parelius brændvik
@gparelius.bsky.social
retired philosophy teacher (UiO)
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Basically Trump is threatening to sanction NATO unless NATO commits suicide.
And people still think he might sanction Russia. He is doing Putin’s work.
And people still think he might sanction Russia. He is doing Putin’s work.
⚡️ Trump floats tariffs on countries opposing his Greenland ambitions.
"I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that," Trump said.
"I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that," Trump said.
Trump floats tariffs on countries opposing his Greenland ambitions
"I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that," Trump said.
kyivindependent.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Basically Trump is threatening to sanction NATO unless NATO commits suicide.
And people still think he might sanction Russia. He is doing Putin’s work.
And people still think he might sanction Russia. He is doing Putin’s work.
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Trump will likely try to make Denmark choose between NATO and Greenland, and wider Europe between Greenland and Ukraine.
But luckily Trump has also demonstrated that under his leadership, any US security guarantee won’t be worth much. So the choice should be simple.
But luckily Trump has also demonstrated that under his leadership, any US security guarantee won’t be worth much. So the choice should be simple.
What European leaders have been most nervous about is the US pulling back on NATO or Ukraine… but how can Europe trust the US will come to its defense if its trying to seize territory from a NATO country. They can’t. So why cave to keep a security commitment that is not real. 6/
January 18, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Trump will likely try to make Denmark choose between NATO and Greenland, and wider Europe between Greenland and Ukraine.
But luckily Trump has also demonstrated that under his leadership, any US security guarantee won’t be worth much. So the choice should be simple.
But luckily Trump has also demonstrated that under his leadership, any US security guarantee won’t be worth much. So the choice should be simple.
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Efterårets vigtigste bog: "If Russia Wins" af tyske professor og militærekspert @carlomasala1.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Efterårets vigtigste bog: "If Russia Wins" af tyske professor og militærekspert @carlomasala1.bsky.social
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Det ukrainske parlamentet har i dag vedtatt en ny lov som gjenoppretter uavhengigheten til antikorrupsjonsorganene NABU og SAPO – etter massiv folkelig protest og internasjonal kritikk. 🧵1/8
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Following street protests, Zelensky signs law restoring independence of anti-graft bodies
The bill aims to reverse legislation passed last week that effectively destroyed the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor (SAPO).
kyivindependent.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Det ukrainske parlamentet har i dag vedtatt en ny lov som gjenoppretter uavhengigheten til antikorrupsjonsorganene NABU og SAPO – etter massiv folkelig protest og internasjonal kritikk. 🧵1/8
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kyivindependent.com/parliament-v...
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A brutal portrait of russian terror — and the free world's failure to uphold its own principles.
Six murdered including a 6yo child. More than 50 injured. Many still trapped under the rubble. It's Kyiv, the capital of the European state.
Six murdered including a 6yo child. More than 50 injured. Many still trapped under the rubble. It's Kyiv, the capital of the European state.
July 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
A brutal portrait of russian terror — and the free world's failure to uphold its own principles.
Six murdered including a 6yo child. More than 50 injured. Many still trapped under the rubble. It's Kyiv, the capital of the European state.
Six murdered including a 6yo child. More than 50 injured. Many still trapped under the rubble. It's Kyiv, the capital of the European state.
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June 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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For meg fremstår denne utnevnelsen som ekstremt politisk - og bør være høyst kontroversiell. Steen har lang fartstid ved SMK og har vært i hvert fall indirekte involvert i tunge politiske kontroverser. Dette er svært problematisk etter min mening - all kompetanse fra øverst i statsapparatet.
Hun er ny høyesterettsdommer
Therese Steen (52) har hatt en eventyrlig karriere. Hun gikk fra Regjeringsadvokaten til Statsministerens kontor, og går nå fra Norges Bank til Høyesterett. Hun har også vært dommer i Borgarting lagma...
www.advokatbladet.no
June 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
For meg fremstår denne utnevnelsen som ekstremt politisk - og bør være høyst kontroversiell. Steen har lang fartstid ved SMK og har vært i hvert fall indirekte involvert i tunge politiske kontroverser. Dette er svært problematisk etter min mening - all kompetanse fra øverst i statsapparatet.
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What we now call Russia was born not from a set of shared ideals but from the machinery of conquest followed by oppression.
russia's criminal war is par for the course, that's what russia does. the colonial frankenstein cannot help but invade
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
russia's criminal war is par for the course, that's what russia does. the colonial frankenstein cannot help but invade
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
Geopolitics of identity: why Russia cannot help but invade
Since 2014, the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war, one phrase still haunts me: “Они распяли мальчика в трусиках”—they [Ukrainians] crucified a little boy wearing nothing but his underwear.
chakhoyan.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
What we now call Russia was born not from a set of shared ideals but from the machinery of conquest followed by oppression.
russia's criminal war is par for the course, that's what russia does. the colonial frankenstein cannot help but invade
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
russia's criminal war is par for the course, that's what russia does. the colonial frankenstein cannot help but invade
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/geopolitic...
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Eleven weeks ago a “coalition of the willing” gathered to discuss what they were willing to do against Russia. Since then they haven’t appeared to be willing to do anything at all. — Landsbergis, Lithuania's Foreign Affairs Minister (Dec 2020 - Nov 24)
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The Coalition of the Willing to do What?
Eleven weeks ago a“coalition of the willing” gathered together to discuss what they were willing to do. Since then they haven’t appeared willing to do anything at all.
landsbergis.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Eleven weeks ago a “coalition of the willing” gathered to discuss what they were willing to do against Russia. Since then they haven’t appeared to be willing to do anything at all. — Landsbergis, Lithuania's Foreign Affairs Minister (Dec 2020 - Nov 24)
landsbergis.com/the-coalitio...
landsbergis.com/the-coalitio...
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Bitte alle lesen und auswendig lernen! Super Zusammenfassung der Lage von @drfranksauer.bsky.social
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A BlueSky thread by Frank Sauer on Skyview
1/29 Ich weiß ich wiederhole mich. Aber aus gegebenem Anlass (bzw. aus gegebenen Anlässen) ein Thread zu der Frage, ob wir nicht mal etwas mehr nüchterne strategische Analyse statt Panikmache bräuchte...
skyview.social
May 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Bitte alle lesen und auswendig lernen! Super Zusammenfassung der Lage von @drfranksauer.bsky.social
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Hvordan motvirke russisk propaganda? Helsingforskomiteen og @beritlindeman.bsky.social svarer professorene Gisle Selnes og Frode Helmich Pedersen som anklager oss for personforfølgelse og sensur av Glenn Diesen
Professor Diesens utspill er omtrent identiske med Kremls talepunkter
Les innlegget.
www.aftenposten.no
March 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hvordan motvirke russisk propaganda? Helsingforskomiteen og @beritlindeman.bsky.social svarer professorene Gisle Selnes og Frode Helmich Pedersen som anklager oss for personforfølgelse og sensur av Glenn Diesen
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Mens Europa prøver å ta selvstendig ansvar mot Russland, forsvinner ubemerket propagandaen om at Europa er en marionett i USAs påståtte proxy-krig i Ukraina.
March 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Mens Europa prøver å ta selvstendig ansvar mot Russland, forsvinner ubemerket propagandaen om at Europa er en marionett i USAs påståtte proxy-krig i Ukraina.
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Godt Oljefondet forvaltes av folk som kan lese trendene! (Denne saken er er fra i fjor sommer)
March 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Godt Oljefondet forvaltes av folk som kan lese trendene! (Denne saken er er fra i fjor sommer)
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Fear-driven russia policy is a trap. Failure is not an option!
"Moscow has already rattled its nuclear saber. Now we live in a world where that threat has been made. If we cave to it, we won’t be preventing nuclear confrontation—we’ll be making it more likely"
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/between-fe...
"Moscow has already rattled its nuclear saber. Now we live in a world where that threat has been made. If we cave to it, we won’t be preventing nuclear confrontation—we’ll be making it more likely"
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/between-fe...
Between fear and betrayal: how the West is failing Ukraine
Our hesitation is not caution—it’s complicity
chakhoyan.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Fear-driven russia policy is a trap. Failure is not an option!
"Moscow has already rattled its nuclear saber. Now we live in a world where that threat has been made. If we cave to it, we won’t be preventing nuclear confrontation—we’ll be making it more likely"
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/between-fe...
"Moscow has already rattled its nuclear saber. Now we live in a world where that threat has been made. If we cave to it, we won’t be preventing nuclear confrontation—we’ll be making it more likely"
chakhoyan.substack.com/p/between-fe...
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dagens Glenn Diesen-nyheter får USN-professoren støtte av 20 akademikere anført av UiB-professorene Gisle Selnes og Frode Helmich Pedersen. De 20 ber Helsingforskomiteen og «bevilgende myndighet» (UD?) om å stoppe «forfølgelsen» av Diesen 1/3
www.khrono.no/forfolgelsen...
www.khrono.no/forfolgelsen...
Akademisk opprop: Forfølgelsen av professor Glenn Diesen må opphøre!
Med dette oppropet vil vi på prinsipielt grunnlag gi vår støtte til professor Diesens rett til å skrive og si det han mener — uavhengig av hva vi ellers måtte synes om innholdet i hans ytringer.
www.khrono.no
March 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
dagens Glenn Diesen-nyheter får USN-professoren støtte av 20 akademikere anført av UiB-professorene Gisle Selnes og Frode Helmich Pedersen. De 20 ber Helsingforskomiteen og «bevilgende myndighet» (UD?) om å stoppe «forfølgelsen» av Diesen 1/3
www.khrono.no/forfolgelsen...
www.khrono.no/forfolgelsen...
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I’ve really had enough of these takes that it’s been unfair that Europe has outsourced its defence to the US.
First of all, the US needed both the bases in Europe and European political and military backing for its global war on terror and the wars in the Middle East. It was never pure charity.
First of all, the US needed both the bases in Europe and European political and military backing for its global war on terror and the wars in the Middle East. It was never pure charity.
March 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I’ve really had enough of these takes that it’s been unfair that Europe has outsourced its defence to the US.
First of all, the US needed both the bases in Europe and European political and military backing for its global war on terror and the wars in the Middle East. It was never pure charity.
First of all, the US needed both the bases in Europe and European political and military backing for its global war on terror and the wars in the Middle East. It was never pure charity.
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Dozens of EU, US & Canadian MPs, fmr ministers & retired officers call for a European-led air protection zone over western Ukraine.
Just 120 SkyShield aircraft would have greater impact at less risk & cost than 10,000 European ground troops. #SkyShieldNow
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Just 120 SkyShield aircraft would have greater impact at less risk & cost than 10,000 European ground troops. #SkyShieldNow
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/european-led-ukraine-air-protection-plan-could-halt-russian-missile-attacks
t.co
March 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Dozens of EU, US & Canadian MPs, fmr ministers & retired officers call for a European-led air protection zone over western Ukraine.
Just 120 SkyShield aircraft would have greater impact at less risk & cost than 10,000 European ground troops. #SkyShieldNow
t.co/dq65RTqBYp
Just 120 SkyShield aircraft would have greater impact at less risk & cost than 10,000 European ground troops. #SkyShieldNow
t.co/dq65RTqBYp
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🇺🇸🇪🇺🌎The transatlantic alliance faces an uncomfortable truth: the instability in U.S. politics isn't just about Trump. It’s about the deeper flaws in American democracy itself—flaws that make the U.S. an unreliable pillar of Western security.
🧵A security thread.
1/10
🧵A security thread.
1/10
March 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
🇺🇸🇪🇺🌎The transatlantic alliance faces an uncomfortable truth: the instability in U.S. politics isn't just about Trump. It’s about the deeper flaws in American democracy itself—flaws that make the U.S. an unreliable pillar of Western security.
🧵A security thread.
1/10
🧵A security thread.
1/10
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If you haven't already, you should follow @inahpkvam.bsky.social and read her posts 💡
In the discussion of how 'America First' might affect US-Norwegian defence cooperation along NATO's northern flank moving forward, a credible threat assessment is an absolute minimum. Instead, overly simplified evaluations of the nature and character of the Russian threat dominate discourse 🧵
March 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you haven't already, you should follow @inahpkvam.bsky.social and read her posts 💡
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Alle Planung für “Sicherheitsgarantien” und auch für die europäische Verteidigung sollte von der Annahme ausgehen, dass die Kavallerie nicht kommt
March 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Alle Planung für “Sicherheitsgarantien” und auch für die europäische Verteidigung sollte von der Annahme ausgehen, dass die Kavallerie nicht kommt
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The strangest aspect of current events is that the US is ardently, demonstratively & even triumphantly destroying the post-World War II order principally designed & shaped by the same US.
Today's America's biggest enemy is neither China, Russia, Iran... but yesterday's America.
Today's America's biggest enemy is neither China, Russia, Iran... but yesterday's America.
February 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The strangest aspect of current events is that the US is ardently, demonstratively & even triumphantly destroying the post-World War II order principally designed & shaped by the same US.
Today's America's biggest enemy is neither China, Russia, Iran... but yesterday's America.
Today's America's biggest enemy is neither China, Russia, Iran... but yesterday's America.
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🇺🇦 With ongoing discussions and even suggestions about conceding territory to Russia for peace, it’s crucial to revisit the historical lessons from the Munich Agreement of 1938.
🧵Let's explore the parallels and implications for Ukraine. #Ukraine #Russia #History 🇷🇺📜
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🧵Let's explore the parallels and implications for Ukraine. #Ukraine #Russia #History 🇷🇺📜
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February 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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In March 2022, russia deliberately bombed a drama theater in Mariupol crowded with innocent civilians including many children. @AP evidence pointed to 600 dead in that airstrike. That happened less than three years ago, & genocidal war is still ongoing. But the memory is short.
February 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In March 2022, russia deliberately bombed a drama theater in Mariupol crowded with innocent civilians including many children. @AP evidence pointed to 600 dead in that airstrike. That happened less than three years ago, & genocidal war is still ongoing. But the memory is short.
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Key statements following the meeting of EU leaders in Paris last night:
🇪🇺 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu &European Council President António Costa made a joint statement:
"Today in Paris we reaffirmed that Ukraine deserves peace through strength.
🇪🇺 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu &European Council President António Costa made a joint statement:
"Today in Paris we reaffirmed that Ukraine deserves peace through strength.
February 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Key statements following the meeting of EU leaders in Paris last night:
🇪🇺 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu &European Council President António Costa made a joint statement:
"Today in Paris we reaffirmed that Ukraine deserves peace through strength.
🇪🇺 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu &European Council President António Costa made a joint statement:
"Today in Paris we reaffirmed that Ukraine deserves peace through strength.