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Llanberis - Gwynedd - N Wales
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Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
russia has run into serious problems with its offensive in Donbas, where its forces have become bogged down.
One of the main reasons was that russian logistics had been crippled by Ukrainian drone strikes. This campaign depended heavily on Starlink terminals operating on high-speed Ukrainian drones.
russian military command identified this as a critical problem and approached the American side, asking it to restrict the speeds at which Starlink terminals could operate.
The argument was simple: there would be little public backlash because the US could still claim that Starlink was operational and that the service was still being provided.
The Trump administration agreed to the restrictions, effectively solving a critical battlefield problem for Russia.
As a result, russian logistics in Donbas are now safer, and Ukraine has lost an important advantage on the battlefield.
Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
Ukraine’s given up 3rd biggest nuclear arsenal due to enormous US pressure.
And that’s the reason Russia attacked Ukraine.
Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
Latest: Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone."
He says Ukraine has done tests to determine whether SpaceX is truly facing technical issues, as has been told Kyiv by the US side, or if this is a "deliberate operation... to restrict us, cut us off, and prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people, both at the front and among the civilian population."
He says Ukraine "sent a couple of vehicles equipped with Starlink terminals into European Union territory."
"They moved at speeds exceeding 180kph, and the Starlink systems worked perfectly. We have the relevant logs and evidence to prove this."
He adds: "The conclusion is clear: the restrictions are in effect within Ukraine but do not apply within the European Union. In other words, this is a planned operation."
Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
Ukraine is so incapable of winning, has so lost the war to Russia long ago, is so completely doomed and has had absolutely no chances, that even the President of the United States is now bending over backwards to save Russia's oil economy from Ukrainian strikes, while corrupt fringe populists across Europe are howling in unison demanding that Ukraine finally be cut off from aid -- because here we are, nearing the end of the fifth year of Putin's glorious three-day blitzkrieg to capture Kyiv, and the great, invincible Russia is still banging its head against a wall trying to take the little town of Lyman in Ukraine's Donbas.
By the way, what's all this hysterical fuss about if Ukraine has already lost everything and is going to be taken over soon anyway?
Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?
As your European customers, we are watching you.
⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says.
Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com/this-can…
Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
Most popular chant in Glasgow tonight: “We are women, we can fight, we don’t need your fascist shite!”
Trade unionists, women’s rights and anti-racist activists. This is the real coalition fighting sexism, not the far right exploiting violence against women to spread racism.
Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
So I’ve been told that I’m not Welsh because I’m brown and look Pakistani….
If people are going to be racist towards me, at least get my ethnicity right.
I have part Bangladeshi heritage, not Pakistani.
And I was born in Wales to a white, Welsh mother. 🏴
Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 retweeted
A mother holds her child’s hand as they lay dead and buried from the Russians. Donald Trump supports this.
Why does it take Zelenskyy to say this.
Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it.
There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.
If they disappeared when Yandex went offline, this proves once again that Europe is not the source of the problems."
The big problem is that Russia figured out how modern society consumes information a decade ago, but the West hasn't.
There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content.
There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.
It doesn't just influence elections, it sows discord, engulfs societies in culture wars, radicalizes teenagers, and shapes political decisions when elected officials fail to read the room.
That needs to change. And fast.
Absolutely fascinating. Hardly any blue ticks in the replies. Thank you Ukraine. 🇺🇦
I'm testing the Russian bots, because traffic from Yandex bots is currently close to zero (check Cloudflare Radar). That's because Ukraine has imposed a ban on them — by firepower.
So I'm going to say the following things, which will most likely generate organic, authentic, human traffic, but without the bot traffic. Let's see:
* russia is a criminal state;
* russia is a terrorist state;
* russia is ruled by a criminal regime;
* Putin and the entire russian leadership, from 2014 and 2022 onwards, should find themselves inside the courtroom of The Hague Tribunal;
* Ukraine is defending itself against all of russia's attacks, pressure from the Trump Administration, and shipments of sophisticated components from around the world, including Europe;
* The Ukrainian people are, first and foremost, the ones whom we in Romania — and the Republic of Moldova as well (or especially) — should thank for keeping the russian Army at bay;
* The European Union is the best thing that has happened to Romania since the Great Union of 1918;
* The United States of America under Donald Trump has become nothing more than an empty shell of the values and principles it championed for decades;
* Donald Trump is a convicted common criminal, now also suspected of pedophilia and other forms of sexual abuse against girls and women in connection with the Epstein files;
* Elon Musk is an individual who has absolutely nothing to do with ethics or morality, not even remotely.
Feel free to add other things that might attract the bots' attention, and let's see whether they're still operating or not.
