Norway is considering tapping its €1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund to dramatically increase its support for Ukraine. Via @wulffwold
matthew karnitschnig
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matthew karnitschnig
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- Imagine if Germans put as much time and energy into arming Ukraine as they have into their debate about why they should not do so. Russia would have been defeated by now.
- „We misjudged Putin,“ Merkel‘s longtime foreign policy adviser Christoph Heusgen says on German TV. #NoShit
- It becomes clearer with every day of suffering in Ukraine that Russia‘s war has not only exposed the cravenness of Merkel/Schröder/Steinmeier, but of Germany’s entire political and public media establishment, which now faces a legitimacy crisis of a scale not seen since WW2.
- Extraordinary exchange in German TV: respected CDU MP @RKiesewetter, a retired army colonel, says he doesn’t believe that Olaf Scholz wants #Ukraine to win the war.
- “We want to see a strategic defeat of Russia,” U.S. NATO Ambassador @Julie_C_Smith tells #Strategic_Ark in Warsaw. “We want to see Russia leave #Ukraine.”
- Unbelievable. German public broadcaster ZDF is sending news alerts based on unconfirmed Russian media reports claiming Ukrainian forces have killed civilians in Kherson.
- “Germany’s refusal to deliver battle tanks is a classic example of policy driven by Schwarzmalerei. Rooted in fear, the German reluctance doesn’t just threaten Ukrainian security; it undermines the stability and cohesion of the European Union and NATO.“
- Extraordinary scene of Jewish students blocking Austria’s newly elected far-right parliamentary president, who has a record of praising Nazis, from visiting a memorial to Holocaust victims on the anniversary of “Kristallnacht,” the 1938 pogrom. Impressive courageWir haben Walter Rosenkranz heute klar gemacht, dass für ihn kein Platz bei Gedenkveranstaltungen für die Opfer der Shoah ist.
00:00 - Observing Berlin’s debate from the outside, one could be forgiven for thinking the entire war is about Germany and its struggle to find its moral compass. 🧵
- To review: Merkel blocked UA joining NATO in 08. She refused to send weapons after Crimea/war in Donbas. Despite that aggression,she led an effort to force UA to accept a peace deal designating Putin as a guarantor. She then ok’d NS2 against UA objections...1/2Replying to @mioteiThis is what is implied in the next sentence: "At a time when several of Germany’s eastern partners, from Poland to the Baltics, are urging Berlin to pursue an honest public reckoning of the role Germany played in paving the way for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine" Paving the way??
- 🚨The Dirty Dozen Returns! Starring Angela, Frank-Walter and Comrade Gerd with a supporting cast of…millions “Germany didn’t sell its soul to Russia overnight; It was a process that took years, by the end of which the entire country was complicit.“
- Fairly twisted logic from the German chancellor here. He says his top line in long phoner with Putin was a ceasefire. Shouldn’t it have been: ‘Leave Ukraine now.’The Ukrainians are pushing Russia back. They need more and better weapons to liberate their territory.Not a ceasefire.
