Una Hajdari
@unawrites.bsky.social
Journalist. Balkans for @politico.eu, otherwise focused on instability, nationalism and the far-right. Previously: @iwm.at @mit.edu @rsf.org
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This was the second-biggest wtf moment of the presser (after announcing "we will run the country")
Trump just basically threw the Venezuelan opposition — the ones who evidence shows won the 2023 election — to the side.
January 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This was the second-biggest wtf moment of the presser (after announcing "we will run the country")
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Welcome back, 19th century wars of American expansion 🫠
“It’s our property, we built it… we built Venezuela and the socialist regime stole it from us through force,” Trump said, claiming the nationalization of the oil industry and US companies being forced out constituted the “largest theft to our country… they [drove us] out of our own hemisphere.”
January 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Welcome back, 19th century wars of American expansion 🫠
Trump just announced “we are going to run the country” until they can guarantee a just transition because they “can’t run the risk of someone else taking over” Venezuela.
“We are going to run it, essentially.”
“We are going to run it, essentially.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Trump just announced “we are going to run the country” until they can guarantee a just transition because they “can’t run the risk of someone else taking over” Venezuela.
“We are going to run it, essentially.”
“We are going to run it, essentially.”
This is Gen Z’s Saddam Hussein capture photo
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This is Gen Z’s Saddam Hussein capture photo
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“But what if Russia tries to do this to Zelensky???!!”
- people who just woke up from a years-long coma
- people who just woke up from a years-long coma
January 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
“But what if Russia tries to do this to Zelensky???!!”
- people who just woke up from a years-long coma
- people who just woke up from a years-long coma
The US alleges Maduro and other officials participated in a “narco-terrorism conspiracy” involving Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles and Colombia’s FARC—a far-left guerrilla—dating from at least around 1999 through about 2020 incl. negotiating cocaine shipments and directing support such as weapons.
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
The US alleges Maduro and other officials participated in a “narco-terrorism conspiracy” involving Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles and Colombia’s FARC—a far-left guerrilla—dating from at least around 1999 through about 2020 incl. negotiating cocaine shipments and directing support such as weapons.
Venezuelan opposition figure and actual Nobel Peace Prize winner (and Trump policy supporter) Maria Corina Machado said that “what had to happen is happening” and that Venezuelans should be ready to set in motion “what will be communicated to [them] via official channels.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Venezuelan opposition figure and actual Nobel Peace Prize winner (and Trump policy supporter) Maria Corina Machado said that “what had to happen is happening” and that Venezuelans should be ready to set in motion “what will be communicated to [them] via official channels.”
Meanwhile Balkan countries like Kosovo and Albania appear to have decided this was the right moment to back the current US administration and its approach to Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Meanwhile Balkan countries like Kosovo and Albania appear to have decided this was the right moment to back the current US administration and its approach to Venezuela
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Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.
Prediction markets really expose some of the most disgusting human impulses in our push to monetize every aspect of daily life 🤯
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
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January 3, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Prediction markets really expose some of the most disgusting human impulses in our push to monetize every aspect of daily life 🤯
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Just imagine being an IR Realist this morning
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Just imagine being an IR Realist this morning
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BBC World Service talking about Maduro's "apparent defenestration"?
Not sure that's quite right, but if you're going to throw someone out of a window, Manhattan's the place to do it
Not sure that's quite right, but if you're going to throw someone out of a window, Manhattan's the place to do it
January 3, 2026 at 1:36 PM
BBC World Service talking about Maduro's "apparent defenestration"?
Not sure that's quite right, but if you're going to throw someone out of a window, Manhattan's the place to do it
Not sure that's quite right, but if you're going to throw someone out of a window, Manhattan's the place to do it
Venezuela’s had about 6-8 coups and failed coups, depending on who’s counting — sadly not unusual for South America. What’s new is seeing a decapitation event publicly framed as US-led in real time and rolled out almost entirely on social media.
Welcome to coups in the digital era
Welcome to coups in the digital era
We’re doing “Mission Accomplished” again, declaring that forced removal of a foreign leader means problem solved?
Except with Venezuela, assuming regime change will work on its own, without an occupation/stabilization force or plan for a new government?
Except with Venezuela, assuming regime change will work on its own, without an occupation/stabilization force or plan for a new government?
January 3, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Venezuela’s had about 6-8 coups and failed coups, depending on who’s counting — sadly not unusual for South America. What’s new is seeing a decapitation event publicly framed as US-led in real time and rolled out almost entirely on social media.
Welcome to coups in the digital era
Welcome to coups in the digital era
Cilia Flores gets a lot less international attention than Nicolas Maduro, but she’s been a high-profile Chavista insider for years. Flores was on Hugo Chavez’s defense team and helped secure his release from prison/clemency in 1994 (without trial) after the failed 1992 coup attempt.
January 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Cilia Flores gets a lot less international attention than Nicolas Maduro, but she’s been a high-profile Chavista insider for years. Flores was on Hugo Chavez’s defense team and helped secure his release from prison/clemency in 1994 (without trial) after the failed 1992 coup attempt.
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The rules-based international order was always a euphemism for what the US government was prepared to back with force, but kidnapping a foreign leader does suggest that DJT needs to watch much less television. This is the scheme of a Batman villain.
January 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
The rules-based international order was always a euphemism for what the US government was prepared to back with force, but kidnapping a foreign leader does suggest that DJT needs to watch much less television. This is the scheme of a Batman villain.
Democrats — who, unlike much of the rest of the world, have some capacity to curtail the administration — will likely respond by offering still more restraint and ever more milquetoast candidates
Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
January 3, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Democrats — who, unlike much of the rest of the world, have some capacity to curtail the administration — will likely respond by offering still more restraint and ever more milquetoast candidates
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To sum up, a US president is going to war without congressional authorization against a sovereign nation that has not attacked or threatened it, and is doing so like a thief in the night, with no explanation for the American people or the world. It is all so unimaginable that it strains credulity.
January 3, 2026 at 9:38 AM
To sum up, a US president is going to war without congressional authorization against a sovereign nation that has not attacked or threatened it, and is doing so like a thief in the night, with no explanation for the American people or the world. It is all so unimaginable that it strains credulity.
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FIFA peace prize in action
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM
FIFA peace prize in action
2026 has barely begun and we are already in the kidnapping-heads-of-state era
January 3, 2026 at 9:55 AM
2026 has barely begun and we are already in the kidnapping-heads-of-state era
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Trump warns US will intervene if Iran attacks protesters. So Trump finally found protesters he likes- the ones in Iran!!
January 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Trump warns US will intervene if Iran attacks protesters. So Trump finally found protesters he likes- the ones in Iran!!
The Iranian government aren’t Nazis, they’re just doing the heart-to-you gesture
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
The Iranian government aren’t Nazis, they’re just doing the heart-to-you gesture
I’m happy to stand corrected — HAL, the hyper-aware AI software managing an advanced space invasion in a movie that came out in 1968 — is in fact MORE advanced than ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, etc. and is a warning for a future when machine-generated decision-making will actively decide to kill humans.
Rewatching 2001: A Space Odyssey and realizing it’s basically about a primitive form of ChatGPT killing all the astronauts
December 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I’m happy to stand corrected — HAL, the hyper-aware AI software managing an advanced space invasion in a movie that came out in 1968 — is in fact MORE advanced than ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, etc. and is a warning for a future when machine-generated decision-making will actively decide to kill humans.
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Articles about Brigitte Bardot after her death on Sunday have referred to her far right sympathies, which supposedly emerged later in the film star's life. Here she is, though, in 1958 with Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Lagaillarde, future founder of the extremist OAS terror group
December 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Articles about Brigitte Bardot after her death on Sunday have referred to her far right sympathies, which supposedly emerged later in the film star's life. Here she is, though, in 1958 with Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Lagaillarde, future founder of the extremist OAS terror group
Rewatching 2001: A Space Odyssey and realizing it’s basically about a primitive form of ChatGPT killing all the astronauts
December 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Rewatching 2001: A Space Odyssey and realizing it’s basically about a primitive form of ChatGPT killing all the astronauts