🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 AND THERE YOU HAVE IT! After six months of irresponsible & needless delay that placed the lives of Ukrainian service personnel & civilians in further danger & degraded European security more broadly, US Congress finally, officially passes the next tranche of security

🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦It was a pleasure to meet with my friend & sanctions expert, Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Oleksii MAKEIEV 🇺🇦 in Berlin this month!

Time for Germany to send items to Ukraine from Amb’s “Wunschliste” (Taurus!) & take sanctions steps to make sure there is no “return to business as

Step up now

Don’t inject bleach.

And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject bleach.

Der spanischsprachige Kanal von Deutsche Welle, DW Español, lässt in dieser Sendung unter anderem die 'Expertin' Aleksandra Sitenko zu Wort kommen, die dort knallhart russische Propaganda betreibt. 1/2

Great start of our ⁦SCEEUS⁩ trip to Kyiv with a meeting with our colleagues at ⁦Ukrainian Prism⁩ - thank you ⁦Hennadiy Maksak⁩ and your team!

Yes, someone has to issue the safe assets at scale in 🇪🇺, the so-called “frugals” aren’t big enough to do so, & 🇩🇪 still insists on the Schwarze Null & the Schuldenbremse. This is a feature, not a bug, of the monetary union w/o fiscal & political union:

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202…

#NeoIdealism by another name Alexander Stubb?
Let’s see how it links up foreign, security, domestic & economic policy …

Great to see values-based approaches gaining more traction.

Free Societies need 'Grand Strategy' to prevail against authoritarian regimes.

But what is Grand Strategy?
& why does Germany find it so hard?

New #BerlinsideOut with
Aaron Gasch Burnett @m_terhalle @aylinmatle Jacob Ross Aylin Matlé DGAP

Listen here👇
berlinsideout.podigee.io/22-a-strategic…

A Finnish take on the Russian announcement to set up an Iskander brigade close to the Finnish border: “operationally it seems absurd to bring missile systems with such a long range closer to our border area which makes them a target.”

Yes. And yes.

🇩🇪 official: “If the U.K. still wants to have a leading part in European security then it needs to increase its spending,”

🇬🇧official: the Germans “also need to pull their socks up.” “& they’ve only recently located their socks,”

politico.eu/article/rishi-…

'Europe’s NATO allies need to move full speed ahead to resource their militaries. As long as the Russian imperial state exists in its current form, the threat it poses to Europe won’t go away.'

A must read by my colleague Andrew A. Michta Atlantic Council politico.eu/article/withou…

The UK government could literally pay every refugee a £30,000 annual salary for life, and it would be cheaper than sending them to Rwanda. We're burning money just to enjoy the cruelty.

'All the details on ATACMS for Ukraine have been finalised.'

Light 'em up.

Excellent from Andrew A. Michta

‘Allies are talking big while relying on the U.S. to shoulder the lion’s share of the burden.’

Without transferring the burden to Europeans (who must re-arm accordingly) NATO won’t have the forces it needs - & could fail.
politico.eu/article/withou…

Let’s go!

Clear communication from Tobias Billström

Clear goal:
Ukraine must win, Russia must lose

All allies need to commit to this same goal - it’s in all of our interest.

Please inject this into the National Security Council.