Kurt Bassuener 🌻
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Frustrated Optimist/ Senior Associate, Democratization Policy Council ( @DPC_Global ) / University of St. Andrews & @CSTPV Alum / @USUKFulbright 2016-2017 scholar
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@juliawb
I recall being warned that tampering with the US Mail was a federal offense.
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Bizarre that the word "Kosovo" - which is why Serbia was subjected to NATO bombing 24 years ago - is nowhere to be found in this thread. Phrasing like this just reinforces the prevalent sense that Serbia was unfairly victimized. Surreal.
Together, we can build the better future the Serbian people deserve and want for future generations. (4/4)
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@GenMhayden
@_Tatyv
@Y_I_S_C
@CNN
@cnnbrk
Agreed. Sometimes you have to kamikaze your career to do the right thing. Not nearly enough do...
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Just a reminder - this remains the operating system of
#BiH
politics. And with
@OHR_BiH
's imposition, pushed by
@StateDept
, we just reinvested in it...
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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says 'Putin was waiting' for Trump to withdraw the United States from NATO in his second term
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Ukraine matters, but so did Bosnia 30 years ago. Where was the outcry then? | Ed Vulliamy
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Music to my ears
Propala je još jedna runda pregovora o izmjenama Izbornog zakona BiH.
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Wow, that "partnership" and Western orientation of Serbia is going proceeding swimmingly, isn't it,
@usambserbia
?
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This was brilliant. Tgere were an impressive number of MEPs who had excellent, hard-hitting questions.
A critical intervention by German MEP
@Gahler_Michael
, a foreign policy spokesman for
@EPPGroup
, on
@MiroslavLajcak
’s performance as EU envoy for Kosovo & Serbia.
Crucial questions about his siding with Serbia’s president
@AVucic
& an accurate summary of his failures since 2020.
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@ChristopherJM
"We have a war...We do not have time for all these signals... This is not ping pong."
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@CounselorDOS
The USG should stop treating BiH as an appendix of Croatia & Serbia. Once upon a time, Washington sidelined predatory Zagreb & Belgrade on BiH. Now we cater to them. This is the apotheosis of 16 yrs of transatlantic - & bipartisan - failed policy toward BiH. Beneath us...
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Seen in
#Sarajevo
- there were several posted w/i a small radius.
#MahsaAmini
#woman_life_freedom
#zene_zivot_sloboda
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1/The West has been complacent too long about the vulnerability of/in
#BiH
, despite its license to employ powerful tools to maintain peace, security, and territorial integrity. Russia's imperial invasion of Ukraine has highlighted these weaknesses. A short thread 👇
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@SecBlinken
@AndrejPlenkovic
Covic and his ally Dodik (both pro-RU) sure seem emboldened at the
@Europarl_EN
today, given their incendiary hate speech. US treatment of
#BiH
like a Croatian-Serbian condominium, as well as pressing "electoral reform" a la Covic, has to stop. This is shameful for America.
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@realDonaldTrump
If I were a European I would be for building an independent EU deterrent, given your "leadership" and defiling all our most important relationships. You are a
#NationalDisgrace
and a threat to American security.
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It's worth reiterating that if the EU (and its member states) had been committed to maintaining a credible deterrent in
#BiH
since it took on the role from
@NATO
, Dodik would never have been able to take things as far as he has.
#DeterrenceFailure
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#Srebrenica
was the culmination of years of protracted moral & stategic failure by the West - and of US leadership. The
#BiH
's current crisis is also the predictable - and foreseen - outcome of 17 years of failure. Commemoration w/o learning insults victims & survivors.
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Riding into
#Sarajevo
at night, with all the lights in the mountain heights, always feels like entering a galaxy. It will never lose its magic for me. I think being a born flatlander probably amplifies that.
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@SecBlinken
@albinkurti
Bravo on overseeing a policy immolating US credibility everywhere in the Balkans. Helluva job.
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Exactly
In 1923, Adolf Hitler led a failed coup. He was treated leniently. Germany moved on.
A decade later, he was dictator, and the worst disaster in the history of the civilized world ensued.
In 2021, when the president of the United States leads a failed coup, we must not move on.
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@tcsmithbiz_nobo
@kylegriffin1
It's like being rabbit punched daily and nonstop for a year and a half - I guess eventually the numbness and out of body experience sets in. That's what Trump and Co are counting on.
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Well, that Vucic-centric policy is just working great, isn't it,
@StateDept
,
@eu_eeas
? Winning.
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1/ I am preparing to update my PhD dissertation ("Peace Cartels: Internationally Brokered Power-Sharing and Perpetual Oligarchy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia") for publication. I defended three years ago - and it's been an eventful interval. This passage hit me...
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@realDonaldTrump
You dunderfuck. If you read books, you'd know why the EU was formed - and it wasn't to "play the game against the US." We encouraged it, for good reason. And it's STILL good for a US that cares about democracy, human dignity, etc - clearly that's not the America you have in mind
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@MarshallCohen
@lrozen
@PamelaBrownCNN
@GloriaBorger
@evanperez
Trump believes in disposable human shields.
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Hope the punitive damages flatten him and Infowars utterly. He is vile.
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1/2. Roasted:
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@apmassaro3
I wonder whether this act will provide a rationale for application of NATO airpower to hit Russian missile launchers and artillery, to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. This is criminally insane.
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Greta Weinfeld Ferusic, survivor of the Holocaust and the siege of Sarajevo, dies at 97
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My essay for
@NewlinesInst
: U.S. Policy on the Balkans Under Biden: Accommodating Nationalist Hegemons for Managerial Simplicity via
@academia
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German Foreign Minister for N1: Dodik's behaviour is unacceptable
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1. A few thoughts this morning on the dangerous degeneration in Bosnia and Herzegovina... The fact that we are experiencing such a crisis in 2019 - 23.5 yrs after Dayton - itself frames an enormous moral and policy failure.
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I sure wish
@Tineke_Strik
were running the EU's Balkan policy. We'd be in a much better place... 👇
The EU should take this direct threat to Bosnia and Herzegovina very serious, considering the Russian aggression towards Ukraine. I expect an official condemnation by
@JosepBorrellF
, fiercely defending the sovereignty of BiH.
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Strong article by
@arminkahelic
on the
#US
&
#UK
's continued effort for
@OHR_BiH
to impose retrograde changes to
#BiH
electoral architecture to satify
@Dragan_Covic
and
#Croatia
- the only
#EU
member on the record advocating it. Real damage done already.
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The West's “stabilocracy fantasy,” first pioneered in the Balkans, has reached its extreme, bloody conclusion in the war in Ukraine, writes
@JasminMuj
in
@newlinesmag
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The horrors of Mariupol should remind us of a new danger to Sarajevo | Daniel Cohn-Bendit and others
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This 👇
Ukraine's courage and resilience is almost unbearably moving.
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Important thread on foreign affairs committee chairs, MEPs, and national legislature MPs on the West's lopsided policies toward
#Kosovo
and
#Serbia
. More broadly, legislative scrutiny is essential to righting EU, US, and UK Balkan policies gone far astray and counterproductive.👇
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1/2 My interview with
@Oslobodjenjeba
re the continued US-propelled effort to amend the election law to satisfy
@Dragan_Covic
via
@OHR_BiH
, whistling past the graveyard on
@EUFOR
, & EU member states' self-neutering when it comes to sanctions in
#BiH
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Citizens unhappy with
@eubih
stance in
#BiH
(including
@AzraZornic
) called for
@josattler
to be recalled in a letter - and a demonstration - today:
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@USEmbassySJJ
1. Sorry, my fellow Americans, this is weak. First off, in an embassy of that size, stating nobody had the time to read a ruling everyone knew was coming at a set time just isn't credible.
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@lrozen
At Tomb of the Unknowns, you could see after
@POTUS
and VP
@KamalaHarris
paid respects and turned, they were feeling the full weight of their new responsibilities. A look and recognition we haven't seen in some time. Respect.
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@francis_scarr
10:1 kill ratio on Red Army in Winter War. Ain't that "special status?" Finland made a pretty damn strong impression.
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@josattler
I'm sure that has him shaking in his boots. Especially when the
#VarhelyiPackage
offers him what he (and his ally Dragan Covic) want. Words words... The EU has the mandate, but it is evidently failing to deliver a credible deterrent.
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The conclusion here sums it up. It's not about "the people" - it's about his self-aggrandizement, pleasure, and avoidance of consequences...
New:
Trump's interview with NYT reveals a man with zero conception of his obligations to the public:
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1/3 - On both
@bbcworldservice
radio and
@BBCWorld
TV this morning,
@albinkurti
gave strong interviews and analysis on the potential impact of Russia's attack on Ukraine for the Western Balkans - esp. via Serbia and RS in
#BiH
.
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@SamBeharic
@WFDemocracy
@DPC_global
And I am honored to moderate tomorrow's Forum Talk 5 on "Corruption and Accountability - keeping faith in democracy" with panelists Leoluca Orlando,
@DrewOCCRP
,
@AVindman
, and discussant
@HamzyCODE
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@StateDeptSpox
The citizens didn't form the govt.
@OHR_BiH
, at
@StateDept
direction, did. Ain't no good guys in BiH politics, given the incentives written into Dayton. But optimizing oligarchy is a lousy look for the convener of the
#Summit4Democracy
, no?
32/ Re BiH, the German govt has effectively surrendered to the US, EC and EEAS, and Schmidt – a tragic continuation of former Chancellor Merkel’s BiH non-policy. Had Merkel been serious about BiH and the region, Schmidt never would have been nominated.
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Very glad to hear Sec-designate Blinken sees ratcheting down the proportion of political appointee ambassadors down to the historical norm of approx 30%, in response to Sen. Kaine's Q
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Serbia Must Face Up to Its Responsibility for Srebrenica
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This is neither surprising nor reassuring. 100% on brand - and a just in tume delivery, at that. Yet another data point to support the obvious:
@euforbih
command should not go to a Hungarian.
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I really fucking needed this. Led me to cackle in a crowded restaurant... To those who think there is no hope here, I submit 👇
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@usambserbia
@predsednikrs
@USEmbassySJJ
If he could be prodded to emulate Stipe Mesic's message to BiH Croats, right after becoming President, that their capital is Sarajevo, that would be something. Nobody from Serbia after 10/5/00 came close to sending such a clear message. Not holding my breath here.
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EU working to amend genocide denial law that is blamed for Bosnia crisis
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What's worst about this, if accurate: it will confirm what people in the region have long feared: that they are lower-grade Europeans in the eyes of W. Europe - and codify it if accepted. It would alienate those who've advocated for EU standards for societal good. Insulting.
If
@EmmanuelMacron
believes the Western Balkans will, in any sense, be silent once the EU horizon had formally collapsed - as it has all but done thx to his obstructionism - he’s possibly the most dangerously uninformed and ignorant leader in Europe. Good Lord, man.
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It just occurred to me - is Milanovic the Croatian Zeman?
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@Tineke_Strik
1/2 Thank you and your colleagues
@IJoveva
, Dietmar Koester,
@thomaswaitz
,
@RomeoFranz1
,
@gahler_michael
,
@KGroselj
,
@PauloRangel_pt
,
@tfajon
,
@delarabur
and many others for your strong commitment to
#BiH
, its territorial integrity, and the dignity of its citizens.
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The fact that
@usambserbia
embraced
@avucic
as a partner after this exposure - and as he faces the greatest domestic challenge to his dominance - shows how determined the US is to stick to its regional
#pacification
strategy. Democratic values be damned.
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@usambserbia
Self-evidently baseless statements like this just reinforce Vucic's confidence that he can continue to play the West, consolidate at home & pursue Srpski Svet regionwide. A clear advertisement in neon of the moral & strategic unmooring of US policy in the region. Not a good look.
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@franakviacorka
This is a government which can make no pretence of popular legitimacy. They gave up worrying about appearances. They expect impunity. They must not be allowed it.
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Dr. Valery Perry za Istragu analizira nedavne stavove američkog diplomate o građanskoj BiH: Escobarove izjave za nastavak antidemokratske prakse via
@Istraga
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@ThePlumLineGS
@AdamSchiff
“Barr has shown a bottomless capacity to pervert the mission of the Justice Department into serving the president’s illicit ends.”
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Iz Berlina za Oslobođenje / Dr. Bassuener: Dodik i Čović su dobili vjetar u leđa, šokantno je da EU i SAD ne mijenjaju politiku prema Z. Balkanu
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@tcsmithbiz_nobo
@kylegriffin1
A lot of media have done great work to keep us informed. And the judiciary (under siege), Dems in Congress (with precious few GOP colleagues), and state govts push back. It's just the volume is insane, so 360. Meet the real Teflon president (at least for his tribal following).
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Long
@GlasAmerikeVOA
piece on Robert Worth's
@nytimes
article from 3 weeks ago,
@avucic
's state capture, and a
@StateDept
policy which centers on Serbia. 👇
Tekst Njujork tajmsa o Aleksandru Vučiću podelio je barem jedan visoki zvaničnik Stejt departmenta, a o tome se govorilo i u Kongresu SAD. Pitanje koje se postavlja je: da li to može da utiče na politiku SAD prema Vučiću/Srbiji?
Opširnije na linku 👉
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Strong arguments - with proper global context - from former British Foreign Minister William Hague to confront the threat to peace in Bosnia:
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The Serbian military buildup on its border with Kosovo provides yet another reason for units brought into
#BiH
for
@euforbih
's
#BrziOdgovor
exercise, which ended today, to stick around - on top of the standing deterrence failure and upcoming
#UNSC
vote in early November.
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My/
@DPC_global
and
@SeloSabic
latest on the rapidly deteriorating situation in
#BiH
- and the
#US
,
#EU
and
@NATO
responsibility. This is a deterrence failure. It requires,a security response. Now.
A Serb nationalist in
#Bosnia
escalates his separatist rhetoric with threats to reject state institutions, heightening risk of renewed conflict 26 years after
#DaytonPeaceAccords
.
From
@KurtBassuener
and
@SeloSabic
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Article by my
@DPC_global
comrade
@bodweber
and me on the
@StateDept
-driven policy that precipitated
@OHR_BiH
's retrograde election-night imposition:
#Bosnia
’s international overseer has imposed
#ElectionLaw
& Constitution changes that reward an ethnonationalist political party.
Bodo Weber and
@KurtBassuener
say US support retreats from respect for greater integration in the
#WesternBalkans
:
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Gaslighting Democracy in the Western Balkans: Why Jettisoning Democratic Values is Bad for the Region and the Liberal World via
@academia
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Macron breaks Balkans promise in quest for EU dominance - latest by
@tobyvogel
and myself for
@DPC_global
on the effect of dashing of North Macedonian and Albanian hopes for EU membership talks
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@Tineke_Strik
@IJoveva
@thomaswaitz
@RomeoFranz1
@gahler_michael
@KGroselj
@PauloRangel_pt
@tfajon
@delarabur
2/2
@OliverVarhelyi
is still committed to his appeasement package aimed at
@Dragan_Covic
and Milorad Dodik. While he decried their specific actions, he named neither of them, just calling for "constructive dialogue from all sides." Such amoral pacification policies hurt the EU.
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"Dominate" - sound familiar?
Nigeria’s top police official orders all officers to "dominate the public space" after days of peaceful protests over police abuses and violent unrest that left 69 people dead.
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This is good news - and not a minute too soon to sanction the chief cheerleader of
#SrpskiSvet
. But he's
@avucic
's responsibility - as is Stpski Svet.
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@nikkihaley
@katherinemiller
Great! Care to pipe up for the families being separated and terrorised by your boss?
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Like I said
@DanielSerwer
gets it. The West has facilitated Serbia's will to regional hegemony for too long... He cites a proposal by
@JasminMuj
in here as well:
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FL deformity: we are having a heavy lightning storm roll in here in Sarajevo - and I am giddy, grinning ear to ear. It's like a visit from a long absent relative. 🤗
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Excellent. This is the kind of support from Croatian citizens is what BiH needs. Not the cheerleading and work in the EU on behalf of Covic et al...
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@michaeldweiss
"'1938 is actually really important because that was a terrible mistake. Had Britain and France stood behind Prague, they would have made the second world war impossible — or at least in the form that it took,' Snyder says."
#Munich
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Thread by us
@DPC_global
on
@OHR_BiH
's election night imposition and the damage this does to
#BiH
, the OHR itself, US, and international credibility 👇
After two months of uncertainty,
@OHR_BiH
High Rep Schmidt last night imposed a broad set of amendments to the Federation of BiH Constitution & the BiH Election Law.
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@USAmbKosovo
You could have resigned rather than be instrumentalized for a dimestic political agenda...
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A well-crafted and well-informed piece on the moral and strategic vacuity of the West's policies in the
#WB6
. Having just traveled the region, the sense the the US & EU have aligned w/ wannabe regional hegemons is widely held among those who ought to be the West's values allies.
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Great and detailed reflections on
@StateDept
policy toward
#Kosovo
and
#Serbia
. Well done,
@VisarXhambazi
. 👇
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Not good for the biz model
Senior Trump adviser tells
@Acosta
Trump is "clueless what any of this means internationally or historically," but Trump has told aides and advisers he does fear what the violence at the Capitol has done to his businesses and "the long-term brand."
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