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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

If they were to watch this in the Kremlin 🇷🇺 they might start to understand what they are up against 🇺🇦.

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Carl Bildt

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2 years

Putin has obviously suppressed any memory of this, but these are the numbers for the Yes vote in the 1991 referendum in 🇺🇦 on independence. Every single region voted clearly for independence.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 months

This intervention by @radeksikorski 🇵🇱 in the 🇺🇳 Security Council today will be a classic. Not much left of 🇷🇺 after that.

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Carl Bildt

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There are photos that will be with us for a long time.

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Carl Bildt

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2 years

Incredible. Now Berlusconi 🇮🇹 defending his friend said that “Putin just wanted to replace the Zelensky government with a government of decent people.” This man is a disgrace.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Great to see the women of 🇮🇷 fighting for their rights! You will win - sooner or later!

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

7 years

Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking? Questions abound.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

7 years

Last year there were app 50% more murders only in Orlando/Orange in Florida, where Trump spoke the other day, than in all of Sweden. Bad.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Tomorrow morning 🇫🇮 will officially announce its intention to seek @nato membership. And 🇸🇪 will follow within days.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

All of us must now face the reality that we will not have peace in Europe until there is regime change in Russia. Then we should seek to welcome a new Russia as a partner for peace.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 months

These are the scenes that the Kremlin 🇷🇺 did their utmost to prevent. It requires courage by citizens to go there and show their emotions - they are certain to have been recorded by the regime security service.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

I don’t know what the 🇷🇺 ambassador to 🇰🇿 really said, but the rebuttal he got was certainly most powerful.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

11 months

Russia was here. Bakhmut “liberated”.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

A 🇺🇦 soldier is now equipped with 🇸🇪-supplied AT4 light anti-tank weapon. 5.000 will be delivered, and if 20% of those score a hit at some point a thousand 🇷🇺 vehicles will be destroyed.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Now there is a publicity campaign in Moscow 🇷🇺 saying that 🇸🇪 is a country of Nazis. Are there any limits to these guys? Or are they preparing a ”denazifying” operation against 🇸🇪 as well? I think this will further solidify support for 🇸🇪 joining @NATO .

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

It’s indisputable that 🇷🇺 is using indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire against civilian targets in cities in 🇺🇦. These photos from the center of the country’s second largest city shows clearly what is happening.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Two SU27 fighters and two SU24 fighter-bombers from 🇷🇺 air force briefly violated 🇸🇪 airspace East of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea today. They were intercepted by 🇸🇪 Gripen fighters.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

Just a reminder.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

This is undoubtedly slightly exaggerated. But only slightly.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

Kherson 🇺🇦 right now - a picture Vladimir Putin said would never happen. It’s his third major defeat in this war - Kyiv, Kharkiv and now Kherson. At the end, he will lose the Kremlin as well.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

In the one country after the other what was unthinkable yesterday becomes necessary today. 🇸🇪 now announces sending also 5.000 AT4 antitank weapons to 🇺🇦. That’s substantial. It’s an effective weapon highly regarded by also the US Army.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 months

A clear and brave message from @navalny in case the regime should kill him.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

George Orwell couldn’t have done it better… This is Sergey Lavrov answering the question on whether 🇷🇺 will invade other countries: “Are we planning to attack other countries? No, we're not planning to. We didn't attack Ukraine."

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Singers from the renowned opera in Odessa 🇺🇦 performing in front of the tank traps set up to protect their opera building.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

I see that 🇷🇺 continues to demand demilitarization or severe limits on 🇺🇦 armed forces in the future. It’s not too difficult to understand what’s behind that demand. After one invasion will come another - that’s the pattern so far, and the one that must be stopped for the future.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

7 years

Reports of White House been in lockdown after someone tried to climb over the fence. Doesn’t say in which direction.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

I have seen it before, it’s now with new pictures as well, and I can see it many times! 🇺🇦

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

In informal talks 🇷🇺 is rumored to ask for 🇺🇦 to reduce its army to a fifth. That’s resonable only if the 🇷🇺 army is reduced to less than a fifth of its previous size. Otherwise it’s just an effort by 🇷🇺 to prepare for its next wave of aggression and ought to be treated as such.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Is there an eternal 🇷🇺?

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Remarkable exchange. And shows that tensions are building up in 🇷🇺 over the high losses in the war it has started.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

This is truly disgraceful. Despicable. Any thought of inviting this man to an 🇪🇺 summit should be shelved.

Alex Taylor

@AlexTaylorNews

2 years

Words fail me that this loathsome man actually just compared the Ukrainian people's current quest for freedom to the UK voting for Brexit Just when you thought he couldn't sink to new depths 👇

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

There are now reports of protests in all the regions of 🇮🇷, and of the streets of Teheran dominated by them.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

A truly iconic stamp just issued by 🇺🇦.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

It looks like they are beginning to lose it completely at @mfa_russia .

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 months

The 🇪🇺 Ambassador to 🇷🇺 lays flower at the small memorial in Moscow to those that died under repression. You will not see that reported in any 🇷🇺 media. The authorities are afraid.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

In these times art is also a weapon.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Looks like the 🇷🇺 mobilization is going very well…

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Chilling. Prisoner transport vehicles lining up in Kherson 🇺🇦 after the city was captured by 🇷🇺 after several days of fighting. Darkness descends. An empire of evil has come.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

This was the scene when Putin ordered his nuclear alert. It tells tons about the state of isolation of the man with his finger on the button.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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The attack on 🇮🇱 tonight was of a magnitude that 🇺🇦 suffers on a fairly regular basis. Same drones. Similar missiles. Week after week. Month after month.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

We have no right to ignore what’s said on 🇷🇺 state TV these days. This unfortunately has all the potential for getting much worse.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

This guy - Matteo Salvini - has just contributed to bringing down the Draghi government in 🇮🇹, and now hopes that a new election will bring him to power. Corks are popping in the Kremlin.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

Is 🇭🇺 really a member of the 🇪🇺?

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Today 🇸🇪 announces that it will deliver a second batch of 5.000 anti-armor AT4 weapons to 🇺🇦. That makes for a total of 16.000 AT4 from 🇸🇪 and 🇺🇸 to help 🇺🇦 stop the aggression. I hope other 🇪🇺 countries are also prepared to step up deliveries.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

I think it’s time to recognize that the 🇫🇷 role of being “a mediating power” with 🇷🇺 - pursued since years - has so far been a spectacular failure.

Reuters

@Reuters

2 years

Russia must not be humiliated despite Putin's 'historic' mistake - Macron

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

There are many confusing discussions on conditions for 🇷🇺🇺🇦 peace. On neutrality it should be remembered that 🇺🇦 had neutrality in its constitution when 🇷🇺 invaded in 2014. And 🇷🇺 had guaranteed its territorial integrity in Budapest memorandum in 1994 as well as other documents.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

Sergey Lavrov 🇷🇺 wasn’t allowed to the @OSCE ministerial meeting in 🇵🇱 and had to restrict himself to a live press conference in Moscow that seems to have attracted 13 viewers.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

5 years

Bernie Sanders was lucky to be able to get to the Soviet Union in 1988 and praise all its stunning socialist achievements before the entire system and empire collapsed under the weight of its own spectacular failures.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

I don’t think Putin 🇷🇺 gets many awards these days, and whether he’ll appreciate this one might of course be slightly doubtful. But there is little doubt that he fully deserves it.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

As 🇮🇹 approaches its election it should not be forgotten that Silvio Berlusconi joined Vladimir Putin in visiting Crimea after it had been occupied and annexed by 🇷🇺, explicitly endorsing what 🇪🇺 has unanimously condemned.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

This was grain that should have fed the world.

MilitaryLand.net

@Militarylandnet

2 years

📷Russian army hit a grain terminal in #Mykolaiv . #UkraineRussiaWar

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 month

This did not age well.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

4 years

Here the moment President Vucic 🇷🇸 was informed that he was going to move his Israel 🇮🇱 embassy to Jerusalem.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

If Putin 🇷🇺 can’t win, it’s going to be very tough going for him. You can see the beginning of the debate here. Much more to come.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

5 years

The US President is now in open conflict with the US Congress, the US Federal Reserve, the US Secretary of Defense, China, the EU, the World Trade Organisation and a couple of others. Otherwise it’s OK.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

I hear assessments here in DC that after two weeks up towards a quarter of 🇷🇺 military equipment in the 🇺🇦 invasion has been destroyed or disabled. I remember from my old military days that a military unit which has losses of a third is considered unusable.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

🇷🇺 was here.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Would anyone describe this is a happy and confident trio? Putin obviously doesn’t even want to talk with the commander of the 🇷🇺 armed forces.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Here the countries that are helping 🇺🇦 defend itself. Where is 🇫🇷?

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

7 years

I guess Donald Trump is now preparing to launch a tweet. It will lift off in smoke and fire, and then with a roar disappear into nowhere.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

3 years

This turned out to be a blatant lie.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

7 years

Just a piece of friendly advice: when you are in a hole, stop digging.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

10 months

On this day in 2014 a 🇷🇺 missile unit shot down airliner MH17 over the territory of 🇺🇦.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

5 years

The rule of the law applies to everyone equally and is exercised by an independent judiciary. That’s the way it is in the US, and that’s certainly the way it is in Sweden. Political interference in the process is distinctly off limits! Clear?

Donald J. Trump

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5 years

Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for being unable to act. Sweden has let our African American Community down in the United States. I watched the tapes of A$AP Rocky, and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers. Treat Americans fairly! #FreeRocky

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

I remember how cold it was in Tallinn and Riga when the then Soviet Republics sought independence and Moscow cut the gas in order to force them back into the fold. Politically it back fired with a vengeance. People got every more determined. Today 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 are free countries.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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For the first time the 🇸🇪 Chief of Defense sits around the table when all the NATO military commanders meet - this time in nearby Tallinn 🇪🇪. Also 🇫🇮 makes its debut.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Europe. March 2022. A desperate dictator trying to destroy a European nation.

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Carl Bildt

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1 year

The world that Putin is creating.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

It’s difficult not to be moved by this. A still sunny days outside the opera in Odessa.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

It’s really preposterous when 🇷🇺 tells 🇹🇷 that it had nothing to do with the missile attack against the Odessa port. Kalibr cruise missiles are sophisticated weapons launched from ships and submarines of the 🇷🇺 navy and from nowhere else.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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It’s difficult to see this morning’s missile attack against residential areas of Kyiv 🇺🇦 as anything but a deliberate 🇷🇺 escalation and a signal to the G7 meeting in Elmau today.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

1 year

A brutal honesty in this message from the 🇷🇺 Kremlin - 🇺🇦 should be erased from the map. A country that’s chairing the 🇺🇳 Security Council this month simply denies another country its right to exist. I think this is unique in the annals of international behavior in modern times.

TASS

@tassagency_en

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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev believes that no-one in the world needs Ukraine, therefore it will cease to exist, he said in his post on social media:

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Impressive when the Sejm in 🇵🇱 ratified the accession of 🇸🇪🇫🇮 to @nato .

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

3 years

The @navalny protests in 🇷🇺 today are undoubtedly the largest since the Bolotnaya protests in 2011-2021. Numbers are difficult to compare, but these now seem to be far more spread all over the country. It’s no longer just Moscow.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

With the arrest of Leonid Gozman I have to note that all my friends in the politics of 🇷🇺 in the pre-Putin years are now murdered, in prison or in exile - a brilliant generation that could have made 🇷🇺 a great, prosperous and respected country. It’s a tragedy in every sense.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

11 months

Highly capable armored fighting vehicles CV90 from 🇸🇪 are now on their way to 🇺🇦.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Huge numbers of people are trying to leave 🇷🇺. This is from the chaos at the border with 🇬🇪 . Long lines even to 🇲🇳 with people just wanting out.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Important lesson: my direct experience with the 🇷🇺🇺🇦 crisis of 2014 is that there is a distinct disconnect between the diplomacy of 🇷🇺 and what they actually do. Their diplomatic noise then had virtually no relation to what they really did on the ground.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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This picture will enter the history books of this age of COVID-19. The Pope is blessing the world alone at a deserted St Peter’s Square in Rome yesterday evening.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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In the morning news from back home I see that there is emerging a clear majority in the 🇸🇪 parliament for NATO membership when 🇫🇮 asks for the same. A solid security analysis is obviously needed, and modalities during the next few weeks remain to be sorted out. But that’s it.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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This is Tbilisi 🇬🇪 yesterday evening. Iconic image on also international women’s day.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

This is the planned departures from Moscow SVO 🇷🇺 airport tomorrow. A city in deepening isolation. A tragedy for which one person is solely responsible.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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It looks as if 🇺🇦 has used its new military assets to target in particular 🇷🇺 ammunition depots well behind the front line.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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This is the worst that’s been seen in 🇽🇰 for many years. Serb militants in northern 🇽🇰 attack Nato forces and wound eleven of them. The cycle of escalation must be broken quickly!

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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I hear that 🇷🇸 has invited 🇷🇺 FM Lavrov to visit Belgrade in the next few days. If President Vucic was to sink his prospects with the 🇪🇺 that’s of course a perfect move. It’s a move in direct contradiction to the 🇪🇺 accession process and should be treated as such.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Looking back we should recognize how important it was that 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 were able to join NATO nearly two decades ago. If they today had been outside in some sort of grey zone, there would have been an imminent danger of them become part of a war zone. Now, NATO gives them security.

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Carl Bildt

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This is 🇷🇺 at war. In Europe today. Destruction. Devastation. From Marinka in the Donetsk region 🇺🇦.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Putin’s language in his rambling TV speech today on “scums and traitors” and how to deal with them start to approach the language of the times of the purges of Stalin. This will not end well.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

4 years

This is the first great crisis of the post-American world. The UN Security Council is nowhere to be seen, G20 is in the hands of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the White House has trumpeted America First and Everyone Alone for years. Only the virus is globalized.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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“Europe must wake up. We do not need investments in military production solely to provide necessary assistance. It is needed as a means to convince that Europe is strong. Strong not to wage wars but to secure peace.” 🇫🇮 @niinisto

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Impressive. No less than 22 tracked heavy howitzers M109 have been delivered by 🇳🇴 to 🇺🇦, and allegedly they have already seen service in the war.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

Giving speeches in Brussels 🇪🇺 on “strategic autonomy” and “global role”is one thing, but when it really matters for the security of Europe it’s the 🇺🇸 that steps in. Embarrassing.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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The enthusiasts…

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

2 years

There are many reasons to remember the 🇷🇺 shooting down of MH17. One is the total refusal of 🇷🇺 to accept obvious facts and its practice of massive disinformation efforts to avoid responsibility. That’s a pattern we see repeated day by day in its aggression against 🇺🇦 today.

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Carl Bildt

@carlbildt

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News reports speak of 🇷🇺 firing up to 60.000 artillery rounds and rockets against 🇺🇦 forces every day. And 🇺🇦 urgently needs ammunition resupply to be able to fire back.