Lessons from Ukraine: on the anniversary weekend of #Russia’s full-scale invasion of its peaceful neighbor, 17 ⁦@BrookingsFP⁩ scholars explain what we have learned, and what needs to be done now — a thread 🧵👇 brookings.edu/essay/lessons-… Fiona Hill observes that restoring European security and deterrence will require the United States and its allies to persuade skeptical middle powers that a world order that is safe for all nations can only be based on international law and the United Nations Charter. 1/15

„,Wir wollten es nicht sehen.’ Die Fraktionsführungen von CDU und CSU haben keinen Grund, mit einer selbstkritischen Reflexion noch länger zu warten—auch als Grundlage für eine neue Ost- und Russlandpolitik.”
Eine Abrechnung von Hans-Joachim Falenski👇
zeitung.faz.net/faz/politik/20… Hans-Joachim Falenski war von 1983 bis 2021 außenpolitischer Berater der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion. Mit anderen Worten: wer soll die Russlandpolitik der Union besser beurteilen können? Genau.

Fascinating piece on legal grounds to stop Nord Stream 2 by Konrad Schuller (who doesn’t seen to be on Twitter) in @faznet —> in German, so for all you poor souls who don’t speak my mother tongue, here’s a thread to summarize 1/n

faz.net/-gq5-a3bac?pre… #fplus via @faznet Background: there’s a growing movement in Berlin arguing for cancellation of Nord Stream 2 (details in my Sept. 10 FT column brookings.edu/blog/order-fro…)
Now the Green co-party leader @ABaerbock and Green MEP @bueti have laid out the legal argument:
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Go to the Museum of Science and Industry, I was told. It has a submarine.

Ok. Submarines are cool.

What I didn’t realize until I got there is that it is a German submarine.

A NAZI SUBMARINE.

IN CHICAGO.

IN A MUSEUM BASEMENT.

I give you: U-505/1 By way of a narrative slowdown, this is how the enlisted men aboard U-505 hotbunked:

Above a live torpedo. As one does.

(Not live now, no worries.)/2