Way to spoil a Sunday 🤬

Congrats to the Hungarian people for taking decisive action to make sure their country stops being the embarrassment of Europe! 🎉

Even if it is generally his playbook, the media (and the outraged left) aren't doing themselves any favors when they misrespresent an instance of him happening to _not_ use his playbook, rare though this instance might be.

You need to keep up. Already yesterday, it emerged this had been taken out of context & some German outlets corrected their reporting. Merz was re-stating _Sharaa's_ goal that 80% return. Hits different when it's Syrian president wanting his land to become an attractive destination for living again.

I was not only alive _during_ the USSR, I actually lived in it & somehow escaped being brainwashed by the hagiography we were made to consume from early childhood — v similar to current MAGA dances around the Orange Moron. Some in the West elected the Orange Moron, some believe Lenin was fine 🤦‍♀️

Not to mention that a chorus of China experts is probably already tired of explaining that realigning RU away from CN is a hopeless endeavor as long as RU considers its relationship w/ CN beneficial. RU will keep considering both CN & US enemies, & feign co-op while only extracting advantages.

Mind you, autocorrect is nowadays being categorized as "A'I'".

een poging om PVV-achterban over te lokken (met oog op volgende verkiezingen)?

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New Swedish Military Intelligence (MUST) yearly report:

- Russian threat is now even greater and more concrete.

- Capability for larger attack to control limited areas of NATO territory within 3-5 years.

- Even if Putin is no longer in power, confrontation with West will likely continue.

TaSas VysoSTky?????

OTD in 2002 Ukraine dismantled its final Tu-160, supersonic heavy bomber.

Having given up nukes, long range ability to threaten Russia and the entire firing chain, Ukraine was subsequently rewarded with invasion, concern and thoughts & prayers.

Ik deed ook een double-take 🧐

Een systeem hebben wij wel degelijk, want wanneer zoiets zo erg in elkaar gemept is, maar nog steeds functioneert (ook al beperkt/gerantsoeneerd), is het juist een SYSTEEM en niet gewoon een ruime hoop middelen. Een paar trafohuisjes gebombardeerd ergens in EU zou volgens mij iets heel anders zijn.

No words to describe this.

Relatively calm sea on a mostly overcast day. Two swans are swimming in the greenish-greyish water about 15 meters apart from each other. There are also a number of seagulls both floating in the water and flying about.

I doubt that this swan couple that was lounging right off the Lanzheron beach in Odesa a couple of weeks ago stayed around, bc the day after I took this pic, a ballistic missile hit a Turkish vessel docked in the port just a kilometer away from this spot. I hope they found a safer neighborhood.

A sidewalk lined with Christmas trees for sale on both sides. In the center of the pic, a diesel-powered generator is standing in front of a shop entrance, with the cable winding its way towards the door.

All businesses have long more or less solved their electricity needs. Streets are dotted with generators of various sizes and levels of noise. Pic again from downtown Odesa.

In Kyiv today, people will have electricity in their homes for 9.5 hours out of 24.

A sidewalk lined by Christmas trees for sale on the right; an elderly couple is standing there choosing a tree. On the left side of the sidewalk, a younger man in a dark green sweatsuit is standing in front of a fast food kiosk. Both of his lower legs are prosthetic.

Even in the midst of war, or rather precisely in the midst of war, people need holidays to be as close to normal as possible.

pic: downtown Odesa, Ukraine, some time last week

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Dude, are you for real? So many "Russia won't actually invade Ukraine" hot takes in late 2021 up until Feb. 2022 — and y'all never learn...

...hervereniging. In door 💩land bezette gebieden wordt mensen hun identeit uitgevlakt. NK/ZK-model is schaamlap voor dat 💩land zijn zin krijgt, en daardoor wordt zijn agressie beloond.
Dit is slechts in grote lijnen. M'r vd Horst heeft zich erg onvoldoende vertrouwd gemaakt met wat hij over schrijft

...volledig gebrek aan begrip voor het wezen van het conflict. China is niet Noordkoreanen aan het overtuigen dat ze zowaar Chinesen zijn en dat hun taal een minderwaardig dialect van Mandarin is. Noordkoreanen zijn zich nog steeds bewust dat ze Koreanen zijn, en dat biedt een opening voor...

...haten ze degenen die hen hebben geholpen. Ressentiment is gegarandeerd als iemand een beter leven geniet dan zij, dus russ. ressentiment ontwijkt je (als je niet bereid bent ze te strafen) alleen door jezelf armer te maken.
Tenslotte, het idee van model Nord/Zuid-Korea is onzin en getuigt van...

...zonder occupatie en met Westerse geld = hetzelfde als 1990e jaren. Na uiteenvallen van Sowjet-Unie heeft 💩land veel hulp gekregen, veel meer dan Oekraïne, en het einde van deze periode zijn we nu aan het gadeslaan. 💩land is een land dat denkt dat iedereen hen iets verschuldigd is, en daarna...

...en bedrijven. Van Marshallplan heeft West-D-land 11% ontvangen (resterend geld aan VK, Fr, enz.), en dat onderdeel van D-land was onder _occupatie_ door landen die de Duitse bevolking hebben gedwongen de oorlogsmisdaden van hun land onder ogen te zien en boete te doen. Naoorlogse 💩land...

Oekraïners bedanken voor m'r vd Horst z'n mening. Hij schrijft klinkklare onzin en dunkt zichzelf "volwassener" dan anderen. Geen grote industrieopdrachten zullen gemist worden omdat niemand in Oekraïne wil iets wat vervaardigd in 💩land is. Geld voor opbouw =geld in handen van _Oekr._ bouwvakkers...

I don't think this is a case of copying specific Russian phrases. It's just a common manner of speaking for people whose goal is to cast baseless aspersions in a deniable way, and I can totally see it coming independently from both old KGB men and from old Noo-York-based manipulators.

That face is a veritable cross with one of the previous Kims.

More ironclad evidence that this is a genocide.

I wrote a complaint and at least the subs are now mostly in the language the video is in, w/o my having to switch over. What YT is still doing is autotranslating an EN video description into Dutch (right when I'm not in the mood to practice Dutch) — and I still haven't found a way to turn it off :(