🇮🇳 EXINDIA? MODI, STOP POLICING FAITH. India is strongest when it is pluralist, constitutional and free. I fully support tough punishment for: forced conversion, threats, coercion, fraud and deception. But I reject laws that use vague concepts such as “allurement” or “undue https://t.co/g2CKgVqkXT #India #Pluralism #ReligiousFreedom #IN
EUROPE MUST RECOGNISE THE REALITY: RUSSIA IS WAGING WAR AGAINST EUROPE. Not only in Ukraine. Russia is challenging Europe through military aggression, cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage, disinformation, political interference and threats against critical infrastructure. We https://t.co/DpFTC2EG10 #Russia #Europe #War #EU #RU #UA
Theo #Francken, #Belgium defence minister warned the Baltics about pushing yo hard with russian frozen assets. Minister, especially the Defence one, should know well about the posed security threats by russia and a need to counter it’s capacity, including financial https://t.co/4cW5bQr05z #Russia #Baltics #SecurityThreats #BE #RU #EE #LV #LT
The geopolitical assymmetry driving Putin’s threats to Europe: Ukraine, unlike Russia, has a safe hinterland in Europe, which sustains Kyiv’ economy and military. This mismatch offsets, to a point, Russia’s advantage in firepower. My analysis of what it means. #Geopolitics #Ukraine #Russia #UA #RU #EU
Denmark is sending soldiers to Greenland because Trump wants to occupy it! (translated)
The Transitional Logic of Political Violence A recurring problem in revolutionary and religious political movements is that violence may be justified as a temporary measure for establishing a new political order, while the institutions created to suppress perceived enemies can become permanent. In Marxist-Leninist theory, the transition from capitalism to communism involved a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” The coercive state was ultimately expected to “wither away” once class conflict disappeared. In practice, however, revolutionary governments developed extensive systems of repression. The Russian Revolution was followed by the Red Terror, Stalin’s purges institutionalized persecution of alleged internal enemies, and Mao’s Cultural Revolution demonstrated how political repression could re-emerge long after revolutionary power had been established. A comparable dynamic can be examined in some interpretations of Islamic political thought, although the ideological foundations are different. Ridda (apostasy) has, in certain historical contexts, been associated with both religious and political disloyalty. The early Ridda Wars illustrate how religious and political boundaries could become intertwined. In modern history, the 1988 executions of political prisoners in Iran provide another example of religious or ideological accusations being used to justify state violence. The important question is not whether these traditions are identical—they are not—but whether their political applications can create similar institutional dynamics. When governments define groups as existential threats, extraordinary measures may initially be presented as temporary. Once institutionalized, however, the definition of the “enemy” can expand. The fundamental risk is that a transitional period of coercion may lack a mechanism for returning to normal political conditions. If authorities can continually redefine internal enemies, emergency powers can become permanent. The broader lesson is universal: political systems should be judged not only by the order they promise, but also by the safeguards that prevent temporary coercive powers from becoming permanent.
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My former philosophy department at @UGent banned the teaching of this paper by Anomaly & Faria, in a philosophy class by my colleague Bouke De Vries. Why? Because it discusses demography and migration as potential threats to liberal societies, and something called “biocultural https://t.co/7bfIx7SSLy #Philosophy #Migration #Censorship #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
EUROPE NEEDS EUROPEAN NUKES. 🇪🇺☢️ Putin has spent years using nuclear threats as an instrument of political intimidation. Europe must answer with credibility, unity and strength. I call for a European nuclear deterrence pillar, centered on France’s nuclear force, backed https://t.co/zDI7Zk1fnQ #EuropeanSecurity #NuclearDeterrence #UnityInStrength #EU #FR
🇮🇱🇺🇦🇧🇦🇽🇰 ISRAEL • UKRAINE • BOSNIA • KOSOVO — ALLIANCE AGAINST AGGRESSION @ZelenskyyUa Our democracies face interconnected threats. @netanyahu 🇮🇷 The Iranian regime arms and supports Russia while threatening Israel. 🇷🇺 Russia wages a brutal war against Ukraine and destabilizes https://t.co/JSmPxGEVr1 #AllianceAgainstAggression #Ukraine #Israel #IL #UA #BA #XK #IR #RU
Ahead of BRICS Summit India is rasing pressure on Skihs rights activists in USA This is how Modi works He acts nice to West when he wants FTAs and tariff relief one day while inviting Putin and Xi to India next and claims to be a democracy while issuing threats to Sikhs #BRICSSummit #SikhRights #Modi #IN #US #RU #CN
After losing the war and much hullabaloo US announced its “Operation Economic Outcast”, a new tranche of sanctions against Iran. It is thin gruel, Iran will be able to shrug off US new financial threats and might invite military reprisals from the regime https://t.co/k5rT4ZSxgt #IranSanctions #EconomicOutcast #USForeignPolicy #US #IR
⚠️ SERBIA MUST STOP TERRORISM AGAINST KOSOVO — OR FACE EUROPEAN ISOLATION The latest renewed threats attributed to Severna Brigada, the “Northern Brigade” designated as a terrorist organization by Kosovo, must finally trigger a serious European response. This is not an abstract https://t.co/kKYmx99C5B #Serbia #Kosovo #Terrorism #RS #XK #EU
Today, Romania destroyed a naval drone carrying explosives near its Neptun Deep platform in the Black Sea. An escalating campaign of threats is underway, unsettling our citizens and seeking to divide our Union. This is hybrid warfare. The founding mission of our Union is to #Romania #HybridWarfare #BlackSea #RO
Excellent work by @UGent. Now that a serious case of academic fraud has finally been exposed, it’s only fair to open an investigation into the only academic who had the audacity to blow the whistle, despite all the legal threats. “Ghent University has decided to take appropriate https://t.co/c0sQNNo9p2 #AcademicIntegrity #Whistleblower #GhentUniversity #BE
Recent data indicate that Russia is conducting two coherent processes that will, in a short time, increase its ability to generate threats on the western axis. Russia is preparing for a new wave of mobilization while simultaneously trying to obtain even several tens of thousands https://t.co/tDeF9fWAmS #Russia #Mobilization #SecurityThreats #RU
The Kuril Islands will be free again. Japan’s claim to the Northern Territories cannot be erased by threats from Moscow. Russia seized them in 1945, expelled the Japanese population, and has refused to resolve the dispute ever since. A future democratic, post-imperial Russia #KurilIslands #NorthernTerritories #JapanRussiaDispute #JP #RU
The Transitional Logic of Political Violence A recurring problem in revolutionary and religious political movements is that violence may be justified as a temporary measure for establishing a new political order, while the institutions created to suppress perceived enemies can become permanent. In Marxist-Leninist theory, the transition from capitalism to communism involved a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” The coercive state was ultimately expected to “wither away” once class conflict disappeared. In practice, however, revolutionary governments developed extensive systems of repression. The Russian Revolution was followed by the Red Terror, Stalin’s purges institutionalized persecution of alleged internal enemies, and Mao’s Cultural Revolution demonstrated how political repression could re-emerge long after revolutionary power had been established. A comparable dynamic can be examined in some interpretations of Islamic political thought, although the ideological foundations are different. Ridda (apostasy) has, in certain historical contexts, been associated with both religious and political disloyalty. The early Ridda Wars illustrate how religious and political boundaries could become intertwined. In modern history, the 1988 executions of political prisoners in Iran provide another example of religious or ideological accusations being used to justify state violence. The important question is not whether these traditions are identical—they are not—but whether their political applications can create similar institutional dynamics. When governments define groups as existential threats, extraordinary measures may initially be presented as temporary. Once institutionalized, however, the definition of the “enemy” can expand. The fundamental risk is that a transitional period of coercion may lack a mechanism for returning to normal political conditions. If authorities can continually redefine internal enemies, emergency powers can become permanent. The broader lesson is universal: political systems should be judged not only by the order they promise, but also by the safeguards that prevent temporary coercive powers from becoming permanent.
