Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre
On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.
Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.
The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.
In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.
Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.
To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.
Horrific moment of a direct russian drone strike on an apartment building in Dnipro last night‼️
At least 12 people were killed, including 2 children.
People keep asking what the Soviet occupation actually cost the Baltic states. You don't have to imagine it. There's a control group, and it's sitting right across the gulf.
In 1938 — the last full year before the war — Estonia and Finland had essentially the same GDP per capita. Two small nations, same sea, neighboring languages, the same starting line. By some rankings Estonia was even slightly ahead. Heritage FoundationX
Then history split in two.
Finland fought the Winter War and kept its independence. Estonia was occupied, annexed, and folded into a planned economy. Same decade, opposite roads.
Fifty years later:
🇫🇮 Finland — ~$24,000 per person (1992)
🇪🇪 Estonia — ~$2,800
An eightfold gap — from an identical starting point. Not because Finns worked harder. Not because Estonians were less capable. One country was free to build. The other was told what to build, for whom, and at what loss.
The wages say it even more cleanly: in 1938 Estonian purchasing power was just 4% below Finland's; by 1988 it was 42% below. That cliff is the occupation, drawn in numbers.
And here's the part that ends the argument. Set free for a single generation, Estonia has already clawed back to roughly four-fifths of Finnish income. A gap that took 50 years to open is closing in 30. That's the proof it was never about us — it was the system imposed on us.
There's a cost that never shows up in GDP, either. No occupation means no cattle cars to Siberia. No murdered and exiled intelligentsia. No decades of settlers moved in to outnumber the natives — which means the very "Russian-speaking minority" Moscow is now parading before the ICJ wouldn't exist at anything like that scale. The grievance Russia is litigating is one it manufactured itself.
So no — we don't wonder what we lost. We can see it from the ferry.
And free at last, it's what we're finally becoming again. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹
@Microinteracti1 I lived in Norway 10+ years, All Norway people near to Sweden bought their food from Sweden, included me, coz it was cheaper and better choice
Вот такую рекламу «СВО» можно увидеть в путинской РФ – с одной стороны рекламного билборда размещён кремлёвский слоган «Герои новой эры», а с другой – масштабная реклама похоронного бюро😁🤭
Похоронное бюро гарантирует качество – кадавр уже не вернётся и не потребует себе белые «жигули», полученные за его никчёмно потраченную жизнь.
Massive russische Terrorangriffe auf Kyjiw, Dnipro und andere ukrainische Städte haben in der Nacht mindestens 10 Tote und 96 Verletzte gefordert.
Unfähig, seine militärischen Ziele am Boden zu erreichen, bombardiert Russland Zivilisten, um das ukrainische Volk in die Knie zu zwingen.
The scene where Russians murdered a woman in front of her two children this morning in Kyiv, as they ran to the shelter.
The mother died on the spot, children are hospitalized. Two others died here, a woman born in 1949 and a man born in 1977.
Meanwhile, the US continues withholding air defense ammo.
Я не дам вам забути це фото.
2 червня 2014. Луганськ. Кацап штурмує український прикордонний загін на кварталі Мирний , переходячи між будинками прикриваючись дітьми.
Як воює кацап було зрозуміло вже тоді. Хіба хтось в світі це усвідомив?...
Over this week, the Russians have launched more than 2,300 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs, and 108 missiles of various types against our people. All these strikes were directed simply at ordinary civilian infrastructure – residential buildings and energy facilities. Every day, we are working to ensure greater protection against Russian terror. Yesterday, we received a new IRIS-T launcher. We thank Germany for its constant contribution to protecting people; thousands upon thousands of lives have been saved thanks to such strong support. But we also need missiles for air defense systems so that we have sufficient capabilities to repel Russian attacks.
This week, there were significant arrangements with Sweden – a new support package, including for strengthening our aviation with Gripen fighter jets. As for the PURL initiative, there are new contributions this year, and support for this initiative must continue. We are counting on both the United States and European partners. It is anti-ballistic defense that is one of the key priorities for Ukraine.
Strong air defense can provide greater protection for our people and deprive Russia of its last remaining advantage. I thank all partners who are helping, who are ready to respond effectively to Moscow’s attempts to expand and escalate its war. It is very important that this be clearly understood there: choosing war will have consequences. I am grateful to everyone who stands with Ukraine.
🇺🇸🧐“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:
“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”
🌩То о чём вы все спрашивали, но график чего я имею возможность опубликовать только сейчас.
Вашему вниманию эксклюзивный график потерь российских оккупантов в 2025 году, который нигде ранее никогда не публиковался.
Уникальность этого графика в том, что он отображает не общие потери РОВ каждый месяц, а включает в свой состав информацию именно о погибших – 200-х. Не просто раненных, пленных, дезертирах, а включает именно категорию убитых – абсолютно невозвратных потерь.
Тенденция 2025 года ярко демонстрирует то, как переход РОВ к применению тактики инфильтрации малых тактических групп, в кротчайшие сроки привела к стремительному росту потерь в категории “200” от вполне уместных, среднестатистических для конвенциональных войн и конфликтов до 30% к абсолютно диспропорциональному показателю более 60%.
Старт применения тактики МТГ (переход от весенней к летней фазе наступления 2025) и пиковый переход на такой метод ведения наступления (август-сентябрь), с сохранением высокого уровня боестолкновений в осенне-зимний период 2025, привели к абсолютно катастрофическим показателям потерь у РОВ.
Но, соловьёв, симоньян и медведев россиянам этого никогда не расскажут.
@giovanna40178@axlprinz I won't answer you anymore, you think that Putin is the most well-intentioned man in the world and all evil comes from Ukraine. In fact, it's the opposite
@giovanna40178@axlprinz 50k is few?
Rus sent troops, tanks and artillery into the Donbas, helping pro-Russian forces regain much of what they had lost. DPR leader Alexander Borodai said 50,000 Russian citizens had fought for the separatists by mid-2015, excluding the regular Russian troops that invaded
@giovanna40178@axlprinz fact is that february 2024 Russia started full scale war against Ukraine, also fact is that 2014 russia started hidden war against Ukraine, Ukraine never crossed the Russian border until Kursk operation, but Russian soldiers were in Donetsk 2014, Why?
"I'm Not a Piece of Meat." Life in the Occupied Territories
A resident of Horlivka says the city has been flooded with newcomers who harass women in the streets, refuse to take no for an answer, insult them, and make threats.
According to the woman, one of these "suitors" threatened to rape her if a video of him appeared online.
"Why aren't your military units doing anything about this? Why is nobody doing anything? Why can't I just walk around normally? In broad daylight, they harass me openly, use foul language, and even threaten me," she said.