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Bruno Maçães

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Bruno Maçães

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Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic
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The author claimed Europe was paying 100% of the cost of US weapons for Ukraine, adding that they had been told the figure was closer to 140% because prices were inflated. They also said Europe was threatening to stop the weapons pipeline, describing the move as prioritising blackmail over extortion. https://t.co/yj0hLDYVx9 #Ukraine #Europe #USForeignPolicy #UA #US #EU

The author wrote that killing almost 200 schoolchildren at their school in Iran and being directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children in Gaza no longer ruled someone out of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, and asked what the world had come to. #Iran #Gaza #Peace #IR #PS

The author questioned why people had come to view intelligence as a mysterious, content-free property just as machine intelligence was being understood as the processing of vast amounts of data. They suggested that intelligence might instead come down to access to large datasets.

The author wrote that the US had said it was working on a peace deal that Putin could accept. https://t.co/LZGFCI66Rf #Paz #Putin #Diplomacia #US #RU

The author said it was considered shocking to mention Israeli victims on October 10 while Palestinians were being mourned, adding that this was what people had been told a couple of days earlier. #IsraeliVictims #PalestinianVictims #Conflict #IL #PS

The post said people familiar with the matter had reported that Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner raised the possibility of ending intelligence sharing if Kyiv did not follow Washington’s warning to stop the strikes. #Trump #IntelligenceSharing #Kyiv #UA #US

The author said they had visited Czechia and Poland in March, where think tank staff, journalists and politicians seemed very enthusiastic about the war in Iran. They wrote that those people now appeared unhappy over what the author described as a major boost to Russia’s economy and war machine, and asked how to explain the change. #Czechia #Poland #IranWar #CZ #PL #IR #RU

The author wrote that Europe could have developed its own capacity to support Ukraine and warned the United States that cutting its support would have consequences, including for US technology companies in the EU. They described Europe’s failure to do so as an “incomprehensible, tragic, historic mistake.” #Ukraine #Europe #USRelations #EU #US #UA

The author argued that the US was claiming exclusive rights to trade with Russia, China and other countries, describing the approach as a version of the French imperial “exclusif”. #Commerce #Diplomatie #Géopolitique #US #RU #CN #FR

The author wrote that the previous three years had shown the enduring power of impunity, alleging that Israel had committed and was continuing to commit genocide because it had been given “absolute impunity”. They added that they suspected Donald Trump would side fully with Russia, arguing that Europe had spent three years telling him he lived under the rule of—before the post ended mid-sentence. #Impunity #Genocide #Politics #IL #RU #EU

The author wrote that they had once seen AI’s greatest danger as most people being confined within a model designed from the outside by a small number of people, but added that everyone could end up trapped inside it.

The author claimed that the United States was buying diesel directly from Russia while sanctioning India for doing the same. They added that Estonia, Poland, Finland and Czechia appeared to support the policy in the name of transatlantic values. https://t.co/bCMrXWXnJv #Diesel #Sanctions #TransatlanticValues #US #RU #IN #EE #PL #FN #CZ

The author argued that if Russia were treated like Israel, there would be a thousand essays a day examining the moral complexity of Russian nationalism and imperialism, while weapons continued to be sold or even given to Moscow. #Russia #Israel #Nationalism #RU #IL

The author wrote that numerous cases involving Israeli espionage and influence in Western democracies had been leaked to the media, and suggested that some “deep states” may have had enough. #Israel #spying #deepstate #IL #US #CA #UK

The author said the 10-year yield had risen again, adding that stocks looked very nervous and that the S&P was set to open sharply lower.

The author claimed that a former German intelligence chief had been arrested for treason and sold secrets to a foreign power, noting that it was not Russia and asking which country had received them. https://t.co/PMeqDNUYvE #Treason #Espionage #Germany #DE

The author wrote that Europe’s situation would keep worsening until a new political class committed to European sovereignty emerged, and said there was no point in hiding that reality. #Sovereignty #EuropeanPolitics #FutureOfEurope #EU

The author wrote that the US had committed not to attack Ukraine but had made no commitment to help defend it or take any action if a third country, including a signatory, attacked it. They said Rees Mogg was careless with facts and described the US commitment as seeming “rather empty.” #UkrainianCrisis #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics #US #UA

The author argued that the United Kingdom’s independence from the United States was so weakly established that a US president saying they had lost confidence in the British government could trigger a major political crisis, as if the president held a British constitutional role. #UKPolitics #Independence #PoliticalCrisis #UK #US

The author said they strongly supported Ukraine’s cause but objected to what they described as falsifying facts in its favor. They wrote that the United States had not guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in the Budapest Memorandum. #Ukraine #BudapestMemorandum #SupportUkraine #UA #US