Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻

Exploring the inner workings of the world.

[Rihards Kols @RihardsKols]

🔱A lesson in modern heraldry.

For years, Russian trolls and talking heads have called the Baltic states two things: "chihuahuas" - small, yappy, not worth taking seriously - and an "existential threat" to Russia (according to public opinion polls, too).

They might be onto something.

Small, loud, and annoying to dictators. Apparently threatening the existence of a nuclear power.

That's not an insult.
So we can make it official.👇

If Russia insists we're both chihuahuas and an existential threat - we'll take it. We'll put it on a sticker.

Introducing the Canis Balticus.
CERTIFIED EXISTENTIAL THREAT.

#NAFO #NAFOFellas - the #Baltic chihuahuas are with you.
Small dog. Big bite. 🐕🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪

[Sweden in Latvia @SwedeninLV]

🎉We are very proud to announce that Karin Höglund, former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Latvia, yesterday received Latvia’s highest state award, the Order of the Three Stars.🎉

📷: Ilmārs Znotiņš, Valsts prezidenta kanceleja.

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@carlbildt When Karl Bilt speaks - I listen! ❤️

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@Braze_Baiba @Latvian_MFA @LV_Norway @LIAALatvija @Pabriks When @Braze_Baiba speaks - things happen! ❤️🇱🇻

[Ralfs Eilands @RalfsEilands]

Ja Tu kādreiz nolaid pa kreisi un sieva Tevi pieķer, tad vari mierīgi izspēlēt “Mieriņas kārti” un teikt, ka tikai “izmēģināji”, kā tas ir, un Tev nekas par to nebūs.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

The Wall Street Journal alleges that the real motivation behind Trump’s eagerness to force Ukraine into an ugly surrender is the idea that a lot of people close to him can make a lot of money doing business and deals in Russia.

If this is true, beyond the disgusting morality of this and the huge geopolitical risks that it creates, none of these people salivating over their future riches are going to make a penny, and perhaps do a lot worse.

I was once the largest foreign investor in Russia and I can say with certainty that the Russians aren’t going to let anyone profit in any way. They will talk nice at the outset to attract the investment, but once it’s there, they will steal, defraud, arrest, torture or even kill to make sure that no American makes any money. I’ve seen it so many times it’s almost universal.

So, this shocking initiative is not only terrible policy, it’s spectacularly stupid business.

https://t.co/2RvCkY1iGb

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We remember the longing for freedom that Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian people demonstrated with the Baltic Way. We honor the unity these nations showed in defending their right to freedom and independence.

And today we highly appreciate the genuine solidarity of the Baltic states, in the face of dumb Russian imperialism. Just as you have, we are defending the right of our state and our people to independent life, and against the Russian attempt to subjugate us.

Together we will return durable peace and uphold human dignity on the European continent.

🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@carlbildt He continued, "The security of Ukraine is upto Ukraine. If Ukraine wants the help of others for that security - that's business of Ukraine. And Russia has nothing to do with that particular issue."

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

"I think our answer to that should be, "That's no business of yours!"

@carlbildt nailed it on BBC tonight explaining the very fact what 'sovereignty' means for a country.

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@krizdabz Neiedvesmojies no apkārtējiem, un nebāz branča bufetē pilnas kabatas ar fritiem tikai tādēļ, ka "inkļuziv".

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@Janis_Pelcis Kas kalpo par iemeslu šādai "P" partijas nosaukuma transkripcijai svešvalodā? Kurss viņiem ir skaidrs, un tas nav austrumu virzienā. Nepatīkami lasīt jūsu rakstīto.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

🚨 The delivery of US military aid to Ukraine was suspended at around 3:30 a.m. today, - Reuters

With everything that’s happening right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if, somehow, the U.S. ends up sending that aid to Russia instead.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

If Putin were running the White House directly, what would he do differently?

[LTV Ziņu dienests @ltvzinas]

ASV prezidenta Donalda Trampa lēmums apturēt militāro palīdzību Ukrainai apliecina, ka viņam "nekad plānos nav bijis taisnīgs miers starp Ukrainu un Krieviju," uzskata domnīcas "Northern Europe Policy Centre" direktors @Pabriks. https://t.co/p0NTdMt4zA

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

🇩🇰 Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rejected the American president’s remarks, saying, “Zelenskyy is a democratically elected and, by the way, an extraordinarily capable political leader in Europe, who (…) has fought every single day for the peace, freedom, and security of Europe, and thus also for the Americans.”

Denmark ❤️

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@uldisdumins Pilnīgi pakaļ sviež "pa lēto"!

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@AzatAlsalim @Pabriks The video isn't about Malmö, it's about another city. Check your sources before posting misinformation. I've never felt as safe anywhere as living here in Malmö.

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@guntars_i @ilmarmors @VDAA_gov_lv @PortalsLV Es šodien kā reizi pamanīju, ka mana epasta adrese nav verificēta. Nobrīnījos. Manuprāt, iepriekšējā portāla versijā kontaktinformācija nebija jāverificē vai arī verifikācija pazuda migrācijā uz lapas 2.0 versiju.

[SpaceWeatherLive @_SpaceWeather_]

Severe G4 geomagnetic storm (Kp8)
Threshold Reached: 16:57 UTC
Follow live on https://t.co/Zkq26B89Y7

[Dainis Lubarts 🇱🇻🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻 @Flesners]

@_SpaceWeather_ Malmö, Sweden