The Professional

I can stay positive even when there is little reason to.

[Olena Tregub @OTregub]

Mykhailo Fedorov at a press conference:

“The President has not yet made a decision between me and Syrskyi.”

“But when 90% of the people who come to him are the very same people whose ineffectiveness led us to make personnel decisions at the Ministry of Defense, he cannot objectively assess the situation or make the right decision.”

“As for my conversation with the President, there were no specific arguments about what was wrong with my work.”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Fedorov: Zelenskyy said he wouldn’t replace Syrskyi, I accepted that. I would have learned to work with him because we answer to the Ukrainian people.

But our initiatives were blocked. Syrskyi avoided discussing problems, and chose intrigue and media blame. He issued an ultimatum. He found a way to divide the country instead of defeating Russia. 1/

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

#England shouldn’t have dropped back after going 1-0 up, but the refereeing of this match was a scandal.

In normal circumstances, #Argentina should have had 2 red cards (1 straight, 2 double-yellow).

Worse still, not one of these fouls triggered VAR intervention. Explain that.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

It is an incredibly broad standard, one that humanitarians have long tried to change, unsuccessfully *because of Israeli and US pressure*. It’s why Yahya Sinwar was not deemed out of combat even when shellshocked, wounded and unarmed

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

This is remarkable considering it has been mostly Israeli/US scholars who have vociferously opposed attempts by the @ICRC to establish a duty to capture non-threatening combatants, making the specific claim that IHL targeting rules permit the killing of even sleeping soldiers

[The Professional @profess87429]

„For me it is like a period of miracles. I feel like someone standing at a traffic light... and then there is a green light“
— National Missions Minister, Orit Strock, from the Religious Zionist Party
https://t.co/HxE3cebuTP

[Paul Ronzheimer @ronzheimer]

Tausende vor allem junge Menschen demonstrieren in Kyiv gegen die Absetzung von Verteidigungsminister Fedorov.

[David Sheen @davidsheen]

Yesterday for the 1st time ever, the head of the terror cell that assassinated Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh outside Los Angeles in 1985 was named in the Knesset: Meir Kahane's right-hand man Baruch Ben Yosef, mentor of Israel's National Security Minister @ItamarBenGvir

[Anastasiya Paraskevova @UkrainianAna]

Ukrainians are angry and gonna protest against Zelenskyy's decision to remove Fedorov because we want to keep the man who made killing russian invaders easier and more effective to stay as the Minister of Defense, not because we want to capitulate.

Disclaimer for foreigners of brainless and pro-russian variety who are gonna yet again jump on this opportunity to spread bulshit about my country.
Thank you for the attention.

[The Professional @profess87429]

Idiocracy.

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

"As of late June more than half of American ambassadorships were vacant, including high-status posts from Germany to Saudi Arabia.

Trump has brushed aside the foreign service officers who have typically run at least two-thirds of embassies. Of the 101 nominations for ambassadorships in his second term, just nine were career diplomats." https://t.co/vbIu81SZk8

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Firing Mykhailo Fedorov was a big mistake.

During his time as Defense Minister, Ukraine started to regain momentum on the battlefield. He delivered real results, and his team modernized key parts of Ukraine's military and even managed to cut Russian forces in occupied territories off from Starlink, disrupting their operations.

[ACEMAXX ANALYTICS @acemaxx]

U.S. economy has not been persistently K-shaped over the past three decades. However, income growth has exhibited a K-shape in the recoveries from the 2001 and 2007-09 recessions, chart @RichFedResearch
https://t.co/UJlE3Uxf3P

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

I thought the rather silly argument that China mechanically accounts for X percent of global growth had been retired years ago.

More accurate argument is that the rest of the world now accounts for at least a third of China's growth (via rising net exports)

[Nicole Grajewski @NicoleGrajewski]

Half of the Argentina team shouldn’t even be allowed to play international football after their disgusting racist chants following the last World Cup and since then. Go Spain, can’t wait for Trump to have to sit next to Pedro Sánchez.

[The Professional @profess87429]

That Hamas TV series is such a detrimental fever dream:
https://t.co/ewtCN2j6Uv

[The Professional @profess87429]

Good that Thatcher is not alive anymore to see this.

It‘s going home.

[The Professional @profess87429]

The current game:

[Robbie Gramer @RobbieGramer]

Vance in interview with Joe Rogan says certain elements of the Israeli government tried to torpedo the negotiations he was carrying out with Iran

[The Professional @profess87429]

The current game:

[The Professional @profess87429]

Speedrun zum Verbotsverfahren.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Wichtig in @focusonline von @aufmacher 👇

“Normal ist für das Podium und den Saal offenbar die unzweideutige Morddrohung gegen einen
politischen Gegner. Denn bevor er sich mit dem amtierenden Kanzler beschä&igte, war seine Vorvorgängerin dran. Mit Blick auf das Merkel-Porträt, das bald ins Kanzleramt kommen soll, sagte Steimle etwas zweideutiger: „Im Moment hängt sie erstmal, und wenn alle Stränge reißen oder der Nagel bricht, dann stellen wir sie an die Wand. Uns wird schon was einfallen.“

Ohne Sorge. Ohne Maske.

@_FriedrichMerz @larsklingbeil @Markus_Soeder

[Ruprecht Polenz🇪🇺 @polenz_r]

Steimle wird wohl so grade davonkommen wg „Satire“. Aber dass Chrupalla und Siegmund den indirekten Mordaufruf nicht zurückgewiesen haben, dürfte für ein Verbotsverfahren gegen die AfD von Bedeutung sein.