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
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“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
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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/
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@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.
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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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Including "Redut", owned by Finnish citizen Gennadi Timchenko, kept off the EU sanctions in 2014 list by Erkki.
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More Russian war crimes. Trafficking children.
We know who is in charge of this. She even gets interviewed in the Western media.
Revolting.
‘I was so scared’: the Ukrainian children taken to Russia for financial gain https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/i-was-so-scared-the-ukrainian-children-taken-to-russia-for-financial-gain?CMP=share_btn_tw
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The armies are amassing.
RT @GeneralStaffUA: 🇵🇱 🇺🇦 Polskie armatohaubicy samobieżne "Krab" wzmocniły zdolności obronne Ukrainy. Zwrotność, szybkostrzelność i, co najważniejsze, celność pomogły w pozbyciu się rosyjskiego sprzętu na froncie. https://t.co/y9tSZf3w6h
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Except he was Ukrainian.
RT @MoscowTimes: Conceptualist Ilya Kabakov is considered by many to be the most important Russian artist of last 50 years.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/29/artist-ilya-kabakov-dies-at-age-89-a81313
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Cry "Russophobia! Russophobia!" all you want. What Russia has done in Ukraine has rendered "Russophobia" a quaint and risible term. It bothers no one.
So pray, Russia, that justice be done. Or be prepared for generations of "Russophobia", shunned by the civilized world. End.
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spat upon, ostracized. What saved Germans from that fate after WW2, Russians don't realize was Nürnberg. Imperfect as it was, it more or less satisfied the need for justice. And Israel got Eichmann anyway.
But without justice, Russians will be pariahs, kept out, unwanted. 4/
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Russians should fear this. Vigiliante-ism will hit Russians everywhere, indiscriminately. HUR will take care of the worst perpetrators of war crimes -- the torturers, the rapists, the missile firers, and not with jail terms.
The rest of "русский мир" will be despised, 3/
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The problem is, they don't know that they had better hope for trials. The legal system ultimately is to prevent the беспредел of vigilante-ism.
When you don't have rule of law, even internationally, and justice is denied and people will take it in their own hands. 2/
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