1/ Most people picture war as tanks and missiles. But thereโs another front that rarely looks like war at all: it targets how we process information.
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โHOME SWEET & COLD HOME.โ
Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social
The horrific destruction of Ukrainian power plants, people are freezing.
NO HEATING.
NO POWER.
NO WATER.
Russia is a terrorist state!!!
#StandWithUkraine ๐๐
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Russia's "energy truce" expired just as severe cold returns, as predicted. Air raid alerts in Kyiv again today.
Russia wants to push Ukraine into the Stone Age โ to freeze us, exhaust us, and leave us without a future. That will not happen.
This why Kyiv School of Economics is hosting a 3-day Science Mini School for high school students and early-year undergraduates, right now in Kyiv. 1/
Over the night, russians heavily bombed Odesa, sending there 50+ drones which targeted energy facilities and households. Tens are injured, more people may still be under the rubble.
This is a daily horror that ordinary Ukrainians are enduring 24/7. Trump wants to reward this w/ the Donetsk region.
an op-ed that explains the real reasons for Russia's attack on Ukraine. Good to re-read from time to time
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/68239
On 1/22/2014, Yanykovych's thugs killed 3 people at the Maidan protest. The gov't lied...
Protests continued anyway.
On Feb 20, they shot many more people. But Yanukovych&his mafia state were deposed.
The slain activists are known in #Ukraine as the Heavenly Hundred.
This was 12 years ago
What genocide looks like.
Rand Paul up to his usual dipshittery. "The NSF spent $8 billion to study whether Japanese qual are more sexually promiscuous while on cocaine"
The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.
๐งตQuello pubblicato dalla Casa Bianca non รจ solo un meme infantile per illustrare una posizione di politica estera brutalmente imperialista. ร anche una citazione del saggio di W.G. Simpson, Which Way, Western Man?, testo di riferimento dellโestrema destra suprematista e neonazista americana.
1/11
E mentre i criminali di guerra russi attaccano edifici residenziali a Kyiv e la nostra pacifeccia intona l'articolo 11 (altro marcatore inconfondibile), ci tocca anche leggere le abituali cazzullate sul bon ton, che tradiscono problemi di comprensione del testo.
www.corriere.it/lodicoalcorr...
ร lo stile che ci tiene incollati!
While the world prepares for the Christmas holidays, russia is attacking Ukraine with cruise missiles and drones. This is the real face of russian โpeace dealโ. russia is a terrorist state.
#Ukrainianview #russiaIsATerroristState
Distribution of the combination of direct and indirect export exposures to the US (left panel) and import exposures to China (right panel) by local labour market in 2022. The authors classify exposure in each local labour market as high or low based on whether its exposure value is above or below the national median. Understanding how foreign shocks affect economies has become a policy priority. Using domestic firm-to-firm transaction data matched with customs records, this column shows that Italyโs exposure to external risks, such as US tariffs and a sudden stop of Chinese supplies, is far larger than standard trade statistics suggest. Indirect exposure transmitted through domestic supply chains exceeds direct export and import exposure in most Italian regions. A small number of large traders and wholesalers act as key transmission hubs. Widely used inputโoutput tables substantially understate these risks. Micro-level supply-chain data are essential to detect local vulnerabilities and design mitigation policies.
Domestic firm-to-firm transaction data & customs records show Italy's exposure to external risks, such as US tariffs and a sudden stop of Chinese supplies, is far larger than standard trade stats suggest.
@fpconteduca.bsky.social @fabrizioleone.bsky.social et al
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
Witkoff-Dmitriev plan RE #Ukraine is wrong & it'd be crazy to start negotiations w an extreme RUS position.
@tderyugina.bsky.social @ilonasolohub.bsky.social, Anastassia Fedyk, James Hodson & I have a counter-proposal that would give genuine peace.
Our 28 points vs RUS 28 points.
#UkrainianView
I told CNN Iโm optimistic about peace talks because Russia is keeping quiet and Trumpโs shifts create openings.
Also, remember the U.S.โUkraine minerals. First, it was draconian, but then became workable. This case is of course harder 1/
Russian philosopher Dugin on Ukraine.Russia doesn't hide its true intentions
"Ukraine will be ours entirely within a maximum of two years.Possibly much sooner.There will be no sovereignty left there at all,since Ukrainians are absolutely incapable of using it.They never have been and never will beโคต๏ธ
Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor โ the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932โ1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
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It is a sad mix of naked opportunism and strategic myopia
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russiaโs proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
Putin is a war criminal
Multiple waves of russian drones encircle Kyiv, with Kinzhals and cruise missiles aiming to cripple Ukraine's energy system right now.
russia commits a crime against humanity aiming to freeze the entire Ukrainian nation into capitulation โ that's "peace" brought by red carpet summits.
russian ัrimะตs against Ukrainians continue every single day.
Do not get used to it.
Do not look away.
Do not stay silent.
They just hit a university
This is becoming so normalized, I did not even wake up the second time there was an air alert.
100s of drones, missiles, with loud explosions & house shaking, reading about the destruction & deaths in the morning - several times a week
#UkrainianView
A new PS piece with @ilonasolohub.bsky.social and @matsmarcusson.bsky.social
2 options: 1) RUS defeat (means more sanctions & more weapons for UKR). 2) a defeat for democracy (&subdued Europe).
If 1), Europeans should sacrifice some of their welfare. If 2), they'll lose it all.
#UkrainianView
Never-ending 9/11
2/2. Everyone using the phrase "land swap" should please specify which Russian territory Ukraine would be getting. So far itโs a euphemism for forcing Ukraine to give things up to Russia.
