Mahutny Bulbin

У нас няма такіх шалёных, хіба нейкі гарадзкі

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@lahatski_v гэта і ёсць кніжка, допіс сатырыка

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

The concept of "global companies" falls apart when political actors use them as leverage.

You can't be a global payment provider (like VISA, Mastercard) if your leader turns it off for individuals, companies or countries because of personal preferences.

You can't be a global internet provider (like Starlink) if political motivations flip constantly in times of crisis.

You are not a global company but a national asset and a potential liability for anyone using you.

No point in hoping for return to global agreements or alliances. "The west" is gone and its industry alliances are gone unfortunately.

Now it's USA vs China and everyone else needs to become technological sovereign or be a vassal.

In times of autocratic politics, political whims are above market and technology.

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@HotDumak https://t.co/YgtcOYvkuU

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@RioNegro777 @Czah_U No, russian mainstream narrative was always that belaruasians and ukrainians never had their own separate statehood and culture. GDL was all balts conquering slavic lands and exploiting them for centuries untill Moscow/Russia liberated them and returned to unity. You repeat that.

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@forsunk @Bychkowski а гэта яшчэ і фэйк

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@RioNegro777 @Czah_U No, we don’t, nobody is being serious about calling lithuanians samogitians, it may be heard/read as trolling for lithuanian shauvinists, who are repeating russian naratives about GDL being exclusively baltic state. Or as response to them.

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@jaroslav_li @medvozaec https://t.co/EYsylqFU6e

заблакавана там усё, альбо вывозяць іншымі шляхамі (трубаправодамі), альбо рэпорт фэйкавы.

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@ponihetakoni @JenevaFMRadio ды кожная таёта на двары

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@jaroslav_li здаецца гэта АІ, ці з гульні нейкай, бачыў ўжо гэты відос раней недзе

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@hasid_ @pauliuk_horbach сонца

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@ponihetakoni праз гэтыя пару пакаленняў усе ўжо кібаргамі і візуал генераваць будуць адразу ў пашыраным мозгу. Таму праблематыка надуманая.

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@hasid_ @LFC факт

[Hubert Łępicki @hubertlepicki]

The Lithuanian-Belarusian fights over inheritance of Grand Duchy of Lithuania is fascinating, because both sides are usually wrong.

Lithuanians claim that the state was theirs, because the royal and ducal families were coming from Lithuania proper region and - up to some point - spoke Lithuanians. So in their minds, they were ethnic Lithuanians.

The Belarusian side points to the adoption of Ruthenian language, the Old Belarusian as it's called here, which became the language of the law, the administration and diplomacy of the state, widespread pre-Catholic faith adoption of Eastern Orthodox rites etc., and to various degree claim ownership of that state.

It's anachronistic on both sides. The fact they're usually skipping over is that the ethnic divide into Balts and Slavs didn't really matter for the ruling class. The political nation, the warrior class, what later became known as szlachta, the relatively numerous nobility - from Inception was identified by "not being peasants".

Szlachta didn't want anything to do with being associated with the peasantry, Lithuanian speaking or Ruthenian or Polish either.

A better way to think about the "nationality" of Grand Duchy of Lithuania but also Poland that united with it, is that there was a nation of gentry, who owned the state, with a more hierarchical feudal system in GDL than in Poland too.

In fact, you should probably think about two nations of szlachta for a long period: Polish szlachta and Lithuanian szlachta.

The language of the peasants didn't really matter. It was adopted in GDL because the Orthodox Church already used it. Lithuanian didn't have a writing system, Ruthenian did. The majority of subjects of nobility spoke it too. The merchant republics and rival post-Kievan-Rus states used it too, so it made sense in diplomacy as well.

Similarly, in Poland, the state and the political nation of szlachta adopted Latin, which became widely used, and spoken or written (in laws, administtration or poetry), hundreds of years before Polish started to be used.

The Lithuanian nobility was cosmopolitan too. They intermarried with each other and with foreigners, there are ducal bloodlines going to the pagan Lithuanian leaders but equally to dukes of Rus. Gediminids and Ruryks, but also what we would now German or Polish nobility mixed.

Grand Duchy of Lithuania was primarily the state of Grand Duke and the political nation of Lithuanian szlachta, which didn't identify itself either with Lithuanian or Ruthenian peasants.

The divide is clearly visible in the origin stories they told themselves. Whether they became Sarmatian, Palemonas or Varangian origin believers, they tried to separate themselves from the peasants who worked their fields.

And for them, for Polish or Lithuanian szlachta, the language of the peasants was not of the value, whether it was Lithuanian, Ruthenian or Polish, they spoke differently - depending on time and place - between each other than what their peasants spoke.

The Polish culture would eventually take over in the linguistic sphere, but the Lithuanian nobility also adopted Latin widely, and created many - today often forgotten - poems in that language. But it didn't mean they became Latin, or that they became Polish. Up until the last days of Commonwealth, the Lithuanians would proudly stand up to their rights of independence and being a separate nation from Poles, while declaring their distinctiveness in Polish, or Latin, or mix of both and later even French, which started replacing Latin.

Both states: Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, were not the properties of ethnic Poles, ethnic Lithuanians or ethnic Belarusians. They never granted political rights to peasants and to towns folk, or Jews. Up until the partitions, they were the states of two separate, but increasingly unifying nations of nobility, szlachta. Being Polish, or being Lithuanian was understood to be the political alliegence, not the ethnicity.

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@Czah_U Ну не змянілі, проста гістарычны сцяг сталі выкарыстоўваць заўжды, а альтэрнатыўны (больш светлы быў уведзены ў 1976) адкінулі. Да 2020 выкарыстоўвалі абодва паралельна.

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@luka_haunajed @belarlekar ты Шрайбмана з Прэйгерманам зблытаў

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@hasid_ @nashaniva З Анжэлай?

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@gabimartinelli Thank you for everything, Gabi!

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@glebazz @ArmchairAdml in Brussels and Budapest it works the same - tap the card, same in Spain etc

[Mahutny Bulbin @wal_de_maar]

@margorzatha дзяк