US-Correspondent Süddeutsche Zeitung in Washington, D.C. Vorher/before/antes Madrid, Buenos Aires, Hamburg. Here private/aqui privado/hier privat
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Peter Burghardt retweeted
Norway is one of the most democratic and prosperous countries on Earth.
Free health care
Free college
Strong democracy
Free press
Trump says “Norway sucks” and is a “shithouse country” because it won’t give him the Nobel Prize.
Insane. We have a mentally unbalanced president.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Otro chiste facha: Bolsonaro, al borde del llanto, dice que va a impugnar las elecciones porque se votó demasiado, dos horas más que lo previsto.
La derecha contra el "exceso de democracia".
Como en 2022, el bolsonarismo no acepta la derrota. Entonces fue el padre, Jair Bolsonaro, y ahora, el hijo Flávio, ambos vencidos en las urnas por Lula. “Lo que ha sucedido es increíble, no es normal, nunca había pasado nada así en la historia de Brasil” social.elpais.com/sed69
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Viva la democracia, ganó el pueblo de Brasil. ¡Felicidades presidente Lula!
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Congratulations, President @LulaOficial, on your re-election in Brazil.
The relationship between Canada and Brazil has flourished under our partnership. Let’s seize this opportunity to make it even stronger, together — to create major new trade opportunities, protect the environment, and build greater prosperity for both our peoples.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
¿Estamos todos locos? ¿Somos todos estúpidos?
¿De verdad el presidente de la Nación puede amenazar de muerte a cinco ciudadanos y nadie hace nada?
¿No es un gran escándalo, no es tapa de los diarios, no hay gente en la calle?
¿Tan hechos mierda estamos?
Peter Burghardt retweeted
My take: Putin gave up nothing by releasing a 74-year-old American held as a pawn for this type of moment. Putin is not a humanitarian, despite how Mr Witkoff addressed him. And whereas President Trump says he gave up nothing for Stephen Hubbard's release, you will hear all the experts correctly say that he did: busting his own sanctions for a diesel deal with Putin that could put $4 billion into his war chest; inviting Putin to the G20; and dumping Putin's victim, Ukraine, face down in the mud, as it tries to defend its sovereignty and its freedom. You’ve heard the historians call all this appeasement, going against America's own democratic values.
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
Peter Burghardt retweeted
There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
In what world is Putin a "humanitarian?” He's assassinated political rivals and journalists, bombed hospitals, and started a war that has intentionally killed tens of thousands of innocent people, including women and children. He's a war criminal.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
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Peter Burghardt retweeted
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Trump is lying again. Putin started the war and has repeatedly refused to negotiate to end it. The US spent nothing like $350 billion. Half the money is not missing. Washington and Moscow are both significantly more corrupt than Kyiv. Putin, not Zelensky, is a dictator who openly steals elections.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Zelensky: It's a pity that we are losing a strong partner.
Morgan: You think you're losing America?
Zelensky: Yeah, but not because of us. We can’t be weak. Otherwise, we can’t survive… This is why it’s painful when Trump chooses to be on Russia’s side. This is not the right side of history.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Trump actually posted this AI video of him with a tiger in the middle of the night. This man is demented and mentally unwell.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
Donald Trump disgraced America today. He disgraced valor. He has sided with invaders, the killers and the rapists of Russia.
Trump is a weak coward who got 5 deferments from Vietnam and who loves and worships Russia and Putin imo and is not loyal to USA.
Peter Burghardt retweeted
One day we will look back on this period in American history not just in severe embarrassment but with complete incomprehension. How did this happen? How did Idiocracy become real life in the richest, and one of the most educated, societies in human history?
Peter Burghardt retweeted
I thought I was reading about North Korea or Iran, but no, this is Hegseth’s Pentagon.
A publicly live streamed firing squad? After the Christa Pike debacle?
Revolting for the world’s leading democracy, no matter the crime.
nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/po…
Peter Burghardt retweeted
📢 Pete Hegseth removed Colin Powell’s name from a list of notable Americans buried at Arlington Cemetery.
Hegseth also removed the names of every person of color and every woman on the same list
Only white men were left in place.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
No names were removed from Arlington National Cemetery's notable graves list. Colin Powell remains listed under Prominent Military Figures. The site removed race and gender categories and reassigned profiles.
snopes.com/news/2026/02/0… checkyourfact.com/2025/03/26/fac… arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Notabl…
