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Också ett stort rött X brevid Ungern. Slovakien däremot röstade för.

Ukraine resolution at the UN called Russia an aggressor and demands the full withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders. The United States, Israel, and Russia voted against it. Every free democratic country around the globe voted in favour. #EndImpunity

Friedrich Merz did not even wait for the final results in Germany's election before delivering what could well be a defining verdict on US President Donald Trump, consigning Europe's 80-year alliance with the Americans to the past.

Looks like we are heading for a high or even record turnout at the German elections, which at 2pm is higher than in the last two decades, even without postal votes. Though this tells us little in which direction the vote is swinging, except that people see this as an important election.

Klockan 18 kommer två prognoser. Läs detta innan. www.tv4.se/artikel/29RW...

Older folks will remember the Cold War term "Kremlinology"—attempts to piece together from various clues the truth about the power struggles inside the Kremlin. Well, the fact that Kash Patel is the first Trumpy person to stand up to Musk in public is FASCINATING, Kremlinologically speaking.

As it happens, Trump has gone so far off the cliff that Europe isn’t divided but closing ranks. I figured that it’ll become politically difficult for European politicians to try and suck up to him because electorates see what Trump is doing and are very angry. But it’s even better than expected:

Should Poland have nuclear weapons? The majority of respondents answered yes. The first effects of Trump's policy are emerging.

Frågan är, vad håller Meloni på med nuförtiden? Hon skulle ju vara Trumpviskaren, men det verkar inte ske mycket viskande

Tyskland är som väntat osynligt. Förhoppningsvis kan landet ta på sig en roll efter valet.

www.tv4.se/artikel/4x1k...

Det här blir antagligen en verklighet. Men kanske redan innan en "fredsuppgörelse"

Alice Weidel, Germany's far-right leader, lives in Switzerland and is raising two sons with her Sri Lankan-born wife. Her party, the Alternative for Germany, campaigns on a platform that is anti-immigrant and defines family as a father and a mother raising children.

Helt rätt från Minna

Erdoğa just threw down the gauntlet—Turkey backs Ukraine’s FULL territorial integrity. Turkey ain’t just some side player in this. They control the Black Sea. They control NATO’s southern flank. And now, Erdoğan is making it clear: Russia’s land grab is not up for negotiati

At what point does Poland decide it needs nukes? Germany? Are we not there yet?

Making sense of Trump's policy reminds me of trying to interpret Russia in the 90s: each ministry running its own individual foreign policy with freelancing oligarchs in the mix, but then an ailing Yeltsin could intervene, unpredictably, dramatically, and sometimes decisively.

www.tv4.se/artikel/201b...

Finland’s largest daily paper @hs.fi has a new Germany podcast and I wish my German friends who care about Germany’s role in Europe could listen to it. Absolutely devastating. Ex-Berlin correspondent says he’s never been as worried about Germany as he is now www.hs.fi/kuuntele/aud...

For all the talk of a drift of young people to the Far Right, what we instead have is a more familiar picture of an ideologically diverse cohort in the 18-29 year old bracket with the leftist Die Linke drawing in voters that might in previous generations voted SPD

‘Strengthening Europe’s voice is a Merz leitmotif, stretching from China policy to his support for Emmanuel Macron’s ambitions to bolster Europe’s own defence industry.’ www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

CDU claims that growth and subsidy cuts will finance their stepwise income tax cuts. Yeah, no. Probably not.

AFD håller valmöte i Chemnitz (före detta Karl Marx Stadt). Huvudteman: - Stopp på migration - Stopp på sanktionerna mot Ryssland - Det finns bara två kön (stora applåder) - CDU kommer svika er igen - Fabriker måste komma tillbaka till regionen

A victim in #Sweden's mass murder, Bassam Al Sheleh. A father of two who came to Sweden from Syria. Worked making bread and food, and on days when he had Swedish language classes -- where he would be killed -- he would start at 4-5am, then work late after classes. Loved TikTok.

"Russia supported sabotage spree in Germany to roil election campaign, report says - A wave of car vandalism, initially blamed on climate activists, is now being linked to Moscow." @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Politisk kaos i Berlin. Kristdemokraterna tar indirekt stöd av högerextrema AFD och enorma protester drar genom landet. Och... I mätningar inför valet händer inget. Knappt någon förändring alls

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Current German polling trends are increasingly pointing to a weird 4 party parliament, with the AfD as the major opposition and the CDU/CSU potentially being able to choose whether to work with SPD or Greens.

🇮🇹🇺🇦 Italy is ready to participate in a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, said Defense Minister Crosetto. "We are prepared to play this role, where our nation has always excelled," he stated after the 20th '5-5' defense summit in Madrid.

Tyskland hoppas och hoppas. Allt kanske fortsätter som vanligt under Trump 2.0 En analys från Bayern www.tv4.se/artikel/6X5F...

This is significant: Austria is officially terminating its gas contract with Gazprom.

Germany never disappoints. A minister in Brandenburg is investigated by police for using an academic title incorrectly. He said he had a bachelor's degree before the diploma had been posted. Could lead to a fine or one year in prison...

Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, has indicated that peace talks regarding the war in Ukraine could begin this winter.

Ukraine sent 20 drone operators armed with roughly 150 FPV strike drones to assist Syrian rebels last month, according to the Washington Post. Western intelligence sources believe that the Ukrainian drones had a "modest" role in the fall of Syrian dictator Assad.

Some 5000 Syrian medical doctors work in Germany. Admittedly, out of over 400 000 in total. But if they leave it will be problematic, according to associations

Adam was the best of the AP. The best of the best

Invading Ukraine was meant to show that Russia sticks by our allies and West abandons theirs Actually I've abandoned both Armenia & Syria but Ukraine keeps getting weapons.

Germany will provide Ukraine with a sixth IRIS-T air defense system, and Sea King helicopters, Chancellor Scholz announced, from Kyiv. In December, Ukraine will also receive more Patriot launchers and Gepard anti-aircraft systems.