Michael Altenhenne

International Correspondent, DW Deutsche Welle

[sid @thinkist]

@elonmusk Can’t believe Elon and Trump broke up during Pride month

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@JDVance you are a peace of shit!

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.

As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor.

He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.

The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities.

Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war.

For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.

Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.

SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.

America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them.

You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others.

The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America.

As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@DasErste Was eine armselige Moderation! Identische pedantische Fragen („Ist das Boot voll oder ist das Boot voll?“) an die Interviewpartner. Arschkriecherei bei Söder. Knallhartes Nachfragen beim angeblich islmaistischen IG Post, und dann ein Aufruf zum Beten. Gott, lass Hirn regnen!

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

„Dieser Tabubruch ist für mich jedenfalls der Moment, an dem ich gesagt habe, diese CDU kann nicht mehr meine sein.“

Michel Friedmann in den #Tagesthemen

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@elonmusk You are so full of shit!

[Dolphin Project @Dolphin_Project]

BREAKING: Keto the orca has passed away. More at: https://t.co/5omEOtyU4g

#DolphinProject

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@CollinRugg So brainless that you can’t even tell the difference between oil and gas!

[Der Postillon 📯 @Der_Postillon]

Kind in postapokalyptischer Zukunft froh, dass Vorfahren ihm keine Schulden hinterlassen haben
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[Der Postillon 📯 @Der_Postillon]

Letzte Generation blockiert Verkehr ab sofort mit Traktoren, weil das offenbar für alle in Ordnung ist
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https://t.co/RCz4beb6oV

[Thomas. 🇪🇺 @migrate89]

Mit dem subventionierten 300.000€ Traktor nach Berlin fahren. Mit subventioniertem Sprit im Tank. Dort für weitere Subventionen bei der KFZ-Steuer demonstrieren. Und sich vom Staat ausgenommen, abkassiert und betrogen fühlen.

Genau mein Humor.

[Jan E @yo_ean]

Als die Kfz Steuer 1922 eingeführt wurde, hat man die Landwirtschaft ausgenommen um die Motorisierung dieser zu fördern.

Nachdem die Bauern nun eindrücklich bewiesen haben, dass die Motorisierung vollständig erreicht wurde, wäre es an der Zeit die Förderung abzuschaffen.

[IKRK @IKRK]

Die grauenhaften Angriffe in Israel dürfen nicht als Rechtfertigung für die uneingeschränkte Zerstörung des Gazastreifens dienen.

Der Evakuierungsbefehl sowie die lückenlose Belagerung sind nicht vereinbar mit dem humanitären Völkerrecht.

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[Majid Freeman @Majstar7]

🇵🇸 #Gaza: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:

‘My God.

So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'

For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history - again, and again, and again. We never learn.

What does the death count need to be before someone finally speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000?

A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?

I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we're afraid to say the "wrong thing. But I won't sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities - another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli people, in the midst of their deep grief and knowing the pain of persecution too well, have had the bravery and strength to be the very first to do so.

This is quite simple. We are watching an occupied, oppressed people face annihilation by a nuclear state with the full backing of the western world. This is not - and has never been - an 'equal fight'. Right now, it is a massacre on a scale I don't think I've ever seen in my life.

6,000 bombs dropped in 6 days already. On a strip of land just 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide at its widest point. Whole neighbourhoods flattened. Families wiped out. Hospitals collapsing under the weight of the casualties. On a population of 2 million - half of them children. 70% of them refugees. And now, the forced movement of 1 million people. A choice of forced migration or death is ethnic cleansing. The fact that it is impossible for that many to leave in that time means that this is now a genocide.

We have gone way, way beyond wishy washy 'praying for peace', 'all life is precious' IG statements, posted to show you've done your bit of performative activism. Show you mean it. If you have any kind of platform right now, please use it. Speak. Because it's becoming glaringly obvious that the world is happy to walk into an unspeakable horror that we didn't even bother to try to prevent.’

#Palestine 🇵🇸

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@RainerTraube @tazgezwitscher Die Reaktion auf 9/11 waren zwei völkerrechtswidrige Kriege der USA und der Allianz der Willigen in Afghanistan und im Irak, bei denen zehntausende Zivilisten getötet wurden. Warum das nun ein Vorbild sein soll, ist mir ein Rätsel.

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@JoanaCotar @DB_Presse @Beatrix_vStorch Schade, dass diese schöne deutsche Redensart von Ihnen nicht mehr verstanden wird. Sonst wüssten Sie, dass das mit „Deportieren“ so viel zu tun hat wie Ihr Tweet mit klarem Satzbau.

[Deutsche Bahn AG @DB_Presse]

@Beatrix_vStorch Wir freuen uns, dass Sie Ihr Ziel trotzdem erreicht haben. Die Rückfahrt fällt leider aus.

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@kikusantiago hola, me puedes dar tu correo por favor?

[Michael Altenhenne @correspondentDW]

@AmienEssif no lies, no magic - just efficiency