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7 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The EU needs to take urgent actions to compensate for @JosepBorrellF's debacle in Moscow. Here are a few ideas:
1. Swiftly sanction the 8 top Kremlin men Navalny has singled out!
2. Prohibit the completion of Nord Stream 2 once & for all!
3. Prohibit golden passports to Kremlin insiders (Cyprus, Malta & Bulgaria in particular)!
4. Sanction Putin's cronies Gennady Timchenko & Boris Rotenberg (naturalized Finnish citizens) & deprive them of Finnish citizenship.
5. Tighten the implementation of the 5th EU Anti-Money-Laundering directive of June 2018 requiring public registries in all EU countries of ultimate beneficiary owners & go after Putin's cronies!
6. Deprive Arkady Rotenberg of his 1 bn euro of prime real estate in Germany.
7. In particular, sanction Roman Abramovich & Alisher Usmanov, Putin's most loyal oligarchs. They are both high on Navalny's list.
8. Let me add, the EU should apply visa refutals as the US State Department does, not only to the culprit himself (or herself) but also to spouse & children. For too many Kremlin kids go to British boarding schools & universities. Block the Abramovich kids from UK universities!

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2. as long as Russia is ruled by Putin, he will not be released from prison. His release would be perceived as a victory for the protest
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3. Authorities have ultimately decided on a course to intensify repression.
4. Authorities realize that, even with an extremely high level of manipulation of elections and falsification of their results, they can no longer provide themselves the necessary level of control
5. In international politics, an increase in isolation and hostility towards the West is inevitable.
6. There is no confrontation and split within civilians in the country; opposition-minded citizens do not oppose other citizens & Putin’s voters are passive
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Why Trump should rank as the worst US president ever:
1. He caused an insurrection at the US Capitol.
2. He greatly aggravated white supremacism.
3. He boosted homicide rates sharply.
4. He failed to handle a major pandemic by dismissing all preparations.
5. He brought about an unknown degree of corruption in the White House.
6. He did whatever he could to make billionaires even more privileged through lower taxes and less regulation.
7. He worked against the underprivileged on incomes, welfare, health care & education
8. He did whatever he could to aggravate the climate crisis.
9. He alienated the US from a real democracies, while defending corrupt autocracies.
10. He greatly strengthened major autocracies - China, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
11. He greatly weakened all western alliances, NATO.
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Contradictory reflections on Brexit:
1. Good that the process is completed but that free trade remains.
2. Sad to see the UK leave the EU.
3. Brexit is a reflection of obsolete British upper class imperialism.
4. Sad to see that UK liberalism disappears from the EU.
5. London is likely to lose out as a financial center, but none of Frankfurt, Paris, Dublin or Amsterdam is likely to be able to take over, so Europe as a whole will probably lose.
6. The excellent UK universities are likely to lose out, losing EU money, students & researchers.
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All signs suggest that Trump is Putin's servant:
1. Trump has never criticized Putin.
2. Trump has persistently opposed any action against Putin (but sometimes overruled).
3. Trump successfully sabotaged the Mueller report on his collusion with Russia, which even so as the Senate Intelligence Committee showed his collusion with the GRU (but did not say so because of Barr).
4. Trump's Russia accomplices were sentenced by US courts.
5. Trump hasten to pardon his Russia culprits, especially Manafort & Stone, the main Russian contacts.
6. Trump has made must of his money by selling real estate to Russians in New York, Miami & Palm Beach (Ruybolovlev $54 million).
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1. The US needs far more transparency. Tax returns, incomes & assets must be declared in exact numbers, not in intervals from 1-10.
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5. The president should be prohibited from hiring anybody of his family in the top of the government.
6. The president's right to offer pardon should be abolished.
7. Voters should be automatically registered by law.
8. Voter repression should be legislated to be a felony punishable with prison.
9. The electoral college should be abolished as a pre-democratic remnant.
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