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but can we ever know what was in his heart etc

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Sanna Marin throwing some impressive shade here: ”To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it. There is no trade-off between investing in the defence of Europe as a whole and investing in the defence of Ukraine—they are one and the same.”

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Brilliant move by our friends at the Kyiv Independent — this is exactly how to handle baseless claims that aren’t even worth a full debunking. kyivindependent.com/who-started-...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

When smaller nations warn Western academics and journalists about casually discussing redrawing their borders, they always say, “This could happen to you too.” Well, now we’re watching it happen in real time.

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“Austria as the newest state of Germany? Hitler thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to the Social Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters.”

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

The U.S. President's son-in-law used Saudi royal money to develop luxury properties in both Serbia and Albania — while Kosovo's opposition leader-slash-indicted war criminal bonds with the U.S. President's camp over being prosecuted by the same guy. Now there's a sentence.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Here is the background to the story about Grenell and Thaci, courtesy of @unawrites.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Tate brothers’ case is apparently so important to the Trump administration that US officials discussed it in a phone call with the Romanian gov’t last week — and Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell reportedly mentioned it when he met the RO foreign minister at the Munich Security Conference…

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

ah, policy by personal vendetta —brought to you once again by a far-right guy obsessed with the Balkans and especially Bosnia, who he apparently “had it in for” www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 293 comments

relatedly, pointing out the hypocrisy of far-right actors and expecting it to have an impact on them is a complete fool’s errand. they know! the obvious hypocrisies are their way to project raw power over the very idea of truth/falsity and shouting HYPOCRISY to the world isn’t gonna cut it in 2025

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

European leaders, much like top Democrats, seem to think that the key to getting Vance and the Trump administration to take them seriously is to keep sternly repeating that “this is not acceptable behavior from allies.” As if they care.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

“If not Brussels, then Moscow,”Zelensky stresses at #MSC2025 while urging European leaders to step up and form a security policy that’s not reliant on the US. “Moscow will pull Europe apart if we don’t trust each other.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Quite amazing for the American VP to be giving lessons on liberty to Europeans while his boss bans the Associated Press from news briefings because it calls the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

“Population transfers aren’t a Trump innovation.” Nope, they’re a war criminal innovation, duh

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Moldova summoned Russia’s ambassador after drones entered its airspace (again) and just… showed him the scraps. “Here’s your mess. Explain.”

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Here's foreword to Victoria's book by Margaret Atwood www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

How my best friend tries to cheer me up ahead of me visiting him: “I’ll clean the toilet… I’ll even scrub the bathtub so you can take bubble baths!” @colborne.bsky.social

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How delusional can you be from 1 to assuming a blowout will last more than 10 min in Brussels weather? Today I landed squarely towards the end of that scale

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If Commissioner Marta #Kos steps into the European Parliament’s Hemicycle tomorrow, her trip to Strasbourg will only be worthwhile if her speech marks the beginning of a real shift in the European Commission’s approach to #Serbia. europeanwesternbalkans.com/2025/02/10/m...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The mayor of Tirana and someone who was perceived as a loyal ally of Prime Minister Edi Rama was arrested in Tirana today by the specialized organized crime and corruption prosecutor's office. This comes as Albania heads towards parliamentary elections in May.

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🚨 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis resigns from his position, becoming the first president to do so in Romanian history in an attempt to circumvent his impeachment by parliament. Bizarrely, the move was backed by politically opposed parties on both the center-right and far-right.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

So great to see @julianborger.bsky.social dip back into the Balkan beat. Read his great overview of today’s elections in Kosovo: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 A court in Berlin has ruled that X needs to hand over publicly available data (such as the reach, shares and likes on posts) to two German NGOs so they can analyze it for “attempts to manipulate the upcoming elections” — a big deal, especially considering Musk’s support for the far-right AfD.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich being appointed US Ambassador to Serbia sounds like a really bad SNL skit from 2012 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve been a fan of Mo Amer for a while, but watching the second season of “Mo” on Netflix right now feels like an act of protest given the current state of affairs in the U.S. Highly, highly recommended!

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

A note to our readers, from Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Editor-in-Chief John Harris:

submitted 16 days ago • 185 comments

Waiting for democracy watchdogs to downgrade the US’ rating to “semi-authoritarian” state. Hold on—those programs are probably getting defunded anyway 🤦‍♀️

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Thread on a relatively small thing that captures many of the big things

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is good news for all the wrong actors in Balkan democracies-- those heading corrupt oligarchic networks. Read this thread about Kosovo.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment