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bressansar.bsky.social
Research Fellow GPPi Berlin. Futures, preventing violence & wars, protecting democracies. German & EU foreign and security policy.
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Peter Thiel steigt bei Quantum Systems @quantumdrones.bsky.social ein. Gut, schlecht oder egal für die strategische Autonomie vom libertären Techno-Autoritarismus?

Don't let anyone tell you that there is no protest happening. Our latest Crowd Counting Consortium data update is now available. February saw thousands of events. 50501 days of action, immigration-related protests & Tesla takeovers were key spikes in activity. dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm....

I’m like a broken record but all we need in Europe is some resolve and a healthier self confidence. Problems are solvable with the right focus of resources and political will. I outlined some low hanging fruits here yesterday: open.substack.com/pub/minnalan...

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Die Überschriften über das Treffen zwischen Trump und Selenskyj, die ich lese, heben vor allem auf einen "heftigen Streit" zwischen beiden ab. Tenor: Beide streiten. Als wären beide gleichermaßen dafür verantwortlich.

America’s lowest point - so far. Can’t comprehend how the country of excellence in so many areas can fuck up democracy so badly.

Agree. At this point, you disrespect Ukraine, you disrespect Europe. This would’ve been unacceptable towards any European leader but the fact that Zelenskyy leads a country at war makes it the greatest possible insult.

The Leader of the Free World und daneben Trump und Vance.

Zelensky has led the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression for over 3 years. He has aged 30 years in that time. And there he sits in the Oval Office with two mindless gorillas threatening him and shouting utter nonsense at him. Never in my life have I seen anything so undignified.

The Trump regime. Can we please all be analytically accurate and call it what it is? Yes, they were elected, but are actively dismantling democracy according to the authoritarian playbook.

Let me translate two things this libertarian light nincompoop is saying: Personal liberties means doing whatever the fuck I want. Free markets means doing whatever the fuck I want. He’s an adult toddler.

Anybody know whether the US has ever voted for a UN resolution siding with Soviet Union / Russia against NATO allies?

Eines der robustesten Ergebnisse in der Politikwissenschaft 🙃

Today the UN saw votes on two competing Ukraine resolutions, one drafted by Ukraine and supported by Europe - one by the US. The Ukraine one passed 93-18 (65 abstentions), the US wanted Ukraine to withdraw its resolution, but Ukraine did not do so. /1

Im Ausland wird's sorgfältig wahrgenommen, im Inland bislang kaum: Merz' Aussagen zur NATO und zur Unabhängigkeit von den USA. Wortlaut zum Nachhören hier: augengeradeaus.net/2025/02/verm...

~84% Wahlbeteiligung, viele Auslandsdeutsche konnten nichtmal wählen. Ist vielleicht die Verwaltung kaputter als die Demokratie?

Zu welchen aktuellen politischen Herausforderungen wünscht ihr euch es hätte in der Vergangenheit strategische Vorausschau und Szenario-Prozesse gegeben?

The funder landscape for NGOs is under pressure internationally, not only just because of the USAID funding cuts, but developments in The Netherlands as well.

72 Stunden bis zu einer Bundestagswahl sind viel, wenn man aus dem Wilden Westen im Internet so viel Werbung für die AfD schalten kann wie man will

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THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

The U.S. is refusing to co-sponsor a draft U.N. resolution marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine that backs Kyiv's territorial integrity and condemns Russian aggression, three diplomatic sources told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/europe...

A party of cowards. Even in private, they’re unable to challenge the disastrous direction the president is moving in. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

Bei X ist meine gesamte Timeline voll mit bezahltem Content einer Desinformationskampagne gegen Sahra Wagenknecht. Läuft wohl echt super mit der Kooperation USA & AfD.

🇩🇪🗳️ Germany heads to the polls on Feb 23 so GPPi experts have curated a list of pre-election must-reads (& watches, listens) 🔗 gppi.net/2025/02/17/g... With recommendations from: @tbenner.bsky.social, @bressansar.bsky.social, Gelila Enbaye, @jhensing.bsky.social, Karla Kröner & @jlehmann.bsky.social

We're hiring a Professor of Military Strategy and Technology @hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social! More details here: apply.interfolio.com/163523

The real #Zeitenwende3.0 are the friends we made along the way #MSC2025

📢We’re hiring a part-time research assistant (14–20 hrs/week) to support our foresight, peace & security team. 🔎 Focus: Future-Proofing EU Security, Enlargement & Eastern Neighborhood Policies (gppi.net/project/reunir) 💰~€1,100–€1,400/month 📅Start: Mar–May 2025 🔗Apply: gppi.net/about/jobs-i...

Come work with us as a part-time research assistant in Berlin. We'll be analyzing foreign malign influencing and threats to #democracy and #security in candidate countries for #EU accession in the coming decade. #foresight #forecasting #WesterBalkans #Ukraine #Russia #China #Turkey #EU

Three rounds of nationally coordinated rallies and one ongoing wave of uncoordinated but interconnected protests have taken place in the U.S. in the past few weeks, and I think that, taken together, they paint a telling picture of the current state of anti-Trump mobilization.

@karaswisher.bsky.social on El0n and the other bandits