Ivan Andriollo
@andriollo.bsky.social
Berlin based tech executive. Software engineer with a passion for the arts, science, history, economics and geopolitics.
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Rather than play their cards carefully the Russian leadership around Putin is gleefully using Trump's cognitive collapse to use every opportunity to humiliate the United States
December 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Rather than play their cards carefully the Russian leadership around Putin is gleefully using Trump's cognitive collapse to use every opportunity to humiliate the United States
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Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him https://theonion.com/rift-widens-between-elon-musk-anyone-who-ever-met-him/
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him https://theonion.com/rift-widens-between-elon-musk-anyone-who-ever-met-him/
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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/
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Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator?
This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.
This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.
December 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Did the United States really spend trillions of dollars on winning the Cold War, only for its president in 2025 take orders from a Russian dictator?
This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.
This is an earth-shattering humiliation for America of which its reputation may never recover.
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From a South Afrikaan, who happens to be the richest person on the planet, who assisted Trump through technology to cheat (foretold), while taking millions upon millions from the American government, talk about welfare... what a fucking hypocrite!
December 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From a South Afrikaan, who happens to be the richest person on the planet, who assisted Trump through technology to cheat (foretold), while taking millions upon millions from the American government, talk about welfare... what a fucking hypocrite!
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On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...
Liberation, not collapse
The fall of the Berlin Wall, and not the human chain across the Baltics, is emblematic of 1989. But what if this show of unity had become iconic of communism’s disintegration? Could acknowledging East...
www.eurozine.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...
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After Marjorie Taylor Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to name abusers in the Epstein files, Trump called her.
Greene was in her Capitol Hill office. Everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her.
According to Greene, Trump replied, "My friends will get hurt."
Greene was in her Capitol Hill office. Everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her.
According to Greene, Trump replied, "My friends will get hurt."
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
After Marjorie Taylor Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to name abusers in the Epstein files, Trump called her.
Greene was in her Capitol Hill office. Everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her.
According to Greene, Trump replied, "My friends will get hurt."
Greene was in her Capitol Hill office. Everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her.
According to Greene, Trump replied, "My friends will get hurt."
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Darth's list of trolls. The very best there is. For when you absolutely positively have to block every mf on the list, accept no substitutes.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Darth's list of trolls. The very best there is. For when you absolutely positively have to block every mf on the list, accept no substitutes.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I think we can see how serious this administration is about a genuine peace in Ukraine from this offer - what kind of a security guarantee has a time limit on it?
In a WhatsApp chat with reporters as he returned to Europe on Monday, Zelenskyy said a US security guarantee currently under discussion would initially be valid for 15 years, and while this could potentially be extended, such a duration would be too short. as.ft.com/r/1c5be28f-d...
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks fail to deliver breakthrough on Ukraine peace deal
[FREE TO READ] Ukrainian president says longer-term US security guarantees would be needed to deter Russia
as.ft.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I think we can see how serious this administration is about a genuine peace in Ukraine from this offer - what kind of a security guarantee has a time limit on it?
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Spanish investigators concluded that a sunken vessel from Russia’s “shadow fleet” was transporting two nuclear reactor vessels to North Korea.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
December 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Spanish investigators concluded that a sunken vessel from Russia’s “shadow fleet” was transporting two nuclear reactor vessels to North Korea.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
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I'm not saying a US state fracture of a MAGA White House at war with Congress is the only or most likely scenario. Tough moves by Dems, the fracturing of the GOP, firm decisions in the Pentagon, Langley and DoJ can all head it off.
But these risks are now in play in ways unthinkable a decade ago
But these risks are now in play in ways unthinkable a decade ago
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm not saying a US state fracture of a MAGA White House at war with Congress is the only or most likely scenario. Tough moves by Dems, the fracturing of the GOP, firm decisions in the Pentagon, Langley and DoJ can all head it off.
But these risks are now in play in ways unthinkable a decade ago
But these risks are now in play in ways unthinkable a decade ago
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So if over 2026 it looks increasingly certain that Democrats take control of the House or Senate than watch out for language from Trump, Vance, Miller et al claiming that mid-terms will be "fixed" and Congress "illegitimate".
That's a path to armed ICE or CBP goons storming Congress.
That's a path to armed ICE or CBP goons storming Congress.
December 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
So if over 2026 it looks increasingly certain that Democrats take control of the House or Senate than watch out for language from Trump, Vance, Miller et al claiming that mid-terms will be "fixed" and Congress "illegitimate".
That's a path to armed ICE or CBP goons storming Congress.
That's a path to armed ICE or CBP goons storming Congress.
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Trump is too inept to be of use to US allies or adversaries while Vance wants to pursue an arrogantly deluded path that turns US allies into more adversaries.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
December 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Trump is too inept to be of use to US allies or adversaries while Vance wants to pursue an arrogantly deluded path that turns US allies into more adversaries.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
2026 mid-terms look like the last moment through which this slide into self-inflicted American decline can be reversed.
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Everyone talks about crisis in Ukraine, the EU, Russia, China, Africa, the Middle East and the rest.
But at the heart of the destabilisation of the global order that links each of these challenges is a rapidly escalating America Crisis.
But at the heart of the destabilisation of the global order that links each of these challenges is a rapidly escalating America Crisis.
December 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Everyone talks about crisis in Ukraine, the EU, Russia, China, Africa, the Middle East and the rest.
But at the heart of the destabilisation of the global order that links each of these challenges is a rapidly escalating America Crisis.
But at the heart of the destabilisation of the global order that links each of these challenges is a rapidly escalating America Crisis.
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Hardly new or surprising at this point, but it's still so crazy how the US president goes to bat for Russia, aping the Russian government's propaganda, lying to the world on a Russian dictator's behalf, and trying to help Russian military aggression succeed against a US-partnered European democracy.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hardly new or surprising at this point, but it's still so crazy how the US president goes to bat for Russia, aping the Russian government's propaganda, lying to the world on a Russian dictator's behalf, and trying to help Russian military aggression succeed against a US-partnered European democracy.
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The Greenland precedent would then be used by a US government pursuing hemispheric imperialism to press claims against Canada, Mexico and Caricom states
December 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Greenland precedent would then be used by a US government pursuing hemispheric imperialism to press claims against Canada, Mexico and Caricom states
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Where it all began.
December 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Where it all began.
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US Tech companies would prefer self-regulation over external oversight. History has many examples of how that usually works out.
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
US Tech companies would prefer self-regulation over external oversight. History has many examples of how that usually works out.
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"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
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“it was the French who were saying, completely rightly as it turned out, that the US would walk away from Europe and that Europeans needed to think and act in their own interest. And here we are, and the French government is incapable of taking the decisive action when the moment presents itself”
Annual Review 2025: What I Got Wrong
Complete with quotes!
phillipspobrien.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“it was the French who were saying, completely rightly as it turned out, that the US would walk away from Europe and that Europeans needed to think and act in their own interest. And here we are, and the French government is incapable of taking the decisive action when the moment presents itself”
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To Prez, this remains one of best community notes of all time. To prove we can’t be beaten this idiot tweets a picture of 5 of our warships, 4 of which had been sunk. The remaining is probably now out of action.
I am surrounded by idiocy
I am surrounded by idiocy
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
To Prez, this remains one of best community notes of all time. To prove we can’t be beaten this idiot tweets a picture of 5 of our warships, 4 of which had been sunk. The remaining is probably now out of action.
I am surrounded by idiocy
I am surrounded by idiocy
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The thing that is so idiotic about the Kushner-Witkoff approach to Russia—that business deals can solve all!—is that... we tried this already.
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Trump’s Inner Circle Sees Russia as an El Dorado for Business, but Pitfalls Abound
Veteran U.S. investors say Vladimir Putin’s Russia will remain a treacherous business environment.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The thing that is so idiotic about the Kushner-Witkoff approach to Russia—that business deals can solve all!—is that... we tried this already.
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Obama must be the biggest foreign policy disaster since 1945.
Here he is, in October 2012, mocking Mitt Romney after the governor named Russia a threat. A little bit more than a year later Russia invaded Ukraine, and Obama did nothing about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IW...
Here he is, in October 2012, mocking Mitt Romney after the governor named Russia a threat. A little bit more than a year later Russia invaded Ukraine, and Obama did nothing about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IW...
DEBATE:OBAMA "80S CALLED, WANT POLICY BACK"
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Obama must be the biggest foreign policy disaster since 1945.
Here he is, in October 2012, mocking Mitt Romney after the governor named Russia a threat. A little bit more than a year later Russia invaded Ukraine, and Obama did nothing about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IW...
Here he is, in October 2012, mocking Mitt Romney after the governor named Russia a threat. A little bit more than a year later Russia invaded Ukraine, and Obama did nothing about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IW...
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joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this