Tobias Schumacher

Professor of European Studies @NTNUHumanities & Senior Professorial Fellow at ENP Chair @coenatolin | Deputy Coordinator @REDEMOS_eu

[Srdjan Cvijic @srdjancvijic]

Serbia continues protesting. Political crisis is deepening by day.

👉🏻This Thursday citizens from all parts of Belgrade will meet in front of the High Prosecutor’s office to demand justice
👉🏻This Friday there will be a general strike in 🇷🇸
👉🏻15 March all 🇷🇸 will meet in Belgrade

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

In the coming weeks, a massive information attack against Ukraine will emerge from the U.S. We will hear claims that Ukraine is an artificial country, a creation of Austria & USAID, a dictatorship ruled by Nazis, and that it illegally produces WMDs.

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[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine. It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine. I know foreign policy is not for the faint of heart, but right now, I am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to democracy and U.S. values around the world.

[Lena Berger @lena4berger]

This is how PM Starmer 🇬🇧 welcomes the leader of the Free World. What a difference a day makes. And English manners...

[Prof. Dr. Monika Dobberstein @DrDobberstein]

Zur Erinnerung: Hillary Clinton hat gewarnt, dass Trump eine russische Marionette ist.
Trump: No puppet, no puppet.

[Rikard Jozwiak @RikardJozwiak]

What seemed impossible just a few days ago happened. IAEA has deployed its personnel to Zaporizhzhia NPP via 🇷🇺occupied territory without 🇺🇦 approval.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

This might be the most extraordinary tweet of the day - the ambassador to ukraine translating this and posting it - a sign of how quickly all the institutions are rushing to show loyalty to Trump.

A career diplomat who’s lived the whole war in Kyiv applauding Ze’s humiliation.

[Jan Frode Hatlen @JFHatlen]

Dette er slik FrP tenker bak lukkede dører (Teigen var lenge Listhaugs rådgiver). Dette er en god grunn til å markere tydelig avstand til FrP i (valg)år. (Vance stemte forøvrig mot støtte til Ukraina da han var senator.)

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Feeling bad tonight?

Donate to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[Libby Whittemore💙🪷🇺🇦 @libbage55]

#ResistanceUnited
Advertisement at a London bus stop… ya gotta love the British

[Tobias Schumacher @EUglobalactor]

Geht wählen und steht ein für die Demokratie!

[Siegfried Muresan 🇷🇴🇪🇺 @SMuresan]

What matters in today's German election:

1. That the victory of the pro-European centre-right party CDU /CSU is as clear as possible, so there is no space for interpretations.

2. That AfD, the populist, extremist, anti-European party, which wants to weaken Europe and to cozy with Russia, obtains a poor result.

3. That #Germany has a pro-European government.

4. That Germany will be able to form a government fast and for this to be stable. For this, a two-party coalition is desirable.

#Merz #BTW2025 @CDU @CSU #Bundestagswahl

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

The US has stopped arms sales to Ukraine — Roman Kostenko, head of the Ukrainian Parliament’s defense committee

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The American team has almost no experience in high-level international negotiation, no regional expertise on Ukraine and Russia, and no relevant foreign language knowledge. Not true of the Russians, to put it mildly.  Looks like a bloodbath by design.

[Tobias Schumacher @EUglobalactor]

And here comes the real thing. It goes step by step, by step...

[Alexander Kokcharov @alex_kokcharov]

In Russia, the State Duma approved the bill ratifying the bilateral treaty with Belarus "on security guarantees within the Union State". It was signed in December last year.

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https://t.co/BlaXeXeZCL

[Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @FRHoffmann1]

Ich sage es mal so: Ich war immer äußerst skeptisch gegenüber der Idee, Deutschland oder die EU bräuchten eigene Atomwaffen.

Aber ohne die USA halte ich das nukleare Abschreckungsdispositiv Frankreichs und des Vereinigten Königreichs nicht für ausreichend, um die gegenwärtige Sicherheit Europas ausreichend zu gewährleisten.

Deshalb sind wir jetzt, denke ich, an einem Punkt, an dem sich eine Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse zumindest lohnt.

Eine nukleare Aufrüstung Deutschlands und Europas wäre extrem teuer—finanziell, aber vor allem politisch. Darüber sollten wir uns keine Illusionen machen. Sie wäre auch hochriskant. Trotzdem sollten wir uns nun ernsthaft mit dem Wann und Wie befassen.

Das würde zudem die Kalkulationen in Washington und Moskau komplizierter machen und es erschweren, Europa einfach zu ignorieren.

[Tobias Schumacher @EUglobalactor]

Europeans had enough time to prepare for this, but they chose not to. And now they are shocked?! Remarkable! https://t.co/b8IooCNf2Z

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

What should Europe do after the US has gone astray?
1. Arm as fast as possible! Move swiftly to 3% of GDP in defense expenditures!
2. Seize Russian sovereign assets in Europe & transfer them to Ukraine! Buy enough arms so that Ukraine can defeat Russia!