MarcHayo

Gammon-faced, not gammon-minded. 1/2-Kraut, Frog upbringing, RosbIf loyalty. MSc LSE: Politics & Government of Europe.

[MarcHayo @markhayo]

My MSc was actually about Western Europe, but ran out of space and, in retrospect, feel kinda ashamed of my Western Eurocentrism. 🇺🇦

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Don’t look away. The richest nations, the strongest military alliance in the history of the world are right next door and choose every day not to stop this. All while Ukrainian soldiers defend their cozy complacency.

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@AntiTrumpCanada Last week the dangerous buffoon referred to Susie Wiles as Susie Trump.
Perhaps Freud's usual nonsense deserves a little rehabilitation.
Freudian much?

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@Bricktop_NAFO Pomerantsev's book title says it all: Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.
Ramshackle Russia has known for centuries that it can never catch up with the dynamic West.
So, it has devoted all its energies to putting up a façade, from its economy to its crappy submarines.

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@jurgen_nauditt Britain engaged in a foolish, horribly costly war in 1914 to defend Belgian neutrality.
WTF for? So that greedy, pusillanimous Belgium could protect the assets of an evil geopoltical rogue in 2025?
I firmly voted to remain, but understand the sentiments of leavers.
@BelgiuminUK

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@EPICGOPFAIL What horrifies all Europeans is the seeming relish with which a solid 1/3 of all Americans wallow & enjoy their callousness & cruelty towards their society's poor & vulnerable.
Your society seems deeply disturbed and troubled.
Europe needs to give you a sympathetic intervention.

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@EastEndJoe @CerceletS A tad amusing.
However, a serious point:
AI is getting far too good far too fast.
YouTube, for example, is being rapidly festered with cheaply-made junk AI channels mixing truth and falsehood.
Autocracies love this.
Democracy's old git legislators will never be able to catch up

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@OJoelsen @pia_westerlund The Benighted States is a tragic geopolitical joke.
Mixed metaphor alert: The scales need to fall from Europe's eyes; it has to plough its own furrow.
The US is and has always been an untrustworthy transactional ally.

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@rshereme @pia_westerlund Chinese motto: 'If you can cheat, then cheat', from fake food and tofu dreg contruction to illegal LNG transfers.

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@GuliaFangirl @Ainsi_parlait_ Sidebar: even though the UK foolishly departed from the EU, Irish citizens living here have the exact and same rights and privileges as Britons (the CTA).
And I am happy with that.
That's the least we owe them after 1000 years of oppression.

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@RafaMorgan64 @AmbJohnBolton This European is continually horrified that so many Americans are happy to see their president prostrate and abase himself before the paper Russian bear.
(I know, they're a minority, but they control the 3 levers of government. The Benighted States is not a viable democracy)

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Fellow supporters of brave, democratic Ukraine and its valiant struggle against barbarism and evil:
Be aware that callous scoundrels try to profit from the suffering of others.

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@Glinner I recommend the Imperial War Museum's YouTube channel.
Now that is what YouTube was made for.

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@vitt2tsnoc @Jbs10twit I love ugly Fatty-what's-his-name.
His utter ghastliness helps to accelerate Britain's journey towards republicanism.

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@cybersoroka @TWestphalia Agreed.
Muscovy's rulers don't view Russia as a country, but as an asset to be used and exploited.
It's a mafia clan, a mongol tribe fighting for dominance and survival.
It views democratic Ukraine as a threat to its control, democracy as hostile and all democracies as enemies.

[cyber soroka 🇺🇦 @cybersoroka]

Any leadership that does not prioritize Ukraine’s victory is, in practice, helping Russia achieve its goals. Simple as that.

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@BranaaJean @j_mo5402 The deeply unserious voters of the Benighted States voted for Biff not once, but twice.
Unforgivable.
Yanks love personal therapy and self-improvement books and sites.
Stone me, the whole country needs some serious national self-analysis. But the numpties seem to be crap at that.

[Talleyrand @MarkPow46199286]

@McFaul Utterly grotesque.
The fact that a president of a minor banana republic would post such vulgarity is disgusting.
For the president of the world's most powerful democracy to post such a thing is horrifying and unforgivable.
The deeply unserious Benighted States has lost its way.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

As a once proud American, I am embarrassed the any US citizen would post such a video, let alone the president of our country.

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@jurgen_nauditt @IlvesToomas Muscovy's atavistic evil is a given.
What is unforgivable is the callous, smug complacency of Europe's major democracies.
They should know better.
Had they the moral courage and political will, muscovy's ramshackle army could have been stamped out long ago.