We tend to overlook the fact that there are indeed many significant and powerful figures in the Islamic Republic and the IRGC who rely on the continuation of sanctions for their earnings.

👇🎯 Democracy Dies in Unilateral Disarmament in the face of far right authoritarianism

A disgraceful reality of our era is the lack of anger and condemnation towards Moscow for the enormous massacres of Ukrainian civilians it perpetrated especially in Mariupol. Nobody knows the death toll, but it is clearly in the tens of thousands. And the criminal state is destroying the evidence.

Lufthansa axes 20,000 ‘unprofitable’ flights to save jet fuel Airline says jet fuel costs have doubled since the start of the Iran conflict.

Wie großartig es jetzt wäre, wenn es in Europa ein funktionierendes Hochgeschwindigkeits-Bahnnetz gäbe.

It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.

🇷🇺A Russian woman says that mothers and wives are forcing men to go to war for money. She believes they don’t care about people — only about profit.

💥Days after Viktor Orbán lost reelection, Hungary's data protection authority is investigating Webloc — an Israeli tool that harvests mobile ad data for mass surveillance, likely violating GDPR. We exposed its use by Hungary on @vsquare.bsky.social with @citizenlab.ca: vsquare.org/goulash-with...

'It's disrespectful to come to Moscow and not Kyiv' — Zelensky voices doubts as meeting with Witkoff, Kushner expected President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced doubts about peace talks in an April 20 interview, as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to meet with Ukrainian officials amid stalled negotia...

⚡️'It's disrespectful to come to Moscow and not Kyiv' — Zelensky voices doubts as meeting with Witkoff, Kushner expected.

Never mind that the supposedly fractious Italian system has had less Prime Ministers serving for longer on average than the UK system since 2007

Europe’s highest court has ruled Hungary’s anti LGBTI law violates EU law and values.

Péter Magyar’s pro EU stance now faces a clear test: commit to withdrawing the law and reversing the Pride ban.

No action means no credibility.

Wie kommen Männer eigentlich auf die Idee, sie könnten Frauen durch die unverlangte Zusendung von Fotos ihres Geschlechtsorgans dazu bringen, vielleicht doch noch was mit ihnen anzufangen?
Und was soll sexuelle Belästigung sein, wenn nicht das? 🤯

A rather menacing tweet from Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna.

If I had to characterise the coming foreign policy change, I would say that, with Magyar in charge, the EU will still have a bloc allied to Israel -- Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary -- but with Orbán out of the picture, Netanyahu will have lost a personal ally and protector.

In 1891, Gustave Trouvé, a versatile engineer and electrical specialist, developed a small mechanical bird.
Its wing flapping was powered by the explosion of 12 revolver cartridges contained in a cylinder.
The noisy little bird is said to have flown between 60 & 80 meters.

Paris 1958, cars everywhere and Notre Dame blackened by pollution... #vintage #photography #paris

Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.

The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible:

Ukrainian language movie made in USA 1964 complete restored Jack Palance українською YouTube video by Ed Monton

So sad this film about a Ukrainian diaspora parade in Washington DC in 1964 has not even 2,000 views. It was a big deal and is a very important historical document.

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Damit sich das mit dem in Terminator 2 voraugesagten Weltuntergang 2029 ausgeht, wäre es schlau eine Trump-KI loszulassen.

Many of the political “shifts” proclaimed in the media are mainly media adjustments to political reality — and usually only a short phase in the movement to another simplified generalization.

Imagine being British, literally a nation of nations, and feeling uncomfortable about people having conflicting allegiances

Called this a while back. He’s been joking/not joking about it for some time.

I believe the feeling is shared by many IRGC officials.

A grandfather serving in the Ukrainian army came to visit his grandchildren, and this reunion became a truly heartwarming celebration.

These short moments together are the most precious thing right now.
Because behind every soldier, there is a family that loves, waits, and believes. 💙💛

France is preparing Europe for defence without the USA **In French thinking on security, the assumption that Europe must be ready to defend the continent without the involvement of the United States is becoming increasingly explicit.**

"the “European” variant of Baltic defence would require the use of around 12 divisions (comprising 40–50 brigades in total), with approximately 200,000 troops altogether."

A hefty chunk of these, possibly even half, would be Finns.

Better prevent war than fight it.

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No European country should allow Fico to use their airspace to fly to Moscow

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes has to rank among the greatest casting coups in history.

He's so good I sometimes believe in time travel. That someone went back in time and got Arthur Conan Doyle to invent Sherlock Holmes just so Jeremy Brett could play him a hundred years later.

Servus Österreich 🇦🇹 Opfer von #HassImNetz und #Rassismus scheinen Frauenministerin Claudia Bauer (ÖVP) weniger finanzierungswürdig zu sein als die Dialekt-Kurse für Migranten.

Instagram-Post: „Zara steht vor dem Aus“

Es ist alarmierend, was ZARA gerade schrieb:

Das Bundeskanzleramt hat vollständig & mitten im laufenden Jahr die Förderung der Beratungsstelle #GegenHassimNetz gestrichen - das ist österreichweit die wichtigste Anlaufstelle für Betroffene digitaler Gewalt

Es ist wichtig, dass die Förderung bleibt!

Russian economy is faltering despite oil windfall, Sweden warns Stockholm’s military intelligence head says Moscow is manipulating data to make its economy look better

Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social

It's silly and wrong to act like Trump was gonna be committed to pacifist foreign policy before the Israelis blackmailed him. And, yes, it is in fact anti-Semitic. For one thing, there's evidently a section of the American military establishment who have been gagging for war with Iran for decades.