Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine
When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.
A message to all sane Republicans:
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.
He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.
He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.
He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.
His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.
He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.
His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.
He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.
He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.
It’s time to start talking.
Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home.
Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward.
And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this.
A television review.
No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent.
That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself.
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A máquina que supera o Universo.
⚙️ Criada por Daniel de Bruin, a "The 100-Gear Exponential Machine” (ou simplesmente a máquina das 100 engrenagens) é composta por 100 engrenagens, cada uma com uma relação de redução de 10:1 em relação à anterior.
🔄 Isso significa que, para cada 10 voltas de uma engrenagem, a próxima gira apenas 1.
Quando essa redução é repetida 100 vezes, o resultado é extremo:
⚙️ Para que a última engrenagem complete uma única volta, a primeira precisaria girar 10¹⁰⁰ vezes — um número chamado googol.
Para comparação: O Universo observável contém cerca de 10⁸⁰ átomos. Ou seja, o número necessário para mover a última engrenagem é muito maior que a quantidade de átomos existentes no cosmos.
Se a primeira engrenagem girar uma vez a cada 3,5 segundos:
A 5ª já levaria horas para completar uma volta.
A 8ª levaria cerca de um ano.
Após 4,6 bilhões de anos (idade da Terra), a 18ª mal teria completado meia volta.
Mesmo após 13,8 bilhões de anos (idade do Universo), a 21ª praticamente não teria se movido de forma significativa.
Forçar a última engrenagem exigiria velocidades e energia que ultrapassam limites físicos fundamentais — incluindo os impostos pela relatividade.
⚛️ Essa máquina é uma representação concreta do poder do crescimento exponencial e dos limites da física.
Às vezes, o impossível não está na força aplicada — está na matemática envolvida.
You are looking at one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a humancell (eukaryotic cell) ever made.
Every molecule. Every structure. Mapped in extreme precision.
This isn't just a pretty picture. It's a microscopic universe finally brought into focus.
Europe isn’t scared. Europe is patient. There’s a difference, and it’s the kind of difference that ends civilisations.
One country. One lunatic with a moustache and a grudge. That’s all it took to set the entire continent on fire in 1939. And when that happened, the combined industrial might of the Soviet Union and the United States spent years just getting a foothold. Years.
Against one country that had gone off the rails.
Now imagine what happens when the whole continent with 700 million people decides it’s had enough.
This isn’t a collection of soy latte-sipping bureaucrats who’ve gone soft from too many open borders and bicycle lanes. This is a landmass that produced the Roman legions, the Mongol counter-strikes, the Napoleonic wars, two world wars, and enough military doctrine to fill a library the size of Texas.
Europeans didn’t forget how to fight. They just made a deliberate, conscious choice to stop, because they’d seen where it leads.
Calling that weakness is like calling a retired heavyweight boxer a coward because he doesn’t punch strangers at the supermarket.
When MAGA types sneer “snowflakes” at Europeans for declining to join an American adventure in the Persian Gulf, they’re confusing restraint with submission. A thousand-year-old warrior continent sitting quietly at the table isn’t afraid of the fight. It’s just waiting to see if the fight is actually worth having.
So far, it isn’t 💪
Egypt, Jordánsko, Libanon necivilizovaní (kanibalové). Řeči o morálním hnití jak od Dugina. Hlavně to ale Macinka dělá poté, co IL vysídil v Libanonu milion lidí, zničil 40 tisíc domů, zabil 170 dětí, spoustu zdravotníků. Právě tyto řeči podporují nehumánní způsoby vedení válek
Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.
Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”