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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 7d

🇺🇦🚀 Sybiha: "Ukraine's long-range power is the key to forcing Russia to stop the war. The further we can act, the shorter the war will be."

He explained that Ukraine's own potential in this area is growing rapidly, and the number of successful strikes is growing every week.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 7d

😵‍💫 Putin wants to remain in power until 2050, according to Daily Star, citing investigative journalist Ilya Davlyatchin.

73-year-old Putin would like to retain power until he is 97, and then possibly hand it over to his son, Ivan. He is currently 10 years old and will be 35 in 2050.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 7d

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, entrenched in a long-standing brawl with Brussels and Kyiv, found an unexpected obstacle — U.S. President Donald Trump's U-turns.

Orban's unexpected headache — Trump's offensive against Russian energy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, entrenched in a long-standing brawl with Brussels and Kyiv, found an unexpected obstacle — U.S. President Donald Trump's U-turns. Trump's expected Budapest summ...

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 10d

Russia Unmasked: FSB officer Grigory Alfeyev who played the role of the Russian Orthodox Church bishop "Metropolitan Hilarion" for decades, 2nd in command to "Patriarch Kirill," at the FSB headquarters shooting range in Moscow, which is of course only accessible to FSB employees.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10d

Another two oil refineries were hit by Ukraine yesterday. Russia is running massive, unsustainable deficits. Tick-Tock Russia...

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11d

The term "ruscism" first appeared in 1990 in an article by journalist Nikolai Andreev, who criticized the militarist views of writer Carem Rash.

The concept emphasizes the aggressive nature of Russian policy, ultranationalism, a cult of strength, expansionism, & chauvinism

📹:Voice of America,2023

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rob1477.bsky.social @rob1477.bsky.social · 11d

So there is no point in further negotiations and even Trump should acknowledge that the destruction of the Russian economy and the resulting collapse of the nation is the only way to reach a lasting peace. A Russian may never be allowed to exist.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 11d

Uh-huh.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 11d

Day 1343 of my 3 day war. I asked my generals how they plan to give security guarantees for Europe when they can't provide them for Russia.

I remain a master strategist.

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rob1477.bsky.social @rob1477.bsky.social · 11d

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rob1477.bsky.social @rob1477.bsky.social · 11d

Is Trump going to bomb these vessels as he does with the narco boats?

www.ft.com/content/5299...

Lakshmi Mittal’s energy venture bought Russian oil transported on blacklisted ships

Indian refinery received at least four crude shipments this year worth almost $280mn on sanctions-listed vessels

www.ft.com

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rob1477.bsky.social @rob1477.bsky.social · 11d

Is Trump going to bomb these vessels as he does with the narco boats?

www.ft.com/content/5299...

Lakshmi Mittal’s energy venture bought Russian oil transported on blacklisted ships

Indian refinery received at least four crude shipments this year worth almost $280mn on sanctions-listed vessels

www.ft.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you Will Bunch

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12d

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down

From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.

www.inquirer.com

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JB @jbonbluesky.bsky.social · 12d

#Nonfiction #Books #Booksky #USPolitics

“Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead.”

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 BREAKING: Estonia-based Fast Bunkering secretly refueling Russian shadow fleet oil tankers in the Baltic Sea for years with transponders turned off.
Owned by ethnic Russian Aleksei Tšulets born in 1960 Kremlin-occupied Estonia & Russian Sergei Pasters.
www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...

Baltic companies secretly fuelling Russia’s shadow fleet

Every day, Russian tankers carry billions of dollars’ worth of oil across the Baltic Sea. Despite sweeping Western sanct...

www.lrt.lt

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 12d

- ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek - to a series of war-related questions in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.
Source: isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12d

🇪🇪 The Estonian Armed Forces shot down an unknown UAV near the military town of Reedo in the southeast of the country, — ERR

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 12d

„Europe should keep trying to retain American forces, he said, but must stop basing its security on them.“

Europe must build its own deterrent as U.S. reliability wanes, German security scholar says - English Section

www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Art...

Europe must build its own deterrent as U.S. reliability wanes, German security scholar says

Europe has a window to build a joint security architecture that deters Russia while Moscow is tied down in Ukraine, but it should not rely on the United States to guarantee its defense, German analyst...

www.polskieradio.pl

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13d

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 12d

🌑 Russia: Half of the population of the occupied Sakhalin Island lost electricity. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital, is also without water. Officially, lightning strike on a power line between two substations is blamed, but witnesses saw a big flash at the thermal powerplant.

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 12d

West must drop ‘deterred’ posture as Lithuania battles border incursions, insisting Moscow ‘will never be interested in peace,’ Ex-NATO Commander said in an interview with Kyiv Post.

www.kyivpost.com/post/63063

Scrap ‘Air Policing’ for Alert Status, Ex-NATO Commander Demands Amid Russia ‘Hybrid’ War

In an interview with Kyiv Post, General Philip Breedlove says West must drop ‘deterred’ posture as Lithuania battles border incursions, insisting Moscow ‘will never be interested in peace’

www.kyivpost.com

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 12d

After Trump's recent sanctions and US intelligence operations that he greenlit to help Ukraine effectively target and destroy Russian oil infrastructure starting in August, Lukoil stock price is now 5,120, down 20% in just the last 5 days.
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · Sep 24

🧵💥 Ukraine's masterful strategy to force Russia to close its oil wells, expensive to reopen if not impossible.
1) Oil refinery strikes - domestic fuel crisis and storage problem for surplus crude oil.
Salavat Oil Refinery struck again. Refining capacity of 10 million tons/year.

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 13d

Sahra Wagenknecht hat immer den richtigen Riecher

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13d

Last week, at a meeting in the Ramstein format, the defense ministers of Ukraine and Germany signed an agreement that provides for the creation of a joint production of Lynx in Ukraine. Rheinmetall plans to open the plant by the end of 2025.

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rob1477.bsky.social @rob1477.bsky.social · 14d

This is ultimate gangster sh!t.
No other gangster will be able to pull this off!