Halina

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[Halina @PerfidesA]

Today in German corruption: rumour has it that an ex-Stasi spy who, like every good communist, moved on to a lucrative executive role with the Russian office of Dresdner Bank and later became managing director of Nord Stream AG, is looking to revitalise the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia’s and the US’s backing.
He himself, of course denies this and claims he will abide by all sanctions. A 🧵 on why it’s probably ill-advised to believe him:

[Ryan Bourne @MrRBourne]

The Irish defending the principle of bigger countries having territory rights to local islands nearby. Interesting.

[Bishop 🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇦 @TheLockheedLib]

The russian soldier on his 4th year of a 3 day SMO watching the Americans win their 3rd SMO in a row

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

Palestine in its Romanian era

[Schwabster🇱🇹🇩🇰🇺🇦 @Ziggydank]

Polish coal

[Mikita 🍔 @mikitaposts]

You guys may think this is funny but the British Empire collapsed after this

[Hutten @arminius_bls]

Der klassische Italiener

[imi (m) @moklasen]

me with my now mostly useless list of thousands of russian soldier group chats that used to leak insane amounts of sensitive military data and unit locations

[yoshimi battles dracula @nise_yoshimi]

this is how it feels when you get to chat about something you read on Wikipedia recently

[Bosnian History @BosnianHistory]

Young Sarajevo city defender, 1992 #SarajevoSiege

[Iron Heart @saturn74954]

Abandoned Soviet T-26 tank on the approaches to Stalingrad, 1942.

[Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup]

Astra: Kadyrov's son may have been in a serious car accident.

Meanwhile, Kadyrov's car mechanic:

[OSINT Gorilla @GorillaOSINT]

Ukraine: we need air defense missiles
Europeans after scaling production of SAMP/T missiles from 1 to 2 per year

[Halina @PerfidesA]

@ShaneGreenhough @Tysenberg Posted from a country without stable electricity

[Horse Nomad (Chicago-style) ⚔️ @Nomads4Pritzker]

@blagojevism Doughty Germans yearn to build waterside merchant cities

[Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @JSMilbank]

Bottle cap was probably dropped directly into the Caribbean by a blinded Maduro — a tragedy that could have been averted in a European operation

[Andrea Gilli @aa_gilli]

Theorists of multipolarity crying like babies when, uh, in the dog-eat-dog world they have long called for the strongest does what he will, the weak suffer what they must...