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Let me tell you what Islam did to Greece and the rest of the world:
In the 1.300 years of Muslim-Arab slave trade, approximately a million Greeks were sold as slaves just because they were Christians.
On March 30, 1822, the Chios Massacre took place. The Muslim Turks slaughtered (Greeks) 42,000 women, men & children. Additionally, 52,000 were sold as slaves in the markets of Smyrna & Constantinople. Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks. The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented.
On September 1, 1821, Samothrace was devastated by the Ottomans through a general massacre led by the Turkish Kara Ali. Approximately 10,000 men & boys were slaughtered. Women & children were sold in the markets of Constantinople & Smyrna (Holocaust of Samothrace).
On June 4, 1821, the Turks carried out a massacre against the Greeks of Kydonies in Asia Minor (modern-day Ayvalık). They did pogroms at shops and homes, looting them, while seizing women and children to sell as slaves. Simultaneously, they conducted a general massacre of the population, and the town was set ablaze and completely destroyed.
In Crete muslims carried chains with them to tie up Greek Christian women so they could take them away.
For 300 years the muslim Turks were stealing kids from their mothers. This was the most brutal thing humanity ever witnessed. They were waiting for women to birth, raise their kids, and then at the age of 8 were collecting the them. The devşirme known as "collection of children" or "blood tax" or in Greek as "paidomazoma".
After the Ottoman conquest of Crete (1669), local officials and governors began to oppress the Christian population in every way: killing, abducting and abusing women, demanding money, and preventing the performance of the subjects' religious duties.
We Greeks, called the Muslim Turks, "The grand masters of torture." In 1821, in Patras, they captured a father and son and, after impaling them, lit a fire and forced the other captives to roast them like lambs. Ali Pasha at that point was more inventive: When he impaled Christians, he forced their relatives to turn the spit, threatening that otherwise he would impale them too.
The Muslim Pasha of Thessaloniki, Abdul Abud, who had set as his goal the extermination of the Greeks, burned 120 villages and wiped out their inhabitants to the last one.
5.000 Greeks were massacred in Naousa, the rest were sold in slave markets, and the entire city was reduced to ashes.
The most common torture inflicted by the Muslims during the Ottoman period was whipping. The usual victims were the Christians. It was the introductory torment in every other torture, so common in the persecutions of Christians that the phrase became proverbial: "I will whip you until you change your faith."
During the Ottoman period, Muslims enjoyed performing all kinds of mutilations. Ears, noses, lips, tongues, breasts, and genitals were primarily cut off. Not just those, though. Let's recall here the newly-revealed Saint Raphael of Mytilene, who was hanged from a tree and had his lower jaw cut off, while the twelve-year-old martyr Irene was roasted in a barrel on the Tuesday of Easter in the year 1463, ten years after the fall of Constantinople.
In 1822, Muslims captured the wives of Zafeirakis and Gatsos. The wife of Zafeirakis was built into the wall up to the neck in the church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki. Maria Karatasou, daughter of a priest refused to change faith, and for this Ebub Lubut enclosed her in a sack with deadly snakes, where she martyred.
The Greek Christian Woman, during the years when Greece was enslaved to the Muslim Turks, in order to avoid -as much as she could- the abhorrent dishonor from the barbaric Muslims, would destroy the youthful beauty of her face, or create a family from the age of fourteen, believing that she would not give birth to slaves.
Muslim Turks committed the Greek Genocide 1913–1923) to create their pan-Islamic pseudo nation called Turkey. They killed 750.000
Muslim Turks committed the Armenian Genocide 1914–1923). They killed 1.500.000
Muslim Turks committed the Assyrian Genocide 1914–1920). They killed 300.000
Muslim Turks committed the Hamidian massacres (1894–1896) and Adana massacre (1909): 350.000 total
Muslims commited GENOCIDES and Islamized the Anatolia.
On September 1955 in Constantinople 4,348 Greek businesses, 110 hotels, 27 pharmacies, 23 schools, and 73 churches were damaged or destroyed. The exodus of Greeks from Turkey, reduced the community of over 150.000 (who have already left from the Fall), to fewer than 2.000 today.
Muslim Arabs did the Trans-Saharan slave trade (650–1900). The longest slave trade in human history (1.300 years). Estimates of 6–10 million sub-Saharan Africans. It was them who were selling black slaves.
Muslim Arabs did the East African / Red Sea / Indian Ocean trade to the Middle East and Arabia. Slave markets with millions of slaves. 1.3–2.5 million over centuries
Muslim Arabs did the Barbary corsair slave trade (16th–early 19th centuries): Estimated 1–1.25 million Europeans slaves
Millions of massacres in Italy and Spain by the Islamic Caliphates.
60-70 millions of people died in India and the Islamic pseudo-nation of Pakistan was created.
Muslims enslaved Afhganistan you stupid uneducated Turk.
Muslims enslaved Iraq you uneducated Turk.
Muslims enslaved and slaughtered the Christians in every single country you mentioned in Middle East.
No one of the events you mentioned committed because of a religion but every single historical event I mentioned you was committed because of Islam and the Quran.
Islamic imperialism and expansionisms is the biggest and most murderous in human history. Africa and Middle east are enslaved from Islam. They were never muslim countries and the people suffer under the sharia law.
In 2015, 21 Egyptian Copts beheaded in Libya (video released by ISIS).
Islam literally genocided the Copts in Egypt and destroyed this historical nation.
al-Qaeda did the 11 September 2001 (US)
11 March 2004 (Madrid train bombings): 191 killed.
12 October 2002 (Bali bombings): 202 killed.
13 November 2015 (Paris attacks, including Bataclan): 130 killed (Islamic State)
Islam is cancer.
Ottoman Empire and the Caliphates did harmed unimaginably the world and went the sciences and human progression 1.000 years back into darkness. Constantinople went from the most advanced city (The richest and most advanced city for 1.000 years) to the most underdeveloped city under the muslim rule (after the fall in 1453). Every single country in Africa and Middle East is now a destroyed country because of you. Lebanon was the Paris of Middle East. Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq all the cities were proud and beautiful. Islam brought only death and destruction.
You provide nothing to our world therefore you deserve nothing.
- Homer Pavlos
11 milyon insan öldüren Hitler müslüman değildi .
20 milyon insan öldüren Stalin müslüman değildi .
20milyon insan öldüren Mao müslüman değildi.
200 bin insanı öldügü Hiroşima ve Nagazaki'ye atom bombasını müslümanlar atmadı.
3 milyon insanın öldüğü Kamboçya'daki savaşı müslümanlar yapmadı.
12 milyon insanın öldüğü Irak'taki savaş müslümanlar yüzünden olmadı
500 bin ölümün olduğu Bosna ve Kosova savaşını Müslümanlar baslatmadı.
400 bin insanı öldüren Musolini müslüman değildi.
Milyonlarca insanın öldüğü Afğanistan'daki savaşı müslümanlar baslatmadı .
17 milyon insanin öldüğü 1.ci Dünya savaşını Müslümanlar başlatmadı.
55 milyon insanın öldüğü 2.ci Dünya savaşını müslümanlar baslatmadı .
Ruanda katliamini müslümanlar yapamadı
Cezeyir soykırımını müslümanlar yapamadı .
Sizce terörist kim ?
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Det här ger ju intryck av klåperi. Två statliga verk. Som inte kan dela väsentlig data med varandra.
Om det drivs med sådant monumentalt slöseri borde Sverige satsa mångfalt mer på inrikesflyget istället. Min kursivering. @sloseriombud @flygfredrik
”SJ vägrar lämna ut sin passagerarstatistik till Trafikverket. Det innebär att Trafikverket investerar hundratals miljarder och bygger i blindo, då de inte vet hur många som faktiskt åker tåg på landets viktigaste sträckor, rapporterar NT.”
Och… en riktig pärla:
”Trafikverkets egna kalkyler visar att 85 öre av varje satsad krona går förlorade. Förra året avslöjades dessutom att myndighetens prognosmodell i tio års tid blåst upp tågresandet, med en överskattning av nyttorna på omkring 20 procent.”
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My dear American friends,
Someone just quoted my post saying "the anti-fascists are bringing more fascism." He's more right than he knows. Let me tell you the history of that word, because nobody teaches it to you.
"Fascism" comes from Mussolini, Italy, 1919. "Antifascism" was born there a few years later, among his opponents: socialists, liberals, Catholics, communists. At that moment, the word meant something real.
Then Moscow took it.
In the late 1920s, the Comintern, Stalin's international arm, adopted a doctrine called "social fascism." The idea was simple: the moderate left, the social democrats, were fascists too. If you weren't with the Communists, you were a fascist. The word stopped describing an ideology and became a label for enemies.
In 1932, the German Communist Party launched "Antifaschistische Aktion." Look at its logo: two flags in a circle. It's the same logo you see on Antifa banners in American cities today. Same symbol, almost a century later. Back then, that movement spent as much energy attacking the Social Democrats as attacking the Nazis. While the left tore itself apart, Hitler took power.
After the war, the Soviet bloc made "antifascism" its official state religion. East Germany officially named the Berlin Wall the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart." A wall built to keep its own people from escaping. Called antifascist.
That's the whole trick. Whoever controls the word "fascist" decides who is allowed to speak. Orwell saw it in 1946, when he wrote that "fascism" had come to mean little more than "something I don't like."
Real antifascists existed. The French Resistance. The soldiers who landed in Normandy. They fought fascism with their lives. They didn't need the word as a brand.
Today, you live in a world of inverted words. Censorship is "fighting misinformation." Burning cities is "mostly peaceful." Disagreement is "hate." And the person screaming "fascist" at everyone who disagrees with him is usually the one who wants power without debate.
So here's the test. When someone calls himself an antifascist, ignore the label and watch what he does. Does he want to silence opponents? Cancel speakers? Get people fired, banned, deplatformed? Then the label is a costume.
I'm French. We've lived this. For decades, anyone in France who questioned immigration, taxes, or the size of the state was called "far right" or "fascist." Half the country has been labeled that way. The result was no debate, only exclusion. And a country that stopped growing.
This vocabulary is now the vocabulary of the American left. Every Republican is "a threat to democracy." Every opponent is "fascist." And once your opponent is a fascist, everything becomes permitted against him. That's the logic of 1932, recycled.
So, my American friends, before you vote, ask yourself one question: who wants to argue with you, and who wants to silence you?
The answer tells you who the real fascist is.
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Arab Israeli Yoseph Haddad at Oxford Union:
“I volunteered for the IDF.
It’s IDF, not JDF.
When Hamas and Hezbollah attack, they attack all of us.
When the IDF protects, it protects all of us.”
Audience screams “SHAME!”
His reply: “I’m proud of that shame.”
Then he drops the real story:
Maxim restaurant, Haifa 2003. Arab-Jewish co-owned.
Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 — Arabs and Jews.
That day his decision became 1,000,000%.
Later he commanded Jewish soldiers.
When he was wounded, those same Jewish soldiers carried him 3 km under RPG fire to save his life.
You can keep shouting “apartheid.”
He lived the opposite.
🇮🇱🔥
Ben Dover ✙ retweeted
Le grand problème de la plupart des gens qui votent à gauche, ce n'est pas qu'ils sont méchants. C'est qu'ils ne sont pas assez cyniques.
Ils croient que l'homme est naturellement bon et que c'est le système qui le corrompt. Tout leur projet politique repose sur ce postulat. Et ce postulat est faux.
L'être humain est, par essence, orienté vers son propre intérêt. Pas forcément méchant. Pas forcément cupide. Mais d'abord tourné vers lui-même, sa famille, sa tribu. C'est le produit de millions d'années d'évolution : ceux qui ne se préoccupaient pas d'eux-mêmes en premier ne sont pas nos ancêtres.
On peut le regretter. On ne peut pas le changer.
Et c'est là que tout bascule. Si tu refuses d'accepter cette nature, il ne te reste qu'une option : la corriger. Rééduquer. Amoindrir l'intérêt personnel par la loi, la morale d'État, la pression collective. Fabriquer un homme nouveau.
Tous les collectivismes ont tenté ça. L'homo sovieticus. La Révolution culturelle. L'année zéro des Khmers rouges. Chaque fois le même scénario : l'homme réel résiste à l'homme rêvé, alors le système accuse l'homme réel. Il devient saboteur, koulak, ennemi du peuple. Et on finit par éliminer ceux qui refusent d'être corrigés.
Les collectivismes ne finissent pas en boucherie par accident. Ils finissent en boucherie par construction. Quand ton projet exige de changer la nature humaine, la nature humaine devient ton ennemie.
La bonne question n'est donc pas "comment rendre les gens altruistes ?" mais : sachant que chacun cherchera d'abord à maximiser son propre intérêt, quel système transforme cet intérêt individuel en prospérité collective ?
Adam Smith l'avait déjà formulé en 1776 : ce n'est pas de la bienveillance du boucher, du brasseur ou du boulanger que nous attendons notre dîner, mais du soin qu'ils apportent à leurs propres intérêts.
L'école autrichienne a poussé le raisonnement jusqu'au bout. Et la démonstration se fait par A + B.
A. La valeur est subjective (Menger). Personne ne peut savoir à ta place ce qui compte pour toi.
B. Le savoir est dispersé (Hayek). Il est éparpillé dans la tête de millions d'individus. Le boulanger sait combien de pain il vendra demain. L'agriculteur sait quand sa terre est prête. Aucun planificateur, aussi brillant soit-il, ne peut centraliser ça.
C. Le prix est le seul mécanisme capable d'agréger ce savoir. Un prix qui monte dit "il en manque, produis-en plus" à des millions de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, sans qu'aucun d'eux n'ait besoin d'être altruiste.
D. Sans propriété privée et sans prix libres, le calcul économique devient impossible (Mises, 1920). Le planificateur pilote à l'aveugle. Ce n'est pas un problème de mauvaise volonté ou d'incompétence. C'est un problème d'information. Et il est insoluble.
Conclusion : la liberté économique n'est pas une idéologie. C'est la seule architecture qui épouse la nature humaine au lieu de la combattre. Chacun poursuit son intérêt, et pour l'atteindre, il doit servir celui des autres. C'est une symphonie sans chef d'orchestre, où chaque musicien joue sa partition et où l'ensemble sonne juste. Aucun système dans l'histoire n'a sorti autant d'êtres humains de la misère.
Mais accepter ce système implique d'accepter trois choses que la gauche a énormément de mal à avaler.
Un : l'individu exceptionnel existe.
Certains créent plus de valeur que des milliers d'autres. Un entrepreneur, un chercheur, un inventeur peuvent changer la vie de millions de personnes. Une société qui traite l'exception comme une anomalie à corriger se condamne à la médiocrité. Une société qui la laisse émerger tire tout le monde vers le haut.
Deux : confondre égalité des chances et égalité des résultats est le pire des cocktails.
L'égalité des chances, c'est donner à chacun la possibilité de jouer. L'égalité des résultats, c'est truquer le score à la fin. Les individus étant différents en talent, en effort, en choix, des chances égales produisent forcément des résultats inégaux. Et pour imposer des résultats égaux, il faut une force capable de prendre aux uns pour donner aux autres en permanence. On retombe sur l'homme nouveau. Par une autre porte.
Trois : il faut accepter que certains se comportent mal.
Dans tout système libre, il y aura des fraudeurs, des profiteurs, des tricheurs. C'est le prix de la liberté. La réponse saine : sanctionner les fraudeurs et ajuster les règles. La réponse malade : punir tout le monde préventivement. Chaque abus devient une nouvelle norme, un nouveau formulaire, un nouveau contrôle, qui pèse sur l'immense majorité qui jouait le jeu honnêtement. Couche après couche, on construit une bureaucratie qui étouffe ceux qui créent pour se protéger de ceux qui trichent.
C'est exactement ce qu'est devenue l'Europe.
Le libéralisme n'est pas une doctrine pour ceux qui méprisent l'humain. C'est une doctrine pour ceux qui l'acceptent tel qu'il est.
La gauche aime l'homme tel qu'il devrait être. Le libéral compose avec l'homme tel qu'il est.
Et l'histoire a déjà tranché.
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Parkinson’s Law – Why the State Bureaucracy Grows When the Work Shrinks
In 1955, a British naval historian wrote a joke for The Economist. Seventy years later, it remains one of the most accurate descriptions of the modern state ever written. Everyone knows the slogan: work expands to fill the time available. Almost no one knows the mechanism underneath it. That mechanism explains Europe.
1. The evidence. Between 1914 and 1928, the Royal Navy lost two thirds of its largest warships. Over the same years the Admiralty – the office that ran the ships – grew by three quarters. There were fewer ships and more men behind desks. Then there was the Colonial Office, which kept growing while the colonies left one by one. It was hiring while the empire was shrinking.
2. The first mechanism. An official who feels overworked has three choices. He can resign, he can share the work with a colleague, or he can ask for two subordinates. He never chooses the colleague, because a colleague is a rival. Two subordinates are a rank. So one tired man becomes three. Then each of the two subordinates feels tired.
3. The second mechanism. Seven people now do what one did, and they keep each other busy with drafts, approvals, and comments on the approvals. Everyone works hard, and nothing is produced. You have been in this meeting. You have been copied on this email. You have watched three people sign the form that one person filled in.
4. The law of triviality. Parkinson noticed that a committee will approve a nuclear reactor in minutes, because nobody understands it. The same committee will debate the bicycle shed for an hour, because everybody does. Bureaucracy does not avoid the important question by accident. It avoids it by design – the small question carries no risk, and on the big one, someone’s name goes on the decision.
5. The ratchet. A business that fails closes. A department that fails gets a bigger budget, because the problem is now bigger. Failure is the bureaucracy’s best argument for itself. This is why the state never shrinks on its own: every problem it does not solve becomes a new office for solving it.
6. The civilizational lesson. Burnham described the managers taking over. Parkinson showed how they breed. Put the two together and you get Brussels. You get France, where the state spends more than half of everything the country produces and still cannot fix a hospital. This is not because the people inside are wicked. It is because the machine works exactly as Parkinson said it would.
7. The vindication. Parkinson was dismissed as a humorist. Then Milei cut Argentina’s ministries in half – and the country did not collapse. It barely noticed, except on the bill. The lesson is simple: you cannot reform a bureaucracy by asking it what to cut. It will always propose to cut the ships – and hire someone to manage the cut.
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And then come the leaflets.
After the knock on the roof comes the paper. The whole sky fills with them. Arabic on one side, a map on the other, the block you are in, the road out, the time you have.
So many millions are dropped you can film them falling and write “the whole sky is leaflets” across the clip.
Phone calls. Texts. Roof taps. Then this. Israel tells the entire building to empty before it hits the men who turned the building into a launch site.
Hamas tells the building to stay, films the paper coming down, and calls the warning a war crime.
No other army on earth drops a sky full of instructions on the people it is about to strike. The leaflets are the proof. They just get edited out of the story.
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I didn't see the depths to which how much of Western far-leftism is simply anti-Americanism until I saw them defending Putin's fascist Russia with the same vigor as they defended the Communist Soviet Union.
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Flew back from Montenegro. Saw this monstrous wind farm, somewhere in the channel. Not a single blade was turning.
Billions wasted on medieval, UNsustainable crap.
Some rich folk are laughing at us…
Ben Dover ✙ retweeted
Som sagt…
Till slut kommer man till en punkt där man inte ens orkar bli arg längre.
Jag har ägnat veckan åt att prata med röstmottagare i Järva.
Det här är deras berättelse. Om kaos, klanröstning och fusk i en skala de aldrig tidigare varit med om.
Och det handlar återigen om Vänsterpartiet.
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"Ingen kontrollerade röstlängder samt i vilka val man hade behörighet"
Herregud. OCH detta är inte det enda vittnesmålet som säger detta.
Fortsätt gärna rapportera era iakttagelser, det stärker överklagandet och visar att det varit systematiskt.
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Look who appeared on Russia Today, the most famous russian propaganda platform, just this month, on September 10.
Of course she is parroting their narratives, like the good asset she is.
Francesca Albanese accusa la NATO – non la Russia – di tenere aperta la guerra in Ucraina, chiede di togliere le armi a Kyiv e, quando arriva il momento di spiegare come fermare la guerra, ammette: «non ce l’ho la soluzione».
Quindi l’aggressore resta armato, l’aggredito no e la colpa se la guerra continua è della NATO.
Una narrazione colonialista, complottista e perfettamente sovrapponibile alla propaganda russa. Da una relatrice speciale dell’ONU è davvero agghiacciante.
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2014 conversations.
Ukraine, "we're being invaded by russia. Russia is at war with us."
Media, "so... Separatists?"
Ukraine, "no. Fucking russia. The russian fucking state."
Media, "so, russian-backed separatists?"
Ukraine, "FFS. Fucking russia."
Media, "russia denies..."
Ben Dover ✙ retweeted
EU-bolaget låg bakom en stor del av Northvolts finansiering.
Man höll sedan batteriutbildningar i Minecraft och utreds nu för bidrags- och moms-bedrägeri. Till företaget knöts också Ibrahim Baylan som rådgivare.
Nu riktar tidigare anställda kritik mot bolagets vidlyftiga representation:
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Det är inga nya åsikter eller element som smugit sig in i vänstern.
Det finns en anledning till att varje skolbarn vet vad Auschwitz är men nästan ingen vet vad Kolyma är.
Nazismen tvingades till en uppgörelse. I Nürnberg ställdes bödlarna inför rätta. Tyskland omprogrammerades.Lägren blev museer och minnesdagarna skrevs in i kalendern. Hela västvärlden enades om att detta aldrig får hända igen, och att alla ska veta vad som hände.
Kommunismen fick aldrig någon uppgörelse. Vi stannade i Berlin. Först 1945, sedan igen 1989.
Därför vet nästan inga unga att Sovjet förföljde judar, romer, letter, polacker etc. Man lät en tredje del av Kazakerna svälta ihjäl för hamra in sitt system. 1,5 miljon kazaker. och ja sedan massor av andra minoriteter. Stalin krossade även den judiska kultureliten. Judiska författare och poeter avrättades 1952, kallas De mördade poeternas natt. Året efter anklagades judiska läkare för att vilja mörda ledare, den så kallade läkarkomplotten. Det var troligen början på något ännu värre, men Stalin dog innan det.
Offren kallades KOSMOPOLITER. Förföljelsen kallades antisionism, kulaker, eliminering av social farliga element. Sovjet uppfann orden som gör det möjligt att jaga folk och samtidigt påstå att man är humanist, antirasist, klasskämpe. Samma ord används idag.
Moskva spred mer än ord och inhemsk terror. Östblocket stöttade terror i väst. Stasi gömde och hjälpte medlemmar i Baader Meinhof medan dom mördade och bombade i Europa. Tyska vänsterextremister tränade i finansierade terrorläger i mellanöstern (Palestina bland annat). Och propagandan döpte om allt. Kapare blev frihetskämpar. Bombmän blev motståndsmän. Romantisering av perversa våldsverkare.
Västvärldens ”intellektuella” svalde allt. Che på tröjan. RAF som missförstådda idealister. Diktaturerna som spännande samhällsexperiment. våld är fint, bara det kommer från vänster.
När muren föll hände ingenting. Inga rättegångar för Gulag. Ingen ställdes till svars för den orkestrerade svältkatastrofen i Ukraina. Bödlarna gick i pension, med lön. De i väst som stött det fick sitta kvar, fortfarande vara med i debatter och idel inbjudna i offentligheten. Tiotals miljoner döda, men knappt några museer att lära sig av, inga minnesdagar media sprider ljus på, en notis i skolböckerna. Ideologin lärs fortfarande ut på universiteten som vilken legitim teori som helst. Och symbolerna bärs öppet genom Europas huvudstäder varje första maj.
Inga minnesstunder utan parader!
Och i Sverige? Lars Ohly, som senare ledde Vänsterpartiet, har själv berättat att han blev ledsen när muren föll. Ledsen. När Europas största fängelse öppnades. Han blev ändå partiledare. I hans parti var det aldrig något hinder.
Så när man läser att partier brustit i sin genomlysning mår man illa. Man har redan innan brustit på så många plan att det inte är förvånande.
Här ligger det dubbla sveket. Först svek vi offren. Tiotals miljoner människor dog i läger, svält och avrättningar, och de fick aldrig ens det enklaste man kan ge: att bli ihågkomna.
Vi byggde inga monument. Vi höll inga tysta minuter. Vi gav dem ingen plats i våra barns läroböcker. De glömdes bort för att ingen kräver något.
Nu sviks nästa generation, för det är minnesluckan som utnyttjas. Samma rörelse vänder sig idag till unga där de finns, på TikTok och Instagram, med enkla känsloargument på femton sekunder. Det fungerar av ett enda skäl: likhögarna är bortstädade ur minnet.
En 19 åring som aldrig hört ordet Holodomor har inget försvar mot en video om ”gemenskap”. Vet inte vad ideologin har i bagaget, för ingen har berättat det.
Så gör något åt det. prata med ungdomar. Kräv att dom läser något som är längre än ett tiktok flöde ge dom Solzjenitsyn. Kommunismens svarta bok. Anne Applebaums bok om Gulag. Berätta om Kolyma, om svälten i Ukraina, om de mördade poeternas natt.
Gör val med hela historien på bordet. Inte bara den halvan som överlevde…
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Where are all Western leftist critics of settlers colonialism when russia officially confirms its policy to settler colonize Ukraine?
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“Berlin will burn!” “We will kill you all.”
Russian state media has long fueled anti-West hate and normalized nuclear threats, not just targeting Ukraine.
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Yesterday, President Trump said that the US will ask Europe to repay the money the US spent on Ukraine.
My thoughts on that:
First and foremost, the people of Ukraine are deeply grateful to the United States for all the assistance provided!
Indeed, Ukraine has received real and massive military assistance from the United States - $67.8 billion in committed defense articles and services: over 10,000 Javelin systems, over 3,000 Stingers, dozens of HIMARS, Patriot, and NASAMS systems, Abrams tanks, Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles, howitzers, and millions of artillery shells.
Part of the U.S. assistance was provided as non-repayable grants. Aid to Ukraine also included U.S. defense spending and orders placed with American industry. The cost of aid to Ukraine and the economic and security benefits for the U.S. existed simultaneously.
First, the U.S. did not transfer $195 billion to Ukraine. This figure represents the total budgetary framework of the U.S. response to the war, which includes not only weapons and financial aid to Ukraine, but also U.S. troops in Europe, the replenishment of U.S. military stockpiles, purchases from its own military-industrial complex, logistics, and agency operations. As of March 31, 2026, out of $195 billion, $177.8 billion had been obligated and $116 billion actually disbursed. Moreover, roughly $4.2 billion within this system already came from allies via the PURL, PURL, rather than from the American taxpayer.
Second, nearly $50 billion of this amount was not aid to Ukraine at all - it was U.S. spending on its own troops in Europe. This includes EUCOM, the European Deterrence Initiative, troop deployments, transport, logistics, infrastructure, and sustaining the U.S. military presence. These were real U.S. budget expenditures caused by the war, but Ukraine never received these funds. Presenting them as an American "gift to Ukraine" that Europe must now compensate for is incorrect.
Third, nearly $46 billion more was allocated to replenish the U.S.’s own arsenals. The U.S. provided weapons to Ukraine from its own stockpiles, after which the Pentagon received funds to replace them. In effect, Ukraine might have received an older system, while new budget funds went to American manufacturers to produce new weapons for the U.S. As a result, these expenditures simultaneously funded the rearmament of the U.S. military and the operations of American factories.
In other words, tens of billions of dollars in military assistance did not go directly to Ukraine - they were converted into defense contracts inside the United States. Through USAI, new systems, ammunition, and military services for Ukraine are funded through manufacturers. Through replenishment, U.S. companies produce replacements for what the Pentagon transferred to Ukraine. The beneficiaries include Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing, BAE Systems, Oshkosh, AM General, AeroVironment, L3Harris, and a large network of suppliers.
Fourth, the United States gained just corporate revenue from this spending, but also new production capacity. Funds went toward expanding production of 155mm ammunition, PAC-3 MSE, GMLRS, Javelins, and other systems. The war exposed shortages in the U.S. military-industrial complex while at the same time providing the Pentagon with funding to address them. In other words, part of the assistance to Ukraine became an investment in America’s own defense industrial base.
Fifth, direct transfers of money to the Ukrainian government were far smaller than the political claims about "hundreds of billions." The largest block of direct budget support amounted to around $30 billion and was provided mainly through the World Bank for civilian expenditures - salaries for Ukrainian teachers and medical workers, pensions, and social payments. There were also humanitarian, energy, and economic programs. This was real financial assistance to Ukraine. But that is precisely why it should be distinguished from the tens of billions spent by the Pentagon inside the United States.
Sixth, the narrative that America was paying instead of Europe does not reflect the scale of European assistance. The EU and its member states estimate their total support for Ukraine and Ukrainians at more than €220 billion. According to U.S. accounting, the United States committed $67.8 billion in military assistance, while total security assistance from allies and partners amounted to around $130 billion. The accounting methodologies differ, so these figures should not be mechanically compared dollar for dollar. But they certainly do not show a situation in which America paid while Europe did not.
Seventh, Europe is already financing American weapons for Ukraine. Through PURL, allies transfer funds to the United States for the supply of the American weapons to Ukraine and for the replenishment of American stockpiles.
By March 2026, the figure was already approximately $4.2 billion. And in the first half of 2026, European donors purchased at least €3 billion worth of weapons for Ukraine from U.S. defense companies. In other words, part of the current system literally works in the opposite direction: European money → the U.S. military-industrial complex → weapons for Ukraine.
Yes, the United States provided aid to Ukraine, but not as some enormous free transfer made in place of Europe. In reality, Ukraine received critically important assistance for which we will remain grateful, Europe spent vast sums of its own money, and a significant share of U.S. spending remained inside the United States itself - in the form of new weapons, replenished stockpiles, a strengthened military presence, and multibillion-dollar contracts for the U.S. military-industrial complex.
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