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Ralph Janik
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| International Law | EU | International Relations
| Assistant Professor @SFU Vienna
| everything is political
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ach Karin
Vladimir Soloviev @VRSoloviev · 14 Std. Former Austrian FM @Karin_Kneissl , who labels European politicians “teenagers with wrinkles,” says they fail to acknowledge their role in the problems they’ve caused. “In Russia, I often hear the term ‘elite’. I’m sorry to say, but in Berlin and Vienna, I don’t see any elites.”
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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oh Karin
Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews None other than Austria's former Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl joined Vladimir Solovyov on his show, where he routinely calls for nuclear strikes against Europe.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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der Merch-Shop im österreichischen Parlament braucht dringend ein Buch zur Neutralität finde ich
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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my 8 year-old self asks about these cute fellas
Guinea pigs
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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ein Defensivbündnis zweier neutrale Staaten wäre ein herrliches Verfassungs-Oxymoron
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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spontaineously had to think of the "I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers" @theguardian.com article
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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This guy wrote the Ukraine capitulation plan 👇🏻
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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womit habe ich das verdient
E H R E N E I N L A D U N G zum Sonderpodiumsvortrag von Rechtsanwalt Dr. Adrian Eugen Hollaender NRPräs. a.D. Univ.Prof. Dr. Willi Brauneder a.o. Univ.Prof. i.R. Dr. Michael Geistlinger zum Thema Österreichs immerwährende Neutralität
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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the first and final picture I took during my recent trip to Israel/Jerusalem. I had the opportunity to talk about the conflation of the ius ad bellum and ius in bello at the 20th Minerva Center for Human Rights annual conference. Heated debates about, among others, Gaza and genocide.
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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klar, jederzeit, IBAN, Passnummer, Geburtsdatum, Geburtsort, Namen meiner Großeltern, Handy per Post mit Code für 2-Faktor-Autentifizierung auch?
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I just looked it up: "Genocide" appears 68 times in the Nuremberg records. Remember: No Nazi leader was convicted for genocide in Nuremberg.
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Here’s a picture of Netanyahus home in Google maps
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Greetings from Israel/Jerusalem. A few impressions. The good, the bad and the ugly.
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Greetings from Israel/Jerusalem, where I will be attending the
20th Annual Minerva Conference on International Humanitarian Law tomorrow and Tuesday and talk about ius in bello vs ius ad bellum. The place and topic couldn't be more timely. Program here: en.minervacenter.huji.ac.il/upcoming-eve...
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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“”A clash of two worlds"”, [National socialist] Berlin and London were not playing the same game, though some on both sides wished they were”

Makes me think of today, where neither Washington nor London, Paris and Berlin nor Moscow are playing the same game. We want peace. Russia wants war.
Quote from Mark Mazower, Dark continent Second World War did not start because of diplomatic misunderstanding or confusion, nor even because of Hitler's deceit or duplicity. Rather it started because-very late in the day-Hitler's opponents realized they were faced with "a clash of two worlds." Berlin and London were not playing the same game, though some on both sides wished they were. 55 It is true that the British Empire was ruined by the cost of fighting Hitler. What, however, is doubtful is whether it could have been saved by joining him. Germany's own colonial agenda troubled the British, who were reluctant to buy off Nazi demands in Europe with bits of Africa. The ideological gulf between the two powers was evident here too, and Nazi colonial planners harshly criticized the British for their excessive lax racial policies. Any alliance would theref have involved the British abandoning the liberal imperialist creed (and belief in ind rule) for hardline racialism. Such an alliance actually envisaged by Alfred Rosenberg, a leac Nazi ideologue-Britain and Germany toget
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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“liberalism looked tired, the organized Left had been smashed and the sole struggles over ideology and governance were taking place within the Right-among authoritarians, traditional conservatives, technocrats and radical right-wing extremists”

Reading about the Interwar period is quite chilling …
in most of Europe by the mid-1930s-outside the northern fringe-liberalism looked tired, the organized Left had been smashed and the sole struggles over ideology and governance were taking place within the Right-among authoritarians, traditional conservatives, technocrats and radical right-wing extremists. Only France continued its civil war between Left and Right through the 1930s, until that was ended by Vichy. But civil war had already erupted briefly in Austria (in 1934) and more protractedly in Spain before ending in right-wing triumph. In Italy, central Europe and the Balkans, the Right held sway. Regimes varied from the royal dictatorship From Mark Mazower, Dark Continent
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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this recent "interview" with the Palantir CEO made me think of the most accurate headline in recent history of headlines
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The dark side of neutrality (from the memoirs of Cordell Hull, former US Secretary of State and Nobel Peace prize laureate in 1945)
In February, 1944, the British and ourselves reopened negotiations with the Swiss to obtain still further reductions in their exports to Ger¬ many. The Swiss Government, however, strongly resisted all our efforts and engaged in delaying tactics. With these negotiations still in course, I called in the Swiss Minister, Charles Bruggmann, on July 14. After emphasizing the traditional and inherently friendly relations between our peoples and Governments, I said I had already discovered that some of the countries listed as neutral did not seem clearly to appreciate the serious situation of countries like the United States. We, I pointed out, were losing thousands of lives, we had 8,000,000 armed men fighting on all battle fronts, we were spending $200,000,000,000, and we were supplying Great Britain and Russia to an enormous extent. “It’s not unnatural,” I said, “that Swiss businessmen should ask the intercession of their Government with ours so as to retain as much trade with the Axis as possible. I saw this happen to a great extent during the First World War, and I’ve seen it happen in this war. The Swedes pleaded with tears in their eyes for some time against what they regarded as excessive requests of the Allied nations to limit ever more the Swedish exports to Germany. Their main argument was the possible loss of coal from Germany, whereupon we suddenly discovered that they had coal on hand to keep them supplied for a year. “When the United States is losing lives right and left and is spend¬ ing enormous sums of money because of neutral aid to the enemy primarily in order to gratify some businessmen, the question becomes most serious to this country.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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auch interessant: Österreich hat den höchsten Wert an Menschen, die es nicht wichtig finden, das eigene Land zu verteidigen (Zahlen von 2020 aber)

europa.eu/eurobaromete...
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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still here, I just tried?
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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veeery interesting tables (from Mazower's The Dark Continent) showing how minorities in European countries disappeared during the 20th century and how they were about to become more ethnically heterogenous again over time
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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let's bring the good old pre-Women workplace back. @nytimes.com is asking the right questions!
Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it? November 6, 2025
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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this argument is dangerous nonsense. There is no legal basis for the US' strikes on "drug boats", not under the ius ad bellum, not under US law, not under the law of armed conflict, not under human rights law. It's state-orchestrated murder, plain and simple.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hegseth announces another deadly US strike on alleged drug boat Pentagon secretary says two people killed in attack on boat in eastern Pacific, bringing total killed to 66 in 16 strikes Associated Press Wed 5 Nov 2025 02.27 CET Defense secretary Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower. The attack Tuesday killed two people aboard the vessel, Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign in South American waters up to at least 66 people in at least 16 strikes. Donald Trump has justified the strikes by insisting the United States is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels and claiming the boats are operated by foreign terror organizations. The administration has not provided evidence or more details.
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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US alt right accounts ("End Wokness" has 3.9 mil followers) have found out that there are Muslims in Vienna. The comments are also quite something, one thinks that the video was made in the US, others say Hitler "predicted this" or that "we need him back", another one speaks of "white genocide".
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM