Here's a mind-blowing statistic: despite making up just ~0.2% of the global population, players with ethnic heritage from the former Yugoslavia are 7.5% of players in the FIFA World Cup Round of 32 (overrepresented by 40x) and play for 9/32 or 28% of teams! -> 🇭🇷🇧🇦🇦🇹🇦🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇨🇦🇸🇪🇩🇪
🚨🚨🇺🇸 USA Falls Off the Democracy Map. For the first time in 50 years, the United States no longer appears on the list of liberal democracies. In a single year, the country has fallen from 20th to 51st place. The V-Dem Institute calls it one of the most dramatic declines ever recorded.
The fall does not happen in a vacuum.
Brendan Carr is not among the most recognizable names in Trump’s orbit, but the head of the federal media regulator FCC made waves this weekend with a direct threat to the country’s broadcasters. Networks spreading what he called fake news were told they have an opportunity to correct course before their license renewals come up. The message was plain enough: fall in line, or face the consequences.
Staffan Lindberg, founding director of the V-Dem Institute, is blunt about what this means. Across so many dimensions, the retreat has been so severe that the United States can no longer be counted as a democracy. The term he uses is “electoral autocracy” – a system without genuine democracy that still goes through the motions of holding elections. Like Putin’s Russia.
What concerns him most: the assault on free speech, illustrated by the FCC chief’s latest threat.
An extreme concentration of power in the president’s hands. A Congress that, in Lindberg’s words, has abdicated. And Trump’s use of paramilitary forces in American cities – ICE soldiers who killed two civilian protesters this past winter.
“The United States used to talk about being a global beacon for democracy and freedom,” Lindberg says. “That idea has now been erased.”
Read the full V-Dem Democracy Report 2026:
https://t.co/dPL7tHQH3J
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First promo for the animated 'Firefly' series just dropped
They need fans to like their post on IG "to convince folks that this is something people want."
(via IG | https://t.co/6A8rICEQhF)
The Trump administration plans to meet with executives from the biggest U.S. defense contractors at the White House on Friday to discuss accelerating weapons production, https://t.co/fDY0aoVIjW
Great job by our negotiators! Iran has agreed to give up its entire enriched uranium stockpile. Now, there is absolutely no reason to go to war. If we still attack, that shows you this was always a war of choice and it was always to do regime change as Israel has demanded.
Velika Britanija već neko vrijeme ima ozbiljne ambicije na Balkanu, a evo počeli su ozbiljno da djeluju. Evo analize iz mog pera. Na ekspertizi hvala cijenjenim ekspertima @AHuskic i @CeroHarun
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I helped negotiate Budapest Memorandum.
Grenell is flat wrong.
Nuclear warheads in #Ukraine were ex-Soviet, not Russian.
Warheads in storage were in sole Ukrainian custody.
ICBMs and bombers were eliminated in Ukraine except small number sent to #Russia for debt relief. 1/2