Tomtomlifesolutions 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Its funny how many online leftists love Ireland for being "poor colonized white people" but have a pathological hatred of the Baltics, the most clearly colonized people in Europe

[Marxist-Clintonite Thought 🇺🇳🇺🇦🇬🇪🇸🇾 @ClintonThought]

“History buffs” when the test is asking them about the long-term sociopolitical consequences of the French Revolution and not the diameter of a Panzer IV turret

[Drecas @Drecas_2000]

This trope thar russian, and by extension chinese, air defense systems dont work is plain wrong and tiring.

And to present this as a lesson from Ukraine is a slap in the face of the Ukrainians

Afterall it was with legacy soviet systems, your S-300PS/PT/V, BUK etc, that Ukraine denied the VKS of air superiority

The idea that the F-35 is this jet thats incompatible with war level production is also amusing, given that its 100 yearly production rate is quite a bit higher than any other western and russian jet(dont know anything about chinese rates)

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Q: "You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain…Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Rutte: "I think we should praise Donald Trump for the fact that NATO is so much stronger."

[Casus Belli @casusbellii]

What is interesting about the Russian presence in Africa is seeing how the defense and military cooperation offerings have been restructured since Prigozhin’s death and just how wide the gap is in terms of operational effectiveness between the Wagner Group and Africa Corps.

The Central African Republic (CAR) is the last stronghold of the Wagner Group as conceived by Prigozhin. The mercenaries are deeply entrenched there at all levels—political, economic, and others—and seem to operate outside the Kremlin’s sphere of influence, with a high degree of autonomy. Generally speaking, they are fulfilling their mission there (protecting the presidency and neutralizing rebels).

Am Dafok is a prime example, with a swift intervention by Central African forces and their Russian auxiliaries.

Conversely, in Mali, the African Corps (despite being far more numerous and better equipped) is facing increasing difficulties against the rebels (who are also proportionally more numerous). Tinzawaten, Kidal, and perhaps Anéfis can be described as operational failures.

To some extent, this is reminiscent of the Wagner Group’s early days in Africa, particularly in Mozambique, where Mozambican forces fighting alongside Russian forces suffered a number of setbacks, leading to significant internal divisions.

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Khaled al-Asaad, Qasem al-Abdullah, and the 15+ members of DGAM and the dozens of Site Guards, and local museum administrators and curators died to get these items out and established a cultural guerrilla war to smuggle as many items out to safety and now a decade later this items are coming back to Syria.

This story is a modern Monuments Men local librarians, academics, and regular citizens risking their lives to protect human history from total erasure.

[~clxtch @ney2maa]

You know what’s funny? If FIFA didn’t reduce Ronaldo’s suspension, Portugal probably beats DR Congo and ends up facing Switzerland instead of Spain. Instead, that one shady decision completely changed their path and now it feels like karma for the corruption. Football always finds a way.

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

“I would call him Napoleon, but Napoleon made his way to empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood. This man never broke his word. I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves. This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave trade in the humblest village of his dominions. You think me a fanatic, for you read history, not with your eyes, but with your prejudices. But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of history will put Phocion for the Greek, Brutus for the Roman, Hampden for the English, La Fayette for France, choose Washington as the bright, consummate flower of our earlier civilization, then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of the soldier, the statesman, the martyr, Toussaint L’Ouverture.”
-Wendell Phillips

[P17B Stealth frigate zealot @VaishakUpadhya1]

Reminded me of this:

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

I love Plato's allegory of the cave, because he's so clearly searching for television as an example, but it won't be invented for thousands of years, so he has to basically invent the concept of a projector (light source + shadow puppets) just for his hypothetical to work.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

I’m shocked that Russia can crash a building onto sleeping families in a European capital, murdering 30 people, without any meaningful reaction from the world whatsoever.

[Froglover42🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 @frogslayer69]

@EricHovagim racism is believing the natural state of tibetans is slavery and serfdom and only chinese imperial occupation can prevent the barbaric tibetans from becoming savages again and only the ccp can bring civilisation to them.

[Tomtomlifesolutions 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @Tomonsolutions]

@aleksan30409461 @Kasparov63 But he slapped Renato Veiga and pulled him down when he was in the ball's path, it was a legit penalty

[Tomtomlifesolutions 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @Tomonsolutions]

@aleksan30409461 @Kasparov63 But 18 mins of extra time is all good

[pedro @pedropimlico]

participar num mundial com um handicap voluntariamente imposto porque parece mal dizer nao a um gajo de 41 anos é on brand com a cornice caracteristica portuguesa

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Israel is a Jewish state. That’s in the charter. Do you support that?

Mamdani: I’ve said time and again that I support the state of Israel as a state with equal rights.

Karl: As jewish state?

Mamdani: I believe that any state that privileges one religion over another is one that I can’t tell you I support, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else. And a lot of that comes back to a fundamental belief that we should all be considered equal, no matter what our faith is.

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

If Russia collapses it will be so interesting to see how dramatically our political system will change once that propaganda network dries up

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

They're German

Robert is the Bavarian, fat and drunk and mindless, but well meaning

Stannis is the Prussian, cold and austere but disciplined, and utterly without mercy

Renly is the Austrian, homosexual and greedy and rising above his station through shrewd marriages

[Havoc @Havoc_Six]

Pretty neat seeing a missile I was told doesn't exist hit targets I was told it could never reach four years into a war I was assured would be over in just a few weeks.