Carl-Martin Larsson

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

There's a scene in The Dark Knight where Alfred explains to Bruce Wayne that some people simply cannot be reasoned with. They aren't interested in money, personal gain or anything you might ordinarily associate with someone's motives.

As Alfred famously puts it, "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

I've been thinking about that scene while watching what's happening in France.

People keep trying to make sense of the destruction. Why burn down buildings? Why smash up businesses? Why destroy the very places ordinary people depend on? What exactly is being achieved?

But perhaps that's where people are making a mistake. They're assuming the destruction has to make sense according to their own understanding of what constitutes a rational objective.

It doesn't...

When you're dealing with people consumed by ideological fanaticism, particularly those who have absolutely no respect for the country, its history, its culture or its institutions, destruction itself can become the objective.

And this is what concerns me about the increasingly aggressive attempts to impose ideologies completely at odds with the values upon which European civilisation was built.

You don't necessarily need to conquer a country militarily to change it beyond recognition. Undermine its institutions, intimidate its population, normalise disorder and gradually make people afraid to defend the very things their society was built upon.

Not every rioter has to share that objective. Some are ideological extremists, others are opportunistic criminals, and some are simply enjoying the chaos.

But the consequences can be much the same.

The mistake is assuming that because their actions make absolutely no sense to you, those actions cannot possibly serve a purpose.

Sometimes the destruction isn't an unfortunate consequence of the objective.

Sometimes the destruction IS the objective.

[Libby Fella 🇫🇮 @LibbySnowflak]

People who would betray their country hate Ukraine because Ukrainians fight so fiercely for theirs.

[Verkan @VerkanUnderline]

Beach 2027. Det här är inte människor vi vill ha i makten när det smäller.

[/r/Army @rArmyReddit]

RIP to an absolute legend.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

This is brave and powerful journalism by @CaolanReports.

We need more stories like this by the mainstream media — not just in Ireland but in the rest of Europe and America.

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

Russia is losing, they can't achieve none of their strategic goals - and losing their economic capabilities because of Ukraine's kinetic sanctions.

[Operationsledaren @Opledaren3]

@Ericson_ubbhult @HALLONSA Handlar man på Coop och ICA finns andra alternativ än Arla. Vilken skam!

https://t.co/x0g4mKCOzv

[Doug Klain @DougKlain]

Zelenskyy’s A+ trolling underscores the new world we’re living in. Ukraine could threaten Red Square if it chose to. It opts for saving POWs while retaining the option to hit war infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Trump White House surrendered nearly all leverage it had over Kyiv.

[Robin Brooks @robin_j_brooks]

The EU Wall of Shame - Eastern Europe edition
https://t.co/T6v2dCibRY

[Самовільне залишення пакету @24_Nurse_SZP]

Шукаю монітори від 21 дюйма
На Харківщину

Репости будь ласка

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Remembrance is not a violation

#RemembranceIsNotAViolation

[Carl-Martin Larsson @CarlMartinL]

@Gerashchenko_en Personally I think its quite simple.
1. Trump poke Europe and all of the sudden EU aims for 5% to defence spending.
2. Now he pokes Greenland, an all of the sudden EU will protect Greenland.

Just what he wants.

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

This is accurate. If we leave NATO, Ukraine joins it, and then Europe and Canada have a united force that exceeds ours ... and they don't have to fly 7 hours across the Atlantic to defend their territory. We'd have to, on limited resources, no place to land and nothing to gain.

MAGA needs to stop talking shit about fighting our allies for minerals under a mile of solid ICE AGE old ICE.

[Carl-Oskar Bohlin @CarlOskar]

Att palestinaaktivister i Sverige nu också demonstrerar för Maduro säger väl egentligen allt allmänheten behöver veta om vad det är för samling de representerar och vilka värden de tilltror respektive inte tilltror.

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

This film trailer captures well the urgency, hope, and pain of Christmas amid Ukraine's resistance effort. ⤵️

[Hans Tino Hansen @HthHans]

Årets 🇸��svensk-🇩🇰danske 🎄julgran! Flyvevåbnet/Flygvapnet

[Elina Valtonen @elinavaltonen]

In the past 100 years, no neighboring country of Russia has attacked Russia. During the same period, Russia has invaded 19 countries.

Putin has given no reason to believe that Russia would change its imperialistic course.

Thank you for the interview, @CBSNews.

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

When St. Nicholas arrives and there are no children to give presents to — he’s left speechless.

[Carl-Martin Larsson @CarlMartinL]

@MaxVillman Måste vara samma räknesätt som norrmännen använde för en massa år sedan när de kom fram till att F35an skulle bli billigare än Gripen.