Jonne Deprez

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[Jonne Deprez @JonneDeprez]

@emilmalek8752 @NewLeftEViews Which predictions do you mean?

[Martin Gak @DrMartinGak]

Israel is an infanticidal state. No infanticidal state has the right to exist.

[Jonne Deprez @JonneDeprez]

@Gabrielle_Pos in seinem Gehirn funktioniert das etwa so: "Indem ich bei Spinger jetzt 8k€/Monat verdiene, entnehme ich dem Springer-Imperium jeden Monat 8k€ und trage so zu einer besseren Gesellschaft bei"

[Jonne Deprez @JonneDeprez]

@giulio_mattioli @Franz_Prussian Apparently pride of the state and its institutions trumps pride of cultural traits - which is itself a cultural trait. So it's still about pride 😀

[Jonne Deprez @JonneDeprez]

@giulio_mattioli @Franz_Prussian For a nation that could show its national flag in public for the first time in the world cup of 2006, there is a lot of chauvinistic energy waiting to be released. We should brace ourselves for what's coming.

[Jonne Deprez @JonneDeprez]

@giulio_mattioli @CHaesemeyer Lately I find the DB actually very reliable. For every trip between Berlin and Köln I get a Gutschein two weeks later. It still occasionally happens that I miss my Gutschein, but they're clearly working on it to improve even these last hiccups.

[Jonne Deprez @JonneDeprez]

@giulio_mattioli @Franz_Prussian This thread is amazing. You hit a nerve!

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Germany is in panic over Chinese companies taking over its markets at home, abroad and in China. Having spent quite some time in China in the 2010s, I can’t help but thinking back to the arrogance and quite frankly racism of German expat businesses people. Chinese engineers with Ivy League degrees speaking fluent English and German looked down upon by German engineers with a degree from some German university, unimpressive English and less than two sentences of Chinese. The Germans didn’t see it coming because they couldn’t imagine Chinese people becoming better at what they are doing than themselves. An industry insider told me at the time how keen Chinese entrepreneurs were to collaborate with German car companies on EV development. But all the Germans worried about was they are going to steal our IP. Well, here we are.

[Bühler-Niederberger, Doris @buhler_doris]

@JuedischeOnline Ausgerechnet die beiden ehemaligen Faschistenstaaten, die das auch nie aufgearbeitet haben

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Does Ursula get a CIA pension when she retires or does it go through Chevron?

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

We are told that security in the Middle East requires defeating Iran, security in East Asia requires defeating China, and security in Europe requires defeating Russia. We never discuss security in terms of how to learn to live together by harmonising interests and managing competition. This is by design. This is hegemonic peace, in which security depends on defeating rivals rather than managing a balance of power.

Subsequently, security relies solely on deterrence rather than reassurance; diplomacy is dismissed as appeasement; peace agreements are temporary and deceptive; and war is peace. Our rivals do not have legitimate security concerns, as their policies are allegedly always motivated by aggressive, irrational, or expansionist behaviour.

We have convinced ourselves that our liberal hegemony is a force for good, and that our opponents oppose our dominance because they reject our benign values of freedom. Discussing the security concerns of adversaries is believed to “legitimise” their policies, which is treasonous. The world is divided into good guys (liberal democracies) and bad guys (autocracies). We should not ask how defeating Russia, as the world's largest nuclear power, is a rational security strategy, or why our governments refuse to even speak with Moscow to discuss the European security architecture and end the war. Our governments have relabelled nuclear deterrence as nuclear blackmail to signal that there can be no more constraints.

All empires can become irrational during decline. Leaders take greater risks to avoid decline, legitimacy crises at home must be distracted with enemies abroad, outdated strategies from a bygone era of strength are still embraced, and there is a tendency to double down on narratives of being indispensable, representing universal values, and dismissing all opposition as illegitimate and dangerous. Are we the fanatics?

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

Israel’s iron dome didn’t see this coming from Pakistan

[Tara Riva @tara_riva]

Versuchen wir, 1,5 Millionen Unterschriften zu erreichen!

Das ist auch eine Chance für Länder wie Deutschland, die erforderliche Mindestschwelle zu erreichen.

Bitte, Deutschland: weiter unterschreiben und den Link teilen!

Deutschland und Italien gehörten zu den Ländern, die sich der Aussetzung des EU-Israel-Assoziierungsabkommens widersetzt haben. Wenn auch Deutschland diese Initiative mitträgt, wird sie politisch deutlich stärker.

Link: https://t.co/P0svLsqFoZ

@schweizermel

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

The gap between Europe and the United States at this time is not strategic but tactical. Do not misunderstand Macron's disagreements with Trump: they are disagreeing about how to subordinate Iran not whether it is appropriate to subordinate Iran to the West.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

[Rosemary Kelanic @RKelanic]

What could possibly be the military rationale for this.

There isn’t one.

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

Heartbreaking video shows an Iranian man returning home after a US-Israeli strike on a residential area, only to discover his wife and daughter among the victims.

[Ron Placone @RonPlacone]

Why is she doing this? Because there was general strike after general strike in Rome calling for an end to the genocide. Because the Italian dockers refused to ship weapons to Israel. The people made their fascist, pro-war PM change her tune because they demanded it. ✊🇮🇹

[Jens Winkelmann @Jens7berlin]

"Zentralstelle für Sanktionsdurchsetzung" .Gegen Einzelpersonen. Mit sofortiger Durchsetzung. Ohne Anhörung. Ohne Anwalt. Ohne Gericht.
So krass ist nicht mal die DDR gegen politische Gegner vorgegangen. Die hatten wenigstens noch Vollverpflegung. Klingt zynisch? Ja

[Jonne Deprez @JonneDeprez]

@BoellStiftung Ihr seid abscheulich! Als der Völkermord noch hätte gestoppt werden können, standet ihr auf der Seite der Täter, indem ihr kritische Stimmen zum Schweigen gebracht habt. Und jetzt, wo die europäische Wirtschaft unter Druck steht, kommen solche Posts? Schämt euch!