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Bra politik söker goda kompromisser.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Delusional Russians still laboring under the fantasy that there's going to be a Russia after all this, as a commentator on one of Russia's most popular networks says they face civilizational collapse, and must pause the war to negotiate keeping their territorial gains.

[Adam Danieli @adamdanieli]

Det här hade jag helt missat. Vänsterpartiet går alltså till val på att inrätta en prisregleringsmyndighet.

V kommer aldrig sluta kämpa för brödköer.

[Carl-Oskar Bohlin @CarlOskar]

Jag tror och hoppas att detta tjänar som en klargörande diskussion och möjligen illustrerar den ett eller två förlegade perspektiv som finns hos somliga representanter för traditionella medier. Jag tror att demokratin mår bra av att politiker kan kommunicera med väljare direkt och i egna kanaler.

[Danny Gold @DGisSERIOUS]

Haven’t forgot the look on this boy’s face since the day I saw this photo. Also a good reminder that Hamas published these photos themselves because of how proud they were, and you *still* have people in denial to this day about what they did.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

1% of people account for 63% of all violent crimes.

0.2% of people ever commit murder, and **67% of all murders**are committed by people with prior arrests

You can literally just fix crime by not tolerating people who show a history of being destructive to society.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SNYDER: Ukraine is not member of NATO, but Ukraine is doing all of the work of NATO right now only with its own armed forces.

Ukraine is basically fulfilling the entire mission of NATO, with help of course, but not with anybody else's soldiers.

We've essentially gotten used to the idea, all the countries in the region have now gotten used to Ukraine defending them.

And if Ukraine loses the war, then Russian aggression towards not just Baltic states but Poland and Romania becomes quite possible.

And if we take that for granted, if we let Ukraine down, if Ukraine were actually to lose this war, then Russia would digest important economic gains, territorial gains, technological gains, and sadly also demographic gains, which would make it qualitatively greater threat to Romania.

And Russian victory in Ukraine would also be, if not a death blow, then certainly a very heavy blow to NATO itself, leaving Romania much more likely to be isolated when it's facing Russia, which, I don't have to tell you, has historically not been a great situation for Romania.

[Expressen Ledare @ExpressenLedare]

PATRIK KRONQVIST: Signalen från Socialdemokraterna efter skandalen i Botkyrka är förödande. I Sveriges största parti kan det löna sig att ta stöd av gängkriminella.

https://t.co/gM57pNfQMA

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

A Russian woman demanded to be served in Russian...in Kazakhstan. "Answer properly," she told the sales person.

Later, information appeared that the Russian woman was fined. She might also be fined more for posting the Kazakh lady online without her consent.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

I never understood the Western fascination with Russia. I was a Soviet citizen and lived under that system. I’ve also lived in America and Europe. Compared with the West, Russia is a shithole in every practical, moral and political sense. What exactly are you admiring?

[Jenny Maria Nilsson @jennymaria]

Detta är tyvärr ett tecken på att hemmen tagit över läsinlärningen.

[Simona Mohamsson @SMohamsson]

Tack Sverige, ett land där man oavsett bakgrund kan näta mot Tunisien eller bli minister. Idag firar vi midsommar – Sveriges inofficiella nationaldag. 

Jag heter Mohamsson. Ett namn som vittnar om att mina förfäder inte firat midsommar i särskilt många generationer. Därför är jag så tacksam att jag fått växa upp i Sverige där flickor och pojkar har samma rätt att dansa runt midsommarstången. Där utbildning öppnar dörrar. Där du ska kunna säga vad du tycker, älska vem du vill och forma ditt liv. Där varje barn får nycklarna till allt Sverige har att erbjuda.

Som socialpolitiker mötte jag tjejer och killar som växte upp i områden där radikaliserade klaner tillåtits flytta fram positionerna. För dem är svenska traditioner ett hot mot klanens sammanhållning. Offentlig dans kan “smutsa” ner en ung flickas heder.

För att vända den utvecklingen behövs att alla blir en del av det Sverige jag fick komma till som liten. Vi måste stå upp för de svenska värderingarna som gör Sverige till ett av världens friaste länder.

Sverige är inte ett perfekt land. Men det är ett av världens friaste länder. Ett land där generation efter generation fått möjligheten att bygga sig ett bättre liv.

På midsommar känner jag både stolthet och ansvar. Stolthet över ett land som gett mig och så många människor chansen att få växa. Ansvar för att se till att samma frihet finns kvar för nästa generation.

Det är därför jag sätter blommor i håret. För att fira Sverige.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Browder: If Russia decided to start attacking European capitals with drones, we would be in a complete and absolute mess.

We would not know what to do. We have no anti-drone capabilities. We do not even have our own drone capabilities. We are completely unprepared for this. 1/

[HotSotin 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺△ @HotSotin]

This wouldn't have happened in the EU

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Snyder: People forget, Poroshenko ran as a war president in 2019. Zelenskyy ran as the peace candidate. His message: I can talk to the Russians, I know them, I'm going to give it a shot

He won an overwhelming majority on that platform. Worth remembering given everything since 1/

[Pete @splendid_pete]

📚 Russian disinformation strategy across the United States and Europe is fundamentally opportunistic. The primary objective is not necessarily to persuade Western citizens to adopt pro-Russian views, but to paralyze NATO and the European Union by exacerbating existing social, racial, and political fractures. By fueling both extremes of the domestic culture war, the strategy aims to convince Americans and Europeans that their true enemy is their neighbor or their own government, thereby degrading social cohesion, institutional trust, and the ability to maintain unified support for Ukraine. 

The Transatlantic "horseshoe".

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union utilized "active measures" to exploit social unrest. Modern Russian intelligence agencies and proxy organizations, such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and the Social Design Agency (SDA), have modernized this approach using social media, bot networks, and generative AI.

The defining characteristic of these campaigns is that they do not pick a side; they play both sides simultaneously across the Atlantic. In both the U.S. and Europe, they exploit a "horseshoe" dynamic, targeting both the far-left and far-right because both extremes share a utility: skepticism of NATO, hostility toward institutional establishments, and a vulnerability to polarized outrage.

Left-Wing / Anti-Imperialist:

Institutional corruption, systemic hopelessness, framing the cessation of Ukraine aid as "pacifism," and anti-NATO sentiment.

Right-Wing / Nationalist:

White replacement fears, anti-immigration panic, "traditional values" under attack by "woke" establishments (Washington/Brussels), and election denialism.

The tactical evolution:

Russian operations have continuously adapted to evade platform detection while exploiting the Western media ecosystem, moving from human troll farms to sophisticated, AI-driven subversion.

➥ Internet Research Agency (IRA) Infiltration. 2016.

Troll farms created thousands of fake accounts posing as both right-wing "patriots" and left-wing activists to artificially inflate domestic hostility in the United States.

➥ The Doppelgänger Campaign. 2022 - 2023.

The Russian IT firm Social Design Agency (SDA) launched a massive campaign cloning legitimate Western news sites (like The Washington Post, Le Monde, and Der Spiegel) to spread anti-Ukraine and culture war narratives simultaneously in the U.S. and Europe.

➥ Electoral Subversion via Deepfakes. 2024 - 2025.

Operations pivoted heavily to releasing "leaked" audio deepfakes and forged documents during critical European elections (e.g., Moldova, Romania, Hungary) to manufacture last-minute scandals and discredit pro-Western candidates.

➥ AI and the ATAFIMI/Matryoshka Operations. Early 2026.

Cross-border investigations revealed Russia heavily utilizing generative AI to exploit international crises and European protests, rapidly tailoring wedge issues to specific national audiences across NATO and the EU to force "war fatigue."

The feedback loop.

Russian operatives frequently utilize a "firehose of falsehood" approach, prioritizing volume and rapid dissemination over consistency. When a domestic issue arises, such as an immigration crisis, a controversial police shooting, or EU agricultural protests, Russian bot networks flood the zone. 

Agitation: Fake left-wing accounts post inflammatory rhetoric demanding extreme institutional overhauls or violent protests.

Reaction: Fake right-wing accounts immediately capture those posts and present them as mainstream left-wing thought to stoke fear and existential threat.

Amplification: The algorithm rewards the high engagement of this manufactured outrage. Real domestic users, politicians, and media outlets adopt the talking points and carry the culture war forward organically.

This dynamic exhausts Western citizens with constant domestic outrage, making the political and economic cost of transatlantic solidarity too high for elected officials to bear.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Human stupidity knows no bounds

[Trötter @Trtter6]

Vattenfalls presschef tröttnar på Daniel Helldéns lögner.

[Per Hagwall @perhagwall]

I förrgår lärde oss Strandhäll att en miljard muslimska kvinnor väljer att bära slöja alldeles frivilligt.
I går lärde oss Klenell att värderingen på en tillgång inte har något att göra med vad någon är villig att betala.
Vilka spännande insikter skall vänstern ge oss idag?

[PM Nilsson @NilssonPM]

Tillväxten är bra, reallönerna stiger snabbt, nyföretagandet slår rekord, bolagen levererar vinster, arbetslösheten är låg hos folk som kan ngt. Varför klagar alla? Svensk ekonomi är mkt bättre än sitt rykte: https://t.co/oCuJphwNc3

[Alexander Kokcharov @alex_kokcharov]

UNESCO, seriously? Why can't you name the perpetrator?