A bit of 🇨🇦 Pride—but from atop a glacier this time.

Slava Ukraini from Vancouver Pride 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Spotted in Vancouver 🇨🇦

My #csdberlin #csd #berlinpride brunch is still brought to you by one important message— #MakeRussiaPay 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Chair of US House Financial Services Congressman French Hill calls on Europe to lead on #MakeRussiaPay - & seize $300 bn in frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine. on.ft.com/3IgoAeX

US Congressman French Hill has called on the EU to seize €258bn in frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. In a column for the Financial Times, he said the current policy of freezing the funds was insufficient and suggested creating a trust fund to move them into protected accounts. 1/3

Fans of 100% Tempelhofer Feld need to be very strong and brave today. Only a third of Berliners are against "building flats on selected outer areas of the area", while 44% are strongly in favour, acc to polling by @tagesspiegel.de and Civey.

If you know a Berlin gay, you will find him in one of two places tonight—in Madrid or at the @kylieminogue.music-social.com gig 🏳️‍🌈 & @bearaboi.bsky.social even flew in special!

FINLAND!!! 🇫🇮 The only Finnish I need to know tonight is: ikoninen #Eurovision

Stop Putin’s $300 bn bailout and seize Russia’s frozen assets. @billbrowder.bsky.social & I join @siliconcurtain.bsky.social to explain how we #MakeRussiaPay youtu.be/DKzqcj2FaAQ

#Eurovision2025 brings us the songs we were robbed of in 2020 and I’m here for it.

My 12 points go to Finland 🇫🇮🇪🇺 #Eurovision

Petra Mede is still #Eurovision host extraordinaire & sass Empress. But I must admit, Hazel Brugger is coming for Petra with iconic moves like this interview while bodysurfing. Queen.

@aarongburnett.bsky.social and @billbrowder.bsky.social - We must choke off funding to Putin's war economy to bring his aggression to an end - including finally handing the $300bn of Russian Central Bank assets to Ukraine (not back to Putin). youtu.be/DKzqcj2FaAQ

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @aarongburnett.bsky.social on Merz's startling stumble, @burcuozcelik.bsky.social and Gregory Scruggs on the day's other stuff, and Tim Birkhead introduces his new study of the wretched demise and strange immortality of the great auk. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Joined Monocle Radio to talk #MakeRussiaPay - & our @dsi-strategy.bsky.social open letter signed by 4 former Prime Ministers, among 70+ prominent signatories, calling for G7 Chair Canada to lead on seizing Russia's frozen assets. Segment at 9:30 mark. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Stop Putin’s $300 bn bailout! #MakeRussiaPay before July 31st—when EU sanctions next come up for renewal. My interview with @sumlenny.bsky.social

Confiscate russia's assets before it is too late! An insightful (and scary!) #EuroResilience interview with brilliant @aarongburnett.bsky.social: youtu.be/2oG6rMdwKWc

Impressive line up of signatories to open letter in 🇨🇦 National Post calling for seizing & transferring $300 bn in Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine and preventing a bailout for Putin. Spearheaded by DSI, The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. #MakeRussiaPay nationalpost.com/opinion/opin...

The world is watching. Global leaders are signatories to this initiative. Russia MUST be held accountable. Canada MUST lead to ensure the US$300B in Russian state assets held in Europe goes to #Ukraine - not back to Russia. We can’t allow a bailout & let Putin's war machine continue. bit.ly/3S0CiUD

Canada can lead the way and others should follow asap.👇🏼 Kudos to my colleague @aarongburnett.bsky.social for his tremendous work on seizing Russia’s frozen assets. #MakeRussiaPay

An immense honour to be among 70+ signatories to this letter - calling on Canada’s next PM - whoever it is - to use our G7 chairmanship & lead on #MakeRussiaPay - or risk a $300bn bailout for Putin. Signed by 4 former PMs, spearheaded by @dsi-strategy.bsky.social nationalpost.com/opinion/opin...

The latest on the war in #Ukraine including Putin’s ‘new’ old demands that Ukraine capitulate, not receive security guarantees and handover territory. @thestudyofwar.bsky.social

A great development in the #MakeRussiaPay fight! The Conservatives are the 1st Canadian party to explicitly, publicly commit to seizing $22 billion in frozen Russian state assets denominated in CAD! 🇨🇦🇺🇦 I hope more parties will follow, but kudos to going first! www.conservative.ca/conservative...

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

A very German political scandal gets a Canadian edition.

Trump has nothing to worry about on a Canada-EU team-up if Canada doesn’t get serious about shipping what the EU actually needs—LNG & critical minerals. Otherwise, Trump & Putin can be assured “Elbows Up” is an empty phrase. Me for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

If Europe doesn’t act to seize Russia’s state assets and #MakeRussiaPay soon, Putin could end up getting a $300bn bailout. As @martinsandbu.ft.com writes, that would be a strategic catastrophe—& a betrayal of Ukraine dwarfing any by Trump thus far. www.ft.com/content/3cab...

Very happy to have been part of this excellent panel!!

At last week’s #CafeKyiv panel on CRINK, I mentioned a great & very timely @dsi-strategy.bsky.social piece by Jochen Kleinschmidt on why Germany needs to dispense with its obsession with multipolarity. Read it here! democraticstrategy.substack.com/p/multipolar...

Merkel was likened to an anti-Trump in 2016. But when it comes to Russia and European security, I challenge you to spot the difference.

Europe must be ready to defeat Russia in 3-5 years. Big money is coming, but spending it on lots of old platforms (tanks, IFVs), won't get us what we need in time - & will arm for the last war. Europe needs a tech-based 'Offset' strategy My new report 👇 www.democratic-strategy.net/s-projects-b...

Mark Rutte may as well have given a press conference where he took the mic, said “We’ve learned absolutely nothing” and then left. It would have saved time. www.politico.eu/article/nato...

We have questions about the details of ceasefire, such as the continuing existence of Ukraine after it.

Putin refuses ceasefire—which as @mattian.bsky.social @sumlenny.bsky.social & I previously told @julianroepcke.bsky.social we expected. Read our analysis of what happens next. www.bild.de/politik/ausl...

An immense honour to moderate this panel on stopping the CRINK (🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇰🇵) Axis of Authoritarians in Ukraine & Beyond at #CafeKyiv 🇺🇦 With @rodki.bsky.social & many more.

#MakeRussiaPay team hits #CafeKyiv 🇺🇦

Thank you @julianroepcke.bsky.social for moderating an excellent @dsi-strategy.bsky.social panel on Russia’s Info War against the West—& how we win it. With: @dornblueth.bsky.social @robinwagener.bsky.social @makeiev.bsky.social & Arndt Freytag vin Loringhoven

Very proud that we @dsi-strategy.bsky.social & Director @bctallis.bsky.social brought #CafeKyiv this important panel - Ukraine can help us all WIN - and for our own security this must be the goal.

Es war eine Ehre, dieses Panel zum Thema Konfiskation der russischen Vermögenswerte bei #CafeKyiv zu moderieren. Vielen Dank an unsere Experten Dr. Sebastian Schäfer MdB, Prof. Andreas Paulus, Dr. Patrick Heinemann, Mattia Nelles und an die Konrad Adenauer Stiftung für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!

My speech on Europe's urgent need to focus on emerging defence technologies to get ready to defeat Russia, fast (from the Lithuanian 🇱🇹 - 🇩🇪 German forum) (07/03/25) www.lrt.lt/mediateka/ir...

Former UK PM @rishisunak.bsky.social publicly endorses #MakeRussiaPay He outlines here the reasons why seizing Russia’s frozen state assets and transferring them to Ukraine is legal, economically feasible, strategically imperative and the right thing to do. www.thetimes.com/article/3872...

#MakeRussiaPay is getting a special @dsi-strategy.bsky.social focus at #cafekyiv in partnership with @razomforukraine.org & @mattian.bsky.social DUB. 2 panels—1 🇩🇪 & 1 🇬🇧, take up why seizing Russia’s state assets is strategically imperative. @britta-jacob.bsky.social @patrickheinemann.bsky.social

Glad to join Bernd Althusman & KAS Canada for their podcast episode on the 🇨🇦 Liberal leadership race and the upcoming federal election season (whenever the writ drops). open.spotify.com/episode/2hO5...

Very much looking forward to moderating this discussion on #makerussiapay 👇🏼

And very much looking forward to moderating this discussion on how we sink CRINK ( 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇮🇷 🇰🇵) with a host of experts on these authoritarians—including @rodki.bsky.social

I’m looking forward to moderating our second #MakeRussiaPay panel—this one in English—on the strategic necessity of seizing Russia’s assets and sending them to Ukraine. #cafekyiv

Our @dsi-strategy.bsky.social prep for Europe’s most outstanding event on Ukraine -#cafekyiv - is in full swing. Director @bctallis.bsky.social will help kick it off with this panel on Ukraine’s central role in getting better strategy in Europe.

Glad to join @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social Day Six to talk why 🇨🇦 must seize its $22bn share of Russia’s frozen state assets—and how Canada can move its share to accounts it can independently keep frozen. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...