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In case you are wondering if you know me: On Twitter I went by the alias @transatlantic
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Peter Baker was a NY Times Moscow correspondent. He is also famously nonpartisan. So when he compares the current moment to when Putin consolidated power, we should take it seriously.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/real-chill...
By the time we left in late 2004, Moscow had been transformed. People who had happily talked with us at the start were now afraid to return our calls. “Now I have this fear all the time,” one told us at the time. There is a similar chill now in Washington. Every day someone who used to feel free to speak publicly against Mr. Trump says they will no longer let journalists quote them by name for fear of repercussions, both Democrats and Republicans…in decades of reporting in Washington, under Republicans and Democrats, it has never felt quite like this
March 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Nach Jahren des Zögerns und der Komfortzonen-Politik wird klar: Angesichts von Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und Trumps Rückzug aus der transatlantischen Wertegemeinschaft leitet Deutschland die Zeitenwende ein: Wir können auch anders.

Wird Deutschland sich Nuklearwaffen zulegen?
March 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM