Emma Jane

transwoman , interests in current affairs, history. MA peace and conflict, PGCE Favourite colour pink.

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Lots of Ukrainians on the beautiful beach in this tropical country I'm in right now. All of them speak in Russian amongst themselves, even their children, some with heavier Ukrainian accent than others. But as soon as they hear clear Russian, they switch to speaking in Ukrainian mova, completely confusing their children, and pretend they don't understand you. I then laugh about it and start speaking in Ukrainian mova to them. They ask me where I'm from, and I tell them I'm from Moscow. Checkmate.

Ridiculously small people.

[Marek Tucholski 🇵🇱 @tucholski_marek]

Zdjęcia z produkcji ukraińskiego sześcioodcinkowego miniserialu "Skrzydlate Lwy", który ma opowiadać o walce Ukraińskiej Armii Galicyjskiej z Polakami.
Rozumiecie? W czasie wojny z Rosją Ukraina wydaje pieniądze na filmy atakujące Polaków.

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Harrised

You’re destroying my party’ – what Simon Harris surely didn’t say to Patrick O’Donovan during mystery call
✍️Fionnán Sheehan

On paternity leave, the Tánaiste urgently rang his outspoken minister while he was chairing a flagship EU meeting. Why?

O’Donovan ultimately arrived for the photo with his counterparts. Half-an-hour later, he collapsed and had to be taken to University Hospital Limerick, where he continues to be treated, a fortnight later.

The Tánaiste attributed the failure to respond to questions for two weeks to the “political void” of his being on paternity leave.

Harris has a team of 10 politically-appointed special advisers, including press spokespersons, paid for by the taxpayer and working in Government Buildings. Yet none of them had the authority to answer questions on his behalf about a phone call.

#FineGael #SimonHarris #PatrickODonovan #CallGate

https://t.co/LeUAPExWsB

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Remember, there are no Nazis in Ukraine…

[Јелена Вртикапа @VrtikapaJelena]

9 девојчица и 11 дечака рођено у Новом Саду, добро нам дошли❤️

[Petronilla de Midia @MidiaPetronilla]

@TGastonMLA Were you a member of the UDA?
I will wait for an answer, failure to answer will only mean one thing, blocking me like your mate Bryson will only mean one answer. ⏰⏰

[Us_militryPower @Trumpspoof__]

🚨 RUSSIA CUTS OFF EUROPE’S GRAIN LIFELINE.!

🇷🇺 Russia: "Effective immediately, Russia is halting 100% of grain and fertilizer exports to Western nations. Not a single grain of wheat crosses our borders."

🇪🇺 EU President: "This is deliberate global starvation! You are driving food prices to catastrophic heights!"

🇷🇺 Russian President: "You printed worthless paper money and demanded our real, life-sustaining harvests for scrap. Why should our farmers feed an empire that plots our destruction?" 🔥

🇪🇺 EU President: "We will seize all your foreign assets and blacklist your trade vessels worldwide!"

🇷🇺 Russian President: "Seize our assets all you want. You can't feed your population with confiscated bank accounts."

[Наташа Иванова @NatasaIvanova9]

⚡️Бандеровцы в своих каналах пишут,что в Староверовке Харьковской области сбежали из плена русские воины,завладев оружием! Пленные ликвидировали конвоиров!

Так же в момент побега русские бойцы расстреляли преследовавший их автомобиль украинских во��нных!

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

When the Ukrotards say Ukraine is fighting for freedom, show them this video

[Sinn Féin @sinnfeinireland]

Today, Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty attended an interview with the PSNI relating to the peaceful protest at Garvaghy Road.

Sinn Féin is proud to have stood with the Garvaghy Road community to protect 28 years of peace and progress.

Standing up for what is right is always the right thing to do.

There is no going back.

Not now. Not ever.

[Eugenio Caruso @EugenioCaruso]

MOSCA 27 ottobre 2026
IL MONDO SI INCHINA ALLA POTENZA RUSSA.
https://t.co/TrtzhYkxhA
Mentre l’Europa si crogiola nel suo odio cieco, becero e suicida, la Grande Russia di Vladimir Putin accoglie a Mosca i leader del pianeta. L’8° Summit del Forum dei Paesi Esportatori di Gas (GECF) non è un evento qualsiasi: è la prova vivente che la Russia non è isolata. È il centro di gravità dell’energia mondiale. Paesi che detengono il 70% delle riserve di gas del pianeta, il 40% della produzione e quasi la metà delle esportazioni globali si sono riuniti proprio a Mosca, sotto la presidenza di Putin. Bandiere di Venezuela, Iran, Qatar, Algeria, Libia, Azerbaigian, Iraq, Malesia, Nigeria, Emirati e tanti altri sventolano accanto alla tricolore russa. Leader e delegazioni si siedono allo stesso tavolo.
Non a Bruxelles.
Non a Washington.
A Mosca.
L’Europa conta 500 milioni di abitanti. Il mondo ne conta 8 miliardi. Chi è davvero isolato?
Putin non chiede permesso. Putin riceve. Putin guida. Putin firma la Dichiarazione di Mosca e ridisegna le regole del mercato energetico globale, opponendosi alle sanzioni unilaterali e affermando la sovranità dei produttori.
Questa è la potenza. Questa è la Grande Russia. Il futuro dell’energia non si decide contro Putin. Si decide con Putin.

[Marilyn @Marilynvvlh]

In 1984, 18-year-old Elisabeth Fritzl disappeared in Amstetten, Austria.

Her father told the family and police that she had run away to join a cult.

For 24 years, people believed that story.

But Elisabeth had never left the family property.

She was being held captive in a concealed cellar beneath her own home by the very person who was supposed to protect her.

During those years, she gave birth to seven children. One died shortly after birth. Three spent their childhoods imprisoned underground, never experiencing ordinary life outside that cellar.

[RTRussia @RT_Russia_]

EXCLUSIVE: Alyoshki’s chief physician Vladimir tells RT of HORRORS he witnessed before he was evacuated

'My friend died. It’s a loss, you understand'

'I was there, and I can say that the UKRAINIANS were the ones who were shooting'

[King Chelsea Ug ��🇬🇷🇺 @ug_chelsea]

🇷🇺🇺🇦🔥 Kiev is under another large Russian ballistic missile barrage.

[Ian Proud @proud_diplomat]

AZOV will kill @ZelenskyyUa if he makes peace — just like Ukrainian forces kill men trying to escape the draft.

Marta Havryshko on why Ukraine has become a concentration camp for fighting age men. Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/apeafA8acN

[Planet Belfast @Planet_Belfast]

When the £100 payout from the UK Government for energy isn't implemented in Northern Ireland, these are the people at fault

[Roberto @UniqueMongolia]

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Lavrov arrived in the US for the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting
The G20 Ministerial Meeting will be held on October 30-31 in Atlanta. The foreign ministers will discuss the global economy and disruptive trends in geopolitics.

[RTRussia @RT_Russia_]

We are the descendants of African liberation leaders and we are all here in Russia for a reason — Samia Nkrumah, daughter of Ghana's 1st president

‘That is because Russians helped us during our long and sometimes violent independence struggle all over the continent’

[Наташа Иванова @NatasaIvanova9]

⚡️27 октября ВС РФ нанесли удар РСЗО "Торнадо-С" по частному домовладению в н.п. Изюм Харьковской области!

Российским ударом был отправлен к Бандере командир 125-й отдельной тяжелой механизированной бригады нацистов ВСУ Владимир Фокин!

[Mark @Mark4XX]

PUTIN'S STRATEGY IS WORKING: MEARSHEIMER REVEALS THE WEST'S FATAL MISTAKE

US Professor John Mearsheimer joined host Glenn Diesen on October 28, 2026. The realist scholar laid out why Russia is on track for an ugly victory in Ukraine and how decades of NATO expansion created the conditions that made this war almost inevitable. The West still refuses to face the strategic reality staring it in the face.

RUSSIA IS WINNING AND THE WEST KNOWS IT
➡️ Many Europeans, maybe even most, now understand that Russia is going to win the war.
➡️ Even Mike McFaul, a longtime Putin critic and staunch supporter of the Zelensky government, just published a piece in Foreign Affairs titled “Putin’s Strategy is working.”
➡️ Trump has shifted the burden to the Europeans because he fully understands there is no war-winning strategy for the United States in Ukraine.
➡️ He wants to cut a deal, but Zelensky, the Europeans, and the deep state stand in the way.

THE GLOVES CAME OFF
➡️ The Russians took the gloves off in their strategic bombing campaign in midsummer and ramped it up across Ukraine.
➡️ They have seriously damaged the Ukrainian economy and the infrastructure that supports the troops on the front lines.
➡️ This makes Ukraine ever more dependent on European economic support at a moment when Europe is in no position to deliver.
➡️ Zelensky has already said the €52 billion pledged for 2026 is not enough and that he needs another €27 billion. For 2027 he has asked for an additional €82 billion on top of the €52 billion already pledged.

THE TERRITORY LOGIC
➡️ Putin cannot trust the West or Ukraine to stick to any deal.
➡️ He has a deep-seated interest in taking as much Ukrainian territory as he can conquer and govern because that is the best way of maximizing Russia’s security over the long term.
➡️ From a Russian point of view the choice is simple: either Russia controls Odessa or Ukraine controls Odessa. If the Russians can take it at a reasonable cost, they will.
➡️ The goal is to turn Ukraine into a thoroughly dysfunctional rump state that is in no position to join the West or threaten Russia again.
➡️ “We have incentivized the Russians to weaken Ukraine as much as possible and to take as much Ukrainian territory as possible for strategic reasons.”

THE NATO ROOT CAUSE
➡️ If there had been no NATO expansion and no talk of bringing Ukraine into NATO, Ukraine would be intact today in its pre-2014 borders, including Crimea.
➡️ McFaul has said there is no evidence Putin was intent on taking Crimea before 2014; he was spooked by the possibility that the Crimean Peninsula would become a NATO naval base.
➡️ Putin was not an imperialist before 2014 and he was not an imperialist before 2022. The conquests that followed are driven by strategic necessity, not empire-building.
➡️ Russia lives in a dangerous neighborhood. Napoleon invaded in 1812, Imperial Germany forced the Brest-Litovsk surrender in 1917, and Nazi Germany launched the most barbaric campaign in recorded history in 1941. NATO, a mortal foe during the Cold War, has now moved up to Russia’s border. The United States sits behind two oceans with weak neighbors. Russia does not.

THE BOTTOM LINE
Mearsheimer’s assessment is blunt: Ukraine is definitely going to lose the war, the Russians will win an ugly victory, and no one can tell a plausible story about how Kyiv rescues the situation. Decades of NATO expansion that ignored Russian security concerns produced exactly the outcome the West claimed it wanted to prevent. This is the price of refusing to see the world as it is.

#Mearsheimer #UkraineWar #NATOExpansion #Russia #Realism #PutinStrategy #UkraineDefeat
HT: YouTube Glenn Diesen