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Bruno Maçães Profile picture
@MacaesBruno
Oct 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
We now reached the point where German politicians who took a hard line against refugees are confessing they were wrong and apologizing to Merkel

spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
While several politicians in Europe take aim at Islam as a religion, Merkel welcomes a million Syrian and Afghan refugees and turns it into a huge, undisputed national success
Thanks for informing me Söder is an opportunist politician, a big beast of CSU. That was the point. When someone like Soder apologizes you know what the politics is and who won
Remarkable how so many people get furious when told Germany’s refugee policy was a huge success. Shows how anti-immigration is not about facts or outcomes but about unalloyed racism

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Jul 1
Greatest risk to European democracy is obviously the Gaza genocide. Not Putin, not Orban, not social media, not immigration. Gaza. A whole generation is losing faith in democracy. Will be impossible to recover it
And this is before the full knowledge of what truly happened is widey available
After all if European democracies (not all of course) can conduct a genocide against the public’s wishes, deploying for that purpose all the tools of obfuscation, slander, propaganda, repression, violent or nonviolent, that public will conclude this is a sham democracy
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May 31
Let me tell you why I think some people are somewhat shifting their tone on Gaza
These people have concluded Israel will indeed conduct the genocide to the end. Many hundreds of thousand will die. The rest will be forced to leave Gaza at gunpoint. Maybe 100,000 will be allowed to stay as cheap labour force
When all is concluded one thing will change. It will become impossible to avoid having an opinion. Will you say it was a success or a great tragedy and crime? The latter will be more mainstream, even if the former might still be less disqualifying than supporting the Holocaust
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May 1, 2024
By the standards of protests in the US, for example 2020, these are extremely peaceful and orderly protests. I even see people mocking how nerdy and bookish the protestors sound. Height of violence was breaking a glass to get to a door handle, as one does when leaving keys inside
But US authorities have been whipping themselves into a fever and a frenzy: “terrorists, Muslims, Hamas, monsters, inhumans”, they shout, cheering each other on in a kind of collective madness or witch-hunt
You see the poor policemen, always minorities, themselves the target of police brutality, arrive with their minds bubbling up in these notions, convinced they are fighting animals or worse, because they heard this from the politicians
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Aug 18, 2023
US intelligence sources again blame Ukraine for the counteroffensive’s failure but this time they say Ukrainians were not willing to accept the necessary casualties
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Officials envisioned “Kyiv accepting the casualties” “but Ukraine chose to stem the losses on the battlefield”
The article is overkill blaming Ukraine for several choices of different kinds but this one stands out for falseness and callousness
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Jul 4, 2023
Everyone whose opinion I respect thinks the US does not want Ukraine to win the war. It’s a troubling conclusion but hard to avoid
And some of those people tell me there are ongoing, top secret exchanges between the US and Russia to begin shaping a peace agreement…
Even those with no privileged access might look at the facts and notice the military support is carefully designed to match Russia’s buildup but not more
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Jul 4, 2023
Death and literature in Ukraine. My notebook from Kyiv on books and war, Volodymyr Vakulenko and Victoria Amelina
newstatesman.com/world/europe/u…
The photo I mention in the notebook
And here is Vakulenko’s diary of occupation, out in Kyiv bookstores in July
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