Metternich
@metternich.bsky.social
Half-Kraut, Frog upbringing, Rosbif loyalty. MSc.LSE Politics & Govt of Europe. Refugee from the moral sewer that is X. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
Muscovy's eternal malevolence is a given.
The Benighted States' dismal and shameful response is unforgivable.
Brave, stoic, resilient Ukraine will overcome the former leader of the free world's betrayal.
But the reputation, credibility and soft power of the terminally-shallow US is lost foerever.
The Benighted States' dismal and shameful response is unforgivable.
Brave, stoic, resilient Ukraine will overcome the former leader of the free world's betrayal.
But the reputation, credibility and soft power of the terminally-shallow US is lost foerever.
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Muscovy's eternal malevolence is a given.
The Benighted States' dismal and shameful response is unforgivable.
Brave, stoic, resilient Ukraine will overcome the former leader of the free world's betrayal.
But the reputation, credibility and soft power of the terminally-shallow US is lost foerever.
The Benighted States' dismal and shameful response is unforgivable.
Brave, stoic, resilient Ukraine will overcome the former leader of the free world's betrayal.
But the reputation, credibility and soft power of the terminally-shallow US is lost foerever.
Europe, Canada, Japan et al. have already begun to make 'alternative arrangements'. The trend is clear, even after Trump.
This formerly pro-American European centrist will never trust it again, or forgive it for its betrayal of brave, freedom-loving Ukraine.
This formerly pro-American European centrist will never trust it again, or forgive it for its betrayal of brave, freedom-loving Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Europe, Canada, Japan et al. have already begun to make 'alternative arrangements'. The trend is clear, even after Trump.
This formerly pro-American European centrist will never trust it again, or forgive it for its betrayal of brave, freedom-loving Ukraine.
This formerly pro-American European centrist will never trust it again, or forgive it for its betrayal of brave, freedom-loving Ukraine.
A grotesque tv game show host has ended the American Century and turned the Benighted States into a tragic geopolitical joke.
Stoic, long-suffering Ukraine will overcome the betrayal.
The US's reputation, credibility and soft power will not.
Stoic, long-suffering Ukraine will overcome the betrayal.
The US's reputation, credibility and soft power will not.
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A grotesque tv game show host has ended the American Century and turned the Benighted States into a tragic geopolitical joke.
Stoic, long-suffering Ukraine will overcome the betrayal.
The US's reputation, credibility and soft power will not.
Stoic, long-suffering Ukraine will overcome the betrayal.
The US's reputation, credibility and soft power will not.
It's a Grok of shit. It should be banned in Europe.
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's a Grok of shit. It should be banned in Europe.
Begone Benighted States.
You're an international embarrassment for liberal democratic values and the rule of law. You're a tragic geopolitical joke.
You nauseate this European centrist.
Begone.
You're an international embarrassment for liberal democratic values and the rule of law. You're a tragic geopolitical joke.
You nauseate this European centrist.
Begone.
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Begone Benighted States.
You're an international embarrassment for liberal democratic values and the rule of law. You're a tragic geopolitical joke.
You nauseate this European centrist.
Begone.
You're an international embarrassment for liberal democratic values and the rule of law. You're a tragic geopolitical joke.
You nauseate this European centrist.
Begone.
Press-ganging Ukrainian men and kidnapping & brainwashing Ukraine's children.
Pure Russian evil.
Which is why stoic, freedom-loving Ukraine is so determined to fight for its existence.
And why complacent Europe must do all in its power to help it recover all its land.
Its struggle is also Europe's.
Pure Russian evil.
Which is why stoic, freedom-loving Ukraine is so determined to fight for its existence.
And why complacent Europe must do all in its power to help it recover all its land.
Its struggle is also Europe's.
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Press-ganging Ukrainian men and kidnapping & brainwashing Ukraine's children.
Pure Russian evil.
Which is why stoic, freedom-loving Ukraine is so determined to fight for its existence.
And why complacent Europe must do all in its power to help it recover all its land.
Its struggle is also Europe's.
Pure Russian evil.
Which is why stoic, freedom-loving Ukraine is so determined to fight for its existence.
And why complacent Europe must do all in its power to help it recover all its land.
Its struggle is also Europe's.
I much prefer civilised and nuanced BlueSky to the poison of the ghastly junkie's TrollSky.
However, am I a digital clot, or is it impossible to view the Blue in landscape form?
I use my tablet more than my phone.
However, am I a digital clot, or is it impossible to view the Blue in landscape form?
I use my tablet more than my phone.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I much prefer civilised and nuanced BlueSky to the poison of the ghastly junkie's TrollSky.
However, am I a digital clot, or is it impossible to view the Blue in landscape form?
I use my tablet more than my phone.
However, am I a digital clot, or is it impossible to view the Blue in landscape form?
I use my tablet more than my phone.
To be fair, given the obscene cost of higher education, one can't blame them.
I look forward to the day when not-absolutely-fucking-everything in the economy is not monetised to death.
"Price of everything... value of nothing.'
I look forward to the day when not-absolutely-fucking-everything in the economy is not monetised to death.
"Price of everything... value of nothing.'
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
To be fair, given the obscene cost of higher education, one can't blame them.
I look forward to the day when not-absolutely-fucking-everything in the economy is not monetised to death.
"Price of everything... value of nothing.'
I look forward to the day when not-absolutely-fucking-everything in the economy is not monetised to death.
"Price of everything... value of nothing.'
I suspect that you mark students'essays and can recognise the dead hand of AI a mile away.
Soul-crushing indeed.
Soul-crushing indeed.
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I suspect that you mark students'essays and can recognise the dead hand of AI a mile away.
Soul-crushing indeed.
Soul-crushing indeed.
5 million Norwegians hit the crude oil jackpot back in the 1960's.
Good for them.
Liberal democracy has always been a threatened minority on the backfoot in a world that tends to have a boner for strongmen offering simplistic solutions.
Here's hoping that Norway does more for freedom-loving Ukraine.
Good for them.
Liberal democracy has always been a threatened minority on the backfoot in a world that tends to have a boner for strongmen offering simplistic solutions.
Here's hoping that Norway does more for freedom-loving Ukraine.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
5 million Norwegians hit the crude oil jackpot back in the 1960's.
Good for them.
Liberal democracy has always been a threatened minority on the backfoot in a world that tends to have a boner for strongmen offering simplistic solutions.
Here's hoping that Norway does more for freedom-loving Ukraine.
Good for them.
Liberal democracy has always been a threatened minority on the backfoot in a world that tends to have a boner for strongmen offering simplistic solutions.
Here's hoping that Norway does more for freedom-loving Ukraine.
From this European's point of view the worst thing about this obscene inequality is that the Benighted States, through its sheer size, has inflicted its ghastly economic model, glorifying greed and selfishness, on the rest of us. Ugh!
October 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
From this European's point of view the worst thing about this obscene inequality is that the Benighted States, through its sheer size, has inflicted its ghastly economic model, glorifying greed and selfishness, on the rest of us. Ugh!
Shades of Baghdad-on-Moskva.
October 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Shades of Baghdad-on-Moskva.
A country that voted for a fatuous, dangerous monster not once, but twice, has become terminally unserious and a sad geopolitical joke.
The Benighted States is and has always been a transactional, unreliable ally.
Europe's naive wishful thinking about the goofy US must end.
#selfreliance above all.
The Benighted States is and has always been a transactional, unreliable ally.
Europe's naive wishful thinking about the goofy US must end.
#selfreliance above all.
October 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A country that voted for a fatuous, dangerous monster not once, but twice, has become terminally unserious and a sad geopolitical joke.
The Benighted States is and has always been a transactional, unreliable ally.
Europe's naive wishful thinking about the goofy US must end.
#selfreliance above all.
The Benighted States is and has always been a transactional, unreliable ally.
Europe's naive wishful thinking about the goofy US must end.
#selfreliance above all.
The trouble is that Russian normality is not normal.
Russians have a chance of becoming 'normal' only after their empire has been defeated and dismantled.
Russians have a chance of becoming 'normal' only after their empire has been defeated and dismantled.
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The trouble is that Russian normality is not normal.
Russians have a chance of becoming 'normal' only after their empire has been defeated and dismantled.
Russians have a chance of becoming 'normal' only after their empire has been defeated and dismantled.
Human greed has always been with us, but, fair to say, the Benighted States has successfully turned it into a diabolic art form.
To the detriment of the mental health and quality of life of 'pursuit of Happiness' Americans.
To the detriment of the mental health and quality of life of 'pursuit of Happiness' Americans.
October 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Human greed has always been with us, but, fair to say, the Benighted States has successfully turned it into a diabolic art form.
To the detriment of the mental health and quality of life of 'pursuit of Happiness' Americans.
To the detriment of the mental health and quality of life of 'pursuit of Happiness' Americans.
Spoiler alert: stupidity and greed persisted.
October 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Spoiler alert: stupidity and greed persisted.
I always feel more intelligent after listening to Frum's podcasts.
October 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I always feel more intelligent after listening to Frum's podcasts.
It's a pity he died.....instantly.
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's a pity he died.....instantly.
I have a wistful feeling for the Polish and Lithuanian occupation of Moscow between 1610 and 1612
If only it had lasted longer...
If only it had lasted longer...
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I have a wistful feeling for the Polish and Lithuanian occupation of Moscow between 1610 and 1612
If only it had lasted longer...
If only it had lasted longer...
Begone evil muscovy.
You serve no purpose in the modern world.
Except to continually remind humanity of its incessant evil and stupidity.
You serve no purpose in the modern world.
Except to continually remind humanity of its incessant evil and stupidity.
August 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Begone evil muscovy.
You serve no purpose in the modern world.
Except to continually remind humanity of its incessant evil and stupidity.
You serve no purpose in the modern world.
Except to continually remind humanity of its incessant evil and stupidity.