Some of you may remember being inducted in the magical rite that took place standing around a little grey heap of exact shovelled proportions. Next a circle was created and the offering of water. What was two separate materials combined into an excitingly tackey substance.
1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin predicts that Russia will be stripped to the bone – "IN THE EVENT OF DEFEAT, THEY WILL TAKE EVERYTHING FROM US—UP TO AND INCLUDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND SOVEREIGNTY" – in a long and deeply gloomy commentary posted on Telegram. ⬇️
@CaolanReports Have you ever looked into the absolutely massive Russian embassy compound in Dublin?
13 buildings, 3 of which look like apartment buildings and what looks like construction/curiously deep excavation underway for a 14th.
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The Irish Paradox
Behind Ireland’s Pro-Ukraine Rhetoric Lies a Network of Russian Trade, Influence and Opportunity
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This could be a huge turning point in this war.
Ukraine have developed a drone that has the ability to hunt and hit moving targets over 150km from the front line. But it's what they're targeting that makes this a potential game changer.
Highway R-280, which runs through the occupied Ukrainian cities of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and Simferopol in Crimea, is now in range of Ukraine's drones. The route serves as a key logistics corridor, linking mainland southern Ukraine with the occupied peninsula and is used for transporting military equipment and other supplies supporting Russian forces.
130 Russian logistics vehicles have been hit over the past month, forcing the military to ban large convoys and relocate ammo depots further away from the front.
The aim is to make it impossible for Russia to support its military in Kherson and Crimea, starving them of oil, ammo, and even food. The Kerch Bridge remains a crucial alternate route, but one that feels increasingly vulnerable to another attack.
If Ukraine is able to sustain this much pressure on Russia's supply line along the southern front for long enough, there is a genuine chance that Kherson could be retaken, maybe even Crimea.
#Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarNews #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussianWarCrimes #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TrumpIsOwnedByRussia
At Cannes, an old bargain returned in new clothes:
Blame the war on one man, grieve the Russian 🇷🇺 victims, and begin arranging the empire’s world homecoming before Ukraine 🇺🇦 has finished saying what was done to it.⬇️🇺🇦🎧
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There will be no reconciliation ever. They should have thought of that while stealing our children, r@ping us and throwing us in mass graves. They do it for centuries and each time you bastards demand we reconcile. Not this time. This is one genocide too many. We all give them fresh start in 1991. All victim countries and hundreds of millions of victims. What they did with that fresh start under new leader and new form of government? Exactly what they did before. And you again demand reconciliation? How many millions they have to murder over how many centuries before you monsters can finally say enough?
It’s not up to you now. We say enough. Generationally. As long as it takes, they will pay for this genocide, for Holodomor, for war of independence, for occupations, for pogroms, Chechnya, Belarus, Hungary, African slave trade, all of it. It’s finally time they pay for all their crimes. And nothing will stop it because as I already said, this was one genocide too many. It’s one kidnapping of children too many. It’s one campaign of r@pe too many. It’s one world war too many. It’s one antisemitism campaign too many.
They have zero rights to anything but least of all to reconciliation.
Researchers left AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days to see what would happen:
-Claude's agents built a democracy
-ChatGPT's agents did basically nothing
-Gemini's agents fell in love, burned the town down, then one voted to delete itself and its partner
-Grok's agents were all dead within 4 days
Now consider this: these same models are already being integrated into autonomous drones, weapons systems, and battlefield decision-making.
We are deploying systems we don't fully understand into situations where mistakes don't stay virtual.
It's a little scary if you ask me.
@ZelenskyyUa You heard it from the man himself that russia is still importing what they need to build new munitions. The Foundational Metal of war is aluminum. Let's get Alumina from the Aughinish Plant on the 21st Sanctions Package!!
#Alumina21
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Some context for everyone who hasn't read into this.
The Taoiseach (Prime Minister) was minister for health during the early 2000s. Samples were taken for 18 months, as part of an investigation into a spike of health cases and animal deaths in the region.
That went missing.
Stalin ordered handicapped veterans cleared out of Moscow. They cast the wrong kind of shadow over his “victory” parades.
The man in this 1966 photo was one of them – a Red Army soldier who fought through WWII, then was hidden away so the regime could celebrate itself.
Modern russia has forgotten him completely. And it is busy creating a new generation just like him in Ukraine.
Apparently Mario, you don’t know the topic you’re writing about. Yermak was charged, but this is the work of Ukrainian anticorruption bodies , including my organization. Ukraine remains democracy during war. Yulia Mendel has nothing to do with it. She is not anticorruption fighter and she is not a defender of free speech. I have never seen her do anything for the common good. Only self-promotion. Her interview is a mix of some true facts with Russian cognitive warfare, lies and propaganda. Such mix the most dangerous - for uninformed people especially. She is an opportunistic person, who never did anything for Ukraine and is not respected professionally. She was fired for being bad at her job. She has nothing to lose.
📣Putin is said to be terrified of a palace coup and is fearful his oligarchs are abandoning him.
There’s many paths that could lead to his overthrow.
But one possible one is:
The EU bans the export of Alumina from Ireland. The owner, and one of the top oligarchs Deripaska is
Here's the problem: When Pakistan said they expected a response from Iran on Thursday, and Trump and Rubio said they expected a response from Iran on Friday, Iran knew then and there they'd take longer to respond. They sent their response to Pakistan today; we don't yet know the substance. But THEY understand negotiation.
And the problem is, Trump doesn't. We know that both sides would like to end the conflict, but Iran is intentionally frustrating Trump, even mocking him, because they understand strategy and posture better than him, and because they can. They understand that Trump's bloviations and hyperbole are empty. They understand Trump is addicted to professing his own grandiosity and they understand his transparent and desperate need to reverse the political decline of his Made for TV presidency.
Therefore, the one really major card that Iran holds is NOT the Strait of Hormuz and it's NOT the enriched uranium. It's that they know Trump, desperate for an exit, is trapped by his own uncontrollable and cartoonish ego, and they will milk it for what they can.