Leo 🇪🇺🇮🇹🌻🇺🇦 Лев (🇷🇺=💩)

C'è solo un momento, Tra passato e futuro, Questo momento si chiama vita.
Есть только миг, Между прошлым и будущим, Именно он называется жизнь.

[Leo 🇪🇺🇮🇹🌻🇺🇦 Лев (🇷🇺=💩) @gatto_ruffiano]

Vite portate via dall'aggressione russa.
Dikanka

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Ukraine doesn’t have electricity right now.

Russia struck all of their power plants.

This is terrorism.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Vladimir Putin is a terrorist and he should be treated like one.

The Ukrainian people are suffering because Vladimir Putin is never held accountable for his reign of terror.

It doesn’t cost a single US tax dollar to condemn Vladimir Putin.

It’s called moral clarity, and it’s FREE.

[Ernesto @worldernest]

Il pupazzo arancione annuncia al mondo di aver ottenuto la tregua energetica in Ucraina e subito il suo padrone, il boia nazi, bombarda 6 centrali elettriche oltre a un imprecisato numero di palazzi in Ucraina.
Giusto per far capire al mondo chi comanda e chi fa più schifo al c

[freeonis @freeonis_]

Друзі, бачу, що разом із посиленням російського терору проти України у нас розгорнулася й роснява «антивоєнна кампанія». Яка закликає саме Україну зупинити війну. 🥴
В мене вже так горить срака від всього цього, що мушу висловитися:

Україна не може закінчити війну - якої вона не починала!
І Україна не може піти на "мир", який їй ніхто не пропонує!
Досить ілюзій!
Обісрана русня не досягла жодної зі своїх цілей військовим шляхом. Тож ЄДИНЕ, на що вона спроможна - намагатися зламати нашу волю щоденними обстрілами українських міст і терором мирного населення. І паралельно з цим запускати проросійські наративи про капітуляцію. ВСЕ.
Так, буде важко. Але ми вже не раз доводили, що вміємо адаптуватися й вистоювати.

Тож підтримуйте тих, хто тримає фронт.
Та донатьте на потреби нашої армії.
Слава нашим героям ЗСУ! 🇺🇦

Але завжди є альтернатива:
Ми можемо піти на умови росії - капітуляцію.
Здати всі свої території, які русня вже записала до своєї конституції.
А далі - окупаційний режим. Фільтраційні чистки. Репресії. Примусова русифікація.
(Усе це ми вже бачили на окупованих територіях.)
А років через 10–20 ваші діти будуть воювати у складі російської армії десь під Польщею - за нові «історичні території».

Тож вибір за вами.

[more_meat_loaf @more_meat_loaf]

Tom Cruise: I do my own stunts
Bug: hold my beer bitch

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Yes, one day after the war, Ze will write a book called "How I Kept My Cool Around Trump All Those Fucking Years" and it’ll be the bestseller of the decade.
https://t.co/0h0RaHnGgh

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

An autistic girl asks permission to touch the horse

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

This spring, I became the owner of an old garden cottage near a forest in a quiet Ukrainian village outside Kyiv.

There was a very old, badly neglected apple tree on the property. It had not blossomed and was also badly obstructing the house. Everyone around me told me not to waste my time -- that the tree was dead after the winter frosts and would never produce anything again. Just hire someone and cut the damn thing down.

But I felt sorry for it. I cleaned it up as best I could and gave it whatever care I knew how to provide. And what do you know? It produced an absolutely enormous crop of apples, so many that I could practically hand them out to strangers in the strees.

And I swear, they are the most incredibly delicious apples I have ever tasted. Trust me. Nothing from a supermarket even comes close.

The moral of the story: sometimes, one should just have faith and care.

[Cloooud |🇺🇦 @GloOouD]

To taxpayers around the world: I am Ukrainian, and I want to express my deepest gratitude for your support.

I know that your countries face their own challenges, which makes your support mean even more to us. Without your help, many more Ukrainians would not have survived. Your solidarity directly saves lives every single day.

Thank you for standing with Ukraine and helping us defend our freedom💙💛

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan.

In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944.

Liliana survived. Today she turns 96.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

By the way, remember this, kids:

- spending five years raining missiles down on Ukrainian apartment buildings,
- burying Ukrainian families alive beneath the rubble of their homes night after night,
- dropping bombs on theaters, railway stations, and supermarkets packed with people,
- plunging tens of millions into darkness and freezing cold during brutally cold winters,
- destroying dams on major rivers,
- filming snuff videos of beheadings, castrations, and the torture of POWs,
- burning POWs alive en masse inside a locked prison barracks,
- firing a missile straight into a children’s cancer hospital in central Kyiv,
- striking the radiation confinement structure at the Chornobyl nuclear plant with a drone and etc etc etc

None of all that, apparently, qualifies as “state terrorism.”

“State terrorism,” you see, is when, in response to all of the above, you destroy the aggressor state’s oil industry and issue advance warnings about the dangers of flying through the aggressor state’s airspace in order to avoid civilian casualties.

Make sure you don’t get the two confused!

[Ministero Difesa @MinisteroDifesa]

"Ho ricevuto la visita di @FedorovMykhailo, già ministro della difesa ucraino e con una significativa esperienza nel campo dell’innovazione digitale applicata alla pubblica amministrazione e alla difesa. Occasione di approfondimento, in particolare, sul tema dei droni, dei sistemi unmanned e della difesa aerea, oltre a un confronto sull’evoluzione dell’ecosistema tecnologico.
In uno scenario caratterizzato da trasformazioni repentine e senza precedenti, nel quale il cambiamento costituisce una costante, è imprescindibile ricercare opportunità di confronto e di scambio di esperienze. Per questo sono lieto che Mykhailo Fedorov abbia accettato di offrirmi la sua consulenza quale Advisor per l’Innovazione della Difesa.
Oggi non basta più la semplice conoscenza delle nuove tecnologie: è essenziale la capacità di adeguare i processi organizzativi, trasformando rapidamente la sperimentazione in soluzioni operative utilizzabili su larga scala. I mutati scenari e le nuove modalità di conduzione dei conflitti richiedono infatti di rendere sempre più efficienti i processi di sviluppo e produzione nazionale coniugando l’eccellenza tecnologica con la capacità industriale e la rapidità di risposta alle sfide future". Così il Min @GuidoCrosetto

[Francesco Bisignani | Il Socialista Liberale @IlSocLiberale]

Generale Vannacci, la cosa più imbarazzante è che lei dovrebbe capire di questioni militari.

Fedorov non viene in Italia a “scroccare miliardi”. Viene chiamato come advisor perché ha maturato sul campo un’esperienza enorme su droni, sistemi unmanned, difesa aerea e innovazione militare.
Ed è talmente “uomo di Zelensky” che è uscito dal governo dopo scontri pesantissimi con l’establishment ucraino, ha denunciato problemi nella conduzione della guerra e ha persino chiesto nuove elezioni.

Ma soprattutto: l’Ucraina combatte da anni la guerra convenzionale e tecnologica più avanzata combattuta in Europa da decenni.

Un Paese serio studia quell’esperienza.
Un ministro della Difesa serio cerca di acquisire competenze.
Un ex generale, invece, fa la battutina su Zelensky e “i miliardi”.

È questa la cosa incredibile di lei, Vannacci: è riuscito a trasformare persino l’esperienza militare in propaganda da bar.

Crosetto prova a capire come si combatteranno le guerre di domani.
Lei sembra molto più interessato a ripetere oggi gli argomenti che fanno comodo a Mosca.
E considerando che ha portato le stellette della Repubblica italiana, francamente è uno spettacolo desolante.

Prima l’Italia?
Allora magari cominci dal desiderare che le Forze Armate italiane imparino da chi sta combattendo davvero contro l’esercito russo, invece di prendere per il culo chi può insegnarci qualcosa.

Perché il patriottismo non è ignorare le competenze degli altri.
È assicurarsi che domani i nostri soldati abbiano le migliori del mondo.

Che vergogna, Generale Vannacci!

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

Kicked off an international working trip with our team, focused on advancing our new initiatives in digitalization and defense tech.

First stop — a meeting with Italian Minister of Defense @GuidoCrosetto.

I expressed my gratitude to Guido for his personal support and for the offer to serve as his Advisor on Defense Innovations. I am deeply thankful for this trust and strategic partnership. In this role, I will assist Italy in adopting modern warfare technologies, enhancing its defense sector, and adapting to emerging global security challenges.

Ukraine and our team possess unique, real-world experience in high-tech warfare that we are eager to share with our allies. At the same time, my primary focus remains unchanged: I continue my work in Ukraine on core projects that strengthen our defense and help attract international resources.

During our meeting, we discussed drones, autonomous systems, air defense, and building out the defense tech ecosystem.
The future of defense belongs to nations that can rapidly test and scale new solutions by pairing cutting-edge technology with robust manufacturing. Ukraine’s experience can serve as the foundation for Europe’s new defense model.

Our international trip continues. Ahead are key meetings with partners regarding digitalization, defense tech, and launching new collaborative projects.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Two parades.
Nine days apart.
One had tanks.
The other - none.

The parade in Kyiv on August 24 had no tanks, no marching troops. Ground robots on Khreshchatyk. Naval drones on the Dnipro. UAVs overhead.

The world's first military parade built entirely around unmanned systems.

The parade in Warsaw on August 15 had 300 military tanks and vehicles, and 2,000 troops. Tanks and howitzers on Wistostrada. NATO's most modern equipment.

It all looks impressive, until it meets a $500 drone.

Source: adopted from Artem Moroz

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Dear President Mattarella @Quirinale, thank you for your warm wishes and for Italy’s unwavering solidarity with Ukraine and our people. A nation’s independence and its right to determine its own future are among the most important principles.

We are deeply grateful for the understanding between our nations and for Italy’s support for our defense, the resilience of our critical infrastructure, reconstruction, and our path towards EU membership. We appreciate your recognition of Ukraine’s progress on this path and your clear message that it is Ukraine’s choice to be part of the European family. Thank you, Italy!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Thirty-five years ago, Ukraine restored its independence!
Happy holiday, great people of a great country!
Happy Independence Day of Ukraine!
Glory to Ukraine!
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[Leo 🇪🇺🇮🇹🌻🇺🇦 Лев (🇷🇺=💩) @gatto_ruffiano]

З Днем Незалежності України!

35° Anniversario dell'indipendenza

#SlavaUkraïni

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Karel Paták @KarelPatak1]

První tank na Leninově, dnešní Evropské třídě, v Dejvicích 21. srpna 1968 v časných ranních hodinách.

Bolelo to. Bezmoc, zrada, kolaborace.

Možná i proto to byly naše tanky, které jako první na světě vyrazily posílit ukrajinské obránce. My už totiž to ráno, které si Ukrajina zažila 24. února 2022 (už podruhé za poslední dekádu) známe.

My víme, co to znamená, když vás přijde „zachraňovat" ruský svět 🩸

Nikdy více. 🇨🇿