Gerald Knaus

Chairman @esi_eu. Europe, human rights. European from the Austrian Alps. Books:

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Guten Morgen.

Es ist spät. Aber nicht zu spät, hier das Richtige zu tun.

Die derzeitige Brandmauerpolitik ist gescheitert. Weil sie inkohärent war.

Das Grundgesetz, Deutschland und das demokratische Europa Adenauers und Kohls muss verteidigt werden.
Mit @philsandmann

Das ganze Argument im Kommentar.
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@robinalexander_ @campbellclaret @MelAmann @JustusBender @maybritillner @annewill @JensChristianW1 @johwinkel @schieritz @joerglau @FreSchindler

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Ja. Yes.

“Wüst unterstreicht den Nachrichtenwert einer solchen Forderung aus CDU-Reihen selbst: „Ich habe heute etwas gesagt, das hat öffentlich bisher, glaube ich, kein CDU-Mensch gesagt: dass ich dafür bin, diese Arbeitsgruppe einzusetzen, die diese Arbeit dann leistet.“”

The debate on a closure case before the Constitutional Court is getting serious.

It is late. But better late than never.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

A week of disgrace for 🇺🇸

A new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact forged in the Kremlin and the White House.

European democrats must finally wake up, and act with the seriousness required.

And do far more for Ukraine now!

@_FriedrichMerz @KubiliusA. @ZelenskyyUa @IlvesToomas @rglucks1 see this.

@GLandsbergis @joerglau @campbellclaret

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

This was inevitable. I’m not sure even Trump and Elon expected this level of blowback.

Ultimately, they have blood on their hands.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Die bei weitem grösste Fluchtkrise heute, die Europa direkt betrifft, geht auf Putin zurück: sein Versuch, die Ukraine zu zerstören.

Trump & AfD stehen auf der Seite Putins.

Sie sind Verbündete des Fluchtverursachers Nr. 1.

Fluchtursachenbekämpfung ist: die Ukraine unterstützen.

@Makeiev @AmbVWD

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

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Danke @NZZ @NZZAusland für sehr spannende Diskussionen zu Europa, Sicherheit, Werte und Wirtschaft!

Meine wichtigste Warnung 👇

@MarkDittli @manuelnappo

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Yesterday: presentations on democratic Europe and its enemies in Augsburg.

Why Ukraine matters so much; and Germany’s role.

@jurgen_nauditt on context 👇

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Yesterday: presentations on democratic Europe and its enemies in Augsburg.

Why Ukraine matters so much; and Germany’s role.

@jurgen_nauditt on context 👇

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

The Russians have amassed a stockpile of 700 ballistic missiles and several thousand cruise missiles; furthermore, they are developing a ballistic missile with a range of up to 700 km—surpassing the 500 km range of the Iskander-M—according to the GUR (the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine).

In total, the Russian military-industrial complex is capable of producing more than 200 such instruments of aerial terror per month, including 110 ballistic missiles.

The buildup serves primarily to prepare for intense winter strikes and to exhaust Ukrainian air defenses.
Long-term perspective: In parallel with its conduct of the war in Ukraine, Russia is also building up general material reserves (tanks, artillery, etc.). This points to preparations for a prolonged conflict.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

That is unfortunately an AfD lie.

This is all about destroying the EU.

[Izabella Kaminska @izakaminska]

Politico reports that rather than leave the EU the AFD will seek to significantly water down EU powers if it gains control of Germany 👇

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

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[Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook @Cluverc]

@rumeliobserver And that is why I titled my book “the wake-up call” - it’s now coming from inside the house, being nurtured from the outside by those with a perfidious reading of humanity. https://t.co/G23bsQQwVU

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Seismic

[LBC @LBC]

‘This is a seismic shift, and it’s hard to see how it’s stopped.’

Simon Marks and James O’Brien discuss Vladimir Putin's proposed meeting with Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping to ‘carve up Ukraine’.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

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[Adi Ćerimagić @adicerimagic]

Last week, 🇭🇷 shared its position and showed its leverage over 🇲🇪's 🇪🇺 membership bid.

In Podgorica this has, of course, been met with disbelief and emotional reactions. But the government has not responded with escalation. Instead, calmly, it signalled that it had understood the message and is willing to move forward. Some friendly member states have offered to mediate.

Bottom line: if 🇲🇪 believes that finalising the 🇪🇺 accession process and becoming a member is achievable, while 🇭🇷 understands that it can win a neighbour and a partner in the 🇪🇺, then solutions are possible: ones in which neither 🇭🇷 nor 🇲🇪 loses all, and both win some.

For #Montenegro's daily #Vijesti, on 🇲🇪🇭🇷 and the lessons from 🇭🇷🇸🇮.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

@JennyGnther “Irre neoliberale” “dumme Ukrainer und Litauer”?

Bitte hier weder Beleidigungen noch Desinformation.

Diese blockiere ich. Lassen Sie das.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

In Tallinn last week:

I quoted Curtis Yarvin suggesting to MAGA: “abandon Ukraine, then hand over Europe to Russia to undermine its democracies”.

To parties like AfD in Germany, that will destroy the EU & partner with Putin.

This IS now happening.

Will Europeans / Germans just watch? Wake up? Act against it?

This is also our future, peace, prosperity, democracy, that is being attacked.

[Lorraine Evanoff @LorraineEvanoff]

It's absolutely shocking.

"National security scholar Tom Nichols noted with evident disgust: “The American commander in chief has abandoned the Western order, the most successful—and powerful—security arrangement in human history.”

This decision, Nichols wrote, appears to have had nothing to do with the national interest of the United States. Instead, Trump appears to have thrown out the world order because of his own personal interests, his admiration for Putin, his resentment of Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, “and quite possibly other factors that so far have remained obscured from the American public.”

The backlash appears to have pushed Trump to try to justify his gutting of the Graham Act, at least. He posted on social media: “My decision on Russia is a very simple one.”

He went on to claim that he didn’t want “to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table” in the quest for a peace deal with Ukraine.

He shrugged off Russia’s support for Iran in its war against the U.S. by suggesting it “is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing, and I want to keep it that way.”

And then he attacked Zelensky, blaming Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries rather than his own war on Iran for the high cost of diesel in the U.S. and claiming that Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did.”

Nichols tore through this screed, calling it a pathetic admission of Trump’s weakness “in his relationship with the Kremlin boss.”

“The leader of the most powerful nation on the planet,” Nichols pointed out, “is trying to get everyone else, including the American Congress, to avoid antagonizing Putin, instead of warning Putin not to even think about aiding Iran.”

Until now, Nichols wrote, “[a] world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was…the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies.”

Now that alliance exists. Nichols laments that Trump and Putin have fulfilled the dreams of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and the Cold War leaders who followed him, humbling and humiliating the mighty United States.

The Framers of the Constitution thought they had designed a system that would prevent the rise of a tyrant. They believed U.S. representatives would be so fearful of a leader’s abuse of power that they would impeach any president who overstepped his authority, and that U.S. senators would be so jealous of their own power they would convict, and tyranny would not be able to take root.

The Framers especially did not anticipate that senators, to whom they deliberately gave longer terms than they gave the president, would put party over country and stand aside as a president and his appointees captured the prerogatives of the Senate.

And yet, here we are.

But even given the evidence of the past ten years, it is truly astonishing to see Republicans, who for more than forty years have championed President Ronald Reagan for his stance against the Soviet Union, stand aside as Trump trashes the post–World War II system of global security in order to ally the United States with a Russian dictator."

October 18, 2026 https://t.co/8M7cJdLdoi

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Die Regierungen von Niederlande, Schweden, Österreich, Dänemark, Finnland und Deutschland: “neoliberal”? Staaten mit den grosszügisten sozialen Netzen weltweit?

Diese Länder fordern, der nächste Haushalt solle im Vergleich zu heute moderat wachsen.

Der laufende Haushalt 2021–2027 umfasst € 1,2 Billionen.

Kürzt man die € 1,985 Billionen der Kommission (laufende Preise) um € 200–300 Milliarden, bleiben € 1,69–1,79 Billionen.

Am Ende kommt aber ohnehin ein Kompromiss.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Zwischen dem Vorschlag der Kommission und den Forderungen von Niederlande, Schweden, Österreich, Dänemark, Finnland und
Deutschland liegen € 20 bis 50 Milliarden pro Jahr, bei einem EU-BIP von € 18,8 Billionen.

Das sind etwa 0,1 bis 0,26 Prozentpunkte der EU-Wirtschaftsleistung.

Egal, wo man hier steht: DAS ist eher nicht “Austerität”.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

A fool … or a corrupt friend of autocrats.

@McFaul

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

You would have to be a fool to build a data center in Russia.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

@JennyGnther Ukrainians, Lithuanians and others beg to differ.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

@JennyGnther Merz steht bei der wichtigsten Frage in diesem Moment klar auf der richtigen Seite.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Evil

[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

Trump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much." Russia being fine on Ukraine and not doing much:

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

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[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Those who preach peace through capitulation won't tell you what russian occupation means.

russians occupied Izyum for less than 6m.

After liberation, we found mass graves of 447 ppl. Most of them were civilians — 215 women, 194 men and 5 children. Many bodies had signs of violent death.

This is what people with proud 'Christian' in their bios are pushing Ukraine for.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

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@fiedelseb @helgelindh @NancyFaeser …

[Karina Moessbauer @K_Moessbauer]

🔴🟢🔴 In der SPD werden Unterschriften gegen die KoaVerhandlungen in Berlin gesammelt. Zu den Unterzeichnern gehören die ehemalige BMin Faeser, der Chef des Seeheimer Kreis Esra Limbacher und der innenpolitische Sprecher Sebastian Fiedler.

[Gerald Knaus @rumeliobserver]

Es gibt keine legitimen Gründe für diese „Gewalt und Zerstörungswut.“ man hilft Schulen nicht, in dem man sie zerstört.
@AnnikaJoeres

Das Fatale ist, dass politische Gewalt zu vielen (jungen) Franzosen, ohne und mit Migrationshintergrund, legitim erscheint.

Es „gehört dazu“, dass Dinge brennen. Der Mythos von 1830.
(Die Leichen am Boden im Bild von Delacroix werden zu oft übersehen).

Gewalt wird aber scheitern, und das Gegenteil erreichen.

(Dazu öffnet das Feinden Frankreichs Tür und Tor die Eskalation zu befeuern).

1830 führte zum nächsten König. 1848 zum nächsten Kaiser.
Wohin führt diese Gewalt?

🇫🇷🧵: https://t.co/KQUidxcwRi

[Annika Joeres @AnnikaJoeres]

Nichts fällt vom Himmel. Dieser historisch brutale Protesttag in Frankreich, bestehend aus bis zu 800 000 friedlichen Demonstranten und unzählbaren Randalierern, hat eine jahrlange Vorgeschichte.
Meine Analyse für @zeitonline
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