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[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

The West humiliated Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence.’

I’ve heard this in every language, from every podium. It is history rewritten backwards.

Recall what actually happened to defeated Russia: no occupation. No reparations. No tribunal. It kept its nuclear arsenal and its UN veto. Its debts were forgiven and refinanced. It was handed IMF billions and a seat at the G8 — a club of democracies admitting a wounded autocracy out of hope.

Now recall an actually humiliated nation: Germany, 1945. Occupied. Partitioned. Cities in ash, leaders hanged, guilt taught to its children by law.

Germany became the most peaceful democracy in Europe. Russia became this.

So spare me the humiliation theory. Russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute.

The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion.

Empires do not mourn their wounds. They mourn their slaves.

[Toni Mikkola 🏴‍☠️ @virtaava]

A country that beheads enemy soldiers has no place in the Olympics.

A country that rapes and tortures civilians and POWs has no place in the Olympics.

A country that bombs children’s hospitals, then strikes again when medics arrive, has no place in the Olympics.

A country that uses chemical weapons and banned munitions has no place in the Olympics.

A country whose troops drag POWs to death and shoot surrendering soldiers on camera has no place in the Olympics.

A country that is led by an individual wanted for child abductions and war crimes has no place in the Olympics.

A country that employs the Wagner Group, and is responsible for every massacre they commit, has no place in the Olympics.

Russia has no place in the Olympics.
Not under a flag. Not under “neutrality.” Not as individuals.

In 2022, 88% of Russia’s Olympic medals were won by soldiers. That’s not sport. That’s military propaganda.

If you see this, RT and like. Let the International Olympic Committee @iocmedia hear us.
Let the world hear us.
Let justice be louder than silence. #RussiaIsATerroristState

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We lost a vanity war in the Persian Gulf and created a huge new problem for our allies. And now we say that it is their fault and that they must solve the problem we created.

[Eerik N Kross 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @EerikNKross]

@Wikipedia is systematically changing the birthplaces of Baltic nationals born between 1945 and 1991 to “Soviet Union.”

I corrected my own birthplace to Estonia. Within two minutes, an editor changed it back to “Estonian SSR, Soviet Union”

Let me be clear: I was born in Estonia — temporarily occupied by the Soviet Union. That is what I was told by my parents and what I have known all my life.

If Wikipedia wishes to write “Soviet-occupied Estonia,” that would at least reflect historical reality. But reducing my birthplace to “Estonian SSR” erases the fact of occupation, Estonia's identity and the legal continuity of the Republic of Estonia.

I have spent much of my life working to restore and safeguard Estonia’s independence. Having non-Baltic editors insist on rewriting my birthplace as “Estonian SSR” feels like a symbolic continuation of that occupation.

People born in Nazi-occupied Denmark were still born in Denmark.
People born today in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine are still born in Ukraine.
Does Wikipedia list “Reichskommissariat Ostland, Generalbezirk Estland” as the birthplace of people born in Estonia between 1941 and 1944?

Estonian SSR was a construct created by the Russian occupiers never recognised by anyone and is used today as a meme of Russian imperialist hallucinations.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Nicely done, @slantchev.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

There's nothing more absurd than the US & Russia criticizing Europe on free speech. In 2025, European states dominated the World Press Freedom Index: 13 of the top spots and 21 out of the top 30 were European.

The US ranked just #57, between Belize and Gabon, and Russia at #162.

[Linas Kojala @LinasKojala]

Stephen Kotkin – the leading expert on Russia – demolishes the Kremlin-backed, yet still fashionable in the West, idea that NATO's enlargement “created” Putin’s Russia.

“The argument assumes that had NATO not expanded, Russia wouldn’t be exactly the same – or very likely close to what it is today. What we have today in Russia is not some deviation from a historical pattern.”

“Beginning with the reign of Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century, Russia managed to expand at an average rate of 50 sq miles per day for hundreds of years, eventually covering one-sixth of the Earth's landmass.”

“Way before NATO existed, in the 19th century, Russia looked like this. It had an autocrat, it had repression, it had militarism, it had suspicion of foreigners.”

“It’s not a response to actions of the West. There are internal processes in Russia that account for where we are today. NATO expansion has put us in a better place to deal with this historical pattern in Russia that we’re seeing again today.”

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

https://t.co/giPhuc8qM3

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[Kala Elizabeth @kalaelizabeth]

Gibson's Neuromancer, one of the Cyberpunk genres most iconic works, is getting an AppleTV adaptation. It's already done filming, so I'm expecting a 2026 release. Excited for this one!

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Now this is a speech.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever https://t.co/wyEYUkwIRQ

[Neil Abrams @neil_abrams]

A lot of scholars are seemingly hellbent on damaging their reputations with ruinous advice on Ukraine and Russia. The past week alone has seen three open letters from this sorry genre, all of which, if carried out, would put real people’s lives in danger. Let’s take a look.🧵

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is a brilliant explanation by Estonian PM Kaja Kallas on why it is senseless to “negotiate” with russia.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Molecular dating has revealed that a site in Ukraine was occupied by humans 1.4 million years ago, making it one of the oldest hominin sites in Europe. https://t.co/tm3i644bwL

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Yes, the fact that the US as we know it could cease to exist in fourteen months would seem to be the real story.
"The public doesn't understand the risks of a Trump victory" | Margaret Sullivan https://t.co/WtBbSlwhLq

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

I came to this conclusion sometime last year, and it was a little sad because I wanted so hard to believe in LLM mysticism and that there was something "there there."

[Bad Baltic @BadBalticTakes]

Watch this latest video from russian state TV.

It will be shown at russia’s tribunal. It will be studied in history classes by your children and grand children.

“You understand that this list [of territories to be conquered] is incomplete. Everyone understands that this list is incomplete.”

“It doesn’t matter what you call it …denazification or demilitarisation. Call it whatever you want. Everyone knows what it really means …the restoration of the russian empire.”

“There are some nations whose existence is pointless.”

This is just one clip of thousands of hours of footage in which the hatred and genocidal intentions of russia are on full display. It’s all documented for history.

He’s right when he says everyone already knows what is happening.

This is your regular reminder that future generations will not be in any doubt that you know right now that russia is a genocidal imperial aggressor. It’s very open about it.

Polling in russia shows russians overwhelmingly believe the goal of their war is territorial conquest, not any of the excuses peddled by its supporters abroad.

All of us around the world will have no plausible deniability that we didn’t know what was going on.

You can see these clips.

You can see the dictator literally standing over imperial era maps, comparing himself to other tsars, and discussing the erasure of a sovereign nation.

You can read endless, carefully documented testimonies from people who have escaped the horrors of russian occupation and its very clearly genocidal nature.

You know about all this. You scrolled past it. History will judge what you do now based on the fact that you know.

It’s the reason no one has ever expressed any confusion about russia’s talk of imperial conquest or its use of neo-nazis to achieve it. Not a single person has ever said: “wait, this doesn’t make sense if it’s just a special operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine”. No one has ever said that because, as russian TV makes clear, no one is in doubt about what all this is really about.

Russian soldiers who feign ignorance of being invaders when they are captured actually have no problem boasting of their atrocities in intercepted phone calls.

Academics who insist the war is in some way excusable are suddenly very articulate about why imperialism and genocide is wrong when russia is not doing it.

They know. They have just chosen to support genocidal imperialism in this case. Don’t let them gaslight you with excuses.

There’s one irony here though.

Russia’s war is based on denying the agency of Ukrainians and all nations in the way of russia’s expansionist aggression. However, the key to ending this is for us to respect the agency of those who deny ours.

Don’t think of them as brainwashed or too stupid to know what’s going on.

Respect their agency as supporters of imperial genocide. They are responsible for everything they are doing and must face the consequences of that.

One day, the chorus of propaganda offering excuses will fall silent, as it did during the Nuremberg tribunal. The horrors of russia’s genocidal crimes will be more fully documented.

As after Nuremberg, no one in future will give a shit about the excuses offered in our era to deny or delay the defeat of the genocidal aggressor and bring its leaders to justice.

Make sure you can look your children and grandchildren in the eye and tell them what you did now to help achieve that.

Send this clip to The Hague, along with all the others.

#SpecialTribunalNow

[Peter Zeihan @PeterZeihan]

Interesting idea. No idea what the economics look like. https://t.co/E3qeQwKDLN

[mrtnz @marsav]

Adam Curtis Talks to Jacobin About Russia, Oligarchs, and the Fall of the USSR https://t.co/L9nMgpM0PP

[The Guardian @guardian]

Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the conspiracy rabbit hole – and why millions of people have entered an alternative political reality https://t.co/THuCTcgM6x