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Andrej Matisak
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#StandwithUkraine. Journalist, deputy head of foreign desk, Slovak daily @pravdask.bsky.social. The usual caveats apply. 🎙 #TheGlobalAgora #podcast https://ko-fi.com/amatisak
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Andrej Matisak @matisaksk.bsky.social · Dec 12
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Why did the US peace plan for #Ukraine look like a Russian influence operation? Listen to another episode of my 🎙️ #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora. I talked to @alexzfinley.bsky.social.
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Why did the US peace plan for Ukraine look like a Russian influence operation? by The Global Agora
Alex Finley, a former officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and author of the Victor Caro intelligence novels, unpacks a story that sounds like one of her satirical books – but may be anythin...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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#Taiwan plans extra $40bn in defence spending to counter China’s ‘intensifying’ threats
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #China
Taiwan plans extra $40bn in defence spending to counter China’s ‘intensifying’ threats
President Lai Ching-te declared there was ‘no room for compromise on national security’ in face of escalating harassment and espionage
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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‘Drone operators are hunted. You feel it from your first day’: the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
‘Drone operators are hunted. You feel it from your first day’: the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline
As casualties mount, recruitment is expanding. Three women talk about life in a male-dominated combat environment
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Zelenskiy says #Ukraine ready to advance peace plan, will discuss disputed points with #Trump www.reuters.com/world/europe... #Russia #Putinswar
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November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Many thanks to @alexzfinley.bsky.social for a very interesting debate about US-Russia relations.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#Ukraine rejects using Russian assets as bargaining chip in peace talks kyivindependent.com/ukraine-reje... #Russia #Putinswar #EU
Ukraine rejects using Russian assets as bargaining chip in peace talks
"Keeping the assets permanently 'on ice' or turning them into a bargaining chip between Russia and another power only prolongs the conflict," Iryna Mudra, deputy head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Same-sex marriage must be recognized across #EU, court rules www.dw.com/en/eu-same-s...
Same-sex marriage must be recognized across EU, court rules – DW – 11/25/2025
European Union countries must recognize the lawful same-sex marriages of EU citizens conducted in other member states, the bloc's top court has ruled.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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How the #Trump administration tried to sell #Ukraine a diplomatic debacle: @matthewsussex.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-the-trum... via @theconversation.com #Russia #Putinswar
How the Trump administration tried to sell Ukraine a diplomatic debacle
Once again, Trump has proven he is more interested in long-term deals with autocrats than achieving just and lasting resolutions to security crises.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Europeans scramble to protect their own #security after jolt of #Ukraine plan www.ft.com/content/4bb1... #Europe #Putinswar #Russia #Trump
Europeans scramble to protect their own security after jolt of Ukraine plan
Elements of US peace proposal would give Russia sway over continent’s defence arrangements
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November 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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US judge throws out criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Trump
US judge throws out criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James
Judge says interim US attorney for eastern district of Virginia had ‘no lawful authority’ to indict former FBI director and New York attorney general
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November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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#EU urges #Belgium to relent on using Russian assets amid peace 'momentum'
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-urge... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
EU urges Belgium to relent on using Russian assets amid peace 'momentum' | Euractiv
Belgium says its position on the so-called reparations loan has not changed
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November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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'No one will support it': Ukraine's soldiers react to US peace plan
www.bbc.com/news/article... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar #Trump
'No one will support it': Ukraine's soldiers react to US peace plan
Ukrainian soldiers at the front are angry, defiant and resigned after US plan became public.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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If you, inexplicably :-), missed the most recent episode of my 🎙️ #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @ericmaurice.bsky.social from @epc-official.bsky.social , here it is: Toward #farright policies? What to expect from the European Parliament.
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Toward far-right policies? What to expect from the European Parliament by The Global Agora
Does the European Parliament have a new majority? Is the EPP normalizing the far-right? And why does EPP chair Manfred Weber vote with the Patriots when he and the President of the Commission, Ursula ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Lives were ruined and worse... #DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
archive.ph/2025.11.23-2... #Musk #Trump
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November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The #oil price cap is dead in the water – time to cut Russian oil for good
www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
The oil price cap is dead in the water – time to cut Russian oil for good | Euractiv
The policy was of dubious effectiveness from the start. It's now anachronistic and undermines the European sanctions mission
www.euractiv.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Australia's FM Penny Wong says Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be upheld amid global backlash to #Trump plan
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #Ukraine #Russia #Putinswar
Penny Wong says Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be upheld amid global backlash to Trump plan
Australian foreign minister echoes European call for sovereignty to be respected and for end to ‘Russia’s illegal and immoral war’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Could #Canada be the Next #Ukraine? #Russia is Our Neighbour, Too: @popovaprof.bsky.social & Anastasia Leshchyshyn
bit.ly/480DPTO #Trump #Putinswar
Could Canada be the Next Ukraine? Russia is Our Neighbour, Too - Policy Magazine
When Canadians think about our neighbours, we generally think only of one: the United States. But we also have a neighbour to the North: Russia, whose
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November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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This is what I said before the presidential election last year. 👇 I was right. It happened.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Before it will try to kill us, it will make us totally dumb... Meet the #AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Trump’s former ‘drone guy’ Dan Driscoll is the unlikely point man for the #Ukraine peace deal. Very little in his résumé suggests he is qualified for this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Trump #Russia #Putinswar
Trump’s former ‘drone guy’ Dan Driscoll is the unlikely point man for the Ukraine peace deal
The army secretary has little in his résumé to suggest he can end the war between Russia and Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Toward #farright policies? What to expect from the European Parliament. My 🎙 #podcast, #TheGlobalAgora, with @ericmaurice.bsky.social from @epc-official.bsky.social
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Toward far-right policies? What to expect from the European Parliament by The Global Agora
Does the European Parliament have a new majority? Is the EPP normalizing the far-right? And why does EPP chair Manfred Weber vote with the Patriots when he and the President of the Commission, Ursula ...
podcasters.spotify.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in US thrown into legal limbo by #Trump immigration crackdown
www.reuters.com/world/europe... #Ukraine #Putinswar #Russia
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November 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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We can finally dispense with the notion (if anyone still believed it) that the interests of #Ukraine or the Ukrainian people will play any role in how #Trump and #Putin see this war ending: @warinthefuture.bsky.social.
substack.com/app-link/pos... #Russia #Putinswar
The Putin-Trump Pact is Afghanistan All Over Again, But With Much Worse Outcomes. The Big Five, 23 November edition
My regular update on war and strategic competition, with a focus on Trump and Putin's 28-point capitulation document imposed on Ukraine, as well as my regular Big Five recommended reads.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system' www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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IMO, this headline is really, really overpositive. - End of fossil fuel era inches closer as #Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climatechange #climatecrisis
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM