Per Ivar Hoevring

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Senior Advicer Norwegian University of Life Sciences #NMBU
Tweets are my own

[Per Ivar Hoevring @PerHoevring]

@narendramodi I would gave been a bit more jubilant if you had cut the thies with russia.... but your choice

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our contacts with the American side regarding guarantees for the implementation of the arrangements reached recently and announced by the President of the United States are ongoing.

The prisoner exchange – 1,000 for 1,000 – is being prepared and must take place. The Americans assumed responsibility for these guarantees. Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters has handed over the lists for one thousand POWs to the Russian side.

There was American mediation in reaching this arrangement on the exchange, and accordingly, we expect the American side to play an active role in ensuring it’s fulfilled.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

“Do you want to hear a joke about Russias victory day parade?”

“No tanks”

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

I don't know who this comedian Donald J. Trump is but he should be fired immediately. This hack is cheering the death of the an ex-FBI Director. He is a sick man (very unfunny and unattractive.) No viewer should ever see him on TV. I demand that the United States cancel his show.

[Zach Klein @zachklein]

A self-driving car is still a car.

[Guy Venables @godfreychurch]

My cartoon for Tuesday's @MetroUK @MetroPicDesk #IranWar‌ #trump #straitofhormuz

[Bjørn Johan Berger @bjornberger]

Villedende fra Jens Stoltenberg om Norges støtte til Ukraina på NRK Nyhetsmorgen i dag. Ukritisk av NRK. På Substack forklarer jeg at vi trenger kritisk journalistikk for å få en opplyst debatt om Norges støtte til Ukraina: https://t.co/mU9VaJHWuu

[Per Ivar Hoevring @PerHoevring]

Forbasket skandaløst

[Bjørn Johan Berger @bjornberger]

«Kunne flyene vært i lufta mye tidligere for å forsvare Ukraina mot russiske missiler og droner, om donasjonen ble håndtert på en annen måte? Ifølge NRKs kildeopplysninger er svaret ja.»

https://t.co/HeuWFQuDEV

[Per Ivar Hoevring @PerHoevring]

Will be useful for me to know as well

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Can anyone answer this?

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

I would not seek to provoke and alienate Europe if I were Israel. Europe has been very tolerant and supportive of Israel. But if Netanyahu wants to have a fight with Europe and be left with only the Trump government as their friends, this kind of rhetoric can surely achieve it.

[Koneser Związku Radzieckiego/X @KrzysiekWSK]

Jestem Polakiem i Europejczykiem.
Kocham swój kraj i uwielbiam swój kontynent.

Unia Europejska buduje potęge każdego kraju członkowskiego poprzez wspólną siłę.

Wszystko inne to kłamstwa.

Trump chce słabej Europy
Putin chce słabej Europy
XI chce slabej Europy.

Każdy kto woli giermka Putina czyli Orbana od normalnego konserwatywnego polityka jak Magyar, życzy Polsce źle.

[Democracy 4 All 😷💛 @goodbye56789]

Where the fuck are you? Trump is mentally unstable, and not a single word from any of you to have him removed?!??!!?!!!!!!??!!!!!??!!!
Are you all out of your minds!!!?!?

@CBSNews
@NBCNews
@ABC
@CNNPolitics
@wapo
@wsj_com
@FoxNews
@nypost

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell on MS Now. Prominent legal experts confirm Donald Trump is ordering the US military to commit the most serious war crimes since WW2. By targeting Iranian civilian infrastructure, the Trump administration is forcing soldiers to break international law.

[Per Ivar Hoevring @PerHoevring]

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

"We can't take care of sick people or kids because we'd rather use the money on war" is a hell of a midterms pitch

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak.

He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected.

France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy.

Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust.
Honestly? Understandable.
Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

The US is restocking their own military supplies with.. European money intended to supply weapons to Ukraine?

How is this legal?