Mael Duin

Anti-imperialist Norn-Irishman
I follow one simple rule:
Civilian life is sacred.
Never support anyone who knowingly kills civilians.

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

I think we need a definition of fascism that is super simple and encompasses all of its manifestations

I suggest the definition is simply:

'a belief in the perpetual domination of the strong over the weak'

The word 'perpetual' is key here, as I'll explain in this thread
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[Vlad Vexler @VladVexler]

Whether Dugin is a fascist is an interpretive issue. If fascism exists at all as an ideology, then Dugin embraces its central facets. His own argument is that he transcends contemporary ideologies - but if his argument fails, as I think it does, he lands back in fascism.

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@piersmorgan @X @elonmusk For Elon it’s a feature, not a bug.

It was the entire point of him taking over the platform, so not a coincidence

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Not known facts to Europeans who actually know very little about their own history:

The oldest city in Europe is in Bulgaria - Plovdiv.
The oldest country with the same name in Europe is Bulgaria.
The oldest Gold in the world has been found in Bulgaria - Varna.

More than 3 million Bulgarians (30% of the whole population) have moved to all corners of the world over the last 30 years and are now sitting in many boards, companies, innovation hubs and science domains. They will flood Bulgaria in the next years and decades with investments, ideas and improvements.

Bulgaria‘s Gen Z has just organized the largest pro-European, pro-liberal and anti-systemic corruption protests in the country since the 90s when Communism, the Iron Curtain and the Cold War had collapsed.

For the first time in the last 30 years, Bulgaria could finally get an absolute majority of support on behalf of the population for the pro-liberal and pro-European forces to conduct the long awaited legal and governance reforms.

Amazing things are about to start happening in Bulgaria with the end of 2025. Not everything is bad or about decline in Europe. Bulgaria will lead the way how to escape the trap of self-sabotage and strategic passivity on the old continent. And it will be an existential life line for Ukraine too.

Never despair. Never give up!

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@ThePosieParker @Esuprastus So if it turned out there were doctors spreading trans ideology and operating on teenage girls in, say sub-Saharan Africa or South America, you wouldn’t care?

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@ThePosieParker @Esuprastus If you care about women maybe you should resist a country which rapes and burns alive women it holds in captivity?

If this doesn't bother you just be honest so we can know what value your principles have

https://t.co/1gYm6UNMO6

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

One of 🇺🇦 PoWs, Inga Chekinda, about 🇷🇺 captivity.

“One day, a lieutenant entered the cell and said: ‘Remember me for the rest of your life. My call sign is “Death”.’ And I remembered him.

He put me against the wall and said: ‘Feet shoulder-width apart,’ and twisted my arms. He said: ‘What, are you a tough nut?’ and slapped me on both ears with his hands. My head spun. That’s when I realized I was in for hell.

He beat me with all his strength. He battered me for three days, and a huge hematoma appeared on my leg. Because when he put me against the wall, he kicked with his right leg and hit my left one.

One day he said: ‘If you don’t give me the information, I’ll rape your sister-in-arms.’ He told me to take a huge hammer, put a condom on it, and suck it. I did what he told me to do to that girl, just so he wouldn’t touch her. I did it and cried. And he said: ‘Why are you crying? I’ll knock your teeth out right now.’

In Taganrog SIZO No. 2, the Russians built a large furnace, which they used to torture Ukrainian prisoners. They shove people in there to scare them.
‘One day, my sister-in-arms told me that they took her to a room with a furnace where a person could be shoved in whole and burned. The furnace was turned on and burning. First, this lieutenant hit her about 40 times, and then, together with a Kadyrovite, they started pushing her into the furnace. One grabbed one leg, the other grabbed the other. And they started shoving her into the furnace.

Then I remembered the inhuman scream I had heard. I asked: ‘How did they shove you in completely?’ She replied that she didn’t even remember that moment because her consciousness shut off. She only felt the fire touching her face…’”

On a flat plate — water and a tiny bit of porridge at the bottom — that was the food the Russians fed Inga and other PoWs. They were given two pieces of bread per day.

“We would break one piece of bread and share it: one for breakfast, the second for lunch. And half of the second was dinner. If there was still half left from the first piece, we would eat it around 10 p.m. and wash it down with water, just so we wouldn’t die of hunger.

My sister-in-arms and I shared with each other too. If I couldn’t hold back from hunger, she would give me her piece. And if she wanted it, I would give her mine. There was an iron table in the cell, and if there were crumbs left on it, we would all collect them. I never thought that in the 21st century a person would be collecting crumbs from the table like that, just to not die of hunger.”

The guards — Kadyrovites — constantly asked the same question: “Russia or Ukraine?” The girls refrained from answering, because saying “Ukraine” meant they would kill you immediately, and they couldn’t say “Russia.” They couldn’t betray Ukraine, says Inga.

#RussianWarCrimes

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

The Socialist Case for Rearmament - as UK military, spy and defence chiefs warn we're in a zone between peace and war, why the left has to turn up... link in next post...

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@exRAF_Al The last 25 years has been a failed experiment in treating Russia with respect by disarming ourselves and trying to do normal business with them.

All they have done is assassinate political opponents, steal land from neighbours and attempt to erase an entire nation.

Enough

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@NileGardiner Nile here thinks that the American public voted for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence.

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@IlvesToomas Never mind the fact that individual EU countries have a hell of a lot more independence than individual US states

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

Who elects the all powerful US Cabinet? No one. This is hardly democracy

[(TCAG) Командир Бред Кроуфорд (CDR Brad Crawford) @evo1tactical]

Call it whatever you want, but this is what a losing invasion looks like in real life.

I have spent years in Ukraine, on training grounds, near the front, and inside the system. If Russia were winning, this war would not look like this in year four.

They would not still be grinding forward meters at a time. They would not be burning through equipment from the Soviet stockpile, pulling out T-62s and T-55s, and fielding poorly trained replacements to fill gaps left by massive casualties.

Armies that are winning do not mobilize repeatedly, empty prisons, or trade tens of thousands of lives for small pieces of ground.

Your Iraq comparison is exactly right. If the United States had invaded Iraq, lost hundreds of thousands of troops, failed to secure the country after years of fighting, and only controlled a fraction of the terrain, no serious person would call that victory. They would call it a strategic failure. The same standard applies here.

Ukraine is still fighting. It's command structure still functions. Its society is still intact. It's military is adapting faster than Russia is. Russia is not advancing because it is strong. It is advancing because it is willing to spend lives at a rate no professional military would accept. That is not winning. That is attrition without an exit.

Anyone calling this a Russian victory has never planned operations, never trained soldiers for combat, and never watched what a real winning campaign looks like.

This war has exposed Russian weakness, not strength, and it has done so in front of the entire world.

Slava Ukraini. Heroiam Slava. 🇺🇦

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@martianwyrdlord A simple Russian mafia guide for you:

Ukraine does business. It must pay protection money to Russia

Estonia does business. It must pay protection money to Russia

Lithuania does business. It must pay protection money to Russia

etc.

[Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus]

I absolutely love the argument that this is somehow due to European warmongering. When the Cold War was over, Europeans couldn't wait to destroy their militaries and if it weren't for Russian aggression, the entire EU put together would probably make like 7 tanks a year

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@Vizlypuzly1 Fully agree.

A line should be drawn - such as giving them a week to halt strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities and civilian targets.

If this is violated action will be taken to eliminate Russian buildup on the frontline and degrade Russia's production capacities.

[NSTRIKE @NSTRIKE1231]

A recent poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) indicates that 62% of Ukrainian citizens remain willing to withstand the war for an indefinite period, as long as circumstances require.

Furthermore, 72% of respondents express support for a potential peace framework that would freeze combat operations along the existing front lines, ensure security guarantees for Ukraine, and exclude any formal acknowledgment of the occupied territories as Russian.

The survey also reveals a renewed rise in public confidence in President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose level of trust now stands at 61%.

See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE1231

[LIGHTNING @LIGHTNING5T]

🇺🇦‼️ "Additional logistical routes are currently being organized in the direction of Pokrovske and Myrnohrad to ensure the continuous supply of all necessary resources to our units and timely evacuation." — RBC-Ukraine.

See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE01

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@irgarner One thing we can say for certain: if and when Russia takes military action against a NATO country, Owen and the tankie left will explain to us all that it was provoked and we left Russia with little choice

[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

Last week, my undergrad course on Russian foreign policy covered Russia's practice of maintaining frozen conflicts as coercive instruments, including by strengthening their military presence in the contested regions. It's been a core element of Russian practice for over 30 years.

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@HJB_News__ And he's happy to send his soldiers into other people's countries to capture and torture their women

https://t.co/1gYm6UNMO6

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

One of 🇺🇦 PoWs, Inga Chekinda, about 🇷🇺 captivity.

“One day, a lieutenant entered the cell and said: ‘Remember me for the rest of your life. My call sign is “Death”.’ And I remembered him.

He put me against the wall and said: ‘Feet shoulder-width apart,’ and twisted my arms. He said: ‘What, are you a tough nut?’ and slapped me on both ears with his hands. My head spun. That’s when I realized I was in for hell.

He beat me with all his strength. He battered me for three days, and a huge hematoma appeared on my leg. Because when he put me against the wall, he kicked with his right leg and hit my left one.

One day he said: ‘If you don’t give me the information, I’ll rape your sister-in-arms.’ He told me to take a huge hammer, put a condom on it, and suck it. I did what he told me to do to that girl, just so he wouldn’t touch her. I did it and cried. And he said: ‘Why are you crying? I’ll knock your teeth out right now.’

In Taganrog SIZO No. 2, the Russians built a large furnace, which they used to torture Ukrainian prisoners. They shove people in there to scare them.
‘One day, my sister-in-arms told me that they took her to a room with a furnace where a person could be shoved in whole and burned. The furnace was turned on and burning. First, this lieutenant hit her about 40 times, and then, together with a Kadyrovite, they started pushing her into the furnace. One grabbed one leg, the other grabbed the other. And they started shoving her into the furnace.

Then I remembered the inhuman scream I had heard. I asked: ‘How did they shove you in completely?’ She replied that she didn’t even remember that moment because her consciousness shut off. She only felt the fire touching her face…’”

On a flat plate — water and a tiny bit of porridge at the bottom — that was the food the Russians fed Inga and other PoWs. They were given two pieces of bread per day.

“We would break one piece of bread and share it: one for breakfast, the second for lunch. And half of the second was dinner. If there was still half left from the first piece, we would eat it around 10 p.m. and wash it down with water, just so we wouldn’t die of hunger.

My sister-in-arms and I shared with each other too. If I couldn’t hold back from hunger, she would give me her piece. And if she wanted it, I would give her mine. There was an iron table in the cell, and if there were crumbs left on it, we would all collect them. I never thought that in the 21st century a person would be collecting crumbs from the table like that, just to not die of hunger.”

The guards — Kadyrovites — constantly asked the same question: “Russia or Ukraine?” The girls refrained from answering, because saying “Ukraine” meant they would kill you immediately, and they couldn’t say “Russia.” They couldn’t betray Ukraine, says Inga.

#RussianWarCrimes

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@fellaraktar https://t.co/qSZdosqXHs

[Mael Duin @mael_duin]

@btharris93 A lot of those saying it are Russian and Chinese bots, while the real people saying it have been brainwashed by said bots.

A distinct Kremlin strategy:
1. Sow hatred and distrust of your government
2. Ask people if they would die for their government