Peter Pletsch

Web Geek, Outdoor Fanatic, Bluesky: @peterpletsch.bsky.social

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Die Bestien haben heute Nacht auch ein humanitäres Lagerhaus des Roten Kreuzes 🏥 in Kyjiw angegriffen und zerstört.

Russland ist ein wahrer Terrorstaat & wer sich nicht gegen Putin auflehnt, ist mitverantwortlich für die russischen Verbrechen.

Die Zeit der Ausreden ist vorbei.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: FINALLY! United Nations experts reveal that Epstein's offenses were so evil that they could rise to the level of "crimes against humanity" and call for a full investigation despite Trump dismissing it all as a "hoax."

This is an absolute nightmare for MAGA...

“Any suggestion that it is time to move on from the ‘Epstein files’ is unacceptable. It represents a failure of responsibility towards victims,” said a group of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council. Their statement comes in the wake of the release of millions of Epstein files by the Trump administration — although many of them remain improperly underacted or unreleased entirely.

“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,” the experts wrote.

Not only that, but the UNHRC panel is demanding an investigation into Epstein and his co-conspirators within the transnational elite. They believe that he was part of a "global criminal enterprise." Even a cursory glance at the files released so far supports that assessment.

Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been running a vast sex trafficking network, providing children to powerful figures to abuse in return for access, money, and power. It also seems highly likely that he filmed much of that abuse to use for blackmail. Whether or not that blackmail material included Trump remains to be seen, but we know that he and the pedophile billionaire were close friends and that Trump is accused of sexual abuse and rape in the files.

"All the allegations contained in the ‘Epstein Files’ are egregious in nature and require independent, thorough, and impartial investigation, as well as inquiries to determine how such crimes could have taken place for so long,” the experts stated.

"The reluctance to fully disclose information or broaden investigations, has left many survivors feeling retraumatized and subjected to what they describe as ‘institutional gaslighting’," they added.

We cannot move on from the Epstein story until full transparency is obtained. Simply put, this is the most important political story in modern history. It has exposed the rot at the very heart of our civilization and revealed the existence of a cabal of wealthy rapists pulling the strings behind major world events. We demand justice.

Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation!

[Mel Aura @mel__aura]

Hörenswert.

[Pete @splendid_pete]

And another great documentary by ARTE.

This two-part ARTE investigation is a brutal reality check for anyone still clinging to the fantasy that Russia is somehow “isolated” or “running out of steam.” What the films show, methodically and with receipts, is that Russia’s war against Ukraine is not being sustained despite sanctions, but through a deliberately constructed global system designed to bypass them. This is not improvisation. It is industrialized, coordinated, and openly contemptuous of Western enforcement.

The first part dismantles the myth of Russian military self-sufficiency. Yes, the Kremlin is still drawing heavily on vast Soviet-era stockpiles, tens of thousands of tanks, missiles, and artillery shells inherited from the USSR. But that is only the foundation. On top of it, Russia has layered a modern weapons program that depends almost entirely on foreign technology. Hypersonic missiles like Kinzhal are paraded as symbols of invincibility, yet their real story is failure, interception, and paranoia. When these “wonder weapons” underperform against Western air defense, Putin does not adapt policy, he purges people. Scientists and engineers are arrested, publicly humiliated, or die in custody, not because they betrayed secrets, but because the regime cannot tolerate reality contradicting propaganda. Fear is not a side effect of the system, it is the system.

At the same time, the documentary exposes how sanctions are systematically hollowed out. Investigators trace Western-made microelectronics inside Russian missiles and drones, parts manufactured in the EU, the US, and Japan. These components do not magically appear. They travel through shell companies, fake transit routes, and permissive jurisdictions, especially via Central Asia and Turkey. Thousands of front companies exist for one purpose only: to keep Russian weapons flying. Sanctions increase cost and friction, but they do not stop the flow, because enforcement is fragmented, slow, and politically timid. The result is grotesque: European technology embedded in weapons that are leveling Ukrainian cities.

The second part widens the scope and shows that Russia is no longer acting alone at all. Iran is not just supplying drones, it has effectively exported a full weapons industry into Russia. The documentary reveals a secret drone factory on Russian soil, built with Iranian expertise, producing hundreds of Shahed-type drones per day. Even more damning is how this factory is staffed. Young women from Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Mali are recruited under false pretenses, trafficked into a militarized industrial zone, forced to work in toxic conditions without protection, and kept silent through confiscated passports and constant surveillance. This is not just a war crime supply chain, it is human exploitation at scale, baked directly into Russia’s military production.

North Korea completes another piece of the puzzle. The film documents, using satellite imagery and weapons forensics, how Pyongyang has supplied Russia with millions of artillery shells, ballistic missiles like the KN-23, and eventually troops. Tens of thousands of North Korean soldiers are effectively being used as disposable manpower to spare Russian urban elites from mobilization. In exchange, Moscow transfers military know-how and strategic technology. This is not desperation, it is strategic outsourcing of death.

Then there is China, the quiet enabler holding the entire structure together. The documentary is careful and devastating here. China does not send soldiers. It does not openly ship weapons. Instead, it allows Russia to survive. Roughly 60 percent of components found in Russian weapons now transit through China or Hong Kong. Chinese companies, often newly created or repurposed, move massive volumes of dual-use goods that keep Russian factories running. Without this permissive Chinese role, the film makes clear, the Russian war machine would stall. Beijing does not need to fire a shot to reshape the battlefield. It simply keeps the taps open.

Overlay all of this with Western political drift and internal division, and the warning becomes impossible to ignore. The documentary shows how Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China are not united by ideology so much as by shared hostility toward democratic constraint. They cooperate because none of them are accountable to voters, courts, or parliaments. The goal goes far beyond Ukraine. It is about forcefully rewriting the international order, proving that borders can be changed by violence, that sanctions can be mocked, and that democratic hesitation is a strategic weakness to be exploited.

Taken together, these films do something most coverage still fails to do. They stop pretending this is a regional conflict or a temporary crisis. They show it for what it is: a coordinated authoritarian war economy facing a fragmented democratic response. The conclusion is uncomfortable but unavoidable. If Europe and its allies do not close loopholes, enforce their own rules, and act like this is a systemic threat, not a talking point, then this axis will keep pushing until something breaks.

[Peter Pletsch @peterpletsch]

@vonderleyen @gripfeli 💪🇪🇺

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Seen on a wall in LA

[DBerber 🇺🇦 @Berber_Doris_]

Das ist für mich die beste Analyse dessen, was genau jetzt in Amerika passiert. 🇺🇸 💥
Wer verstehen will, was gerade wirklich hinter den Kulissen in den USA vor sich geht, muss sich dieses Video ansehen. Es geht um weit mehr als nur Politik – es geht um einen fundamentalen Umbau der Gesellschaft.
Ein absolutes Muss für jeden, der die aktuellen Schlagzeilen endlich verstehen will! 👇
#USA #Washington #Politik #Zukunft #Wahrheit

[Peter Pletsch @peterpletsch]

Sowas ist unfassbar…

[Thomas Leurs 🇺🇦 @ThomasLeurs1]

In einem Massengrab in Butscha wurde der Körper eines sieben(!)-jährigen Mädchens exhumiert und Untersuchungen haben ergeben, dass Spermaspuren von sieben unterschiedlichen Personen - also russischen Soldaten - gefunden wurden. 🤬

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Right after 9/11, while people were burning, jumping, and dying in the streets of New York, Donald Trump went on the radio and talked about how his building was now the tallest in Lower Manhattan, as if mass death had improved his position in some private ranking system.

Today, decades later, he shows the same moral rot when he dismisses NATO allies, sneering that the US never needed them and belittling their sacrifices as if they stayed safely out of harm’s way. This is not bad phrasing or poor timing. It is a character flaw. A person who responds to death with bragging and to shared sacrifice with contempt is not merely insensitive. It is someone who lacks the basic human instinct to shut up, step back, and acknowledge that some moments are about other people’s lives, not his own ego.

Stay connected,
Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

If you can help, please help. If you can’t, share. Silence helps no one.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The most suppressed account on this platform is the candidate that is about to unseat Russian-backed kleptocrat Victor Orban.

Although polling 12 points above Putin's puppet party, on this platform Magyar needs your follows.

[Katrin Eigendorf @KEigendorf]

Grünen Chef Robert Habeck zu Trump Rede in #Davos #weg2020 #zdfheute

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

BREAKING!: Huge news: The Government has quietly published [link below] on its website, without any fanfare, the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on
'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY'
that it suppressed last October. It has presumably done this at this point (in the middle of an international crisis) to try to bury the story. <DON'T LET IT BE BURIED> ...this is a huge story. Just consider the report's title, for starters... the report warns of multiple likely ecosystem >collapses< that will have dire implications for our national security, and that require serious strategic adaptation at minimum. The report also sets out how these collapses if they are allowed to occur will significantly increase migration-pressure: "as development gains begin to reverse", a phrase that should make any human shudder in anguish. There is much more... But it doesn't end there: what they have published very much appears to be >only part of a larger piece of work<: there is no detail at all in what they have published on the geo-regional analyses; the connections from those regional analyses to the national security threats consequently facing Britain are not detailed; the "Key Judgements" of the report are not properly explained. It is fairly obvious what has happened here: in response to FOIs, they are trying to slip this report out, presumably because they feared it would otherwise get out anyway; but they have done so in a form that holds back much of the most disturbing content - the content that WE as citizens need to know if we are to know how to protect ourselves, what we are potentially going to have to adapt TO.
We must continue to press for the full report to be released...
But in the meantime there is much here to digest and reflect on, to put it mildly. Kudos to those who commissioned the report; do READ this version of it (it's only short!), and let's take it from there... Kudos too to those who pursued an (at least partly) successful battle to get the report released, via Freedom of Information requests...
>>Please share widely!
https://t.co/lMI3Nr5mPL

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Excellent from Alexander Stubb, President of Finland,

"What has Russia achieved in the past 4 years?"

"Taken 20% of Ukraine"

"1 million casualties and dead"

"Decreased it's sphere of influence"

"Russian economy, 30% inflation, 16% interest rates, 0% growth, no more reserves, incapacity to pay soldiers when the war ends"

"I'm more worried about Russia's unwillingness to end this war because they cannot afford to keep going"

"Than about Russia's capability to win this war"

"Let's keep things in perspective"

"This war has been a strategic failure of Putin"

"He increased the size of NATO"

"He made Ukraine European"

"He increased the defence budgets of European states"

"Are we able to defend ourselves? Yes we are"

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like.

Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/BExGV2YIDq

[Wolf Moderkopf @moderkopf16756]

Irgendjemand möchte nicht, dass dieses Video verbreitet wird. Es hat über Nacht 2000 ♥️ verloren, ~ 1000 Retweets und 150 Bookmarks. Ihr wisst, was zu tun ist. #SpahnRücktritt

[Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 @Lyla_lilas]

A message from Oleg Carbo, resident of Kyiv:

"Is it the hardest winter since February'22? It might as well be. It's cold and air-raids are frequent.
It's mostly dark when it's dark, and you grow accustomed to this perpetual darkness somehow, the sound of power generators constantly working everywhere at once and the expectation of the next attack.

Will it be tonight or tomorrow?

How worse can it still get?

How worse will the world allow it to get? When will it possibly be finally fed up with russia destroying our power grid and bragging about it on state media while simultaneously screaming "LOOK, UKRAINIANS ARE FASCISTS, THEY DON'T WANT PEACE!".

(Spoiler from Ukrainian: never, unfortunately.)

We carry on living, of course, and we carry on hoping, and none of us are surrendering any time soon, even though it big part the whole point of this attacks is to force Ukrainians to protest against our government, say "we're fed up with this war, we want peace at all costs" (ie capitulation and accepting the fate of being a russian colony like Belarus AT BEST).

This always reaches a completely different reaction and response from Ukrainians, reassuring them they're right to stay united, resilient, patient and carry on fighting (and supporting Ukrainian Armed Forces in any possible way), rejecting any surrender or concessions.

As a certain TV-series put it brilliantly - "This is the way".

To follow Oleg:
https://t.co/7R6CSvpjmr

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

As a Professor in the Study of Religion at the University of Oslo, I have the formal opportunity to nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. I have therefore just nominated the People of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the 2026 Nobel Peace Price for their valiant defence of peace in Europe against Russian aggression, which seems not limited to Ukraine. Through their immense sacrifice, the People of Ukraine and their President have kept the rest of Europe safe from Russian totalitarianism and imperialism. They are the true and most noble defenders of European liberty, democracy and peace.

The formal nomination text is as follows:

Through their defence of their own democracy against Russian aggression, the People of Ukraine since 2014 and President Zelenskyy 2019, have helped preserve peace for Europe.

As pointed out by various leading politicians, foreign policy experts, and intelligence reports from various states, the Russian territorial ambitions are not limited to Ukraine but extend to other areas previously under Russian control. The official justifications behind the Russian invasion – the alleged right to reclaim land that at one point has been Russian, the claim to allegedly protect Russophone population, and the refusal to accept the legitimacy of a democratically elected government – are just as applicable for Russia’s relations with numerous other countries.

The defence of the Ukrainian people against the unilateral Russian invasion of 2014 onwards and particularly after the full-scale invasion of 2022, and of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his entire term, seems, consequently, to have helped preserve peace for other European democracies in the most direct way reflecting the values promoted by the Nobel Peace Prize.

In agreement with numerous former Prizes, the achievement of the People of Ukraine and President Zelenskyy is also one of preserving and promoting democracy, as their struggle is one against the totalitarianism and various severe human rights abuses Russia systematically imposes on any territory they illegally occupy

The resistance of Ukraine represents, moreover, a decisive defence of the international rules-based order, as it is firmly rooted in the principles of the UN Charter, notably the right of a people to defend itself against aggression. President Zelenskyy and the People of Ukrainian have consistently called for a just and lasting peace based on sovereignty and human rights, and have shown remarkable restraint in the face of systematic attacks on civilians.

Author: Professor Dag Øistein Endsjø

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

A Russian schoolteacher secretly filmed his own workplace as it was turned into a war propaganda machine. That footage is now part of a documentary shortlisted for an Oscar.

Here’s the story behind ‘Mr Nobody in Russia’:👇

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[#MadeInGermany2035 🇪🇺🤝🇩🇪 @42tw1tter1sd3ad]

Diese 30 Sekunden wo #Lanz von Storch einsargt ⚰️ sind jetzt schon bei mir in den Top 5 der TV Momente des Jahres. Und wir haben Januar.