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Nikolaus von Twickel
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Editor with @libmod.de in Berlin, responsible for @russlandverstehen.eu; Longtime Journalist and Russia watcher. Formerly with the OSCE SMM in Donetsk 🇺🇦, @dpa.com Moscow and @themoscowtimes.com 📧 [email protected]; @niktwick.69 on Signal
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The empathy.
Leavitt's tribute to Dick Cheney: "I know the president is aware of the former vice president's passing"
Infowars seems fitting for providing information from the »Department of War«
Among the range of right-wing slop news sites who joined the Pentagon press corps this week is Infowars, the conspiracy website run by Alex Jones. Breanna Morello, who said she left "Fox Corp over the Covid mandate," will be representing the group.
In which Chris Weafer identifies the game changing killer sanctions against Russia – not European ones (which don't matter) but huge US tariffs against China, Turkey and the Emirates for buying Russian oil
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Keeping Russian Economy Afloat: Kremlin's Economic High Wire Act
Podcast-Folge · Geopolitics Decanted with Dmitri Alperovitch · 22.10.2025 · 44 Min.
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I think Chris meant the secondary sanctions prepared by Congress, which target India and China, not Russian oil companies
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It was real. First Russia sanctions under Trump this term. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
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Good morning Bulgaria and Romania!
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The US is imposing sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, aiming to “degrade” Putin’s war chest and support Trump’s effort to end the war in Ukraine.

The move marks the first time the Trump administration has imposed direct costs on Moscow over its full-scale invasion.
US sanctions Russia’s Rosneft and Lukoil
[FREE TO READ] Measures mark Donald Trump’s first effort to impose direct cost on Moscow over invasion of Ukraine
on.ft.com
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"Heute und Gestern" hat ein starkes Heft mit #Ukraine-Schwerpunkt herausgebracht, u.a. mit Beiträgen von @umland.bsky.social, @efdavies.bsky.social, @jakluge.de, @niktwick.bsky.social. Ich habe etwas zur ukrainischen Innenpolitik geschrieben: h-und-g.info/forum/schwer...
Klein
h-und-g.info
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Recall that Trump's father was the child of immigrants, and that his mother and two of his wives were immigrants.
Trump on immigrants: "They send up their worst people. They send up people that are criminals. They send up people from jails. And the best ones they send are people that don't work very hard and that are on a social form of welfare."
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What does the night bring us?
Monitoring channels warn:
400+ drones,
and maybe missiles.
Devices are charged.

How different our Fridays are.
Yours and mine.

Yes, yes. I’ll stay strong, alive, caffeinated,
and only a little jealous.
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My thoughts exactly..
@michaelbociurkiw.bsky.social :

Interesting, is it not that Putin, who’s wanted on war crimes charges, is coming to an EU/NATO-member country. Wonder what the two blocs think of that? Will other member states grant overfly rights to Putin’s presidential aircraft? share.google/oaJtv8vRdg3x...
The Return to Budapest: History’s Dark Echo in Trump’s Peace Push
Trump and Putin’s planned Hungary talks raise awkward questions — from overflight rights and a war-crimes suspect in NATO airspace to old ghosts from the Budapest Memorandum
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Re the “drone wall”.
From 2022

“The large drone flew for at least 350 miles (560km) apparently undetected by air defences in Croatia, Hungary and Romania, all members of the western military alliance.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...
Military drone from Ukraine war crashes into Croatian capital Zagreb
‘Pilotless military aircraft’ crosses Hungary into Croatia triggering loud blast but no injuries reported
www.theguardian.com