@lawandliberty1 @AmbDanFried 1).
„I am sure @POTUS @realDonaldTrump sand his envoys to Russia, @SteveWitkoff (@SEPeaceMissions) and @jaredkushner, sincerely want to stop the killing in Ukraine,
@lawandliberty1 @AmbDanFried @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @jaredkushner 2).
but they are failing and will continue to fail as long as they persist in their naïve view that this is just a big real estate deal and that their backgrounds in real estate give them an advantage. It is utter nonsense on multiple levels.
@lawandliberty1 @AmbDanFried @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @jaredkushner 3).
For starters, yes, you could say that Vladimir Pootin is in the real estate business in Ukraine, but not in the way Trump or Witkoff or Kushner have been in the business.
@lawandliberty1 @AmbDanFried @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @jaredkushner 4).
Pootin is in the real estate business in Ukraine the same way Hitler was in the real estate business in Poland. Hitler coveted territory not to build a hotel or housing for profit to benefit the local residents.
@lawandliberty1 @AmbDanFried @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @jaredkushner 5).
He, instead, coveted real estate to fulfill a nationalist fantasy. Ditto Pootin. He has shown no interest in the welfare of Ukraine’s people.”
Dec. 4, 2025
Excerpt from an article [1] by @tomfriedman [2] [3]
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„ @bundeskanzler @_FriedrichMerz hat sich am Freitagabend [5. Dez.] mit dem belgischen Premierminister @Bart_DeWever De und der Präsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Ursula @vonderleyen,
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zu einem Meinungsaustausch über die Situation in der Ukraine und die eingefrorenen russischen Vermögenswerte getroffen.
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Die Kommissionspräsidentin und die beiden Regierungschefs vereinbarten, dass sie ihren Austausch fortsetzen werden, mit dem Ziel, beim Europäischen Rat am 18. Dez. eine einvernehmliche Lösung zu finden.”
@michaeldweiss 1).
Supreme Leader of the U.S. in a Orange Makeup @POTUS „ @realDonaldTrump on Wed. [Dec. 3] said:
– »I don’t know what the Kremlin’s doing. I can tell you that they had [@jaredkushner and @SteveWitkoff (@SEPeaceMissions] a reasonably good meeting with President Putin«.
@michaeldweiss @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @jaredkushner @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions 2).
He said it was his envoys’ impression that Russia would like to end the war.
– »You know, Ukraine, I think we have something pretty well worked out with them« – @realDonaldTrump said from the Oval Office.
@michaeldweiss @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @jaredkushner @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions 3).
However, he said he felt @ZelenskyyUa should have cut a deal in Feb., when the US and Ukrainian presidents’ meeting in the Oval Office devolved into a shouting match.
– »I thought that would have been a much better time to settle« – Trump said.
@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.
@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.”
@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
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 –
2).
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.”