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Carsten Søndergaard

@carsten1634.bsky.social

Former Danish Ambassador to Russia, Ireland, NATO, Germany and Turkey.

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Just saying that "we had to go to war because the Israelis were going to do it anyway and we needed to protect our people from the fallout, in that sense this is a preventive war" - is a hell of a way to foster anti-jewish conspiracy theories.

03.03.2026 11:55 — 👍 47    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1

"I am ready to make a deal with the regime which I also simultaneously want to change" is a novel, original, unorthodox, maverick way to do either. Well, at least it is reassuring to know that the administration has a clear endgame in mind

01.03.2026 16:22 — 👍 76    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 2
Крым станет САМОЙ БОЛЕЗНЕННОЙ точкой ОБРУШЕНИЯ фронта РФ
Двенадцатая годовщина начала оккупации полуострова демонстрирует, что Крым остается ахиллесовой пятой Кремля. Об этом и многом другом в прямом эфире телеканала FREEДОМ рассказал немецкий политолог,… Крым станет САМОЙ БОЛЕЗНЕННОЙ точкой ОБРУШЕНИЯ фронта РФ

Двенадцатая годовщина начала оккупации полуострова демонстрирует, что Крым остается ахиллесовой пятой Кремля.
youtu.be/OFmLrQxjtd0?...

26.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Four years in, Britons and Danes most likely to say they want Ukraine to win the war against Russia, and care a great deal/fair amount that it does so

🇩🇰 79%
🇬🇧 70%
🇩🇪 51%
🇫🇷 45%
🇪🇸 44%
🇮🇹 32%

*1-9% want Russia to win and care that it does so

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

24.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 25    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 3
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Norway’s wealth fund stuck with stocks in 46 Russian companies On paper the stocks are worth nearly 1,4 billion Norwegian kroner (€124 million), but in practice it is very difficult to get rid of the investments.

Norway’s wealth fund stuck with stocks in 46 Russian companies
www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/norways...

18.02.2026 16:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Nothing to see here. Just the US State Department mimicking the talking points of Germany's far right AfD

15.02.2026 11:15 — 👍 95    🔁 30    💬 7    📌 7
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Just beyond parody at this point

08.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 2830    🔁 877    💬 85    📌 31
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Eine deutsche Atombombe? Das ist eine Phantomdiskussion. Wir werden auf russische konventionelle Angriffe nicht nuklear reagieren wollen und können. Was wir dringend brauchen, ist europäische konventionelle Abschreckung.

30.01.2026 07:01 — 👍 281    🔁 52    💬 18    📌 1

Politics always involves spin, with Kinsley Gaffes occasionally revealing truths, but here Bessent sounds like an LLM/GenAI baby mix'n'matching Ronnie and random "ex-SOF social media alpha influencer" - phrases... while actually being the US Secretary of the Treasury. Embarrassing and dangerous.

30.01.2026 07:19 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

Eliot Cohen knows whats what

30.01.2026 07:49 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

27.01.2026 12:55 — 👍 1014    🔁 408    💬 110    📌 57
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Post nach Moskau BILD-Recherchen zeigen, wie verbotene Postpakete trotz EU-Sanktionen von Berlin nach Moskau gelangen – mit unzulässigen Versandnummern und versteckten Peilsendern.“

Former 🇷🇺 Russian state postal service employees have allegedly established an illegal sanctions-evasion system in 🇩🇪 Berlin.

To expose it, BILD sent packages with hidden tracking devices to Russia. The GPS data received shows that test shipments bypassed controls and ended up in Russia.

🔗🔒, in 🇩🇪 ⬇️

25.01.2026 15:17 — 👍 72    🔁 33    💬 3    📌 2
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They shot him when he was on his knees, his back to them, unarmed, and defenseless.

Those who remember history are doomed to watch it repeat itself.

25.01.2026 09:38 — 👍 126    🔁 49    💬 4    📌 1

Schröder: Too sick to stand the enquete commission into Nord Stream 2 in person, but unfortunately not too sick to put out some more pro-Russian propaganda.

25.01.2026 09:46 — 👍 153    🔁 50    💬 10    📌 3
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Who runs Britain? The paradox of executive power

Why is it that UK government has more executive power with fewer constraints than other democratic countries yet continually complain that they can’t get anything done. @samfr.bsky.social explores the paradox and suggests remedies. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/who-runs-b...

25.01.2026 10:12 — 👍 41    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

I've never been happier to encounter a paywall in my life.

24.01.2026 08:30 — 👍 343    🔁 31    💬 18    📌 1
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Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

23.01.2026 23:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

reads like the list of countries attending Russia's May 9 parades

22.01.2026 16:20 — 👍 205    🔁 48    💬 11    📌 1

Read this.

20.01.2026 13:29 — 👍 208    🔁 62    💬 4    📌 1
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“Donald Trump, like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, believes in power and power only,” warns Anders Fogh Rasmussen. “Europe must prepare to play by those same rules” econ.st/4qV624W

20.01.2026 21:00 — 👍 67    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1

Buy Lego.

20.01.2026 16:34 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
“Europe’s at a loss. It’s a pleasure to watch,” writes Russian newspaper on Trump & Greenland.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg “Europe’s at a loss. It’s a pleasure to watch,” writes Russian newspaper on Trump & Greenland.

Surreal. Russia encourages Trump to get Greenland. Down is up.

youtu.be/XsBASgFIEvg?...

19.01.2026 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Trump really does seems determined to lose mid terms …new tariffs might do trick …

17.01.2026 20:41 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 5    📌 1

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My hot take on Trump's tariffs against European countries:
1: they constitute economic aggression in order to acquire territory. Europeans will remember this for decades to come. They mean very serious damage to the transatlantic bond on all time horizons.

17.01.2026 20:01 — 👍 288    🔁 79    💬 11    📌 7
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First casualty of Trump's new tariff threat - the US/EU trade deal

MEP's were already wavering on legislative approval given the Admin's Greenland threats

This has tipped them over the edge

17.01.2026 19:51 — 👍 260    🔁 79    💬 4    📌 8

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

12.01.2026 09:54 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
"Battle Hymn of the Empire" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" about Trump
YouTube video by Marsh Family "Battle Hymn of the Empire" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" about Trump

"Battle Hymn of the Republic" is not a song to be taken on lightly ... but in light of this New Year Trumpian news onslaught, we're sharing this adaptation, called "Battle Hymn of the Empire" - as Trump goes marching on, and dragging us all back to the nineteenth century.

youtu.be/8saU0WeocP0

11.01.2026 01:38 — 👍 393    🔁 207    💬 32    📌 58

Calling Trump :Daddy' won't do the trick

11.01.2026 13:31 — 👍 38    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0
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GOP Senators Sure Hope Trump Is Kidding About Invading Greenland Plus: The path ahead for the Obamacare subsidies extension bill.

Perhaps the most surreal part of all of this saber-rattling from the administration is just how unnecessary it ultimately is. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4jFRsMk

10.01.2026 21:00 — 👍 134    🔁 26    💬 22    📌 2