Minna Ålander 🌻
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Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Senior Fellow Frivärld | Defence Editor @eurcorrespond.bsky.social. Plot twist: not from Åland. 📸 Stas Kartashov
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Reposted by Minna Ålander 🌻
What Trump has made me realise is how much the post-Cold War relationship hinged on shared values rather than shared interests. Trump is illustrating how, whether on Ukraine and Gaza, our interests diverge and, absent those values, there's not much holding us together.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What Trump has made me realise is how much the post-Cold War relationship hinged on shared values rather than shared interests. Trump is illustrating how, whether on Ukraine and Gaza, our interests diverge and, absent those values, there's not much holding us together.
Here’s the secret version:
US holds secret Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi on.ft.com/4ocjUGh
US holds secret Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi
Army secretary Dan Driscoll meets delegations from Kyiv and Moscow in push for deal to end Kremlin’s invasion
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Here’s the secret version:
Okay it doesn’t say secret anymore - maybe they noticed it was silly
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Okay it doesn’t say secret anymore - maybe they noticed it was silly
Reposted by Minna Ålander 🌻
I'm looking forward to the part where Ukraine says "no" to surrendering and it turns out Trump doesn't have any cards. Because refusing to sell weapons to your allies at profit just to punish Ukraine for not surrendering isn't a card.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm looking forward to the part where Ukraine says "no" to surrendering and it turns out Trump doesn't have any cards. Because refusing to sell weapons to your allies at profit just to punish Ukraine for not surrendering isn't a card.
7. Rubio saying a few hours later that the plan was drafted by the US, not Russia, after having first said that it was a Russian draft
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
7. Rubio saying a few hours later that the plan was drafted by the US, not Russia, after having first said that it was a Russian draft