A few thoughts about the new US national security strategy, especially the part about the growing influence of ‘patriotic’ parties, whose growing influence the current administration endorses:
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Yet, I was thinking more along the lines of supra-national entities like the EU, not in the direction of libertarian hellscapes. 😬 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T23:48:45.934Z)
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Since I’ve studied Colonial History (and read „After Tamerlane“ as part of the curriculum) I formed the honest opinion that nation states have been an improvement to colonial systems but that we’ll need something different for the future. > – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T23:48:45.933Z)
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At around 3:30, he gingerly explains that nation-states are outdated because Iran fell to an Islamic revolution. That’s like saying companies shouldn’t exists because some of them go bankrupt. You can tell that no one ever challenges these guys. They have lost all sight of logic. – Gil Durán (2025-12-05T23:42:29.545Z)
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Auch Mela: sich frustriert abwenden, um zur Kasse zu gehen „Oh!“ 2/2 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T23:38:59.000Z)
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Mela vor dem Regal Mülltüten: „Meh, haben die etwa keine Karlsruher Restmülltüten mehr? Sind die aus? Haben sie die aus dem Programm genommen? Muss ich jetzt wirklich zum Restmüllhof rausradeln um mir welche zu besorgen? Warum ist das Universum immer gegen mich?“ 1/2 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T23:38:53.000Z)
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Bitte keine Regenbogenarmbinden. Sport ist UnPolItiScH. 🤡 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T20:34:52.000Z)
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Was Südasien gerade an Sturmkatastrophen erlebt hat, ist geradezu beispiellos. Es ist eine Kette von Stürmen, angetrieben durch Effekte der Erderwärmung. Und mein Eindruck ist: Je stärker die Auswirkungen, umso mehr sinkt das Interesse bei uns news.un.org/en/story/202… – Frau Büüsker (2025-12-05T07:08:51.799Z)
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(Except if you hate the person you are gifting it to AND hate yourself AND hate trees or even if you hate eReaders.) – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T20:16:57.714Z)
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For really good reasons. I’m roughly in the middle and it is really really getting a tedious slog. Do not buy, Do not read it, and ABSOLUTELY DO NOT GIVE IT AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. – Tini Tarabiscoté*e / Christina Dongowski (2025-12-05T19:46:29.301Z)
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Their goal is power. Both enrichment and expansion are aspects of absolute power. – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T19:04:27.689Z)
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Was Mela sagt….ich hätte es nicht besser ausdrücken können.
Noch einen Nebenaspekt möchte ich ansprechen, er bezieht sich hierauf: (1/6)
www.t-online.de/sport/fussba… – Michael Schuster (2025-12-05T17:21:01.463Z)
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Das wird dazu führen, dass Babies sterben werden, die mit Impfung nicht gestorben wären. Und dass das Risiko, an Hepatitis B zu erkranken, für alle Babies & überhaupt Leute im Krankenhaus ansteigt. – Tini Tarabiscoté*e / Christina Dongowski (2025-12-05T16:12:03.198Z)
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<3 Danke. – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:44:41.542Z)
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Ich wünsche mir die Zeiten zurück, als man noch Witze drüber machen konnte. – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:24:49.811Z)
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It is a lot easier to deal with nations who are isolated from each other while basking in their own perceived ‘greatness’. Those, you can take one by one and Russia will, for sure, help.
Let’s hope I’m wrong. 12/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:02:09.000Z)
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After World War II, the United States had a clear security interest in encouraging European states to cooperate rather than dragging the world into yet another global conflict.
It might be a survival issue for todays US administration, to destroy Europe’s unity. 11/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:02:03.000Z)
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Not only because a thriving EU could showcase that there are better ways to govern nations and conduct international relations, but also because a strong EU might be the only entity that could endanger a kleptocratic US administration.
Unity is power. 10/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:58.000Z)
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In my opinion, the war of Russia against Ukraine began because Russia couldn’t allow a functioning, thriving alternative to their kleptocratic system to exist.
The same way, a kleptocratic US can’t allow a thriving EU to exist. 9/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:53.000Z)
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The US has moved closer to the group of nations ruled by autocrats whose goal first and foremost is their own enrichment and the enrichment of their closest allies. 8/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:48.000Z)
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So, why does the US national security strategy does endorse a development that will not only cost them allies, but will, most likely, destabilize Europe as a whole?
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I fear Anne Applebaum already outlined the reasons in ‘Autocracy Inc.’. 7/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:43.000Z)
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For ‘the West’ this approach has worked reasonably well and gave Europe (or at least parts of it) a period of unprecedented peace. One that had been seen as impossible by many before.
(Of course, other factors have contributed, too.) 6/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:37.000Z)
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This just means each nation is advocating for the needs of their own people while taking the needs of other nations or that of a collective of nations, like the EU, into their consideration. 5/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:32.000Z)
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But when mitigated by the will to compromise, find common ground and the realization that a working together might be more beneficial in a long run, that in itself is not a problem. 4/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:27.000Z)
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Stability creates security. Nationalism creates competition between states – and competition often escalates into conflict.
Nations have always first and foremost their own interests in mind. 3/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:22.000Z)
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I think it is safe to interpret ‘patriotic parties’ as ‘nationalist parties’.
Now, there is a thing. What has shaped the stability of Europe and ‘the West’ more than anything is the willingness to cooperate and compromise – supported by institutions and treaties built to enable exactly that. 2/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:17.000Z)
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A few thoughts about the new US national security strategy, especially the part about the growing influence of ‘patriotic’ parties, whose growing influence the current administration endorses:
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Thread by Ulrike Franke starts here: bsky.app/profile/rik… 1/12 – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T14:01:12.000Z)
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists. – Ulrike Franke (2025-12-05T09:49:45.549Z)
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Mit dieser Einstellung wäre die Opferzahl bei SARS 1 deutlich höher gewesen:
– Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T09:46:50.000Z)
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Man muss sowas ja immer wieder ins Bewusstsein rufen: Die Untätigkeit der meisten Parteien liegt nicht darin begründet, dass es zu wenige und zu kleine Demonstrationen oder zu unauffällige Aktionen gegen Nazis oder Klimakatastrophe gegeben hätte. – leonceundlena (2025-12-05T06:40:30.621Z)
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groan – Mela Eckenfels (2025-12-05T06:55:40.905Z)
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