@ajwsmall

@ajwsmall

Thorsten Benner

@thorstenbenner

@ischinger

My key #MSC2023 moment.
Asked by @ischinger to reassure audience military escalation over Taiwan not imminent Wang Yi chose to reassure audience that Taiwan is part of 🇨🇳territory while launching diatribe against Taiwan „separatists“.
No word on preference for peace.

Beijing‘s aggressive stance will likely be central topic of MSCs in years to come. All the more essential for Taiwan, US, Europe & allies to urgently invest in effective deterrence to try to prevent Beijing from using force to change status quo.

@DAlperovitch

This for me was also lesson from excellent simulation exercise orchestrated by @DAlperovitch @SilveradoPolicy.

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Justyna Gotkowska

@jgotkowska

1/THREAD #MSC2023
My impressions from the Munich Security Conference: The 🇩🇪🇫🇷 couple with Chancellor Scholz and President Macron set the scene (with President Zelensky) during the first day. All in all a very telling setup with more hawkishness in tone but old ideas behind.

2/🇩🇪Germany. Chancellor Scholz had a sharper speech than usual on the war, Ukraine and Russia - pushing back against public appeals in Germany to stop German weapons deliveries. Scholz: “Putin’s revisionism cannot win, without justice there will be no just peace.”

3/But old ideas came back: “there need to be a balance between support for Ukraine and NATO not engaging into the war. Scholz fears “uncharted waters” and a conflict with a nuclear power.
To me - with a new, harsher tone, strategically Scholz stays were he was in the past months.

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Ulrike Franke

@RikeFranke

@MunSecConf

Back from @MunSecConf 2023. Always interesting, but this year more important than ever. A few observations:

For me, the theme of the conference was ‘getting the global south on board re our stance on Russia’. #Macron was the first speaker to make the point in detail, but it was also a major element of Kamala Harris’ speech, Stoltenberg, Marin and others equally emphasised it.

There is a realisation that other states don’t care as much about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the west thinks they should. That this invasion & its war crimes are a breach of int. law that cannot stand is an argument western countries will need to make more convincingly.

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Challenger 🩺mission impossible?I

@SourceControl21

@konold

@konold @Tapsi60800763 @BVerfG Pack schon mal Deine Sachen 🥹

@konold

@konold @Tapsi60800763 @BVerfG please don't kill the messenger 🥹

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shortcut to the preprint publication
german government end statement to herdimmunity

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#CovidIsNotOver
#CovidIsntOver

#COVIDisAirborne

@konold

@konold @Tapsi60800763 @BVerfG omg
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banality of evil
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Setareh Mihandoost

@setarehmihan

1.🧵 پولیتیکو
مصاحبه با شاهزاده رضا پهلوی

در مونیخ #MSC2023. او ایجاد صندوق اعتصاب برای کارگران ایرانی با استفاده از دارایی های مسدود شده رژیم ایران را توصیه می کند. بحث در مورد اینکه چرا سپاه پاسداران در لیست تروریست ها لازم است؛ و چگونه منشور انتقال 95٪ به پایان رسیده است.

2. رضا پهلوی اغلب به عنوان یک بازیگر انفرادی مصمم برای پایان دادن به نیروهای اسلام گرا که بیش از 40 سال پیش کشور مادری اش را تصرف کردند، دیده می شود. اما اخیراً، در حالی که موجی از اعتراضات در داخل ایران، رژیم آنجا را تهدید می‌کرد، پهلوی با دیگر چهره‌های اپوزیسیون

3. ایران با همین هدف متحد شده است. این گروه در حال کار بر روی منشوری برای ایران دموکراتیک آینده است. در حاشیه کنفرانس امنیتی مونیخ، پهلوی نگاهی اجمالی به آنچه که شامل آن خواهد شد ارائه کرد و از غرب خواست تا برای کمک به ایرانیان ناامید از آزادی، تلاش بیشتری انجام دهد.

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Dario D'Angelo

@dariodangelo91

🚨STOLTENBERG ALLA #MSC2023: "PUTIN STA PIANIFICANDO NUOVE GUERRE"

🔴IL DISCORSO DEL SEGRETARIO #NATO
1/n
"La guerra della #Russia contro l'#Ucraina continua. Possiamo essere scioccati dalla sua brutalità. Ma non dovremmo esserne sorpresi. Questo fa parte di un disegno di

2/n
aggressione russa che dura da diversi anni.
Gli alleati NATO hanno condiviso con largo anticipo informazioni precise sui piani di invasione di Mosca. Per molti mesi abbiamo fatto ogni sforzo per coinvolgere la Russia nella diplomazia. E pochi giorni prima, proprio su questo

3/n
palco a Monaco, avevo invitato il presidente #Putin a desistere. Ma nonostante i nostri appelli alla pace, ha scelto di attaccare. Possiamo già trarre alcune importanti lezioni dalla guerra.
In primo luogo, dobbiamo sostenere e intensificare il nostro sostegno all'Ucraina.

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Minna Ålander 🌻

@minna_alander

🇫🇮 President Niinistö says at a presser at #MSC2023 that the German claims that Finland would be backtracking from the leopard coalition are not true.

🇫🇮 is part of building the “weapons arrangement”. Yesterday Niinistö also said that Finland won’t be “on the sidelines” in this

This is prob as clear as it’ll ever get - Niinistö is infamous for being cryptic and it’s been the 🇫🇮 approach to weapons deliveries to Ukraine never to give details.

Niinistö had talked with Scholz today but said that Scholz had not expressed any particular requests re: leos

*in Finnish Niinistö said “asekokonaisuus”, maybe a better translation would be “full range of weaponry” but it’s hard to translate - anyways it makes clear that it’s about the weapons system and not only about training, maintenance, logistics etc.

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@BrennpunktUA 🇩🇪🇺🇦

@BrennpunktUA

#Odeonsplatz — geht doch, München 🇺🇦💪❤️

#msc23 #MSC2023 #muc1802 #nafofella #nafo

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Dr. M N

@DoktorMn

@PahlaviReza

H.E @PahlaviReza Ansichten am Rande .s #MSC2023 & eine Warnung an die europäischen Gemeinschaften,was die Folgen für sie sein werden,wenn IR-Regim nicht geht.
دیدگاه های شاهزاده در حاشیه نشست امنیتی مونیخ و هشدار به جوامع اروپایی که اگر ج.ا نرود چه پیامد هایی برای آنها خواهد داشت

@SZ

Ein demokratischer Iran, der sich vom diktatorischen Regime unterscheidet, kann für westliche Länder sehr effektiv sein und hat viele Vorteile:
1 - In Bezug auf Einwanderungsprobleme,die entstehen und Unordnung in der europäischen Region verursachen
@SZ @tagesschau @derspiegel

@BMUV

2 Drohungen des Regimes,zum Beispiel Aktionen gegen die Ukraine und Nuklearfragen

3 Ein sehr wichtiger Punkt ist das Thema Wasser und Umweltschutz im Iran, wenn es so weitergeht,wird es negative Auswirkungen auf die Region & die ganze Welt haben.
@BMUV @Umweltbundesamt @bund_net

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Dr. M N

@DoktorMn

@PahlaviReza

@SZ

@BMUV

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Olivia Gazis

@Olivia_Gazis

CIA Director William Burns: “I think the president’s decision to selectively and carefully declassify some of our…intelligence has had a very important impact throughout the course of the war” in Ukraine #MSC2023

@RepMikeTurner

House Intelligence Committee chairman @RepMikeTurner notes bipartisan, bicameral support for Burns and the IC’s work and gives a notable, amicable shoutout to Ranking Member @jahimes, in attendance

Turner & Burns describe the early deliberations over providing Ukrainians with U.S. intelligence on the location of Russian troops - which was initially feared to be ‘provocative.’ Ultimately that shared tactical intel “had an immediate impact on the battlefield,” Burns says

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Minna Ålander 🌻

@minna_alander

🇫🇮PM Marin said in a presser at #MSC2023 that Europe’s response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 was inadequate and too slow, Russia should have been isolated already then. Business as usual was a mistake and sanctions by far not hard enough.

Marin continues that we should’ve listened to our Baltic and Polish friends more closely because they had a more realistic assessment of Russia than many other European countries, including Finland.

Going forward, it’s important not to repeat the same mistakes as after 2014.

Marin also says Europe wouldn’t manage on its own and US military capacity is what gives NATO’s article 5 credibility. She also praised the bipartisan support for Ukraine in the US.

According to Marin, military aid to Ukraine is priority topic at all tables at #MSC2023

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Kaja Kallas

@kajakallas

Here is what I emphasised at #MSC2023 Women’s Breakfast: Russia’s aggression is not only European issue or “regional conflict”. What is at stake in Ukraine is the right to exist as a country. Russia is testing if conquering and colonizing in the 21st century is acceptable. 1/

The Euro-Atlantic community has been on the right track with their support to Ukraine. But it's equally true that lives could have saved if we had helped Ukraine already before 24 February. And it's true that as long as human suffering continues, we have not done enough. 2/

We must step up military support, and continue to raise the cost of war for Moscow, until the last Russian soldier has left Ukraine.

We must hold war criminals accountable.

We must cut off Russia´s export revenues. We must make Russia pay for everything it destroys. 3/

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Ralf Fuecks

@fuecks

Great Lineup, crucial topics: What can / must the West do to enable Ukraine to win the war? And how should an Ukrainian victory look like? #MSC2023

@anneapplebaum

@anneapplebaum: The war will end when Russia is understanding that it was a fatal mistake. And this moment of truth will only arrive after a military defeat in Ukraine. /2

@DmytroKuleba

@DmytroKuleba: This war will end when the Russian troops will leave our country. This is the short term endgame. Peace will come when the Russian president (whoever it may be) will visit Kiyv, knees before the monument for the Ukrainian victims and apologizes for this crime /3

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English)

@mbk_center

@MunSecConf

1. Here are the key points I tried to convey while presenting my book “How to slay the dragon” about Russia’s future at my first session at @MunSecConf. A thread
#MSC2023

2. I am convinced that this war is Putin’s war specifically. 50–20% of people courageously opposing the war under conditions of dictatorship—that’s a lot. Putin conducted a mobilisation and, with great difficulty, gathered 300,000 people.
#MSC2023

3. During WWII, the Soviet Union (with nearly the same population as in today’s Russia) mobilised 32 million soldiers in four years; today – 300,000 with difficulty. This war has not yet become a war of the Russian people. This is Putin’s war.
#MSC2023

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Olivia Gazis

@Olivia_Gazis

@VP

.@VP Kamala Harris announces U.S. has formally determined Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

"In the case of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, we have examined the evidence, we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt: These are crimes against humanity."

@VP

"And I say to all those who have perpetrated these crimes and to their superiors who are complicit in those crimes: you will be held to account." - @VP Kamala Harris at #MSC2023

"No nation is safe in a world where one country can violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another," VP Harris says, to applause

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Dario D'Angelo

@dariodangelo91

1/n
Nuovo intervento alla Conferenza di Monaco sulla sicurezza. Ed è uno tra i più attesi quello di Wang Yi, capo della diplomazia della #Cina di #XiJinping.

#MSC2023

2/n
🚨🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇸Prima bordata di #WangYi: "Per un mondo più sicuro sovranità e integrità territoriale di tutti i Paesi devono essere rispettate".

Apparentemente giusto, se non fosse che non sta pensando all'#Ucraina, ma alla questione #Taiwan.

3/n
Se non fosse abbastanza chiaro il punto precedente, Wang Yi precisa che "interferenze negli affari interni di altri Paesi sfidano le regole fondamentali dei rapporti internazionali. Ogni violazione del principio di 'una sola #Cina' sulla questione #Taiwan e tentativo di

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Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock

@ABaerbock

@MunSecConf

Together, we, female foreign ministers at @MunSecConf #MSC2023, strongly condemn the Talibans’ push to exclude women from all public life: 1/5

Women are kept from strolling in parks, are not seen on TV screens anymore, are deprived of their #right to attend schools and universities, and are now also kept from working in humanitarian assistance. 2/5

By excluding half of #Afghanistan’s population from society, the #Taliban are committing gravest violations of human rights. And the Taliban are jeopardizing the future of the whole country. 3/5

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Olivia Gazis

@Olivia_Gazis

China's Wang Yi says at #MSC2023 Beijing will issue a position paper on Ukraine reiterating President Xi's view that territorial integrity and sovereignty 'must be respected'; nuclear war 'must not be fought'

'We will work with all sides,' Wang Yi says of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, 'until the day peace arrives.'

Wang Yi says at #MSC2023 the downing of China's balloon by the U.S. was "absurd and hysterical" and "100% abuse of the use of force."

"There are many balloons in the sky. Do you want to down each and every one of them?"

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Helene von Bismarck

@HeleneBismarck

These are hugely important days for U.K. diplomacy. One might even call it a key moment in the gradual 'great normalisation' of U.K. post-Brexit &post-Covid foreign policy in Europe that started with the Russian attack on #Ukraine . 1/

@BorisJohnson

It was not so very long ago, in 2019, when UK-EU acrimony was at its peak, that the U.K. government (then under @BorisJohnson ) positively shunned the #MunichSecurityConference . Boosterish calls for Global Britain were everywhere, but actual dialogue with allies was not./2

@RishiSunak

Now, the #MSC2023 is being attended by @RishiSunak @JamesCleverly and @BWallaceMP . Meanwhile a deal on the #NorthernIrelandProtocol may be imminent, and something else *might* be in the air: Lobbying for a 🇬🇧candidate to succeed @jensstoltenberg as @NATO Secretary-General?/3

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Ulrike Franke

@RikeFranke

Quite the grand statement “Any increase in China’s strength is an increase in the hope of peace for humanity.” - Wang Yi
Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, People's Republic of China, #msc2023

*Very* univocal statement by Wang Yi on #balloongate: civilian balloon which veered off course. US response was “absurd and hysterical”, “100% abuse of the use of force”. “We do not accept this.” US reaction “does not show that US is strong, on the contrary it shows the opposite”

Shooting down the balloon was “preposterous”, an action “to divert attention from US domestic problems”.
No room for interpretation here.
#msc2023

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