Christian Leiner

Trump and Putin share a disrespect for democracy and freedom. Values that we hold dear in Europe.
We will not be divided by dictators or far-right forces.

Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. Nothing about Europe without Europe.

Solidarity with Ukraine.

Garry Kasparov at Halifax Security Forum:

"For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression.

Farmers cross a leafless tree on the outskirts of Hanoi.

Photography by Tran Tuan, Tran Tuan Viet [FB]

#photography #black&white #bicycle #trees #countryside

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

This is a bold but absolutely feasible solution, which would immediately bring Pu to the negotiation table in earnest, ready to make real concessions rather than aiming to swindle and take away Ukrainian sovereignty diplomatically. Europe needs to step up before it's too late.

It’s always the people who took away our freedom of movement saying’why don’t you live somewhere else’. Irony is dead.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Europe has a foreign policy problem. It does need to engage in these talks and doing so as 7 or 8 leaders just doesn't work. It makes it easy to work around Europe. So the EU should pick a special envoy - perhaps the fmr Finnish president Niinisto or a Draghi type to engage on behalf of Europe.

The 28 points would strip Ukraine of its sovereignty and security. It would reward Putin for his aggression and thereby encourage him to go even further. This is unacceptable.

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

Hey @safety.bsky.app, can we have a simar feature here too? Guess we also would like to see the location information for accounts. Understanding with whom you are in contact is key to judge the content.

The EU has a very small and rapidly shrinking window of opportunity to address this lethal threat to European democracy.

Christo Grozev @christogrozev I happened to see an early version of the "peace plan", about 6 months ago. It was a purely Russian concept and was nearly identical to what we see today (certainly the 50/50 Russian assets + EU investment in Ukraine reconstruction was there). However two items are glaringly missing. First, a proposal that US (investors) bail post-war Russia out of a pending cash- and investment-strapped recession, "like in the 90s". This was meant as an inducement for Trump (whether as a legitimate US sweetener or as one for friends and family, that wasn't explicit) The second "offering" was a new Russia-US alliance against China. A lot of "Christian alliance" demagoguery was included under that item. I am absolutely certain that this is a Russian, not a jointly developed, proposal. I also cannot imagine the Russians didn't include the 1st of the two extra items. I can see however how that wouldn't be part of the publicly leaked plan. On item 2, can't be sure if Russia dared to include the anti China offer. Again, if it did, it wouldn't be public. So all in all, it might be a 30-point plan after all.

Unfortunate that @christogrozev.bsky.social has not shared here the remarks he published on X about the Trump-Putin plan for Ukraine.
I'm taking the liberty of doing it for him.

Experte Gady analysiert : Wird der neue Friedensplan der USA den Krieg in der Ukraine beenden? Die Kernpunkte des US-Friedensplans für die Ukraine sind bereits mehrmals verhandelt, abgeschwächt und verworfen worden. Sie blenden die militärische Realität an der Front aus.

Meine Sonntagskolumne handelt von der jüngsten Welle amerikanischer (oder russischer) Friedenspläne, die alle paar Wochen oder Monate wieder auftauchen, als steckten wir in einer Endlosschleife à la ‚Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier‘. www.kleinezeitung.at/politik/auss...

YouTube video by DAI Heidelberg Herfried Münkler – Macht im Umbruch (14.10.2025)

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BREAKING: Elon Musk has immediately disabled the "Account based in" feature on Twitter after more than 50% of the MAGA grifter accounts were found to be based outside of the US.
Most of the pro-Israel and MAGA propaganda accounts were being run from India.

I don’t blame European leaders for flattering Trump. He responds to it & they desperately don’t want him to abandon Europe. But they now have to ask themselves what their groveling has brought them & if they really risk much worse by taking a stand. What are US security guarantees to Europe worth? +

If there is any one thing we should have learned in recent years, it's that a concentration of media power is terribly dangerous. Really hope this deal will be prevented.

We don’t need another delegation of European leaders flying off to Washington to kiss Trump’s ring now. We need them to get on the train to Kyiv and stand shoulder to shoulder with Zelenskyy.

Greene spewed the worst vile poison at the left for years. After two weeks of being on the receiving end of that right wing vitriol, she's throwing in the towel. Lame. Lame and weak.

"The coming week will be very difficult, full of events." -- President Zelenskyy

We will not give up our dignity.
We will not give up our freedom.
We will not surrender.

We will keep calm, and we will carry on.

Все буде добре. Everything will be OK. 🇺🇦

Guess they want to say: no european fighter jets in the baltics instead.
Exactly my sense of humor.

The current military situation does not justify surrendering these territories, and such concessions would almost certainly inflame a “stab-in-the-back” narrative within the military—undermining trust in Ukraine’s civilian leadership.

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Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.

A few experts going right now: "hear me out, Budapest Memorandum, keeping Ukraine out of NATO, telling it to accept loss of Crimea, and pretending the Minsk Accords meant to save Ukraine's sovereignty were all mistakes, but if we now combine all this idiocy into a 28-point plan, it might work!"

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”