Rune Paulsen

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[Ad van der Flier 🇳🇱🇲🇰🇪🇺🌍👨🏻‍🦳 @Adush_25]

The well-known Soviet and Russian film director and writer EDUARD TOPOL (Edmond Topelberg) has written an open letter to US President Donald Trump.

"Dear Mr. President!

Dear Donald!

As the author of fifty books and a dozen films about Russia, I consider myself entitled to inform you before your meeting with Putin.

You should know that he cannot stop the war with Ukraine, even if you give him your Mar-a-Lago villa on Palm Beach, Trump Tower in New York, and a dozen of your golf clubs.

And not because he does not want to take a break from the war, but because he cannot.

Since he knows Russian history not from a textbook by Medinsky, but from the real one:

The return of Russian troops from Europe to Russia after the victory over Napoleon led to the anti-tsarist uprising of the Decembrists in 1825.

The defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War led to the revolution of 1905.

The escape of a million Russian soldiers from the Russian-German front during World War I led to the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II from the throne and the February Revolution of 1917.

The peace signed by Lenin with Germany allowed the Bolsheviks to shoot the entire royal family.

With the return of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in February 1989, the collapse of the USSR began.

Knowing this, Putin cannot end the war with Ukraine and return his troops home.
Only the possibility of leaving almost its entire army in Europe as occupation troops in May 1945 helped Stalin avoid a post-war coup.

That's why Putin dreams of occupying Ukraine, as well as the Baltics, Finland, Poland, etc., to keep his army away from Moscow.

He remembers how 525 thousand soldiers who returned from Afghanistan in 1989 turned into bandits-afghans, terrorizing the entire population of the USSR.

And he knows what will happen if one and a half million soldiers who are able to professionally kill, rob, and rape return from the Ukrainian front.

The war with Ukraine allowed Putin to get rid of two million of his most active opponents, whom he forced to flee from Russia, and the rest of the young Russian men he either drove to the front or recruited into the punitive services.

Today, any war - with Ukraine, with the Baltics, with NATO - and with anyone else - is the best way to force Russia to submit to Putin and his junta.

Unfortunately, none of your advisors will explain this to you before meeting with Putin, but you can check my arguments with Jack Matlock and Michael McFaul.

I don't want Putin, a gangster, thief, and murderer of millions of people, to continue brazenly fooling you, lying, and deceiving my President.

Of course, I'm not a military expert or a political scientist, but I'm a writer with a good memory.
I remember how Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II managed to bring the price of oil down to $9 a barrel, gave the Afghans "Stingers," and thereby stopped Moscow's capture of Afghanistan and destroyed the USSR.

If you want to stop Putin and imperial ambitions, at least half of the Russian population, you need to do the same thing—lower the price of oil to at least $25 a barrel and give Ukraine the weapons that will help it crush the aggressor.

As for your desire to establish American-Russian partnership business relations, not in words, but in practice, this can happen in a hundred years or, in general, never.

If you're interested in why, call me, I'll explain.

Respectfully,

EDWARD TOPOLE, a citizen of the USA and Israel.

[Kamil Całus @KamilCaus]

O Hołodomorze, który dotknął sowiecką Ukrainę w latach 30-stych ubiegłego wieku wiemy chyba wszyscy.

A czy słyszeliście o "Foametei", czyli podobnym "zjawisku", które odebrało życie ok. 10% (sic!) wszystkich mieszkańców Mołdawskiej SRR, czyli - o ironio - najżyźniejszego kraju Europy?

Stało się to w latach 1946-1947 i podobnie jak wcześniej na Ukrainie wywołane zostało przez cyniczną, zbrodnicza decyzję władz ZSRR, której służby i armia rekwirowały zgromadzone przez chłopów plony (karając śmiercią za ukrywanie choćby niewielkich zapasów), a gdy ci próbowali w rozpaczy migrować do miast w poszukiwaniu żywności uniemożliwiali im to - już to zawracając ich z drogi, już to rozstrzeliwując ich na miejscu. W efekcie w ciągu zaledwie dwóch lat śmierć poniosło nawet ok. 200 tysięcy osób przyłączonej do ZSRR w wyniku II wojny światowej republiki.

Najciężej głód doświadczył południową część kraju, na czele z Gagauzją. W niektórych powiatach tego regionu populacja spadła w ciągu tych dwóch lat o 30-40%, a nawet 50% (sic!).

Jeszcze bardziej uderzające są liczby dotyczące dzieci. Między 1 stycznia 1947 a 1 stycznia roku 1948 liczba dzieci w wieku od 0-2 lat żyjących na terenie MSRR spadła o 52% (sic!). Oczywiście nie znaczy to, że połowa z nich zmarła z głodu. W trakcie skrajnych niedoborów żywności dzieci rodziło się po prostu mniej. Część mimo wszystko opuściła też rodzinne wsie (np. zabrana przez władze do sierocińców, po śmierci rodziców). Mimo to liczba ta nie może nie budzić przerażenia. Kolejne 50% osób w wielu od 0-14 lat cierpiało na wywołaną głodem dystrofię.

Historię tej nieznanej (także wielu, bardzo wielu Mołdawianom) i tragicznej karty europejskiej historii opowiada zorganozowana przez @MieroszewskiPL we współpracy z @InstPileckiego wystawa "Foametea. Wielki Głód w sowieckiej Mołdawii 1946–1947". którą oglądać można do 15 września przy kościele Wizytek, na Krakowskim przedmieściu.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Marco Rubio: For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)

[Пeрзидент Роисси @KermlinRussia]

«В МИД России заявили, что «не видят оснований» соглашаться на перемирие с Украиной в Черном море».

Реально необучаемые.

1. У них только что вынесли главный нефтяной терминал, через который идет 20% экспорта сырой нефти.
2. Уничтожили три зерновых терминала, ключевых для экспорта пшеницы.
3. Черноморскому флоту, ради которого якобы затевалась аннексия Крыма, больше нигде не скрыться. Его будут методично добивать, потому что ремонт только в еще более обстреливаемом Севастополе. Через проливы Турция военные корабли больше не пускает.
4. Параллельно идут удары по порту в Усть-Луге на Балтике и этот экспортный канал тоже скоро закроется.
5. По Транссибу грузы не пустишь — он и так перегружен. Новые ветки Транссиба в изоляции можно будет построить лет через 30.

В итоге:
1. Зерно будет гнить. Фермеры будут стонать и сворачивать производство.
2. Скважины в Сибири будут консервироваться, огромные вложения в и так хронически недоинвестированную нефтянку будут списываться.
3. Меньше экспортных денег — еще сильнее падение уровня жизни, еще больше банкротств.
4. Понятно, что деньги будут приоритетно тратиться на войну, но гражданская экономика и так на пределе.
5. Кроме того, во всем мире увидят: диалог с Россией невозможен. Можно только наращивать давление и сильнее бить по ебалу в надежде на обрушение системы, потому что любая попытка диалога в восприятии гопников в Кремле — это проявление слабости.

Всё это только потому, что Сергей Риббентропович Лавров и его хозяин понимают, что в момент окончания войны их будут судить за развязывание агрессивной войны. Свои в Москве или чужие в Гааге. Поэтому война будет длиться вечно, каким бы коллапсом экономики она ни обернулась.

Очень жаль обычных людей, которые не начинали войну, и которым придется еще какое-то время жить в этом аду.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Putin famously claimed that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. He could not be more wrong.

The fall of the USSR was actually the greatest geopolitical miracle of modern history, freeing tens of millions of people from a brutal, blood-soaked empire.

The Soviet Union was a human disaster, a totalitarian crime against humanity, and a system that put war and imperialism ahead of feeding its own people.

For decades, the world was forced to endure the myth of the USSR as a superpower dedicated to human progress. In reality, it was nothing more than an advanced, totalitarian iteration of the Russian Empire.

It was an illegitimate project built on lies, paranoia, and catastrophic human suffering. It was a war-hungry, paranoid mistake of a country that sacrificed tens of millions of lives across its republics.

The Soviet ideology was fundamentally flawed because it placed a rigid, totalizing dogma above human dignity and basic freedom. It substituted human enterprise with central planning, creating an unsustainable economy that could build nuclear missiles but failed to put bread on the tables of its citizens.

From a historical perspective, the USSR was an aggressive, imperialistic state. It helped unleash the horrors of World War II by signing a pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, agreeing to carve up Eastern Europe. The alliance only ended because Hitler turned on Stalin in 1941.

Throughout its existence, Moscow treated member republics as colonies, extracting their wealth and enforcing cultural dominance while silencing any form of dissent through the Gulag system and police state surveillance.

When the Soviet Union finally imploded, tens of millions of colonized people were freed from Moscow's grip. Look at the Baltic states today. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania transformed into flourishing European democracies with living standards that far exceed anything Russia has ever produced. They stand as living proof that Russian control was the single greatest obstacle to human flourishing in the region.

Modern Russia's brutal attempt to eradicate Ukraine is proof that Moscow never accepted the death of its empire. Driven by corrupt, paranoid leadership, Russia is committing genocide because it has no ideology or attractive model left to sell. It can only sell imperialism and death.

Defeating this imperial machine in Ukraine is a global imperative. If the Russian empire is not shattered in Ukraine, it will remain a permanent threat to peace and force us to confront it elsewhere later

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@Tweet4AnnaNAFO You mean 14km2? But, Even this number is insignificant 👍

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

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[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

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[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Hey Republicans;
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing. You’ve said nothing.

He’s interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You’ve said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center, even renaming it after himself. You’ve said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You’ve said nothing.

He’s threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil. You’ve said nothing.
He’s tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You’ve said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 little girls in its first days. You’ve said nothing.
He’s alienated and insulted more countries than I can keep track of. You’ve said nothing.

His ICE Army is terrorizing and murdering U.S. citizens. You've said nothing.
He has committed murder on the high seas. You've said nothing.
He's co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You've said nothing.

You've not only said nothing to all of these egregious acts, and many more, but you have also enabled them.
And it’s only been a year.
Hey, Republican Congressmen, you took an oath, remember?
Not to him. To the Constitution.

It’s time to do your fucking jobs!

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@golub What’s your point Mykhaile ?

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@Elysee0fficial How come he clouds hardly change during construction?

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@igorsushko 1 million barrels of oil. That’s like 90 mill USD in lost revenue per day 🍾

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@globalhlthtwit https://t.co/EswBmTy4Ua

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@ChurchillFella @Schluter3Jorg https://t.co/EswBmTy4Ua

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@ChurchillFella @Schluter3Jorg https://t.co/EswBmTy4Ua

[Rune Paulsen @rune_paulsen]

@AntiTrumpCanada @MysterySolvents A trio of buffoons

[Bill Johnson @Bill43111]

We have reached a very critical and dangerous phase in the mental and physical fall of Trump. He no longer cares about public opinion and calls any bad poll a fake. He has completely gone into a fantasy shell where only he knows what is true and justified. To make it worse, he is surrounded by people that are either too afraid to question him or are encouraging his authoritarian madness. Every day we are shocked by his behavior only to be outdone the next. There has to be an outcry from everyone, before he destroys us all.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

They all knew who Donald Trump was before he was elected. They all know who he is now.

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