Yes, "against Ukraine", as actions speak louder than words.

The blockade won't break Iran in a few days. But I'll say this. If the West had blockaded Russia in 2022, Putin wouldn't still be killing innocents in Ukraine. This is the only way to deal with thuggish, resource-rich autocracies: cut off their lifeblood...
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Vier Jahre Befreiung von Butscha: "Augen öffnen für die Gräueltaten" Butscha steht als Symbol für Mord und Folter an ukrainischen Zivilisten durch Russlands Soldaten. Heute vor vier Jahren wurde der Vorort Kiews wieder befreit - und offenbarte die russischen Gräueltate...

Vier Jahre ist es heute her, dass der ukrainischen Armee die Befreiung von Butscha gelingt und der Kyjiwer Vorort zum Synonym für systematische Kriegsverbrechen russischer Soldaten gegen die ukrainische Zivilbevölkerung wird. Rebecca Barth für die @tagesschau.bsky.social.

What's going on in the minds of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? | The Global Story YouTube video by BBC News

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I'm astounded at how the same people who now easily believe Trump has gone to war on a whim to prove US might have for yrs rejected every piece of evidence that Putin invaded Ukraine to conquer it and prove Ru might. "Ukraine is ours!" Pu pounds his chest; "Pu is cornered and fearful", they insist.

Jeff Bezos is right. There is no need to have correspondents reporting in Europe when you can get all that information from Russia. They'll even pay YOU.

by Benny Johnson and Tim Pool

Russland nimmt den Menschen in der Ukraine Licht und Wärme. Die Folge für alle, die hier leben: es ist dunkel und kalt. Auf der Arbeit, draußen, zu Hause. Ich habe versucht, das in einem kurzen Video für euch festzuhalten.

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Folterkeller in Cherson: »Ich wollte, dass sie mich töten, damit es endlich aufhört.« 59 Tage wird Oleksij Siwak in russischer Gefangenschaft gequält. Hier erzählt er, wie er dem Trauma trotzt – und wie es sich in einer Stadt lebt, die permanent von Drohnen angegriffen wird.

1/ Oleksiy Siwak gerät während der Besetzung v. Kherson in russische Gefangenschaft. Sein "Vergehen": sich nicht zu unterwerfen. Er berichtet über schwere Folter, völlig entgrenzte Gewalt, dass er sterben wollte, um nicht mehr ertragen zu müssen.

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I read about those two families from Texas (incl down the road from where I grew up) who moved to Russia. I've been saying for years that Russia is Janus-like in its foreign PR. It acts like a land of white civilization for white Americans/Europeans and like a decolonization beacon for Africans.

“We had just lived long enough to finally have everything.Now once again I have nothing,”says 93-yr-old Oleksii Fomych,with tears in eyes

He walked 7km on foot from the town of Rodynske,in the Pokrovsk district,to the Bilytske.From there,he was evacuated by chaplain Leonid Nomeriuk&police officers

Murphy's time to shine

OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland.

Imagine such a bullshit excuse today

Shaping in the South. Exercises in the North.

As long as there's no real pushback, Orcan can keep enjoying the upsides of shilling for ru

My trolls on our atrocities thru this war:
2022: It didn't happen.
2023: Missile fragments did it.
2024: Ukraine staged it.
2025: Ukraine deserves it.

He didn't prevail

@heavysaurus.bsky.social

Correct. Not the president of Russia.

Why I love genocide

It's rattling-o-clock.

Rattling amplification

At home, in school and in hospital: how hundreds of Ukrainian children are dying in Russian attacks With nearly 3,000 children injured or killed since the start of the war, experts call for bombing of civilian areas to be treated as a war crime

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refer only to NATO, they help Ru push the lie that Ru is afraid of NATO and create the false impression that if Ukraine agreed to neutrality the war would be over, which is 💯 false— Ukr was neutral in 2014 and had no chance of NATO membership in 2022 and Ru still invaded both times.

This is a very incomplete rendering of Ru’s demands and it helps Ru propaganda. Ru demands way more than control over Ukraine’s foreign policy. It demands diktat over Ukr’s domestic laws, regime change, and demilitarization, i.e defenceless Ukr. If it were abt NATO, Trump de facto conceded it.

While Kyiv and the rest of Ukraine burn, the Russian state collects over $6 bn every month in oil taxes. This is what keeps Putin's murderous war machine going. The bulk of Russian seaborne oil exports have to transit the Baltic. When will the EU finally stop cowering and find the courage to act?

Could be, but that's not the case in hand.

Context turns the analyst into a hypocrite. But sure, that was for internal consumption, where mingling with genocidal dictators is less incongruous, sadly.

Third World War, as in the war for their rightful place in the third world

"ready to consider"