204 House Republicans voted today to protect Vladimir Putin. 204 Republicans voted to allow his corrupt regime to avoid sanctions. They’ll get a chance tomorrow to fix their errors but they’re all on the wrong side of history. I hope voters keep this in mind come November
Ireland defense for supplying roughly 90% of EU alumina exports to Russia is that the EU never sanctioned alumina.
But when it came to Israel, Ireland didn't wait for the EU.
Dublin pushed ahead with its own Occupied Territories legislation, openly challenging the EU's common trade policy and arguing that moral considerations required action.
Apparently, "we can't act without Brussels" applies to Russia, but not to Israel.
Interesting standard.
This is not a movie about meteor showers before the apocalypse; this is Russia bombing Kyiv last night. A city with several million people in it - children, the elderly, and normal families just like yours.
Russia is hauling Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the International Court of Justice. The charge? "Discrimination against Russian-speaking minorities." Tallinn has dismissed the move as part of Russia's disinformation campaign, and Latvia and Lithuania said the same.
Let that sit for a second.
The same state that spent 50 years trying to erase us now wants to stand in The Hague as the defender of minority rights. A short history lesson for the court:
▪️ June 1941: ~10,000 Estonians packed into cattle cars and deported to Siberia. Mostly women, children, the elderly.
▪️ March 1949, Operation Priboi: ~20,000 more from Estonia in a single week. ~90,000 across the three Baltic states. The offense was owning a farm, teaching the wrong subject, having the wrong surname.
▪️ Decades of Russification: our language pushed out of public life, Russian speakers moved in by the hundreds of thousands to outnumber the people who'd lived here for centuries.
▪️ A flag you could be jailed for owning. An anthem you could be arrested for singing. A border you'd be shot for crossing.
And here's the part Moscow is praying the judges don't notice: the "Russian-speaking minority" it now claims to protect exists in those numbers precisely because the USSR deported the locals and shipped in Russians to replace them. The minority is the evidence of the crime. Now it's the pretext for the next one.
So no — we're not discriminating. We're just inconveniently still here. Still speaking the languages you spent half a century trying to bury.
And we remember exactly how it went. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹
Not sure who neds to hear this, but when russia invades a European country, levels its cities to the ground, r*pes its women & children, calls for the extermination of its people, and openly says it wants to do the same to the rest of Europe then yeah, they really are our enemy.