Samtidsengagerad historiker. Folklig elitist. Norrbagge i Hammarby sjöstad. Lokalpolitiker på Södermalm och kanslichef (C) i Region Stockholm.
Stockholm, Sverige
Joined January 2013
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Lars Rottem Krangnes retweeted
This is demonstrably true. Previously, each Vatnik Soup thread received between 300k and 5M impressions. Now, we're lucky if we get 100k.
Our annual views have dropped from 700M to 280M. Posts about Ukraine shared by accounts with millions of followers barely get any traction, whereas our more generic posts about AI, for example, can get millions of views.
Ukraine is still one of the hottest topics on this platform, yet voices supporting the country are being throttled, just like Starlink/Starshield was.
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Romina Pourmokhtari (L) sa minst 10 gånger att hon inte vill se Magdalena Andersson som ledare för en mittenregering.
Men vad händer om @BuschEbba leder den i stället, frågar sig @SimonEek3: aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/4OJ2…
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”Jag har svårt att se att Ryssland blir avskräckt av fler regementen på glesbygden eller ens av fler stridsvagnar på Östgötaslätten”
Jag skriver om försvarspolitiken inför mandatperioden, regementsbingo och dess största brist: långräckviddig bekämpning.
Lars Rottem Krangnes retweeted
On October 16, 2019, I told Donald Trump, “With you, Mr. President, all roads lead to Putin.”
On October 16, 2026, Trump signed an executive order waiving new sanctions on Russia passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed into law just last month.
This decision insults America’s commitment to democracy and our brave men and women in uniform, as Russia helps Iran target American forces.
I join Republican senators in condemning this unconscionable capitulation to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians.
As I have asked for years: What does Putin have on Trump that he would sell out America’s values?
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Man kan alltså lägga ned ett veckoslut på att läsa tidningar? undrade min pojkvän. Jag svarade att ett veckoslut inte räcker någonstans.
Ett av de största problemen med att bo i Tyskland är att det finns för många bra tidningar som man inte hinner läsa.
dn.se/varlden/anna-lena-laur…
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Regeringsfäigt.
expressen.se/nyheter/sverige…
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Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread. 🧵
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Norwegian sprinters have a natural instinct to replicate Munch's The Scream after a breakthrough performance
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Skuddene mod en dansk militærhelikopter er Putins seneste test af Europa.
Diplomatiske alvorsord er ikke nok.
Hver fjendtlig handling skal have en mærkbar pris. Øg støtten til Ukraine. Brug de indefrosne russiske aktiver.
Troværdig afskrækkelse kræver mærkbare konsekvenser.
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We have seen Russia’s dangerous recklessness at full display in the past 48 hours.
A Russian warship fired flares at a Danish helicopter.
NATO jets had to shoot down a drone over Lithuania.
Russia struck a passenger train near the border with Ukraine.
And Poland pulled a drone from its shores.
We need to be clear-eyed: those are not accidents.
They are calculated attempts by Russia to weaken our resolve.
Europe will not dial back its support for Ukraine.
My intervention in #EPlenary ↓
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The three Kings of Norway 🇳🇴, Denmark 🇩🇰 and Sweden 🇸🇪 in Oslo today. We belong together in the Nordic world.
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If Marine Le Pen wins the French presidency, which current polling suggests is likely, France will not defend anyone against Russia.
That makes a Russian invasion of the Baltics or Finland far more probable, and Europe must prepare immediately. Time is rapidly running out
Lars Rottem Krangnes retweeted
We live in very strange times.
The oldest president in the US history is sleeping, while his Secretary of Health is shaking uncontrollably, all while pushing their conspiracies about vaccines.
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Hillary Clinton: I said this months ago, if Trump got honorable peace for Ukraine I’d nominate him for Nobel Peace Prize. But he’s more interested in his relationship with Putin. I don’t know reasons for that, but he wants Putin’s favor even more than he wants Nobel Peace Prize.
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Takk til Dagsavisens lederartikkel, som avslutter slik:
«Hvis det er finansielle hindre for at Ukraina klarer å forsvare seg, må vi stille opp med enda mer. Vi har tjent godt på krigen i øst. Det er ingen skam, men et ufravikelig faktum.»
dagsavisen.no/kommentar/krit…
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Visst, det är många som lämnat @liberalerna, men behövs det verkligen ett avhopparcentrum?
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Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania:
I first met Putin in Helsinki in 2010. For us, the gas price from Russia was a huge question.
We fully depended on gas supplies from Russia. And we had been paying about 30–40% more than Germany was paying, for example.
For a neighboring country where the pipelines are some 2,000 km closer, we were paying so much.
During the meeting, Putin read me a list of what Lithuania was supposed to do, and it was clear to me that it was about obedience, about surrendering.
It was clear to me that with countries neighboring Russia, you either kneel or you are the enemy, and you have nothing in between.
Of course, I was not able to accept these requests. After this meeting, I understood that Lithuania needed to get rid of its dependency on energy from Russia.
We moved very quickly to build an LNG terminal. We were the first in Europe to do this at that time. By the end of 2014, we had an LNG terminal.
This allowed us to fully cut our dependency on Russian gas and Gazprom in Lithuania, and even to help our neighbors in Latvia and Estonia.
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Finland stands firmly with Romania following the recent drone incursions and violations of Romanian airspace. We express our full solidarity and support.
Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine poses a long-term threat to European security and must end.
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We have agreed on the 21st sanctions package against Russia.
It delivers sweeping measures targeting Moscow’s financial system, its military-industrial complex and energy sector, that keep Russia's war economy running.
We are hitting Putin where it hurts most: cutting off the financial lifelines he relies on to sustain his war.
This is not the end of the road on sanctions. We are already working on the next steps. The EU must be ready to respond to any further Russian escalation.