Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a co-sponsor of Graham’s Russia sanctions bill, calls on Congress to pass the bill:
“There can be no more fitting memorial to Lindsey, his legacy, or the causes he fought for than to pass this legislation and realize his long-held dream of an independent and secure Ukraine.”
Začíná summit NATO.
Spojené státy se stále více zaměřují na jiné priority, a Evropa tak musí ukázat, že je schopna se sama postarat o svoji bezpečnost. Každá země musí přiložit ruku k dílu. Právě to je tady v Ankaře evidentním tématem jak veškerých jednání, tak doprovodných debat.
O budoucnosti Aliance budu s ostatními lídry mluvit už dnes na neformální večeři.
Každá minuta, každé slovo, každá kritika či chvála - všechno našemu Prezidentovi pomáhá ke znovuzvolení. Kdyby neměl Hrabiše s Nacinkou, tak by si je museli jeho PR vymyslet.
Generál Patton o Rusech: „Problém s pochopením Rusa spočívá v tom, že nebereme v úvahu skutečnost, že není Evropan, ale Asiat, a proto je jeho myšlení zvrácené. Rusa nedokážeme pochopit o nic lépe než Číňana nebo Japonce a od té doby, co s nimi jednám, nemám žádnou zvláštní ⬇️
Tak už to máme i u nás z příručky populismu a extremismu kompletní. Po útoku na občanskou společnost a média je tu i útok na justici. Populisté nesnáší dělbu moci, brzdy, protiváhy, nezávislé instituce. Jsou přesvědčeni, že legitimitu mají jen oni sami, protože zastupují ten "správný" lid. Vše ostatní proto chtějí buď ovládnout, nebo zničit.
APPLEBAUM: Putin presented a fake image of Russia to the world. He talks about himself as leader of traditional society.
In fact, divorce rates are very high in Russia, abortion is very common, very few Russians go to church, and less than 5% of Russians have ever read a Bible.
So it's not an especially religious or traditional culture, but Putin has made himself the face of that idea because it's politically advantageous.
He uses it both to build support, to court, and to win over sympathizers in the West, and maybe he uses it at home as well.
It looks a little bit like how in the 1930s Soviet communists also sold a vision of the Soviet Union to Americans and Europeans about how marvelous it was and how they had discovered a new kind of political system.
If you've never been to Russia, Russia is a large country, it's far away, so you can imagine a lot of things about it. You can create a kind of imaginary Russia, an imaginary Soviet Union.
Especially if you only visit Moscow and St. Petersburg, like most tourists do. But most of the people who admire Russia haven't even been to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
It's very similar today. You have a part of European right and American right who have this imaginary Russia that they use as a symbol, without understanding that it has no relationship to reality.
Czech President Petr Pavel today said that he had filed a lawsuit against the government, challenging Prime Minister Andrej Babiš's decision to not include him in the government delegation attending the NATO summit in Ankara in July.
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