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This is a complete misunderstanding of the European political economy. The French snobs in Brussels are the last bastion against periodic attempts by French snobs in Paris to commit seppukku via domestic policy.
We have enough money in Europe to fund Ukraine for two more years. Why would we ever let these deflating dunces decide over our long-term security architecture?
President Trump today advanced an important discussion with several European leaders about the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace.
Building on his leadership and the substantive work undertaken this week in Brussels with Ukraine, NATO, and our European partners, @SEPeaceMissions and I wanted to share some of the objectives guiding our ongoing discussions.
For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework. Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.
Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.
We are exploring five principal goals: permanent security consultations, reliable crisis communications, greater military transparency, reciprocal measures to reduce escalation risks, and an enduring framework for long-term European security and stability.
Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation. Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices. NATO will remain central to European collective defense, and this initiative would build upon existing institutions and commitments.
We will continue consultations through the Shell Bay format with Ukraine, NATO, the EU, and our European partners, expanding engagement to ensure that all relevant perspectives and ideas are considered. We will also engage Russia as part of the peace negotiations.
Next week in Abu Dhabi, the United States will convene the first trilateral peace discussions with Ukraine and Russia since February. All parties remain intensely engaged in preparing for substantive and productive negotiations. We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.
These ideas continue to evolve, and we welcome thoughtful input. Creating the right structure will be critical to ending this war and transitioning from conflict toward conditions that make possible a durable peace.
This is difficult, detailed work. There are no easy solutions. But the opportunity to help end this devastating war and build a foundation for a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Europe for generations to come makes it a challenge well worth undertaking.
We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.
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Tobias retweeted
The funny thing about this election is that it's obvious people just fucking hated Republicans and policy didn't matter at all but people will still try to make policy arguments based on these results
The moderates did overall perform better by a few percentage points (since moderates always perform better to an extent, no matter what the DSA and MAGA stooges want to pretend) but Gina Hinojosa ran an explicitly anti-data center campaign and David Crowley wants to stick his dick in a USB port and they both won, so I don't think you can draw policy conclusions for this on the Democratic side
On the other hand, the message that the GOP should stop being such rightoid psychos seems pretty explicit.
Tobias retweeted
The US midterms offer a clear winning strategy for the European left:
- Don't be in government.
- Have an extremely unpopular and delusional incumbent.
- Hope he starts a war nobody understands.
- Hope for soaring gas prices and inflation.
- Face historically weak candidates.
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With 90% of precincts in, the NYT projects that we're back to calling it "Twitter" now
Man I don't even know what to tell you it looks like the entire Republican party just disintegrated immediately on contact, from what I'm seeing Trump doesn't have Texas, South Carolina, or Kansas anymore
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So what happens to the megalomaniac Egyptian Ministry of Defense now that one side of the Camp David Accords is effectively revoked?
"Netanyahu and I have made a deal that we give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we're stopping”
President Trump announces that the U.S. is “stopping” its funding to Israel.
"We've already agreed that by the end of this year we won't be paying Israel. Now we'll help Israel if they need it," he said.
The statement comes after Netanyahu’s statement in May that he wants to wean Israel off US assistance.
Trump acknowledged this is due to left-wing criticism: "The left uses the $4 billion payment that everybody knows about, well it's no secret, as a signal of unfairness, and we can't allow that to happen.”
Trump made the statement as millions of Americans head to the polls today, and in the midst of negotiations to form Israel’s next government.
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Tobias retweeted
Demanding economic growth has become unfashionable among some people in Europe.
Instead they speak of a “cost of living crisis”.
But it’s really one and the same.
Economic growth means that incomes rise relative to prices.
Economic growth means that the things we need become more affordable.
Witzig: Die Linksjugend will in Berlin eine Minderheitsregierung von Rot-Grün unter linker Tolerierung, nimmt aber anders als die „CDU pur” Leute an, dass das die Mitte zu extremeren Positionen zwinge. Getrennt in den Farben, vereint in der Flucht vor dem Kompromiss?
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Tobias retweeted
We’ve known since 2023 AI could not continue to improve due to “model collapse”—training on poisoned internet data generated by AI. This is why LLMs have made no progress since that time, steadily declining on all benchmarks, and are projected to disappear completely by 2030.
Es war eine von zwei Möglichkeiten, warum immer nur in Generalitäten gesprochen wurde. Die andere Option wäre schlimmer gewesen: Man möchte diesen Teil der Partei schützen.
Warum es erst zum Skandal wird, wenn Hintergundinfos geleaked werden, erschließt sich mir nicht wirklich.
die ganze story hier: spiegel.de/politik/deutschla…
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Tobias retweeted
What I hate about the term "NIMBY" is it's not in your backyard. It was never in your backyard. It's in somebody else's backyard. Nobody is building anything in your backyard. That doesn't happen.
Would be a pretty sweet 2 week period if Bolsonaro, Vucic, Netanyahu, and the Republicans all get voted out.
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I just need to subsidize demand
„Wenn es eben geht, und ich denke, es geht, dann muss die Stromsteuer runter“, betont Friedrich Merz beim #csupt26. Wie es gehen soll, weiß niemand, nachdem die Union gleichzeitig den Tankrabatt eingeführt hat und Veto gegen neue Steuern einlegt. Konkrete Sparvorschläge fehlen.
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