En imponerende mann besøkte Oslo i dag. Interessant å høre hva han hadde å si om utsiktene for fred: Ikke så gode så lenge Putin ikke vil ha fred, sa han til meg.

Donald Trump er visst igjen bekymret for alle soldatene som blir drept i #Ukraina. Empati? Noen som har sett et fnugg av empati fra den mannen tidligere?

Om #Trump er blitt sagt av mange ledere i flere uker nå: «Ord er ikke handling. La oss se hva han gjør først.» Nå når det viser seg at handlingene i noen tilfeller er verre enn hva han sa, hva tenker man da?

Wonder if there is any Champagne left in Moscow after this weekend. #Putin has shown he was smart to hang in there and wait. Now, NATO is divided, Europe is in Panic and Russia likely on its way to being welcomed back to international fora. And Trump pressuring Ukraine to accept a protection racket

Ellevill seanse i Det ovale kontor nå. Trump, en sørafrikansk forretningsmann og hans sønn forsøker å forklare folk hvor korrupte alle andre er.

One of today’s best pieces of news, largely ignored by most media organizations here: The Baltic States, and hence the EU are now totally energy independent from #Russia. No more blackmail!

Arab Americans for Trump, som nå er sure og har funnet ut at de må endre navn. Der har du en gjeng…

I kveld trenger jeg å lese litt mer om individer som ønsker diktatur fremfor demokrati. De som tviholder på å si sine radikale meninger på nettet og foran Stortinget, tilsynelatende uvitende om at i et autoritært regime vil de bli fratatt nettopp disse rettighetene, og andre. Litteraturforslag?

Trumps melding til Putin nettopp sier vel omtrent alt om kunnskapsnivået i Det hvite hus akkurat nå.

The White House of Biden has been true to the theory of the Escalation Ladder. Only now, crucial parts of the Shadow Fleet is being targeted. Nothing has worked to deter Putin so far. Makes you wonder if the Kennan theorems are effective at all when dealing with usurping madmen.

Under valgkampen lovet Trump mye. Trolig altfor mye. Jeg tror det er i dette lys hans skandaløse utspill om Grønland, Panama og Canada må tolkes. Les min siste analyse her: www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...?

Det å bli del av USA høres kanskje fint ut. Men kanskje grønlendere som mener dette bør ta seg en prat med puertoricanerne. Spesielt hvordan de følte støtten etter orkanen Maria var. Og det at de ikke har full stemmerett.

Det er bare å forberede seg. Hvis de første fire år var spinnville, starter straks fire nye år med Trump, og de tror jeg blir verre. I dag var bare en forsmak.

I would say we’re heading into the most consequential 18 days of the #Ukraine war. Now, until the inauguration.

Russia shooting down civilian airliners and rogue Russia-chartered vessels cutting undersea cables sure don’t create much of an impression in newsrooms anymore. The new normal has arrived. Just the state of affairs we have to accept?

When allies need to rearm to protect against … allies, are allies really that or the opposite? www.bbc.com/news/article...

For de som ga uttrykk for at denne artikkelen overdrev de ukrainske tjenestenes rekkevidde og dristighet, bidrar kanskje det siste bombeattentatet mot general Kirillov, i sentrum av Moskva til å oppklare ting. Den kanskje mest vågale aksjonen så langt… www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...

Poor Russian troops are hungry. www.rferl.org/a/33240736.h...

Yeah. US politics is going to be crazy good entertainment for us Europeans the next four years. But possibly lethal to Americans themselves. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

With US Federal Authorities playing down the NJ drone threat, Is it possible, just possible that the East Coast drone hysteria could be the result of US Government testing new classified systems? If they had wanted to, they would have taken them down in a heartbeat.

Ukraina utvider sin skyggekrig mot Russland - slår til der Putin minst venter det. Er en ny etterretningsstormakt i ferd med å entre den globale arena? Les analysen her: www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...

Familien Assads nye liv i Russland. En dans på roser eller en tango med torner? Les mine tanker her. www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...

En historie fra den gang ingen ville snakke om hybridkrig, og jeg fikk den russiske ambassaden på nakken. www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...?

Syria - en Katastrofe for Putin. Les min siste anyse her www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...

Maybe he and his entourage will get drafted to the СВО

My guess would be that the IDF is hunting for chemical weapons.

Some timeless wisdom confirmed by the last few hours of events in Syria: 1) Autocratic dictatorships will always go belly up in a dramatic boom. 2) Alliances with Russia are basically worthless. 3) Always expect the unexpected

I interviewed Lavrov a few times. No big deal and nothing to make a fuss about. He can be a bit grumpy but maybe that’s because he didn’t like my questions. I’m sure he and Tucker will have a great time together, though.

Nedtellingen til #Trump har startet og nå haster det for #Putin. Forrige uke var prisen han betalte 35 russiske soldater per kvadratkilometer land han erobret fra #Ukraina. Les min siste analyse her: www.tv2.no/mening_og_an...?

⚡️Kremlin dismisses commander of its forces in Syria amid 'significant' losses, Ukraine's military intelligence says. Some Russian units are surrounded, and "hundreds" of Russian soldiers are missing, according to Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR).

What are the chances that the rebel offensive in Syria is Turkey’s play to get Russia out of the country, and see if it also might make a decisive shift in Ukraine?

A felon as ambassador. Why not, in the name of diversity?

Tbilisi is Maidan 2014 right now. The confrontation will only get worse as police seems to be using more violence against protesters. And at the moment when it gets out of control and live bullets start flying, the Kremlin emplaced regime will be toast.

Skulle likt å se på 80-tallet at noen klaget over at de ikke fikk gjøre førstegangstjeneste. Alt som skulle til var litt konkurranse om «godet».

The rebel offensive in Syria was the last thing Putin needed. And he won’t have the resources to prop up the regime this time. AND Hezbollah has been crushed. All of this known to rebels of all colours. It will be a mess.

Og da ser Trumps formel for fred i Ukraina ut til å være klar. Mye dårlig nytt for Europa her. www.cnn.com/2024/11/29/e...

Putin stingily characterised Trump as “experienced and intelligent” today. They having a break-up? What about “honest” and “moral”?

Jeg er nå opp på 15 prosent av antall følgere fra X her på Bluesky - ila 2 uker. Lovende, men har en anelse om at plattformens raske vekst kanskje er i ferd med å avta litt…

Since many of you are no longer “there” and since it is strictly forbidden to criticize or make fun of the tech genius “there”, I’m just putting his argument to ground F35s up here, so that people can do what they want with it.

Jeg er glad for å kunne annonsere at nettsiden min nå er oppe igjen og alle dere som har etterspurt signerte bøker kan igjen bestille. Sjekk ut min thrillerserie nå, før mim neste bok overrumpler deg www.oysteinbogen.no

As I’ve always said, Russians could probably live off cabbage and potatoes for decades if that was all their leader offered them. But now that potato prices have increased a whopping 64 percent…I don’t know where this country is headed. 🤔

Trump is back and I’m back at my old habits. Staying up way too late here in Europe to watch the US madness unfold on @CNN. Those were stressful, but entertaining years last time. Chances are it will be wilder this time around.

Here’s an idea for news media struggling to survive in the new post-post modern world: bring an option to pay per article through Google/ApplePay. Am sick & tired of having to go through subscribe, then cancel, then coping with spam for ages just for really wanting to read a specific piece.

A prediction for what Trump’s peace plan might look like: lots of blustering, lots of calls to Putin. Brief ceasefire. Then the whole thing falls apart. Will still be portrayed as success, but “both sides to blame”. Then he has reason to forget a war that in his mind doesn’t exist and stop funding.

It will be like a new episode of The Apprentice. Every week for four years. It was what America wanted. I Can’t wait www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/p...

Tok en tur innom #Xitter i kveld. Ble så deppa og sur at jeg kom rett tilbake hit.

As this platform grows Bluesky needs to find a way to verify high profile/official accounts that is easy for users to see.

“Peaceful means”: Poland 1939 Finland 1939 Hungary 1956 Czechoslovakia 1968 Afghanistan 1979 Chechnya 1996 Chechnya 1999 Georgia 2008 Krym 2014 Donbas 2014 Ukraine 2022