Senior Adviser at Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, Bergen, Norway. Philosopher by education. Opinions sometimes my own, never someone else's.
Iver Ørstavik
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If #Europe wants #Putin to agree to a ceasefire, the easiest way is:
- Give a lot of #Taurus
- 20x investment into #Ukraine #Drone production
- Set up Air defense for Western #Ukraine
- Stop oil and gas traffic in baltic
- Tariffs on all remaining LNG, Oil imports
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
"Treason for money" pretty much sums up the awful mess presented by the Trump administration as a "Peace plan for Ukraine".
BREAKING: The US Supreme Court just ruled Trump’s tariffs are illegal.
So why is the EU Parliament about to vote on the Turnberry deal that endorses them?
Europe is preparing to legitimise what America’s own courts have struck down.
cnn.it/4bZtaLo
Trump, on the leader of Russia:
"Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not — he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good”
It's hard to imagine a more fundamental misunderstanding.
No, Putin is not "tired of the whole thing" - the war is the only thing keeping his economy going
The nasty Trumpist bait and switch.
Would it be possible for the EFTA countries to sue the EU Commission and/or Council for failure to secure that Hungary abides by the EEA?
Of course. We may still be able to make Trump think it is in his own interest to protect NATO allies in Europe. But we cannot make him commit. We must expect that he or someone like him will be the President of the USA until some very significant institutional reform is completed. So NATO is dead.
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Anne Applebaum
@hasyv.bsky.social Hei Håvard, har du slettet FB-kontoen?
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"If you give in to extortionists, they’ll extort you and others for more ... Which brings me to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s president and trustees, who today surrendered the university’s #academicfreedom to the Trump regime"
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Alberto Alemanno
Laurent Pech 🇺🇦
@politico.eu: "The bill says threats to national sovereignty include influencing public opinion, promoting democratic debate, or challenging state-defined values like Christian culture and traditional family roles."
Dániel G. Szabó
Zelenskyy had no choice but to accept Putin’s invitation to talks, diplomats say
