Tobias Merkendorf

It also makes the EU a more attractive place to do business than the US

Cities reachable by train from Vienna in under 10 hours

Civilization, visualized

Positively mesmerizing: www.chronotrains.com/en/explore/2...

Trump really accelerates American imperial decline.

Just think about the US/EU trade "deal" which was done with the US as security provider in mind.

But as this is less and less the case, the American influence recedes...

Well, the Trump administration is true to itself...

For all the EU's fault, after a certain point bashing the EU for dynamics emerging from Putin's fanatical inflexibility and Trump's strategic incompetence gets a bit absurd

The funny thing is that all I feel every second that Mr Vance speaks is a sudden onset Gaullism. Like why is the idiot child continent trying to teach grandpa how to fuck

This is one of the most funny stories one can imagine. Except for being pretty sad.

Aside from the Khmer Rouge, who destroyed a country that didn't have a pot to piss in to start with, has any country ever scored as spectacular an own goal as the USA is currently?

Aber das wäre ja ein staatlicher Eingriff in den Markt!

mickryan.substack.com/p/trumps-pea...

On the Alaska talks:

Trump’s leverage over Ukraine, Russia and Europe has decreased since the spring and Ukraine is in a better position than back then, given their improved own industrial output thanks to the Danish model that many European countries are now implementing

There’s an annual swimming race around the island of Manhattan. Once round: Men and women are roughly equal. Twice round: women do better than men. Only women have ever done three times round.

I wish we’d stop fighting over quick sports designed for men & celebrate women’s extraordinary endurance

Democratic decline affects Europe too, and what we’ve seen is Europe spectacularly unable to act, and spectacularly unable to understand how to act - namely, by leading and proposing its own table of politics, rather than lamentably trying to influence Trump.
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Have yous ever seen Arthur Conan Doyle write an American character before because I think this would count as a hate crime now

Wer gendert, wird dafür massiv kritisiert, bis hin zu persönlicher Anfeindung. Wer nicht gendert… Ich habe hier keinen Thread gesehen, wo das ein Thema wäre. Soviel zu der Frage, wer hier auf Kulturkampf gebürstet ist.

Das Problem ist nicht nur die Demagogie, die eine Kandidatin fürs BVerfG zerstört, sondern dass Demokrat:innen kein Mittel gegen den Aufstieg von Nazis gelingt. Dabei läge es auf der Hand, nähme man die Geschichte ernst: Der Kampf gegen Nazis ist kein Planspiel, sondern ein Kampf um Leben und Tod.

Krieg in Gaza: Warum Deutschland sich nicht auf Worten ausruhen darf Deutsche Politiker, auch Außenminister Wadephul, nennen die Lage in Gaza unerträglich. Doch wollen sie auch handeln? Die, die helfen könnten, bleiben beim Reden.

"Die Sprache hat versagt, wenn alles Sagbare ausgesprochen ist und sich am Unrecht trotzdem nichts ändert. Die letzte Hoffnung vieler ist das bisher Unsagbare."
@carimsharif.bsky.social für SZ jetzt:
www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Wool trade in 15th century Flanders is easily one of the most crucial topics in economic history. But I've noted The Economist's rabid hatred of economic history before - it is indeed a field of science feared and loathed by almost all acolytes of the modern mainstream economics cult.

So the economies of the US and russia are doing that bad?

Perpetual prisoner's dilemma.

Uncertainty in trade, politics, and security.

Access to the US market and dependence on US for defence made things predictable in the past.

Now these are a source for uncertainty.

Bin irritiert, wie viele deutsche Medien noch immer an Netanjahus Linie festhalten. Wtf.

The aerial reconnaissance of coming battle fields continues unhindered.

Holy cow the numbers.

A lot of Russian and Russia analysts are projecting a level of strategic coherence and discipline on the Trump administration for which there is currently little evidence

South Park Republican.

Laying the ground for Roganites before Rogan was a thing.

So it is self aware!

China shock? Not that bad, we will just lose some core industrial clusters.

Put it all together and Europe ends with a de facto do nothing policy. And steady decline per Draghi’s warning.

(But at least we will have been fully WTO compliant.)

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Merz persönlich unter den Top Ten Politikern in der Kategorie Unzufriedenheit der Bevölkerung auf Rang 2, gleich hinter Weidel.
Auch das war so vorhersehbar:
www.publik-forum.de/politik-gese...

Souvenirs von der letzten Reise nach Kaliningrad? 👀

Furthest I have been:

N: Raufarhöfn
E: Hong Kong
S: Hong Kong
W: Tofino

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.