Jon Mendrala

Journo, Editor, Reporter. GG ultra. All topics. Preferably good news. Solemnly private matters. Twitter active since 2012. Only for monitoring since 2025.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in. Impeachment articles would have been filed. Can you imagine Fox News?”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Stubb: Brexit unified Europe. COVID unified Europe. Russia's 2022 invasion finally woke it up — after Georgia in 2008 and Crimea in 2014 didn't.

20 rounds of sanctions. Russian energy cut off. Europe moved further than anyone thought possible.

[Financial Times @FT]

US tax authorities will be barred from pursuing claims against the president, his eldest sons and the Trump Organization under a deal to halt a $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. https://t.co/UTiZF44UqA

[Nico Lange @nicolange_]

Die Trump-Regierung plant, den NATO-Verbündeten diese Woche mitzuteilen, dass sie den Bestand an militärischen Kapazitäten reduzieren wird, die den USA im Falle einer größeren Krise – wie beispielsweise einer Invasion eines NATO-Mitgliedstaats – zur Unterstützung europäischer Staaten zur Verfügung stünden. (Reuters)

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

One Russian paper today claims “Life has become four times more joyous.” Another reports the country’s economic reserves are “largely exhausted.” Plus: “a new drop in the approval rating of the [Russian] authorities.” And who are the Kremlin’s friends in the West? #ReadingRussia

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Awful. Just awful.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

The Iran war, as seen from Moscow. Producer @BBCBenTavener

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Lifting sanctions on Lukashenko‘s Kremlin puppet regime is effectively lifting sanctions on Russia. And of course, this is exactly the point. In my year of tweeting "Only Trump can save Russia," this is what I meant.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Six months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump administration fired all the State Department oil and gas experts.

The people who modeled exactly this scenario.

The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries.

Now nobody knows who to call.

You cannot make this up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ https://t.co/pF0GCP6txX

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets violated the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled, in a victory for The New York Times. https://t.co/t9nTUiHM7L

[Thomas Jäger @jaegerthomas2]

Trump fährt US-Wirtschaft, globale Lieferketten, bisherige Verbündete der USA gegen die Wand. Wer profitiert davon? Für wen macht Trump Politik? Weder zum Vorteil der USA, noch zum Erhalt ihrer dominanten internationalen Stellung, noch zum Nutzen der Allianzen der USA. Na: (🇷🇺🇨🇳)

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“We are manufacturing a whole new generation of terrorists in the Middle East,” former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel tells me, saying the Trump administration's conduct of its war in Iran appears to him unprecedented.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Russia is not winning in Ukraine. But the US has used its own war as an excuse to prop up Putin.
https://t.co/IoZNhPQQU2

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Denmark took the threat of a US invasion of Greenland so seriously that it sent blood supplies and explosives in January to blow up runways at civilian and military airports in case of attack. https://t.co/qBTBjmn3VI

[Ralf Fuecks @fuecks]

Vor unseren Augen werden jüdische Autorinnen und Wissenschaftler aus der Öffentlichkeit verdrängt (außer sie distanzieren sich lauthals von Israel).
Ein Versagen der Institutionen, die dem "antizionistischen" Druck nachgeben oder selbst diesem Ungeist huldigen.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

STUBB: Russia is now giving Shahed drones back to Iran, which they can use to strike American bases. And Russia is providing Iran with intelligence on the locations of American bases. Basically, Russia is giving the executive order to kill American soldiers. I'd be very worried.

[phoenix @phoenix_de]

"Im Grunde genommen haben wir eine Situation, dass Wladimir Putin hier direkt mit am Tisch sitzt", so EU-Abgeordnete @TerryReintke @GreensEFA zum Veto von Ungarns Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán gegen Ukraine-Hilfen beim EU-Gipfel. Das Artikel-7-Verfahren müsse eingeleitet werden.

[Ralf Fuecks @fuecks]

Ein historisches Dokument: Wie Arafat das Camp David-Abkommen für eine 2-Staaten-Lösung ausschlug. Nicht das letzte Mal, dass ein historischer Kompromiss an den Palästinensern scheiterte. Wer allein Israel für den Unfrieden verantwortlich macht, betreibt Geschichtsklitterung.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rubio on Ukraine: "Usually when a President tries to engage himself in peacemaking, in ending wars, that's applauded. This is one of the few times, when people criticize a President trying to end a war."

The criticism isn't about ending the war; it’s about demanding Ukraine’s surrender in a war it hasn’t lost or started, and disgusting bothsidism that ignores russia's war crimes and the illegality of an invasion that is just the latest in a long line of russian aggression.

​If you want the criticism to vanish, stop pressuring the victim. Arm Ukraine, tighten sanctions, and seize the shadow fleet.

[Sandra Navidi @sandranavidi.bsky.social @SandraNavidi]

Trump: "Ich hab nix mit Epstein zu tun und das Justizministerium sollte jetzt sagen, wir haben Wichtigeres zu tun." Trump ist laut Jamie Raskin nur über 1 Million Mal in den Epstein Files erwähnt (in den fully unredacted files), und die Veröffentlichten sind laut Channel 4 nur 2% der gesamten Unterlagen.