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That country with its primitve, medieval barbarism with modern weaponry just makes me want to puke.
RT @igorlachenkov: For russians the "russian New Year at the festive table" is the footage of ruined buildings in Ukraine. These are photos from Kyiv after today’s bombardment by russian rockets. This is how they "greet" us.
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Seems like the governments of Texas and Florida have far more what political scientists call "state capacity" than NGOs.
Like state organized trolling is far better at disruption than "people power" use of social media during the Arab Spring.
RT @Heritage: NGOs are helping Joe Biden and @SecMayorkas turn every state in this country into a border state.
We've got the receipts:
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The darkness is the afterglow of the bombing.
RT @ilvestoomas: Kyiv, under Russian bombing, now.
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Do I detect a lowering of expectations from taking London and Paris only last week?
Is the state of Bardakistan beginning to get to them, the real possibility that they may soon not even exist in the United Nations?
RT @markomihkelson: Russian propaganda is dreaming about the borders of the Soviet Empire from 1989.
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Kyiv, under Russian bombing, now.
RT @_venus1nfurs_: the night is dark and full of terrors...but the fire burns them all away.
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This is exactly right from the former commander of US Army Europe⤵️
RT @general_ben: Why do we allow Russia to fire from sanctuary? By not providing ATACMS, F16's and other long-range strike capabilities to UKR, we have in effect granted sanctuary to Russia which is able to kill innocent civilians in Ukraine without fear of consequences. Undefendable policy.
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.@NATO troops in Latvia sing the Ukrainian Carol of the Bells. Lovely
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An excellent thread and article from ISW, @TheStudyofWar, analyzing Russia's claim that sending air defense missiles to Ukraine represents an "escalation"
RT @TheStudyofWar: The Kremlin is framing the US transfer of Patriot air defense systems and trainers to #Ukraine as an escalation in US-Russia relations, despite the fact that the transfer is if anything less escalatory than previous Western military shipments to Ukraine...
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-28
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Yeah, Estland, one of those "Ehemalige Sovjetrepubliks", right?
RT @EconomyInformal: 🏆2022 in Review🏆
9️⃣ Rule of Law Index 2022
Top 10 Countries
Denmark🇩🇰🥇
Norway🇳🇴🥈
Finland🇫🇮🥉
Sweden🇸🇪
Netherlands🇳🇱
Germany🇩🇪
New Zealand🇳🇿
Luxembourg🇱🇺
Estonia🇪🇪
Ireland🇮🇪
@TheWJP
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Rest in peace, noble heroine.
RT @Gerashchenko_en: Vlada Chernykh, PhD student of National Pharmaceutical Academy, died at the frontlines under enemy shelling yesterday.
Vlada volunteered to go to war as a combat medic.
We keep losing our best people.
Eternal memory and deepest condolences to Vlada's loved ones.
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Lethal incompetence
Estonia, with the highest rate of IC hospitalizations has an ample supply of Paxlovid but @terviseamet dithers and won't release it to pharmacies.
Paxlovid has an 88% efficacy rate. That means 21 of the 23 patients to die 2 weeks ago would be alive today.
RT @MarkkuPeltonen: Covid-19, patients in intensive care in the Nordics and the Baltics, recent months. 29.12. (Finland not reporting during the holidays.) 1/2
Covid-19 potilaat tehohoidos…
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Fascinating reporting of the kitchen side of the Kharkiv counter-offensive this fall. How it was planned, how it worked out in the field. Genuine must-read
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offensive-kharkiv-kherson-donetsk/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1608412979338571776
Seem to be trying to fit them all in by NYE. Or to show that NYTimesPitchbot @DougJBalloon is a straight up legit site.
RT @kurtopsahl: Late contender for worst take of the year: NYT oped argues @signalapp is bad because users might not know it strongly protects comms from surveillance. I, for one, am a “witting” advocate user.
https://t.co/3JQ0gVTmOw
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108 years later.
Plus ça change...
Lemberg is the old German name for Lviv.
Trophies!!
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The Incitatus of the Congress, the horse made a Roman Senator by Emperor Caligula to mock the body.
Trump’s GOP is America’s Caligula.
RT @danielsgoldman: .@santos4congress has now admitted that he’s a total fraud.
He didn’t graduate college, didn’t work on Wall Street, and isn’t Jewish — all of which he asserted in order to dupe the voters in Queens and Nassau.
Santos is not fit to be a member of Congress. He must resign.
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This is terrorism, pure and simple. Why do some European leaders talk to terrorists and want to negotiate security guarantees for them?
RT @Euan_MacDonald: Christmas lights courtesy of the Kremlin: Incendiary munitions rain down on Ukraine’s Kherson. Death toll from today’s artillery attack on the city center rises to 10.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1606947666767790080
Another insurance scheme. A lot of these lately, aren’t there?
Cc @MoniqueCamarra
RT @TpyxaNews: #Russia: 'Vega' shopping center caught fire in Krasnodar, the area of the fire was 1,000 square meters
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1606947326299639809
This is terrorism, pure and simple. Why do some European leaders talk to terrorists and want to negotiate security guarantees for them?
RT @Gerashchenko_en: A video from the centre of Kherson was posted by the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration.
As of now, 8 dead and 58 wounded are known. 18 of them are seriously injured.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1606945570848968705
Strictly the behavior of a terrorist entity. The goal is to kill and maim as many civilians as possible
RT @KramarenkoMari3: #Kherson
On a day off, on the eve of Christmas, russians attacked the city center. They attacked the market, the shopping center, residential buildings, administrative buildings - the places where the most people are...
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#RussiaIsATerroristState
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From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
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