Matthias Bruggmann

Not German, doesn't write for Handelsblatt.

I do photography, not Twitter.

Syria book: mattbr.78

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

Pour élaborer un petit peu le pourquoi cette histoire me tend autant (et aussi faire un peu d'introspection en public, dans l'espoir que ça puisse servir à d'autres, même si, désolé, ça va être très long), soyons très clairs: (1/79)

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

Suite à ça, un petit thread #123-Bashar-wa-bass sur la cantatrice Soumaya Hallak.
Mme Hallak doit être libre de ses opinions: même si ses amis l'ôtent à d'autres, c'est son droit le plus strict.
Par contre, les médias ont un devoir de contextualisation, et le droit de s'abstenir.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

The Coalition of the Meeting still seems reluctant to go beyond its mandate of organising meetings.

[3rd Regiment SOF Ukraine @3sofua]

While some are just scrolling drone videos—others are piloting them.

Stop watching. Start acting.

Join the Brave!
📞[phone] (Signal/WA)

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[John Hemmings @JohnHemmings2]

Hikvision is part owned by the PRC & supplies 60% of UK public bodies w CCTV cameras. Cameras from Hikvision & Dahua are in 73% of local authorities, 35% of police forces, and 63% of schools in the UK. This is a huge problem which no one is talking about. https://t.co/wEJbOEBavB

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I’m loving this sort of thing.

For years, Russia has been yelling about “Ukrainian Nazis,” the “Kyiv junta,” the “protection of the people of Donbas,” the “NATO threat,” and “we didn’t start this war, Ukraine attacked us.”

And then, as if nothing happened, Russian officials openly and publicly threaten Armenia with a “Ukrainian scenario” if its pro-Western government, which has been confidently re-elected, continues moving closer to the European Union and European countries.

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

Tankies: now that Ukraine has taken out the Black Sea Fleet, you can't call Russia an empire any more.

[Free Nations PostRussia Forum @freenationsrf]

Only final dismantling (due to #decolonization & #deimperialization) of so-called "Russian Federation" and full independence for all 41 independent states of #PostRussianSpaces💪
p.s. example of the collapse of #USSR🤮 was best thing that happened in second part of XX century, not only to all of its citizens (except for a few percent of the "beneficiaries" of the late Soviet era, represented by the nomenklatura🤮, #KGB🤮🤮🤮, Komsomol members🤮, "military pensioners"🤮, "internationalist soldiers"🤮🤮🤮, "profsous leaders"🤡 & other "red castes"), not only to all of its neighbors, but also to the entire world, globally💯

#MakeMoscoviaSmallAgain ✌️
#PostRussia
#DecolonizationRF
#MoscoviaDelendaEst 🔥

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

L’entreprise [d'un financier des Moretti] aurait proposé à grande échelle du matériel militaire aux forces de sécurité africaines. (...) des instructeurs biélorusses auraient été envoyés en Côte d’Ivoire entre 2017 et au moins février 2020.

https://t.co/9oat0sgGQM

#CransMontana

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

Subtle yet crucial messages that I fully agree with, notably this one.
"The final London Declaration (1941) was not about ending a war. It was about uniting those willing to win it and shape the peace that followed.
One can only hope today’s meeting is guided by the same logic."

[Vincent Artman @geogvma]

I’m always a little bemused by the narrative that Americans are brought up hating Russia. The Cold War is over, and for the most part, it’s simply the subject of a kind of Orientalism and stereotypes of badass putin on horseback, literature, the “mysterious soul” and all that.⬇️

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

Alors c'est pas pour dire, mais peut-être faudrait-il ne pas traiter la volonté du @EDA_DFAE de recevoir le Prix de la paix de la FIFA comme une espèce de sujet de fierté nationale...

https://t.co/xiiDT5lo7h

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

About damn time.

[Sweden in EU @SwedeninEU]

”Last year almost 500 000 Russian tourists were let into Europe, while Ukrainians were dying on the battlefield. This situation needs to be stopped.

That is why we, together with 10 other Member States, have put forward an initiative for new EU visa restrictions for Russian citizens.” @JohanForssell at JHA

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

What @KoeppelRoger calls a duel: swallowing Kremlin bullshit whole, then asking for seconds.

(I mean, even TASS would push back on Solovyov's numbers (https://t.co/zg7eFb8xTy)).

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

"The front line today is the line from which diplomacy must begin"

This line is beautifully written, but it seems bizarrely clumsy.

I'm extremely curious as to what @ZelenskyyUa and his team tried to say with this.

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

My God, what a letter!
Of course, Putin won’t understand a word of what President @ZelenskyyUa has written. He’s incapable of understanding anything—except perhaps this:
“You, too, will have to fight much harder for your own existence—not Russia’s, but your own.”
It will happen.

[Martin Sauerbrey @MartinSauerbrey]

Great article on why it gets more and more difficult for Putin to quit the war he started. By @SevaUT and @postsocialismus

[SK Media @SpaghettiKozak]

Weird goals if this was just about NATO expansion, don't you think?

[Matthias Bruggmann @mattbr]

Let's thank Russia for letting us know what needs to be done.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

BAD SCENARIO:

- Ukraine joins NATO.
- Russia loses the war.
- Growing security threats to Russia.
- Moscow loses influence over post-Soviet states.
- New regional conflicts and a decline in Russian sovereignty.

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

Question parfaite et parfaitement argumentée d'@ArthurDelaporte.
Si je comprends bien la réponse, le sujet est en cours d'examen et nulle décision n'a encore été prise.
J'espère qu'elle le sera rapidement.
#OQTF

[Alexander Browder @Alexbrowder_]

BREAKING. The Russian government has just announced that I have been added to their sanctions list for my work exposing their sanctions evading cryptocurrency A7A5. In doing so, I have exposed their Achilles’ heel. Without A7A5 they would not be able to fund their war of aggression. I have been sanctioned alongside Washington Post reporter @catherinebelton and 3 other UK nationals. It’s a badge of honour.

https://t.co/79b55DtSBK

[Aghiad @Aghiad28]

عندما وصلت إلى السويد كلاجئ عام 2013، كنت مضطراً للعمل في أي وظيفة أستطيع الحصول عليها، فعملت مؤقتاً كعامل بوفيه في إحدى الصالات الكبيرة التي كان العرب يقيمون فيها أعراسهم وحفلاتهم.

في أحد الأيام، أُقيم عرس لعائلة سورية، وقبل انتهاء الحفل تجمع المدعوون حول الـDJ وبدأوا يرقصون على أغنية «ملايين ملايين السوريين» التي تمجّد بشار الأسد، وذلك بعد وقت قصير من هجوم الغوطة وقصفها بالأسلحة الكيميائية. شعرت حينها بحزن عميق ما زلت أذكره حتى اليوم، وغادرت بعدها إلى غرفتي في أحد مراكز إيواء اللاجئين محبطاً وغاضباً.

أما اليوم، فأشعر بارتياح كبير تجاه هذا الخبر. وسيُفاجأ عدد كبير من السوريين بحجم وجود الشبيحة والمتورطين في سفك الدم السوري داخل أوروبا.

وأعتقد أن كثيرين ممن يقيمون في اوروبا سيُصدمون عندما تُكشف الأسماء من قبل السلطات السورية، فهناك عدد من المتورطين الذين اختبأوا هنا وهناك، ولم يتوقعوا يوماً أن يسقط النظام الديكتاتوري أو أن تُكشف جرائمهم وهوياتهم أمام الرأي العام.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

After every Russian escalation into a NATO country we hear leaders repeating the mantra "We stand with..."

But we could do much more than standing around.

For example — we could create a European-Ukrainian defense union. Fund it with confiscated Russian frozen assets. Close the skies in Ukraine, making Ukraine and other frontline states safer.

These things are very possible and this work could start today.

Instead, I am sadly reminded of how Britain and France “stood with” Poland in 1939 while that country was being dismembered. It was called the Phony War, because mere declarations of “support” mean very little on the ground, and do nothing to prevent real war.

Actions always speak louder than words, and usually cost much less than inaction.

[Anna Kubišta @AnnaKubista]

Vous savez, si Xenia n'était pas un tantinet jolie, si elle n'avait pas ce petit accent et si elle était dépourvue de cervelle, elle n'aurait pas ce succès auprès de certains Français jamais en retard d'un wagon pour céder à ce qu'ils pensent être le "charme slave". Pitoyable.