Lithuania tried to negotiate in 1940—we ended up on trains to Siberia. Those who resisted were executed in basements or forests.

Ukraine negotiated—got the 2014 annexation.
Signed the Minsk agreements twice—got a full-scale war.

Appeasement never works.

Tijd voor een Europese inlichtingendienst.

Iedere dag laat Trump de Oekraïners een kilometer dieper vallen. Ook Europa is voor haar inlichtingen volledig afhankelijk van de VS. Nu is het tijd om onze eigen veiligheid en onze eigen toekomst ook in eigen handen te nemen.

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The world has changed and Europe must strengthen itself. We sent 9 concrete demands to national leaders ahead of the summit on Thursday to achieve that goal.

Vance ist zum Weißwurstfrüstück eingeladen, schmeißt die Schüssel um, tritt auf die Brezn, und gießt dem Gastgeber das Hefeweizen auf den Kopf bevor er unterm Rufen von ‚AfD wählen!‘ beim rausgehen laut die Tür zuknallt.

The right thing to do is not to give in to Russias threats anymore.

Why?

Because they will come back again and again as long as they are working.

Either support Ukraine now or deal with it later. In both cases, Europe has to get ready. Better stop it now.

Another day, another Project 2025 author added to the administration, despite the Trump campaign insisting they had nothing to do with Project 2025, disagreed with it, and even (the week before the election) that they would refuse to hire any of its authors.

Seit dem Hamas-Massaker wurden ein Drittel der jüdischen Gemeinden in Deutschland Opfer von Angriffen. Auf Straßen, in Wohnzimmern und Universitäten werden Menschenrechte, Freiheit, Würde und Schutz eingefordert, offenkundig aber nicht für Jüdinnen und Juden sowie den Staat Israel. Eine Schande!

"You have to win Zweikampf" (Sportfreunde Stiller)

"We speak a language we did not create; we use instruments we did not invent; we claim rights we did not establish; …We owe these...benefits of civilization to society, and although in general we do not see where they come from, we know at least that they are not of our own making.” (Emile Durkheim)

"Almost every school of thought has a baby and a bathwater. What’s worth keeping and what’s worth throwing out?”

David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life, 2016, p.3-5

“I generally find merit in almost all theorizing I read, and, moreover, I am always thinking about if, or where, I can use these ideas to build a more general theory.”
(Jonathan H Turner, in Abrutyn & McAffree 2021, Theoretical Sociology, The Future of a Disciplinary Foundation, p. 123)

"Evolution is always and everywhere", Niklas Luhmann, Theory of Society I