Nenad A.

Interested in history,travell and geopolitics.

[Nenad A. @NenadNews]

@M_Simonyan Get well soon 🙏

[Pierre Champigny 🇫🇷 ⚓️ - Un Français @P_Champigny]

Et voilà, c’est dit et bien dit.
C’est du Todd! Régalez-vous!

"L’hystérie russophobe occidentale, qui fantasme sur le désir d’expansion de la Russie en Europe, est tout simplement risible pour un historien.

"Le choc psychologique qui attend les Européens sera la prise de conscience que l’OTAN a été créée non pas pour nous protéger, mais pour nous contrôler.

"Notre russophobie n’a rien à voir avec la Russie elle-même. C’est un fantasme, une pathologie des sociétés occidentales, un besoin interne d’imaginer un monstre russe.

"Quand ils parlent de la Russie, les dirigeants de la France, de la Grande-Bretagne, de l’Allemagne ou de la Suède parlent avant tout d’eux-mêmes.

"La russophobie est, sans aucun doute, une pathologie.

"Mais surtout, la Russie est devenue un test projectif impressionnant. Son image est similaire au test psychologique de Rorschach. Le sujet dit au psychiatre ce qu’il voit dans des formes aléatoires ou symétriques.

"À ce moment-là, il projette des traits profonds et cachés de sa personnalité.

"La Russie est notre test de Rorschach"
https://t.co/XGFYQLDCJv

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

This seems relevant today.

[The Palestinian @InsiderWorld_1]

One day, history will ask what side you were on. You won't be able to say, 'I didn't know.'

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

After PSG's 2-1 victory over Aston Villa, Ukrainian player Zabarny posted a photo of the team, in which he had cropped out Russian goalkeeper Safonov, and captioned it:

"We won again!"

Meanwhile, Safonov had saved three shots on goal, while the Ukrainian player spent the entire game on the bench. Just pathetic.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China🇨🇳.

👇

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Brutal. Just brutal.

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

When the Germans proposed forming the SS Division "Galicia" in Lvov in 1943, they originally wanted to call it the SS Volunteer Division "Galicia." Turns out they bet on the right horse as 80,000 people enlisted within the first three months.

Eighty years later, Lvov continues to host annual marches commemorating the division. Once again, no one is forcing anyone to attend. The people carrying Nazi symbols and chanting Nazi slogans are there of their own free will.

[Dr.mostafa project🇵🇸𓂆 @MostafaBNaim1]

An Israeli soldier in Gaza holds up the sock of a Palestinian girl after killing her, filming himself smiling, after writing in his post (in Hebrew): "My new hobby: smelling the sock of a 5-year-old girl twice a day for 4 months."
This is neither a narrative nor an analysis. These are the soldier's own words, with his picture and from his own account.
#Gaza #FreePalestine #WarCrimes

[Richard @ricwe123]

That revealing moment in 2016 when Victoria Nuland was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.

She spelled it out without shame:

🔴 US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.

🔴 US-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.

🔴 US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.

🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.

This wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid....

[Richard @ricwe123]

Back in 2014 Ukrainian soldiers were shooting into the homes of civilians in East Ukraine.
Their mission was to spread terror and crush any dissent against the CIA backed coup in Kyiv.

Meanwhile the propaganda continues, they still push the lie this conflict was "unprovoked"

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Americans realizing they spent $75 billion fighting Iran, then another $300 billion rebuilding Iran, just to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the war started

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

A powerful video on the FIFA World Cup

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

“Free Palestine”

📍Paris Saint-Germain, France

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras EEUU se gasta 90.000 millones en bombardear Irán... la pequeña isla de Cuba, asfixiada durante más de 60 años por el bloqueo de EEUU.... ha creado una vacuna contra el cáncer de pulmón que ayuda al sistema inmunológico a destruir células cancerígenas.

Aspiro a un mundo donde el dinero de mis impuestos no sea para bombas, sino para que se invierta en ciencia y medicina para salvar vidas... si eso me convierte en un peligroso terrorista de extrema izquierda, estoy orgulloso de serlo.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Comparto este video que lanzaron ayer Silvio Rodríguez y Chico Buarque; los fondos que se recaben serán donados a la Sala de Pediatría del Instituto de Oncología de Cuba, así que si queréis verlo, darle like y compartirlo con otras personas, es un pequeño grano de arena para aliviar la difícil situación en que se encuentran.
El vídeo es precioso y presenta esa Habana tan digna como empobrecida.
https://t.co/AVk6LbJAI7

[shouko @shoukointech]

Mathematician Sir Roger Penrose: "AI is a bad term. It's not intelligence"

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[Milena @MilenaNLJ]

Nova Banksijeva skulptura, zaslepljeni patriotizmom.