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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

OK, here's one of my more eccentric ideas for your reflective consideration. Bear with me. /1

It’s Time to Bring Back the Polish-Lithuanian Union

A political construct created nearly 700 years ago offers solutions for Europe today.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

I was conflicted about this given my classical liberal priors but reluctantly I've come to the conclusion that a ban on short-stay visas for Russian citizens is in order. /1

Giving Russians travel visas is a security risk the world can't afford

Russians can wage a war against their neighbors, or they can travel freely to the West — but they should not be allowed to do both.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

🧵Viktor Orbán is threatening to block 🇺🇦's accession talks & the €50 billion in aid for 2024-2027. He may change his mind if 🇭🇺's own 🇪🇺 funds get unfrozen, reportedly. It's a mistake to give in to the blackmail. /1 (pic courtesy of @dennikN 's Shooty)

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

These next couple of days will be informative about whether we've finally got our act together. If by the end of this week there are still Russian ambassadors left in Western capitals, unexpelled; if airlines operate flights to Moscow; if Russian banks have access to SWIFT; /1

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

1 year

Fact check: We’re not in Ukraine.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

This sad anti-American parody of an ideological movement must be razed to the ground & rubble buried in a nuclear waste disposal site.

Joe Biden Is Worse than Putin › American Greatness

Vladimir Putin never mandated that I submit to nonconsensual medical treatment to keep my livelihood. Putin didn’t ban me from social media for criticizing the regime. It wasn’t Putin who eviscerated…

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

Vaccinating the whole world quickly is technologically feasible, inexpensive, and guaranteed to galvanize public opinion in support of the United States against our autocratic foes. Let's do it. My latest for @BulwarkOnline .

The U.S. Should Vaccinate the World

And let’s get it done this year. It’s in our own best interest.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

Will CPAC attendees in Dallas be bothered by Orbán's racism, kowtowing to China, or sucking up to Russia? Sadly, I suspect we know the answer. My latest in @thedispatch .

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

@ebruenig @conor64 If this is to compare ideologies at their historic worst, shouldn’t relevant far-left examples include Holodomor, Cultural Revolution, and the Lubyanka basement? (Not saying those are ‘major threats’ to America but symmetrically it seems hard to see Dachau & Verdun as such.)

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

6 years

This is quite extraordinary (via @dmarusic )

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

One, there were >170k border crossings into Finland in July alone. How many of those were GRU/FSB? We do know Russia is up to all kinds of mischief in the EU; why help it? Two, actions have consequences: you can't have your government wage a war of aggression & expect to /2

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

It is time for a Schengen short-stay visa ban & revocation of existing short-stay visas. Ideally done in concert with other Western power. Read the rest in your favourite mid-market newspaper. /8 END

Giving Russians travel visas is a security risk the world can't afford

Russians can wage a war against their neighbors, or they can travel freely to the West — but they should not be allowed to do both.

nypost.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

to Russia. I mean, we tried it and it failed. This is not the 1950s. Russians have social media, VPNs, opposition outlets (however embattled). They spent the past 30 years travelling freely to the West. The onus of seeing what kind of regime they're living under is on them. /7

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

enjoy amenities of the civilized world, e.g. tourism & shopping in the Schengen area. Yes, the West remained open to those fleeing communist Eastern Europe during the Cold War & there should be paths to asylum available for Russians fleeing Putin. /3

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

The notion that our openness to Russian travel will somehow open Russian minds to the true character of their regime is no more plausible than the idea that our economic openness to Russian money will tame Russian econ elites & export democratic capitalism /6

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

We should also encourage brain drain by offering long-stay, emigration opportunities to highly qualified, vetted individuals. *However*, what is the signal sent by availability of short-stay visas for Russians who come do their shopping in the EU? /4

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

After Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Ryanair hijacking is another illustration of the fact that the lack of accountable democratic institutions & rule of law in other countries actually matters to the West in a very direct & material way.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

Or by having schmucks like this trolling at Ukrainian protests? /5

Mariia Kramarenko

@KramarenkoMari3

2 years

They are getting crazier and crazier. #Russian in #Italy #visaban

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

1 year

Helping 🇺🇦 on the cheap won’t cut it—it’s past time for the administration to get serious. My latest in @nypost .

Biden's strategy in Ukraine is 'hope' — it should be fighter jets

Forget President Biden’s pledge to support to Ukraine “as long as it takes.” US policies suggest that the administration, for whatever reason, does not actually want Ukraine to win.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

So when is John Bolton’s book coming out?

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

After some throat clearing, Orbán blames the war on "globalist leaders" and calls for a US-Russia bargain, over the heads of Ukrainians. Charming! #CPAC

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

If you believe, on the day the world sees images from Bucha, that the central challenge facing the West today is wokeism, ‘LGBTQ ideology’, or ‘globalism’, then I’m afraid your idea of the West is distorted beyond repair.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

Everything you wanted to know about how I’d become a target of Hungarian Government’s (or pro-Orban press? What’s difference, anyway?) bizarre undercover operation. My latest for @bulwarkonline

How I Got Stung by Viktor Orbán

The bizarre experience of being dragged into a Hungarian propaganda campaign.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

No, Hungary is not a 'rinky-dink' country. In some ways, it is a success story of post-communist transitions, though increasingly troubled by its past, by polarizing culture wars, and by weakness of its institutions facilitating grotesque kleptocracy. /1

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

For one, there's absolutely nothing Orbán can do about those €50 billion in 🇺🇦 assistance. If aid doesn't get adopted by unanimity, it can still be cobbled together through a network of bilateral arrangements. /2

EU has 'Plan B' if Hungary vetoes 50 billion euro aid for Ukraine

The European Union will be able work around any Hungarian veto and give Ukraine 50 billion euros ($53.4 bln) in aid, officials in the bloc said, as Kyiv struggles to push back Russia's invasion 21...

www.reuters.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

Why should the Kremlin enjoy a monopoly on grayzone & information warfare? In tomorrow’s @telegraph , @ivanastradner & I urge the West go on the offensive. 🇷🇺’s presidential ‘election’ next year is a great opportunity to destabilise the regime.

The West must derail Putin’s sham elections

As in the Cold War, we must do more to expose the lies of the Russian regime to its people

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

8 years

Ghastly nativist @AnnCoulter hits new low.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

How about, instead of constantly reminding the world of what we're not willing to do & relying on cosmic justice to punish #Putin , we did a bit more of what we are supposedly willing and capable of doing? My latest in @Quillette .

Remind the Kremlin of Its Weakness

From the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, discussions about the war in the West have been permeated by a dangerous tone of complacency and self-congratulation. The Russian...

quillette.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

Better still, this is would be a perfect subject for Enhanced Cooperation/Art. 20 TEU. Indeed, given Orbán's allegiances, why can't the EU treat *everything* 🇺🇦-related by default in this way -- excluding 🇭🇺 from the conversation instead of going through the acrimony of /3

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

6 months

It’s tempting to orientalize Slovakia after the assassination attempt on Robert Fico. But similar event is perfectly imaginable in the US context — and it’s not clear our institutions would cope with better than the Slovak will. My latest in @BulwarkOnline

It Could Happen Here Too

How would America and its institutions respond to an attempted political assassination?

www.thebulwark.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

7 years

The issue with 'illiberal democracy' in #Poland & #Hungary is not that it's critical of Brussels & mass migration, but rather that it's authoritarian. My latest for @ForeignPolicy

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

if there are any oligarch-owned yachts not seized by Western governments; if Germany is still planning to phase out nuclear power; and if Russian oil tankers continue to arrive at our ports & gas still flows; if billions worth of military assistance haven't arrived in Ukraine /2

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

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trying to please the regime? 🇺🇦 needs more ammo, money, new sanctions against 🇷🇺? Fine, let coalitions of the willing do the work, not ask Budapest for permission. /4

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

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etc. Not a silver bullet but time to heed Frank Underwood's advice: "If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table." Orbán is a bad-faith actor and should be treated as a pariah, left out of key 🇪🇺 & transatlantic conversations, not being courted & accommodated. /7

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Dalibor Roháč

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11 months

he'll also find himself weakened if his patronage schemes start running out of other countries' money. In short, this week's Council is an opportunity to put the ogre of Budapest in his place. It would be a shame if 🇪🇺 leaders didn't take it. /9 end

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

8 months

If “as long as it takes” means less than 2 years, why should anyone ever trust anything that comes out of the mouth of any US leader? My latest in @nypost .

Abandoning Ukraine now will shred America's global credibility —...

If America leaves Ukraine to fend for itself, why would anyone ever trust a word that comes out of the mouth of any US leader?

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

Perhaps best to give up hope of change in either Paris/Berlin and start working around them. Lots that CEE member states, 🇺🇸, other partners can do bring 🇺🇦 closer to the West. Paradoxically, something like Macron’s ‘European Political Community’ might be the best response to /1

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

Great catching up with the legend that is @MDzurinda ! Good pace too. 🇸🇰🇺🇸

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

then we'll know we're really screwed. We've limited our options to sanctions and military aid, for reasons I never quite bought. But in that case we're duty bound to arm Ukraine to the teeth & sanction Russia into stone age, depriving the country & its elites of any amenities /3

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Dalibor Roháč

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1 year

In the context of 🇺🇦 war, I've been cutting the current 🇵🇱 government more slack than others & have no dog in the election this fall, but the notion that @radeksikorski was a Putinversteher because he tried to engage with the Russians back in 2011 is beyond preposterous. /1

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

The 🇪🇺 can get there only by abandoning the community method as its default modus operandi. The added benefit is that with fewer opportunities for EU-level brinksmanship, Orbán will find it harder to project his inflated influence on fellow populist types worldwide. At home, /8

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

France and Germany are failing Ukraine at the moment. Will the Biden team do anything about it? My latest in @nypost .

Biden must stop Germany and France from wavering on Ukraine

Germany and France are failing Ukraine, and the Biden administration is doing nothing to ensure that its two key European allies correct course.

nypost.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

Thus far, Western response to #BelarusProtests has been underwhelming. #EU & #US must step up now or face one of two very bad scenarios. Our latest with @ivanastradner in @BulwarkOnline .

Belarus Protests: U.S. and EU Must Act Now

Or else Putin could step in and help destroy or undermine democratic opposition now protesting election fraud.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

True, you can't move ahead with 🇺🇦accession talks that way. But even if Orbán said yes to those this week (unlikely), he'll have dozens of opportunities to stop the talks at a moment of his choosing once they get underway. I understand the symbolism /5

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

5 months

Join @KoriSchake & me on July 12 as we welcome @sikorskiradek back to @aei to discuss the NATO summit and Europe’s security.

Europe’s Security After the Washington Summit: A Conversation with Polish Minister of Foreign...

Did the NATO summit in Washington deliver on its promises? Are we moving closer to or further from the ideal of Europe whole, free, and at peace?

www.aei.org

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

6 months

Slovakia's PM, Robert Fico, refused to join the Czech led ammo initiative for Ukraine. In 48 hours, Slovaks crowdfunded €1.5 million (and more is trickling in).

After their PM halts Ukraine aid, Slovaks dig deep to help - BBC News

A crowdfunding campaign to buy artillery shells for Ukraine quickly exceeds its target of €1m (£850,000).

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

for 🇺🇦 but rather than elevating accession talks in a way that risks leaving 🇺🇦 in a decades-long limbo alla Western Balkans, coalitions of the willing -- with the support of the Commission -- could move ahead to help Ukraine to actually meet 🇪🇺 standards, join common projects /6

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

of modern, globalized life. Yes, there are ways around sanctions, not clear China will cooperate, &c. but there are ways to inflict a lot of pain, quickly, & signal that this is now a permanent state of affairs. It might hurt us a lot but that's the price of/4

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

#Poland 's president Duda is visiting #Trump at the White House tomorrow. Duda needs a campaign boost, #Trump wants to sell Hercules planes and get Poles to pay for additional US troops. While not unprecedented, this transactionalism is just bad. /1

Notes from Poland 🇵🇱

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According to @gazetaprawnapl 's sources, Trump and Duda will tomorrow agree: - 2,000 US troops to 🇵🇱 (double the planned number) - Costs mostly covered by 🇵🇱 - Broader legal immunity for US troops than in Germany and Japan - 5 C-130 Hercules aircraft for 🇵🇱

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

8 years

Mr. Caligula made significant improvements to harbors at Rhegium and Sicily, allowing increased grain imports from Egypt #trudeaueulogies

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Dalibor Roháč

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4 months

@SlawomirDebski Thank you for your service. PISM is such a marvellous institution!

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4 years

Narrator: Respect for democratic norms was, in fact, not urged.

Secretary Pompeo

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The Obama Administration treated NATO ally Hungary like North Korea – total cold shoulder. We’ve renewed important ties while urging respect for democratic norms. #WalkAndChewGum

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Dalibor Roháč

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2 years

We’re all Finnish social democrats now.

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Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin was asked about a potential off-ramp for Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Her reply:

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Dalibor Roháč

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4 years

‘European unity’ is overrated. The #EU has to become comfortable with coalitions of the willing & functionally differentiated integration. My latest in @ForeignPolicy

The Case for Disaggregating the European Union

It is time to stop thinking of the body as one union. It contains multitudes—and will work far better if everyone recognizes that fact.

foreignpolicy.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

1 year

On Monday, I kept @juliaioffe on the phone for an hour blathering about Slovakia's election. In this excellent @PuckNews piece, she makes me sound almost coherent.

Ukraine’s Darth Vader & The Pentagon’s Voodoo Economics

On one level, it’s been a terrible week for Ukraine: the House passed a CR that doesn’t include aid and Slovakia, its neighbor, elected a pro-Russian madman. But actually, believe it or not, things...

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Dalibor Roháč

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3 years

not acting while there was still time. It may be too late for Ukraine already but we unless we act the rest of Eastern Europe is next. /5 fin

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Dalibor Roháč

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4 years

@shadihamid 😎

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Dalibor Roháč

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2 years

If Berlin fears uncontrolled escalation, then its demand that the US send its tanks as well makes no sense -- a joint US-German action would be *more escalatory* then sending a few Leopards now & perhaps some Abrams down the line. /1

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

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Whatever one thinks of #PiS , it's very good to see Poland back in a leadership role in CEE and tempering some of its domestic excesses. My latest in @SpecCoffeeHouse

How Poland came back from the brink

The EU has much to learn from the country's response to war in Ukraine

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Dalibor Roháč

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@RachelRizzo There should be one season taking place during the pandemic, with Emily eating breakfast cereal in her English basement in Columbia Heights, making only occasional trips to the nearby Target to stock up on the said cereal.

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Dalibor Roháč

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Alas, the Biden administration have not risen to the occasion, I argue in @nypost .

Get serious: Kamala Harris' Eastern Europe trip will do nothing to...

Not even two weeks into his invasion of Ukraine, the Biden team appears to be back to its previous complacency and fecklessness.

nypost.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

7 years

#macron responds that he raised the issue in his earlier call w/ #putin and is not going to revisit it #macronpoutine

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Dalibor Roháč

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The stupidity of this is shocking. 🧵/1

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Bureaucracies often take on a life of their own and end up causing the very problems they were supposed to solve. NIH was supposed to prevent pandemics, so it funded gain-of-function research, causing a pandemic. NATO was supposed to prevent a war, so it expanded to Russia’s

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He, like many Poles, saw the threat much earlier than other Europeans. When it made sense to talk to the Russians, he did so, like everyone else. And one important thing he did as well was to keep 🇵🇱 at the heart of European debates, not at its margins. If his successors /2

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Dalibor Roháč

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United States must be able to focus on more than just one foreign policy challenge at a time. 🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 all matter to America -- the idea that we must 'prioritize' is a false & self-defeating one. My latest in @spectator .

America's support for Israel must not come at the price of backing Ukraine

US Senator Josh Hawley said 'Israel [is] facing an existential threat. Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel.' He's wrong

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Dalibor Roháč

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It is important that Europeans step up their support to 🇺🇦military. But is *even more important* that they take seriously 🇺🇦's ambition to have a real European future. Not in 20 years' time but within months. My latest in @nypost .

How we get Europe to ensure Ukraine's post-war success

While it is completely appropriate for policymakers in Washington to push the German and French governments to provide Ukraine more military aid, it’s even more important to create political...

nypost.com

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5 years

I was never into cultural declinism but then this happened. Cc @RadioFreeTom

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3 years

That will teach them!

AFP News Agency

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#BREAKING EU threatens Taliban with 'isolation' if seizes power in Afghanistan

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had done so as well, instead of hallucinating about German reparations and phantom threats from Brussels, maybe Europe as a whole would have been better prepared for what came last year. /3

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Our weekend read with @ivanastradner in @foreignpolicy , on dealing with the Serbian & Hungarian challenge to #EU & #NATO .

The Threat to the West Is Inside the House

The United States and Europe need to toughen up on the spoilers in their own ranks.

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If conservatives continue to rationalize and excuse autocrats who pay lip service to conservative values, they deserve (and eventually will be confined to) a place in the dustbin of history. My latest for @CapX , ahead of #Orban 's visit to Washington.

Viktor Orbán and the corruption of conservatism

Too many on the right have failed to see Viktor Orbán's authoritarianism for what it is

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Dalibor Roháč

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3 years

When Fidesz types are confronted about Orbán's affinity for Russia, they mention Germany, NS2, & Schröder. That's not just whataboutism but also result of Hu's ability to hide behind Germany, helped by years 'strategic patience'. My latest in @WSJopinion

Opinion | Germany Has a Hungary Problem

Berlin’s complicity with Viktor Orbán imperils European unity against Russian aggression.

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A decisive victory by Ukraine is the only way towards a lasting peace in Europe, I argue in @nypost .

Helping Ukraine pays major dividends for the US

The only path toward lasting peace in Ukraine and a geopolitical calm in Europe is a decisive Ukrainian military victory.

nypost.com

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Dalibor Roháč

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3 years

Very sad news but, gosh, what an incredible life. RIP.

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2 years

As per @h_david_baer 's excellent @BulwarkOnline piece, he's clearly imagining himself at the table with the big boys. In reality Hungary would be the first country that would get screwed if such dealmaking became the norm.

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My latest in @ForeignPolicy . If there was ever a time for #eurobonds , it is now.

Europe Needs an Alexander Hamilton, Not More Budget Hawks

Without mutual debt in the form of Eurobonds, the continent’s economic crisis will get worse, Euroskepticism will increase, and the EU could fall apart.

foreignpolicy.com

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4 years

I suspect this is not wrong.

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Dalibor Roháč

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6 years

Excellent @NickCohen4 piece

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@DaliborRohac

5 years

Very good: @JohnSpringford throws some cold water on the delusion of 'global Britain'.

Now is the worst time for 'global Britain'

Global trade integration has stalled since the financial crisis, and is unlikely to pick up steam any time soon. In that context, plans for ‘global Britain’ will do little to offset the costs of...

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

On today's #EasternFrontPod , @MBielieskov tells us about 🇺🇦's grand stategy, trade-off between operational/tactical needs and politial objectives, & shares his shopping list for 🇺🇦 military with us. A great episode!

The Kherson Counteroffensive & Ukrainian Grand Strategy (with Mykola...

Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia learn from Mykola Bielieskov, Senior Analyst for Ukrainian NGO "Come Back Alive" which provides support for Ukraine's military, about the strategy of Ukraine's...

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

Maybe GOP's problem is Trump & trumpism and not the 'dead consensus', after all.

Justin Hart

@justin_hart

4 years

In Wisconsin 49K people voted for a Republican House candidate down ballot but DID NOT vote for Trump. Meanwhile, 64K people voted for Biden and did NOT vote for a Democrat house candidate. Also, 14,952 people DID NOT vote for a house candidate and just voted for Prez. Ok.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

6 months

The belated supplemental for Ukraine is excellent news. Now, Biden needs to commit to Ukraine’s *victory*. My latest in @NYPostOpinion .

OK, Biden, you have your aid bill -- now stop being intimidated by...

The aid is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for Ukraine’s victory. What is needed as well is a change of strategy on the part of the Biden administration.

nypost.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

5 months

OK, so what are we doing, as collective West, to peel Georgia off Russia's orbit at a time when 80 percent of Georgians want closer ties with the EU? Alas, the question answers itself, I argue in my most recent @Telegraph piece.

The EU is failing Georgia, just as it failed Ukraine

A chronic absence of European and American willpower is risking yet another country falling into Putin’s grasp

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

1 year

Whenever one suffers from imposter syndrome, it is worth reminding oneself there are tenured profs at Harvard churning out this brilliant scholarship:

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

5 years

Last week actually.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

8 years

This is reckless & idiotic. Not spending enough on defense ≠ owing "vast sums of money" to the US. #NATO isn't an extortion racket.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

8 years

...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!

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@DaliborRohac

7 years

#putin claims macron didn't raise the issue of russian interference with western elections, which is therefore "non-existent" #macronpoutine

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

Been watching Season 3 of Occupied. The single most unrealistic feature of the show is the muscular role played by the EU. "EU-negotiated peace treaty", "EU peacekeepers", EU pushing Norway into disarming its border patrols, etc. I know it's fiction but it ought to be believable.

Erik Brattberg

@ErikBrattberg

4 years

“Cyprus has warned peers it won’t sign on to an EU proposal to sanction dozens of officials in Belarus over that country’s contested presidential election, unless member states agree to clamp down on Turkey”

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

8 years

Go home @Heritage , you're drunk

Stephen Moore

@StephenMoore

8 years

Trump has a pro-growth agenda that will cut tax rates as Reagan and JFK did to bring back jobs to America.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

Membership in the #EU enabled the best and brightest to just leave (in past decade alone, Hungary lost .25 million of its population). As the highest per capita recipient of EU funds, Hungary has become a playground for politically connected 'entrepreneurs' /4

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

2 years

A worthwhile (and hilarious) Czech initiative. #VisitKralovec

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

emotionally in the United States, its founding ideals, & its future. This turn, in my late 30s & pretty internationalist in my views, surprised me a little. A long way of saying America is pretty awesome & I hope to do my best to help it stay that way. Happy July 4! ♥️🇺🇸🥳 2/2

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

11 months

I don't understand why the remaining 26 didn't seize the moment to also approve a truckload of other stuff Orbán hates (€50 billion for 🇺🇦, sanctions on Russian officials, moratorium on 🇭🇺 funds...) and then present him with fait accompli when he got back to the room.

Viktória Serdült

@viktoriaserdult

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Hungary’s way of fighting for its sovereignity is basically escaping the room when decisions are taken.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

5 months

I was genuinely honoured to join @Telegraph ’s excellent Ukraine Today podcast today. I hope my ramblings, two hours after a delayed transatlantic flight, made at least a bit of sense. Thanks for having me, @FrancisDearnley and colleagues!

Russia’s ‘theatrical’ nuclear weapons drills & Ukraine’s theory of...

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

If I wanted mob rule I could have just stayed in Eastern Europe.

John McCormack

@McCormackJohn

4 years

Capitol police have ordered doors locked in press gallery.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

6 years

This is what a post-American world would look like. (via @JonahNRO )

MEMRI

@MEMRIReports

6 years

Chinese Ambassador To Syria: We Are Willing To Participate 'In Some Way' In The Battle For Idlib Alongside The Assad Army

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

3 years

Short of a shooting war, it is hard to imagine a more clear-cut case of using hard power against the EU & NATO than what Lukashenko & Putin have been up to this year. Alas, Western response doesn't quite rise to the occasion. My latest for @BulwarkOnline .

Lukashenko’s Offensive Agenda

Short of an actual shooting war, it is hard to imagine a more clear-cut case of using hard power against other countries.

www.thebulwark.com

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

EU needs a laser-sharp focus on expanding the available vaccine supply. Ham-fisted export restrictions or waging a war on Astra Zeneca will not help; being willing to throw a lot more money at the problem will. My latest in @spectator .

On vaccines, the EU is getting what it paid for

Remember when the EU was going to provide an antidote to the spectre of vaccine nationalism? While Italian authorities are raiding pharmaceutical plants for vaccines, the European Commission is...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

4 years

This by @shadihamid is very good.

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Dalibor Roháč

@DaliborRohac

9 months

But I was assured by those not suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome that his foreign policy would be unpredictable and/or tough on Russia.

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