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Intl Politics & Security | Director, Democratic Strategy Initiative @DSI_Strategy |🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿🇬🇧 | #NeoIdealism | #BerlinsideOut pod | #NAFO |T=personal

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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
1. What is Neo-Idealism?.(seeing as many of you have asked).It’s a new approach to Grand Strategy & International Relations that I think we can see emerging in responses to #Russia’s war & from #Ukraine’s brave resistance. 1st 🧵in a series on #NeoIdealism .1/25
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
10 months
Ukraine does.
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Ryan Saavedra
10 months
It's sad Israel has to live under constant threat of missile and rocket attacks like this. No other modern country has to live with this constant threat.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
7 months
EU & NATO both need to get serious. - Find a way to kick Hungary out - & don’t tell me there’s no way to do it. - Back Ukraine to win, give it what it needs. Russia mocks us, makes us look like weaklings as we let it get away with provocation after provocation & mass slaughter.
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Pekka Kallioniemi
7 months
Two days ago, Orban was shaking hands with Putin. Today, Russia bombs children's hospital. And the EU will do absolutely nothing.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
#Prague keepin it real. #FCKPTN .#SlavaUkraini
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2 years
This week (30-31/08) EU Foreign Ministers meet in #Prague where they'll discussion the #visaban. I've worked on issues relating to visas, borders & EU foreign & security policy for 2 decades. Here's what you need to know .- & why you should SUPPORT the #visabanforrussians .🧵/1
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2 years
Just wondering:.If a NATO country were hit & it looked like #Germany would be sucked into a shooting war, would it still take a year to get the #Leopards from industry to battlefield? Would normal working practices still apply - or would things be stepped up?.B/c they could be.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
The now infamous open letter by 'intellectuals & artists' calling on #Germany to stop supporting #Ukraine [&, effectively, for 🇺🇦's capitulation to #Russia] is very revealing. As well as being patronising as hell & totally wrong I think its shows something else too . 1/
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1 year
It is absurd that #UK & #Germany will sell Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, an authoritarian state that opposes liberal values. These powerful jets should be sent to #Ukraine which directly fights for our values, interests & security.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
So much nonsense in so few characters.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
6 months
Immediately suspend #Hungary from Schengen.- & that's just the warning shot. No EU state can be under any illusions that 🇭🇺 govt is working to undermine our security. - they are actively helping our enemies. Hungarians can either have Orban or EU. - time to choose. 🇭🇺OUT🇪🇺.
@ArturRehi
Artur Rehi
6 months
Following the visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Moscow, Budapest included citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus in the so-called "national card" program, which is issued to those wishing to work in Hungary for two years with the possibility of.1/10
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
11 months
Look at this. Don’t turn away. And give Ukraine what it needs to win. To stop this Barbarism.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
This is how you do it. #Czechia sends more heavy weapons to #Ukraine. They are Czech production. This is on top of T-72 tanks & Dana Howitzers. #Germany, take note - special FAO Robert Habeck, 🇨🇿 is a #NATO member ….
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Ukraine 4 Freedom
3 years
⚡️The Czech Republic handed over RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine. Thank you, we'll never forget!
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Desperate to be in #Ukraine, where they belong, & frustrated by how long it’s taking to #FreeTheLeopards 🇩🇪#tanks are taking matters into their own hands .- a Leopard2A6 & a Bergepanzer 3 broke loose in Gutersloh … /S.- seriously though, how long can this farce go on?
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
This is so important. When you watch these clips you’ll know what must be done. Only victory and meaningful justice can end the cycle of aggression. And, every day, more evidence is collected for a Special Tribunal on Russian aggression. Let’s get #SpecialTribunalNow trending.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
If you think democracy’s fight is not yours. If you think it’s fine for an autocratic great power to bully it’s neighbour. Then we have a problem .-.And you don’t speak for Europe - You never have - and you will not have a Europe to lead.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
#Poland, already leading the way, could pile yet more pressure on #Scholz to deliver #Leopard2s (with a little #US help).-🇺🇸 sent 28 #Abrams to🇵🇱 for training🇵🇱 crews. - If #US donates them to 🇵🇱 it would free up as many as 28 Leos to be sent to #Ukraine 🇺🇦.Eh, @apmassaro3?
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2 years
In case you didn’t get it, #Russia’s military defeat is the perfect time to tighten the sanctions, tighten the travel restrictions and increase the isolation ….
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2 years
The thing is that even IF #Germany now follows #France & the #US & delivers Armoured vehicles, it will still look like it’s moving at the speed of shame from outside. The only way to now actually regain moral standing is to seize the initiative & go full Leopard.#FreeTheLeopards
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1 year
By failing to seize Russian assets we signal weakness & a lack of resolve to win the war. We risk failing to deter Russia by defeating it in Ukraine & putting ourselves in great danger. We have to #MakeRussiaPay as the brilliant @OlenaHalushka said in Munich .#MSC2024
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
🔥THE RACE IS ON 🔥. With #Russia eyeing a spring offensive & mass mobilisation, #Ukraine needs #TANKS - Main Battle Tanks #MBTs - like never before. To get them to 🇺🇦 by March with some training a decision is needed in the next 10-14 days. - Thankfully … 1/3
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
We have to deal with the #Russia we have. Not the Russia some Western intellectuals & politicians wish we had.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
We don’t have a Putin problem. We have a Russia problem. However much Team Navalny try to convince you otherwise .[b/c they are part of the problem].
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
Absolutely superb from @ABNPoland
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
Hungarians should do something about Orban .- or we must do something about Hungary. The choice must be clear. - you can have the illiberal, Russia helping Orban. - or you can have EU membership. Not both. #Hexit #HuckOff.
@victoriaslog
Victoria
1 year
“The only way I can read the Hungarian position, not just on Ukraine but on many other issues, is that they are against Europe and everything that Europe stands for.”. — Gabrielius Landsbergis, 🇱🇹 MFA. Hungarians should do something about their government before it’s too late.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
The past was yours, but the future’s ours.
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Noah Barkin
2 years
Old Europe, New Europe
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
#NAFO is the return of repressed courage. decency and moral stature in the West - it erupted at our failure to stand up properly to #Russia, for #Ukraine, and for ourselves. It’s taking back social media & recovering lost hope.
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#Poland has already done so much for #Ukraine. Yet, for a relatively small additional investment it could trigger huge additional benefits. Poland could send ONE of its #Leopard 2PL modified MBTs. This would, at a stroke, remove Berlin's excuse for refusing to #FreetheLeopards
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Today’s the day. Time for Tanks. Following #UK, #Poland & #Finland’s lead, of course #Germany & all European partners should join them in sending #MBTs. The #US has sent so much .- & done so much to lead - but if it now needs to #FreetheAbrams to #FreeTheLeopards, it should. 1/4
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1 year
Hungary has no place in the EU or NATO.
@USAmbHungary
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1 year
Hungary’s leader chooses to stand with a man whose forces are responsible for crimes against humanity in Ukraine, and alone among our Allies. While Russia strikes Ukrainian civilians, Hungary pleads for business deals.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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Excellent that Steinmeier had to listen to this. There are plenty more in Germany’s elite who still need to hear it too.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
I support this #Schengen 'tourist' #visaban for Russians🇷🇺. There are good arguments for & against - & neither option is perfect - but deciding between imperfect options is often the essence of politics. After much careful consideration here's why I support the visa ban🧵.1/.
@kajakallas
Kaja Kallas
2 years
Stop issuing tourist visas to Russians. Visiting #Europe is a privilege, not a human right. Air travel from RU is shut down. It means while Schengen countries issue visas, neighbours to Russia carry the burden (FI, EE, LV – sole access points). Time to end tourism from Russia now.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
6 months
Hungarians must be made to face the consequences of their choices. - 🇭🇺s elected Orban 4 times.- Orban govt undermines EU & NATO security & as institutions .-🇭🇺s cannot have the benefits of EU & NATO (& Schengen) while their elected govt acts against us. ⏩Orban OUT or 🇭🇺 OUT.
@splendid_pete
Pete
6 months
🇭🇺 The Hungarian government has introduced a National Card from July that allows Russian and Belarusian “guest workers” to enter the country without the usual security screenings. This policy, which follows the closure of the controversial Russian-controlled International
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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Since the Vilnius summit where they blocked Ukraine's path to NATO, the US & Germany strove to shut down public criticism of their failing🇺🇦policy which has cost so many lives, made🇺🇦's victory harder & all of Europe less safe. - Now they're rightly being publicly shamed again.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
Forget the obstacles, time for those who CAN to DO. #UK, #Poland, #Finland & all others who want to give tanks to🇺🇦should do so ASAP. Re-export rules don't matter, #Ukraine's victory does. - #France can step up #LeclercLibre.- & yes, the #US should also #FreeTheAbrams
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
5 months
Germany’s NATO allies openly calling for Berlin to send Taurus cruise missiles . Because they know Ukraine’s victory is Europe’s interest - & helps defend our values.
@GLandsbergis
Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹
5 months
Russia and Iran are waiting for a response to their latest escalation. Now is what Taurus was made for.
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1 year
Terrific from Tusk. “We don’t have Ukraine fatigue, .we have Orban fatigue,”. #Poland’s position on #Hungary is so important to an EU solution to the Orban problem.
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2 years
We don’t, yet, know what caused the deadly explosion in #Przewodow #Poland & should not jump to conclusions. BUT, there are several important things to consider. 1. This would not have happened if we had earlier given #Ukraine the means to defeat #Russia & end the war.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
What to do with a problem like #Steinmeier getting refused an invitation to #Kyiv by #Zelenskiy?. A 🧵 on why it's better for #Germany to get proactive instead of getting offended over #Ukraine.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 months
"The wrong man, in the wrong job, at the wrong time.".h/t @BenWallace70.
@United24media
UNITED24 Media
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⚡️ Chancellor Scholz: "I am against the fact that the weapons supplied by us can be fired far into Russian territory and will not change my position regarding the delivery of a cruise missile from Germany.".
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3 years
Points on #Ukraine, #Germany, the #EU & #NATO. 1. We should not speak of 'solidarity' with Ukraine -it's our fight too: for democracy against autocracy, for freedom against tyranny, for our collective security and for our shared future. We must consistently talk & act like that.
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3 years
Because it shines a light on their own unwillingness to do so. It threatens to reveal the deep cowardice, cynicism & selfish will for an easy life (never mind the suffering of others or the lost potential for progress at home) that is all too common . 3/ .#Emma #Germany
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I’ll fix that for you. VisaBan will: .- show EU resolve in support of Ukraine & opposition to Russia. - make clear to Russians that this is their war -with consequences (& cause to reflect).- enhance EU security & stop 🇷🇺s laughing in our faces.- give us a future bargaining chip.
@leonidragozin
Leonid Ragozin
2 years
Visa ban will:.- cause human tragedies by creating millions of separated families.- make it harder for emigre opposition to liaise with supporters inside the country.- fuel Putin’s Russophobia narrative. Visa ban will not:. - stop the war or help Ukraine in any meaningful way.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
4 months
It’s time for Hungarians to be made to face the consequences of their choices. Time to choose .Orban or EU membership.
@EPPGroup
EPP Group
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It’s time to bring #Hungary back closer to Europe and give it a chance to recover from the consequences of poor leadership. It’s time for Viktor #Orbán to leave.
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This is combined with a massive superiority complex & the need to be recognised as superior by others. Its deeply ingrained, cherished & is fundamentally threatened by Ukraine's courageous fight, which shows many Europeans what they would not be willing to do themselves 4/.#Emma
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3 years
If there is one country that should understand the need for military solutions to oppressive regimes, .it is #Germany. If there is one country that should understand the need to back democratic allies to the hilt when they face a stronger, authoritarian foe, .it is #Germany.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
8 months
lol! Polish fans sticking it to the Russian embassy in Berlin.
@bbublewicz
Bartłomiej Bublewicz
8 months
„Ruska kur. ” teraz przed ambasadą Rosji w Berlinie. 😅
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
It is not ‘unfortunate’ that Ukraine is still at war. - it is a choice we have made by not giving Ukraine what it needs to win. We should not ‘wish’🇺🇦 peace in 2024 .- we should MAKE IT HAPPEN by giving Ukraine what it needs to win. Peace comes through 🇺🇦victory.
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Many of you have asked why I’m pushing for @GLandsbergis as EU HRVP & @kajakallas as NATO SecGen . TLDR: they’re the best people for the jobs - and to ensure NATO & the EU hold together & have a bright future we need our best in these positions. I came back from #MSC2024 more
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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It's not enough for #Russia to lose its aggressive war. ▶️#Ukraine must win. It's not enough to win a military victory .🇺🇦needs a viable future. That must include a clear path to #EU membership. Here's why🇪🇺should offer that .(& what's getting in the way) .a🧵
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
I still haven’t heard one *good* reason why sending ‘Western’ Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) or Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) to #Ukraine would trigger a significant escalation. I’ve heard a lot of reasons given … but they really don’t stack up & don’t outweigh the benefits.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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FFS. Russia must be defeated, deterred, isolated and contained. Not given a way into the EU 🤦.
@Mylovanov
Tymofiy Mylovanov
6 months
Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza: a peaceful Europe is only possible if post-Putin Russia is integrated into the EU. But I don’t think the EU has any appetite for it. Russian culture, as the war has shown, is very distinct from that of Europe 1/.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
Who’s behind #NAFO? .It’s all of us
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@TheRickWilson
Rick Wilson
1 year
Putin bootlick @basedMikeLee is attacking NAFO and wants to know who’s behind it. All of us, Mike. It’s all of us. #nafoexpansionisnonnegotiable
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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We have to challenge this attitude & make sure it doesn't guide our policy -on the war, on reconstructing & integrating #Ukraine & in our own societies. False superiority won't get us anywhere. Let us be inspired by🇺🇦 & let us act in way that again genuinely inspires others. /end
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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Contrary to what some in Berlin are claiming, #Ukraine needs tanks ASAP. - a clear message to #Germany.@CinC_AFU Zaluzhny:.“I can beat this enemy. I need 300 main battle tanks, 600-700 armored personnel carriers, 500 artillery pieces."🇺🇦.#FreeTheLeopards.
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1 year
A small point on language, with some big implications. The war is not ‘dragging on’. #Ukraine is fighting desperately for its survival & to liberate its people from #Russia’s brutality & oppression. We are dragging it out by not giving 🇺🇦 what it needs to win ASAP.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
7 months
Try giving Ukraine what it needs to win.
@POTUS46Archive
President Biden Archived
7 months
Russia will not prevail. Ukraine will prevail.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
This is why MUCH stronger action is needed. - cut the gas & oil. now. - arm #Ukraine to the hilt. - recognise 🇺🇦’s 🇪🇺 candidacy.
@ronzheimer
Paul Ronzheimer
3 years
Aftermath of the attack in Kyiv.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 months
China is not our friend. Europeans need to wake up.
@jakluge
Janis Kluge
2 months
If China was planning to avoid further alienating the EU, weakening Ukraine with sanctions while supplying Russia with billions of Western tech is probably not the best strategy.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
5 months
Excellent from @StewartMcDonald
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@StewartMcDonald
Stewart McDonald
5 months
🗞️ This week’s column: Biden’s policy on Ukraine is emboldening Putin and eroding European security. Ukraine must have the ability to strike back against the very military facilities visiting death upon its people. __.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
5 months
🎯.@GLandsbergis hits the target. Again. This is the leadership we need in Europe.
@GLandsbergis
Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹
5 months
We cannot allow Russian bombers to be better protected than Ukrainian civilians are. Let's ask ourselves if we are being honest about how much we actually support Ukraine.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
4 months
So, back the necessary course of action:.Orban out of power .or Hungary out of the EU. Hungarians must be made to face the consequences of their choices. You can't have both.
@daniel_freund
Daniel Freund
4 months
Mr Orban, .You are Europe's most corrupt politician!. We Want Our Money Back!. My speech today⤵️
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
There's been a lot said about @TimothyDSnyder's devastating takedown of Jurgen #Habermas perspective on #Ukraine & #Russia which is, sadly, representative of a major strand of discourse in #Germany that also impacts 🇩🇪policy & positioning. I want to highlight a few things 🧵.
@TimothyDSnyder
Timothy Snyder
3 years
Jürgen Habermas, regarded as the greatest political philosopher in Europe, has written a text on its major contemporary crisis, the war in Ukraine. His thesis has directed German discourse away from realities of the past and possibilities of the present.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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Its that attitude of false superiority & patronising selfishness, combined with a lack of will to actually fight (metaphorically & literally) for progress - or to spread its benefits more widely - that is the real danger to #Germany & #Europe's future not - WW3. 7/.#Emma /7
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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US should be transferring its own F-16s to Ukraine - and stop shielding Russian airfields by restricting targeting. We need to WIN.
@SecDefAustin
Archive: Lloyd J. Austin III
7 months
I am proud that today, @POTUS, alongside Denmark and the Netherlands, announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be flying F-16s this summer. The transfer of F-16s is officially underway
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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It's a way of reinforcing this facade of superiority, but its haunted by the recognition that they themselves would not undertake this struggle & have, in too many ways, given in to cynicism about (geo)politics, ideals & progress more widely. 6/.#EmmaRose
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
Keep #Ukraine in mind this #Christmas
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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56bn for Ukraine 🇺🇦.Zero Trust for Germany? 🇩🇪 . #Germany is both #Ukraine’s biggest European supporter in absolute financial terms. - AND rightly seen as problem by allies (As well as by many Germans). Here’s why.🧵. (& no, it’s not just Scholz, the SPD & #Taurus)
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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In 2022 Ukrainians reminded us what courage is. - They’ve also given us the wake up call we needed to renew our own democracies & revive the hope of progress. - here’s to a 🇺🇦 Victory in 2023 & to a Happy New Year!
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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Devastating . @BWallaceMP .“Time & time again Germany has been last to help Ukraine. At every stage they have had to be pushed or embarrassed into doing anything. @aliciakearns: .“Scholz’s comments are irresponsible & a slap in the face to allies.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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Many of us have been truly inspired by #Ukraine's incredible struggle to survive, but for others it seems that this rare show of courage, & decency and the valiant defence of country, values, rights & ideals is deeply troubling. Why? . 2/.#Emma #Germany .
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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Thank you to all who helped make .‘To #Ukraine With Love’ possible. 🇺🇦 & to all of you with whom we have formed community through common purpose this year🇺🇦.#SlavaUkraini & .#MerryChristmas 🎄.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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The fight back has begun. Everyone has rightly talked about grim mood at #MSC2024 .BUT there were major signs that true leaders across Europe have had enough of the gap between words & action .& of key Allie’s failing to stand up for our common interests & for our security. 1/
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
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In case of doubt …. Olaf Scholz does not want Ukraine to win. And his government’s policy reflects that. This undermines German & European security.
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StefanieBolzen
4 months
Shortly before meeting #Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy, Chancellor Scholz impromptu emphasises in press statement „Germany will not support lifting restrictions on long-range (missiles). This would not be compatible with the my personal conviction.” #UNGA2024
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
We often hear that 'Failure is not an Option' in Ukraine. But we are making failure a real possibility. That brings huge danger. For #Ukraine - and for Europe more widely. We can still turn this around, .but to do so we need to act strongly - and fast. A🧵
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
Yup. This is the cost of the US delay. This is the cost of Scholz obstinate miscalculation & fear of victory.
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Gandalv
1 year
LOTS of good men have died in Avdiivka because Johnson cut the logistics pipeline.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 months
“Olaf Scholz is a total failure when it comes to security policy.”. Good job I didn’t say that or it would just be reckless, baseless Germany bashing. Thankfully a German politician said it.
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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
3 months
Olaf Scholz ist ein sicherheitspolitischer Totalausfall. Der Ukraine aktiv die Aussicht auf eine NATO-Mitgliedschaft zu verweigern, ermutigt nur einen: Kriegsverbrecher Wladimir Putin. Es wäre ein weiteres Sicherheitsrisiko für Deutschland und Europa. Ausgerechnet Finnland als.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
Like the obnoxious complaints (in #Germany but also around Western Europe & in the Brussels bubble) about #Ukraine's "excessive nationalism" - supposedly incompatible with the #EU & 'European values' - 'We've overcome all that nasty outdated stuff - but look [down] at them. 5/.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
How to deal with #Russia .- Short thread based on my talk at #LennartMeriConference 2023. #NeoIdealism. 1. Ukraine's war is our war - & must be won. That means restoring UA's 1991 borders & ensuring UA's ability to defend them - & the people within them.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
He played the dumb one in Cheers, right?. Seriously tho, this kind of false equivalence is hardcore, luxury anti-politics masquerading as principle. It’s corrosive & prevalent. It’s totally possibly to be against the Iraq war & in favour of supporting 🇺🇦 to win. - arming.
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Lindsay Penney
1 year
Woody Harrelson’s response to the press about his views regarding the Russia/Ukraine war is too good 🤣
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
With the great news that #Poland will supply a company of #Leopard2 Main Battle Tanks & the #UK set to provide #Challenger2 #MBTs, the spotlight is now trained firmly on Berlin. Will #Germany join the coalition to give #Ukraine the tanks -#Kampfpanzer!- it needs?🧵1/
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
"#Germany’s approach swiftly reverted to type: idealism about Moscow’s intentions, sympathy for its wariness of Nato, & appetite for its gas & oil [. ].Berlin blundered into a giant geopolitical trap, with disastrous results".Excellent from @olivernmoody .
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
This is #Austria’s former foreign minister-the one who danced with Putin at her wedding. She was given her role by Sebastian Kurz then leader of the mainstream party that still governs 🇦🇹. She is a symbol of the penetration of our societies by the agents of dictatorships. Enough.
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Karin Kneissl
2 years
Moscow + Snow = Beauty
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
5 months
F-16s A ‘key symbol of US support’?.Maybe they’d like to send some then?.
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Victoria
5 months
I absolutely hate how the media like @WSJ manipulates people’s emotions to create loud headlines. ▪️Russia attacked Ukraine with over 100 missiles and drones on Monday. ▪️ Ukraine can only use the F-16s to shoot down missiles over its own territory. - Of course, some will crash
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
OMG! .The world’s most based Prime Minister @kajakallas addresses us and wishes us the most based #NAFOSummit possible. #NAFOExpansionIsNonNegotiable .#NeoIdealism
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
Europe needs to Wake up- and act. Fast.
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Kate Sullivan
1 year
Trump said today during a campaign rally he would encourage Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to any NATO member country that didn’t meet spending guidelines
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
This is a really bad article. It gets a lot of things straight wrong & is misleading about others. Mostly though, it misses a really key point about #US security & why it is boosted by supporting #Ukraine. This is b/c of blinkered chauvinism. Short 🧵.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
9 months
@GLandsbergis Well said!.I won’t mourn Raisi whose regime has beaten and killed women across Iran and aids the Russian regime that has butchered Ukrainians & which seeks to destroy our democracies.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 years
Neutrality is not naive,.it is cowardly and cynical. And should be treated with the full disdain it deserves.
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Stanley Pignal
2 years
Switzerland has vetoed an Italian request to export 96 Swiss-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine. "Neutrality" might have had an enlightened feel before the war, but now looks hopelessly naive–as I argued earlier this year.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
@GLandsbergis @GLandsbergis is 100% right. We must wake up to the severe threat we face b/c.- we are not supporting Ukraine to win.- we lack key capabilities .- we may not be able to rely on US .- we are projecting weakness not strength. BUT we can still turn this around.- if we act Fast.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
3 years
#Germany's leaders, especially Chancellor #Scholz seem reluctant to really help #Ukraine-especially by providing #heavyweapons. (Too) many reasons are given for this, even avoiding #nuclear war, but there's a problem with these excuses for🇺🇦- AND for🇩🇪& its #NATO allies .a🧵
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
5 months
Canada has failed to properly support Ukraine, and failed to arm itself & properly contribute to NATO.- but is funding Russian propaganda at a major film festival. We must arrest the self-destruction of the West - Canadians & their Allies must demand better.
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Aaron Gasch Burnett
5 months
I’m devastated. Seeing this Russian propaganda film made at all & screened at a major festival is bad enough. Canada under-supporting Ukraine & not moving on #MakeRussiaPay is bad enough. But our government has directly funded Russian propaganda. We need to see resignations.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
4 months
“I’m not afraid of Russia, I’m afraid of [The West’s collective] fear of Russia.”. @GLandsbergis lays it on the line for this countries failing to stand up & stop Russian terrorism in our own countries & it’s brutal war in Ukraine.
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Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹
4 months
Why do we call it "hybrid warfare"?.Because if we called it terrorism then we would have to do something about it.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
3 former Generals - Brauss & Bühler (🇩🇪) & @general_ben Hodges (🇺🇸) all argue that we should have supplied 🇺🇦 with tanks & other weapons earlier but that despite the Russian defences, the stalemate can be broken, and that #Ukraine should be given #Taurus .💯agree.
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Mattia Nelles
1 year
General Brauß in der FAZ: Wären die deutschen Leoparden und anderes Gerät früher gekommen, hätten die Russen nach ihren Niederlagen Ende 2022 nicht die Zeit bekommen, sich in Stellungen einzugraben, die bei der NATO als „die stärksten in der Geschichte“ beschrieben werden. /1.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
8 months
Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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9 months
THREE words
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
1 year
Outstanding from #NAFO. Two US Senators (who are not on the right side of history) wondering who pays us. Seeing this happen to BustedMikeLee is especially funny.Well done #Fellas. Cheque’s in the post, right @Official_NAFO?
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
4 months
VERY strong speech from CDU leader Friedrich Merz calling for real measures to stand up to Russia, to secure Ukraine & secure Europe, and an end of the angst ridden half-hearted approach of Chancellor Scholz. This now needs to be consistently followed up. No more flip flops.
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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen and Rants" Masala
4 months
„Angst ist die Mutter aller Grausamkeiten“ . Stark !.
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
2 months
Can anyone see this? .Wave back if you can! . Either the level of engagement on here is getting really, really bad .(esp compared to 🦋). Or I’m being shadow banned …
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦
6 months
Now give the other 148 they need (min).- and the missiles.- in huge numbers .- and the permission to use them .- wherever they like.
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Anton Gerashchenko
6 months
F-16s in the Ukrainian skies! 🇺🇦. 📹: Radio Svoboda
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