Albert

[Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson]

85 years ago, on June 25, 1941, in Kaunas, where the Germans entered, the mass extermination of Jews began.

The pogrom lasted for 5 days. To the cheers of the audience, up to 4,000 people, including women and children, were brutally murdered by Lithuanian citizens.

Public torture and executions were accompanied by very wild scenes. Thus, one of the victims, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ossovsky, had his head sawn off in front of his wife and children, and his head was put up in a public place with the inscription: "This is what we will do to all Jews."

One of the active participants in the pogrom, Juozas Luksha, is now honored as a "hero" in modern European Lithuania.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Russia’s Investigative Committee has proposed new legal tools to prosecute acts committed abroad if they are deemed to be directed against Russia’s interests or Russian citizens.

Committee official Vladimir Makarov said Russia should legally define concepts such as “Russophobia” and “hostile actions.”

He claimed that Moscow needs countermeasures against foreign sanctions enforcement, including expanded confiscation, asset freezes, license cancellations, suspension of activity in Russia and restrictions on access to state services.

Makarov cited the demolition of Soviet war memorials, the activity of “radical fascist, nationalist and openly Nazi organizations,” and the denial of the results of World War II.

[Zentrale Ermittlungsstelle @ZentraleV]

Nordkorea hat gestern seinen neuen Lenkwaffenzerstörer „Choe Hyon“ in den Dienst gestellt nach nur 400 Tagen Bauzeit, Kosten ca. $700 Mio. Die BRD beendete gestern ihr teuerstes Marine-Projekt der Geschichte, die Fregatte F 126, Verlust 2,3 Mrd. €, läuft:
https://t.co/mW0wd4GcdL

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

NATO paid for a proxy army, and Ukrainian men will therefore not receive protection. This was never about "helping" Ukrainians.

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

US AGM-188A Rusty Dagger missiles may have been used on the Voronezh Semiconductor Devices Plant, Forbes reports. These missiles previously appeared in the Extended Range Attack Munition program, aimed at creating cheap long-range weapons for F-16s. The manufacturer is Zone 5 Technologies. The AGM-188A claimed a range of up to 460 km and anti-jamming capabilities. The manufacturer promised the product would be 10 times cheaper than Storm Shadow.

[Max Otte @maxotte_says]

Stalin hätte im Falle eines Krieges eine Million Soldaten gegen Hitler entsendet, falls Großbritannien und Frankreich einem Pakt zugestimmt hätten.

Das sowjetische Angebot – unterbreitet von Kriegsminister Marschall Kliment Woroschilow und dem Generalstabschef der Roten Armee, Boris Schaposchnikow – sah vor, im Falle eines Krieges im Westen bis zu 120 Infanteriedivisionen (mit jeweils rund 19.000 Soldaten), 16 Kavalleriedivisionen, 5.000 schwere Geschütze, 9.500 Panzer sowie bis zu 5.500 Jagdflugzeuge und Bomber an den deutschen Grenzen zu stationieren.

Doch Admiral Sir Reginald Drax, der die britische Delegation leitete, erklärte seinen sowjetischen Gesprächspartnern, er sei lediglich zu Gesprächen, nicht jedoch zum Abschluss von Abkommen befugt.

Hätten die Briten, die Franzosen und ihr europäischer Verbündeter Polen dieses Angebot ernst genommen, hätten sie gemeinsam an zwei Fronten rund 300 oder mehr Divisionen gegen Deutschland ins Feld führen können – doppelt so viele, wie Hitler zu jenem Zeitpunkt zur Verfügung standen.
Großbritannien und Frankreich vergaben eine Chance, die Welt zu retten.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the Periodic Table, was nominated for the Nobel Prize 9 times but never won because a scientist he once criticized sat on the committee and blocked him every single time.

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇦 Anti-mobilization masks on sale

MIgrant's masks are in demand in Ukraine too?

[Timo Krievs @TKrievs]

@Spreebabylon die bleiben lieber bei der Mutti im Kinderzimmer

[Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson]

A Swedish @liberalerna parliamentary candidate: The police are controlled by Putin – and are after me.

The madness is rotting Swedish society.
#svpol
https://t.co/L5CvYBYPuQ

[Peter Eich @seriengruender]

@welt Beamte müssen in n Deutschland bleiben, Selbstständige können auswandern.
Lieber so als anders herum

[Kaleun Thomsen @Herr_Kaleun]

Wäre der Film von Spike Lee und würde davon handeln, wie ein schwarzer Mann Selbstjustiz an Weißen übt, wäre der Film ein todsicherer Oscar-Kandidat und würde auf Arte und ZDFneo rauf und runter laufen.

[Albert @email_albert]

@HamburgParadais @AlbertMeinung @streitbareKatze 🎯💯

[Connie 🐈‍⬛🏍🐈‍⬛ @streitbareKatze]

Das wäre doch der Zeitpunkt sich zu melden. Damit sind die mit der Ukraineflagge im Profil gemeint. Nicht nur heucheln, sondern kämpfen.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Armie Hammer's new film Citizen Vigilante has been BANNED in Germany

Hammer's character goes after migrant criminals when the state fails to deliver justice

[Zentrale Ermittlungsstelle @ZentraleV]

Keiner kann 2026 behaupten, nicht die Videos zu kennen, wie Ukrainer von den Straßen brutal entführt werden. Aber warum kämpfen sie?
Beispiel Sturmregiment Skala: „Augenzeugen zufolge werden dort Menschen gefoltert und zu Tode geprügelt.“ Mutige🇺🇦Recherche:https://t.co/hZnCNmdXjI

[Albert @email_albert]

@SiegbertDroese @YouTube Gibt's irgendwo einen deutschen Trailer?

[Max Stirner @ernsterjuenger]

Okay. Ihr seid so dämlich. Ich werde diesen Film ganz sicher in der uncut-Fassung sehen, und es wird mir ein Fest werden.

[Anti-Grüne @anti_grune]

Uwe Bolls neuester Film „Citizen Vigilante“ wurde in Deutschland verboten 🤡 Der Film beschreibt einen Mann, der zur Selbstjustiz greift, weil der Staat versagt hat, als Migranten, die eine Massenv***ewaltigung begangen haben, nicht verurteilt wurden. Der Film bezieht sich wohl auf den Fall aus Hamburg. Als Verbotsbegründung gibt man an: dass der Film durch die gezielte Selbstjustiz gegen eine Bevölkerungsgruppe Gewalt verherrliche und zu Hass aufrufe. Die FSK sieht darin eine schwere Jugendgefährdung 🤡
Uwe Boll spricht von politischer Zensur.
In den USA läuft er regulär.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇨🇳NEW ARTICLE: US Prepares Terrorist Army to Expand its Dirty War on China

(NOTE: Because X continues censoring links previously banned by Twitter in cooperation with the US State Department including NEO, I am providing the entire article below).

The US media has invested in recent years in rehabilitating Uyghur Chinese extremists now based in Syria, depicting them as “freedom fighters” whose ultimate goal is to “liberate” (carve off) territory in western China, and are preparing to fight China across Eurasia - adding to an already ongoing dirty war the US has been waging against China over the 20th and 21st centuries.

A Familiar Pattern

From the Cold War to present day, the United States has actively created and used the world’s worst terrorist organizations to advance US geopolitical objectives worldwide. This includes the creation and use of Al Qaeda (through local chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood) in the 1970s and 1980s in Syria and their export to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union until their withdrawal in 1989.

It also includes the use of these same terrorists to divide and disrupt unified resistance to invading US forces in Iraq from 2003 onward, and the eventual region-wide US reordering of the Arab World spanning Libya and Egypt in North Africa to Yemen and Syria in the MIddle East beginning under the likewise US-engineered “Arab Spring” in 2011.

From North Africa to Central Asia, the US has admittedly utilized terrorist organizations listed by the US State Department itself as such, to both target nations the US military cannot attack directly and to serve as a pretext for US invasions and occupations in nations the US seeks to attack more directly.

Other episodes in which this US strategy has been employed include against both Russia in its southern Caucasus region and even as far as China in East Asia.

While both Russia and China appear to have successfully neutralized this malicious method of proxy warfare utilized by Washington within their respective borders, the US continues not only arming and building up terrorist forces for future conflicts, but is also shaping public perception to depict such use of US-sponsored terrorism as somehow supporting “freedom fighters” against “authoritarian” governments.

US Media Reintroducing Uyghur Terrorists as “Freedom Fighters”

A troubling sign that the US continues seeking to use extremists specifically tailored for attacking China and its investments and projects across Eurasia, is a May 2026 National Public Radio (NPR) article titled, “The foreign fighters who helped topple Assad — and why China worries about them.”

The article - only the latest of many spanning recent years - portrays the largest segment of foreign fighters involved in the US-backed overthrow of Syria in 2024 - Uyghur extremists from China’s western region of Xinjiang - as simply fleeing persecution in China and incidentally ending up aligned with and fighting alongside Al Qaeda.

The article mentions the previously US State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization (until June 2025) Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Uyghur fighters were recruited into as an Al Qaeda affiliate which ultimately overran Syrian forces in 2024, toppling the Syrian government.

HTS’ figurehead Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (now referred to as Ahmed al-Sharaa) has even been designated as Syria’s defacto president by the US and its proxies and has even been invited to the White House by current US President Donald Trump despite previously having a 10 million USD reward on his head by the US government itself.

The moral flexibility of the US regarding Al Qaeda based on whether the US is trying to justify direct military intervention in Syria before the government’s collapse or cement a terrorist-led proxy regime afterwards is the central hallmark of the decades-spanning use by Washington of terrorist organizations to target, undermine, topple, then politically capture targeted nations.

It is no coincidence that the US not only recruited thousands of Uyghur extremists to fight alongside HTS in its proxy war against the Syrian government, but now seeks to redeploy this battle-hardened, experienced force of extremists across Eurasia as part of its ongoing dirty war against China.

The NPR article, in regards to thousands of battle-hardened Uyghur extremists, stated:

They say they now hope to preserve their culture and perhaps one day raise an army powerful enough to seize control of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan as the Uyghurs call it, the region that the Uyghurs consider their homeland and that the Chinese Communist Party took control of in 1949.

Of course, Xinjiang had been part of China for centuries and only briefly during the 20th century found itself adrift as part of the US-European imposed “century of humiliation” China experienced before its rise in the last 20th and now 21st century - history Washington finds an inconvenience regarding narratives it is building ahead of justifying the next wave of terrorism being prepared across Eurasia and against China itself.

Radicalizing and Ravaging China’s Xinjiang and Beyond

Today, NPR pretends the circumstances surrounding violence in China’s Xinjiang region involving radicalized Uyghurs is ambiguous, claiming it began with student protests demanding the investigation into clashes between Uyghur and Han factory workers. The article only barely touches on the violent nature of Uyghur extremism in Xinjiang (which radiated far beyond the region in subsequent years).

In reality, the Western media has admitted in past years to a concerted campaign of targeted radicalization of China’s Uyghur population in its western Xinjiang region.

The LA Times in a 2016 article titled, “In China, rise of Salafism fosters suspicion and division among Muslims,” indicates the radicalization of Uyghurs not only created tensions with the Chinese government and non-Uyghur ethnic groups in Xinjiang, but also among Uyghur Muslims themselves.

The article describes the process as originating from Washington’s close Persian Gulf ally, Saudi Arabia, claiming:

“Saudi preachers and organizations began traveling to China. Some of them bore gifts: training programs for clerics, Korans for distribution, funding for new "Islamic institutes" and mosques.

"This exposure to Saudi discourses actually caused a momentary implosion within the Salafi community in the 1980s," said Mohammed Al-Sudairi, a doctoral student at the University of Hong Kong who spent years researching Salafi Muslims in China.

"The new generation, which was much more engaged and influenced by Saudi Arabia, began to contest the knowledge of the older generation. You had a lot of excommunication within the [Muslim] community, people were saying to each other that they were not real Muslims."”

In other words, despite Washington accusing Beijing of “genocide” in Xinjiang, parathetically meaning “cultural genocide” of what Washington claims is Uyghur culture, it was the US through its Saudi proxies erasing indigenous Uyghur culture and overwriting it with imported, politically-driven Salafist extremism that demonstrably exploded into armed, widespread violence targeting China’s stability.

While this violence is deliberately omitted from Western narratives today regarding Xinjiang - specifically to amplify the illusion Beijing’s subsequent security measures were arbitrary and unwarranted - at the height of the violence between 2009-2015, the Western media eagerly reported on spiraling violence Beijing seemed unable to control.

The BBC in a 2014 article titled, “Why is there tension between China and the Uighurs?,” documented a long list of extremist-driven terrorism both across Xinjiang and wider China.

The article noted:

“…things really escalated in 2009, with large-scale ethnic rioting in the regional capital, Urumqi. Some 200 people were killed in the unrest, most of them Han Chinese, according to officials.

Security was increased and many Uighurs detained as suspects. But violence rumbled on as right groups increasingly pointed to tight control by Beijing.

In June 2012, six Uighurs reportedly tried to hijack a plane from Hotan to Urumqi before they were overpowered by passengers and crew.

There was bloodshed in April 2013 and in June that year, 27 people died in Shanshan county after police opened fire on what state media described as a mob armed with knives attacking local government buildings.”

The article then briefly attempted to suggest the details of the attacks were difficult to verify in an attempt to deny Beijing justification for increased security to deal with the violence - however - most of the attacks described in the BBC article had been captured on security cameras, documenting the undeniable brutality of the radicalized violence.

The article continued:

“At least 31 people were killed and more than 90 suffered injuries in May 2014 when two cars crashed through an Urumqi market and explosives were tossed into the crowd. China called it a "violent terrorist incident".

It followed a bomb and knife attack at Urumqi's south railway station in April, which killed three and injured 79 others.

In July, authorities said [attacks were carried out on] government offices in Yarkant, leaving 96 dead. The imam of China's largest mosque, Jume Tahir, was stabbed to death days later.

In September about 50 died in blasts in Luntai county outside police stations, a market and a shop. Details of both incidents are unclear and activists have contested some accounts of incidents in state media.

Some violence has also spilled out of Xinjiang. A March stabbing spree in Kunming in Yunnan province that killed 29 people was blamed on Xinjiang separatists, as was an October 2013 incident where a car ploughed into a crowd and burst into flames in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.”

The extensive but by no means exhaustive list the BBC published of violence carried out by radicalized Uyghurs left a path of death and destruction from Xinjiang to Beijing - with attacks just as likely to kill fellow Uyghurs as they were other ethnic groups and government employees.

The violence eventually radiated beyond China itself with a bomb blast in 2015 targeting central Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, following the Thai government’s refusal of US government demands that Uyghur terror suspects be allowed to travel onward to Turkey to join US-backed terrorist forces fighting in neighboring Syria instead of being sent back to China to face justice.

Chinese security and development policies successfully managed to bring the cycle of radicalization and violence to an end, rehabilitating and deprograming extremists before providing them job training and allowing them to return to society. China also invested heavily in economic development across Xinjiang to drain the pools of poverty and unemployment that had primed the local population for radicalization in the first place.

However, this did not happen before thousands of Uyghur extremists were transplanted by the US from western China to West Asia where they were armed, trained, and battle-hardened in the US-backed overthrow of Syria spanning 2011-2024, where they now await redeployment against both China itself and Chinese-backed investments, infrastructure projects, and diplomatic missions across Eurasia.

Resurrecting and Rebranding Washington’s Anti-China Terror Front

Just as the US has done with other terrorist organizations, including HTS in Syria and the notorious Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) of Iran, Uyghur terrorist organization, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), previously listed by the US State Department as foreign terrorist organizations have been “delisted” as of 2020.

The DW in their article, “US removes China-condemened group from terror list,” claims, “China regularly points to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement to justify its crackdown in Muslim majority Xinjiang. The US removed it from the terror list, saying there's "no credible evidence" that it still exists.”

The article further explains that, “"ETIM was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist," a State Department spokesperson said, news agency AFP reported.”

Yet, just 2 years earlier - well within “more than a decade,” US Central Command itself admitted to strikes on ETIM terrorists in Afghanistan which shares a short section of border with neighboring China - exposing the US State Department’s justification for delisting ETIM as a blatant lie.

Just as was the case with HTS and MEK, the Chinese Uyghur terrorist organization ETIM was delisted not because it no longer exists or is no longer engaged in terrorism, but because the US seeks to legitimize that terrorism and more openly aid and abet it.

The US is already waging a dirty war against China across Eurasia including backing Baluch terrorists in southwest Pakistan and armed militants in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar - both of whom are striking at Chinese-backed infrastructure projects, attacking Chinese investments, and in Pakistan, killing Chinese engineers along with an attempt to kill the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan in 2021.

Uyghur extremists transplanted by the US to topple Syria in West Asia are now openly being prepared by Washington to work their way back east toward China to augment this already ongoing dirty war the US is waging against China, its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), investments, citizens, and diplomatic missions, as well as China’s friends and partners everywhere in between.

Part of these preparations include the US media itself reinventing previously US-designated terrorists into “freedom fighters” in the hopes of not only building public and political support for Washington’s armed proxies, but to depict China’s inevitable attempts to defend itself against this latest hostility aimed at it, as “authoritarianism” and even “aggression.”

Only time will tell if China’s rise and attempts to build up the multipolar world can outpace Washington's attempts to undermine China and tear the multipolar world down. In the meantime, Washington has readied yet another piece to place upon this global chess board - one that threatens nations across Eurasia and demands Eurasia-wide security cooperation with China to defend against.

Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.