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@BrajanKot

Dec 4

@michaeldweiss 1).
„Landauʼs broadside is the latest in a long list of blows by the current U.S. administration to its historic partners, which includes pressuring the EU into accepting a humiliating trade deal to stave off tariffs.

@michaeldweiss 2).
@POTUS @realDonaldTrump has repeatedly slammed the bloc for treating the U.S. unfairly – while the EU has said Washingtonʼs demands on trade were tantamount to blackmail.

@michaeldweiss @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 3).
Trump has in the past questioned @NATO's security guarantees [1] even if he has largely lauded the allianceʼs efforts to ramp up defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035.

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@BrajanKot

Dec 4

@michaeldweiss 1).
„The EU is adding Russia to its blacklist of countries at high risk of money laundering and financing terrorism, according to two EU officials and a document seen by POLITICO.

@michaeldweiss 2).
The global watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) suspended Russia as a member after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but failed to blacklist it, despite evidence presented by the Ukrainian government,

@michaeldweiss 3).
because of opposition from countries in the BRICS group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.

EU lawmakers called on the Commission many times to do what FATF was not able to.”

Dec. 3, 2025

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@BrajanKot

Dec 4

@michaeldweiss 1).
„Nineteen-ninety-four was the year I graduated from high school, and the year Kurt Cobain died. I remember coming home from school in suburban Illinois on that April afternoon,

@michaeldweiss 2).
turning on the TV and seeing the MTV News anchor Kurt Loder report that the 27-year-old lead singer and guitarist for Nirvana had been found dead by suicide in Seattle [1].”

Excerpt from an article [2] by Amanda Fortini [3] [4]

@michaeldweiss 3).
[1] „Smell like teen spirit” (1991) interpreted by Tori Amos

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[2] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 (@nytimes) archive.is/20251204033641…

[3] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 (@nytimes) nytimes.com/by/amanda-fort…

[4] @NewYorker newyorker.com/contributors/a…

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@BrajanKot

Dec 4

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1996132000076378394

1).
„Although @marcorubio calls himself a conservative, if you look closely at his time in the Senate – with all his flip-flops and failures, his shapeshifting and Trumpification –

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1996132000076378394

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you’ll see that a more apt description of his politics is the quote attributed to the 19th-century French socialist Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807–1874) [1]: »There go the people; I must follow them, for I am their leader« [2].

3).
What was Rubio’s reaction to losing the Republican nomination in 2016? First, he endorsed the same »liar« and »con artist« who could not be trusted with the nuclear codes. And then – of course – he broke his pledge not to run for re-election.”

Feb. 14, 2020

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@BrajanKot

Dec 4

https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1996182921934147919

1).
„The reparations loan is part of a wider financial package, worth up to €210 billion, to keep Kyiv's finances afloat for the coming years.

https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1996182921934147919

2).
The €165 billion reparations loan includes €25 billion of immobilized Russian state assets held in private bank accounts across the bloc, in addition to €140 billion held in the Euroclear bank in Belgium. Ukraine's war chest is set to run bare in April.

3).
The main stumbling block remains the Belgian government’s opposition to the loan.”

Dec. 3, 2025

@POLITICOEurope (@politico) archive.ph/0YRAL

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@BrajanKot

Dec 3

@michaeldweiss 1).
„Yuri Ushakov, a top Pootin official, told reporters following Tuesdayʼs meeting that the talks were "constructive, very useful and substantive," but said a compromise to the lingering territorial issues in Ukraine wasn't found [1].”

@michaeldweiss 2).
„On Tues., Pootin accused Kyiv’s European allies of sabotaging the U.S.-led efforts to end the war.
– »They don’t have a peace agenda, they’re on the side of the war« – Pootin said of the Europeans [2] [3].”

@michaeldweiss 3).
„In fact, neither earlier talks in Istanbul, an Aug. summit in Alaska between @realDonaldTrump and Pootin or five previous visits to Moscow by Witkoff have resulted in the Kremlin softening its stance or its bellicose rhetoric [4].”

Dec. 2/3, 2025

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