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[Freedom Today @FreedomTodayNet]

The heartbreaking video #Zelensky played in his address to #US Congress!
#Ukrainewillresist
#StandWithUkraine #freeukraine
#Ukraine #russia #putin #slavaukraini #Kyiv #ukraineunderattack #ukrainenews #ukrainetoday #RussiaInvadedUkraine #russianinvasion #USA #JoeBiden #Biden

[Rodrigo Figueredo🇻🇪🇺🇦 @GeorgeArtwell]

@RenethQ74770 @grok Este es más venezolano que la arepa 🫓 y es un Heroyem de Ucrania y un Heroe de Venezuela.

[Rodrigo Figueredo🇻🇪🇺🇦 @GeorgeArtwell]

Por los mismos senderos que caminó Francisco de Miranda hoy los herederos de Bolivar te explican el ¿por que? la lucha por la libertad de Ucrania y de Venezuela es la misma. Slava Ukraini ¡Viva Venezuela Libre! 🗽🇻🇪🤝🇺🇦

[Freedom Today @FreedomTodayNet]

@PinchukFund Masala, the guy who was spreading russian desinfo till April 2022! Inviting this guy to a conference in Ukraine tells everything we need to know about Pinchuk 😉
“Es wird kein Krieg , der sich lange hinziehen wird. Es wird eine Frage von Wochen sein." https://t.co/giXpI5DYY0

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Damn Ukraine! 😂

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

“The war did not change Russia. It revealed Russia.” - Rihards Kols

Rihards Kols, Latvian Member of the European Parliament, speaking at the #RigaConf2026 plenary session "Preparing for Russia Remade by War".

“It is important correction we need to make in this room. The war did not change Russia. It revealed Russia. And this is precisely, and I will reiterate, that for years some of us in this region said this plainly, and we were told that we are exaggerating. There are some who are still saying that the Baltics, our region, we are exaggerating, that we were prisoners of our own history. So the war did not create new Russia. It stripped away the excuses that let people pretend the old one was becoming something else. And that is something being spread across Europe. Already was mentioned the dynamics on day to day. What is the changing on the war efforts, war economy? And obviously we can reiterate the numbers. Obviously the Russia today spends roughly 7 to 8% of GDP and roughly 40% of federal budget expenditure on defense and security. And it is the highest share since the Soviet collapse. And that should be noted. But on top of that, which is more alarming, is that church, state media, education curricula, industry, the courts have all been folded into a single machine whose output is the war effort. And that has to be registered. And really, do not make no mistake. That is not wartime mobilisation in the sense we understand in democracy, when we speak about a temporary redirection of resources toward an external goal. It is the opposite. The war has become the organising principle of the state itself, and the state has organised everything else around sustaining it.

So I want to be really blunt, because I think this room can handle it from seeing familiar faces. Russia is not a state that happens to be run by a strong man who came out of the KGB. Russia is a state built and operated by security services, for security services as a permanent condition.
putin is not aberration sitting on top of normal state apparatus. He is the product of the apparatus, and so is whoever comes after him. We, we ask often and in this format as well, in previous years, what happens after putin? We are asking the wrong question. The right question is what happens to the system whose entire logic is a threat detection, repression, and control regardless of who occupies the top chair. Individuals do leave voluntarily or through windows or having too much tea. The services, the networks, the operating logic, they remain.

And there is a comfortable story in the Western capitals that ordinary Russians are quietly against this war, that repression is holding back at Latin majority that would choose differently if only given a chance. I do not believe that, and frankly the evidence does not support it. If there were a real organised majority demand for change inside Russia, we would see it. Not because Russians are uniquely passive, history proves the opposite when the conditions are right. But because when a majority generally wants a change, it finds a way to make that one visible, costly to ignore, and difficult to suppress indefinitely.

So the simple, uncomfortable logic conclusion is this. The absence of visible mass demand for change is itself the evidence. Passive discontent that never translates into political consequence is not resistance, it is accommodation.

And there is the line I want people to sit with. You cannot wake up someone who is only pretending to be asleep. A society that quietly benefits from empire, that quietly enjoys the mobilisation of victimhood and grievance the Kremlin sells it, does not need waking. It needs to be confronted with costs it cannot ignore.”
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[Рустем Адагамов @adagamov]

🇺🇸 В колонке для The Washington Post бывший глава Google Эрик Шмидт, неоднократно бывавший в Украине и участвовавший в работе над военными технологиями, пишет, что после последней поездки впервые с начала полномасштабного вторжения уехал настолько встревоженным. По его оценке, Россия научилась воевать значительно эффективнее и постепенно переходит к стратегии тотальной войны, соединяя превосходство в людях и промышленном производстве с быстрым технологическим развитием.

Главным преимуществом Украины долгое время была скорость инноваций: небольшие команды военных, инженеров и оборонных компаний могли за считаные недели разработать новую систему, испытать ее на фронте и усовершенствовать. Российская военная бюрократия за этим не успевала. Теперь, предупреждает Шмидт, это преимущество быстро исчезает. Россия не только массово производит оружие, но и сама научилась быстро адаптироваться: на украинские дроны-перехватчики она ответила более быстрыми реактивными "Шахедами", а теперь создает и собственную спутниковую группировку, способную конкурировать со Starlink.

Поле боя при этом изменилось до неузнаваемости. Командиры находятся глубоко под землей, тысячи беспилотников ведут разведку, доставляют грузы и атакуют людей и технику. По данным, которые приводит Шмидт, около 80% украинских потерь происходит при перемещении военнослужащих между позициями.

Но главной проблемой Украины становится уже не способность изобретать новое оружие, а возможность производить его в достаточном количестве. Один украинский командир рассказал Шмидту, что его подразделение перестало искать новые российские цели: обнаруженных уже больше, чем имеющихся дронов для их поражения. Как пишет Шмидт, отличный беспилотник, произведенный сотнями, — это интересно, но ход войны меняет хороший беспилотник, выпускаемый сотнями тысяч.

Россия тем временем наращивает промышленные мощности для тотальной войны. Украина самостоятельно конкурировать с такими масштабами производства не может. Особенно опасной Шмидт считает предстоящую зиму: Россия уже использует нехватку у Украины средств защиты от баллистических ракет, нанося удары по электростанциям и подстанциям.

Главный вывод Шмидта: Украине недостаточно отдельных партий западного оружия. Запад должен фактически включить украинский ВПК в собственную оборонную промышленность — совместно производить оружие, вкладываться в украинские предприятия и массово поставлять перехватчики, боеприпасы и дальнобойные системы.

"Восхищение украинской стойкостью — не стратегия", — заключает Шмидт. За четыре года Украина выиграла для Запада время "кровью своих солдат и изобретательностью своих инженеров". Одного мужества недостаточно, чтобы защищать города и выиграть войну: Запад должен превратить это время в промышленное превосходство.

[Vatnik Suppen auf Deutsch @vatniksoup_de]

In der heutigen Vatnik Suppe stellen wir Hans-Thomas Tillschneider vor, AfD-Politiker, Islamwissenschaftler und Putinversteher.

Bekannt ist er dafür, sich wegen seiner Tasse der russischen Armee dumm zu stellen & das AfD-Programm für die Wahl am Sonntag mitgeprägt zu haben.
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[Moshe @IsraelIDFend]

🚨 Open letter to the Free Palestine crowd:

You spent 2 1/2 years screaming famine, genocide, and “open-air prison.” You donated. You marched. You called anyone who asked a question a fucking monster.

Now the “suffering Palestinians” started a viral trend: Villas. Mercedes. Food festivals. Beach cafes. Influencers who fundraised for “starving children” and bought BMWs and Rolexes.
Fat, fed, and filming it.
Laughing in your face.

Some Palestinians are poor. Always have been. That was never the whole story. Billions in aid didn’t evaporate. A lot of it became marble, columns, and German engines while you skipped brunch to feel holy.

You weren’t saving anyone.
You were the useful idiot in a 70-year grift.
You now feel embarrassed because you should.
You got played, and you were too busy screaming “free, free Palestine” instead of educating yourself, like normal, intelligent adults.

Keep the keffiyeh.
Consider it a participation trophy for being this fucking stupid.

Now you’re broke, jobless, lost family and friends and saying “how could I be this fucking stupid?”

This letter just answered your question.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Putin likely can't even believe his own luck..

After countless acts of Russian terrorism all over Europe, they get caught red-handed trying to blow up a massive cargo plane in Leipzig and the Germans respond by closing a meaningless consulate.

And on the day of the "response", Russians try to blow up one of Germany's largest power plants.

Meanwhile, amid this incredible weakness, the pro-Russian AFD party polls #1.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Mike Pence: Right now, President Lee of South Korea could transfer interceptors they manufacture directly to Ukraine. And I'm really calling on President Lee to do just that. I think, this is real moment where South Korea can step up, given North Korea’s cooperation with Russia.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

Wildberries in Kotovsk… WOW 🤙

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

NEW: Russia is escalating strikes against Ukrainian-Moldovan border infrastructure in conjunction with its campaign against Ukrainian port and maritime infrastructure. (1/2)

Other Key Takeaways:

Russian forces are using the strikes along the Ukrainian-Moldovan border to achieve broader political effects.

The Kremlin is attempting to address concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree that set conditions for nationalization of critical infrastructure facilities.

Russia launched another satellite into orbit on August 24 for military purposes, potentially as part of its broader efforts to establish a Rassvet (Russian analogue to Starlink) satellite constellation.

US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe reportedly arrived in Moscow on an unscheduled trip, marking what would be Ratcliffe’s first visit to Russia since becoming CIA director.

Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil and energy infrastructure. Russia launched an unspecified number of Iskander-M ballistic missiles, Kh-31P anti-radar missiles, and 150 drones against Ukraine overnight.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kupyansk and Borova directions.

[Hananya Naftali @HananyaNaftali]

Inside the bombed-out home of a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon: stacks of U.S. dollars and gold.

The Iranian people became poorer while the regime’s proxies became richer.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

After dutifully serving years as propagandist for the Russian government, Seagal's work for Putin will now end where the story always ends.

After selling his $1.3 million Moscow home, the prostitute-loving, washed-up and cash-strapped 1990's TV star will now have all his assets stolen by the Russians.

[Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine @MFAestonia]

You've heard a lot about #Narva.
Now see it for yourself. 👇

[Rodrigo Figueredo🇻🇪🇺🇦 @GeorgeArtwell]

¡Gloria al Bravo Pueblo! 🇻🇪

[Freedom Today @FreedomTodayNet]

@TuckerCarlson That Russian 🤡 Kim Schmitz betrayed all his hacker friends back in Germany. All the hackers hate him because he’s a traitor! But it’s no surprise that Tucker talks to him.

[Freedom Today @FreedomTodayNet]

@HannaNotte @ronzheimer Magically transformed from a so-called Middle East expert at a think tank run by Russian intelligence into a so-called Russia expert. Greetings to Valdai, you vatnik!
@P_Kallioniemi could you provide a soup, we can give u all the background information 😉

[Hanna Notte @HannaNotte]

Good to reconnect, debate and discuss with Russian and other colleagues @valdaitweets Valdai annual conference in Sochi

[Freedom Today @FreedomTodayNet]

@HannaNotte @ronzheimer or this?
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