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- Anne Applebaum:
"Steve Witkoff has no experience with Russia or diplomacy. I fear he imagines a US-Russia pact where he, his son, Trump's family or their circle benefit personally.
It's disturbing that American foreign policy conducted not for the US, allies or world peace, but for private interests.
Putin knows Trump is vulnerable to such deals ... that's why he keeps suggesting them.
Witkoff and Trump's entourage behave like Russians: capture the state, use it for personal wealth."...
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:
“What is happening now is a simulation of a peace process.
Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours. Now he has decided to finance it. These are already the longest 24 hours in human history.
Witkoff called putin a humanist.
I have interviewed hundreds of people released from russian captivity. They were tortured, raped, mutilated and subjected to electric shocks. One woman told me her eye had been gouged out with a spoon.
In Kyiv, I met a five-year-old girl whose mother had been abducted, tortured and repeatedly raped by russians. The girl hugged me, cried and begged: ‘Please, bring my mother back.’
My friend and colleague, journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, was abducted, tortured and died in russian captivity. Her body was returned with several organs missing. We still do not know how she died.
My friend and mentor, Professor Ihor Kozlovskyi, spent 700 days in captivity. He was tortured so brutally that he had to learn to walk again after his release. In his isolation cell, he gave philosophy lectures to rats just to hear a human voice.
He told me: ‘The foundation of our existence is dignity. And dignity is action.’
𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡!
We have acted throughout these so-called ‘24 hours’. We acted before them, and we will keep acting for as long as it takes to bring peace.
Thank you to everyone who continues to stand with us.”
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As they say in Russia, appetite grows while eating.
Russia’s top negotiator Medinsky says in Abu Dhabi that Moscow’s demands extend to all of Europe, far beyond Ukraine.
“The security system in Europe works very badly. The entire organism is sick. Ukraine is just an abscess that burst. The organism must be cured as a whole, a band-aid will not be enough.”
Dr Putin to the rescue of poor sick Europe…
The more Trump seeks to mollify Putin, the more megalomaniac the Russian demands become.
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EUROPA, EIN APPELL AN EUCH!
Die Russin Anyuta Stepanova mit einer dringenden Warnung aus Russland:
Ein Tier, das einmal Menschenfleisch gekostet hat, wird kein Vegetarier mehr. By Leonid Darmenov.
Ich wende mich an die Einwohner Europas. Ich bin Russin und kenne das Putin-System von innen.
Bitte denken Sie daran:
Wenn Putin etwas sagt, bedeutet das, dass er genau das Gegenteil tun wird.
Das ist keine Rhetorik. Das ist eine Handlungsanweisung.
Seine Worte sind nicht nur Lügen, sie sind eine Nebelwand, während er seine schrecklichen Taten vollbringt.
Und je lauter er schwört, desto näher rückt die Katastrophe.
Und hier ist das Wichtigste:
In der Ukraine glaubte bis zum letzten Moment niemand an die Möglichkeit einer vollständigen Invasion.
Für fast alle war es ein Schock, weil niemand diese monströse Blutgier und absolute Irrationalität begreifen konnte. Fast niemand glaubte an ein solches Ausmaß an Wahnsinn.
Aber es ist passiert.
Deshalb bitte ich Sie:
Wiederholen Sie diesen Fehler nicht.
Hier sind ein paar „Fakten” aus unserer tragischen Realität:
• Er sagte: „Es wird keine Erhöhung des Rentenalters geben!”
→ Was er tat: Er führte die unbeliebteste Rentenreform durch und beraubte dadurch Millionen Menschen.
• Er sagte: „Wir werden die Ukraine nicht angreifen!”
→ Was er tat: Er griff an und brachte Tod, Zerstörung und Krieg ins Herz Europas.
• Er sagte: „Wir bekämpfen den Nationalsozialismus!“
→ Was er tat: Er zerstörte russischsprachige Städte (zum Beispiel Mariupol) und versetzte die ganze Welt in Entsetzen über die Kriegsverbrechen seiner Armee.
• Er sagte: „Wir stärken die Souveränität!“
→ Was er tat: Er verwandelte Russland in ein internationales kriminelles Kartell und trieb es in völlige Abhängigkeit.
Wenn Putin nun öffentlich erklärt, dass er „Europa nicht angreifen wird“, sollte dies als direkte Ankündigung von Vorbereitungen für eine Aggression verstanden werden.
Das ist sein Lieblingskunststück.
Glauben Sie nicht seinem Lächeln, glauben Sie nicht seinen Pressesprechern und glauben Sie vor allem nicht seinen „friedliebenden“ Erklärungen.
Er wird nicht aufhören.
Er braucht keinen Stopp, er braucht den Sieg im Krieg – um jeden Preis und in jedem Ausmaß.
Seien Sie vorbereitet.
Seien Sie wachsam.
Die Stärke liegt nicht in den Worten dieses Lügners, sondern in Ihrer Bereitschaft, ihn zu stoppen.
Der Krieg ist bereits im Gange, für den internen Konsumenten aus meinem Land.
Europa ist der Feind.
Russland befindet sich im Krieg mit der ganzen Welt.
Verstehen Sie das?
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russian bots keep telling me Ukraine was killing russian speakers in Donbas.
Interesting.
I was born in Donbas. In Stakhanov.
I grew up speaking both Ukrainian and russian.
Nobody persecuted me for my language.
Then russia arrived with tanks, bombs, and promises to “save” us.
I lost my home.
But please, random internet expert,
Explain my childhood to me.
I’m sure you know better.
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Депутат Европарламента Ренье Ланшот: «Нам нужно создать стену дронов, отказаться от российского газа, отдать Украине замороженные российские активы и установить бесполетную зону над западной Украиной. Украина нас защищает, а мы делаем слишком мало».
Голос разума
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"Putin will wage war. I don’t know when, but he will. And you, Europeans, will be surprised to discover that this war is aimed at you, too... You think that what is happening in Moscow has nothing to do with you—that it’s our problem.
Putin hates people like me, certainly. But through us—in Russia, or through the revolutionaries in Ukraine or Georgia—it is you he hates: your democracy, your society, your freedoms.
Do you think his regime is merely a threat to us? Your awakening will be brutal."
Anna Politkovskaya, in Paris, 2005.
She was assassinated in the lobby of her apartment building on October 7, 2006—Putin’s birthday.
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L’ambasciatore britannico a Berlino Nevile Henderson il 6 settembre 1938 scrisse una lettera per spiegare che se si voleva ottenere un accordo con Hitler bisognava evitare di coprirlo di insulti. Le sue critiche erano rivolte soprattutto verso la stampa inglese, già molto dura nei confronti del dittatore tedesco. Nella stessa missiva Henderson sostenne anche la necessità di fare pressione sulla Cecoslovacchia per costringere il presidente a fare concessioni sulla questione dei Sudeti.
Dove abbia portato la politica di appeasement sostenuta da lui e da Chamberlain è cosa nota a tutti. Evidentemente non negli USA, dove al contrario sembra si sia deciso di rimuovere la lezione della Seconda Guerra Mondiale e ripetere esattamente lo stesso copione. Con la differenza che allora si puntava a fare la pace. Oggi l’obiettivo di Trump sono solo ed unicamente i soldi.
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Non capisco perché Zelensky si ostini a non voler andare a Mosca a trattare con Nonno.
Il suo predecessore Yushenko, per dire, si oppose tenacemente ai filorussi di Yanukovich ed è ancora oggi vivo e vegeto,
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Imagine how much better the world would be if the US had Ukraine’s leaders and Ukraine had US weapons!
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Zelenskyy sta bombardando i data center e Putin sta bombardando bambini nei parchi giochi. So da che parte stare.
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Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, pleaded guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion and witness tampering. He hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, filmed it, sent the tape to his sister. Trump pardoned him and made him ambassador to France and Monaco.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charle…
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- L’unico responsabile dell’aumento dei costi del carburante è Trump.
- L’unico responsabile della guerra in Ucraina è Putin.
Fine
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La balla della Russia "accerchiata": quando l'Urss crollò, i Paesi europei allora satelliti erano tutti più poveri della Russia. Ora sono tutti più ricchi. Vollero loro entrare nell'Ue. È questo benessere a turbare il Cremlino
@StefanoLepri1
stefanolepri.substack.com/p/…
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"Цікаво спостерігати,як перша економіка світу разом з першою фабрикою світу намагається врятувати другу армію світу від маленької кусючої росомахи під назвою Україна.Причому друга армія світу вже і Бога намагається втягнути в цю кепську історію на своїй стороні. І все одно ніяк."
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Ho ascoltato molto attentamente quello che ha detto ieri sera silvia salis a @OttoemezzoTW : niente
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I PIANI DEL CREMLINO PER PAGARE GLI INFLUENCER ITALIANI — Oggi è uscita un’inchiesta importantissima di The Insider, basata su documenti interni russi e comunicazioni riservate che ricostruiscono chi organizza e diffonde la propaganda russa in Europa, Stati Uniti e Ucraina.
Al vertice c’è Sergey Kiriyenko, vicecapo dell’amministrazione presidenziale di Putin. Sotto di lui, funzionari del Cremlino, agenzie e società incaricate di creare notizie false, manipolare le discussioni sui social e influenzare l’opinione pubblica.
Gli obiettivi sono alimentare la sfiducia nelle istituzioni, dividere le società occidentali, screditare l’Ucraina, ridurre il sostegno militare a Kyiv e convincere gli europei che le sanzioni alla Russia danneggino soprattutto loro.
C’è anche l’Italia.
Dai documenti emerge un progetto per pagare influencer italiani affinché producano contenuti contro le sanzioni alla Russia. Gli influencer, però, non devono sapere chi ci sia realmente dietro. Un dipendente dell’organizzazione russa scrive:
«L’importante è che non scoprano chi l’ha commissionato. Al momento pensano che sia un partito politico italiano»
Assurdo.
Chi sono questi influencer?
(Nell’inchiesta c’è davvero molto altro, consiglio di leggerla tutta. Comunque tornerò ad approfondire altri punti nei prossimi giorni)
«Двойники» Путина: кто стоит за кремлевской сетью дезинформации Doppelgаnger и чем они занимаются
theins.ru/inv/298284
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Questa è una registrazione storica.
Chi è questa persona?
Il video mostra l'attuale Segretario di Stato degli Stati Uniti🇺🇸 @SecRubio nel 2014, mentre esprime indignazione per il fatto che gli Stati Uniti abbiano costretto l'Ucraina 🇺🇦 a rinunciare a 1900 testate nucleari, e assicura che gli Stati Uniti 🇺🇸 "difenderanno l'Ucraina per sempre".
Sono passati 12 anni.
Ora Marco Rubio,
sotto la pressione di @realDonaldTrump
è uno dei primi a convincere l'Ucraina ad accettare la capitolazione davanti al aggressore russo…
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### Shimon Peres to Vladimir Putin:
“I said to him:
‘You are 63 years old, and I am 93. Tell me, what do you want to achieve over the next 30 years? What are you fighting for? Are you hoping to irritate America?’
He replied: — No.
— Does America want to take part of Russia?
— No.
— Do you have problems with Obama because of some misunderstanding?
He asked: — Why are you asking me this?
I said: — Listen, I am not a spy. You can talk to me about anything.
He asked: — And what do you think?
I replied: — America will win, no matter what you do.
— Why? — he asked.
— Because they are happy, and you are not.
And I continued:
When an American wakes up in the morning, what does he see? To the south, Mexico — and Mexicans are welcomed into his country. To the north, Canada, his best friend in the world. And to the east and west, fish swimming in the water. What does Obama have to worry about?
And you? Who do you see around you when you wake up in the morning? Japan, China, Afghanistan?
My God! They know you have an enormous territory, yet you give them nothing. You possess 20 percent of the world's freshwater reserves, but you share nothing with others.
And when the snow in Siberia melts, the first people you will see there will be the Chinese. After all, there are many Chinese in the east and very few Russians.
The second thing I told him was this:
America has the best ratio of land area to population in the world. You have the worst.
Twenty million square kilometers! My God! But you don't have enough people to develop that territory. Your people are dying.
Do not be seduced by applause or by what people tell you. They will never forgive you for this.
Why do Russians live, on average, only 62 years, while Americans live to 82?
And then I told him:
— You behave like a tsar.
What did the tsars do? They built two cities — St. Petersburg and Moscow — as showcases. You can find anything you want there.
But the rest of Russia is Nigeria covered in snow.
Your people are dying. You are not giving them the opportunity to live with dignity. Do you really think they will forgive you?
— Why is America great? — he asked.
— Because America gives. And why does Europe have problems? Because Europe takes.
America gives.
People think Americans do this because they are generous. I believe they do it because they are wise.
When you give, you make friends. The most valuable investment you can ever make is an investment in friendship.
America had the courage to implement the Marshall Plan. It devoted an enormous share of its GDP to helping Europe, which was lying in ruins at the time.
And by doing so, America proved that such assistance is one of the best investments in the world.
There was not a single European country that had not been an empire. The French, the British, the Portuguese — they all had colonies.
And what happened?
They were driven out and left with nothing.
Britain was the greatest empire, the empire on which the sun never set. It controlled all the oceans.
But even the nonviolent resistance of the Indian people forced Britain to leave, reducing it to just three small islands that it now doesn't know what to do with.
Believe me,’ I told Putin, ‘enemies and hostility are the greatest losses in life.
You are investing in stupidity.’”
— Attributed to Shimon Peres, former President of Israel, recounting a conversation with Vladimir Putin.
