Tyson Barker
Writing about 🇺🇸 🇪🇺relations, Ukraine's promise, economic statecraft + tech & foreign policy.
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Ich habe mit @tysonbarker.bsky.social über die Frage gesprochen, wie Europa sich von seiner sicherheitspolitischen Abhängigkeit von den USA lösen kann. Er hat in der Biden-Regierung Europa- und Ukrainepolitik mitgestaltet, hat also unmittelbare Kenntnis des Themas. www.diepresse.com/20526912/us-... - Reposted by Tyson Barker[Not loaded yet]
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- Terrible precedent …
- In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...
- So, the acronym for the agency previously known as the Department of Defense should now be pronounces as follows:
- Mark your calendars: We don't know what the 🇫🇷 govt will look like, but we do know that on Nov 18 🇩🇪 & 🇫🇷 will co-host a European Summit on Digital Sovereignty in Berlin. bmds.bund.de/aktuelles/pr....
- Want to know Trump’s anchor posture on 🇺🇦 ? Where you stand is where you sit: his front bench is the VP Vance, Sec Rubio & his in-house Putin-Versteher, Witkoff - the same 3 he put in charge of security guarantees. Even meeting w the Ukrainians, his Ukr point, Kellogg, is 2nd row
- “Root causes” defined = Ukraine as a democratic country independent from total Russian subservience. That is what “root causes” means. That’s what Putin wants to “address”. It’s as simple as that. No matter how clinical and academic “root causes” might sound.
- Incredible show of unity and force by Europe.
- Reposted by Tyson Barker🗣️ Rebuilding Ukraine Simon O'Connor in podcast conversation with @rebeccawire.bsky.social @tysonbarker.bsky.social & @eribakova.bsky.social on how the EU and international partners are helping to finance recovery and support reconstruction in a conflict zone. 🔗 Listen here: buff.ly/qK69HFK
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- What exactly is this cross branding supposed to mean? Is the chicken injected with acid?
- Today is Germany's first Veterans Day. It's hard to underestimate the tectonic shifts that had to happen to bring about. In important milestone toward honoring & understanding the 🇩🇪 veteran experience. www.dw.com/de/so-feiert...
- My interview with the Kyiv Post on what the Merz Washington visit could mean for Ukraine. www.kyivpost.com/post/53764
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- Germany has overtaken Japan as the world’s largestt crediter www.t-online.de/finanzen/akt...
- Against the backdrop RU bombs & diplomatic bad faith, the 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Reconstruction Investment Fund came into force today. As Mustafa Nayyem & I write in @lawfaremedia.org today, with it, the Trump Admin has now effectively taken an ownership stake in Ukraine’s success. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/char...
- Former 🇺🇸 Amb Bridget writes why Trump’s Reset 5.0 policy amid Russia’s full scale invasion led her to resign from government service eu.freep.com/story/opinio...
- Of course the devil is in the details but we have to: 1) admire the ambition of the Merz govt & 2) ask whether Trump’s approach is more effective than the so-called Atlanticists (it seems like it is). Perhaps what the Euro-Atlantic relationship needs is indeed more hard ball. on.ft.com/3SAG3jU
- Merz invited Trump visit to 🇩🇪. DJT only visited officially once in his 1st term, to Hamburg for the 2017 G20. my advice to 🇩🇪: think pomp & tradtion (ex. Potsdam or Bavaria) rather than the austere rickiticki modernity of Berlin’s govt quarter. Sounds stupid but matters www.dw.com/de/news-komp...
- Funny. Because I have been thinking how much Trump’s approach to demolishing the dollar’s role in the global economic system reminds me of Truss-economics. In a nutshell: Use policy to decimate your credibility.
- At SAIS in 2007, I took an 🇫🇷 politics class taught by Phil Gordon, about Mitterrand's warnings about the "Albanian economic model” - the isolated, protectionist, dictatorial, repressive state under Hoxha’s regime. It feels a bit like Trump took all the wrong lessons from the Albanian model.
- On Berlin’s Savigny Platz. Couldn’t agree more.
- For this “Liberation Day,” I liberated myself from Twitter. I also liberated myself from my remaining Tesla stock (had to sell low)
- Here's what Witkoff is: a billionaire 💰💰💰. That makes him a Trump admin “principal,” a net value based near-peer in Trump’s world. Other “principals” incl Bessent, Lutnick & Musk. Others- frmr Senators, generals, Congressmen - they’re staffers. Vance is a staffer. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
- 🇫🇷National Assembly voted 288 to 54 for a resolution to strengthen 🇺🇦 support & seize all frozen Russian assets. (All mainstream parties supported; La France Insoumise (LFI) & some Communist MPs voted against; The National Rally (RN) abstained) www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
- This bald eagle was 3-D printed in one of 🇺🇦 Skyfall's 27 factories by one of its 1K 3D printers - Europe’s largest 3D printer fleet. Skyfall is produces 7K large-scale bomber drones a month & 7K Vampire drones a day. This bald eagle was given to me in Nov 2024 in appreciation for 🇺🇸 assistance.
- Germany is actively discussing the seizure of the full $300B corpus of the Russian sovereign assets #CafeKyiv
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