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Fascinated by the shortsightedness of the anthropomorphic entities that roam this planet

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

Today, the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy looks like this. Russia is mercilessly shelling it, turning another regional center into ruins — just like Donetsk, then Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv.
7 apartment buildings, 4 cars, a gas station, car dealership, restaurant, and garage cooperative were damaged. 5 dead, at least 31 people injured, including 3 children.
Meanwhile, Russian advances continue in Donbas and Kharkiv region, with horrific losses along the front.
I still don’t understand how anyone can call this a “winning strategy.” This entire PR-offensive was designed only to justify allocation of more money for the war ahead of the NATO summit. As soon as it ended, the real picture emerged.
What this theater desperately lacks is a real leader willing to end the war. While “patriots” keep pushing marketing slogans and ignoring the mounting deaths and destruction in pursuit of an unattainable total military victory.

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@CollinBillings3 @BohuslavskaKate No surprise: US provoked, instigated and caused the war in Ukraine in the first place: 35yrs of Nato expansion, undermining RU influence in RU periphery by overthrowing (democratic) govts, destroy RU economy, pillage its resources, backing Al-Qaeda & Bin-L. affiliated terrorists

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@BohuslavskaKate Pyrrhic victory?
UA is getting wrecked, loses a generation, has a horrendous demography, no democratic base, is choked by far right & its western backers that keep fueling the war, while the majority already voted for peace in '19. What follows is a chokehold by EU like in Greece

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@magyarpeterMP Congratulations, you will receive your tamed subservient sheeple award shortly!

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@Sven_op_1 Zoals Burnns al schreef in 2008, was UA in Navo een rode lijn voor heel RU. Als een land verdeel & heers heeft bedreven in de recente geschiedenis dan is t de VS. Schapenpropaganda horen we wel voldoende, tijd om eens journalistiek te bedrijven

[Alan Watson @DietHeartNews]

In 1999, presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan, former Nixon and Reagan speechwriter, warned that every major political faction in Russia considered NATO expansion to be in “bad faith” – exploiting Russia’s weakened position. Buchanan demanded to know, “Why are we doing this?”

Buchanan: “It’s not 1948. Stalin is dead; the Soviet Empire is dead. A friendly Russia is far more critical to US security than an alliance with Warsaw or Prague. If the US has one overriding security interest in the new century, it is to avoid collisions with great nuclear powers like Russia.”

Buchanan: “Offering NATO membership to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania – and as some urge #Ukraine - is rashness bordering on madness. This would put former Soviet Republics with large Russian minorities into the US-led military alliance.”

Buchanan: “Latvia is almost half Russian, eastern Ukraine almost entirely Russian. America could neither defend nor liberate these countries without the risk of nuclear war. By moving #NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a 21st century confrontation with nuclear armed Russia."

[Kyrylo Shevchenko @KShevchenkoReal]

My name is Kyrylo Shevchenko. I am the former Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

A horrifying assassination attempt on a Ukrainian businessman in Monaco has shocked the world. His companion had both legs blown off in the explosion, while he and his son were hospitalized.

But the story has an even darker continuation: the bomb was planted by a Ukrainian woman who was receiving payments from an officer of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate under the Ministry of Defense, known as HUR. Upon her return to Ukraine on July 1, that same officer shot her in the head. The entire case was "investigated" and closed in just a few days.

Watching this unfold like a scene from a mafia thriller, I am reminded of the direct threats I myself have received from Ukrainian security services, including kidnapping warnings. It is becoming clear that Zelensky's regime is prepared to use any means against its opponents.

Behind this system stands not only Zelensky himself, but also the man long known as the "grey cardinal" of his office — Andriy Yermak. Until recently nearly all-powerful, controlling appointments across ministries, security agencies, and the military, Yermak formally resigned in late November 2025 amid the corruption scandal surrounding Energoatom, and later became a suspect in a money-laundering case. But the system he built — as Ukrainian lawmakers themselves have acknowledged — did not disappear along with his departure from office.

This case raises serious questions: How did a woman wanted by Interpol cross into Ukraine without assistance from the security services? And how was such a high-profile investigation completed in a matter of days? For comparison, the legendary Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze was murdered in 2000, and the investigation still has not named those responsible.

Yet here, the intelligence officer quickly confesses, claims he acted alone, and says his leadership knew nothing.

This is convenient. The main witness and perpetrator is now dead and cannot speak.

I do not own a major, attractive business, but as Governor of the National Bank, I crossed a line: I refused to allow the money printing that would have hurt Ukraine in 2022, and I blocked a sponsorship scheme linked to Zelensky's inner circle. For that, I now face a fabricated criminal case in both Ukraine and Austria.

I am grateful to Austria, where I am currently located, for protecting me from threats by Ukrainian security services.

I appeal to the civilized world and to Europe: by continuing to turn a blind eye to what is happening, you are condemning other Ukrainians to fear, persecution, and — God forbid — elimination at the hands of Zelensky's regime. This regime has already crossed the psychological threshold of murder. This cannot end well — neither for us, nor for you.

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@BohuslavskaKate

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@DefensieMin What about trying some sincere diplomacy instead of fueling and escalating the Ukraine war. that was provoked by us. instead of asking crazy demands that let to RU escalation in the first place?

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@Keir_Starmer We must abolish Nato, and if we would have done so 35yrs ago (like we should have), UA would still be in one piece and millions of Slaves still be alive, relations with RU still ok and RU would have been a lot more democratic.
But hey, we embraced RU alienation by US enslavement

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@GrafKorina Time for you to read Provoked by Scott Horton.
Does it justify RU escalation in '22?
I leave that up to you, but the West (US i.p.) gave them every reason to escalate by undermining every step of RU attempt to democracy, when RU voluntarily disbanded the CCCP & reached out.

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@DefensieMin @Defensie Oh, dat is waarom we de VS Nordstream lieten opblazen (met wat UA-ers als zondebok). Om ons afhankelijker te maken van VS LNG import. Hetzelfde VS dat de UA oorlog heeft uitegelokt en de LNG import vanuit Qatar heeft gesaboteerd met de (ditmaal wel ongeprovoceerde) aanval op Iran

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@Glenn_Diesen Kind of surprising to see those riots in Lviv given the UPA/OUN history of the Lviv region in western UA. One would expect to see those kind of riots first in Kiev or Odessa.

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@n_roettgen

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@SecGenNATO

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@vismaleaseabike How are the results are affected by the tricot colors? When I'm hiking in the mountains I always wear light colors for body-heat management.
I wouldn't be surprised if that affects the riders as well, especially in the current scorching conditions.
Visma colors used to be lighter

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@4U2goFurself @RepDonBacon Don't worry. The govts preceding him haven't done much better & turned the middle east and UA into chaos. Created & supported Al Qaeda in Afg/Bosnia/Kosovo/Caucasus until it backfired. Toppled govts in RU periphery and alienated a RU that was aiming for democracy in the 90's

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@maartenpodcast Inderdaad. Hadden we 35jaar geleden RU handreiking richting democratie aangenomen en daarbij geholpen, ipv ze proberen leeg te roven en te isoleren onder aanvoering van de VS, dan was Oekraiene nu nog een geheel, relaties met RU goed en RU een stuk democratischer.

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@BMF_Bund We (GER & US) promised that Nato wouldn't expand eastwards. Belgrade, Libya, rocket shields & the support of Islamic terrorists & regime undermining NGO's in the RU periphery shows the west untrustworthy. We could've opted for peace with RU, we chose provocation & alienation

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@GoeringEckardt What about sending diplomats to end the war, instead of weapons to fuel it?