Saulius Markūnas
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❤️THANK YOU to every healthcare and service worker who’s out there today working, so the rest of us can take a break with our loved ones.
We are grateful. 🥹
#medsky #christmas #holidays
We are grateful. 🥹
#medsky #christmas #holidays
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
❤️THANK YOU to every healthcare and service worker who’s out there today working, so the rest of us can take a break with our loved ones.
We are grateful. 🥹
#medsky #christmas #holidays
We are grateful. 🥹
#medsky #christmas #holidays
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This is years before the war started and should remind us once again that Putin always wanted to take Ukraine. It also says that this war will never end with Putin in the Kremlin. It will go on until he is removed, permanently, and Russia fully dislodged. Everything else is just noise.
December 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is years before the war started and should remind us once again that Putin always wanted to take Ukraine. It also says that this war will never end with Putin in the Kremlin. It will go on until he is removed, permanently, and Russia fully dislodged. Everything else is just noise.
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Europe doesn’t need advice on freedom of speech from Americans or Russians
December 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Europe doesn’t need advice on freedom of speech from Americans or Russians
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Full 60 minutes CECOT segment in good quality and one piece. www.reddit.com/r/law/s/0AxA...
From the law community on Reddit: The '60 Minutes' segment covering the detainment of deported immigrants in El Salvador's CECOT prison, which was abruptly removed from CBS News' Sunday evening broadc...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Full 60 minutes CECOT segment in good quality and one piece. www.reddit.com/r/law/s/0AxA...
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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PM Tusk:
Now we have a simple choice. Either money today or blood tomorrow. And I am not talking about #Ukraine only, I am talking about Europe.
And this is our decision to make. And only ours. I think all European leaders have to finally rise to this occasion.
So this is all that I can say.
Now we have a simple choice. Either money today or blood tomorrow. And I am not talking about #Ukraine only, I am talking about Europe.
And this is our decision to make. And only ours. I think all European leaders have to finally rise to this occasion.
So this is all that I can say.
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
PM Tusk:
Now we have a simple choice. Either money today or blood tomorrow. And I am not talking about #Ukraine only, I am talking about Europe.
And this is our decision to make. And only ours. I think all European leaders have to finally rise to this occasion.
So this is all that I can say.
Now we have a simple choice. Either money today or blood tomorrow. And I am not talking about #Ukraine only, I am talking about Europe.
And this is our decision to make. And only ours. I think all European leaders have to finally rise to this occasion.
So this is all that I can say.
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When Russia talks about “liberation,” “one people,” and “saving Russian speakers,”
remember this: Russia is invading westward. Not NATO. Not Europe. Russia.
remember this: Russia is invading westward. Not NATO. Not Europe. Russia.
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
When Russia talks about “liberation,” “one people,” and “saving Russian speakers,”
remember this: Russia is invading westward. Not NATO. Not Europe. Russia.
remember this: Russia is invading westward. Not NATO. Not Europe. Russia.
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❗️Ten substations and thermal power plants were hit overnight in the Odesa region.
Kherson and part of the region are also without power. A drone struck a residential building in Mykolaiv.
As of now, about 60% of consumers in the region, including Odesa, are disconnected.
Kherson and part of the region are also without power. A drone struck a residential building in Mykolaiv.
As of now, about 60% of consumers in the region, including Odesa, are disconnected.
December 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
❗️Ten substations and thermal power plants were hit overnight in the Odesa region.
Kherson and part of the region are also without power. A drone struck a residential building in Mykolaiv.
As of now, about 60% of consumers in the region, including Odesa, are disconnected.
Kherson and part of the region are also without power. A drone struck a residential building in Mykolaiv.
As of now, about 60% of consumers in the region, including Odesa, are disconnected.
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Yes, there are concerns about rule of law, but they are on both sides of the issue. Should the law protect the assets of a few rich & powerful mass murderers, or should the law protect the rights & lives of their millions of innocent victims who are being bombed, tortured, raped, and immiserated?
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Yes, there are concerns about rule of law, but they are on both sides of the issue. Should the law protect the assets of a few rich & powerful mass murderers, or should the law protect the rights & lives of their millions of innocent victims who are being bombed, tortured, raped, and immiserated?
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Some worry this might set a precedent.
I hope it does.
Every regime that invades another country, committing countless mass atrocities, should have their foreign assets taken & handed to their victims.
This might get all would-be invaders to think twice.
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-gree...
I hope it does.
Every regime that invades another country, committing countless mass atrocities, should have their foreign assets taken & handed to their victims.
This might get all would-be invaders to think twice.
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-gree...
EU greenlights indefinite immobilisation of Russian assets | Euractiv
The move comes a day after Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever openly questioned the legality of the European Commission’s proposal to permanently freeze Moscow's funds
www.euractiv.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Some worry this might set a precedent.
I hope it does.
Every regime that invades another country, committing countless mass atrocities, should have their foreign assets taken & handed to their victims.
This might get all would-be invaders to think twice.
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-gree...
I hope it does.
Every regime that invades another country, committing countless mass atrocities, should have their foreign assets taken & handed to their victims.
This might get all would-be invaders to think twice.
www.euractiv.com/news/eu-gree...
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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The wall near St. Michael’s Monastery in #Kyiv
Here are the faces of the Heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine
Here are ordinary people who did not want war -they wanted to live.But when Russians came to kill us,they stood up to defend their country
This is the price Ukraine is paying
📹Oleg Kiy
Here are the faces of the Heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine
Here are ordinary people who did not want war -they wanted to live.But when Russians came to kill us,they stood up to defend their country
This is the price Ukraine is paying
📹Oleg Kiy
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The wall near St. Michael’s Monastery in #Kyiv
Here are the faces of the Heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine
Here are ordinary people who did not want war -they wanted to live.But when Russians came to kill us,they stood up to defend their country
This is the price Ukraine is paying
📹Oleg Kiy
Here are the faces of the Heroes who gave their lives for Ukraine
Here are ordinary people who did not want war -they wanted to live.But when Russians came to kill us,they stood up to defend their country
This is the price Ukraine is paying
📹Oleg Kiy
Any Europeans still on X? Cancel your accounts, come over here! @ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu
Vi får dem næppe nogensinde til hverken at forstå eller erkende det, men samtlige danske politikere og myndigheder, der fortsat bruger X, støtter galskab som dette. De bærer ved deres tilstedeværelse på platformen ved til det amerikanske forsøg på at nedbryde europæisk sammenhængskraft.
December 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Any Europeans still on X? Cancel your accounts, come over here! @ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu
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You know, in modern russian the word for "peace" and "world" is the same (due to historical and linguistic reasons).
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
You know, in modern russian the word for "peace" and "world" is the same (due to historical and linguistic reasons).
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
So whenever you hear some idiots who say "russia wants peace", you can safely assume russia wants all of it.
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"We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades, the degree of prosperity, etc. And we sort of think that’s the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945." lnk.thebulwark.com/3KeAwiL
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"We sort of take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight decades, the degree of prosperity, etc. And we sort of think that’s the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945." lnk.thebulwark.com/3KeAwiL
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We say the same. The French version of this petition has already obtained almost 24 000 signatures. The English version has just been launched. www.change.org/p/140-billio...
Signez la pétition
140 billion loan for Ukraine secured by Russian assets: Europe must act now
www.change.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We say the same. The French version of this petition has already obtained almost 24 000 signatures. The English version has just been launched. www.change.org/p/140-billio...
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The OSCE was established to keep war away from Europe.
Yet, Russia blatantly violates international law and OSCE principles.
The EU will stay the course.
Only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance.
My statement at OSCE Ministerial Council ↓
Yet, Russia blatantly violates international law and OSCE principles.
The EU will stay the course.
Only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance.
My statement at OSCE Ministerial Council ↓
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The OSCE was established to keep war away from Europe.
Yet, Russia blatantly violates international law and OSCE principles.
The EU will stay the course.
Only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance.
My statement at OSCE Ministerial Council ↓
Yet, Russia blatantly violates international law and OSCE principles.
The EU will stay the course.
Only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance.
My statement at OSCE Ministerial Council ↓
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Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
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It's snowing on the East Coast, so you might have time for a 6500-word Q&A on Epstein's early years...
gregolear.substack.com/p/infrequent...
gregolear.substack.com/p/infrequent...
Infrequently Asked Questions About Jeffrey Epstein, Part One: The Money Thing
The first installment of a mammoth Epstein Q&A, featuring Ghislaine Maxwell, Douglas Leese, Adnan Khashoggi, Robert Maxwell, Ehud Barak, Prince Andrew, Les Wexner, and much more.
gregolear.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It's snowing on the East Coast, so you might have time for a 6500-word Q&A on Epstein's early years...
gregolear.substack.com/p/infrequent...
gregolear.substack.com/p/infrequent...
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President Nawrocki:
It is also a lesson for the present day, a lesson for us: there are no agreements with the Moskals [Russians], neither in the 19th century, nor in the 20th century, nor in the 21st century. There is only lies, a desire to break one's spirit and a desire to destroy.
It is also a lesson for the present day, a lesson for us: there are no agreements with the Moskals [Russians], neither in the 19th century, nor in the 20th century, nor in the 21st century. There is only lies, a desire to break one's spirit and a desire to destroy.
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
President Nawrocki:
It is also a lesson for the present day, a lesson for us: there are no agreements with the Moskals [Russians], neither in the 19th century, nor in the 20th century, nor in the 21st century. There is only lies, a desire to break one's spirit and a desire to destroy.
It is also a lesson for the present day, a lesson for us: there are no agreements with the Moskals [Russians], neither in the 19th century, nor in the 20th century, nor in the 21st century. There is only lies, a desire to break one's spirit and a desire to destroy.
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In 1991, 92 percent of Ukrainians voted for independence.
Ukraine will stay free
Ukraine will stay free
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In 1991, 92 percent of Ukrainians voted for independence.
Ukraine will stay free
Ukraine will stay free
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Keep in mind: Trump put tariffs on Ukraine and exempted Russia
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Keep in mind: Trump put tariffs on Ukraine and exempted Russia
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And notice: 11 stars—the number of states in the Confederacy. “Americanism” is the new fascism, as predicted.
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
And notice: 11 stars—the number of states in the Confederacy. “Americanism” is the new fascism, as predicted.
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."