Thank you! Came to Bluesky now just for this very reason.

1/7 Let’s talk about Hungary.

Conservatives around the world praise it as a model nation.

They say it represents Christian values, national strength, and anti-woke politics. But almost none of that holds up under scrutiny.

Hungary is a warning, not a model

Es jau pus-pajokam piedāvāju, ka tos, kas kāro Rīgas domes krēslus, jāintervē, ejot pa Brīvības vai Valdemāra ielu līdz Pārdaugavai (vēlams pa Vanšu tiltu), stumjot (tukšus) bērnu ratus vai ratiņkrēslu, cenšoties pārbļaut satiksmi, meklējot pārejas un gaidot pie luksoforiem.

In today’s Vatnik Soup REBREW, I’ll introduce a Russian ultra-nationalist propagandist and “philosopher”, Aleksandr Dugin. He’s best-known for his blueprint on Russia’s geopolitical strategy and for his genocidal rhetoric towards Ukrainians.

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35 years of regained independence of Lithuania 🇱🇹 !

Through the hard work of our people, we have succeeded in building a free and democratic state—an active and trusted member of the EU and NATO.

We have achieved a lot, and many more accomplishments are still ahead!

Flow wins Best Animated Feature Film at the #Oscars

This is the first Latvian film to win an Oscar.

I wrote this before the Oval Office performance, but really, there is nothing to add. It's all still true.

How Russia-linked Telegram Channels Are Inciting Terrorism in the UK Russian-linked Telegram networks are actively spreading terrorism manuals, inciting widespread violence, and offering cash rewards for racist attacks.

Russian-linked Telegram networks are actively spreading terrorism manuals across the UK, including instructions for making homemade grenades, landmines, and more.

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Europe won't survive sleeping through another wake-up call. We should jump out of bed and throw on a shirt. We should do what we can, with what we’ve got. And we’ve got a lot. Here's how to step things up as the US steps down:

the only way to save civilization is to make the government stop the investigations into my company and start giving it a bunch of money instead

Baltic states have successfully synchronised with Continental Europe.

The list is quite long: the Algerians the French, the Americans the British, Finns the Russians, the Poles the Russians, down to even the Estonians defeating the Russians (and Germans) in 1918.

There seems to be secondary theme here too. WHO do the smaller ones so often have to fight?

OTD in 2022 my parody embassy in Canada reminded you that they repeatedly said no invasion of Ukraine was planned.

They were partly right. We had a plan. But it was a shit plan.

OTD in 1955 USSR claimed that allowing West Germany into NATO was proof of aggressive western policies that would make peaceful German reunification impossible

Imagine 70 years later us still peddling the same bullshit & it's the Germans themselves most likely to believe it

#HelloQuitteX Informing all those interested in Paris here was the public service mission of @Paris . Over time, this became complex and then impossible.

The city of Paris quits X in a very Parisian way

True 😂😂

In September 1939, the Soviet Union, together with Nazi Germany, invaded Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.

When Lithuania was defending her independence from Moscow, we were asked by Western powers to "pause" our struggle, to protect russia from collapse. If we had listened, our country might not exist today. Sometimes fighting is the only way to win.

Imagine that, getting cars out of cities and encouraging people to walk, bike, take trains, etc drastically reduces pollution.

Revolution will not be tweeted!

‘Putin only understands force’ Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine negotiations Kurt Volker on how Trump could seek to end the war — Meduza U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine by inauguration day. But in the weeks since his election win, the situation on the battlefield has been…

"The problem with Putin is that his demands are to take over Ukraine, so nothing short of that is going to satisfy him. You can’t start talking about ceasefires, demilitarized zones, autonomous regions [...] and satisfy Putin because he’ll never be satisfied." Kurt Volker

NATO expansion is a myth. It is a Russian lie. Here is the map.

After World War II the Russians militarily occupied half the European continent. The Russians picked their leaders. They wrote their laws. They brutalized their people and took whatever they wanted.

December 5 1994, 30 years ago today Ukraine disarmed itself voluntarily of nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles in exchange for security assurances from the United States, Britain, and Russia.

The Georgian people are fighting for their freedom. Pray for them. GD is Russia, Georgia is Georgian

Footage of the violent crackdown on Chichinadze Street

Video: TV Pirveli

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