Simona Chakarjaneva

[Bloomberg @business]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez invites Elon Musk to visit the country after the world’s richest man tweeted that it could power all of Europe with solar energy https://t.co/m3YHqXI1YI

[Simona Chakarjaneva @SChakarjaneva]

Few days ago my government @northmacedonia published the results of the census.

They publish that 135k citizens did not mention their ethnicity and religion while many others boycotted the census.

Actually they wrote they are Marsians! Jeddies from Star Wars! or Aliens! 😂

[Simona Chakarjaneva @SChakarjaneva]

They want to say “does it matter anymore”? 😹😹😹😹😹😹

#Globalism rules!

Balkans... enough of Nationalism!

#Macedonia #Greece #Bulgaria #EU

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

There is no 5 year old in the world that is explicitly gay, lesbian, transgender or heterosexual.

Small children do not think about sex and sexuality unless they have been groomed to do so by an adult.

These are the facts.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

How are Europeans, and the British especially, so calm and numb towards the collapsing economies and the unreasonable rise in energy bills? How are you okay paying the price of American wars next door that will make your lives ten times harder?

[Simona Chakarjaneva @SChakarjaneva]

One day the dinosaurs 🦕 will come back and tell us “hey guys we came first! This is our land go to another planet” 🦕

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineRussianWar

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

The dressing room celebrations after North Macedonia beat European champions Italy in the World Cup play-off semi-final 🥳

[China Daily @ChinaDaily]

The investment fund Rosemont Seneca, currently managed by Hunter Biden, the son of US President #JoeBiden, funded the Pentagon's military biological program in #Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. https://t.co/0NSAPQuDPZ

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

Yet Moscow has been lured into this invasion by the rich and powerful Western nations led by the USA. This is a war between Russia and USA/NATO, Ukraine is only a playing field. NATO nations have one of greatest advantage in any war – absolute control of the instruments of mass

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

propaganda. Anyone following international news channels now is fed on a biased menu of anti-Russian and anti-Putin propaganda presented as news.

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

To understand this conflict, we need to take a brief detour of the basics of international relations. States are the main actors in the international system and there is no higher authority above them. This is called a system of anarchy.

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

But anarchy in international relations does not mean chaos. It means the absence of hierarchy. If a state were attacked, there is no police it can call to its rescue. This keeps states in perpetual fear.

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

For instance, a state may live next to a neighbor with aggressive designs. If such a neighbor attacked, the victim would have to fend for itself. So, states build some military capabilities as an insurance against potential or real adversaries

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

This is largely because the primary aim of any state is to survive. A state that cannot survive cannot perform any of its functions.

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

More still, it is very hard for states to know the intentions of their neighbors, because these live in the heads of their leaders. Even if they knew, states can never be sure whether these intentions will remain the same ten, fifteen or twenty years hence.

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

But states can discern the capabilities of their neighbors. The challenge is that as capabilities change so too can a state’s intentions. Therefore, even if a state did not have a premeditated plan for aggression today, the development of certain capabilities can in future tempt

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

it to become particularly aggressive.

This brings us to America’s role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. America has been expanding NATO. After integrating Estonia and Latvia, which share a border with Russia, now it wants to add Ukraine and Georgia, to complete the encirclement.

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

Russia finds this intolerable because it poses – not just a tactical or even strategic threat – but most importantly, an existential threat. In 1998, the top 50 US foreign policy and security experts wrote a memo to President Bill Clinton saying exactly that.

[Mathias Galiwango Jr @DvineMathias]

They argued that NATO expansion would alienate Russia, cause the re-militarization of that country and the wider Europe, and therefore not improve European security but rather create a new cold war and increase the risk of war.