grond en rust op een kunstwerk. Gekeken wordt hoe de metro geborgen kan worden. De metrobestuurder is voor controle naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.
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Ukraine is using German armour in its incursion into Russia, Bild reports.
German tanks are back in Kursk bild.de/politik/ausland-und-…
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Germany will: boost defense spending above 2% GDP, immediately pour 100bn in the armed forces, buy Israeli drones and US F-35s for the nuclear deterrent, build a strategic natural-gas reserve and finance two major LNG terminals, says @OlafScholz @WSJ wsj.com/articles/germany-to-…
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While bigger EU countries such as France and Germany were debating the escalatory risks of offering Ukraine much smaller amounts of weaponry, Poland was quietly giving away roughly half its T-72 tanks - at least 240 of them wsj.com/articles/poland-supp… via @WSJ
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In #Sweden, a country of 10m people, more than 320 shootings and dozens of bombings were reported in 2017, along with more than 110 murders and 7,226 rapes — a 10% increase on 2016. More than 36% of young Swedish women say they feel unsafe at night. thetimes.co.uk/edition/world…
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Drinking is way up for social drinkers stuck inside during #coronavirus lockdowns. “What else is left to do after the house is cleaned, feasts have been made, and bike rides and walks have been had?” Our report via @WSJ wsj.com/articles/happy-hour-…
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Some 77% Palestinians from the West Bank see Hamas is a winner in the ongoing conflict and 53% believe Hamas deserves to lead all Palestinians, according to a new poll.
Zur Info an all jene, die behaupten (oder der Behauptung glauben), die Mehrheit der Palästinenser im Gazastreifen seien „gegen die Hamas“ und „die Hamas hat keine Mehrheit“, hier ein Artikel vom 15. Juni 2021:
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The German government admits once more that, war or no war, it's fully addicted to Russian energy imports. “The bitter message is: we still need Russian gas,” Germany's vice-chancellor Robert Habeck said. wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-… via @wsj
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I can confirm this tweet is not up to date with Germany’s border situation. It’s been a while since they had a border with Italy
Germany is currently not considering closing the country’s borders with Italy due to the coronavirus outbreak, its foreign ministry said cnn.it/2uqYU9V
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