KASPAROV: We’ve had 20 sanctions packages. How come Russian missiles that hitting Ukrainians and killing people every day are still mostly built with parts and components from sanctions list? How many criminal cases have been opened against sanctions violators? Practically none.
Wer die AfD wählt, kann auch gleich Putin wählen. Noch nie in der deutschen Geschichte hat sich eine Partei so vor den Karren einer fremden Macht spannen lassen, wie es die AfD tut. Mit Patriotismus hat das nichts zu tun. Wer Deutschland liebt, kann diese Partei nicht wählen.
🚨Latest Alumina Shipment is on its way to Russia from Ireland
Latvian owned ARISTO from Alpha shipping is carrying an est. 8700 tons of Alumina - enough to smelt 4350 tons of Aluminium for Putin’s war effort
29th shipment since NAFO commenced monitoring on 14 March #Alumina21
Mimimi. Wie hat DE nur die Jahre mit einem Spitzensteuersatz von 56% ab einem Jahreseinkommen von 130.000DM überlebt? Der damalige Kanzler hieß Helmut Kohl. Wäre mir neu dass der als Sozialist o. Kommunist verschrien war. Der Koalitionspartner hieß damals übrigens #FDP.
#Alumina21 It doesn't matter whether #AughinishAlumina is shipping 83% or 51% of its output to Russia. What matters is that it's shipping war material to an aggressor that has invaded its neighbour and violated the UN Charter. @vonderleyen@kajakallas
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Grauenvoll, das sollte jedem zu denken geben, der leichtfertig Gebietsabtretungen fordert. Das bedeutet für die Menschen in von Russland besetzten Gebieten: Mord, Folter, Vergewaltigung, Tod
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@AnnaDeMilanese Ich sehe das Problem irgendwie nicht. Entweder man lässt alles weiterlaufen und statt nach Russland wird das Material in die EU verkauft oder man verstaatlicht es. Es gibt genug Wege um den Fluss nach RU zu stoppen und Jobs zu behalten...
Sanctions have limited impact when they remain merely "on paper."
The situation demonstrates that Russia (and its oligarchs) are masters at circumventing measures, while the West often prioritizes its own economic self-interest.
More effective sanctions would require stricter enforcement, fewer exemptions, and genuine decoupling regarding strategic goods—otherwise, the approach remains partly symbolic, merely throttling Russia’s war-making capabilities rather than halting them. The political will to take decisive action is often lacking.
Western businesspeople often think only of blood money.
The EU is incredibly foolish.
Ukrainians are paying the price with their lives.
Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans.
That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/
You know what the strange thing is here? The politician that Caolan interviewed in the video below, Niall Collins, was the main target of the Ditch investigative stories back in 2023 that nearly destroyed his career. The Ditch was founded by Chay Bowes who moved to Moscow that year. So it's maybe no coincidence that the Ditch story was amplified by Irish vatnik politicians in the opposition parties during Dail (parliament) sessions. Collins survived the controversy but maybe the episode was enough to rattle him in particular and the government into staying quiet about Aughinish Alumina. Collins seems to be suddenly unaware of a lot of details when questioned by Caolan 🤔
According to a report by Swedish tax authorities cited by @IrishTimes, Rusal, which owns Aughinish Alumina, is still under the control of sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
What is the point of sanctioning oligarchs like Deripaska if companies reportedly still under their control can continue operating in the EU while feeding Russia's war machine?
Did anyone dig into historical media about Auginish Alumina? There is some real eyebrow raisers 😳 The Irish Independent reported back in 2013 that a highly profitable Auginish Alumina paid just €1,952 in total corporation tax over 5 years despite €191 million in sales 🤔
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Die letzte Folge der Anstalt war ein Meisterstück. Die berühmte Tafel hat KathErina (das E steht für EON) Reiche kompakt demaskiert was wir schon alle wussten. Nicht nur als Lobbyistin, sondern als das was sie Habeck immer vorgeworfen hat:
Ideologin
Sollte JEDER gesehen haben👇
@jimstewartson Just by accident Elon went to the SEC some month ago with DOGE an did the same he did everywhere he went...
Then Trump replaced the SEC top branch…
And suddenly SpaceX benefits of those changes.
Nothing to see here.