@RoFreudenstein

Lifelong addiction to politics. Model planes. SciFi geek. Global solidarity of democrats. Brussels Freedom Hub. @CEPA Senior Fellow. @GLOBSEC Associate Fellow.

 Brussels
freedom-hub.eu
Joined June 2009
  • Tweets5.3K
  • Following2.3K
  • Followers2.8K
117Media
In these trying times, @GerlindeNiehus & I teamed up to create freedom-hub.eu/, an analysis & advocacy platform for a united #Europe, helping #Ukraine, saving #NATO & the #West and connecting democrats across the globe. Join us with ideas, comment & critique!

Brussels Freedom Hub โ€“ EU, NATO, international democracy and security matters

An analysis, advocacy and networking platform for a resilient West, strong Transatlantic ties, and the global solidarity of democrats.

freedom-hub.eu
9
9
1,043
Netherlands 2025, in this year Hungary, Sweden & now Brazil and Serbia: 1) National populism is stoppable. 2) The MAGA connection may well become more of a liability than an asset. 3) Liberals & centrists worldwide should cooperate more, use fresh narratives & increase turnout!
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum13h
In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
1
5
258
All the best, Hungary, and glory to the heroes - those in the streets of Budapest in 1956, and those fighting for their own freedom and ours in Ukraine today!
Magyar Pรฉter (Ne fรฉljetek)
@magyarpeterMPOct 23
It was a wonderful celebration. Thank you for commemorating the heroes of 1956 together with us. Today, the world turned its attention to Hungary. โค๏ธ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’š
3
155
Se non รจ vero, รจ ben trovato ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
Dr. Hank Desmond@HankDesmondPhDOct 23
Yesterday, after his rally in Iowa, President Trump was heading to the airport when he saw an old woman walking home โ€” in the dark and all alone. โ€œStop the car, Daquan!โ€ He told his driver. He got out and walked her 2 miles home. No cameras. Just kindness. Thatโ€™s Trump.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The anecdote is fictional. Trump's Oct. 22 rally was at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City; his schedule shows direct arrival and departure from the site with no such walk. x.com/WHPressPool/stโ€ฆ ktiv.com/2026/10/21/howโ€ฆ desmoinesregister.com/story/news/polโ€ฆ The photo is AI-generated and unrelated to any real event.
123
โ€œItโ€™s all her fault. Why was she running around in a short skirt?โ€ - Zelensky & the rest of Europe have understood one thing: any dependency on the US has become a liability in itself. Replacing US capabilities and deliveries may take time and weaken ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ temporarily but worth it!
Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffeOct 23
What so many Ukraine supporters in Washington think but won't say publicly: Zelensky mishandled Trump's demand that he stop bombing Russian refineriesโ€”and then made it worse by going after Trump publicly. My latest. puck.news/how-zelensky-lost-โ€ฆ

โ€œHe Played This Badlyโ€: How Zelensky Lost Trump

Trumpโ€™s pre-midterm bargain with Moscow has garnered headlines, but Zelenskyโ€™s public defiance of the president may have more significant long-term ramificationsโ€”largely jeopardizing the American...

puck.news
1
6
285
Well, in my math, there's still a majority of 53 % for maintaining or increasing assistance to Ukraine. Maybe less than a year ago. But still a majority. Which is good news, all things considered.
Thorsten Benner@thorstenbennerOct 21
Clear erosion of public support for standing with ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ. 43% say too much ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช support for ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ. 41% say level is just right. Only 12% say ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ชdoes too little. 65% of East Germans and 90% of AfD supports say ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ชis doing too much. (RTL/n-tv Trendbarometer/forsa)
3
111
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Nico Lange
@nicolange_Oct 21
Die Frage kann nicht sein: Was werfen wir dem Raubtier vor die FรผรŸe, damit es friedlicher wird? Sondern: Wie kรถnnen wir dieses Raubtier einhegen? n-tv.de/politik/Von-einer-Niโ€ฆ

Nico Lange im Interview: "Von einer Niederlage der Ukraine kann keine Rede sein"

Die Vorstellung, nur die Ukraine stehe unter Druck, sei vรถllig falsch, sagt der Ukraine-Experte Nico Lange. "Der Druck auf Russland ist erheblich." Das Problem sei, dass Trump den Druck auf Putin...

n-tv.de
165
265
9
1,442
16,574
To all the legacy Republicans now clutching their pearls about Trump's Putin addiction: You. Helped. Bring. This guy. Into the White House. You campaigned for him claiming he was the will of the ppl, the lesser evil compared to Biden/Harris. Eyes wide shut. So just shut up, pls!
2
1
4
164
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Gabriel Gatehouse
@ggatehouseOct 21
The latest cover of Private Eye is ๐Ÿ˜˜
30
1,875
60
7,786
130,726
Wir Europรคer haben solche Verbรผndeten verdient. Wir kriegen ja selbst nix zustande. Seid doch einfach mal realistisch, Leute. Trumps Amerika sitzt nun mal am lรคngeren Hebel. Da mรผssen wir uns unterordnen, statt weiter rumzukrakeelenโ€ฆ (IRONIE AUS) @ulrichspeck @vtchakarova
Anton Gerashchenko
@Gerashchenko_enOct 21
Steve Witkoff to Putin: You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.
2
134
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Carl Bildt
@carlbildtOct 20
Things go from bad to worse. Trump ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ seems to regret that ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ didnโ€™t conquer ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ immediately, and blame the failure on some incompetent ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ general. Who feeds him this strange stuff? Or does he just invent it because he wishes it was so?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Russian tanks did use highways to Kyiv in 2022 and took heavy losses. The main reason the 40-mile convoy failed was it lacked fuel and food. Ukraine blew bridges, flooded the Irpin, and ambushed columns. nbcpalmsprings.com/2025/08/15/facโ€ฆ rusi.org/explore-our-reโ€ฆ npr.org/2022/03/01/108โ€ฆ mwi.westpoint.edu/urban-warfare-โ€ฆ euronews.com/my-europe/2025โ€ฆ
332
850
86
4,694
283,306
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
@khodorkovsky_enOct 19
"It's Europe that is our main enemy. The Germans, the French, the Poles." Following the diesel deal with the Trump administration, Russian state propaganda is recalibrating its message.
34
372
29
1,296
44,693
Neocons returning to their liberal roots. Not the worst evolution I can imagine.
Bill Kristol
@BillKristolOct 18
Stand with Zelensky and against Putin. Stand with Pope Leo XIV and against ICE. Stand with No Kings and against Meta. Stand with the people and against the oligarchs. Stand with liberal democracy and against Trump.
1
8
385
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Charles Tannock@CharlesTannockOct 17
All my adult life active in Tory politics I supported the US Republicans & even attended in 1999 the GOP Convention in Philadelphia. Shocking now 27 years later to see what Trump has made of it by cosying up to Putin & I pray Democrats win midterms & paralyse any more mischief. โ€“ at Wolfsthal, ร–sterreich
The Halfway Post
@HalfwayPostOct 16
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly mad at everyone because Republicans are losing Congress, Hegseth, Patel, and RFK Jr. will all be impeached, several staffers are in giant corruption scandals and blackmailing him, and Jared Kushner ruined his presidency with the Iran War.
5
76
465
25,228
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Daniel Szeligowski
@dszeligowskiOct 17
Again: the Trump administration, with its own hands, is building China a highway through Ukraine into the heart of Europe. If containing China's rise is a strategic objective of the US, Washington's policy towards Ukraine is making that objective significantly harder to achieve
5
22
3
265
45,043
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Amber
@A_DoggetteOct 16
Replying to @LauraLoomer
Yes, babe, yes. This tragedy does need some comic relief.
1
5
2,061
Itโ€™s so hard to make a comedy about something that already IS a dark comedy!!! ๐Ÿฅด
๐•Š๐•ฆ๐•Ÿ๐••๐•’๐•–_๐”พ๐•ฆ๐•ฃ๐•
@SundaeDivineOct 17
Replying to @KatieZacharia
Even Canada adores you.
110
What I find most remarkable about the Trump-Musk-Starshield game of passing the buck, is the cowardice of the ppl concerned in the debate: who really betrayed ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ , the civilians, yes, men, women and children, that had to die because of the deranged narcissism of someone in D.C.
2
6
237
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
russian consulate in Belgium ะฟะฐั€ะพะดั–ั@russConInBelOct 16
New press secretary announced
558
8,511
500
50,756
733,045
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Phillips P. OBrien
@PhillipsPOBrienOct 16
People need to understand that the only reason Trump backed down on SpaceX and Starshield so quickly is that he got push back right away, politically and from Ukraine. He is a bully and a coward. Stop criticising Zelensky for standing up to him.
107
2,320
51
13,952
158,259
Roland Freudenstein ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ retweeted
Wolfgang Ischinger@ischingerOct 14
At some point - sadly, when it may already be too late - Americans may begin asking themselves: Why and when did we begin abandoning our soft power supremacy, and losing Europe by doing stupid and immoral stuff?
Clemens Wergin@clemenswerginOct 14
Indeed
48
127
6
708
12,983
Load more