Leo

företagare, socialliberal och därför något vilsen i dagens politiska landskap. Gillar filosofi, vetenskap, resor,god mat och dryck.

[Leo @nilsfar]

@ExtrimTraiding @ntonaltntak @Ursusuk @antdo5 Nuclear weapons in europe. Occupied Köningsberg(Kaliningrad) also has weapons.

If you look at the placements on the map, if Nato had russian thinking all countries along russian border should have nuclear missiles deployed.

None of them have.

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is one of the clearest examples of good versus evil in modern history.

Russia bombs families in their homes, killing mothers, fathers and babies.

Ukraine strikes the oil refineries that keep Russia’s war machine running.

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

This isn't the end of WWII. Europe isn't in ruins, russia is not a power that has any say in anything and the USA is not taken seriously bc Trump is an unreliable moron.
The idea of Trump and Putin sitting down to decide Europe’s fate is so far from reality that I half expect dragons to appear next.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Radoslaw Sikorski - FM of Poland:

"The root cause of this war is Russian imperialism — the belief that Vladimir Putin has the right to decide who can and cannot be a nation.

We will resist you every inch of the way.
This is the last colonial war in Europe."

.........

I simly like him...😉

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇺🇸 BEING AN ASSHOLE DIDN'T HELP...

One of the most satisfying surprises of the American elections was the defeat of Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate, billionaire, Trump ally, and one of the most repulsive figures in the MAGA movement.

He lost Ohio's gubernatorial election to 60-year-old Amy Acton, a physician and former director of the state's Department of Health. And this happened in Ohio, where Trump had won three consecutive presidential elections and where Democrats had not won a gubernatorial election since 2006. Acton became the first woman elected governor of the state, despite more than $100 million spent by her opponents on the campaign.

Ramaswamy is well known to Ukrainians. He promised to completely end American military assistance to Ukraine, hand over a significant part of Donbas to Russia, permanently close Ukraine's path to NATO, and lift sanctions against the Kremlin. All of this in exchange for Putin's promise to abandon military cooperation with China.

He insisted that Ukraine was not a democracy, spread accusations of Nazism, and claimed that American support for Ukraine was only pushing Russia into China's arms. Ramaswamy hoped to negotiate a new world order with Putin, effectively offering Ukrainian territory as payment for the deal.

But Ramaswamy's moral character was revealed most clearly during his own election campaign.

Amy Acton survived sexual abuse by her stepfather during childhood. Her mother stayed with the man, while Amy herself experienced homelessness as a child.

And then Ramaswamy tracked down his opponent's mother, with whom Acton had reportedly had no contact for nearly half a century, and filmed a campaign advertisement in which the mother called her daughter a liar and urged voters not to support her.

The advertisement provoked outrage even among Republicans, but Ramaswamy continued defending it. Trump and Vance also sided with him.

In the end, Amy Acton won, and Ramaswamy conceded defeat.

A woman who survived childhood abuse, poverty, and homelessness defeated a billionaire who tried to weaponize one of the most painful chapters of her life against her.

And now, for the first time in twenty years, Ohio will have a Democratic governor.

https://t.co/zkWcx5Grt1

[Leo @nilsfar]

@CaolanReports Freedom house ranks freedom in the world from 0 to 100. The Russian occupied part of Ukraine is the least free region on earth.
Index Score is -1

[Leo @nilsfar]

@BTranGilo @Microinteracti1 And they have become a democracy.

[🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 MR BLUE 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 @djmth1010]

Simply retweet if you agree 👍

[Leo @nilsfar]

@CryptoWatch_er @nafoviking @grok Leningrad Cowboy

[Leo @nilsfar]

@donkoclock You should know by now that Trump has his own concept of numbers and percent.

[Leo @nilsfar]

@IuliiaMendel No, Putin has provoked anger, hatred, and irritation toward the Russian nation all over the world.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Putin, Trump and MAGA love repeating the story that NATO betrayed Russia by expanding eastwards, supposedly breaking a promise never to admit countries once trapped under Soviet communist rule.

There is one rather inconvenient detail they always leave out: those countries desperately wanted to join.

And with good reason.

They remember Soviet occupation, political executions, mass deportations to Siberia, forced collectivisation, prison camps, secret police, censorship and generations of lives destroyed by Moscow’s glorious socialist paradise. Families disappeared. Countries lost their independence. Ordinary people could be imprisoned for expressing the wrong opinion.

When communism collapsed, these nations did not need NATO to persuade them to escape Russian influence. They practically ran towards the door.

Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia and the others understood something the MAGA intellectual establishment apparently struggles with: living next to Russia is considerably more pleasant when Russia cannot decide how you live.

And that brings us to Serbia.

Aleksandar Vučić, a leader who spent years cultivating Moscow while balancing Serbia’s European ambitions, has just been defeated by a student-led democratic movement. The celebrations in Belgrade tell their own story.

Serbia has its own complicated history, and nobody should pretend this election settles every question about NATO or EU membership. But it exposes the central absurdity of Moscow’s worldview.

When a European leader continually argues against Western integration while protecting Russia’s influence, the obvious question is whose interests he actually serves.

There is no need to invent secret payments to recognise a politician doing Moscow’s work.

NATO did not expand eastwards because Washington forced unwilling nations into an alliance. It expanded because countries with experience of Russian domination wanted protection from ever experiencing it again.

Putin, Orban, JD Vance, Hegseth and Trump calls that Western aggression.

Russia, meanwhile, has spent centuries discovering that keeping its neighbours within its sphere of influence generally requires threats, repression or an army.

That tells you almost everything about which civilisation has something worth offering.

[Baltic Takes @Baltic_Takes]

“Dear Italian students, who today take to the streets carrying flags with the hammer and sickle and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘CCCP’,” began an open letter in Italian by Lithuanian expat Neringa Budryt.

“I would like to ask you a question: do you truly know what the symbols you carry represent? And do you know what would have happened to many of you had you openly demonstrated in countries living under the oppression of communist regimes?

Let me tell you something. It is easy to display a red flag when, for you, communism is merely an abstract idea of equality, social justice, and rebellion against the system. It is easy to wear a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it when you have never experienced the reality of a communist regime.

We come from that part of Europe where communism was not a T-shirt, a symbol of rebellion, or a romanticized notion of equality. It was the system in which we lived—a system we never chose.

We know the history of Soviet repression, Stalinist purges, the Gulags, and mass deportations. Above all, we know the word "Siberia"—a place to which thousands of innocent people were forcibly deported, simply for thinking differently.

In Siberia—amidst freezing cold, starvation, and forced labor—many lost their lives; those who survived carried the scars of that experience forever. Entire families were torn apart, and generations were denied the chance to live freely in their own homeland.

In the countries of the Soviet bloc, censorship, political police, surveillance, and the suppression of dissent drastically curtailed individual freedoms.

We grew up in a system where state control permeated even our daily lives. At school, we were required to wear the red necktie of the "Pioneers." We were monitored; they tracked where we went and even whether we attended church. Even faith—a choice that should belong to an individual’s own conscience—could become a cause for suspicion.

We used to celebrate Christmas with our windows blacked out, to ensure no one would see us and report us. Because it was forbidden—just like so many other things: jeans, rock music, and all the symbols of a Western lifestyle. My mother returned from a Soviet labor camp. And do you know what happened to her? She was barred from continuing her education because she had been labeled an enemy of communism.

Under a communist regime, you could not protest. You risked arrest, imprisonment, interrogation, persecution—and, in certain historical contexts, even death. In the Soviet Union and other communist regimes, political dissent could cost you your freedom and your life.

Demonstrations independent of the authorities were not a guaranteed right; they were often suppressed by force.
That is why it strikes me to see young Italians proudly displaying the hammer and sickle—symbols associated with regimes that persecuted and imprisoned millions of people.

Today, you are free to take to the streets, shout against the government, criticize institutions, and wave your flags precisely because you live in a democracy that grants you these freedoms. Under an authoritarian regime of that kind, protesting against those in power could have landed you in prison.

This is not about denying the existence of social injustices, inequalities, or the right to fight for a better world. You are free to take to the streets to demand a more just society—but you should not idealize a system that denied so many people the very things you are free to exercise today: the right to choose, to believe, to speak, and to dissent. Before wearing a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it, listen to those who experienced that world. Talk to the deportees and their descendants; read the accounts of those who endured the gulags and forced exile to Siberia. Learn what it meant to be stripped of your freedom, your home, your loved ones—and even any prospect of a normal life—simply because of your background or your beliefs.

Before waving the hammer and sickle, please, study history thoroughly.”

[Leo @nilsfar]

@RonFilipkowski He has a point. Putin is a humanitarian if it is interpreted in the same way as a vegetarian is someone who eats vegetables.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

My article from August 2026... Published in "Daily Maverick"... https://t.co/TsTMtAayZ4

[Leo @nilsfar]

Russia is a terrorist state

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Baby Anhelina and her mom Inna were killed by Russia yesterday.

Anhelina was just over a year old. Her mom, Inna Mariukhna, was a primary school teacher. They were in the park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region, when a Russian drone attacked.

Little Anhelina was killed in her stroller. Her mom died of her injuries in hospital.

Another girl killed in the strike was just 11 years old.

Six people lost their lives from that Russian strike. All of them had simply been spending time in the park. At least 15 more were injured, including seven kids.

Deepest condolences...

[Leo @nilsfar]

@army1325air From the outside it looks like the biggest threat is the current administration dismantling your democracy and the rule of law.
Looking at their actions they would fit G and H but there is so much more to it

[Leo @nilsfar]

@everydayodd 4691^11

[Leo @nilsfar]

@AmericaRecharge Coming from a man bought by Europes most unfree and corrupt country russia.

[Leo @nilsfar]

@BillKristol Is he deliberately lying or is he to stupid to take in relevant information?