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I'm astounded at how the same people who now easily believe Trump has gone to war on a whim to prove US might have for yrs rejected every piece of evidence that Putin invaded Ukraine to conquer it and prove Ru might. "Ukraine is ours!" Pu pounds his chest; "Pu is cornered and fearful", they insist.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has found the deportations and transfers of Ukrainian children are large-scale and systematic in nature and are carried out as part of an organized policy of the Russian Federation. They constitute war crimes.
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The irony:
Trump is repeating Putins failures
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1. Tell everyone you are the greatest
2. Risk a war that you believe will end in 3-4 days
3. Ruin global energy markets
4. Cause massive inflation that will soon ruin your economy
5. Avoid stopping the war, because everyone will see you failed
𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 | 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘂𝘇
The president has quietly abandoned every Hormuz position he staked when oil prices began climbing.
Gone are Navy escorts.
Gone is war-risk insurance.
Gone is “show some guts.”
Gone is the claim that Iran has “no navy.”
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En aangezien 🇺🇦 ‘interceptor drones’ momenteel talk of the town zijn voor inzet in het Midden-Oosten nog
maar eens dit overzicht van @covertshores.bsky.social
www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-In...
This is the question that defines the political conflict of our time: Can society function as an egalitarian democracy under conditions of multiracial, multi-religious, multicultural pluralism? The fundamental claim of ethno-nationalist movements across the world is that it cannot.
In this morning's newsletter, Mark Hertling has a terrific piece on the Trump administration's lust for "War Porn," and I suggest that it's Taco Time for Trump. The brilliant art is by Hannah Yoest. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
👀 Hungarian Minister János Lázár said that the money confiscated from Oschadbank will remain in Hungary until Ukraine restores the operation of the Druzhba pipeline.
“What we did was not accidental, and we will not return the money to them,” - the minister said.
Source: Telex
📷: Lázár János
👀"Russian state hackers are engaged in a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants," per the Dutch intelligence and security services MIVD and AIVD. english.aivd.nl/latest/news/...
The Kremlin is not even trying to convince you that they’re the good guys. Their goal is to demoralize you: make you lose confidence in truth, morality, Western values, any values. To make you doubt everything, to “bothside” the clearest war ever.
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vatniksoup.com/en/soups/169/
Sowing chaos to destabilize the West. Inciting civil war and encouraging secession movements. Wagner rampaging through Africa, causing wars and migration crises, then fuelling populist reactions to it, with Russia playing both sides of social tensions:
10/20
vatniksoup.com/en/soups/247/
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll talk about why we’re doing this: why we think Ukraine is so important and why we believe that souping vatniks and debunking their propaganda narratives is so crucial to counter Russia’s and their allies’ wars of aggression and achieve real peace.
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“Americans are very lucky, because wherever they go to bring freedom… they find oil.” - Michele Serra, Italian journalist
Interessante analyse in Time: Rusland lijkt voorlopig de lachende derde in de Iran-oorlog. Hogere olieprijzen vullen de oorlogskas, sancties worden versoepeld, Oekraïne dreigt munitietekorten te krijgen en de VS zijn verstrikt in een nieuw moeras.
time.com/7383068/iran...
Dit. Ook de "talkshows" in Letland, hoe klein en nederig het land mag zijn ten opzichte van Frankrijk, worden gekenmerkt door het uitnodigen en het laten uitpraten van experts. Ook met afwijkende visies.
Tv-kijken in Frankrijk: geen talkshow-geleuter maar 5 experts die zich, met veel wederzijds respect, buigen over de vraag hoe AI het moderne oorlogvoeren (en de bijbehorende schuldvraag - zoals wellicht in geval vd meisjesschool in Teheran) beinvloedt www.france.tv/france-5/dir...
There are some genuine differences between European and American politics. It's not all just an inevitable slide in the same direction ↘️
In Europe, you take a break from politics to campaign for an election, whereas in the US, you take a break from campaigning and fundraising to do politics.
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In Kharkiv region overnight, Russian forces deliberately targeted State Emergency Service rescuers.
On the night of March 8, Russian troops used drones to attack the residential area of the village of Velyka Babka. The strike caused a fire in a private home, injuring three civilians.
Groenen voorlopig aan kop bij verkiezingen Baden-Württemberg. CDU op 2, AfD op 3
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/land...
Happy to see the European reactions to the Trump-Netanyahu war of choice against Iran:
1. Nobody supports it.
2. Not even Mark Rutte dares to suggest that Europe should help in this war.
3. I do hope that Europe will rearm asap with their own arms, since the US is so unreliable.
Trump attacked Iran "without a public case being made for it, without Congress being consulted, without anyone in the administration, it appears, knowing what the hell happens next."
Good stuff on the unreality of Trump's video game war:
The essential read for this Sunday is supplied by Cardinal Cupich in Chicago. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump?
A history of the Republican Party – Part I: From anti-slavery origins to white conservative domination, 1850s to 1990.
My new piece:
That Russia is helping Iran isn’t shocking. What’s shocking is that the Trump administration won’t condemn Russia. Where is the outrage? Imagine if Zelensky were helping Iran. Trump would go ballistic. But when it’s Putin the reaction is decorous silence.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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So far, there has been no progress on the EU’s 20th sanctions package targeting russia over this war. There has also been no movement on the 90-billion-euro assistance package for #Ukraine. Even though Europe recognizes that this is vital for us, the blocking of the package still continues.
De Nederlandse vlogger Govert Sweep maakte een reis door Oekraïne, waar hij o.a. sprak met soldaten, drone-makers en voormalige krijgsgevangenen.
Hij lanceerde tegelijk een donatiecampagne voor een generator en thuisbatterijen (zie link in onderstaande post).
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Bloomberg: de Oekraïense vrachtwagen met ongeveer 82 miljoen dollar aan goud, euro's en dollarbiljetten, die vrijdag door Hongaarse agenten in beslag werd genomen, maakte deel uit van een regulier transport om te voorzien in de contante behoeften van Oekraïense bedrijven en burgers.
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Footage of Swedish police seizing the Russian shadow fleet vessel Caffa off Trelleborg today, Exilenova+ reports.
There’s a big problem with Ukraine allowing the United States to use its domestically-designed and produced P1-SUN drone interceptors. The Ukrainians know for certain the treasonous Trump regime will betray the technology to the russians.
People come out with our flags to welcome our defenders who have returned from russian captivity, to show them that we have not forgotten them, that we have been waiting for them🇺🇦🫂
