Martin Hoffmann

„Dieser Faktor Mensch, der stört da überall rein.“
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[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

Ich kann sehr gut verstehen, dass alle nach diesem Wahlkampf fertig sind und eine Auszeit brauchen.

Aber in Anbetracht der Weltlage wirkt eine „Karnevalspause“ bei den Sondierungen schon sehr weltfremd.

[Andreas Fulda 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @AMFChina]

Annalena Baerbock oder Robert Habeck? Wer hat es geschafft, Olaf Scholz in der Chinapolitik zu einem realistischeren Kurs zu bewegen? Ein 🧵 mit meiner Bewertung nach drei Jahren Ampel-Koalition /1

[DG MEME 🇪🇺 @meme_ec]

🇺🇦🇪🇺
"Love your neighbor as yourself." (Mt. 22:39)

[Felix Dachsel @xileffff]

Mich störten immer die mantrahaften Sätze, dass wir Angela Merkel noch vermissen werden. Sie störten mich deshalb, weil Merkel für einen großen Teil der aufgeschobenen Probleme in diesem Land verantwortlich ist. Weil sie den politischen Diskurs zeitweise sedierte. 1/

[@EinAugenschmaus @EinAugenschmaus]

Fassen wir mal zusammen: #Lindner lässt während dem Abendessen seinen Vorschlag durchstechen an die Bild. #Scholz reicht es daraufhin und feuert ihn, womit Lindner nicht gerechnet hat. Ich wette, dass bei Springer bereits sämtliche Artikel fertig in der Schublade hatte mit der ->

[Clara Anne Bünger @C_AB_]

Zur Frage der Kürzung von Sozialleistungen für Dublin-Geflüchtete war oft von "Bett, Brot, Seife" die Rede. Doch die Koalition plant weit Schlimmeres: Ein Teil der Asylsuchenden soll regelrecht ausgehungert werden – es drohen Obdachlosigkeit und Verelendung. 1/

[Martin Hoffmann @hoffmartin]

@schieritz Naja, gibt ja auch diese Eckverbindung über die Ehefrau von Sellner.

https://t.co/FURu5t2QXt

[Bastian Brauns @BastianBrauns]

Lauren Southern, Pro-Putin-Influencerin aus den USA wurde 2018, mit Martin Sellner + heutiger Ehefrau Brittany Pettibone, gehindert, nach UK einzureisen. Frau Sellner (geb Petticone) veröffentlichte mit Southern ein Interview-Buch mit Putins Einflüsterer Alexander Dugin 1/X

[Laura Cwiertnia @LauraCwiertnia]

Man kann übrigens den Islamismus als die große Gefahr benennen, die er ist UND checken, dass viele Geflüchtete genau davor fliehen. Man kann echte Lösungen fordern, ohne dabei Rassist*innen auf den Leim zu gehen. #solingen

[Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli]

Ok this is hilarious.

Germany (in) famously has no speed limit for cars on most of its motorway network. You can literally drive at 417km/h

Germany is now considering introducing a 200km/h speed limit for high speed trains on its rail network
https://t.co/oduxf74QNe

[Niema Movassat @NiemaMovassat]

Vielen Menschen fällt es offenkundig schwer, Beschlüsse eines Gerichts zu lesen: das BVerwG hat NICHT erklärt, dass das #Compact-Verbot rechtswidrig ist. Es hat sogar klare Punkte für die Rechtmäßigkeit des Verbots benannt. Aber die Erfolgsaussichten der Compact-Klage sind /1

[Martin Hoffmann @hoffmartin]

@Nottersbach

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

When it comes to Ukraine, Joe Biden made a lot of mistakes. 

The most painful thing about that is that so many of those mistakes could have been easily avoided if Biden had people in his team who genuinely understood what Putin’s Russia was and how things worked with the Kremlin mafia. 

Heaven knows, and we know it too, that the Biden administration, along with other Western leaders, spent way too much time in vain trying to talk Putin out of invading Ukraine.

We all remember those endless, humiliating summits, diplomatic powwows, meetings, calls, and conversations behind closed doors that resulted in nothing in the winter of 2021-22— nothing but Putin and his cronies openly jesting at their frantic attempts and spitting at their faces. 

The decision to invade and devour Ukraine had been made a long time ago. Putin’s TV propaganda within Russia was only using those pictures to send a message to the domestic audience: Look, the American president is now seeking Putin’s attention and is reasoning with Russia, but who is he in the face of the inevitable?

(Yes, the galaxy brains who keep saying that Biden “never tried diplomacy with Russia” are either fucking utterly dumb, or extraordinarily shameless, or just never actually followed the developments at all).

I think it would be honest and true to say that the U.S. administration in the days of February 2022 was ready to accept the option of Ukraine going down, establishing a national government in exile somewhere in Poland, and gradually coming to terms with “new territorial realities in Europe.” 

They decided to go the easiest way and take as little action as possible, assume as little responsibility as possible, and make decisions as free from risk as possible. Moreover, the administration appeared to be very, very reluctant to change its course due to new circumstances and opportunities. 

That was one of the Biden administration’s key mistakes regarding Ukraine, which, in a certain way, has affected Biden today’s electoral chances.  

A very unexpected and catastrophic Russian defeat at Kyiv (which essentially spelled the failure of Putin’s “special military operation”) in 2022 should have destroyed a lot of long-ingrained illusions.

And it shouldn’t have taken months of Ukrainian begging to start providing Ukraine with artillery to stand against Russian “walls of fire,” destroying everything on their way in Donbas.

It shouldn’t have taken months of Ukrainian begging to provide Ukraine with a handful of HIMARS systems that effectively derailed Russian offensive campaigns in the summer of 2022 and precipitated the liberation of Kherson in November 2022.

It shouldn’t have taken months and years of Ukrainian begging to provide Ukraine with PATRIOT missile defense systems, which not only did not lead to “World War III” but instead demonstrated the greatest results in the type’s entire operational history and set a number of milestones in defending the Ukrainian capital from Russian missiles and saving lives. 

It shouldn’t have taken months and years of Ukrainian begging to give the green light to provide Ukraine with armored vehicles, particularly M2 Bradleys, which demonstrated extraordinary results in Ukrainian hands. The same goes with tanks, particularly a handful of M1 Abrams, which unblocked the scarce deliveries of Leopard tanks from European nations. 

It shouldn’t have taken years of Ukrainian begging to get long-outdated ATACMS missiles that not only did not trigger “a major escalation” but effectively wiped out Russian military airfields and sophisticated air defense systems used against Ukraine.

And, of course, it shouldn’t have taken years to finally admit the fact that the policy of not allowing Ukraine to use American weapons to strike Russia's military infrastructure in Russian territory is deeply absurd and ineffective; it only provides the aggressor with a safe haven for escalating its offensive operations and terror bombing campaigns in Ukraine and only encourages to move on unpunished. 

This list can be continued for a long time.

The problem is that way too much authority was given to people who graduated from the most elite universities and read all of Kissinger — but never had the experience of fighting back to street thugs and discouraging them from harassing someone with a good old punch in the face. 

Amid endless “escalation management” and heeding Russia’s “nuclear threats,” way too much time was given to Putin to recover from the initial stress of the failure in Ukraine, to restructure production and economy, to adapt to sanctions, to find allies in Iran and North Korea, and reshape Russia into a totalitarian state obsessed with exterminating a neighboring country.

This is what our military has had to deal with for more than a decade since Russia invaded Ukraine for the first time in 2014.

Even in the final months before the resignation from the presidential race, the Biden administration was still placing way too much hope on trying to reason with Putin or trying to motivate Putin to get reasonable to strike a fair deal on Ukraine via the tactics of slow bites. So, after two years of war, Putin is still not ready to talk serious business and leave Ukraine alone? Okay, we let Ukraine use ATACMS, but only in Crimea and not against Russian territory. 

Many months later, Putin is still defiant as always? Okay, let’s let Ukrainians strike targets in Russian territory, but only within 100 miles of the Ukrainian border and no ATACMS. 

And this drags on, and on, and on. And failure to realize that the moment when Putin says “Okay, now I’m ready to leave Ukraine alone” would never come unless Putin is forced to stop and calm down was among Biden biggest mistakes. 

Yet — even though so many mistakes were made, every Ukrainian should remember that we owe a lot to the old man. 

Even though there have been a lot of incompetent Putin appeasers whispering things in his ear, without his faith and without his decisions — even though many of them were half-hearted, terribly belated, and questionable — there wouldn’t be the Ukraine as we know it now.

Half of us would have been rotting in mass graves with Russian bullets in our foreheads and with our heads tied behind our backs.

For this, we will always be thankful as we should. 

But there were critical, terrible mistakes that prevented Joe Biden from having a large geopolitical victory right now. 

I really, really hope that whoever replaces the old man in the Oval Office will be smart enough to draw conclusions.

[Martin Hoffmann @hoffmartin]

@wahlforschung Das ist ja das verrückte: in einigen Ecken diskutieren wir jetzt schon darüber, Kitas zuzumachen und Personal zu entlassen. Demografie wirkt.

[Erik Marquardt @ErikMarquardt]

Keine Sorge, bald geht das Wasser zurück, die massiven Schäden und Kosten verschwinden aus der Öffentlichkeit und bis zur nächsten Katastrophe könnt ihr euch dann wieder über die verrückten Grünen und ihre krass nervige Ideologie vom Klimaschutz und Klimafolgenanpassung aufregen.