Philipp Sarasin
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Bücher: 1977. Eine kurze Geschichte der Gegenwart (Suhrkamp 2021); Michel Foucault zur Einführung (Junius, 8. Aufl. 2023); The Big City. A Visual Anthology (Scheidegger&Spiess, März 2026). web: https://philippsarasin.ch
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Donald #Trump denkt in chauvinistischen Großmachtkategorien – und genau so geht er an „Friedensverhandlungen“ über #Russlands Krieg gegen die #Ukraine heran. Er hat seit Beginn des Jahres das diplomatische Gleichgewicht zwischen den Kriegsparteien massiv zugunsten Russlands verschoben
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Donald #Trump denkt in chauvinistischen Großmachtkategorien – und genau so geht er an „Friedensverhandlungen“ über #Russlands Krieg gegen die #Ukraine heran. Er hat seit Beginn des Jahres das diplomatische Gleichgewicht zwischen den Kriegsparteien massiv zugunsten Russlands verschoben
Immigration fördern? 🤷♂️
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Immigration fördern? 🤷♂️
Ze schien nicht der Meinung der großen Mehrheit des Kommentariats zu sein, dass die Europäer (und er) nun auf Distanz zu Trump gehen sollten - er blieb vielmehr weiterhin unglaublich diplomatisch, und das Resultat der Genfer Verhandlungen gibt ihm vorerst recht. Der Mann hat Nerven aus Stahl.
⚡️ Update: 'Something good just may be happening,' Trump says after US-Ukraine peace consultations.
Trump hinted at "big progress" in peace efforts after the U.S.-Ukraine talks in Geneva, saying: "Don't believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening."
Trump hinted at "big progress" in peace efforts after the U.S.-Ukraine talks in Geneva, saying: "Don't believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening."
Zelensky may reportedly visit US this week to discuss peace plan with Trump
The possible visit would depend on the outcomes of the U.S.-Ukraine consultations in Geneva, according to CBS News.
kyivindependent.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ze schien nicht der Meinung der großen Mehrheit des Kommentariats zu sein, dass die Europäer (und er) nun auf Distanz zu Trump gehen sollten - er blieb vielmehr weiterhin unglaublich diplomatisch, und das Resultat der Genfer Verhandlungen gibt ihm vorerst recht. Der Mann hat Nerven aus Stahl.
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The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.
🔍 Zoom in…
🔍 Zoom in…
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.
🔍 Zoom in…
🔍 Zoom in…
Sehr überzeugende Rekonstruktion, wie dieser russische „peace plan“ in den US-amerikanischen Medienzyklus eingeschleust wurde und die Administration das jetzt schon fast notgedrungen als ihren eigenen verkauft. Heftig. 👇🏼
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macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
macspaunday.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Sehr überzeugende Rekonstruktion, wie dieser russische „peace plan“ in den US-amerikanischen Medienzyklus eingeschleust wurde und die Administration das jetzt schon fast notgedrungen als ihren eigenen verkauft. Heftig. 👇🏼
macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...
macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...
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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?
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Freiheit und Frieden liegen nicht verpackt unter dem Weihnachtsbaum. Sie fallen nicht vom Himmel und entstehen nicht durch aufgezwungene Kompromisse. Sie müssen verteidigt und erkämpft werden. Ukrainer zahlen täglich mit ihrem Leben. Wir Europäer dürfen nicht nachlassen. Kein Deal mit dem Aggressor.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Freiheit und Frieden liegen nicht verpackt unter dem Weihnachtsbaum. Sie fallen nicht vom Himmel und entstehen nicht durch aufgezwungene Kompromisse. Sie müssen verteidigt und erkämpft werden. Ukrainer zahlen täglich mit ihrem Leben. Wir Europäer dürfen nicht nachlassen. Kein Deal mit dem Aggressor.
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"European leaders, meeting today in panic mode, are paying a bitter price for their failure to seize the initiative. That is an indictment of their short-sightedness."
Feels like watching the same old painful movie since 2014 all over, all over, all over again...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Feels like watching the same old painful movie since 2014 all over, all over, all over again...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Donald Trump’s peace plan would be bad for Ukraine, Europe and America
It is a sad mix of naked opportunism and strategic myopia
www.economist.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"European leaders, meeting today in panic mode, are paying a bitter price for their failure to seize the initiative. That is an indictment of their short-sightedness."
Feels like watching the same old painful movie since 2014 all over, all over, all over again...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Feels like watching the same old painful movie since 2014 all over, all over, all over again...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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I expect to be reposting this every three months or so until the end of the Trump administration.
The more that members of the Trump administration talk, the more it sounds as if Plan A to stop the war was to coerce Ukraine into capitulation and Plan B was to keep repeating Plan A until it worked. When it became apparent that wasn't going to happen, they were out of ideas.
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I expect to be reposting this every three months or so until the end of the Trump administration.
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Queues for bread, lifeless bodies on the streets of Kharkiv, hungry children searching for food, half-dead animals, and deserted villages — this is how Kharkiv region appeared through the lens of Austrian engineer Alexander Wienerberger.
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Queues for bread, lifeless bodies on the streets of Kharkiv, hungry children searching for food, half-dead animals, and deserted villages — this is how Kharkiv region appeared through the lens of Austrian engineer Alexander Wienerberger.
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Every previous Trump attempt to force Ukraine and then Russia into agreements involved unrealistically quick deadlines that then fell apart as the Trump administration shifted to avoid acknowledging that its own position towards Ukraine and Russia is weaker than it claims it is
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Every previous Trump attempt to force Ukraine and then Russia into agreements involved unrealistically quick deadlines that then fell apart as the Trump administration shifted to avoid acknowledging that its own position towards Ukraine and Russia is weaker than it claims it is
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We need to stop calling it a ‘peace plan,’ even with sarcastic quotes around it. Call it the US-Kremlin plan or similar.
‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.
‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We need to stop calling it a ‘peace plan,’ even with sarcastic quotes around it. Call it the US-Kremlin plan or similar.
‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.
‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.
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Ein Korruptionsskandal mit Verbindungen bis in höchste Regierungsämter schlägt in der #Ukraine hohe Wellen. Politologe Serhij Kudelia erklärt, wie das Bestechungsschema funktioniert – und warum der Skandal wenig überraschend ist.
Interview: @annajik.bsky.social
Interview: @annajik.bsky.social
Korruption in der Ukraine: «Selenski ist eine Geisel des eigenen Systems»
Hundert Millionen Dollar Schmiergelder, Involvierte bis in die höchsten Regierungskreise: Der Skandal rund um den staatlichen Energiekonzern Enerhoatom schlägt hohe Wellen. Eine Einordnung des ukrainischen Politologen Serhij Kudelia.
www.woz.ch
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ein Korruptionsskandal mit Verbindungen bis in höchste Regierungsämter schlägt in der #Ukraine hohe Wellen. Politologe Serhij Kudelia erklärt, wie das Bestechungsschema funktioniert – und warum der Skandal wenig überraschend ist.
Interview: @annajik.bsky.social
Interview: @annajik.bsky.social
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Ukraine has formed a formal delegation for talks on Trump’s peace plan.The team is headed by Presidential Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak and includes NSDC Secretary Umerov, GUR chief Kyrylo Budanov, and other top defense and intelligence officials. Talks will take place in Switzerland.
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Ukraine has formed a formal delegation for talks on Trump’s peace plan.The team is headed by Presidential Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak and includes NSDC Secretary Umerov, GUR chief Kyrylo Budanov, and other top defense and intelligence officials. Talks will take place in Switzerland.
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A fascinating scene to understand how personalistic regimes work. First, there is an in-or-out decision by the leader. This is always in flux, deliberately uncertain and essential to extract rents and exert power. When you are on the inside the substance of what you say and do becomes secondary.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
A fascinating scene to understand how personalistic regimes work. First, there is an in-or-out decision by the leader. This is always in flux, deliberately uncertain and essential to extract rents and exert power. When you are on the inside the substance of what you say and do becomes secondary.
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Der russische Politologe Nikolai Mitrochin zum Ukraine-Plan: „In dem ganzen Putin-Trump-Plan sehe ich nur einen Zweck: Dass die Ukraine die Truppen aus dem Nordwestteil des Gebiets Donezk abzieht und Moskau wenigstens Kramatorsk und Slawjansk in relativ heilem Zustand und mit
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Der russische Politologe Nikolai Mitrochin zum Ukraine-Plan: „In dem ganzen Putin-Trump-Plan sehe ich nur einen Zweck: Dass die Ukraine die Truppen aus dem Nordwestteil des Gebiets Donezk abzieht und Moskau wenigstens Kramatorsk und Slawjansk in relativ heilem Zustand und mit
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Amazing
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Amazing
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Russia’s worsening economic climate, growing budget deficit, bleak forecasts, and now selling off its gold reserves, all point to a Kremlin growing desperate. Suddenly we’re handed a 28-point ‘peace plan’ with neither Ukraine nor Europe included.
Coincidence?
Coincidence?
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Russia’s worsening economic climate, growing budget deficit, bleak forecasts, and now selling off its gold reserves, all point to a Kremlin growing desperate. Suddenly we’re handed a 28-point ‘peace plan’ with neither Ukraine nor Europe included.
Coincidence?
Coincidence?
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Hysteria about a Trump Ukraine-Russia peace deal that is not going to happen also means no attention to signs of a Trump US-Venezuela war that looks increasingly likely to happen
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Hysteria about a Trump Ukraine-Russia peace deal that is not going to happen also means no attention to signs of a Trump US-Venezuela war that looks increasingly likely to happen
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Rechte sind ja solange "die neue Arbeiterpartei", wie sie die Stimme der Arbeiter wollen
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Rechte sind ja solange "die neue Arbeiterpartei", wie sie die Stimme der Arbeiter wollen
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EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas:
We have to understand that in this war, there is one aggressor and one victim.
We haven't heard of any concessions on the Russian side.
If Russia really wanted peace, it could have had agreed to unconditional ceasefire already some time ago.
We have to understand that in this war, there is one aggressor and one victim.
We haven't heard of any concessions on the Russian side.
If Russia really wanted peace, it could have had agreed to unconditional ceasefire already some time ago.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas:
We have to understand that in this war, there is one aggressor and one victim.
We haven't heard of any concessions on the Russian side.
If Russia really wanted peace, it could have had agreed to unconditional ceasefire already some time ago.
We have to understand that in this war, there is one aggressor and one victim.
We haven't heard of any concessions on the Russian side.
If Russia really wanted peace, it could have had agreed to unconditional ceasefire already some time ago.
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A poker player holding a royal flush would only fold if he intended to let someone else win.
That’s how Trump is acting in his negotiations with Russia
That’s how Trump is acting in his negotiations with Russia
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A poker player holding a royal flush would only fold if he intended to let someone else win.
That’s how Trump is acting in his negotiations with Russia
That’s how Trump is acting in his negotiations with Russia
So geht Kulturkampf von rechts: Die rechtsextreme VOX drängt die in verschiedenen Regionen Spaniens regierende „bürgerliche“ PP, erfolgreiche Schulprogramme für Arabisch zu streichen. Wo käme man denn hin, wenn man „die Anderen“ verstehen könnte. 🙄
La extrema derecha empuja a las autonomías del PP a eliminar de las escuelas un programa de enseñanza del árabe creado por Rajoy. Murcia y Madrid ya han cerrado el programa, en el que participaron 8.000 alumnos de 400 colegios en 2024 social.elpais.com/c_obl6
La extrema derecha empuja a las autonomías del PP a eliminar de las escuelas un programa de enseñanza del árabe creado por Rajoy
Murcia y Madrid ya han cerrado el programa, en el que participaron 8.000 alumnos de 400 colegios en 2024 en toda España. Cataluña (PSOE) pide al Ministerio de Educación que oculte los nombres de los centros participantes por las amenazas de ultras
social.elpais.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
So geht Kulturkampf von rechts: Die rechtsextreme VOX drängt die in verschiedenen Regionen Spaniens regierende „bürgerliche“ PP, erfolgreiche Schulprogramme für Arabisch zu streichen. Wo käme man denn hin, wenn man „die Anderen“ verstehen könnte. 🙄