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Mätthes 🇪🇺🇺🇦

@mtthes.bsky.social
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Economist, Ex-SPD member but still social democrat, pro Ukraine

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Dietmar Pichler @dietmarpichler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They think “differently” about Stalin, Mao, Putin, Xi Jinping, and of course about the Iranian regime. I researched for a couple of weeks for my new @inved.bsky.social article about fringe far left channels on social media. Please share inved.eu/insight/from...
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From Khamenei to Stalin: How Far Left Social Media Channels Glorify Dictators and Rewrite History – INVED
“The collapse of the Soviet Union was catastrophic”, the question what were the “two major achievements of Mao Zedong”, “Ayatollah Khomeini frees women and black hostages” and “China is in a very impo...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 06/03/2026
⚡️'Taking hostages and stealing money' — Sybiha says Hungary detained Ukrainian bank employees with cash shipments. "We are talking about Hungary taking hostages and stealing money... This is state terrorism and racketeering," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote in a statement on March 5.
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'Taking hostages and stealing money' — Sybiha says Hungary detained Ukrainian banks employees with cash shipments
"We are talking about Hungary taking hostages and stealing money. If this is the “force” announced earlier today by Mr. Orban, then this is a force of a criminal gang. This is state terrorism and rack...
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 18/01/2026
“The EU's anti-coercion instrument is the bloc's most powerful retaliatory tool, designed to respond to deliberate coercive actions from third countries that use trade measures to pressure the policy choices of the EU or its members.”
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Macron to Seek Use of EU Anti-Coercion Instrument Against US
French President Emmanuel Macron will request the activation of the European Union’s anti-coercion instrument after US President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on European countries over Greenland...
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The use of the Oreshnik was a predictably weak Russian gambit and it is easily explained. Russians are absolutely desperate. The situation for them is getting out of control, across the globe. Their allies and their power are disappearing on a huge scale.
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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Russia is operating in Ukraine in a "surgical manner" - this is not a war in the literal sense of this word (Putin) The surgical manner
Dem Erdboden gleichgemachte ukrainische Stadt
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’ Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’ Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Like if Ukraine push Russia back across the border Putin would say "Okay, it's enough. I will admit defeat and sign a peace treaty. Then I will stand in front of my people like the biggest loser since Tsar Nikolai II. That will be my legacy. No problem".
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/11/2025
I hate that this is necessary, but it is. So it’s good that things are moving. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia
Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies.
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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Reflexive control “is the psychological trick by which the Russians get their enemies to allow the Russians to do their thinking for them, at their own expense.” @michaeldweiss.bsky.social on how a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence.
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“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
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Ïne Back Ïversen @ineiversen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🧵1: Google updated their satellite images of Mariupol. The sight is horrifying. For over 3 years russian occupiers have closed off the city. war crimes are being covered up, evidence erased. In the outskirts; terrifying amounts of rapidly growing unmarked mass graves! A 🧵👇🏼
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 28/08/2025
Europe's disunited governments are in denial about the extent to which violence is shaping global politics and must step up to assert their combined force as a hard power, the chief of defense staff of the French military has warned in a sweeping interview.
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Europe must assert hard power or become a ‘hunted animal,’ France’s top general warns
General Thierry Burkhard said in an interview that European governments and populations are in denial about the “level of violence in the world today.”
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Jari Pirhonen @japi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"Through its campaign of sabotage, vandalism, espionage & covert action, Russia’s aim has been to destabilise European governments, undermine public support for Ukraine and weaken the ability of NATO & the European Union to respond to Russian aggression" www.iiss.org/research-pap...
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It was not enough to defile US soil by inviting Putin to Alaska, now they are using the US flag when attacking Ukrainian positions.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/08/2025
How Putin outplayed Trump on.ft.com/4mmo7XK
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No concessions, no ceasefire: how Putin outplayed Trump in Anchorage
Russia’s leader seems to have drawn the US president closer to Moscow’s position on the Ukraine war
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
You sang a different song when you forced us to disarm in 1994, guaranteeing our security, only to be "sick" of sending not your soldiers, oh no, but only weapons, now when we are under attack by a ruthless terrorist country which burns families in their beds while they sleep.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
1/5 THREAD: russia’s empire of chaos Putinism isn’t about building a future. It’s about burning the present. russia’s imperialism is fueled by hate, destruction, and fear. It doesn’t offer progress — only chaos
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Suspiciously Fluffy Fella @suspfluffyfella.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
That's so good. A great speech about the consequences of dehumanising people. Crystal clear, the Nazi playbook page by page, line by line. 👇🏻
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 21/07/2025
Russia is turning teenagers in Europe into tools of espionage and sabotage, offering pocket money for deadly missions. The UK and the EU warn that this hybrid war campaign is only escalating.
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Russia’s Spy Teens: How the Kremlin Groomed Europe’s Youth
Russia is turning teenagers in Europe into tools of espionage and sabotage, offering pocket money for deadly missions.
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Nico Lange @nicolange.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
450 Drohnen, Marschflugkörper, ballistische Raketen und aeroballistische Raketen ließ Putin letzte Nacht auf die Ukraine abfeuern. Menschen übernachten in U-Bahn-Stationen, Wohnhäuser brennen in Kyjiw. Wir Europäer können das nicht einfach geschehen lassen.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
😲 This explains SO MUCH: 👉 Darren Beattie – the man behind the State Department purge – is married to a Russian woman with close family ties to Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺 Yes, really. newrepublic.com/post/196029/...
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Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties
Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/07/2025
Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too. Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
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Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 04/05/2025
‘These people are disposable’: how russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe by Shaun Walker moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to prove www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe
Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to prove
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
MORE: Senior Kremlin officials continue to set informational conditions that could support military operations against Lithuania (and other NATO states) by advancing narratives that deny the sovereignty of Lithuania and other former Soviet states. isw.pub/UkrWar050325
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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
1/29 Ich weiß ich wiederhole mich. Aber aus gegebenem Anlass (bzw. aus gegebenen Anlässen) ein Thread zu der Frage, ob wir nicht mal etwas mehr nüchterne strategische Analyse statt Panikmache bräuchten.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"Russia decided that Odesa is our territory, it goes ahead and does what it needs to. If you don't agree, die." Russian propagandists are no longer trying to pretend that civilians in Ukraine are not being killed on purpose. They are openly proclaiming that anyone who disagrees with Russia must die
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/04/2025
If Trump's "new" Ukraine "peace plan" sounds familiar, it was in the Mueller Report. A lot.
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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The EU should enforce real sanctions on Russia. One example: Any person, company or state that does business with Russia will be banned from doing any business with the EU or EU companies. Another: EU should close all waterways it can close leading to Russia.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
1/ Donald Trump has abandoned legally mandated US and international efforts to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes in Ukraine, in an apparent undisclosed favour to Vladimir Putin. ⬇️
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW: Putin rejected Zelensky's April 20 proposal for a temporary moratorium on long-range strikes against civilian infrastructure, declined Zelensky's offer to extend Putin's 30-hour Easter truce, & attempted to justify recent Russian strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine. isw.pub/UkrWar042125
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AimeePrefersDemocracyFella @aimee-abq.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... once again we are confronted with the same stupidity, the same evil. And the parallels are chilling.
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Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 14/04/2025
This is Toretsk. Once a city habited by 30.000 people. Now, deserted and completely destroyed. This is Russkiy Mir arriving. Footage made by the 100th Mechanized Brigade.
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Nїke van Eppstein @nikevaneppstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It‘s not about Trump. It‘s not about negotiations. It‘s not about peace. Russia. Wants to. Destroy. Ukraine. As long as Ukrainians defend their way of life. Their way to democracy. Their freedom.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is a real exchange I just had:
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Baba Yaga Fèlla @babayagafella.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
​Amazing historical video. These are the "grads" of the so-called "Novorossiya". One launcher is firing at the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the other is firing in exactly the opposite direction, at Donetsk. Here is your answer to the question of who "bombed Donbass for eight years".
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A Ukrainian woman voting in the russian-organized referendum on whether her Ukrainian region should join russia. The so-called referendum was “a total sham, held at gunpoint,” but that didn’t stop Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, from citing it as a reason to keep the occupied territories.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
When people look back on the Iraq war, many are just speechless, wondering how it could go that far, but this notion will totally pale in comparison when in future Americans will look back to this times and wonder what insanity rode this Trump administration to attack the best allies and friends,…
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A scenario: -Russia accepts ceasefire -Russia then breaks it and blames Ukraine -Trump sides with Russia, accuses Ukraine of killing his ‘peace plan’ and stops aid again, this time for good Europe better prepare for this scenario.
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Jan Skudlarek @janskudlarek.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Die meinen das wirklich ernst mit der Abwendung von der liberalen Weltordnung, von Europas liberalen Demokratien. Denen schwebt was ganz anderes vor. Wir müssen uns von der Idee lösen, mit ein bisschen Geschick, mit ein bisschen Fingerspitzengefühl ließe sich das alles irgendwie abwenden."
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Interview zum Trump-Selenskyj-Eklat: "Die USA haben sich entschieden"
Europa müsse sich von dem Missverständnis verabschieden, mit US-Präsident Trump sei eine gemeinsame Politik möglich: Der Historiker Zimmer fordert, die neue Politik der USA als das zu akzeptieren, was...
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Tja, da ist sie, die Wagenknecht-Linke, die aus der NATO raus will, die die NATO auflösen will, die die Verteidigungszeichen der Zeit nicht erkannt hat, die nicht erkennen will, dass Russland ein aggressiver Feind ist, der mit allen Mitteln auch Deutschland
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
magine in the 1770s and 1780s the French suddenly questioning the revolutionary war of the Americans against the British, questioning whether they can defeat the British, threatening to end all support and even suggesting that the Royal Army may keep New York and other major cities in North America.
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis in Yorktown by John Trumbull
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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Repeat after me: No. Longer. A. Reliable. Ally.
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Dietmar Pichler @dietmarpichler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Don't think your pacifism is the solution for someone fighting for survival against an enemy that seeks to destroy and subjugate. Don’t dare assume everyone has the luxury of your radical pacifism. It only helps the perpetrator. Pacifism, the best thing that can happen to an aggressor!
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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Mit dem Wegfall der bisherigen Sicherheitsordnung ist JEDES Wahlprogramm obsolet. Jeder und jede sollte seine und ihre Wahlentscheidung nochmal komplett neu überdenken. Wem vertraut ihr eure Sicherheit an? Welche Partei hat wirklich verstanden, was jetzt auf dem Spiel steht? Wir haben 7 Tage. #btw25
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Wednesday: „We need peace with Russia.“ Friday: „Russian drone hits the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.“ We reap what we saw, and the seeds of appeasement have accuracy to deliver total war by 100%.
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Ljudmyla Melnyk @ljudmylamelnyk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ich weiß nicht, was schlimmer ist: Das heutige Telefonat mit Putin oder die Tatsache, dass in Deutschland bei den Wahlen über Migration diskutiert wird, statt über die Gefahr, die von Russland als größte Herausforderung für uns alle in Europa ausgeht.
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Sandro Kowinzky @sandrokowinzky.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Tipp zur Wahl: Wer pro-russisch wählen möchte, wählt entweder #AfD, #BSW oder #DieLinke Wer pro-europäisch wählen will, wählt diese drei Parteien besser nicht.
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