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International political economy, geopolitics, Europe, China

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Hoe streeft de NAVO naar vrede?
Welkom allen op donderdagavond 6 maart in Den Haag voor dit belangrijke gesprek over de rol van de #NAVO met oa Prof.Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (VU, Eerste Kamer) en Dr. Maja Vodopivec (UL)
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21.02.2025 22:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Kremlin denies demanding NATO eastern rollback in talks with US Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said this in reaction to an article by the Financial Times claiming that during the talks in Riyadh on Feb. 18, Russian delegates asked for the NATO rollback as a co...

⚡️ Kremlin denies demanding NATO eastern rollback in talks with US.

21.02.2025 12:03 — 👍 109    🔁 24    💬 12    📌 6
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“Slava Ukraini!”: how the British media went to war against Russia The British press has been the most consistently bellicose on the subject of Russia-Ukraine: the same phrases, the same sentiments were on display in every mainstream newspaper and political magazine

“Slava Ukraini!”: how the British media went to war against Russia
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12.02.2025 11:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’ Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

03.02.2025 06:01 — 👍 3957    🔁 1783    💬 72    📌 103
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Cédric Durand, Fragile Leviathan? — Sidecar Trump and tech.

"Forming an anti-technofeudal front that reaches beyond the left to various democratic forces and fractions of capital at odds with Big Tech. (...) This would imply a form of digital protectionism (..) as well as a new digital internationalism" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

30.01.2025 14:59 — 👍 36    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 2
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Musk Moves With Lightning Speed to Exert Control Over the Government The billionaire’s representatives gained access to a Treasury Department payment system and sensitive documents at USAID.

Elon Musk’s allies are moving swiftly to exert control over swaths of the U.S. government, as they demand access to sensitive information at federal agencies and lay out plans to block spending they deem excessive

03.02.2025 12:45 — 👍 85    🔁 54    💬 63    📌 15
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Talking International Politics in the Netherlands On 16 January 2025, I had an excellent discussion with Paul Buitink, who runs the popular Dutch podcast — “Reinvent Money” — and Wierd Duk, one of Holland’s most influential journalists, who writes fo...

Ontluisterend hoe Wierd Duk hier op zijn plek gezet wordt!

Talking International Politics in the Netherlands open.substack.com/pub/mearshei...

21.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tom-Jan Meeus on LinkedIn: Trump en Poetin dwingen Europa tot een race tegen de klok: krijgt het… Trump als Poetin Interessant punt van NRC-collega Michel Kerres in zijn stuk over Europese veiligheid in het licht van de aanstaande terugkeer van Donald Trump…

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11.01.2025 13:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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