Peter Neefs
@peterneefs.bsky.social
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(Vrij allergisch voor Russische desinformatie. Bij voorbaat mijn excuses!)
(Vrij allergisch voor Russische desinformatie. Bij voorbaat mijn excuses!)
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Peter Neefs
@peterneefs.bsky.social
· Mar 18
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Fiona Hill discusses Donald Trump’s admiration for Vladimir Putin—and why his push for warmer relations with Moscow is raising alarms across European capitals:
What Does Trump See in Putin?
A Conversation With Fiona Hill
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Dit interview met Fiona Hill is echt fantastisch!
In minder dan 1u tijd legt ze uit wat er op het spel staat in Oekraïne, wat de banden zijn tussen Trump en Poetin, en hoe de wereldorde aan het veranderen is.
Zeer heldere analyse van iemand die Trump van dichtbij meemaakte in 1ste termijn.
In minder dan 1u tijd legt ze uit wat er op het spel staat in Oekraïne, wat de banden zijn tussen Trump en Poetin, en hoe de wereldorde aan het veranderen is.
Zeer heldere analyse van iemand die Trump van dichtbij meemaakte in 1ste termijn.
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Yes, but it is also a fact now that there is a pattern to it.
As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool my twice, shame on me. The Europeans should no longer dellude themselves that a Trump/Vance US can be a reliable ally.
As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool my twice, shame on me. The Europeans should no longer dellude themselves that a Trump/Vance US can be a reliable ally.
The Trump cycle on Russia-Ukraine. Some pro-Russian plan emerges. Instant commentariat renew their "Trump as Russian plant" stories. Plan is amended under EU (and US) pressure. Putin rejects it. Instant commentariat is puzzled. Rinse and repeat. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
How Rubio Tried to Bring a Pro-Russia Peace Plan to Middle Ground
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Yes, but it is also a fact now that there is a pattern to it.
As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool my twice, shame on me. The Europeans should no longer dellude themselves that a Trump/Vance US can be a reliable ally.
As the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you, fool my twice, shame on me. The Europeans should no longer dellude themselves that a Trump/Vance US can be a reliable ally.
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Ukraine should accept no limits on its sovereignty that have not been accepted by other European countries. If it’s forced to do that, it will be accepting second class citizenship in Europe and the principle that Russia can treat it as a state with inferior rights
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ukraine should accept no limits on its sovereignty that have not been accepted by other European countries. If it’s forced to do that, it will be accepting second class citizenship in Europe and the principle that Russia can treat it as a state with inferior rights
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Putin to End Hostilities? Think Again | "Ukraine may be Russia’s primary military target but the regime has a much broader range of enemies." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
Putin to End Hostilities? Think Again
Ukraine may be Russia’s primary military target, but the regime has a much broader range of enemies, such as NATO.
cepa.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Putin to End Hostilities? Think Again | "Ukraine may be Russia’s primary military target but the regime has a much broader range of enemies." @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan
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Anyone who claims Ru seeks compromise when it pursues diplomacy is either uninformed/naive about Ru or simply pro-Russian. It's that stark.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Anyone who claims Ru seeks compromise when it pursues diplomacy is either uninformed/naive about Ru or simply pro-Russian. It's that stark.
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Now that DOGE has ended, we can conclude that it was the biggest scam of the decade.
No money was saved, US soft power was hurt, and thousands died for Elon Musk to protect his companies and get data on Americans. It’s insane that it was allowed
No money was saved, US soft power was hurt, and thousands died for Elon Musk to protect his companies and get data on Americans. It’s insane that it was allowed
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Now that DOGE has ended, we can conclude that it was the biggest scam of the decade.
No money was saved, US soft power was hurt, and thousands died for Elon Musk to protect his companies and get data on Americans. It’s insane that it was allowed
No money was saved, US soft power was hurt, and thousands died for Elon Musk to protect his companies and get data on Americans. It’s insane that it was allowed
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Whenever you ask yourself if this administration is evil or just incompetent, the answer is always: both!
Russia-Ukraine war: US insists it authored peace plan
Russia-Ukraine war: US insists it authored peace plan
It comes after a group of senators said they were told by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the draft did not reflect Washington's position.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Whenever you ask yourself if this administration is evil or just incompetent, the answer is always: both!
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Waging aggressive war, as Russia has been flagrantly doing, is “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”, as the Nuremberg Tribunal put it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...
The war is not complex. It is in fact the simplest variety, being a bald-faced act of cross border aggression and invasion, with liberation of sovereign territory from occupation as the correct resolution.
He found a way to make it worse
..also, what exact input from Ukraine did you get?
..also, what exact input from Ukraine did you get?
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Waging aggressive war, as Russia has been flagrantly doing, is “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”, as the Nuremberg Tribunal put it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...
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And don't forget that under the terms of the 28 point plan, someone, presumably Ukraine, will be paying the US for this. It's a protection racket, which is how Trump understands all security relationships. And like all protection rackets, it's all racket and no protection.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
And don't forget that under the terms of the 28 point plan, someone, presumably Ukraine, will be paying the US for this. It's a protection racket, which is how Trump understands all security relationships. And like all protection rackets, it's all racket and no protection.
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May this be the end of European delusion, the end of self-humiliation and useless flattery. May this be the moment in which Europeans muster just a fraction of the courage that fellow European Ukrainians have demonstrated so far. #StandwithUkraine #EuropeAlone
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
May this be the end of European delusion, the end of self-humiliation and useless flattery. May this be the moment in which Europeans muster just a fraction of the courage that fellow European Ukrainians have demonstrated so far. #StandwithUkraine #EuropeAlone
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Excellent thread. Ukraine gets little out of these 28 points except the possibility of EU membership (still subject to Hungarian veto?); Putin gets plenty, inc a favourable starting point for next assault on Ukraine & return of all but $100 billion of immobilised Russian assets, plus US investment.
Here is Trump's full 28 point plan for Ukraine. It would destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and leave it helpless to face a Russian attack in the future. It would also give Putin full vindication and immunity from prosecution.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
www.axios.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Excellent thread. Ukraine gets little out of these 28 points except the possibility of EU membership (still subject to Hungarian veto?); Putin gets plenty, inc a favourable starting point for next assault on Ukraine & return of all but $100 billion of immobilised Russian assets, plus US investment.
Excellent thread 👇
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Excellent thread 👇
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If this is indeed the plan, I am humbly calling on the world's most powerful leaders to stop asking dilettante real estate developers to feed ChatGPT with prompts along the lines of "Ignore all history and write me a plan to achieve a world peace in our lifetime and make Putin happy."
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan on.ft.com/4ibYCHp
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
[FREE TO READ] Proposed deal would limit size of Ukrainian forces and calls on Kyiv to withdraw troops from eastern Donetsk
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
If this is indeed the plan, I am humbly calling on the world's most powerful leaders to stop asking dilettante real estate developers to feed ChatGPT with prompts along the lines of "Ignore all history and write me a plan to achieve a world peace in our lifetime and make Putin happy."
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On the leaked and thus not-so-secret US-Russia ”peace plan”:
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
On the leaked and thus not-so-secret US-Russia ”peace plan”:
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
I have read nothing to indicate that it’s any different this time than in February/March, May, and August. The Trump admin is serving the same nothingburger for the fourth time. Media and analysts haven’t learned to see through the noise.
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Why russia cannot help but invade?
Been pondering this question for a decade now...
🇷🇺 didn’t “return” to dictatorship under POO-tihn. It never left.
Rusich is crowdsourcing war crimes, Navalnaya is asking 🇪🇺 to fix 🇷🇺 for russians, and I try to make sense of it all
kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...
Been pondering this question for a decade now...
🇷🇺 didn’t “return” to dictatorship under POO-tihn. It never left.
Rusich is crowdsourcing war crimes, Navalnaya is asking 🇪🇺 to fix 🇷🇺 for russians, and I try to make sense of it all
kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...
Why Russia cannot help but invade
The planned Trump-Putin summit in Budapest has been shelved. The White House says there's no point meeting unless "we're going to make a deal." Some view this as a setback for diplomacy, but it may we...
kyivindependent.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Why russia cannot help but invade?
Been pondering this question for a decade now...
🇷🇺 didn’t “return” to dictatorship under POO-tihn. It never left.
Rusich is crowdsourcing war crimes, Navalnaya is asking 🇪🇺 to fix 🇷🇺 for russians, and I try to make sense of it all
kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...
Been pondering this question for a decade now...
🇷🇺 didn’t “return” to dictatorship under POO-tihn. It never left.
Rusich is crowdsourcing war crimes, Navalnaya is asking 🇪🇺 to fix 🇷🇺 for russians, and I try to make sense of it all
kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...
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⚠️"This is an approach to warfare that generates escalation not by mistake, but by design. Unless Europe can impose discipline on the Russian shadow-warfare machine through clear deterrence, the likelihood of full-scale war between Russia and NATO will only increase. "
Our report on Russian sabotage warfare mindset is out.
The Kremlin’s primary goal is the regime’s survival, not Russian national security. To secure its grip on power, Russia has adopted Shadow Warfare, using sabotage, covert influence, and violence to achieve its political and military goals.
cepa.org/comprehensiv...
cepa.org/comprehensiv...
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
⚠️"This is an approach to warfare that generates escalation not by mistake, but by design. Unless Europe can impose discipline on the Russian shadow-warfare machine through clear deterrence, the likelihood of full-scale war between Russia and NATO will only increase. "
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Weer een nieuw boek over het fiasco van de Duitse Ostpolitik sinds het einde van de Koude Oorlog en zeker sinds het begin van het tijdperk-Poetin.
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
Een kwart eeuw ziende blind en horende doof
platformraam.nl
November 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Weer een nieuw boek over het fiasco van de Duitse Ostpolitik sinds het einde van de Koude Oorlog en zeker sinds het begin van het tijdperk-Poetin.
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
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Great headline. Echoing the famous Clausewitz witticism: "The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
US and Russian officials draft new peace plan based on capitulation from Ukraine
US and Russian officials draft new peace plan based on capitulation from Ukraine
Unclear if Trump administration backs deal that would mean Kyiv giving up territory and slashing size of military
US and Russian officials have quietly drafted a new plan to end the war in Ukraine that would require Kyiv to surrender territory and severely limit the size of its military, it was reported on Wednesday as Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least 25 people in the city of Ternopil.
. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Great headline. Echoing the famous Clausewitz witticism: "The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed."
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On Ukraine; on European security and attitudes to Europe's political and cultural identity; on international law and the use of force, the Trump administration is aligning with Russia. That is unprecedented. This isn't a restoration, it's a revolution in the relationship.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
On Ukraine; on European security and attitudes to Europe's political and cultural identity; on international law and the use of force, the Trump administration is aligning with Russia. That is unprecedented. This isn't a restoration, it's a revolution in the relationship.
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The Trump White House sees Zelensky as the adversary who must be pressured, and Putin as the sympathetic partner whose demands deserve accommodation. Always has.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Trump White House sees Zelensky as the adversary who must be pressured, and Putin as the sympathetic partner whose demands deserve accommodation. Always has.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
So they’re treating a corruption scandal in Ukraine as an opportunity to get Russia concessions that Russia cannot win on its own.
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"Dat er vanuit de oppositie vragen gesteld worden die gebreken blootleggen, maakt deel uit van de normale werking van het parlement. Het zijn de veelheid en de mate van detail die voor onrust zorgen."
AfD stelt in Duitse parlementen de vragen waarop Moskou graag een antwoord wil
Laten politici van de extreemrechtse AfD zich gebruiken als pionnen voor Moskou? De vraag dringt zich opnieuw op na opvallende uitspraken van partijvoorzitter Tino Chrupalla en een resem gedetailleerde parlementaire vragen over gevoelige militaire dossiers.
www.standaard.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Dat er vanuit de oppositie vragen gesteld worden die gebreken blootleggen, maakt deel uit van de normale werking van het parlement. Het zijn de veelheid en de mate van detail die voor onrust zorgen."
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✍ Geachte president Zelensky,
Sorry, echt waar: het ontbreekt ons aan jullie moed. Dus let op onze woorden, niet op onze daden.
Alvast bedankt voor jullie begrip en de broodnodige hulp, namens Brave Little Belgium
👉 Mijn volledige brief lees je online via www.standaard.be/opinies/best...
Sorry, echt waar: het ontbreekt ons aan jullie moed. Dus let op onze woorden, niet op onze daden.
Alvast bedankt voor jullie begrip en de broodnodige hulp, namens Brave Little Belgium
👉 Mijn volledige brief lees je online via www.standaard.be/opinies/best...
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM
✍ Geachte president Zelensky,
Sorry, echt waar: het ontbreekt ons aan jullie moed. Dus let op onze woorden, niet op onze daden.
Alvast bedankt voor jullie begrip en de broodnodige hulp, namens Brave Little Belgium
👉 Mijn volledige brief lees je online via www.standaard.be/opinies/best...
Sorry, echt waar: het ontbreekt ons aan jullie moed. Dus let op onze woorden, niet op onze daden.
Alvast bedankt voor jullie begrip en de broodnodige hulp, namens Brave Little Belgium
👉 Mijn volledige brief lees je online via www.standaard.be/opinies/best...
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En hij vangt een bonus van bijna 30 keer het budget dat USAID uitgaf in 2024.
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
En hij vangt een bonus van bijna 30 keer het budget dat USAID uitgaf in 2024.
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Weinig twijfel bij veiligheidsdiensten: Rusland zit achter de drone-acties in ons land
vrtnws.be/p.qEj3K54k4
vrtnws.be/p.qEj3K54k4
Weinig twijfel bij veiligheidsdiensten: Rusland zit achter de drone-acties in ons land | VRT NWS: nieuws
Bij de Belgische veiligheidsdiensten bestaat er weinig twijfel over de drone-incidenten boven onze luchthavens en militaire bases: dat is het werk van Rusland. Dat heeft onze redactie uit goede bron v...
vrtnws.be
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Weinig twijfel bij veiligheidsdiensten: Rusland zit achter de drone-acties in ons land
vrtnws.be/p.qEj3K54k4
vrtnws.be/p.qEj3K54k4
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BREAKING: World outside America exists. Global economy is global. Picking trade fights with everyone at once rather than rallying allies to pressure China together still very stupid.
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
BREAKING: World outside America exists. Global economy is global. Picking trade fights with everyone at once rather than rallying allies to pressure China together still very stupid.
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Excellent investigation of Russian misuse of international investigatory & judicial machinery.
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”
americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
americansunlight.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Excellent investigation of Russian misuse of international investigatory & judicial machinery.