Russia wants to implement containment of the UK???
RT @francis_scarr: "Military expert" Alexei Leonkov claims the UK planned yesterday’s Moscow drone attack and calls for Russia to warn the UK government that it will nuke "decision-making centres" in Britain
Host Dmitry Suslov agrees and says Russia needs to make Brits more scared of nuclear war https://t.co/jFGV8OwxD5
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Coming soon to the State Duma: The Infrastructure Bill: Build Back Better.
RT @NickKristof: Russia has been obliged to invest in huge new morgues and other facilities to process those killed in its invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian intelligence: https://kyivindependent.com/russia-building-facilities-for-sorting-storing-bodies-of-its-dead-soldiers/
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Apsveicu president-elect @edgarsrinkevics !
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Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources seems like the appropriate level for meeting the foreign minister of a country where 25% of the population lacks indoor plumbing.
Is Mozambique going to offer Russia a foreign assistance package to resolve its dire situation?
RT @mfa_russia: 🔴 #LIVE: Russian FM Sergey #Lavrov and Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources of Mozambique Carlos Alberto Fortes Mesquita hold a joint news conference foll…
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Korsakoff's Syndrome is horrible to behold.
RT @MedvedevRussiaE: The UK’s Foreign Secretary Cleverly has stated that Ukraine “has the legitimate right to … project force beyond its borders to undermine Russia’s ability to project force into Ukraine itself.” According to him, legitimate military targets beyond Ukraine’s border are part of its… https://t.co/RVAhQV8wU3
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Ecxcellent piece.
RT @LawDavF: R Delighted that @SotnykOlena writing from Kyiv and an adviser to the Ukrainian government writes on the long-term challenges facing her country. Powerful and candid piece. Reconstruction at a time of war https://samf.substack.com/p/reconstruction-at-a-time-of-war?r=15i4j0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1663837915766562817
Don’t see many of the countries that used to lecture us about democracy in the past 30 years on this list. Actually just one and it’s behind Estonia. 😃
RT @EconomyInformal: Liberal Democracy Index 2022
Top 10 Countries
Denmark🇩🇰🥇
Sweden🇸🇪🥈
Norway🇳🇴🥉
Switzerland🇨🇭
Estonia🇪🇪
New Zealand🇳🇿
Belgium🇧🇪
Ireland🇮🇪
Costa Rica🇨🇷
Finland🇫🇮
@vdeminstitute https://t.co/szdCPwbDxe
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The true scale of Russian combat losses https://english.nv.ua/opinion/the-true-scale-of-russian-combat-losses-50328379.html
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East Europeans shocked to hear the news.
“An Élysée official said: “What is striking is that it’s not the first, this is the third war that Russia has been waging in 15 years, with Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014, Ukraine again in 2022.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/31/macron-to-call-for-european-strategic-awakening-after-ukraine-invasion
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1663766559871975424
“Italy’s failure to prevent Uss’s escape raised suspicions about possible corruption, collusion or pro-Russian agendas in parts of the government or judiciary.”
Oh.
Attn: @MoniqueCamarra
RT @WSJ: A Kremlin-linked businessman accused of illegally exporting American military technology to Russia was arrested in Italy at the U.S.’s request. Then he vanished. https://t.co/fVkLJEZYX8
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The Kremlin, it turns out, is Motel 6 in disguise.
RT @newrepublic: “You have U.S. and European citizens looking for safe haven here,” Tara Reade said a press conference in Russia today. “And luckily, the Kremlin is accommodating. So we’re lucky.” https://newrepublic.com/post/173089/biden-accuser-tara-reade-says-shes-defecting-russia?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_source=Twitter&utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=social
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1663760573891321863
Thread on AI and social control in China
RT @CharlesRollet1: BREAKING: Protest signs and protestors' faces are automatically reported to PRC police thanks to an AI system touted by Dahua, a huge Chinese video surveillance manufacturer. Dahua calls this solution a "banner_alarm" https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-protestor-alarms?code=lfgsdfasd via @ipvideo https://t.co/tgftN09Z1r
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Russia’s Wagner Group uses Twitter and Facebook to hunt new recruits https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-ukraine-war-mercenaries-wagner-group-recruit-twitter-facebook-yevgeny-prigozhin/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1663597105108090912
@AgainstDenial @codename_karla Just as I reduce all anonymous posters’ statements to a 20% level of seriousness
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Thread on Russian war crimes trafficking children
RT @TimothyDSnyder: 1/3. This OSCE report on Russia's forced deportation and assimilation of Ukrainian children makes an ironclad legal case (and horrifying reading).
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/7/7/542751.pdf
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By Solovyov, Simonyan and Skabayeva, yes. The "many".
RT @GLOBSEC: He finished off by stating: "There are many who refer to the Hungarian position as brave, while other Central European countries like Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are referred to as American puppets." #GLOBSEC2023
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Given the 1997 FSB bombing
Apartments in Moscow and getting caught in Ryazan doing the same…
PLUS the minuscule probability of Ukrainian drones reaching Moscow…
*nothing* will convince me these attacks on Moscow are anything but typical Russian false flags.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1663444381146177536
After Putin's FSB blew up buildings in Moscow, pinning it on Chechens, there is no reason whatsoever to believe these attacks were the work of Ukraine.
RT @OlgaNYC1211: This drone attack on Moscow feels like something that Russia’s security services would organize, especially that it’s hitting buildings. Very familiar to FSB https://t.co/rNFFFsN3TS
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Suspected Russia-trained spy whale reappears off Sweden’s coast https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/suspected-russia-trained-spy-whale-reappears-off-swedens-coast?CMP=share_btn_tw
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