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How fabricated crises in Transcarpathia win Hungarian elections-and block Ukraine's path to Europe From a 2018 firebombing to 2026 troops, Budapest has run the same playbook against Ukraine's west—with Russian fingerprints at every turn.

🇺🇦 and 🇭🇺 have been locked in escalating tensions in recent weeks. Recently, Budapest seized $82 million from a Ukrainian state bank convoy and held 7 employees hostage, a €90 billion EU loan blocked, and 🇷🇺's sanctions package vetoed.

🇮🇹 votes on 12 April, with Fidesz trailing the opposition 55–35.

If you’re in healthcare, dozens of Canadian communities will help you get to Canada. YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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‘I took two bites and had to spit it out’: candy makers are phasing out real cocoa in chocolate Due to the volatile cocoa market, companies like Hershey are using replacement ingredients such as sugar, oil, milk and nuts

How can it be called chocolate?

U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling While bans on trans youth’s care have been numerous in recent years, this is the first to restrict care for transgender adults.

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Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly...

Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school

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This map shows where oil is refined, shipped, and stored across the Middle East.

~20% of the world’s oil comes from the Persian Gulf.

The war threatens to production and shipping.

Tehran has become particularly polluted after a refinery and 3 oil depots were destroyed by the US and Israel.

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The War On Iran Has Four Possible Outcomes Only one of these four paths protects humanity—the other three are likely destroy it

Well worth the read! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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The European Atlantic Report (The EAR) for the Wednesday March 11 morning wake up is out. There will be updates throughout the day as more stories break across the Atlantic Basin and the globe.

Parliament has endorsed the creation of an EU Talent Pool platform.

This will facilitate recruitment of people from outside of the EU to work in member states and will be open to voluntary participation by member states

Learn more: link.europa.eu/rf3rvF

Change the verbs to the future tense…then it’s absolutely accurate

Sun Tzu | The Art of War YouTube video by Einzelgänger

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This image depicts Countess Emilia Plater, a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus, leading a combat unit during the November Uprising in 1831.

Emilia Plater (Poland-Lithuania): A Countess who commanded an infantry company in the November Uprising against the Russian Empire. (1831). #InternationalWomensDay #IWD

Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.

Unintended consequence of overturning Roe v. Wade

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Drone interceptor was last year's innovation. Ukraine has already moved on - Euromaidan Press Ukraine deploys next-generation ground robotic systems to transport cargo, evacuate the wounded, and control combat drones.

Ukraine's ground robotic systems operators run logistics, evacuate the wounded, and deliver combat drones to the front. All from a console, with no human in the danger zone

The Ministry of Defense frames its doctrine simply: "machines fight, not people."

Girls consistently outperform boys in reading tests.

In the latest PISA tests, they scored higher than boys in 79 out of 81 education systems.

…But this is not translating to higher paying careers for women.

On average across the OECD, women earn 11.9% less than men.

Why is the gap so big?

This applies far beyond combat.

Mike Johnson loses another Republican as California congressman bolts from GOP California Rep. Kevin Kiley announced his immediate departure from the Republican Party.

Another Republican abandons the ship

Women’s History Month

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