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[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

Trained in misogyny from the day he was born. He doesn’t see her as a human being, much less as his equal. Instead, he was taught from birth that his sex makes him better than half the planet.

[hey @Mincheese25]

@ngahpham They have been doing that all over Vietnam, either drills against protesters or terrorism.

[Nine-tailed Fox 🇰🇷 @saber_k086]

Watching people genuinely thinking North Korea can win against South Korea one-on-one on a full scale war will never stop to be amusing

[hey @Mincheese25]

One of my grand uncle was one of the Viet Cong - Biet Dong Sai Gon that fought during the war.

We never knew what happened to his body, we only know that he died.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Vietnam held funeral rites for more than 700 of its war dead on Wednesday, unearthed in a major push to identify those missing from decades of conflict with France and the United States

https://t.co/QOO7o26xc8

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

So why on earth should Ukraine abide by this fictitious, disgraceful, one-sided “ceasefire” that applies only to Russia, and refrain from striking Russian oil terminals for the sake of Donald Trump’s cheap pre-election circus -- if Ukraine is being betrayed anyway, with its arms continually twisted and itself blackmailed into capitulating to Putin?

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

Feelings in Kyiv running very high following latest. “If Trump had been running United States back in 1939, I think he would have been Hitler’s ally,” says an intelligence source. “And on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, Witkoff and Kushner would have built a posh hotel complex.”

[hey @Mincheese25]

Fuck Brzezinski for allowing China to invade Vietnam for the sake of normalization. Fuck the realists who believe that countries need to submit to overlords.

[hey @Mincheese25]

Realists will sit on their high horse and said: yes yes yes you have to submit to your overlord for balance of power.

Fuck you and your balance of power and the killing of millions for the sake of superpowers. You have been proven to be wron and should die out to history.

[Doc St. Clair @LamareSaint]

You don't understand what's happening in Ukraine because you were never supposed to. You are supposed to believe that Putin is a James Bond villain who seeks the destruction of the world just because.

I've said this before, the vast majority of US foreign policy aims are publicly available...but Americans no longer read.

Ukraine, in the eyes of US foreign policy, has always been and is critical to undermining Russia. In this, as Zbigniew Brzezinski argues, Ukraine is simply a pawn on the larger chessboard. There is no real concern for Ukrainian independence. The goal was to change Ukraine's vassal anchoring from Russia to the West, understanding that through those actions the vast resources of Ukraine would enrich the West and help ensure US global hegemony.

In The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski argued that Eurasia is the decisive arena of global power and that a handful of “geopolitical pivots”, states whose importance comes less from their own strength than from their location, determine whether any rival can dominate the continent. He identified Ukraine as the most consequential of these pivots for one central reason: without Ukraine, Russia cannot be a Eurasian empire. An independent Ukraine strips Russia of its historical and demographic heartland, its access to the Black Sea, and its path to reconstituting a Moscow-centered imperial bloc, leaving it as a largely Asian regional power rather than a global one.

Conversely, if Russia were to regain control over Ukraine’s roughly 50 million people, its resources, and its coastline, it would automatically recover the means to become an imperial state spanning Europe and Asia. Brzezinski therefore framed U.S. support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and its gradual integration into Western institutions as a strategic imperative rather than a sentimental one: it anchors a stable, enlarging Europe, forecloses the re-emergence of a hostile continental hegemon, and preserves the pluralism of power in Eurasia on which American primacy, and, in his view, global stability, depends.

Do not believe me. Read his book yourself.

If you don't like how it makes you feel, take it up with our foreign policy experts.

[🇷🇴 Erasmus Ultor 🇪🇺 @Saptecai]

@sternenko 35 years after the fall of USSR, the United States are the lapdogs of Russia. What a shameful display.

[hey @Mincheese25]

@thewitcher @EppurSinRumbo @JuiceHead33 When is it anyway? The cross save is not working due to different versions

[hey @Mincheese25]

@arvntroop Was it also the reason why the ARVN keep believing mistakenly that the NVA would attack Kon Tum first during 75?

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

You might not know much about the history of the internet in Russia. I don't blame you. But there was a time when it was free, in the fullest sense of the word.

In the mid-90s, when dial-up started reaching ordinary people, a country that had been completely cut off from the world could suddenly read news from anywhere and talk to anyone. My first experience of it was in our family's tiny flat in Moscow, in one of those post-Soviet apartment blocks where the mailboxes on the ground floor stank of stale urine. There I was on America Online, of all things, opening Netscape and Eudora for the first time.

The Russian internet grew astonishingly fast. By 2013 the services available to Russians, both government and private, were well ahead of what I could get in Britain, where I'd long since moved. And the company that innovated hardest was @yandexcom - the same company whose data centres are now being hit by Ukrainian missiles.

You may not have heard of it. The name is a play on "index", with the "i" swapped for the Russian first-person pronoun "ya". It never tried to be global. It solved search for Russian speakers by building proper morphological algorithms for the language, and it took @Google years to catch up. In the late 90s, when I was building my own computers from components, Yandex already had a price search that aggregated live listings, so I could find the cheapest Soundblastet card in Moscow. It probably saved my family a fair bit of money. Later it bought @Uber's Russian business, and Yandex Taxi and food delivery didn't just copy Western ideas, they improved on them. It became a near-monopoly - when Yandex launched a feature, a thousand startups died, much like OpenAI today.

But Yandex was also global in a quieter way. It modelled itself on Google, hated nepotism in a country run on it, and hired on merit. Its engineers ended up across the world's tech companies - in the peace years by choice, and after February 2022 not by choice.

Which brings me to now. Russia is a deeply stratified society. The majority lead insular lives, don't speak English, don't follow the world, and their lives barely changed with the war or the sanctions. Tech workers were the opposite cohort: English-speaking, reading news in two languages, friends and colleagues across Europe and America. They built the Russian internet first as an escape from the criminal chaos of the 90s, and then, as Putin tightened the screws, it became the last place with genuine freedom. It's no accident that Navalny emerged as an internet blogger and built his entire opposition online while banned from state TV.

Those same engineers understood exactly what the propaganda was. They knew the Russian invasion was a neo-imperial war of conquest by a dictator who thinks Ukrainians don't get to choose their own future. Then Putin came for Yandex. Censorship was rammed down its throat: no anti-regime results in search, only state-approved outlets in news aggregation, user data handed to the FSB. A company that helped build freedom in Russia joined the ranks of its executioners. About a quarter of staff fled. The rest stayed, and they've run the information blackout ever since.

So I'll repeat what I've said about the people still working at Yandex, VK and the other backbone holdings. There's a special place in hell for you. Unlike the majority of Russians, whose education and curiosity never stretched far, you know exactly what's happening. You speak English. You read the news in both languages. You fork repositories on GitHub. You know who you're serving and why your country is slaughtering civilians, and you serve the dictator anyway. You're vandalising the legacy of the people who built Yandex - one of your co-founders, Ilya Segalovich, is dead, and you're trampling on his grave.

I don't wish you physical harm, and I hope the staff in those data centres stay safe. But if Yandex burns - the IP, the data centres, the whole thing - given what you're doing for that man, I won't shed a single tear.

[hey @Mincheese25]

Like what do you mean school children are supposed to cover their hair? Against what? Lustful “men”?

[hey @Mincheese25]

Islam is the most peculiar religion in the world (personally).

Why do you keep maintaining outdated and restrictive limitations on women? If you want to modernize, first you must do so from your mind.

[VoW @voiceofworldco]

Azerbaycan’da başörtüsü nedeniyle okuldan atılan kız çocuğu:

“Bana dediler ki geç şu odaya başörtünü çıkar. Öğlene kadar çıkarmak zorundasın.”

[Boşuna Tıklama @bosunatiklama]

Azerbaycan Devlet Televizyonu:

▬ Devlet, milli kimliğimize Arap-Fars değerleri katmaya yönelik her türlü girişimin önüne geçecektir. Bizim kendi milli değerlerimiz var.

▬ Azerbaycan Müslüman ancak laik bir devlettir. Hiç kimse bizi İslami değerlere önem vermemekle suçlayamaz.

▬ Giyim medeniyeti tam da okulda başlar.

[Caner Kara @Tayma_CanerKara]

Bugün, bu çocuğun başörtüsüyle okula girmesini savunanlar, güçleri yetse pantolonla gezmesini yasaklar.
Daha da güçlenseler okula gitmesini, biraz daha güçlenseler "yanında erkek olmadan sokağa çıkmasını" yasaklar.
Yaşanmış örnekler böyle...
Gerisi yalan, dolan, propaganda...

[hey @Mincheese25]

@arvntroop Tbf half of Quang Tri was still on the northern side after the battle.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

When we started responding to Russia’s operation against our data centers, and when our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations.

Because there were fewer bots. And it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from – if they disappeared when Yandex went offline. This proves, again and again, that Europe is not the source of the problems. Europe is not the one making everything more difficult.

Most importantly, we need people in America, every morning, when the day in Europe is already moving toward evening, to really see what is happening. To see the truth.

From a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum. (3/3)

[hey @Mincheese25]

I don’t know but Marxists sometimes convince me of their illiteracy

[Clash Report @clashreport]

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

They tell us, "We must reassure the markets." Reassure the markets? What are their names? Where do they live? Let me go and reassure them!

What market? What are you talking about? There is no market. There are hedge funds, financial companies and insurance companies.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Q: It's not just President Trump. We also heard from Elon Musk saying Zelenskyy has gone too far. Why are they blaming you for the continuation of this war?

President Zelenskyy: Because these people can't find a key how to stop Putin. Because it's more difficult to stop Putin than to pressure others. Because it's more simple to speak about the prices and connect it with Ukraine.

When everybody in the world understands because of the war in Middle East, the prices are rising. They’re increasing because of the war in Middle East, of the blocking of Hormuz, because of these reasons. Everybody understands it.

And if we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, we have to stop... I mean, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people.