Christian Kloetzer
@ckloetzer
PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan (UniMi) Working on: electoral behavior, cleavage transformation, European radical-right electorates But interested in, and posting about, all sorts of things.
But in wise foresight it appears that Vannacci realized that one could not put more than 60 of his supporters in a group chat without it degenerating into the vilest racism and calls for mass violence.
Wow that was quick. So under Trump, the US is not only clearly unwilling to honor Article 5 in case of war, it also shows a total lack of concern for military readiness for such an event. Russia will surely have taken note, but I am less sure about European capitals.
I guess part of it is the diversification of our energy sources. This graph is a bit busy and only shows numbers for Germany, but oil made up almost half of primary energy consumption in 1973 (the dark blue chart segment) and less than a third by 2022. www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/z...
Just returned from Bologna, where @andreapirro.it and @pietrocastellig.bsky.social hosted a superb 5th edition of the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social Summer School! It was great at every level! Happy to have met everyone who participated!
I don’t know anything about this survey and its merits, but metaphorically speaking, world public opinion towards the USA being stuck between Iraq and Iran kinda checks out these days.
“We have no quarrel with Lebanon. We could make peace with Lebanon and want to make peace with them tomorrow, no, yesterday.” (Netanyahu on CBS)
Needless to say, Israel did not actually stop waging war on Lebanon.
By contrast, this is Italy’s Foreign Minister yesterday. Not that words alone solve anything, but writing Israel’s attacks out of public diplomatic statements is effectively supporting them. @germany.diplo.de
I see a lot of people wondering whether info from the Iranian regime is to be trusted more than statements from Trump, but it appears markets already made their decision.
"Noone has the intention to bring about conditions that are incompatible with human life."
Eine absolute Mehrheit der Deutschen lehnt den Krieg außerdem ebenfalls ab, doppelt so viele wie er Befürworter hat.
Es ist nicht so lange her, als man bei der Welt im Kontext deutscher Innenpolitik noch sehr tief hinabblickte auf das Argument des "Beifalls von der falschen Seite".
And there it is. “We will do [in Lebanon] what we have done in Gaza.” The hostages in Gaza were a pretext for mass killing and destruction, with no consequences imposed on Israel. Now this becomes the Israeli go-to solution for any problem.
He should ask last week’s Merz who understood American intentions so well he smugly talked down to fellow European leaders for saying something.
One country’s reason to downgrade diplomatic relations with Israel is another country’s reason to send its Foreign Minister for demonstrative solidarity.
And here’s Yair Lapid, about a week earlier, telling a journalist that he supports Israeli expansionism, and the only thing that dissuades him from that project is America’s experience in Iraq with… armed terrorist groups.
Here’s Yair Lapid arguing for annexation of parts of Lebanon because it hosts an armed terrorist group.
And the language of total victory is there too. It’s the same language used by Israel to describe war goals in Gaza, where it has simply been code for total destruction.
There’s a very Wiggum-esque quality to leaders like Merz, who voiced full-throated support at the outset of the Iran war but then are dismayed that this war has consequences. There was only one Iran war on the menu, and that’s the one we are going to get.
What planet does Merz spend most of his time on if the thinks that an American president that is dismantling democracy at home will start building it in Iran?