R. Auer

Citoyenne für Wissenschaft & Aufklärung. I stand with 🇺🇦🇨🇦! My 🇪🇺❤️
"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open, that your brain falls out." Carl Sagan

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

If you didn’t notice, Russia presented in St Petersburg a “positive scenario” for Europe’s future:

- nuclear strike on Ukraine,
- war till 2036;
- occupation of Kyiv;
- disintegration of EU;
- Russia’s domination in Europe.

Think about it next time when saying 🇷🇺 means well.

[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.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well, it looks like Russia has suffered yet another (entirely predictable) foreign policy defeat.

🇦🇲 Armenia appears to have voted today to leave the Kremlin's sphere of influence and move closer to the free world.

Once again, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has proven to be the beginning of the countdown to the final collapse of the Russian Empire.

The continued stupidity and brutally self-destructive mistakes of this KGB clique across the region will drive the remaining nails into the coffin, and 🇺🇦Ukraine will be sure to finish the job with a shovel.

[R. Auer @auundauer]

@ixchella Du auch im Team Margherita?

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact.

Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

I'm not sure the Irish understand the damage the recent story of their pumping economic support into Putin's war machine is doing to their reputation in Central/East Europe. The idea of Ireland standing on the side of the oppressed against imperialists is gone, probably forever.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Three African countries have begun construction of a gas pipeline to Europe that bypasses Russia – Business Insider.

Algeria, Niger, and Nigeria are carrying out the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project, which, once completed, will be capable of supplying the EU with up to 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually.

Construction work has already started in Algeria. The total length of the gas pipeline will exceed 4,000 km.

The project is considered one of the key routes for replacing Russian gas on the European market.

[Roderich Kiesewetter🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦 @RKiesewetter]

Grauenvoll, das sollte jedem zu denken geben, der leichtfertig Gebietsabtretungen fordert. Das bedeutet für die Menschen in von Russland besetzten Gebieten: Mord, Folter, Vergewaltigung, Tod
https://t.co/xnHtehfgOS

[Nico Lange @nicolange_]

Positionen wie die von Klaus von Dohnanyi liefern keine Analysen und beruhen nicht auf der tatsächlichen Lage sondern drücken kollektive deutsche Gefühlslagen aus, die tief in der politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik verankert sind: Es geht um Angst vor Eskalation, Sehnsucht nach Stabilität, Überforderung durch geopolitische Komplexität, Misstrauen gegenüber Machtpolitik und einen Wunsch nach moralischer Entlastung. (“Beide Seiten sind Schuld.”) Diese Aussagen bedienen emotionale Resonanzräume und sind deshalb für sachliche Argumentationen kaum offen. Putin profitiert leider von der emotionalen Rückwärtsgewandtheit und nutzt sie gezielt aus.

[MariKan @MariKanWien]

Putin: es wird keinen Frieden geben.
Medwedew: es wird keinen Frieden geben.
Russ. Propagandisten: wir werden euch alle zerstören.

Europäische Rechte und Linke: "Der böse Westen ist Kriegstreiber und will nicht verhandeln". Habt ihr was an den Ohren oder was?

[Jan-Philipp Hein @aufmacher]

„Ich finde die Überheblichkeit, mit der hier über die Ukraine gesprochen wird, irritierend.“

Volltreffer, @ClaudMajor

[Nico Lange @nicolange_]

Hinter der Fassade des Wirtschaftsforums von St. Petersburg liegt Putins großer Angriffskrieg, den er nicht gewinnt und der Russlands Wirtschaft ruiniert. Was Russland zu bieten hat, ist nur noch Korruption und Gewalt.
https://t.co/aFNdHdaYm0

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Thank you to every member of Congress who chose conscience, common sense, and the national interests of the United States and the entire free world over madness and a corrupt, criminal accommodation with a hostile authoritarian dictatorship, and voted in favor of military aid to Ukraine.

Unfortunately, we do not expect this bill to make it through the Senate, but it is undoubtedly a step in the right direction. The American people support helping Ukraine in its desperate struggle against a vastly larger aggressor. A great many members of Congress understand the importance of supporting Ukraine and are willing to overcome even the most elaborate procedural obstacles to advance this legislation. Ukraine has appealed, and continues to appeal, to America for help, while doing everything it can to ensure that this assistance is mutually beneficial.

The only obstacle standing in the way of basic common sense is Donald Trump’s insane and destructive “policy,” which undermines the free world and America’s leadership within it in pursuit of illusory gains from dealings with the Kremlin, combined with his childish fascination with authoritarian rulers and dictatorships.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine

When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

[Sweden in EU @SwedeninEU]

”Last year almost 500 000 Russian tourists were let into Europe, while Ukrainians were dying on the battlefield. This situation needs to be stopped.

That is why we, together with 10 other Member States, have put forward an initiative for new EU visa restrictions for Russian citizens.” @JohanForssell at JHA

[Ralf Fuecks @fuecks]

Vernichtungskrieg. Ganze Städte werden in Trümmerhaufen verwandelt. Allein in Mariupol sind 10.000 plus X Zivilisten bei der Eroberung der Stadt ums Leben gekommen. Wir machen uns keine Vorstellung von der Gewaltsamkeit des russischen Vorgehens.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Turns out we may already have an anti-aging vaccine.

Created originally to prevent shingles, it appears to influence aging and cognitive decline - far beyond anything it was designed to do.

The beauty of science.

https://t.co/Cynp2gcxBC

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.

Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.

The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.

The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).

Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.

I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

Moscow is killing our children. No words in the world can ever ease this unbearable pain and horror.

According to official figures alone, Russia has taken the lives of 707 Ukrainian children. Another 2,548 have been wounded and maimed by explosions. More than 20,000 have been abducted and forcibly taken from their homes. These are just dry numbers, but each one represents a lifetime of pain for a Ukrainian family.

Today, June 4, is the Day of Remembrance for Children Killed as a Result of Russia’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine.

Everything the Russians are doing amounts to genocide. It is a systematic and clearly planned attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation. They deliberately target our children, committing war crimes for which there can be no justification. They are destroying our history, our memory, and trying to physically kill our future.

We will never forgive the Russians for this. There is no and will never be any justification or forgiveness for crimes committed against our children. Everyone who gave these orders and everyone who carried them out will be found and destroyed. The ground will burn beneath your feet wherever you try to hide.

There are no words that can comfort parents whose lives have been shattered forever by Russian killers. But we have a duty: to bring home every abducted child and to do everything to ensure that the truth about these crimes is heard around the world.

Eternal memory to the innocent victims of Russian terror.
Glory to Ukraine!

[R. Auer @auundauer]

@ixchella Ferramol. Organische Eisenverbindung. Wenn ich die nicht breitwürfig und flächendeckend ausstreuen würde - ca. 2× im Gartenjahr - gäbe es selbst auf der Wiese keinen Quadratzentimeter, auf den ich treten könnte, ohne eine Schnecke zu zergatschen. 🤢