Search results for tag #russia
Kaja Kallas:
Countries want to be in NATO because they don't want Russia to invade them, to attack them. And that's why Sweden and Finland joined NATO. That's why the Baltic states joined NATO, to have this defense umbrella, really.
Now, if this is not in question [for Ukraine], or this is out of the question, then we need to see what are the security guarantees that are tangible. They can't be papers or promises.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
Giving up territory in Ukraine is also condemning people living there to live under Russian rule, a harsh dictatorship with limited freedoms, no room for opposition, bad economy etcetera. I don't think many people prefer Russia above living in Ukraine as part of the EU in the near future.
#russia #ukraine #donbas #geopolitics #EU @geopolitics
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Ukraine's #Zelensky ditches #NATO ambition ahead of peace talks
The move marks a major shift for #Ukraine, which has fought to join NATO as a safeguard against #Russia attacks & has such an aspiration included in its #constitution. It also meets one of Russia's #war aims, although Kyiv has so far held firm against ceding #territory to Moscow.
#geopolitics #StandWithUkraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-demands-dignified-peace-us-ukraine-officials-meet-berlin-2025-12-14/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
#Zelensky said on Sunday that the #US, #Europe & other partners' #security guarantees instead of #NATO membership were a compromise on #Ukraine's side.
"From the very beginning, Ukraine's desire was to join NATO, these are real security guarantees. Some partners from the US & Europe did not support this direction," he said in answer to questions from reporters in a WhatsApp chat.
"Thus, today, bilateral #security guarantees between #Ukraine & the #US, Article 5-like guarantees for us from the US, & security guarantees from European colleagues, as well as other countries — #Canada, #Japan — are an opportunity to prevent another Russian invasion," #Zelensky said.
"And it is already a compromise from our part," he said, adding that the security guarantees should be legally binding.
…Although the exact make-up of the meetings on Sunday & Monday have not been made public, a #US official said #Trump envoy #SteveWitkoff & son-in-law #JaredKushner were travelling to Germany for talks involving Ukrainians & Europeans.
The choice to send Witkoff, who has led negotiations with #Ukraine & #Russia on a US “peace” proposal, appeared to be a signal that Washington sees a chance of “progress”….
#WarProfiteering #kleptocracy #geopolitics #Europe #war #StandWithUkraine
Perhaps because the billionaires who actually run the US are frustrated by all those inconvenient regulations, the ones that keep people alive and help to protect their privacy?
#europe #EU #USA #unitedStates #fascism #regimeChange #war #russia #appeasement
“Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
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The motive hardly matters: whether the US regards the EU as an enemy for transactional or ideological reasons, it now sees it as an enemy.
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[Mark] Rutte warns of war, urging Europe to prepare itself, yet he has nothing to say about the one-time ally across the Atlantic now turned foe. On the contrary, only a few months ago the Nato boss was literally calling Trump “daddy”.
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Few embody the contradiction more fully than Britain’s own Keir Starmer. He prides himself on his solidarity with Zelenskyy, but remains silent as Trump demonstrates his solidarity with Putin.
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It’s come to something when the sharpest geopolitical voice in Europe belongs to the pope. Leo criticised Trump for “trying to break apart” an Atlantic alliance that remained essential. In the current climate, even naming the problem counts as a radical act. Now it’s time for those leaders who do not speak in the name of God, but for the peoples of Europe, to be as brave.”
Via @glynmoody & @ChrisMayLA6
#europe #EU #USA #unitedStates #fascism #regimeChange #war #russia #appeasement
According to Reuters, the United States has informed its #European #NATO #allies that by 2027, it plans to withdraw all conventional U.S. military forces from Europe. Not reduce. Not restructure. Not rotate differently. Withdraw. #democracy #peace #freedom #justice #russia #ukraine #china #northkorea #war #peace #diplomacy #military #germany #italy #england #nationalsecurity #putin #trump #maga #politics #nuclear #congress https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-sets-2027-deadline-europe-led-nato-defense-officials-say-2025-12-05/
Ukrainian children being sent to North Korea sparks outrage
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-children-being-sent-north-151600242.html
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #DPRK #NorthKorea
Russians Planned Explosions on Planes Flying to the USA from Europe
Trump still thinks Putin is a great guy.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russians-planned-explosions-on-planes-flying-to-the-usa-from-europe/
@jpmens Thankfully, Donald, you are not in charge in #Ukraine. You are also not in charge of the #EU. You are, however, #russia 's rent-boy. With an approval rating of 41% among your own people.
If you were to have elections right now in your own country, your party would be wiped out and no amount of huffing, puffing, intimidating, deflecting, gerymandering and plain old lying is going to help you.
No one wants you. You are done.
The Deathonomics of Putin’s War
“Black widows” marrying soldiers to collect death benefits are symptomatic of society-wide rot.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/russia-putin-war-dead-black-widows-death-benefits-fraud/
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #putinswar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
No, these guys are beyond ridiculous 😂 Neo-Nazi Alexander #Dugin just self-censored the word “kill”, apparently so that his post isn’t moderated on the world’s top free speech platform which he had been praising from behind his VPN in #Russia for the whole last week 😂 Don’t worry Sasha, if they don’t moderate your daily flood of literal Nazism, they won’t ban you for one “kill” 🤦
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Screenshot of Dugin's post on X: "Yet is it time to abolish EU. It is the monster. K*ll the monster" - in the last word that was supposed to be "kill" the middle is replaced by an asterisk
#Russia Medvedev and Dmitriev ranting on Twitter/X about “EU limiting free speech” through a VPN because they themselves blocked Twitter in Russia is an epic level of absurdity 😂
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Dmitriev profile showing "account based in France" with VPN flag, but app "connected to Russian Federation App Store"
I feel like such a genius because I know Asian Russians exist. 😆
It's all because I have read Russian fiction, namely, Sergei Lunkyanenko, and listened to Russian bands like Otyken 🤭
How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead
An online bazaar of freelance headhunters finds new recruits to fight Ukraine, emboldening Vladimir Putin at the negotiating table and scaring European leaders about what his growing army might do next.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/russia-planned-war-of-attrition-00672960
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
I read the serious discussions about ‘who eavesdropped on Ushakov and Dmitriev’ and can’t help but chuckle to myself.
All these deliberations about whether it was the NSA or GCHQ are based on the assumption that Ushakov had to use a secure means of communication. Had to… because why exactly?
Because politicians are renowned for their unwavering commitment to adhering to rules, including #OPSEC? But they are not.
Let us recall the US and European leaders who, in #Ukraine Kyiv in 2013, happily chatted on the phone and were recorded (‘Nuland–Pyatt call’).
Shortly afterwards, Sergei Glazyev from the #Russia presidential administration did the same and was recorded… by the new SBU (‘Glazyev tapes’, much less well-known but much more devastating).
In summary, if one can generalise the concept of high-level politics in #infosec matters, it is that those in power do not apply the rules to themselves and do not learn from their mistakes precisely because they are in power.
In short, Hanlon’s razor applies.
"We are living through the most disgraceful episode in American history since slavery and it’s not even close. Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had told Adolph Hitler in 1941: 'I’ll force the British and French to let you keep half of Poland in exchange for some kickbacks to my friends and family.'”
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine #Russia #PutinsPoodle
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-thieving-crooks-selling
"This analogy is not a stretch. It is exactly what is happening now, as described in a recent explosive Wall Street Journal exposé that documents exactly how much Russia is dangling the prospect of riches to friends of Donald Trump Jr. and other connected Americans in exchange for a dishonorable peace that sells out Ukraine, our European allies and the vast majority of Americans who oppose Vladimir Putin’s genocidal war."
"Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
Dmitriev, a Goldman Sachs alumnus, had found receptive partners in Witkoff—Trump’s longtime golfing partner—and Kushner, whose investment fund, Affinity Partners, drew billion-dollar investments from the Arab monarchies whose conflict with Israel he had helped mediate.
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“Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land,” Witkoff told (...) describing at length his hopes that Russia, Ukraine and America would all become business partners. “If we do all that, and everybody’s prospering and they’re all a part of it, and there’s upside for everybody, that’s going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody’s thriving.”
When a version of the 28-point plan leaked earlier this month, it drew immediate protests. Leaders in Europe and Ukraine complained it reflected mostly Russian talking points and bulldozed through nearly all of Kyiv’s red lines."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290
#USA #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #Kleptocracy
#LGBTQ #VideoGames #Steam #Russia
'PC gaming’s top marketplace, Steam, has censored a game featuring artwork from a prominent queer artist over Russian propaganda laws, but the game’s developer isn’t taking it lying down.'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/27/steam-card-game-lgbtq-propaganda/
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russian officials on how to pitch a Ukraine peace deal to President Donald Trump, according to an audio recording reported by Bloomberg.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-peace-deal-trump-putin-witkoff-11108302
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
An amazing #city
The largest city in the world
...Not anymore
"With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, #Indonesia's capital #Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass #Japan's Tokyo, according to a new #UnitedNations report"
A mind boggling fact for you:
The population of #Java is about 155 million
The population of #Russia is about 145 million
Java is about 2/3 the size of #GreatBritain!
That's what rich volcanic soil does
The U.S.-Russia Plan Gives Trump a $300 Billion Signing Bonus
If Europe moves fast to seize Russian assets, it may be able to sink this bad deal.
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #uspol #trump
💪😤 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇮🇸 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇳🇴 🇸🇪
🫂🌞 🇺🇦
💩🤪 🇺🇸
🖕😠 🇷🇺
#Denmark #Estonia #Finland #Iceland #Latvia #Lithuania #Norway #Sweden #Ukraine #UkraineWar #Danmark #Eesti #Suomi #Ísland #Latvija #Lietuva #Norge #Sverige #Україна #SlavaUkraini #NordicBalticEight #Nordic #Baltic #Russia #россия #USA #US
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22 NOVEMBER 2025
Joint Statement by the Leaders of the Nordic-Baltic Eight
We - the leaders of the Nordic-Baltic Eight - spoke with President Zelenskyy today. We have from the outset of Russia's war of aggression stood by Ukraine's side and we will continue to do so. Our resolve comes from the fact that we know that this is not only about Ukrainian security, it is also about the wider security of Europe.
Ukraine has continuously shown that it is serious about peace. We commend President Zelenskyy for his efforts to steer Ukraine through these very challenging times. Ukraine remains ready to negotiate and, as stated by President Zelenskyy, is working on the document prepared by the US. Russia has so far not committed to a ceasefire or any steps leading to peace. Instead, Russia continues its brutal attacks against Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure.
Solutions that respect Ukraine's sovereignty and that will bring Ukraine and Europe greater security and stability have our full support.
We will continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen Europe's defence to deter further Russian aggression. As long as Russia continues its war against Ukraine, we will also support strengthening sanctions and wider economic measures.
Finally, to the Ukrainian people: Your resolve, determination and courage has been truly admirable from the outset of the war. We want you to know that you are not alone and can count on our support.
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
#Rubio told U.S. officials that the 28-point plan was from #Russia, not the U.S., Politico reports.
This contradicts Rubio’s posts on X saying the plan had U.S. input.
The plan is widely criticised as too favourable to Russia.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/lawmakers-deny-peace-plan-ukraine-00666185
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
This ‘peace plan’ is not only a tragedy for Ukraine, but an immediate crisis for Britain
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a0233ca03bfe
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #politics #trump
Also in 2013:
The #USA was respected under Barack #Obama
Today, the USA coughs up hard cringe, embarrassing shit from incompetent brainless morons like this:
"#JDVance asks 'why don't #Ukraine and #Russia stop killing each other and start trading'"
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JD Vance asks 'why don't Ukraine and Russia stop killing each other and start trading'
Story by Simon Hamalienko • 23h • 2 min read
Vice President JD Vance
© Getty Images
Dear most esteemed intellectual statesman #JDVance:
#Ukraine and #Russia can't "stop killing each other and start trading," you pathetic piece of shit, because Russia daily mass murders Ukrainians for ethnofascist #imperialism
2 days ago a Russian missile struck an apt bldg in #Ternopil, killing 31
2nd grade student Ameliia Hzhesko and her mother Oksana were found burned to death, embracing each other
This happens regularly, you fuckwit fucking shitstain
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0yere4k0zo
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russia kills young girl and her mother in attack on ternopil
photo: ternopil secondary school no. 27
Russian bulletproof #hosting provider sanctioned over #ransomware ties
Fields near Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Everything is covered with fiber optic cables, which have enveloped hundreds of hectares of Ukrainian land. In the sky, there are more drones than birds.
The fields are polluted with chemicals from explosives and unexploded shells. Mines are flooded. Groundwater is contaminated. Cities are destroyed. This is what 'Russian liberation' looks like.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
Lavrov is a marked man....
#Russia #Putin #SergeiLavrov #Fascist
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Ukraine war latest: Putin falls out
with one of Kremlin's most senior
figures after 'disastrous' call -
reports
Responding to rumours of a fallout between Vladimir Putin and his long-
serving ally Sergei Lavrov, the Kremlin has insisted nothing has changed.
That's despite the foreign minister being left out of a security meeting and
dropped from a delegation. Follow the latest.
Fenster Freitag for Lavrov maybe?
#SergeiLavrov #Russia #Putin #FensterFreitag
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A 10th floor balcony in a residential building looking out over a European city, the sky is blue (so not Russia, which is always grey and sad)
Ex-#L3Harris exec guilty of selling cyber exploits to Russian broker
CEO of #spyware maker #MementoLabs confirms one of its #government customers was caught using its #malware
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
#Ukrainian troops rescued a camel used by the Russian military near Russian positions in the Kharkiv region.
#Russia adopts low-tech solutions as the war decreases Russia’s hi-tech equipment and highly skilled manpower.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/30/ukraine-rescues-camel-used-by-russian-military/
Let me tell you about an #AtomicAge monstrosity
It wasn't a #nuclear #missile, it was a nuclear *powered* missile. So it could fly almost forever
Do you see the teensy tiny problem?
The fucking thing constantly spewed nuclear #radiation
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Luckily canceled
Constantly irradiating the atmosphere might be slightly bad huh?
Glad to put that in the dustbin of history
Right?
"Russia tested new nuclear-powered #Burevestnik cruise missile"
Fucking #Russia
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Russia tested new nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile
By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly
October 26, 20253:17 PM EDTUpdated 21 hours ago
Summary
Companies
Russia tests nuclear-capable Burevestnik missile
Missile flew for 14,000 km, 15 hours
Putin says it can pierce any missile defences
We are aware of roskomnadzor just having ramped up their blocking efforts in #russia against #deltachat 's default onboarding chatmail relay. Signal, Whatsapp are degraded/blocked for a longer time already.
1) Delta Chat has first class shadow-socks proxy support (try ss:// links you can find ... Delta has management-proxy UX)
2) many other chatmail relays work fine and inter-chatmail/email server traffic continues unimpeded
3) if you can help with analyzing please drop into our DMs.
Better late than never. Now do Israel, you hypocrites.
#EU #EuropeanCommission #russia #Ukraine #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115425140994554866
Ahead of #Zelensky meeting, #Trump signals he might not be ready to send Kyiv Tomahawk missiles
Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for talks at the White House on Friday, with the #US leader signaling he’s not ready to agree to sell Kyiv a long-range missile system that the Ukrainians say they desperately need.
Zelensky gets his one-on-one with Trump a day after Trump & #Russia President #Putin held a lengthy phone call to discuss the conflict.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zelenskyy-putin-ukraine-tomahawks-ce697e5eda6ce9793b4343499d105a8c
In recent days, #Trump had shown an openness to selling #Ukraine long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, even as #Putin warned that such a move would further strain the #US – #Russia relationship.
But following Thursday’s call with Putin, Trump appeared to downplay the prospects of Ukraine getting the missiles, which have a range of about 995 miles.
“We need Tomahawks for the United States of America too,” Trump said. “We have a lot of them, but we need them. I mean we can’t deplete our country.”
#Trump says he'll meet with #Putin in #Hungary. He first meets Friday with #Zelensky at the White House
Trump said Thursday he will meet again with #Russia’s Vladimir Putin in an effort to end the war in #Ukraine. A date has not been set, but Trump wrote on social media that the meeting would take place in Budapest, Hungary.
“I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation,” Trump wrote after talking to Putin.
#geopolitics #posturing
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zelenskyy-putin-russia-ukraine-e3a1d62d2a24f459aa6dbbfa940e1067
Everyone forgets #India. There's a plausible case to be made that India just waits out the now inevitable demographic timebomb that has been ticking away for years in the Russian Federation, and just takes over the Russian Far East by dint of being the majority people left there.
I first came across this idea via a random recommendation of #ElviraBary, but xe is not the only person talking about this.
Hacktivists target critical #infrastructure, hit decoy plant
"Look at that smirk on Putin's face. He's trying to shovel as much ego shit as Trump can digest. He knows how to play Trump like a fiddle."
- Aure
Putin says the Nobel Peace Prize has lost all credibility after US President Trump did not win the award.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews
🕊️ Manifesto 2025: the freedom to communicate belongs to all of us
In 2024, we saw 296 internet shutdowns across 54 countries, with 47 still ongoing into 2025. #India alone imposed 84 shutdowns. Networks are being cut in conflicts from #Gaza to #Nepal, while #Russia has blocked 197 VPNs 🛑 and encrypted apps are under threat. Major platforms collect our metadata and use it to train opaque AI systems.
why do the window designers in #russia keep creating such dangerous products?
#defenestration #defenestrate #putin #vladimirputin #windows #window #ukraine #ukrainewar #oligarch #oligarchs #sadoligarch #pravda #VyacheslavLeontyev #Leontyev #moscow
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Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death from a seventh-floor window
Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
As #Russia tries to erase Ukraine's history, genealogy has become a popular way for Ukrainians to reclaim their heritage.
Mariana travels home to trace her family roots through Ukraine’s past.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/tracing-my-buried-bloodlines
📣 New Podcast! "2 October 1915: Morozov mill strike" on @Spreaker #history #russia #womens
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/2-october-1915-morozov-mill-strike--67959016
Here’s what we’re reading today:
GOP Rep. Bacon says DefSec Hegseth is blocking Trump’s approval for Ukrainian long-range strikes inside #Russia.
#Ukraine could potentially target airbases & factories fuelling Moscow’s war — upping pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-long-range-strikes-hegseth-trump-bacon-10795777
Russia is helping prepare China to attack Taiwan, documents suggest
Russia is using its battlefield experience to give Chinese airborne units the training and technical knowhow to carry out lightning-fast operations.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #China #Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/26/russia-china-weapons-sales-air-assault/
Such a lovely story about a man with Russian ancestry living in China. He decided to be an extra in #Cdramas for fun, but he's a happy farmer. We should all learn to live like he does
https://youtu.be/OEq6Yknr3eQ?si=Ts2lJJ5HQyO6cg1R
British spies turn to #DarkWeb to recruit Russian agents, access secrets
Open Letter to #Russia against blocking of encrypted apps like #Tuta Mail, #Signal & #WhatsApp
#Poland refuses to reopen its border with Belarus, cutting #China off from a €25B/year trade artery, after it was closed indefinitely following #Russia drone incursion into Polish airspace on 10 September.
Some 90% of China-EU rail freight moves through Poland, now frozen amid Zapad-2025 drills and a Russian drone incursion. Yestrday Beijing asked Warsaw to restore the route (vital for platforms like Temu & Shein) but after 3 hours of talks, FM Sikorski said no.
With sea routes slower and air transport up to 30% more expensive, Europe’s e-commerce supply chains risk serious disruption. As a reminder, the border was originally planned to be briefly closed for the period of the “Zapad-2025” exercises only, but the closure had been extended following Russian drones provocation. China is the primary supplier of military drone parts into Russia.
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Map of Chinese trade routes into Europe
boosted#Russia governor “elections”, please note the blue stack of voting ballots which wait to be issued to the “voters”
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An elderly woman sits as a woman from electoral commission writes down data from her passport. Next to her, there's a pile of not yet issued voting ballots with one name clearly crossed already.
@Strandjunker
The #Gaza & #Ukraine genocides continue.
#Russia tests America/NATO resolve by lobbing drones into #Poland.
#Jobs down. #Inflation up (he thinks the opposite is true.)
Suddenly, #DisasterDon is no longer saying "This never would have happened if I had been president." 🤔
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Fake tweet of Trump claiming a hurricane wouldn't have happened if he were president.
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia's Far East on Saturday, prompting a tsunami warning that was later lifted. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/13/world/russia-far-east-quake/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russia #earthquakes #tsunami
Drones. Cartoon for Trouw.
#Putin #Ukraine #Russia #Europe #drones
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Cartoon showing three gardens divided by fences. In one garden, we see a beehive shaped like the Kremlin. Drones shaped like the head of Putin fly out and swarm around Zelensky, who is in the next garden covered in red lumps and trying to fight off the drones with a fly swatter. In the third garden is a person with an EU shirt holding a hand to a single red lump on the back of his head while a drone flies away.
NATO's Article 4 Enacted!
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the activation of Article 4 of the NATO treaty - which requires urgent security consultations among member countries if one of them feels threatened.
Tusk said that last night there were 19 cases of violations of Polish airspace.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #Poland
TRUMP THREATENS TOUGHER SANCTIONS (AGAIN): #Trump has threatened new sanctions against Moscow after #Russia launched its heaviest strike on #Ukraine since the start of the invasion.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyrx205dj2o
boostedRUSSIA EXITS ANTI-TORTURE TREATY: #Russia is withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, a treaty that allows international monitors to inspect prisons.
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/news/2025/09/8/7219659/
To give a positive note to my usually grim posts about #russia, the closing words of #MikhailZygar’s book: ”War and Punishment” are priceless.
They are, because it’s #decolonial text about Russia written by a russian.
The voice of russians who want the country to end getting high on their own supply of imperial bravado may be muffled, but it still exists.
There are still russians who would make reparations of their past sins against so many peoples.
Spasiba 🙏
The famous double standards of #Europe.
#DoubleStandards #EU #eupol #eucomplicity #Ukraine #Russia #GazaGenocide #eucrisis #DestroyEU #gaza #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #HumanRights
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EU Targets Russia With Toughest Sanctions Package in Years
Bloc is set to impose new banking, energy sanctions as Europe hopes for tough new measures from Washington
By Laurence Norman and Bojan Pancevski
July 18, 2025 7:41 am ET
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EU delays measures against Israel on Gaza despite pressure to act
Photo of European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, center, talks with Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, left, and Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel, right, - Copyright AP Photo - AP
By Maïa de La Baume
Published on 15/07/2025 - 19:19 GMT+2
The EU likes to think of itself as a normative power – a community of values, committed to upholding international law, promoting peace, protecting civilians, and building a rules-based global order. These are not just lofty ideals; they are enshrined in EU treaties and Council conclusions.
#Europe’s image as a principled, reliable, and rules-based actor is being destroyed – not by autocratic #Russia and #China, or other adversaries with dictatorial regimes, but by its own refusal to enforce international law when the perpetrator is an ally.
At the heart of this disgraceful paralysis are governments that have chosen to side with impunity. The #EU spoiler governments are not acting in the interest of peace between #Israel and #Palestine. They are undermining European unity and damaging the EU’s global credibility and partnerships. They are also complicit in prolonging the suffering of millions of Palestinians, endangering Israel’s security.
The EU’s inaction is not just a strategic blunder – it is an appalling moral failure as it enables Israel’s impunity and entrenches a conflict that will continue to fuel instability, radicalisation, and despair for generations in the #MiddleEast.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/opinion/the-eus-moral-collapse-time-to-confront-spoiler-states-and-enforce-accountability-on-israel/
#eucomplicity #doublestandards #eucollapse #gaza #gazagenocide #genocide
[Thread about the role of #EU on #GazaGenocide]
Slovenia’s top diplomat warned the European Union risked projecting a double standard if it failed to take Israel to task for the bloodshed in the #Gaza Strip even as it moves ahead with additional sanctions against #Russia.
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of violating international law and committing “clear genocidal acts” and said that the #EU had failed to impose a “single real measure” against #Israel.
#Slovenia has sought to take a lead among #EU states in criticizing the spiraling toll. The country became the first member to ban all weapons trade with Israel at the end of July, weeks after it declared two Israeli cabinet members personae non gratae. It followed the measures with a ban on the trade of goods from occupied #Palestinian territories.
Fajon, a member of the EP from 2009 to 2022, said she pushed for an EU response on Gaza after a review of Israel’s cooperation agreement showed “clear” violations of international law, but member states deadlocked on reaching an agreement for taking action.
There is a sense “the whole international community failed a test of humanity,” she said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-27/slovenia-urges-eu-to-address-uneven-response-to-israel-russia
#EUcomplicity #EUfundedgenocide #doubleStandards #DestroyTheEU
boostedThrough the #European Innovation Council (#EIC), a body of the European Commission created to promote scientific and technological excellence, "#Israel" receives millions of euros that directly fuel its industry of #war and #genocide.
#Drone technologies, #surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence programs applied to population control continue to receive European financial support. These are not “neutral innovations”: they are integral components of the genocidal machinery devastating #Gaza.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the #EU suspended all scientific and technological cooperation, imposed sanctions, and politically isolated Moscow.
When "Israel' destroys Gaza and accumulates accusations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, with an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court, Brussels maintains and strengthens its cooperation, transferring public funds that end up in Israeli military-industrial companies.
An intolerable double standard: in #Ukraine, international law is invoked to sanction #Russia; in #Palestine, it is trampled to protect "Israel".
...Every euro flowing from Brussels to Tel Aviv becomes active complicity in genocide.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-european-union-finances--israel-s--war-machine
#EUcomplicity #DoubleStandards #DestroyEU
If thoughts could kill, Putin would be dead a million times over!
This is Anhelina, two years old, celebrating her recent birthday.
Anhelina and her mom, 24-year-old Nadiia, were killed by Russia in Kyiv on August 28.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #murder #WarCrimes
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Before / after pictures of Putin's actions
The Russian flag raised at the Venice Film Festival.
Woody Allen participated in the Moscow Film Week
There are people to whom evil is attractive. It fascinates many. The urge for aggression and violence is embedded in human nature. And evil will always have its followers.
But in reality, evil is primitive and banal.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #movies
"why can't we have peace"
{adjusts brass knuckles}
"i just want what's good for you"
{POUND}
"embrace me"
{CRUNCH}
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/one-dead-mass-night-time-015951361.html
"#Russia missiles pound #Ukraine, damage #EU and #UK offices
At least 21 people were killed in the capital, city officials said
#Zelensky said the strikes also damaged a #Turkey enterprise and the #Azerbaijan embassy"
This is the peace that #Putin wants
Wake the fuck up world
Look with clear and open eyes and understand what Putin is
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a mafia mass murdering ghoul
Surprisingly, none of the #Russia media targeted for the Western audience - RT, “socialist”, alt-right etc - made a single mention of this 🤔
Russia will formally withdraw from Europe’s convention for the prevention of torture, a move some rights advocates say is largely symbolic given the country’s already worsening human rights record.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on Saturday proposing that President Vladimir Putin submit the withdrawal to the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament. The decree was first made public on Monday evening.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/08/26/russia-to-quit-europes-anti-torture-convention-a90350
"Last week, Russia announced it will require that all new phones and tablets sold within its borders pre-install a messaging app called Max. Security experts who did technical analyses of Max’s software for Forbes said it’s a privacy nightmare.
While Russia’s interior ministry has claimed the app, made by Russian social media giant VK, is more secure than competitors, a cybersecurity researcher found that Max constantly monitored all user activity on the app with“excessive tracking.” The researcher, who completed the analysis with phone forensics tool Corellium, asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals by Russian intelligence agencies.
“This app just gathers all the data and logs it. I don’t remember seeing that in any messenger app,” they said. “Max is not secure at all. There is no cryptography, unless it’s hidden very well, but I doubt that. It is insecure by design to serve its purpose: people surveillance.”
Max was launched in March, and appears to be limited to Russian and Belarussian phone numbers. Functionally it works similar to messaging apps like Telegram and Whatsapp, but it also has an AI chatbot called GigaChat 2.0 and the ability to book travel and make bank transfers."
#Russia #CyberSecurity #Messaging #Privacy #LocationTracking #Spyware #Surveillance
There are many methods we can use to tackle the #climateCrisis #climateChange by reducing our dependency on #fossilFuels
Personally, I am inclined to embrace #Kyiv's method for doing so:
Just fucking bomb the refineries
💪 😤 🇺🇦
"#Ukraine knocks out 17% of #Russia’s oil capacity — and that’s just this month, Reuters says
#Moscow’s #energySecurity unravels as Ukraine escalates long-range attacks on its most vulnerable assets."
@EUCommission as in “Animal Farm”? What about the #UK before #Brexit? What about #Hungary taking the money, supporting #Russia?
Not unrelated to the Putin-Trump show of dominance (P) and submission (T): as kos reminds us,
"There is a genre of MAGA conservative so right wing, so brain dead, that they go through the immense hassle of moving themselves and their family to Russia—where gay and transgender people supposedly don’t exist, and … well, that appears to be the bulk of the motivation for fleeing."
"A Ukrainian intelligence officer says the Americans are being “unbelievably aggressive” in pushing Ukraine to forfeit more land. The Russian interest is clear enough, he says. “They want to maximise the package they will get in return—from sanctions relief, to the return of seized assets, to the re-opening of energy markets.” What, he says, is far less clear is why the Trump administration was pushing so forcefully to promote Russia’s interests.
Despite the obvious headwinds, Mr Trump appears committed to his quick-fix peace. The Economist understands a three-way meeting between Mr Trump, Mr Putin and Mr Zelensky could come as early as the end of next week. Before that, on Monday, the Ukrainian leader is scheduled to arrive in Washington for his first visit since his humiliation in February. European leaders will join him in a show of support. But some of the ingredients appear ominously similar to his previous visit. Channelling the logic of Mr Putin, Mr Trump is already preparing to blame Ukraine if his plans blow up, Ukrainians fear. “Make a deal,” he advised Mr Zelensky, via Fox News. “Russia is a very big power. [You] are not.”"
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/08/17/fear-of-a-new-oval-office-fiasco-over-ukraine
"Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, once considered the Trump of London, called the Alaska summit meeting 'just about the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy.'”
~ Peter Baker
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/us/politics/trump-putin-approach-ukraine.html
"Sources inside the administration and Putin’s surrogates made clear that Putin did not budge an inch during the Alaska negotiations. Trump, on the other hand, has begun to prepare European allies for a peace deal that includes transferring 20% of Ukraine’s territory to Russia."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/zelensky-and-us-allies-to-confront
"Donald Trump was famously admiring of Vladimir Putin, then he was disappointed with him, then he was mad at him, then he threatened him with new sanctions, then he shortened the timeframe for the sanctions, then he invited him to American soil and rolled out the fucking red carpet for him" (continued in /5)
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/adults-in-the-room-are-on-planes
(continued from /4)
"and caved when Putin told him no deal on a ceasefire, no concessions to Ukraine, no nothing for you or Zelenskyy. Asked on Air Force One on his way back to play yet another round of golf on Saturday, Trump called his meeting with Putin 'a 10.'
Pardon me while I step away from my desk to puke."
"The Times, the Post, CNN, Associated Press, all the major news outlets are reporting the fact that a team of adults in the room are flying to the United States to protect Zelenskyy from Trump as if it’s a normal news story, not the story that it is -- disgusting evidence of how far we have fallen as a nation, politically, morally, and in every other measurable way."
"[Zelensky] is showing great courage. Further, he is playing chess while the ever tactical and strategically-impaired Putin is left playing checkers. As for Trump, he is just getting played."
~ David Rothkopf
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/trump-between-two-summits
Greg Dworkin offers an array of Sunday headlines illustrating that the media are not being duped by the empty pageantry of Trump's meeting with Putin and are not ignoring Trump's being played by Putin.
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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Sunday headlines gathered by Greg Dworkin commenting on Trump's meeting with Putin
"[Trump's humiliating performance with the Russian war criminal] was a disgraceful encounter by a weak man who reminded the world that he is an empty, unprincipled clown spurring a tragedy for a once-great nation."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/which-side-of-history-are-you-on
"Meanwhile, National Guard troops roam the streets of Washington, D.C., linger around Union Station and set up checkpoints in safe neighborhoods, underscoring the lie that this federal takeover is intended to rid our nation’s capital of crime."
And, of course, all these shows are designed to distract from Epstein, the fact that Trump is repeatedly mentioned in the Epstein files, and that he refuses to release them.
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine #WashingtonDC #Epstein
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