Juan Velasco

As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be.
Tradition is the corpse of wisdom.

[Juan Velasco @CaeAugIPMTP]

She might have not been the best British Prime Minister, but a better and simpler explanation of deterrence was never spoken

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

“…wars are not caused by the build-up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price. The war of 1939 was not caused by an arms race. It sprang from a tyrant's belief that other countries lacked the means and the will to resist him. Remember Bismarck 's phrase: "Do I want war? Of course not! I want victory!" Our task is to see that potential aggressors, from whatever quarter, understand plainly that the capacity and the resolve of the West would deny them victory in war and that the price they would pay would be intolerable. That is the basis of deterrence and it is the same whatever the nature of the weapons, for let us never forget the horrors of conventional war and the hideous sacrifice of those who have suffered in them,” - address to a Joint Session of Congress- Feb. 20, 1985, Margaret Thatcher
February 20, 1985, Washington, D.C.

[Parabellum (Mirko Campochiari) @Parabel66836534]

Detto questo il realismo politico ci insegna che, sebbene sia legittimo che un popolo e un Paese possano scegliere da che parte andare in pieno diritto di autodeterminazione, questo non significa che non ci saranno conseguenze e reazioni da parte di coloro che avversano tale scelta per questioni di interesse personale, ragioni ideologiche, economiche e di sfera di influenza. Coloro che hanno la forza e la volontà di imporre ad altri una differente traiettoria lo hanno sempre fatto e questo non riguarda la moralità o la giustizia.

L'errore strategico dell'Europa, della NATO e dell'Occidente collettivo è stato quello di non prevedere una reazione della Russia rispetto alle aspirazioni Ucraine. Certo, la reazione da un punto di vista del diritto internazionale è illegittima, ma era anche assai prevedibile o quantomeno quantificabile come fattore di rischio probabile. Il problema risiede nel fatto che si dava per scontato che la Russia e chi la guida fosse un attore razionale, quando in realtà le motivazioni sono storiche, ideologiche, economiche, di sfere di influenza e rapporti di forza; non tutto è immediatamente riconducibile a fattori quantificabili o spiegabili con la mera logica.

Sventolarli davanti la possibilità di entrato nella NATO invece di farlo in 6 mesi come si è fatto per altri (una volta che vi erano le condizioni) ha probabilmente messo in moto i russi a cui la vicenda Donbas era funzionale in quanto elemento destabilizzante (con la guerra in Corso anche se semi-sopita non vi erano possibilità di etrare) questo venne fatto proprio per rallentare tale processo e per prendere tempo per prepararsi. Tra l'altro il grande pericolo raccontato anche da Girkin è che l'esercito ucraino del 2021 non era più quello scalcinato del 2014-16 e stavolta avrebbero spazzato via i separatisti se avessero deciso di farlo, eliminato il bubbone l'adesione era più vicina questo spiega anche in parte l'interventismo russo, un Ucraina nella NATO sarebbe stata intoccabile.

[Ander Bruckestand @Ander_Bruckes]

🧵 Nel 2024 scrissi un thread su un evento anomalo che si svolse in provincia di Lucca, alla presenza dell'ambasciatore russo.

Ecco una foto dell'evento. Li riconoscete?

Ebbene sì: sono i due ufficiali russi espulsi ieri dalla Farnesina per il recente caso di corruzione.

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[ItsRothstein @ItsRothsteinAlt]

“The Entente is winning!”
“Germany is collapsing”
“Wilhelm II is panicking!”

REALITY: Germany is 80 km's away from breaking through to Paris

[Mauro Gilli @Mauro_Gilli]

Italian National TV channel La7 airing allegations that Zelensky sniffs cocaine.

Nothing to see here, just regular Russian propaganda talking point being normalized in Italian discourse.

[john🎷colbrain @_night_brain__]

I encourage everyone to look at the responses to this and then google what 78° is in celcius

[Stefania Battistini @StefaniaBattis4]

Io mi sento molto male, perché noi giornalisti abbiamo aspettato giorni e giorni prima di poter entrare a Bucha perché era occupata dai russi. Chi provo a entrare bella vicina Irpin - come Brent Renaud - fu ucciso. Appena le truppe della federazione russa si sono ritirate, siamo entrati immediatamente. E la mia vita è cambiata dopo aver visto quello che ho visto. I numeri di persone a cui è stato sparato alle spalle mentre stava cercando di lasciare la città sono troppo alti perché si possa anche solo immaginare una finzione.

[Ander Bruckestand @Ander_Bruckes]

La disinformazione russa diventa opinione popolare proprio grazie a queste insinuazioni da idioti fatte in un programma sempre più scadente.

Complimenti a @mariannaaprile per aver balbettato il nulla anziché dire che era una cretinata.

State legando il vostro nome all'infamia.

[Philip Obaji Jr. @PhilipObaji]

Russian mercenaries drugged & raped dozens of girls in a military camp in CAR, then forced contraceptives on them to cover up. You helped me uncover this atrocity & tell the victims’ stories. Thank you. Please continue standing with me. Your donation helps
https://t.co/BV0P2MY56Q

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

What the hell, @Netflix?

[Joshipooo @izme_josh]

The weapons manufacturer learned that a group of fish is called a school

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

The Volhynia massacre is one of the most difficult subjects I’ve ever tried to understand🇵🇱🇺🇦

The more I read, the less interested I become in simple answers.

Yes, Ukrainians had real historical grievances against the Polish state.

Yes, the mass murder of Polish civilians was a horrific crime.

Yes, Polish retaliatory killings of Ukrainian civilians were also wrong.

The problem begins when each nation remembers only its own suffering and forgets the suffering it caused the other. That’s exactly how history becomes a prison instead of a lesson.

Today, Poland and Ukraine have a choice. They can spend the next hundred years proving whose grandparents suffered more.

Or they can tell the truth about all of it, honor every innocent victim, condemn every crime, and refuse to let the dead decide the future of the living.

History should unite us in wisdom. Not trap us in endless revenge.

[Olena Tregub @OTregub]

People ask: “What will happen to Ukraine now that Ukraine is bombing Moscow?”

Let’s think.

Will Russia invade us?
Bomb our cities with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles drones?
Destroy our civilian critical infrastructure?
Occupy our towns?
Rape and kill civilians, kids, women?
Kidnap Ukrainian children and train them as soldiers ?
Set up filtration camps?
Torture and starve POWs?
Use chemical weapons on the front line?

Wait.

Russia has already done all of this.

[Philip Obaji Jr. @PhilipObaji]

Russian mercenaries have massacred villagers, raped girls & turned farms into torture sites. Telling these stories matters. It exposes the truth, holds killers accountable & stops Africa from becoming a forgotten theater of Russian brutality. Silence enables more atrocities.

[Gino The Ghost @GinoTheGhost]

The Reflecting Pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration:

- Ignore experts and science
- Overspend
- Declare early, historic victory
- "THE LEFT HATE THIS"
- Ends in total failure
- Unfounded conspiracies about sabotage
- MAGA pretends it doesn't actually matter

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

>renames it to the Department of War
>names himself the Secretary of War
>fights one war
>loses

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

A Russian militant known as “Grom” raped filmmaker and journalist Alisa Kovalenko for four days.

Before that, militants beat and interrogated her. They threatened to cut off her fingers and teeth.

Alisa was 27. She came to Donbas to film the start of Russia’s war, UP.

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[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Direct democracy is an overrated system, and yesterday we saw exactly how close it can come to blowing up a nation's future.

Switzerland came a few percentage points away from adopting a disastrous population cap that would have choked its labor force and ruined its economy in the long run.

Many treat this model like it is the ultimate form of government, when in reality it puts national stability at constant risk.

Governments face highly complex crises that cannot be responsibly answered with a simple yes or no. Direct democracy often completely ignores this, forcing citizens to vote yes or no on highly technical policies they don't have the time or expertise to actually comprehend. This structural ignorance makes it incredibly easy for foreign adversaries to weaponize social media and swing public opinion against the state's best interests.

This flaw is most glaringly obvious in Switzerland's pathetic recent air force history. In 2014, the public voted no to upgrading their air force with Gripen jets. In 2020, they avoided total unilateral air force disarmament by a microscopic margin of 4,500 votes. A nation cannot maintain a credible defense strategy when its military decisions are made by ignorant people who understand nothing about the subject.

There is no data proving that direct democracy caused Switzerland’s triumph as a country. Switzerland’s wealth is actually the result of hard-working people combined with its historical bank secrecy. Switzerland’s wealth was partially built by harboring the fortunes of dictators, warlords, terrorists, oligarchs, and criminals. This moral compromise also defines its horrible foreign policy, which is an absolute stain on humanity. Bern actively protects autocratic wealth while simultaneously blocking European nations from sending vital military aid to Ukraine if the equipment uses Swiss-made parts. Switzerland has blood on its hands.

Switzerland is a rich, beautiful nation with lovely people, good food, and a decent hockey program (even if Finland's is better). Its success comes from a combination of hard-working people and bank secrecy, not referendums. Representative democracy is a vastly superior system because it balances public input with professional, strategic governance. Not everything Switzerland does should be copied

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇷🇺🇷🇺Russian officer Uldarov: “I ‘cleared out’ a basement of 300–400 civilians, including 40 children.”
According to him, it was a nine-story building. The occupier adds that “he had no choice” and that
he WAS ORDERED TO ELIMINATE EVERYONE:

“I carried out the order with this hand — I killed children. You understand, by order. The thing is, we… we were given the command to wipe out and destroy everyone.

WE WENT TO KILL everyone — women, men, the elderly, and children, even the little ones — five-year-olds.”

The order came from Prigozhin to clear out Bakhmut — to spare no one, neither the old nor the children.
“Wipe them all out.”

In Soledar, it was even worse. Direct quote from Savichev: “Civilians came out. And there was an order — everyone aged 15 and older was to be executed immediately without a word. 20 to 24 people were shot, including ten teenagers aged 15 to 17.”

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🔴 Russian soldier confesses to rape and murder of Ukrainian children.

Captured Russian soldier Rustam Gareyev from the 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade confessed to executing 20 civilians in Avdiivka, including an elderly woman and a teenager.