Business strategist & technologist, based in Singapore - enjoying life, understanding the world. Conservative mindset, global citizen, vary of European security
Your narrative doesn't hold up my friend. For obvious reasons, Russia has no published any plans yet you keep crying for "evidence".
Yet they keep threatening Europe - media, Medvedev, hybrid warfare, infrastructure sabotage, threatening diplomats, nuclear coercion.
But hey, let's invite them for tea.
Alternativ för Sverige (AfS) showing their true colours... Pretending to be pro-peace but clearly seeking to strengthen an russia's power. How much of Sweden they plan to give russia remains the question.
@DIYKitAponia But that was when Russia was weak - a long time ago! These days Russia has great power status. Of course it wants a seat a the table for an up-to-date new security architecture. But where are the NATO and EU countries? They don't want to negotiate.
Russia outmaneouvred the President of Ukraine in 2014 for wanting to join the EU. And same year they occupied Crimea and parts of Donbass. Ukraine was never on a true NATO trajectory and russia never brought NATO up until 2021, when preparing and argument for full war.
Evidence please.
@MeyasAlexandros@carlbildt And that is a funny name you give me. I am a supporter of a strong and secure Europe. The opinions you share here are much closer to the general MAGA team - which I rarely agree with.
Evidence? There was no evidence that they would invade Ukraine to begin with - but so they did. A threat is enough.
Anyway:
* Medvedev claimed in an opinion piece for Kremlin newswire TASS on September 8 that the “main thing” that Finland should not “forget” is that confrontation with Russia “could lead to the collapse of Finnish statehood forever.
* https://t.co/ho2BVsIa77
* https://t.co/QB2EtrpUjh
@forsman_karl@gustavkassel@BuschEbba@jimsciutto@CNN The door was wide open for Russia to trade with Europe for 20 years. Ostpolitik, trade agreements, massive FDI into Russia. Then russians restarted hybrid warfare, Putin's 2007 Munich speech, crackdowns on opposition in russia, Georgia occupation, onto anmexation of Crimes...
Zelenskyy wrote an open letter to Putin‼️
"Whatever you say about NATO, geopolitics, and the russian language, this war is your personal choice—a war with no real reason. That is exactly how history will remember it."
Interesting, a little Vatnik that sneaked into the senate. Well, if he can convince russia to withdraw that would be easy.
However, to date, the US effort has been led by the President's son-in-law and golf-buddy negotiating with Ukraine on behalf of russia - won't take us far. You wish @secstate could turn the tide.
That said, the US has lost its leverage - key European countries have created an effective back-stop on any US-driven concessions.
Vi låg först i Sovjets invasionsplaner under kalla kriget. Ryssland har fortsatt sitt hybridkrig och direkta militära hot mot Sverige såväl före som efter NATO-medlemskapet.
Förklara mig en sak? Varför skulle vi förhandla? De har haft kärnvapen i 70 år, vi förhandlade aldrig. Varför nu?
@dumpit89@haidar1917@gustavkassel@BuschEbba@jimsciutto@CNN Ömsesidiga bufferzoner och rustningsbegränsningar. De blir ensidiga. Finland tvingades efter andra världskriget att ta denna position. Varför skulle Sverige göra det frivilligt?
Vill du ge upp Sverige? Varför skulle vi förhandla?
Putin has built something like the precise inverse of brain drain - not reverse brain drain (where smarts repatriate), but a phenomenon in which the most useless, low IQ, pedophilic, etc. foreign elements are attracted to it like moths to a flame.