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[/// @ajfuzz1]

To briefly review, we have on the one hand the nearly bloodless annexation of Crimea by Moscow in 2014.
On the other, the Ukrainians and their western sponsors are intent on waging permanent war against a nuclear-armed power in order to conquer Crimea.

Who is the aggressor?

[/// @ajfuzz1]

@ChristopherJM @OlegNikolenko_ @MFA_Ukraine At this point Christopher I think it would be helpful to acknowledge that the West and NATO ultimately desires the Crimean peninsula for itself, and has enlisted the Ukrainians to fight for it.
After all, the so-called land bridge forms a defensive barrier around Crimea.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Welp

[Financial Times @FT]

Two of Britain’s biggest trade unions are increasing pressure on Andy Burnham not to pick Ed Miliband as the UK’s next finance minister, arguing that his North Sea oil policy has damaged jobs in the sector https://t.co/0y2KZugrv4

[Alina Lipp @Alina_Lipp_X]

Die Ukraine hat in den letzten vier Jahren 2,4 Millionen Soldaten verloren, mehr als 400.000 davon im Jahr 2026. Die Daten stammen aus den Datenbanken des AFU-Generalstabs, des TCC, ukrainischer medizinischer Organisationen und Leichenhallen, die von Hackern gehackt wurden.

Im August 2025 erreichte die Zahl der eliminierten Kämpfer 1,7 Millionen Menschen - im Dezember waren es bereits 2 Millionen. In sechs Monaten des Jahres 2026 verlor die AFU so viele Kämpfer wie im gesamten Jahr 2023 - etwa 400 Tausend Menschen. Die meisten Todesopfer gab es in den Richtungen Pokrowsk, Konstantinowsk, Liman, Saporoschje und Kupjansk - in jeder dieser Richtungen betrugen die Verluste durchschnittlich 500 AFU-Kämpfer pro Tag. Die 72. und 110. Ombre, die Luftlandebrigaden und die Territorialverteidigungskräfte erlitten die meisten Todesopfer.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

British liberals are doing everything they possibly can to install Nigel Farage in 10 Downing St.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero crackdown

https://t.co/mfU6pLEtUP

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Madness

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Labour is poised to encourage farmers to give up beef production and plant lentils to help combat climate change.

➡️ https://t.co/EAEKSRQC8S

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Political suicide

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero crackdown

https://t.co/mfU6pLEtUP

[/// @ajfuzz1]

This is terribly sad.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

New footage shows 17-year-old Louis being attacked just weeks before he was killed in Narbonne, France.

Louis filed a police report.

One of the murders reportedly mocked him during the fatal assault saying: “You won’t talk to the police anymore.”

French police did nothing to stop this.

[Thorgal78 @Thorga1984]

🇺🇸 Były dowódca Delta Force, o masakrze w Buczy. Ukraińcy Wszystko sfabrykowali aby zrzucić na Rosjan. Zwłoki z białymi opaskami. to rdzenni Rosjanie lub pro Rosyjscy Ukraińcy, Dlatego UPA Ich zabili Azov grozili śmiercią Francuskim dziennikarzom. Bucza to ogromne kłamstwo.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Your considered view is that the now defunct Genoese Empire has a better claim to Crimea than modern day Russia?

You can’t be serious.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Lessons from history

“The Genoese Republic controlled Crimea longer than Russia did”

[/// @ajfuzz1]

The US and NATO desires the Crimean peninsula for itself and has enlisted the Ukrainians to fight for it. The Black Sea will become a ‘NATO lake’. This is naked imperialism. Crimea has nothing whatsoever to do with the ‘North Atlantic’.

As I recall in early 2022 the AFU were concentrated in southeast Ukraine poised to strike. Various monitors reported a dramatic increase in artillery shelling which was either a) a prelude to full-scale assault on Crimea or b) a gambit to lure the Russians in.

Russia had no choice but preempt this attack.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Genoese Gazaria, which stretched from Sevastopol to Kerch: 1266-1475. Total of 209 years.
Part of Russia: 1783-1954. Total of 171 years.
I remember climbing to the Genoese fortress in my childhood.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

The West has initiated a war of conquest for the Crimea peninsula. Russia is merely defending its territory.
The so-called land bridge forms a defensive perimeter around Crimea.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Well the naval base has no ships anymore because those that stayed were sunk. Ukrainian drones patrol Crimean roads every day.
Russia — including Putin — accepted Crimea as part of Ukraine until 2014. If you want to look at history, the Genoese Republic controlled Crimea longer than Russia did.
If you can’t supply it with fuel, electricity and soon other basic goods — is it an asset or a liability ?
I don’t know if Ukraine is able to regain Crimea in the near future. But it has now created a major card to force Putin to end the war.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Fake lefty appears to be justifying forced conscription of Ukraine men into the AFU.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

Ukraine war: over a million Russian casualties

Reports of internal military unease in Russia at the cost of the conflict in men & weapons - and the lack of Russian progress on the battlefield

Might this be Putin's undoing?

https://t.co/R1ZHB0yVkg

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Absolute brass neck of these neocons.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

@svgmzr If you move to another country without its permission and in violation of its laws, you are an illegal migrant. Ukraine has full right to deport them if it regains Crimea.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Crimea has been a part of the Russian empire since the late 18th century and is home to their most important naval base.

It is more likely that the US will hand over Pearl Harbor to the Chinese communists than the Russians will give Crimea to NATO.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

I keep seeing people saying that fuel shortages in Crimea and other occupied parts of southern Ukraine won’t affect the Russian military effort because the military will get fuel first.
I also now see videos from people in Crimea saying that their only way to fuel their car is to pay 4-5 times what used to be the price a month ago to the “sapogi” — aka soldiers.
The Russian military is corrupt to the core, and odds that a significant part of its fuel will now end up on the black market are very high.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Illegal settlers!?!

Did you really just write that?

From the Newspaper that justifies absolutely everything the Israelis do in the West Bank and in Lebanon?
Brass neck.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

The current population of Crimea and Sevastopol (these are two separate jurisdictions) is roughly 2.5 million people. This includes between 500 and 800k illegal settlers who moved in after the Russian occupation in 2014. Meanwhile, some 200k Crimeans — including senior officials in the Ukrainian government and military, Tatars, ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians — escaped to mainland Ukraine since then. Some 250k Crimean Tatars live in Crimea, but supporters of Ukraine remain in all communities, as evidenced by frequent arrest of alleged Ukrainian saboteurs.
A few months without fuel and electricity, and with the tourism industry collapsed, may convince some of these settlers to go back to Russia.

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Political suicide

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨 BREAKING: The Liberal Democrats have banned St George’s flags from being flown in Oxfordshire, claiming they cause fear and intimidation.

They are now urging other UK councils to “stomp out this hatred.“

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Demented culture war

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Lib Dems have won a High Court injunction to stop England flags being put up on lampposts in Oxfordshire

The council said the flags were being used as "an act of intimidation and division"

[News of Donbass @News_of_Donbass]

💬❗️"In Poland, we will not tolerate the red-and-black Bandera flag"

🇵🇱 Polish President Karol #Nawrocki responded to #Zelensky's accusations, who claimed that the Order of the White Eagle was stripped from him to distract the Polish people from corruption within the country.

❗️ According to the Polish president, Zelensky does not understand that Ukrainian nationalists in #Poland will not be tolerated under any circumstances.

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[/// @ajfuzz1]

Before he tragically died the great French virology Dr Luc Montagnier said the Covid vaccines had been contaminated with bits of HIV.

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

This is baffling. I wonder what pro-inflammatory substance could be contributing to accelerated ageing 🤔

[/// @ajfuzz1]

Liberals and left wingers will not like to hear this, but Starmer and the so-called Radical Centre have insisted on slashing winter fuel subsidy for retirees and pensioners while at the same time giving free housing to every migrant who steps foot on British soil. It’s only a matter of time before this is reversed.

Political suicide

[a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms]

if you don’t know why starmer is unpopular, people have kind of been screaming it