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Dalibor Rohac

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Senior fellow, AEI. Suburban dad. Runner.

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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Detaily a registrácia tu: konzervativizmus.sk/svet-a-ameri...
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Svet a Amerika podľa Trumpa
Pozývame Vás na diskusiu s Daliborom Roháčom o vývoji americkej domácej, hospodárskej a zahraničnej politiky po návrate Donalda Trumpa do Bieleho domu.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Priatelia v Bratislave! Ak máte čas, zastavte sa v stredu o 17.00 v Ukrajinskom inštitúte na diskusiu o Trumpovi, stave americkej demokracie a transatlantických vzťahov. Bude o čom diskutovať!
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Gregory Feifer @gregoryfeifer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I'm very pleased to announce @icwa.org has launched Compass, a new journal about global cultures and affairs, with terrific contributions from Michael Ignatieff, @daliborrohac.bsky.social, Roger Reynolds and more. Check it out!
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Introducing Compass
A new journal about global cultures and developments from the Institute of Current World Affairs.
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Gregory Feifer @gregoryfeifer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great to have @daliborrohac.bsky.social weigh in on the Czech Republic's upcoming elections: The leading candidate is "a perfect avatar for Trump’s style of politics, complete with his own red hat that says 'Strong Czechia.'”
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Is Trumpism exportable to Europe? Czechia may be a test case
The billionaire populist Andrej Babiš is running for his old job as prime minister.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I was thrilled to contribute to @icwa.org's exciting new publication, Compass, with an essay on the Czech Republic's Trump-in-waiting, @andrejbabis.bsky.social, and the likely contours of his looming premiership.
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Is Trumpism exportable to Europe? Czechia may be a test case
The billionaire populist Andrej Babiš is running for his old job as prime minister.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In other news, the president has issued a call for ICE agents to arrest each other.
Truth Social post by Donald Trump, Jun. 8, 2025, 11:19 PM: “Arrest the people on face masks, now!” (except in all caps)
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My latest in @americanpurpose.bsky.social www.persuasion.community/p/georgia-tr... /3
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Georgia Tries, and Fails, to Emulate Hungary
The Trump administration has so far ignored Georgia, despite its autocratic government’s best efforts. Let’s hope it stays that way.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
But is it unimaginable Bidzina Ivanishvili will successfully pitch a corrupt crypto/real-estate scheme to Don Jr. or somesuch? Or that he'll wine and dine Tucker Carlson in Tbilisi to familiarize him with GD's deeply socially conservative policies? Well, no. /2
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The Trump administration has so far ignored Georgia, despite its autocratic government’s best efforts. Let’s hope it stays that way. /1
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
1/A government that is willing to do this is the same government that would nationalize a company. It is the same mentality of state-market relations. This is not an issue of Universities need to stand up. The whole free market system needs to stand up. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Shock at Harvard After Government Says International Students Must Go
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
But, more importantly, if tariff-free imports of wheat and poultry from Ukraine are so intolerable, how is the EU going to bring Ukraine into the single market? Sooner or later, the rhetoric and policy realities will have to align. My latest. spectator.co.uk/article/the-... /2
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The EU is being timid with Ukraine
Donald Trump may have pulled the world in a decidedly protectionist direction, but the European Union is not doing its part to lead by example and uphold the ideals of free trade – not even with Ukrai...
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In June, Ukraine is bound to lose much of its tariff-free access to the EU for its agricultural goods. Not a great move by the EU, given the size & importance of Ukraine's agriculture -- and the fact that the EU is underwriting Ukraine's budget (& will pay for lost revenue). /1
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
One of the crazymaking features of the current political moment is that MAGA keeps trying to retcon ideas that were just an uncontroversial part of our shared American values as of a couple years ago into some wacky left-wing position.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Bridget Brink, the US ambassador to Ukraine, says she resigned because she could not carry out Trump policy of pressuring Ukraine, the victim, rather than Russia, the aggressor: "Peace at any price is not peace at all ― it is appeasement." www.freep.com/story/opinio...
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I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy. | Opinion
I served in our country's foreign service for three decades. The Trump administration's Ukraine policy will make the U.S. less safe.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This isn’t getting nearly enough attention. Estonian navy is stopped at intercepting a shadow fleet vessel because a Russian Sukhoi Su-35 violated Estonian air space. This reduces even the implausible deniability to 0, which Russia has been relying on with the shadow fleet.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A U.S. citizen stopped upon re-entering the country and asked his opinion of Donald Trump. Terrible. “I’m an American citizen. You can’t just stop me at the border and be like: ‘What’s your opinion on Donald Trump? You’re not allowed to enter the nation.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Twitch star HasanAbi says he was detained, questioned by border agents
Hasan Piker, a left-wing political commentator who has 2.8 million followers on Twitch, says he was asked about his political affiliation, opinion of Trump and whether he had connections to terrorist ...
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My latest in @thebulwark.com on the abuses and misuses of WWII history by Putin's friends in Central Europe -- and on Robert Fico's trip to Moscow on May 9. www.thebulwark.com/p/80-years-a...
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Eighty Years After WWII Ended, Some Europeans Forget Who the Bad Guys Were
Putin’s pals blame the Allies always, the Nazis sometimes, the Soviets never.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My latest in @thebulwark.com on the abuses and misuses of WWII history by Putin's friends in Central Europe -- and on Robert Fico's trip to Moscow on May 9. www.thebulwark.com/p/80-years-a...
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Eighty Years After WWII Ended, Some Europeans Forget Who the Bad Guys Were
Putin’s pals blame the Allies always, the Nazis sometimes, the Soviets never.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
V @dennikn.bsky.social píšem o probléme, ktorý pre americký žurnalizmus predstavuje Donald Trump (a nie, nie je to "TDS") dennikn.sk/4625316/trum...
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Trump a novinári
Svojím strachom a neochotou pomenovať realitu štandardné americké médiá Trumpovi len nahrávajú.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The US Army War College was supposed to organise a panel discussion at the Arctic Spirit Conference in Rovaniemi, Finland, but had to cancel as they weren’t allowed to travel.
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Yhdysvaltalaisia asiantuntijoita kiellettiin lähtemästä Lappiin tiedetapahtumaan – syynä Trumpin hallinto
Yhdysvalloissa vallitsee epävarmuuden aika. Arktista tiedeyhteistyötä on vaikeuttanut esimerkiksi sanojen poistaminen verkkosivuilta ja suora kielto osallistua tapahtumiin.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We should be grateful to the Lord to now be blessed with having an American on the world stage who embodies good and not evil.
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sonnybunch.bsky.social @sonnybunch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Wow, the first American pope is also the first NeverTrump pope!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
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Rocco Palmo
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Apr 14
As Trump & Bukele use Oval to 🤣 Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident (https://bit.ly/3ROMjnP), once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC Aux +Evelio asks, “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” https://bit.ly/4j700KN

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Synod.va
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Feb 25
We continue praying together the Holy Rosary for the health of #PopeFrancis  this evening at 9 PM in St. Peter’s Square, The prayer today will be presided over by His Eminence Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization. #pope #PopeFrancis
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Feb 15
#PrayForThePope #GoodNews: The Holy See Press Office has announced that Pope Francis' health is improving. Let us pray together for his full recovery 
@franciscus
  Be strong, We are looking forward to seeing you again soon at St. Peter's Square.
#WeLoveOurPope
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Feb 13
Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration
From americamagazine.org
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Feb 3
JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others https://ncronline.org/node/292716 via 
@NCRonline
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/05/2025
I talked to @davidfrum.bsky.social about kleptocracy, autocracy, and what connects them youtu.be/cpU26qBcBuw?...
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Anne Applebaum and the Most Corrupt Presidency in American History | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Insane & sickening.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏é𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐫𝐝ő. They are calling my race a TOSS-UP. My finance director has told me that if I don't receive 1,000 contributions in the next 24 hours, 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕞𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕔𝕪 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕖𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕧𝕖. . ̲𝚆̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚕̲̲𝚕̲ ̲𝚢̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚞̲ ̲𝚍̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚗̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲ ̲𝟸̲𝟶̲𝟶̲𝟶̲ ̲𝙵̲̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚘̲̲𝚛̲ ̲𝚖̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚎̲ ̲𝚛̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚐̲̲𝚑̲̲𝚝̲ ̲𝚗̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚠̲ ̲𝚜̲̲𝚘̲ ̲𝙸̲ ̲𝚌̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚗̲ ̲𝚜̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚢̲ ̲𝚒̲̲𝚗̲ ̲𝚝̲̲𝚑̲̲𝚎̲ ̲𝚏̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚐̲̲𝚑̲̲𝚝̲?"
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
1/29/24: “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET” 4/30/25: “This is Biden’s stock market”
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump
THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP — EVERYTHING ELSE IS TERRIBLE (WATCH THE MIDDLE EAST!), AND RECORD SETTING INFLATION HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS TOLL. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
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Jan 29, 2024, 10:07 AMDonald J. Trump @realDonald Trump
This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's. I didn't take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden "Overhang." This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
No, Ukraine is not helpless and its survival strategy should not consist of accepting all of Trump's distinctly unreasonable demands. My latest for @americanpurpose.bsky.social. www.persuasion.community/p/ukraine-ho...
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Ukraine Holds More Cards Than You Think
Trump wants to throw the country under the bus—but Ukrainians and Europeans don’t have to let him.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
No, Ukraine is not helpless and its survival strategy should not consist of accepting all of Trump's distinctly unreasonable demands. My latest for @americanpurpose.bsky.social. www.persuasion.community/p/ukraine-ho...
persuasion.community
Ukraine Holds More Cards Than You Think
Trump wants to throw the country under the bus—but Ukrainians and Europeans don’t have to let him.
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"Conservatives should consider a counterfactual. Should the federal government be able to withhold all federal funding from a private Christian college (including, say, tuition dollars from the G.I. Bill or Pell Grants) unless it hires more Muslim faculty or admits more atheist students?"
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Opinion | Harvard May Not Be the Hero We Want, but It Is the Hero We Need
The university’s defense of the Constitution doesn’t absolve it of its own sins, but the defense of the Constitution often comes through imperfect vehicles.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Napísal som pre @dennikn.bsky.social o kríze právneho štátu v USA, v niektorých smeroch horšej než jeho súčasné ohrozenia v strednej Európe a na Slovensku. dennikn.sk/4599159/je-a...
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Je Amerika právnym štátom?
Cieľom je ekonomický chaos a neistota doma – tie sú totiž novým nástrojom politickej moci.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Some of its worst features were watered down, thankfully, but it gives ample opportunities to government and government-connected actors to destroy particularly smaller organizations, e.g. by flooding them by BS information requests. My latest in @euobserver.com euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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Slovakia’s crackdown on NGOs echoes Putin’s playbook
Russia’s infamous foreign agent law has prompted a wave of imitators in Eastern Europe – most recently in Slovakia.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
While no one was paying attention, Slovak parliament passed a Russian-style law imposing unreasonable scrutiny on Slovak NGOs.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Looking at what China stands to gain from the US self-sabotage shenanigans, it’s quite impressive: if China plays it smart, they can have Russia, Europe, and their Asian neighbours where they want them. Wrote down a few short observations here:
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China Can Have It All
China is currently leading the race for the biggest winner of America's self-sabotage shenanigans.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So the Trump administration are saying that unless Europe accepts their plan to help Russia they'll...help Russia. If you're trying to get people to do what you want, it generally helps if your carrot is different from your stick.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Really enjoyed discussing Ukraine, prospects for peace, and negotiations including the possibly imminent minerals deal: peace-power-ukraine.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-...
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Ep. 8 - Dalibor Rohac | Peace & Power Ukraine
In this powerful and timely conversation, Gary Marx sits down with Dalibor Rohac of the American Enterprise Institute to unpack the latest developments in the war in Ukraine, U.S.-Russia negotiations,...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New from me at Cato: In trying to force Harvard University to submit, the Trump administration is claiming a dangerous and unlawful power to meddle in the ideological tone of a private college. /1
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Feds Can't Regulate "Ideological Diversity" at Schools Like Harvard
In trying to force Harvard University to submit, the Trump administration is claiming a dangerous and unlawful power to meddle in the ideological tone of a private college’s faculty.
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Other Russians who've benefited from the scheme include deputy head of Rosatom, former Duma members, etc. Oh, and there were thousands of Chinese nationals who bought their visas the same way. occrp.org/en/news/elit... /3 end
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Elite Russians Got Controversial Hungarian Residence Permits
Influential Russian citizens including politicians and executives of state-owned companies received residence permits in Hungary through the country’s controversial residency bond program, according t...
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Rogán, among other things, oversaw the Golden Visas program, which gave Hungarian (and thus EU) residency permits to 4 relatives of Naryshkin, head of Russia's foreign intelligence, *in exchange for cash* going to Orbán's cronies, as fee involved in purchases of govt bonds. /2
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is it even worth commenting on own goals such as this one, or should one just quietly accept that our government is now actively helping out gangsters worldwide? /1
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Trump to Fox on deporting Americans to a gulag in El Salvador: "We want to do it. I would love to do that."
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Instead, the administration should follow the example of successful fiscal consolidations & structural reforms from around the world -- Greece after 2015, Baltic countries post 2008, Sweden in the 1990s. My latest in @capx.co. capx.co/structural-r... /2 end
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Structural reforms, not trade wars, will make America great again
Under one particularly charitable reading, Donald Trump’s discontent with the global financial status quo, reflected in his administration’s drastic trade policies, is a response to the pressure that ...
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Worried, as Stephen Miran et al. seem to be, about competitiveness of US manufacturing in a US dollar-dominated global economy? Tariffs are a singularly stupid, ineffective 'solution' to the problem. /1
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Structural reforms, not trade wars, will make America great again
Under one particularly charitable reading, Donald Trump’s discontent with the global financial status quo, reflected in his administration’s drastic trade policies, is a response to the pressure that ...
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Unless nipped in the bud thanks by coming financial storm, this would be stark departure from the democratic market-based system, imperfect as it is, that this nation has taken for granted. My latest in @capx.co capx.co/donald-trump... /3 end
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Donald Trump has broken with democratic capitalism
Shortly after becoming president, Vladimir Putin held a now-historic meeting in the Kremlin with Russia’s oligarchs. The deal he put on the table in the summer of 2000 was simple: the country’s econom...
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
In Russia, Vladimir Vladimirovich giveth and Vladimir Vladimirovich taketh away. Similarly, a sizeable and complex system of tariff barriers used at the discretion of POTUS, economic success in America becomes conditional on staying in Trump's good graces. /2
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🤔Struggling to make sense of Trump's act of tariff idiocy, tanking the global markets? My view: it's not about trade deficits, tariff revenue, or leverage in negotiations. It is about asserting political control over the US economy, Russia-style. /1
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
👏👏 #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne (📸 Carol Hedges)
A woman at a #HandsOff protest holds up a sign which reads “HONK IF YOU NEVER DRUNK TEXTED WAR PLANS”
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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Well I feel better now
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Dalibor Rohac @daliborrohac.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thoughts and prayers.
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