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Mar 14 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
AFP reports an incident between a US #drone and a Russian jet over the Black Sea.
Oh. Looks like the Russian jet took the US Reaper #drone down.
This is all less than ideal.
The US European Command has released this statement. 👇
They say two Russian Su-27 aircraft intercepted the US Reaper #drone over international waters. At 7AM CET one of the aircraft struck the drone’s propeller causing US forces to have to bring it down.
eucom.mil/pressrelease/4…
Video of the incident now published by US

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Feb 19
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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Feb 18
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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Feb 17
Olaf Scholz now speaking at #msc2023
“We are delivering more than any other country on the European continent. We are stepping up to our responsibility.” Image
“It is not our weapons deliveries that are prolonging the war.” - Scholz at #msc2023
Scholz: “Germany will raise the German defence budget to 2%.” Immediate reaction on the tribune: “when?”.
#msc2023
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Feb 4
@manta_greg @MaximuClaudius @Wieseli3 Puh, wenn ich diesen süffisant ätzenden Tweet früher gesehen hätte, hätte ich Ihnen grade nicht so ausführlich geantwortet. Erstens habe ich Ihre Replik auf den Ecfr Plan nicht gesehen (es gibt keine “ECFR Plan” aber das führt jetzt zu weit).
@manta_greg @MaximuClaudius @Wieseli3 Zweitens, selbst wenn schulde ich Ihnen keine Antwort - ich kenn Sie nicht?! Drittens, warum soll ich mich zu nem Artikel äußern, den ich nicht geschrieben hab? Als der rauskam, war ich sogar noch in Elternzeit.
@manta_greg @MaximuClaudius @Wieseli3 Viertens ist mein Kritikpunkt der, dass das Mantra “keine Alleingänge” zur Farce wurde, als Partner lieferten oder gesagt haben sie wollen liefern. Das ist richtig. Weswegen ich den Anfang des threads hab stehen lassen.
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Feb 2
I am happy when there is support for government policies. But the way how some German media atm is helping push Scholz’s narrative of a “besonnen und abgestimmt” approach in face of criticism when this was NEVER WHAT HE WAS CRITICISED FOR! is baffling.
German WDR5 radio this weekend; “it was Scholz’s mantra ‘no German Alleingang’ - and for this he had to face a lot of criticism”. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? NO ONE criticised Scholz for wanting to work with allies. On the contrary.
All proposals on Leopards were always about coalitions. Scholz was criticised bc *he kept saying this when there were lots of allies wanting to go forward*.
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Jan 25
I’m not doing interviews today - mainly as I wanna spend time with 👶 - but also because I want to make sure I have all the information before commenting.
Some clearly don’t share that concern… here’s a quick list of incorrect statements I’ve heard today on the #Leopard deal.
No, German support for Ukraine hasn’t been “modest” (French radio).
Germany is the third (fourth if you count EU institutions) provider of aid, including military aid.
No, the German government didn’t change (or break) a law which forbids the export of weapons into war zones. There is a self-imposed rule not to do that - but it has an exception for a self-defence war under article 51 UN charter.
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