Frederik Hoedeman
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Frederik Hoedeman
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MA in East and Central European Studies/Polish. Copenhagen.

Hopeless late night Czech language student

Слава Україні!
V duchu Berlusconiho obchodních dohod o rope? Tehdy se jmenoval Valentino Valentini...a ne Witkoff...

☝️ Jednani o ropnych smlouvach v Arktide mohou byt moc komplikovana
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Trumps allerbedsteste forhandler skal nu belæres om de seneste "succeser" for Putins hær på frontlinjen.

Målet med de seneste dages propaganda og Putin i miltæruniform er at få Washington til at tro, at Ukraine er en fejlslagen stat mens Rusland er et succesfuldt land som det er værd at satse på.
December 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
And it works as always...Danish TV2: "Putin claims big victory tonight".

Interesting also US, Russia and China on the same frontpage:

👀The US has deteriorated into war crimes and moral collapse,
💣Russia has turned all Carl Schmitt
🤹China has disguised into beautiful, environmental diplomacy.
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
👀😬 Skip to 2014, where The Kremlin started its invasion of Ukraine masquerading the invasion as a "civil war" between "pro-russian" seperatists and Ukraine. Successfully back then. Still largely successful as the dominant narrative to this day in the West.

**
November 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Myrnohrad, Ukraine, three and a half years into Russias full scale invasion, november 2025
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Russian soldiers in front of the Chechnyan presidential palace, Grozny 9. May 1995.
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Hungary, November 1956.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
DF's pro-russiske venner fra Tjekkiet har en succesfuld uge bag sig!

Formanden for parlamentet, udpeget af Andrej Babiš, første handling var at fjerne det ukrainske flag.

I sin første tale til nationen forsvarede Okamura Ruslands invasion af Ukraine og gik hårdt til angreb på ukrainske flygtninge.
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Andreas Reckwitz at Copenhagen University today for the book launch of the Danish translation of his "Verlust".

I am mainly intersted in seeing how the original intervention of Verlustunternehmertum is translated- radical political parties using loss and nostalgia as drivers for electoral support.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Here is one why...Zugspitze, Germany/Austria, a year ago
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
October 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
100% what happened in Denmark with or without help from Russia until 2022.

Fx led to the so-called beer diplomacy of Lars Løkke, inspired by Merkel, for "doing real politics through personal friendship" with Putin.

But not the less dangerous and completely risk blind to classic KGB, FSB methods.
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
"Russian soldiers in front of the presidential palace of Chechnya, celebrating the victory over Chechnyan seperatists fighting for an independent Chechnya".

Grozny, May 1995.

📷 Krzysztof Miller

We were warned.
October 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Jaruzelski must go"
Warszaw, 1989
📷Krzysztof Miller
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Jørgen Leth havde også en mørk side" er til at læse i Nyheder.tv2.dk. Siger hvem? Siger Løkke.

Men hvorfor sige sådan noget om en afdød "man holdt meget af". Hvorfor lige nu?
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Yep, normalising the end of democracy in a language course is not something I see everly day, but here we go, "nicely done" 😬
October 14, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Wow, seems that this morning I have reached the darkest hour of my Czech language course
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The 400 people killed by Russians in Laiuse in 1558 must be seen with total Estonian population of 250.000-300.000 at the time.

In most of Scandinavia, the brutal nature of Russian imperialism has become evident just after 2022 with Russias full scale atteack. But many understand it now, at least.
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Vedr. Merkels eftermæle: Forhenværende litauisk general skrev tidligere på året, at Merkel bad Ukraine om ikke at modsætte sig annekteringen af ​​Krim.

Merkels Ruslandspolitik styrkede Putin og gjorde EU afhængig af hans energi og risokoblind. Prisen? Det begynder vist langsomt at gå op for os.
October 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Merkel leder febrilsk efter en måde at pynte på sit eftermæle. Hun kommer det ikke ligefrem nærmere her:

"Merkel giver Polen og de Baltiske lande en del af skylden for Putins krig".
October 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Afslappet måde at fortolke ændringerne omkring os på, når man har været ledende figur i dansk politik i årtier. Og en af hovedarkitekterne bag den "viser det sig nu" noget naive danske version af Fukuyamas "historiens afslutning".

Også skønt med sådan naturkraft. Forandring helt af sig selv, ikke?
October 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
København
October 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
TV2 bringer en historie, hvor et Kreml kontrolleret medie citerer TV2 om "ukendte droner ved Bornholm", men hvorfor? Jeg ved det ej, men måske nyhedskriterierne kan hjælpe?

1. Væsentlighed? Vi skal vide at Kreml fortæller befolkningen at vi i Danmark lader som vi ikke ved at det er russiske droner
September 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Danish military expert: "The drone incident at Copenhagen Airport shows Danish government hasn't yet got too serious about the security threat from Russia".

"I am concerned on behalf of the Danish population", Peter Rasmussen, Olfi.

Perhaps time to get serious, no?
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Je moc zajimave, ze zminujes rok 2011 jako zlomovy bod pro zmeny k horsimu v Rusku. Protoze to byl rok velkeho usmireni mezi Danskem a Ruskem. Nase elita se od te doby hodne naucila.

Putin v Kodani:

"Jsme tak dobří přátelé".
September 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM