Johan H

Engineer. Proud EU citizen. Following Twitter in English, Swedish, Finnish and more. 🇫🇮 🇪🇺 #NAFO Fella
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[Johan H @ostrobothnian]

Soon!

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

Soon...

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

In the early hours of this morning, I directed our Armed Forces to intercept a shadow fleet oil tanker attempting to pass through the English Channel.

This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin's war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide.

I want to thank those involved, including our Armed Forces and law enforcement officers who keep this country safe 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

[Mariia Kramarenko @KramarenkoMari3]

The United Nations officially added russian armed and security forces to its annual blacklist of parties credibly suspected of committing conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine. The UN's designation follows the verification of hundreds of severe abuses primarily targeting Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees.

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine verified 310 cases of conflict-related sexual violence. Documented atrocities include rape, gang rape, genital mutilation, forced nudity, and electric shocks.

While overwhelmingly targeted at men, the victims documented by the UN also include 26 women and four girls.

The majority of the verified instances of sexual violence occurred inside russia or russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, predominantly used as a weapon to humiliate, punish, or extract confessions from prisoners.

russian culture

[Pete @splendid_pete]

This video was published in January 2020.

And that timing matters, because it shows Russian “Ukrainian biolab” propaganda did not magically appear after the 2022 invasion. Moscow had been dragging this corpse of a conspiracy around for years, especially against Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other post-Soviet countries that dared to cooperate with the West.

The video explains the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program as exactly what the name says: a threat-reduction program. Its purpose was to help partner countries secure dangerous Soviet-era pathogens, improve disease detection, strengthen public-health laboratories, and stop natural outbreaks from becoming regional security disasters. In Ukraine, the official priority was to consolidate and secure pathogens and help detect and report disease outbreaks before they became wider threats. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency also states that the work was peaceful, subject to export-control and vetting processes, and did not sponsor gain-of-function research or human experimentation.

The video also makes clear why Russia hated these labs: not because they were secret weapons sites, but because they represented Western cooperation with countries Moscow still treats like stolen property. Georgia’s Lugar Center is the perfect example. Russia smeared it as a U.S. proxy bioweapons facility, while Georgia opened it to international review. In 2018, 22 experts and observers from 17 countries inspected the Lugar Center under the Biological Weapons Convention framework and found transparency around its activities. Russian experts were invited, then refused to participate, because obviously the propaganda works better when you never look at the evidence.

So the Russian narrative is not “skepticism.” It is geopolitical sewage with a lab coat thrown over it. The same machine that calls invasions “liberation” and civilian massacres “staged” also tried to turn public-health laboratories into cartoon villain bioweapon factories. The goal was not truth. The goal was fear, confusion, and poisoning public trust in countries moving closer to the West.

The whole point of the video is transparency: these projects were not classified, scientists were encouraged to publish, international experts were invited in, and the work was described as peaceful public-health cooperation. Russia’s claim was the opposite: secret U.S. bioweapons plots on Russia’s borders. One side offered inspections, publications, and open cooperation. The other side offered paranoia, state media hysteria, and the usual Kremlin swamp gas.

This is basically pre-2022 evidence that the “Ukrainian biolab” panic was never a serious argument. It was an old Russian disinformation weapon, reheated when useful, then thrown into the invasion narrative to make Russia look like the victim while it was the aggressor.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The world crossed a terrifying threshold yesterday when Elon Musk officially became the first trillionaire in human history.

This insane milestone is a symptom of a broken system, proving that the West must radically reform how it tackles wealth inequality before democracy is completely erased.

No human being should ever possess this level of power, particularly an unelected one. Musk has weaponized his massive fortune to dominate strategic state contracts, buy political influence, and control social media discourse. While his personal instabilities and toxic rhetoric make him uniquely hazardous, the core problem is structural. No single individual, no matter how wise or well-intentioned, should ever have the financial leverage to override the collective will of the public.

The ethical failure of this concentrated wealth is staggering. Musk possesses the resources to eliminate massive global issues overnight with a minuscule portion of his fortune, yet he actively chooses to do nothing. Worse, his interference in politics and dismantling of USAID have stripped resources from the world's poorest, contributing to hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.

Musk is securing his place in the history books, but it will be as a warning sign rather than an inspiration. A true democracy cannot coexist with a trillionaire class. If Western societies do not implement strict regulations to cap this absurd concentration of power, we are abandoning the concept of a democratic and fair society altogether.

He is the definition of a Bond villain

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

This is a disgrace.
To congratulate a country and a people who have murdered hundreds of thousands of people and still continue to relentlessly amounts to whitewash their crimes against humanity.
Period.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Never forget that Trump betrayed the US by appointing a Russian agent as Director of National Intelligence. He knew what he was doing

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

JD Vance

Harshly attacks US allies like the European Union and Ukraine

Soft and appeasing to Putin and the Islamic Republic of Iran

He is BAD NEWS

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulates terrorist Russia, which is waging an imperialist war against Ukraine and carrying out terrorist attacks every day to kill civilians. The current US has sunk to the bottom

[Johan H @ostrobothnian]

@CaptMarkKelly My favorites are Interstellar and from the Alien franchise Alien and Prometheus.

[Johan H @ostrobothnian]

@Mylovanov Europe can delegate this responsibility to Ukraine. Ukraine doesn't need fake negotiations. We are not "neutral". Instead, Europe should pressure and sanction Russia until there are results.

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation.
Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. https://t.co/D8qdE38ahv

[Johan H @ostrobothnian]

At this rate, they will soon be begging for hay for their horse-drawn carriages.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

In yet another act of ritual humiliation in these dying days of the Moscovite Empire, the Kremlin's Press Secretary Zakharova appeals to "friendly nations" for help amid Russia's worsening fuel crisis.

[Johan H @ostrobothnian]

@JayinKyiv At this rate, they will soon be begging for hay for their horse-drawn carriages.

[Sari Arho Havrén @SariArhoHavren]

Fiona Hill, the former aide to Trump during his first term, participated in the #Kultaranta Talks, organised by the President of Finland, and gave an interesting interview to the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. Some excerpts:

▪️Greenland could suffer the same fate as Crimea.
▪️Hill says she sees the United States acting more like Russia, the White House more like the Kremlin, and Trump behaving more like Putin. ▪️Hill says that Trump's desire to take over Greenland is psychological. “He wants to own things. This is about him."
▪️”If we look at history, this is exactly how the Soviet Union acted towards its own Warsaw Pact allies: it occupied Hungary, it occupied Czechoslovakia, and it pressured Poland in a way that led to the declaration of martial law in Poland," Hill says.
▪️”Trump is now essentially treating his NATO allies the same way the Soviet leaders treated the Warsaw Pact members: as vassal states and states that have no decision-making power of their own."
▪️On the stage of the Kultaranta discussions, Hill was asked whether Europe can trust the United States.
Hill answered bluntly no. And she reminded that the next administration cannot necessarily be trusted either.

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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years."

(AfD members laughing)

Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

"Unfortunately, we cannot drone strike Andrew Tate," Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces tells the internet, to widespread disappointment.

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

The distance to one of the targets struck today is more than 900 kilometers, which has already become a routine operational range for Ukraine’s long-range weapons.

In the past, an operation like this was truly an Operation. Now it is routine.

The FP-5 is, in essence, a large jet aircraft without a pilot — which, broadly speaking, is what cruise missiles are, even though they are called missiles largely because that is how the terminology developed historically.

And so this jet aircraft — or several of them — flies deep into Russia almost like a scheduled airliner and strikes its target with impunity.

Obviously, when air defense systems are in short supply — and Russia does not have enough of them — you will protect individual sites in isolated clusters. But what prevents you from detecting an aircraft that has entered your airspace and sending something to intercept it?

If nothing prevents you — Russia does not really listen to anyone and barely observes international conventions anyway — then the explanation must lie in powerlessness and incompetence.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain how this enormous, steam-engine-simple brute travels almost 1,000 kilometers and calmly strikes a target of strategic importance.

And if the problem really is powerlessness and incompetence, then a natural question arises: why does Russia continue this war, which it started itself but which is proving utterly disastrous for it?

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

First good look at a Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo heavyweight cruise missile on a combat mission, seen here having already penetrated almost 1000 km into Russian airspace.

At least two of the 40-foot-long missiles hit Russia's VNIIR Progress electronics plant this morning.

[Johan H @ostrobothnian]

@JohannaNyman5 https://t.co/1VRc3q3r6U

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

There’s nothing left in Bulgaria’s stockpiles to send to Ukraine - that was emptied out in 2022-2023. The arms sales will continue.

They are saying one thing for domestic consumption - to keep the blood pressure of the pensioners that voted for them within norms and appease their base. But they are doing something else entirely. If not directly to Ukraine, all arms and ammo production will go to Germany and then —> Ukraine.

The government in a shitshow. They promised to “fix” inflation, that’s all you need to know. 🤡

Disregard.
Arms exports will continue.