Paul T. Levin

Thanks! Will listen. Good job yesterday by the way. 👏

JD Vance Is The Right's Only Hope And: Tucker vs. Bonhoeffer; Young Hitler; Exiling The Sacred; Two Churches, More

“Most Americans (…) still don’t like Nazis.” Controversial take by JD Vance supporter & Viktor Orbán acolyte Rod Dreher in the ongoing GOP civil war in his recent Substack post. In fairness to Republicans, whether the party should embrace Nazism or not is a difficult question with lots of nuance. 😳

Add another €6 billion to the EU’s support for Ukraine in the below graph.

Jag kan fö meddela att en pensionerad turkisk ambassadör gjorde samma Hopper-association på Facebook. 😃

Whoa, plot thickens.

Just to be very clear, I was being sarcastic. I don’t actually think that independent observers should use this absurd terminology. Alaycı davranıyordum. @neromansiya.bsky.social

You are too kind, Sir!

I guess we’ll be talking about “İÇASÖ” instead of the CHP from now on. 😳

I can probably get it if you want.

A Swedish Hopper, kinda. In Turkish setting. #art #culture #kultur

I’ll accept the comparison, Ulf! 🙏😄😊

It pays to be first.

Thank you Aysha! That’s lovely to hear.

Oil painting of my mother sitting at an İstanbul meyhane restaurant, bathing in the warm light of the late afternoon sun.

“Mother at the meyhane” now has a beautiful frame. The painting is sold but will have have to wait for its owner to return from the States. Until then, it will hang on my wall.

Oil on panel, 65 x 54 cm.
#art #konst #kunst

Inspirerande!

This is an impartial observation? 😉

Tack Eva! Det kommande halvåret har RoC EU-presidentskapet. Då gissar jag det blir svårt att göra mycket, men jag skulle hålla ögonen på Cypern det kommande året. Ang parallellen till Palestina har 🇹🇷 sedan 2017 pratat om en ”tvåstatslösning” för Cypern. TRNCs nye president vill diskutera federation.

Nytt hopp om återförening av Cypern: ”Tydligt ställningstagande” - Ekot På Cypern har den icke-erkända Turkcypriotiska republiken röstat fram en kandidat som vill se en återförening av ön, Tufan Erhürman.Sveriges Radios Filip ...

Jag pratade med Ekots Filip Kotsamboukidis om ett gryende försiktigt hopp om att fredsprocessen på Cypern skulle kunna återupptas.

No it’s very rational. But it’s insane that it is needed.

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True. But it’s all insane.

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Now you’re thinking.

And what do those two (Orban’s Hungary and Austria) have in common with the Trump administration? Documented penetration by/contacts with Russian intelligence services. It’s a simple deduction.

Also, I doubt that European intelligence services would suddenly decide to stop sharing intel with the USA just because of general concerns about “political interference and human rights”. I’l wouldn’t be surprised if there are more concrete reasons for their concerns.

As I wrote then, I think this is way underreported. It’s only known that Dutch intelligence has stopped some sharing, but as I noted, Netherlands are as far as I understand part of the Maximator intel alliance, so I don’t think it’s just them. And Radcliffe didn’t go to The Hague but Brussels…+

CIA chief quietly meets EU officials to soothe US intel-sharing fears Trump administration’s volatile foreign policy has shaken Europe’s confidence in Washington’s intelligence cooperation.

Apropos my post about the (insane!) fact that certain European intelligence services have suddenly halted some intel sharing with the leader of the NATO alliance, CIA Director Radcliffe apparently recently traveled to Europe precisely to try to allay those concerns.+

That’s what happens in countries like Turkey, where the President & the elites around him can’t afford to lose power due to having violated too many laws. Accepting an election loss & stepping into opposition for a term is not an option. I call it the corruption effect, for lack of a better term.

Here's How Much The Trump Family Is Worth President Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. But percentage-wise, his three sons—Don Jr., Eric and Barron—did even better.

Random fact: The Trump family have now reeked in more cash (at least $10 billion) from daddy being president than many small countries have in annual GDP. (Liechtenstein GDP was $8,29 billion in 2023).

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So I guess assault with a deli sandwich is not a crime in DC?

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