Strategic Autonomist

All things on European Foreign Policy and Defense. Also Culture Wars when bored. Love a controversial argument. Duplication is Good. Change Berlin +.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

So right now, I hope everybody agrees the 🇪🇺 should wake up. Hopefully that will last more than a week (not convinced). But what would it entail.

🧵a non-exhaustive list

[ProPublica @propublica]

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding.

Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@MartyBent Wait to hear about the fines of BNP Paribas, HSBC, and the billions paid to the U.S. by European banks.

To or three orders of magnitude greater than any tech firms ever had to paid in Europe.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@chalkyabz @RadioGenoa It’s a good observation. Makes no sens indeed.

Well except if she’s actually not the dictator of the eu.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@PPhallos @nikicaga It’s executive branche is elected. Read a book.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@LaocoonsJournal @nikicaga They don’t.

Thinking the European Commission and the conservative German government are communiste is even more stupid that calling every vaguely right wing guy fascist..

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@Inevitablewest They are protesting against the removing of tariffs (a tax) and demands more protection and subsidies from the state.

I am rather sympathetic to their cause, but if someone is communiste is this story (no one is) it’s rather the farmers.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@VictorSinclair3 @YvesPDB Oh non, je me demande pourquoi des pays qui ont été envahi à repetitions par la Russie veulent rejoindre des alliances militaires. Bizarre 🤣

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@DGodefridi @pietercleppe There are many reasons to be critical of Kaja Kallas, but calling her a bureaucrat is just plain wrong and frankly weird.

She’s a lawyers who has been a professional politician for 15 years. I don’t think she worked one day as a bureaucrat.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Forget the far right. The kids want a "United States of Europe."
https://t.co/kDbWyhf8mS

[Tom Wright @thomaswright08]

This report says there is a longer internal version of the NSS that gets into more detail on weakening the EU. It also proposes a new grouping of countries called the C5— US, China, Russia, Japan, and India— that’s not hemmed in by G7 rules. No Euro representation unless you count Russia.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@elonmusk It’s an act cooperation at the demand Meloni’s Italy most notably, your BFF.

Who doesn’t want to shoulder all the south coming migration on its own for all of Europe. Understandably.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@merikuh @elonmusk

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@stefanauer_hku It’s funny that Europe has been arming Ukraine defense alone for a year, while the U.S. has been pushing paper, organizing meeting and flying around the globe with zero results.

And yet the narrative is still Europe doesn’t nothing else than talking. 🧐

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@EuropaAdAstra Expect Switzerland is much more centralized than the EU will ever be.

I am not sure ppl realize, but saying the EU should look like Switzerland is a very extreme European Federalist position.

Actually a position taken by many federalists over the last 70 years.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@stefanauer_hku It has been our war for a year already. The U.S. has not been providing support to Ukraine for over ten months. What’s gonna change ?

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@ulrichspeck Europe has provided more than half the military support. The U.S. has not provided any for almost a year. Ukrainian army has not crumbled.

Truth is that Europe has not done enough, but more than the U.S., and much more than what the ‘only the U.S. can do it’ ppl predicted.

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

https://t.co/0KIOJ5T5mU

[L'Œil du Kremlin @LoeilduKremlin_]

Très intéressantes études du réputé Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) concernant l'état d'esprit actuel des Ukrainiens concernant les possibilités de cessez-le-feu et de paix et la confiance envers Volodymyr Zelensky.
Un fil rapide🧶

[Jan Lepeu @jan_lpe]

I had the pleasure to appear in Jan Dunin-Wasowicz's podcast to discuss the past, present and future of EU sanctions. Among other things how the Russia sanctions differ from previous uses, where EU sanctions come from, and how they have evolved over time. https://t.co/5J571MolAo

[Strategic Autonomist @stratautonomist]

@Fidias0 Actually securty dilemma is a realist concept that points out that it’s the rational move state should take when facing a resurgent, rearming threatening neighbor. With an awol US and a Russia rearming, the EU needs to at least match be military spending of Russia. Realism 101