https://t.co/EsQymwXRcn. I used to be a Fight Pass subscribers and huge UFC fan. I stopped watching 2 yrs ago bc of this. So angry at those greedy fks that sell their souls for €. #UFC@Justin_Gaethje@USMAN84kg@danawhite#ufcwarcrimes. Talking war crimes here WTH GUYS!!!
As I understand it, South Korea is perfectly fine with its totalitarian neighbor to the north gaining cutting-edge experience in modern warfare through direct participation in Russia’s war against Ukraine, while also testing and refining its missile weapons under real combat conditions.
Apparently, no one in Seoul plans to do anything about it, and no one seems particularly interested.
🇵🇸🇮🇱 Andrey X est un activiste israélien d'origine russe qui documente les nombreuses vi*lences et intimidations des colons en Cisjordanie occupée : voitures brûlées, maisons occupées, murs tagués... Nous sommes partis à sa rencontre près du village de Jalud.
🇺🇦 Torture et violences sexuelles à l’encontre des prisonniers de guerre ukrainiens, arrestations arbitraires de civils et déni d’accès au CICR : les violations de la Russie dans le cadre de sa guerre d’agression contre l’Ukraine ne peuvent rester impunies.
The centre of Kherson was just hit with massive russian bombs. Imagine if this was any other city on earth, this would be global news. Tens of thousands of civilians still live here.
Vous savez, quand une chaîne comme I24 parle de « Judée Samarie » au lieu de parler de Cisjordanie occupée, c’est exactement la même chose que lorsque RT parle de la Crimée comme un territoire russe, et non ukrainien. Contraire au droit international dans les deux cas.
Haaretz investigation based on testimonies of Israeli soldiers: Israeli Army units made up of settlers abuse, loot & kill innocent Palestinians in the occupied West Bank https://t.co/bZ4KKDQnel (gift link)
My new report w/ @FaysalItani demonstrates through 3 different case studies the devastating consequences of politics of exclusion in the Middle East: The Druze of Syria, political exclusion in Iraq, and the Sunnis in Lebanon.
https://t.co/Q3mqCBTceh
In the chapter on the Druze in post-Assad Syria, I show how the Druze of Sweidaa' suffer from two forms of political exclusion. The first is in Damascus, where strategic decision-making is highly centralized by a handful of men, all of them former HTS commanders. As part of its negotiations with various actors in Sweidaa', Damascus accepted that Druze be charged with internal security in their areas, but refused to delegate any political authority to the governorate's population, fearing it'll set a precedent for other governorates. Eventually, Damascus decided to resolve the dispute by using force, a decision that produced the July 2025 Sweidaa' massacres.
The massacres dealt a death blow (sometimes a literal one) to Sweidaa's vibrant civil society, which was overwhelmingly supportive of integration with Damascus, and empowered a clique of militia commanders, many of them Assad-era war criminals and drug traffickers, who adopted a hardline position toward Damascus. This hardline position, most prominently championed by Sheikh al-Aql Hikmat al-Hajari, rejected the new authorities in Damascus, deeming them to be "jihadists" who seek to subjugate the Druze. According to multiple interviews I conducted with Sweidaa' residents, this once-minority position became the dominant one owing to the massacres.
This clique of militia commanders, who've become war profiteers owing to their control of the movement of goods and people in/out of Sweidaa', now dominate decision-making in Sweidaa', excluding Sweidaa's once highly influential civil society.
The 2nd chapter documents how Iraq's seemingly inclusive political system, which assigns quotas for minorities and women and where genuinely competitive elections are held, is in fact a limited access order. That is, a system in which a coalition of elites uses control of the state to restrict access to political and economic power, maintaining their dominance through a combination of legal manipulation, patronage, violence, and media control. I detail, based on interviews with Iraqi politicians, activists, journalists and brilliant thinkers, how Iraq's elite was able to maintain the ruling kleptocratic order even in the face of the entry of almost 50 independent "Tishreeni" MPs into the 2021 parliament, through the abuse of Iraqi laws, cooptation, control over patronage distribution, and exploiting the inexperience of the incoming MPs.
The 3rd case study, of the marginalization of Lebanon's Sunnis, was written by Faysal Itani, and shows how the assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri by Hezbollah and the 2008 coup the militia staged decimated Sunni power within the Lebanese state. This in turn accelerated Hezbollah's domination of Lebanon's politics and state organs, including the security forces.
Japan was nuked in 6 August but did not surrender for a further 9 days. During that time the USSR declared war on Japan & invaded them. They then surrendered to the USA.
Japan chose to surrender to the people who just nuked them, rather than risk being occupied by USSR...
Plus c'est gros, plus le Kremlin imagine que ça passe.
La réalité : que ce soit à visage découvert via Madame Fedorova ou via des comptes anonymes, ils multiplient les ingérences.
La responsabilité de la France, dans ce contexte, est de défendre sa démocratie.
Ukrainian rescuers who arrived in France to fight the forest fires are greeted very warmly by the locals!
Thank you, France!
Ukraine and Europe are stronger together.
Today I join others from across our game and call for Gianni Infantino to resign as FIFA President.
Infantino has debased the office that he promised to elevate. He has lied, deceived and tried to feather his own nest at the expense of the game he is supposed to serve.
He has lost the support of his senior staff, his closest advisers, the vast majority of people who devote their lives to this sport and even, it would seem, the FIFA Peace Prize winner.
It is too late to save his dignity but it is not too late to save football. He should go. Now.
#Infantinout
https://t.co/j93k5MnlK2
AUDIO 🎧 Édito. Raphaël Glucksmann visé par une opération de désinformation : la Russie s'immisce dans la campagne présidentielle en France https://t.co/14qsFLDMFg
L'intelligence artificielle de la société🇫🇷 Alta Ares a été choisie pour les drones intercepteurs du fabricant General Cherry (l'un des 1er producteurs du pays avec 100k drone / mois) !
Après ses partenariats en France et Europe, c'est une consécration pour Alta Ares puisque son logiciel "Pixel Lock" a été considérée comme la meilleure IA de défense aérienne d'Ukraine après ses dizaines d'interceptions de Shahed réussies 🥳
Excellent nouvelle pour la protection des Ukrainiens, et pour note capacité de défense nationale.