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[Michael Verstraeten @MichaelVerstrae]

Становится всё более очевидным, что Путин — это полный провал. Всё большее число россиян тоже так считает.
- Больше границ с НАТО, чем когда-либо.
- Больше стран — членов НАТО, чем когда-либо.
- После Украины в дверь ЕС стучатся также - Азербайджан и Армения.
- Изоляция в Европе.
- Сокращение продаж ископаемого топлива вдвое.
- 1,4 миллиона убитых и искалеченных на войне.
- Сокращение экономики.
- Большая часть золотого запаса взорвана в Украине.
- Потеряны самые близкие союзники.
- Россия деградировала до вассала Китая.
- Профессиональные армейские подразделения обескровлены.
- Проблемы со снабжением в Донбассе и в Крыму.
- Черноморский флот обескровлен.
- Русского языка и влияния в Украине меньше, чем когда-либо.
- Влияние русской культуры в Украине упало до минимума за последние 100 лет.
- Советские армейские запасы сильно истощены.
Имидж государства-изгоя.
- Преступления против человечности.
- Полная потеря доверия из-за чрезмерной пропаганды в гибридной войне.
- Массовый импорт мигрантов.
- Больше убийств, заключённых и агрессии, чем в Европе.
- Взрывной рост коррупции из-за войны.

[tb @ThomasBols]

@BohuslavskaKate @JohnCleese How will you know if someone served in the Russian army? Better to prohibit any Russian from entering the #EU

[tb @ThomasBols]

@United24media Personally I do not understand why ANY Russian is allowed into the EU. Can someone give me the rationale?

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

She nailed it! 😂

[tb @ThomasBols]

Excellent summary https://t.co/NjO09DwDAb

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

What the EU Did to Poland and the Baltics
I think the most underreported story in global economics is what European integration has done to the countries that were once the Soviet Union’s western margin.

In 2004, Poland joined the European Union. Its unemployment rate was around 20 percent. It was a middle-income country with serious structural problems and a GDP that reflected the grey inheritance of central planning.

Twenty years later, its GDP has passed one trillion dollars, having roughly tripled between accession and 2020 alone.

A new study from the Polish Economic Institute found that Poland’s economy is 42 percent larger than it would have been had it not joined the EU.

https://t.co/aSOsD7rGqm

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKY: I told Trump that I didn’t play with Putin. For us, it’s very serious. It’s not about cards.

I didn’t have cards, but I had the most important — smart and brave people. This is our card — the card of Ukraine. That’s why we’re now very strong with our drone technology.

[tb @ThomasBols]

@michael45982804 Indeed they served their purpose. And now they lost it…

[MagellanQuest 🇪🇺/acc @MagellanQuest]

The EU is not just Brussels.

It is not just Parliament, Commission and Council.

That is only the visible part.

Below the surface there is Schengen, the Eurozone, SEPA, TEN-T, ENTSO-E, the EIB, cohesion funds, industrial standards, supply chains, legal harmonisation, energy interconnections, rail corridors, defence clubs, diplomatic treaties and internal machinery almost nobody sees.

Europe is not a building.

It is a web.

A 70-year-old civilisational operating system made of treaties, institutions, infrastructure, markets and quiet dependencies.

Most people argue about the flag.

The real story is the wiring.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley responds to Trump saying he doesn’t care about the country: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan, and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the president has ever done any of those things for his country. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment, you love the country. While all the other descriptions the president used about me might be applicable, not that one”

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, appeared on Piers Morgan’s show and said what too many politicians are afraid to say.

She stated clearly that jihadists are members of a death cult. Their goal is to murder and to die as human sacrifices for Allah. They are not allies of Britain — and no amount of appeasement from Keir Starmer will ever change that.

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

Almost like Farage and Boris Johnson lied to us....

[Tōma 🐎 @NationOfEldia]

There are more Arabs serving in the IDF, than Jews livings in Arab countries

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Even Arab leaders admit it.

Everyone is sharing the Bill Clinton clip where he describes how Yasser Arafat rejected a generous peace offer at Camp David that would have given the Palestinians a state on 96 percent of the West Bank, land swaps, and a capital in East Jerusalem. Clinton says Arafat lied to him and that the Palestinian leadership never actually wanted a two-state solution. They wanted to destroy Israel. It’s a video often shared by people like @VividProwess, and it’s an important one for people to see.

Of course, critics immediately dismiss it. They claim Clinton is biased or he’s pro-Israel. They’ll tell you that you cannot trust the American perspective.

Ok, so let us set that aside.

Now watch this.

In this powerful interview, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a major Arab leader who was directly involved in negotiations, says exactly the same thing from the Arab side. He talks about the Mena House Conference in Cairo as well as the Camp David negotiations of 1978. All failed because of the Palestinians repeatedly rejecting any offer. The Oslo accords were signed but because Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were not involved, they derailed the accords and any chance for peace by initiating 4 years of terrorist suicide attacks in Israel. Then came the second Camp David negotiations in 2000 which Arafat agreed to, then rejected and instead initiated the Second Intifada.

Mubarak explains how the Palestinians refused to even participate in the Mena House conference of 1977. He describes repeated opportunities they were given, including a detailed document that called for Israeli withdrawal from the Samaria, Judea and Gaza, security arrangements during a transitional period, and other major concessions. The Israelis were willing to negotiate on difficult issues like who would control security. The Palestinians, according to Mubarak, kept saying no and wasting chance after chance.

He speaks with clear frustration about how for decades the Palestinian side has rejected peace initiatives and realistic compromises.

The video further shows footage from the PLO representative in 1977, as well as old footage of Egyptian president Sadat who was involved in the Mena House and first Camp David negotiations of 1978.

This perhaps is far more impactful than Clinton’s account because it is not a Western or Israeli voice. It is prominent Arab leaders who lived the negotiations, who represented the broader Arab world, and who had zero incentive to defend Israel.

When leaders from both sides of the table describe the same pattern of Palestinian rejectionism and violence, it becomes much harder to dismiss as bias.

The pattern is clear across decades and across different voices… generous offers, repeated refusals, and continued demands for everything while giving nothing in return.

This is not ancient history. It is the core reason the conflict continues today.

If you value the truth, please share.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

The contrast between Reagan’s speech at Point-Du-Hoc and Pete Hegseth today are like two different galaxies. Listen to how much reverence he gives to the same allies that Hegseth attacks.

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Pope Leo XIV in Madrid: “I encourage you to nurture the process of European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity.”

Wonderful.
A powerful reminder of how beautiful and hopeful the European project truly is.

🇪🇺🇪🇸

[tb @ThomasBols]

https://t.co/6NV7FFtl2o. She is.

[Helen Warrell @helenwarrell]

Phenomenal detail from @FT obituary of the great Alex Younger, from @charles_clover & @JP_Rathbone:

When Dominic Cummings called him for the first time, he asked Younger what he was doing. “Plotting evil shit,” Younger replied.

https://t.co/8zp813oNi6

[Alex Deane @ajcdeane]

What will be done with this list of Jews, once compiled?

[FT Europe @ftbrussels]

Irish government under pressure over alumina exports to Russia https://t.co/lNEJS5YAWF