Diujung thn 2025, sy sampaikan 4 kritik (dan saran) utk @Menlu_RI Sugiono. Semoga beliau tidak defensif menerimanya karena yg saya sampaikan ini mewakili pandangan sebagian besar masyarakat pecinta politik luar negeri kita. Semoga pula dapat menjadi bahan renungan yang bermanfaat u/ para eksekutor diplomasi🇮🇩. Silahkan disimak & dikomentari & dikutip. Salam diplomasi, Dr. Dino Patti Djalal
The business district of Moscow-City, which houses the Russian capital's biggest skyscrapers, was attacked by drones this morning.
● Young girl can be heard screaming: "mamochka"
For those who didnt know, what was the red line that was crossed that forced Russia into invading Ukraine...
Read this:
https://t.co/YM72AWyiPh
Zelenskyy:
"Since 2014, Ukraine has tried three times to convene consultations with the guarantor states of the Budapest Memorandum.
Three times without success. Today Ukraine will do it for the fourth time. I, as President, will do this for the first time. But both Ukraine and I are doing this for the last time.
I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was commissioned to convene them.
If they do not happen again or their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt."
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Putin responded to the suggestion that Ukraine could pursue nuclear weapons by saying that “this is not just bragging.”
“Ukraine has the nuclear technologies created back in the Soviet times and delivery vehicles for such weapons, including aircraft, as well as the Soviet-designed Tochka-U precision tactical missiles with a range of over 100 kilometers. But they can do more; it is only a matter of time. They have had the groundwork for this since the Soviet era,”
“In other words, acquiring tactical nuclear weapons will be much easier for Ukraine than for some other states I am not going to mention here, which are conducting such research, especially if Kiev receives foreign technological support. We cannot rule this out either.”
“If Ukraine acquires weapons of mass destruction, the situation in the world and in Europe will drastically change, especially for us, for Russia,”
“We cannot but react to this real danger, all the more so since, let me repeat, Ukraine’s Western patrons may help it acquire these weapons to create yet another threat to our country.”
The International Affairs summer reading list 2023 is here ‼️☀️
Ten essential IR and global politics books for your summer break. Take a look 👇
https://t.co/htCS7mxfsI
The Netherlands is returning major pieces of Indonesian and Sri Lankan cultural heritage. One part of the Lombok treasure *not yet* returned is the exceptional royal library of palm-leaf manuscripts. This is an ongoing focus of my own research https://t.co/RzbmC0IhHZ
Photo of a newly launched Karakurt-class missile corvette "Tusha" made in a Russian shipyard. #RiaNovosti
At least a couple are made each year. Just more evidence their war economy is humming along.
#MadeInRussia
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On AUKUS @prabowo “if members of AUKUS think they need to have it, it is not Indonesia’s duty or right to have an opinion on the opinions of their respective countries. We do not believe in alliances that could threaten others. We will respect it” #SLD22