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OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance.
He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
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Horrified by what happened to our dear friend Heidi Levine while she was on assignment today.
“They just kept kicking me and kicking me,” she said.
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🚨BREAKING: This new chart from @TheStudyofWar overlays Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries with the price of diesel fuel. There is NO CORRELATION between strikes on Russian refineries and spikes in the price of diesel here in the U.S. They are not driving up prices here.
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Hundreds of IDF investigations into killings. But still no public outcomes, years on.
Here’s how we investigated how the Israeli military investigates itself.
Watch the full BBC Verify doc on YouTube now.
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Unfortunately fundraising virtually stopped and almost no donations have been coming in for the past two weeks we only raised 3,000$ which isn't enough to purchase new equipment for Ukraine. (Donation link in the end)
Right now Ukraine is in a very tough spot, pressured by the Trump who is demanding Ukraine should give up it's sovereignty to russia in exchange for a russian promise not to destroy it.
Air defenses are running thin and every day russia kills dozens of innocent civilians, woman and children, Christians, Jews and Muslims.
But Ukraine has no other choice. Proposed so called peace has no guarantees and only demands for Ukraine to surrender.
At the same time Ukraine stands, Ukraine fights and not giving up.
I wanna thank every national of every country that supports Ukraine and didn't give up on us. I want to thank you everyone who understands that buying russia kills woman and children and brings no economic benefits.
And I want to thank to everyone who donated and shared Ukrainian fundraisers such as the one below.
Please like, share and comment and donate. It's critical during these complicated times .
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While the USA is turning against Ukraine and trying to side with russia, as individuals we can help Ukraine despite Trump's love affair with putin. (Please like and repost)
I am fundraising for non lethal engineering equipment for Ukraine. (Donation link in the end)
This equipment is used to build bunkers and a shelters to save Ukrainian lives from russian bombs, missiles and drones.
Donations are tax deductible within the USA.
The goal is to raise 100,000 with only 27,000$ collected.
Please donate using the link below
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More vatnik tears. A Russian court proved a long time ago that Russian troops had invaded Ukraine well before 2022.
In a November 10, 2021 judgment, a Russian court in Rostov-on-Don convicted Vyacheslav Zabaluyev in a bribery case involving the supply of food to Russian military units “deployed in the territory of the DPR and LPR.” The judgment describes regular shipments of food from Russia to those units in 2018–2019.
This is not speculation or a media report. It is a Russian court judgment documenting supplies to Russian military units on occupied Ukrainian territory before 2022.
Excerpt from the court's decision: "Russian military personnel on combat duty in the DPR."
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«I veri responsabili di quanto sta accadendo siamo noi. Noi, e non Putin. Il fatto che la nostra reazione a lui e alle sue ciniche manipolazioni si sia limitata a sparuti barbottii da cucina gli ha garantito l’impunità. La nostra apatia è stata senza confini e ha concesso a Putin indulgenza plenaria.» - Anna Politovskaya, La Russia di Putin.
Esattamente 20 anni fa Vladimir Putin si è fatto il più bel regalo di compleanno di sempre, facendo eliminare a colpi di pistola Anna Politovskaya, giornalista, attivista e oppositrice, uccisa nell'androne della sua casa a Mosca.
Anna ha utilizzato il tempo che la vita le ha concesso a denunciare i crimini del regime che stava allungando i suoi tentacoli sul paese, a combattere contro le ingiustizie e le crescenti restrizioni alle libertà politiche e individuali. E per questo ha pagato il prezzo più alto. Tutto questo oggi riguarda anche noi.
Leggiamo le sue parole. Confrontiamole con quelle dei tanti politici che anche da noi sono pronti a barattare la nostra sicurezza in cambio di voti, che ci raccontano che la Russia di Putin "non è un pericolo". E domandiamoci se con la loro viltà abbiano scelto di onorare la memoria di Anna o piuttosto di legittimare il mondo di violenza, oppressione e morte che sta costruendo chi l'ha ammazzata.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, in 1999 NATO didn’t move eastward. It was Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic moving to the West.
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There is a lot of talk about plague in Russia so we thought we would write about Russian biolabs and the incidents they have let happen. Anthrax in 1979, smallpox in 1971, Marburg, Ebola... and each time an official explanation that hid the truth and then fell apart.
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The dumbest people on Twitter say "NATO" justifies russia's 2014 invasion & 2022 escalation. A multidimensionally, fractally wrong argument.🧵
1. Putin spent the 2000s declaring Ukraine a sovereign state with the inherent right to join or leave military alliances including NATO.
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An average person abroad has absolutely no clue about the number of times all iterations of Russian empire tried to ban Ukrainian language and erase Ukrainian culture. It’s important to educate people
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NEW: “They decide who enters."
To leave or enter the isolated villages in Israel-occupied south Lebanon – some of the only villages still populated – residents need Israel's approval, and must rely on UN-escorted civilian convoys.
But UNIFIL’s mandate ends in three months. No replacement is on the horizon. And residents are grappling with what that will mean for them.
We joined them on one of the civilian convoys to Debel. It took 35 vehicles four hours and three checkpoints to get there. This was what our journey looked like.
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Hello everyone. Today I’m starting another fundraiser to get engineering equipment to Ukraine, and I’m asking for your help by sharing, donating, and liking this post. Even if you can’t donate, sharing it genuinely makes a difference.
Plase watch the video with their CV90 Crew explaining the importance of this equipment.
The donation link is in the comments below.
A good friend of mine from the 21st Mechanized Brigade of the UAF has been working on improving the survivability and effectiveness of the 🇸🇪 CV90 IFVs and, most importantly, the soldiers inside them.
He recently reached out to me asking for help getting engineering equipment for his brigade.
This is one of those things that doesn’t look as dramatic as drones, armored vehicles, or weapons, but it directly saves lives.
A properly dug fighting position, trench, vehicle shelter, or reinforced position can be the difference between soldiers surviving an artillery or drone attack and not coming home.
Unfortunately, because of bureaucracy and often simple neglect by higher command, excavation equipment remains critically overlooked. It is one of the most obvious low-hanging fruits on the battlefield: relatively inexpensive machinery that can save soldiers’ lives and protect multimillion-dollar equipment.
The brigade already has several excavators, but they are in critically bad condition. We are already working on getting those repaired. But even if every one of them were operational, it still wouldn’t be enough for the brigade’s needs.
Their full request is for 3 excavators, transportation for them, a crane, and pickup trucks.
The total cost would be around $240,000.
I wish I could say we can raise all of it, but with the current level of donations, I don’t think that is realistic.
So we scaled the fundraiser down to $100,000.
That will allow us to purchase 3 excavators and a truck capable of transporting them.
It is still a huge amount of money. But these machines will not sit somewhere in storage. They will be working every day, digging positions, protecting vehicles, and giving Ukrainian soldiers a better chance of surviving.
And that is why I’m asking for your help.
If you can donate, even a small amount helps.
If you can’t donate, please like and repost this post. The more people who see it, the better chance we have of reaching this goal.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our previous fundraisers and continues supporting Ukraine.
Don't mind the snow in the video, they asked for this in march, and unfortunately I couldn't fundraiser until today. But we have been working on repairing their equipment and supplying some machines since June.
Donation link is in the 1st comment below.
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And if we extrapolate the events of 1938–1939 onto those of 2021–2022, then in our parallel reality Hitler was initially allowed to bite off the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia — but when he once again massed his troops to take the whole country and attacked, he unexpectedly suffered a crushing failure outside Prague and, even more unexpectedly, became completely and hopelessly bogged down there in static warfare for years.
And in this parallel reality, instead of being betrayed by the Western democracies as it was in 1938, Czechoslovakia did receive military and economic assistance that, while rationed and limited, was nevertheless substantial, and developed an even more powerful and advanced defense industry and an army that managed to heroically stand up to the Reich on equal terms.
As a result, at least to this day, Czechoslovakia has held out.
Hitler did not get Czechoslovakia’s industry and resources. There was no subsequent invasion of Poland. Perhaps the conditions for the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in the form in which it was concluded in 1939, would never have arisen either, meaning that Stalin’s Soviet Union would not have had the opportunity to divide Eastern Europe together with Hitler.
There was no defeat of France, no Battle of Britain, no occupation of Norway, no expansion into North Africa. Mussolini would not have gone much farther either without his catastrophically bogged-down ally. Japanese expansion in Asia and the Pacific might have taken a completely different course as well.
The Holocaust could not have happened in the historical form and on the scale that it did. There would have been no need to storm Omaha Beach.
And so on, and so on, and so on.
World War II as we know it might have stumbled, for Hitler, into a years-long slog over the ruins of border villages, just as Putin is still banging his head against Mala Tokmachka.
Think about that before asking yet again: why help Ukraine at all?
And don’t assume that Putin stopped after his own “Munich.” Like Hitler, he stopped where he was stopped by force.
But nothing is over yet.
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Bucha was documented by survivors, journalists, investigators and satellite imagery.
Years later, the Kremlin is still trying to make the evidence disappear through repetition.
Denial does not erase the record.
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Show this to those who say “Russia is not my enemy.”
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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov urged Russia to do all that it can to cause gas prices to skyrocket in the West. He described the UN General Assembly as a gathering of nobodies and threatened multiple countries with destruction.
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