Fabrício Barros

Precisamente o 'evidente por si mesmo' (por ser habitual em virtude da experiência concreta) é o que menos costuma ser 'pensado'. - Max Weber.

[EL CUERVO 🇳🇮 @ElCuerv0Nica]

Es lamentable

[Fabrício Barros @stavka41]

Aqui, a sacanagem que fizeram: https://t.co/oKEWrCylLy Problema transferido, não é problema resolvido.

[Fabrício Barros @stavka41]

O @ReclameAQUI agora passa pano par empresa incompetente. Transferiram uma reclamação da @KingHost, que não me respondeu, para a CloudFlare, que não tinha nada com a história e o pessoal do HelpDesk da KingHost admitiu, embora não respondido no Reclame aqui.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.

This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.

Read this part:

"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."

Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏

Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War.

Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.

Truth matters.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

This means that a verified account with a paid partnership wants to kidnap me, torture me, and murder me. @elonmusk and his employees at @X refuse to remove this, so it’s clear that they support such a terror operation. This isn’t surprising - after all, they support genocide.

[Fabrício Barros @stavka41]

Mano.

[mason @onehandpolitics]

This country isn’t real man 😭

[Fabrício Barros @stavka41]

Que satisfação, meu consagrado.

[Fabrício Barros @stavka41]

Isso é bem bizarro.

[Donald J. Gorbachev @donaldgorbachev]

A laundry fire that takes thirty hours to extinguish on a $13 billion carrier with the most advanced damage control systems in any navy on earth. That displaces 600 crew from their berths. On a ship designed to take battle damage and keep fighting. And the explanation is the laundry.
The Ford has automated fire suppression. It has damage control teams that train constantly. It has redundant systems specifically because carriers are built to survive hits in combat. A laundry fire on a ship designed to survive anti-ship missiles does not burn for thirty hours and render 600 berths uninhabitable. That’s not a laundry fire. That’s damage.
The IRGC has been claiming hits on U.S. assets. CENTCOM has been posting 🚫 LIE and ✅ TRUTH. The IRGC said it destroyed fighter jets. CENTCOM said no, unmatched lethality, air superiority. Clean denial. But the Ford fire got no 🚫 and ✅ treatment. It got a laundry. It got an explanation that doesn’t survive contact with what a thirty-hour fire on a carrier actually means.
If the Ford took a hit — a drone, a missile fragment, something — and the explanation is a laundry fire, then the unmatched lethality press release is covering for the matched vulnerability that actually happened. The chess game at a very high level where one side won’t admit the board has a piece missing.
And if it is a laundry fire — if the most expensive warship ever built actually lost thirty hours and 600 berths to its own laundry in the middle of a shooting war — that’s worse. That’s the empire that can’t maintain its own ship while projecting power across a hemisphere. Either the Ford got hit and they’re lying, or the Ford broke itself and they’re not lying and the truth is worse than the lie.
Either way. Thirty hours. 600 beds. Day seventeen. Some chess game.

[Fabrício Barros @stavka41]

Desde há muito tem sido assim.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

This statement, written by Russian historian Mikhail Pogodin in 1853, could have been written today:

[Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast]

Andrei Lankov, Korean studies scholar and one of Russia's foremost experts on North Korea, has been detained in Latvia before a lecture he was supposed to hold. He used to teach in Canberra and Seoul and write for Bloomberg back in the day. Hopefully he will just be deported and not incarcerated like his archaeologist colleague Butyagin, who is still held at a Polish prison. Butyagin had been arrested by Polish authorities after returning from an academic conference in the Netherlands.

I wish Russian academics would finally learn that there is no "Republic of Letters" anymore and they just hate all of us and can and will hurt you without even bothering to come up with a pretext.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

What an absolutely amazing achievement! It’s long been known that legumes work with bacteria to « fix » nitrogen from the air. But Dr. Mariangela Hungarian has selected elite strains that basically allows Brazilian soybean farms to grow with no nitrogen fertilizers! This is not just a huge win for Brazilian soybean farmers who save on fertilizer, it saves on greenhouse gasses since it saves on the energy that would have been used to make the nitrogen chemically. One more benefit: the bacteria only fixes as much nitrogen as the plant could use, reducing the nitrogen runoff pollution.

But wait there’s more…she’s working on experimental techniques that is « teaching » non-legume crops like maize or pasture grass to fix a proportion of their own nitrogen!

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Zelensky's interview with the Economist in March 2022, before the US and UK sabotaged the Istanbul peace talks:
- "There are those in the West who don't mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives"

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is bigger than most people realize: Lithuania's Prime Minister now officially admits it was a huge "strategic mistake" (like "jumping in front of a train") to be the first and only EU country to open a "Taiwanese" representative office in 2021.
https://t.co/2n7JWZqDGC

She says Lithuania has started the "very complicated process" of "turning the clock back" in order to normalize relations with China, as the "ties were completely cut" as a result of Lithuania's actions.

What does this signify?

It was, of course, always painfully obvious that Lithuania couldn't take on China by itself: they're a tiny country of less than 3 million people, about 1/10th the size of some Chinese cities... As deluded as they were, I can't believe that they thought they could.

Lithuania's bet, doubtlessly, was it'd be a "first mover" of a broader Western decoupling from China and reap strategic benefits from this. It's like at work: if you're a small intern, you stand out in the eyes of the boss by being extra eager on initiatives dear to him.

Plus, at the time, Lithuania was actually already relatively decoupled from China: it was the country in Europe least dependent on China which accounted in 2020 for only 0.7% of its exports and 3.7% of its imports (https://t.co/X6DcaesBSZ).

Basically the thinking must have been: "for a very low cost we can become the boss's new favorite." And, on top of that, there was a genuine expectation of economic payoff from Taiwan who committed to invest hundreds of million in the country (https://t.co/5ssszRZ5Fz).

They, however, miscalculated in 3 ways:

- The cost, it turns out, was not small. China didn't limit itself to completely stop direct imports from Lithuania. In a pretty shrewd move, they also blocked exports from other EU companies when they contained components of Lithuanian origin, something Lithuania's Foreign Minister said was completely unexpected (https://t.co/IMIUivr1Ff) and actually very damaging (80 to 90 percent of Lithuanian exports are to other EU countries).

- The move turned out to be extremely unpopular with the Lithuanian people, with only 13% of the population supporting it (https://t.co/QyvmuJiJ7E). Why? Because it was painfully obvious that Lithuania was the "aggressor" here, as it were: they went out of their way to provoke China on its red line, an issue that had nothing to do with Lithuanian interests. The Lithuanian public, unlike their government, had the common sense to ask "why are we meddling in this"?

- Last but not least, they completely misread the room. The broader Western decoupling from China didn't materialize and Lithuania found itself the only country in the West with completely severed economic ties with China. Far from being the intern who impressed the boss and rode a company-wide trend, everyone was like - much like the Lithuanian public - "why would you do that to yourself?" All the more these days given the transatlantic tensions: Lithuania severed ties with China to prove its loyalty to a US-led order that is itself now disappearing. Hard to imagine a worse-timed bet.

Long story short: they're now doing a 180 degree turn, the current government's primary foreign policy priority is to restore relations with Beijing.

Which means that, in some way, they are ending up being a "first mover", except not in the way they intended: they thought they'd prove being the most fervent disciple of anti-China zealotry would pay off. Instead they're the one coming back and telling everyone: "nope, not worth it."

[Miguel Nicolelis @MiguelNicolelis]

Até pro governador da Flórida a ficha caiu que Datacenters ñ criam empregos e consomem gazilionWatts de energia pra produzir nada de útil! Vou repetir: ATÉ PRO JACÚ DO GOVERNADOR DA FLÓRIDA!!!

[Gareth Jones Society 🇵🇸 @GarethJonesSoc]

Interesting article by Alexander Werth in the Guardian the day after Germany's invasion of the USSR, correctly noting that Ukrainian Quislings, like Roman Shukhevych, would be accompanying Hitler's armies. He describes Ukrainian national identity as largely being a "German invention".

[🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺 @STANISKRAPIVNIK]

The English politician and hope for saving Little Britain, Farage (Reform Party), also joined Mossad's project "Operation: Hang Epstein on Russia." It's hard to understand why.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

They are actually using Christopher Steele, the main "source" from the Russiagate hoax, to Russiagate the Epstein files. Journalism is dead.

[Johnny miller @johnnyjmils]

Recently I attended Putin's press conference in Moscow. He started talking about how the West is run by a Satanic Paedophile cult. Honestly, I thought, "ok, steady on. I know you're at war. But that's a bit too much." Turns out he was right. I mean, I'm sure the Russians have an excellent intel network around the world. And he knew.

But its not just the Epstein thing. I mean, that's sick. Its as bad as it gets. But its not just that. The degeneracy runs right through British and European policy making. Both domestic and foreign. They are just not acting in our peoples interests.

Honestly I realised some time ago. That I've been an idiot these last few years. Trying to argue that the war in Ukraine is not in British and European interests. But then I finally realised that I'm arguing with degenerates. That's what the British and European policy makers are. Degenerates. They simply don't care about the future of British and European peoples. And what do you do about that?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is a genuinely incredible story.

The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is “kill-line”: if you go to Xiaohongshu, Bilibili or Douyin, everyone is speaking about it.

Why? It all has to do with the story of Alex, known as “牢A” (“Láo A”, literally “prison A” where A stands for Alex), a Chinese medical/biology student based in Seattle, USA, who worked part-time as a forensic assistant collecting unclaimed bodies (primarily homeless people).

You’ve doubtlessly never heard of him but he probably single-handedly shattered what remained of the “American Dream” myth for an entire generation of young Chinese.

In late 2025, Alex started going massively viral on Bilibili, a Chinese video platform, for videos where he described poverty in America. He coined the term “kill line” (“斩杀线”) - an expression borrowed from gaming describing when a game character's health is so low one hit will finish them. In Alex’s framing, the concept describes how a single shock (illness, job loss, accident) can push middle-class Americans into irreversible poverty.

It’s hard to overstate the cultural impact he’s had in China. In barely a few weeks, “kill line” became part of everyday lexicon. So much so that even Qiushi - the core theoretical journal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China - published a lengthy theoretical analysis using "kill line" as its central framework (https://t.co/8VRe3xNj8S).

This never happens. Gaming slang coined by a 22-year-old streamer based in the U.S. does not become the analytical framework for Qiushi, the CPC’s core theoretical journal, in just a handful of weeks. That’s normally not how Communist Party theory gets crafted, to put it mildly 😂. And yet here we are - which goes to show just how powerfully Alex resonated.

It didn’t take long for America to notice - and for Alex’s problems to start.

Due to the staggering resonance his content was having in China, Alex became the target of an extremely vicious doxxing campaign by Chinese dissidents.

He also got targeted by Western media with the New York Times, among others, publishing a piece (https://t.co/dOtHBR6Eu3) identifying him as the origin of the phenomenon which they described - unsurprisingly - as Communist propaganda meant to “deflect criticism of [Chinese] leaders.”

I just wrote an article telling the full story. It ends with Alex escaping to China in an extraction worthy of a Cold War spy novel. Think about how extraordinary this is: a Chinese student fleeing to China for safety, because he feared for his life after being harassed for describing poverty in America.

Full story here: https://t.co/3vzUmnGurq

[The Poll Lady @ThePollLady]

Let me take you back to an interesting event from 2018.

The then FM of Austria extended a casual wedding invitation to Vladimir Putin during her diplomatic visit to Moscow.

She never imagined he would take it seriously as it was just a courtesy invitation, not an expectation.

But on August 18, 2018, a Russian state aircraft landed in Austria.

Vladimir Putin didn’t just attend the wedding. he arrived with a Cossack choir and a traditional samovar as a gift. Cameras went crazy. Music filled the air. And in a moment that would echo far beyond the dance floor, the Foreign Minister of a neutral EU nation took the hand of the Kremlin’s leader.

They waltzed. Brussels watched.

When the music ended, Karin Kneissl performed a deep, traditional Austrian curtsey.

That single bow ended her career.

Within hours, the image was weaponized. Political opponents framed it as proof of Austria’s “submission” to Moscow.

Brussels politicians, globalist elites, and her domestic critics closed ranks. She was no longer a minister she was labeled a traitor, a spy, a pariah.

Death threats followed.

Despite speaking seven languages and holding a doctorate in international law, she found herself erased almost instantly. Her bank accounts were frozen. Her name was blacklisted in her own country.

They didn’t just push her out of office. They pushed her out of entire Europe.

Kneissl first fled to France, but exile followed her there too. Her accounts were blocked again. She said pressure was placed on her landlord to evict her.

With no footing left in Europe, she moved to a small village in Lebanon, living like a peasant in quiet exile far from the halls of power she once navigated with ease.

And then came the final irony.

The woman driven out of Europe for dancing with Putin eventually found her only refuge in Russia.

She describes the financial strangulation across Europe as the decisive force behind her departure first to Lebanon, and finally eastward to Russia.

Today, she lives in Saint Petersburg, heads a geopolitical think tank, and resides in a country cottage.

Her story is not just about a dance.

It is about a continent at war with itself. About how symbolism now outweighs substance. And about how, in modern Europe, a single gesture, a bow, a waltz, one unguarded moment against the higher power can cost you everything.

They said she danced with the wolf.

And Europe elite made sure she paid the price.

That’s why you see the likes of Kaja Kallas, Ursula von der Leyen, and others obey without hesitation. No one is allowed to step out of line because they know exactly what happens when you do.