Charles

The world belongs to all its creatures

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Jesus wept…

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

‼️The first brigade to fight against the Russian aggression started its training in Germany.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

In China she wouldn’t even make it to a small village council.
The ultimate NOTHING, the ultimate EMPTINESS.
No substance, no intelligence, full of contradictions and arrogance.

EU chose her to represent half a billion people.

Now you know why the WEST, the EU is in full decline.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨⚠️🚨Ukrainian forces deliberately struck sleeping children in the LPR: they targeted the academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk College.

At the time of the attack, 86 children between the ages of 14 and 18 were inside the building. At least 35 people were injured.

Rescuers continue to clear the rubble; two people have already been brought to the surface. More children remain trapped under the debris.

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "If drones come from Ukraine, that's not because Ukraine wanted to send a drone to Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia. That's because of Russia’s reckless, illegal, full-scale attack on Ukraine."

– NATO Sec. Gen. Rutte

What type of backward retarded analogy is this??

[ASHES of POMPEII @Pompeii_Ashes]

Finlandization

In the news today we read about the Finnish Foreign Minister's demand that China cut economic ties with Russia, or face a Finnish veto of EU-China trade talks. This is but the latest round of Finnish self suicide.

For years Finland enjoyed stable and properous relations with the USSR and later Russia. Outside Finland this realtionship was termed “Finlandization” and despite the obvious benefits for Finland was somehow considered humiliating.

This term, "Finlandization", entered Cold War lexicon as a pejorative, suggesting a small state's humiliating accommodation of a powerful neighbor. Yet this dismissal obscures a very different reality: the policy was a deliberate, successful strategy of survival. Emerging from the Second World War as a defeated co-belligerent with the Axis, Finland faced a powerful, victorious Soviet Union. Through the 1948 Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, Helsinki maintained formal sovereignty while acknowledging Moscow's security sensitivities. Defense spending remained deliberately modest, a pragmatic choice to avoid provocation, not an abdication of self-defense.

This calibrated neutrality yielded tangible economic benefits. Bilateral clearing-trade arrangements with the USSR provided stable, predictable markets for Finnish timber, machinery, and ships. Crucially, inexpensive Soviet energy underpinned rapid industrialization, helping fund the development of a comprehensive welfare state and world-class education system. By the 1980s, Finland had transformed from a war-ravaged agrarian society into one of Europe's most prosperous nations. The very policy mocked as subservience had, in Fpractice, delivered stability and affluence.

The Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 abruptly ended this arrangement. Bilateral trade evaporated, triggering a depression deeper than that of the 1930s. Finland adapted by pivoting toward Western institutions, joining the European Union, and cultivating a technology-driven export economy. Neutrality gave way to active European integration, though at the beginning, the memory of careful balance remained part of Finland's strategic culture.

But, as part of that European integration, Finnish elites gradually moved on from Finnish Cold War concepts (co-existence and collaboration), adapting European conceopts (confrontation, and zero sum). This became esepcially noteworthy after the 2014 events in Ukraine where Finland became one of the its most vocal supporters.

Thus, with the events in Donbass of February, 2022, calls for and public support for NATO membership rose sharply, from roughly 30% to over 75% within months, reflecting the media hysteria about the supposed imperial ambitions of Putin and Russia. This despite the fact that in Russia Finnish neutrality was considered "ideal". Moscow's response to Helsinki's NATO application, while sharply critical, emphasized diplomatic and military countermeasures.

This strategic reorientation has carried economic costs. Adherence to Western sanctions regimes has severed decades-old supply chains, increased energy prices, and contracted traditional export sectors. Trade volumes with Russia have fallen precipitously. Finland now has the lowest growth and the highest unemployment in the EU.

"Finlandization" was never about surrender; it was a pragmatic adaptation to asymmetric power that enabled a small democracy to flourish under somewhat difficult constraints. Its abandonment reflects a profound shift away from precisely that which generated Finnish prosperity, and an embracing of the worst of the western Cold war ideology of confrontation.

Just as the last Finnish governments have effectively severed ties with Russia for ideological reasons, it seems the current Finnish government thinks that it should do the same with China, the world’s largest economy. Perhaps the term “Finlandization” will come to have a new meaning: where a country sacrifice its own economy for the sake of ideology and to ingratiate itself with a hegemon in decline.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@MyLordBebo Who cares what you do.
Your economy is fucked, you did that shit to yourselves.
A nation of 5 million people is making threats and demands against a nation whose capital city has over 20 million people.
You need a frigging reality check, and try to look after your own people.

[Israel Genocide Tracker @trackingisrael]

An Israeli unit's "homecoming" party featured a display of their well-documented annihilation of southern Lebanon's villages, met with cheers and laughter from crowds of soldiers, their relatives, and family members.

It is a scene impossible to see anywhere but Israel.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

There is no doubt but @FranceskAlbs has been a powerful example for everyone in these mad times, in times when the European Political Class, to their great shame, have refused to stand up for International law + Human Rights, they have taken the side of Power + Money instead...

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@akephalos_SK @Cazad0r @angelshalagina Moscow looks fine, your probably smelling your own desperation.

[Rosemary @scotiaforever5]

@sahouraxo @HoraceShansab COWARDLY, EVIL ZIONISTS,

PERPETRATORS OF TORTURE,

ARE INDEED

A SICK, DEPRAVED

AND DESPISED SOCIETY!

AND THEY ARE!

THEY ARE ALSO

BLACKMAILERS RE TRUMP!

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Karim Haidar, Moussa Kafl, Ali Tajeddine, and Mohammad Abdel Majid

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@tugatripeira @Phokse_Guy So Putin offers citizenship and Ukraine offers death.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@Phokse_Guy @tugatripeira Then you agree that nothing will come of nonsense lawsuits.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@tugatripeira @Phokse_Guy These are Ukrainian deserters who are being punished by the Azov barrier troops used by Ukraine to stop Ukrainians who were kidnapped off the streets of Ukrainian cities from leaving the front lines, their normal fate is to be shot in the back and left for dead.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@Phokse_Guy @tugatripeira What great nation has been attacked?
You cannot mean Ukraine, a false nation born from the ashes of the Soviet Union, a nation created by Stalin, Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev, who took parts of Imperial Russia and attached them to Ukraine.
History cannot be rewritten or hidden.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@Phokse_Guy @tugatripeira I beg to differ if not one lawsuit has been brought against the USA and NATO for the decades of death and destruction they have caused to nations of the global south since the end of WW2, what chance could there ever be of Russia paying any attentions to lawsuits from the west.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@Phokse_Guy @tugatripeira Another time maybe.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@Phokse_Guy @tugatripeira My apologies my initial response was too harsh.

[Charles @Mafia5000]

@Phokse_Guy @tugatripeira Your lack of critical thinking and obvious avoidance of simple independent investigation of the reasons behind the war, and the advance of the Russian military across Ukraine since the intervention into the Ukrainian civil war in 2022 after the US backed coup de'tat in 2014.