🚨🚨 All of this. Another stellar instalment by Anne Applebaum. Some quotes here in 🧵 - ThreadSky

profjacob.bsky.social • 55 days ago

🚨🚨 All of this. Another stellar instalment by Anne Applebaum. Some quotes here in 🧵

Europeans are mystified, disappointed and frightened by a country they thought they knew
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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fmmh.bsky.social•55 days ago

Can Canada, or Denmark via Greenland, not sent a drone to Mar-a-Lago? To eliminate this pest, for the world?

gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social•55 days ago

watching Zelenskyy at the oval office, pointing out that there is no minerals deal, was like watching someone teach a pigeon how to play chess.

nicki2910.bsky.social•55 days ago

The only commonality that the UK and the US share is the English language and even that’s debatable.

profjacob.bsky.social•55 days ago

"Quite apart from their politics, Trump and Vance are rude. They are cruel. They berated and mistreated a guest on camera, and then boasted about it afterward, as if their ugly behavior achieved some kind of macho “win.” /2

profjacob.bsky.social•55 days ago

"They announced that they would halt transfers of military equipment to Ukraine, and hinted at ending sanctions on Russia, the aggressor state. In his speech to Congress last night, Trump once again declared that America would “get” Greenland, which is a part of Denmark—a sign that he intends

profjacob.bsky.social•55 days ago

to run roughshod over other allies too. These are the actions not of the good guys in old Hollywood movies, but of the bad guys. If Reagan was a white-hatted cowboy, Trump & Vance are Mafia dons. The chorus of Republican pol leaders defending them seems both sinister & surprising to Europeans too."

profjacob.bsky.social•55 days ago

"The Oval Office meeting, the subsequent announcements, and the speech to Congress also clarified something else: Trump, Vance, and many of the people around them now fully inhabit an alternative reality, one composed entirely of things they see and hear in the ether. " /5

profjacob.bsky.social•55 days ago

"Part of the Oval Office altercation was provoked by Zelensky’s insistence on telling the truth, as the full video clearly shows. His mistake was to point out that Russia and Ukraine have reached many cease-fires and made many agreements since 2014, and

profjacob.bsky.social•55 days ago

that Vladimir Putin has broken most of them, including during Trump’s first term. It’s precisely because they remember these broken truces that the Ukrainians keep asking what happens after a cease-fire, what kind of security guarantees will be put in place,

bctallis.bsky.social•55 days ago

The cruelty is the point

chickenlady.bsky.social•55 days ago

I wouldn't say shattered.
Confirmed suspicions.
After all, we did have 4 years of Trump.

ecomindful.bsky.social•55 days ago

📌

justlilo.bsky.social•55 days ago

Dear Europe,
We understand, this is just how many of us US citizens felt on Nov 7th, 2016.

sundene.bsky.social•55 days ago

Believe me, many of us here in America tried to tell the rest of the country how this would turn out. They didn't listen.

We're as upset about this as everyone else and are so embarrassed on behalf of what we have been and could be.

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