Tomáš Čorej

Píšem (hlavne o zahraničí) pre @dennikn.

[Tomáš Čorej @CorejTomas]

@nexta_tv It's hardly an unexpected u-turn. In fact, it is not a u-turn at all. Despite all the rhetoric, both the Slovak government and the Slovak president have consistently supported arming Ukraine "on a commercial basis"

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[Neprebudený© @Neprebudeny]

Luxusné vily ruských oligarchov zarastajú burinou. Londýn ich najprv vítal, vojna to zmenila @CorejTomas
https://t.co/6hwlnmzenz

[Tomáš Čorej @CorejTomas]

@HanesMiki na prvú mi ešte napadne salvádorský prezident Bukele a teoreticky Javier Milei v Argentíne, ale inak je to pomerne náročná otázka💁

[Financial Times @FT]

Israel says it hit 100 targets across Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon in less than 10 minutes, marking one of the deadliest single bombing campaigns in the history of a country wracked by decades of war and destruction. https://t.co/XKw3SZ8KQu

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.” https://t.co/rRGLnEtiOx

[Mujtaba Rahman @Mij_Europe]

EU officials rightly worry that the Greenland risk may actually increase after Trump’s failure in Iran, as Greenland would, militarily if not politically, be an easier win and show of force for a president seeking to recover damaged credibility 1/2

[The Londoner @_TheLondoner]

That massive knock-off Harry Potter shop on Oxford Street? It's owned by the sanctioned Libyan sovereign wealth fund.

[Mark Townsend @TownsendMark]

It was the biggest massacre for decades - 10,000 Sudanese killed over two days. The international community knew genocide was inevitable. Why and how did it happen? Huge thanks to @Sihanet @ikhlassahmed77 @nattyray11 @KholoodKhair https://t.co/j1dZwBvDwP

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

Ukraine’s drone commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi doesn’t usually give interviews. I managed to persuade him. As architect and chief implementer of Ukraine’s infantry attrition strategy, few people have been as consequential in this war. https://t.co/GJaJgFPjL5

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

I write in @FT that Iran is playing the long game. In war, geography matters as much as technology. Iran commands the entire northern shore of the Gulf, looming large over energy fields on its southern shore and all that passes through its waters. Its Houthi allies are perched at the entrance to the Red Sea and along the passage to the Suez Canal; Iran is thus perfectly positioned to squeeze the global economy from both sides of the Arabian Peninsula. Those in command of Iran today are veterans of asymmetric wars in Iraq and Syria. They are now applying the same strategy to fighting the US on the battlefield of the global economy. Drones, short-range missiles and mines setting tankers and ports on fire can have the same effect IEDs had in Iraq, only with greater impact — disrupting global supply chains and sending oil prices higher.

Iran could sustain its counteroffensive more easily and for far longer. Furthermore, a ceasefire alone will not lift the shadow of risk that Iran has imposed over the Gulf, which is now experiencing its nightmare scenario. That is why Iranian leaders are saying they will not accept a ceasefire until Washington fully grasps the global economic cost of waging this war. Businesses, investors and tourists may not return to the Gulf states if they assume that war could resume again. Unless the US is prepared to invade Iran to remove the Islamic republic’s leaders and then stay there to ensure stability and security, confidence in the Gulf will only return if the US and Iran arrive at a durable ceasefire.

Iran says it will only accept a ceasefire with international guarantees for its sovereignty, which would probably mean a direct role for Russia and China. It may also demand compensation for war damages and a verifiable ceasefire in Lebanon. The US would then have to agree to some form of the nuclear deal it left on the table in Geneva in February and commit to lifting sanctions. Iran’s leaders entered this war with the goal of ensuring it will be the last one. Either it breaks them or radically changes the country’s circumstances. They are betting on surviving long enough and squeezing the global economy hard enough to realise that goal.

Read full article https://t.co/63RNeA8Bza

[Michal Sirový 🇨🇿 @sssirda]

Václav Moravec končí...

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Too many who should know better are backing this war. It wouldn't be happening if a) Trump were a remotely serious president who knew risks of embarking on something whose aims he still can't specify, and b) Netanyahu wasn't embracing chaos as his get out of jail free card.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Zaluzhny’s broadside against Zelensky over managing the war is not a universal winner. The 2023 counteroffensive was a disaster and both men were in charge at the time.

[jonn elledge is mainly on bluesky @JonnElledge]

If you are one of the many people who've had the thought, "I really like reading Jonn's thoughts about things - if only those thoughts were in Slovak", it's your lucky day. Bratislava's leading independent paper Dennik N interviewed me about borders etc

https://t.co/WiHK8u0Q8Q

[Tomáš Čorej @CorejTomas]

@tom_nuttall for an unknown reason, he’s been deploying this analogy for a few years now in one speech after another

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Fascinating instalment of my favourite history podcast, on the battle of Przemyśl, Poland, which doomed the Habsburgs.
https://t.co/QnQQcf2pFC

[Neprebudený© @Neprebudeny]

Trumpovci proti EÚ: Američania uvalili sankcie na bývalého eurokomisára aj vyznamenanú aktivistku, Macron ich kritizuje @CorejTomas https://t.co/XU5Zzfk1X3

[Медиазона @mediazzzona]

Наоко и Александр Орлов из Stoptime выступили в Вильнюсе вместе с Noize MC и Монеточкой, за чьи песни на них составляли протоколы, передает корреспондент «Медиазоны»

https://t.co/irOzwIxx6a

[Financial Times @FT]

Don’t believe the fake gloom about London https://t.co/FVzzE5BhV7