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[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

If your definition of anti-colonialism stops where Russian expansionism begins, you are not opposing imperialism. You are just hating the West.

Anti-colonialists should not give Moscow a free pass, but far too many do. Because Russia built its empire across land borders rather than oceans, millions of people ignore one of the most brutal colonial projects in world history.

Selective anti-colonialism is one of the greatest intellectual failures of modern political debate. Too many commentators remain blind to Russian imperialism, treating colonialism as if it were strictly a Western enterprise carried out against the Global South.

Why does this double standard exist?

First, it is a hangover from the Cold War, when Western leftists idealized the USSR as an anti-capitalist counterweight, ignoring its imperial subjugation of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Second, modern "campism" leads people to believe that the enemy of the West must be a friend of liberation. This reflexive anti-Americanism causes observers to deliberately ignore Russian and Chinese aggression. Finally, Moscow actively fuels this blindness by funding populist movements on both the far left and far right, buying political silence and echoing anti-Western rhetoric.

The historical facts of Russian colonialism are undeniable. Moscow built its empire through land conquest, robbing neighboring republics of their resources, deporting indigenous populations, and murdering millions through manufactured starvations like the Holodomor (and in other ways too). Non-Russian cultures were systematically suppressed through forced Russification and political purges.

That same colonial impulse drives Russia today. In Ukraine, Moscow is attempting a classic war of colonial re-conquest, stealing land and attempting to erase local identity. In Africa, Russia uses mercenaries and political interference to extract mineral wealth and prop up autocratic regimes, wrapping its neo-colonial resource grab in anti-Western slogans.

If your anti-imperialism ignores Russian colonialism, it is not anti-imperialism at all. It is merely partisan bias.

True anti-colonialism opposes imperial conquest everywhere, not just when the aggressor speaks English

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

🚚 Just €3,950 left to complete the truck goal for the 2nd Mechanized Battalion “Rosomakhy” of the 67th Brigade - one of several units supported by our biggest campaign yet.

https://t.co/yMjZ6ZKPa1

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

A russian SCHOOL textbook on combat drones. Grades 8-9, 144 pages, ending with strike mission programming. They're teaching 14-year-olds to fly kill missions.

Please don't get blinded by peacemongering. There will be no peace with russia - only preparation for total war.

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Russia is holding global food security hostage.

At least three civilian cargo ships have been bombed in the past few days by Russia. Few dozen crew members have been killed and injured.

Today, zero vessels passed through Ukraine’s Black Sea maritime corridor—right at peak harvest. This is deliberate economic and humanitarian terror.

Just as Iran targeted energy routes in the Strait of Hormuz, Russia is now targeting global food markets in the Black Sea.

Millions of families across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America may face rising prices and hunger if this terror continues.

Ukraine has requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting for July 27th. We urge all states, particularly those affected, to immediately demand Russia stop its attacks on freedom of navigation in the Black Sea.

No country has the right to starve the world. Global pressure can stop Russian terror.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Kherson is still a hunting ground for russian terrorists.

They record their own war crimes, upload them online, and call innocent civilians "military targets" to justify the unjustifiable.

This is a human safari. This is terrorism.

And the world cannot keep looking away.

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

Kherson region:🆘

Kherson: multiple FPV drone attacks on gas stations today.
Several vehicles hit by Russian today, 1 killed, many injured.
A threat of guided aerial bombs in the next few hours.

Occupied Oleshky: an ambulance blew up n a mine while trying to evacuate civilians

[Center for Countering Disinformation @CforCD]

In temporarily occupied territories of🇺🇦,🇷🇺authorities are expanding large-scale confiscation of residents’ homes under guise of pseudolaws on “ownerless property”

In occupied part of Kherson region occupation authorities are preparing to “nationalize” 1172 residential buildings

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Back in 2002, Putin said he had no problem with Ukraine joining NATO—because, in his own words, Ukraine is a sovereign nation.

[Center for Countering Disinformation @CforCD]

🇺🇦Security Service confirmed 🇷🇺 use of depleted uranium in missiles on Chernihiv region.

New evidence shows 🇷🇺 forces employed radioactive elements in P-60M rockets fitted to Geran-2 drones.

Radiation levels from fragments exceeded safe limits by up to 80 times.

[панік ш @paniksz]

В Аврору завезли польский лімацид, тож

хвилиночку уваги, якщо ви плануєте труїти слимаків або маєте псів або ваші коти на самовигулі бувають у сусідів

АНТИДОТУ ДО МЕТАЛЬДЕГІДУ НЕ ІСНУЄ

Не беріть це, а якщо взяли, здайте у небезпечні відходи

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russian strike destroyed UNICEF children's humanitarian aid depot in Ukraine

​"Over 106,000 items of humanitarian supplies worth nearly $3.9 million were destroyed, including generators, drinking water, hygiene kits, and other critical supplies." - Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Kherson. Here, simply walking down the street can get you killed by russian terrorists.

💔 She was just an innocent civilian.

We don’t hate russia enough.

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

Russia’s occupation authorities in Kherson Oblast are preparing to “nationalize” 1172 Ukrainian homes, according to Ukraine’s Ombudsman.

The properties belong to owners who refused to or could not re-register them under Russian law. This is another large-scale illegal seizure of civilian property in occupied Ukraine and constitutes a war crime.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

"My only ‘crime’ was that I am Crimean Tatar. I am Ukrainian, born in Crimea. And I refuse to take a Russian passport."

Leniie Umerova spent nearly two years in a Russian prison before turning 26.

[пан шаміль @vsheredeha]

друзі, як завжди дуже прошу, допоможіть знову зібрати на чергову місячну партію корму для собачок з притулку.

киньте по скільки кому не жалко гривень.

зробіть, будь ласка, поширення збору.

банка:

https://t.co/2rh4XI5rcp

PayPal:

[email protected]

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

If you feel like doing a small good deed this evening, here is a perfect opportunity. Our veteran friends run an animal shelter near Kyiv, and of course they are constantly in great need of support.

@vsheredeha says donations have been very difficult lately, but they still hope to keep the shelter running at least until the end of this year.

So I invite you to help them. I firmly believe that animals are morally pure and innocent, and that they too deserve life, help, compassion, and mercy.

Here is how you can support the shelter. This is 100% legit, and I personally vouch for it:

https://t.co/qWameWGcqy (this should work with most cards worldwide).

PayPal: [email protected]

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Yet another flood of videos from Russians weeping over the "shock" and "unfairness" of strikes on a Wildberries warehouse.

​It doesn't cross their minds how unfair it felt when we were just living our lives, bothering no one, in our own country and our own homes, right up until their missiles started tearing our cities apart on a chilly winter morning.

​You want to talk about unfair? People lived in Donbas, built businesses and raised families, until russian nazis arrived with Girkin and his thugs, declaring those people couldn't live there anymore. People evacuated, leaving their homes to Girkin's mob for pennies or nothing at all. They moved to Kharkiv, kept paying mortgages on Donetsk apartments that russians stole or destroyed, because credit history mattered, and rebuilt from scratch. They bought new homes, started new businesses. But bloodthirsty russian bastards found them here too, ruining their lives a second time. Bombing them for years, killing, burning. That is what’s unfair.

​When peaceful families have to hide from Russian bombs inside a theater, that feels unfair. When, hoping for a shred of humanity in their attackers, they paint "CHILDREN" in massive letters outside, and russians bomb it anyway, slaughtering everyone inside, isn't that unfair? When survivors crawl out of the rubble, stepping over neighbors' bodies and the ashes of their homes, only to be dragged into filtration camps, stripped naked, robbed of every even remotely valuable thing, and also basic human dignity just for the "privilege" of fleeing the ruins of their own city, is that not unfair?

​It is overwhelmingly, fucking unfair when a young woman can't hear a drone over her own exhaustion from never ending russian attacks. Now she lies trapped in her bed, pinned by a collapsed ceiling. She’s alive, but can not move because of the rubble. She smells smoke from the spreading fire, hears her neighbors screaming as they burn alive, and all she can think is that dying under the ceiling would have been a mercy compared to burning alive.

​It’s unfair when an elderly woman and her goats are murdered by a first person view drone for the sick entertainment of a some russian operator. It's unfair when a 2-year-old child is hunted and butchered on his grandparents' porch for the crime of being a Ukrainian child in Ukraine, and only for that.

​And a stupid Wildberries warehouse? That’s not unfair. It isn't even close.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

At just 18 years old, Danylo was detained by russian authorities and sentenced to 12 years in a russian colony for donating 5,200 hryvnia, just over $100, to support Ukraine.

Now Danylo is 21 and has endured 3 years of torture in these conditions. russia tortures children.

[Anna Mierzyńska @Anna_Mierzynska]

1. Trwa RU operacja dezinfo, wymierzona w relacje PL-UKR
2. Stoi za nią FSB, a nadzoruje ją sam szef FSB
3.Szerzą drastyczne fejki
4.UKRAIŃCY W PL:
- NIE więzili Polki w Małopolsce
- NIE podpalili bloku w Ząbkach
- NIE dźgali Polaka w Łemk. Watrze
- NIE zabili Polaka w Warszawie

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

OTD in 2023 Russia fought the “satanic West that has turned away from traditional religious values” by bombing a UNESCO cathedral in Odessa.

You have been desensitised into indifference.