Es weiss auch jeder, dass die USA Nordstream gesprengt haben, und doch tun wir so, als könnten es die Russen gewesen sein. Auf die gleiche Weise macht es Sinn, den klaren Beweis zu vermeiden. Es könnte ja jetzt auch der Westen sein, der Nawalny umgebracht hat, um Russland zu diskreditieren, weil “nur Russland hätte das Gift einsetzen können”.

Wer Ausreden braucht, kann welche erfinden, solange es keinen klaren Beweis gibt.

was ihn damals geritten hat, zurück nach Moskau zu gehen)

Vielleicht hat er geglaubt, dass wenn er bereit ist, das Risiko einzugehen, andere seinem Beispiel folgen würden, und eine Revolution gegen Putin möglich gewesen wäre.

Customer service. People have normalized that positions of power can be used to abuse others.

I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that this guy is still getting enough votes

They have laws against secret media influence. Question is, does this allow him to distort Hungarian perception to his advantage, or is the rest of the EU influenced so much by unregulated participants that we can’t understand the Hungarian point of view?

and healthcare but also financially and economically their lives would be so much worse.

A post mentioned that the NHS was canceling operations to save costs. But not only Britain is getting closer to US healthcare conditions.

If the US are going to extort more and more profits, the advantage of the EU will deminish.

Hungary can be abusing the EU or they can be cautious while everybody else is drinking thr Kool-Aid. The future will tell.

Moscow has identified a distinct approach for rallying much of the African continent to its cause: exploiting resentment towards the former colonial powers and their allies, particularly France.

the budget for 10 months of work, from January to October 2024, was nearly $7.3 million.

If $10 million per year are enough to influence an entire continent then the resentment must be quite big. What is France doing that the resentments exist?

when the reckoning comes.

15. Jan. 2025 President Joe Biden 's announcements effectively roll back many of the sanctions put in place [on Cuba] by President-elect Trump

The date, think about it.

Like the freedom to not sufficiently secure the building site of the new headquarter? Or like figuring out if Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?

Why should the BND do the job and not some other agency?

Protests began in 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024–2026_Cuban_protests

Obama lifted sanctions, Trump reenacted them and Biden only lifted them shortly before the end of his term. From Reuters:

15. Jan. 2025 President Joe Biden 's announcements effectively roll back many of the sanctions put in place by President-elect Trump

How should Biden’s hesitation to lift the sanctions when taking over office be judged? In 2025 election was over and Trump was expected to reenact them immediately. To me it seems like Trump is finishing a job that was some time in the making.

“support for common-sense policies and candidates”

They were early investors into Reddit.

If Russia and the US agree on the Dmitriev package, Europe is not prepared to support Ukraine with their own low orbit network. With the UK, the EU could be further ahead of the curve but Amazon shows that nimbleness could be more important. The UK now has the opportunity to get ahead by quickly making a succession of fruitful decisions.

Was wäre die moralisch richtige Entscheidung, wenn ein solcher Öltanker auf dem Weg nach Kuba ist? Sollte man ein solches Schiff stoppen oder weiterfahren lassen?

Sie könnten die Insel immer noch an Deutschland verschenken. Aber wenn das Öl auf der deutschen Insel ist, ist es noch nicht in Kuba. Bei dem Transport nach Kuba würden die USA dann protestieren.

Nur Deutschland wird sich nicht einmischen. Effektiv ist es ein US Eroberungsversuch, aber in dem Winkel der Welt interessiert uns nicht die Souvereignität von Staaten.

Leider nur eine schöne Idee.

Gerüchte, wonach die Insel der DDR damals geschenkt worden sei, sie also nach der Wiedervereinigung heute zum Hoheitsgebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gehöre, entbehren nach einheitlicher Aussage sowohl des Auswärtigen Amtes als auch der kubanischen Botschaft in Deutschland jeglicher Grundlage: „Hier handelte es sich um einen symbolischen Akt, der nichts mit Besitzverhältnissen zu tun hat.“

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst-Thälmann-Insel

Teile und Herrsche. Auf Kosten der Allgemeinheit im Luxus leben geht nur dank fehlender Integration.

Jeffrey Preston „Jeff“ Bezos [ˈbeɪzoʊs][1] (* 12. Januar 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico als Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen

Als Jeffrey vier Jahre alt war, heiratete seine Mutter Jackie den Exilkubaner Miguel „Mike“ Bezos.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

How can they officially support the military fight to free the (north) eastern part of a country from occupation? If they do, everybody will ask why they don’t support it for Northern Ireland. They have spent some effort to convince the public that they are a peaceful party and not the IRA. Where should they draw the line that the fight is justified for Ukraine but not for Ireland?

The US pushed Jelzin’s election which led to Putin with the intent to avoid a Communist victory which is keeping Russia stuck where it is now since then. What Russia did was at most par for the course. However I think the influence is hugely exagerated. The claim is that Putin managed to compensate a $2 billion budget

Trump had a budget of $500 million.

but

, he received free media attention valued at about $5 billion.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/candidate?id=N00023864

Those $5 billion are the elephant in the room. The election wasn’t won on the internet but by established media companies. Those 340 million shares aren’t worth that much.

Voting machines, registration processes, weekday voting and gerrymandering - that all originated in the US. A Russian blogger who points that out is not to blame for the current mess.

Russia was involved but that involvement is used to distract from who else was involved even more.

How would children be treated if they are only conceived for the money?

How many parents would hand them a tablet and leave them to themselves?

the country can only join international organisations on equal term

How did they get around Nato always having a US commander?