"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; ... An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!"

Could someone please inform the Trump administration asap that Colonel General Oleg Makarevich of the Russian army, who organised the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in June 2023, has been sent by Moscow to train the troops of the Venezuelan dictatorship? […]

There's nothing more heartwarming than a taste of spicy Polish diplomacy on a cold winter's day.

The public disagreement in Washington over the 'peace plan' draft, which was drawn up and leaked by the Kremlin, proves that Dmitriev has been grooming Witkoff and others to wage a campaign to silence the sceptics of Russia in the White House. The confusion […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The second largest Airport in the Netherlands at Eindhoven was closed for several hours due to multiple drone sightings on Saturday. Drones were also spotted above the Volkel military airbase, close to the German border. The Dutch military tried to down the drones, but without success […]

A weekend - thread on "good Russians": With the 'Sarajevo Sniper Safari' story back in the news, its worth recalling that Eduard Limonov was filmed shooting at Sarajevans. He was the leader of the National Bolshevik Party, which combined far-left and far-right ideologies and had a matching logo...

The National Crime Agency's ongoing investigation has highlighted the Russian state’s eagerness to collaborate with organized crime gangs in order to destabilize Western democracies. Yet European nations are still failing to fight back and keep dragging their feet […]

The Greeks know how to talk to the Russians. On Thursday, the Kremlin openly threatened Greece following its decision to co-produce sea drones with Ukraine. Greece's Foreign Ministry responded by issuing a statement stressing that threats against sovereign states are automatically rejected […]

If our governments continue to fail to support Ukraine, we will all need to follow the example of Jan Polak and Martin Ondracek from the Czech Republic, who raised €500,000 to fund a long-range Flamingo missile for Ukraine's Armed Forces in less than 48 hours […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It's ironic that the US President exploits Mamdani's sheepish smile as part of his cheap theatrics in order to cynically extort the victims of Russian imperialist aggression. Trump: 'You remember, right? Not so long ago in the Oval Office, I told President Zelenskyy that he didn't have the cards.'

Déjà vu: According to the Guardian, the 'peace plan' document was probably drafted by Russia, as certain unusual phrases suggest that it may originally have been written in Russian. https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/odd-phrases-in-us-peace-plan-suggest-russian-1763742479.html

This is just one example of how the US is betraying its security assurances and strong-arming Ukraine into submission under the fascist Russian boot. Which European nations will have the courage to truly stand with Ukraine now?

It's no wonder that the U.S. has fallen to authoritarianism. The Pravda network has succeeded in invading the work of journalists, and thus the reality of much of the U.S. population and that of other liberal democracies, because journalists are increasingly outsourcing their fact-checking to AI […]

This is a reminder that the Russian neo-Nazi unit Rusich is offering rewards for the killing of Ukrainian POW's on its Telegram channel.The message reads “The first three people to submit a photo of prisoners who have clearly been erased from existence will […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A a billion-dollar money-laundering network that funnels funds towards the Russian war has been uncovered in the UK. Couriers collect cash from criminal activities such as drug dealing and firearms trafficking, before converting it into cryptocurrency and moving it around the world […]

Serbian president Alexandar Vučić, who received the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky for being 'a supporter of the closest and warmest possible relations between Russia and Serbia' may have been involved in organizing safari tours for wealthy individuals to hunt civilians in Sarajevo in the […]

It is appalling to think that Adolf Hitler faced more public dissent and resistance to the systematic murders and other war crimes committed by his Nazi regime than the current Kremlin leadership faces in modern-day Russia. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/64464

On the anniversary of the opening of the Nuremberg trials, we should remember USSR Deputy Prosecutor Nikolay Dmitrievich Zorya. He was tasked with blaming the Katyn massacre on the Nazis to hide the USSR's collaboration with Nazi Germany. However, he voiced his doubts about the Katyn documents […]

When politicians talk about the Russian war, they usually blame the current Russian regime, thereby exposing their naivety about Russian aggression. "Hoping for Russia to "return" to democracy or outgrow its violence is not a strategy — it is nostalgia for a country that has never existed." […]

NATO allies must realize that the U.S. has lost all diplomatic credibility and should be treated like what it has become - a true ally of fascist Russia. South Korea and the EU need to gradually replace the US as weapons producers and NATO needs to decouple from the US […]

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg trials the empire that attacked Poland in alliance with Nazi Germany—but was not tried alongside them—continues to act like unpunished criminals: the Russians bombed apartment buildings, killing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/115575247788728993 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/64464

The Russian opposition in exile likes to claim that 'ordinary Russians' are not guilty, yet "a civil society has suddenly emerged in Russia,a part of the population,without state support, that has self-organized and was able to develop and deliver the necessary supplies to the Russian army" (pp […]

Alina Poliakova's brilliant Interview with Roberto Patiño, a Venezuelan democracy and human rights activist offers a deep dive into the situation in Venezuela, adding a Ukrainian perspective. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/11/17/8007689/

Any negotiations for a "peace deal" that exclude the victims of the unprovoked war and European nations will only embolden Russian fascists to continue their military expansion.The US has essentially been occupied by the Russians without a single shot being fired […]

If the British don't care that "Mr. Brexit" is a traitor who took money from Russia to destroy their country, perhaps they'll take issue with being governed by a man who marched through a quiet Sussex village, singing Hitler Youth songs, when he was […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Karina Bakhur, a talented 17-year-old Ukrainian kickboxing champion, was killed today by shrapnel from a Russian "Iskander" ballistic missile that hit her hometown while she was running for shelter. Christopher Eppinger is a German trader who made $2 billion […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

With lobbyists and clergy members tied to the Russian Orthodox Church scheduled to meet with the Trump administration this week, it's important to remember that the church's leader has officially declared a holy war on Ukraine and the West, calling for Ukraine's destruction […]

Title 4 of the U.S. Flag Code, Chapter 1, states, "The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise."

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna challenged the popular narrative that Russia’s military is a spent force. He shared intelligence assessments indicating that the Russians will return to the Baltic borders with more troops and military equipment than before the full-scale invasion within […]

Yesterday, a false video about an impending terrorist attack on schools in Germany's capital spread, leading to panic among schoolchildren and their parents. Similar hybrid war attacks also originating from Russian Telegram channels already occurred in Latvia […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In this working paper, Halyna Padalko describes a significant battle in the information war that the Russians have waged by grooming LLMs to win over the hearts and minds of U.S. Republicans and capture the White House without firing a shot […]

The headline "Romania Evacuates Residents Near Danube Border After Russian Drone Strike in Ukraine Ignites LPG Vessel" is an example of NATO's flawed strategy. Although NATO's goal is to contain fascist Russia's aggression through passivity, the result is actually the opposite […]

To understand why the Russian Federation is the worst offender of modern-day settler colonialism and genocide, one need only look at Russian-occupied countries such as Buryatia, where the Russian occupants are doing everything in their power to eradicate the Buryat culture and identity […]

With the Epstein files potentially about to be released, it is worth revisiting the countless Russian connections. Maria Drokova, a former press secretary for the pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi, was employed by Jeffrey Epstein’s public relations network in the years prior to his final arrest […]

Like pirates, the Russians constantly violate maritime law by using civilian vessels for military operations. "The Ivan Papanin-class Arctic refrigerated cargo ship can accommodate the Kalibr-K mobile missile system." […]

Yesterday, Russia destroyed one of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical warehouses in Dnipro. The free world must understand that Russia's bombing campaigns targeting Ukraine's energy sector, hospitals, food warehouses, and pharmaceutical warehouses aim to cause a large scale humanitarian disaster […]

The unbelievable scale of Russian terrorism in Ukraine becomes clear when considering that the North Korean communist dictatorship reduced its shipments of artillery shells to Russia by over half in 2025 due to dwindling stockpiles. North Korea had recently supplied up to 70% of Russia's […]

While parroting slogans about "peace," authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a close ally of Trump, is doing his utmost to plunge Hungarian society and the state into a hybrid conflict that he himself has fabricated. Why? Parliamentary elections are scheduled for April 2026, and Orbán is at […]

“Since the beginning of the year there have been 800 attacks on railway infrastructure, and more than 3,000 railway objects have been damaged. What we have seen in these escalating attacks is that they are going after trains, especially trying to kill the drivers.” […]

"Russian military vessel operating near U.S. territorial waters approximately 15 nautical miles south of Oahu". The Russians will continue to strut about and pretend that their Potemkin - village military is 'mighty'. They will continue to scare the gullible […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently claimed that the U.S. has exhausted its options against the Kremlin. However, a leading analyst tells the Kyiv Post that the U.S. administration is essentially lying because it still holds significant untapped economic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Svitlana Anatoliivna Vashchenko, a kindergarten teacher, was among those killed by the latest combined ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv on the night of November 13-14. May Svitlana's memory live on, and may justice be served to the Russian […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In yet another barbaric act of terrorism, the Russians have once again emulated their Nazi role models by bombing residential areas in Kyiv. At least 11 high-rise buildings, a hospital, a school, and a sports facility were hit. When will the free world finally come to Ukraine's aid and close the […]

Today, on the tenth anniversary of the Bataclan terror attack, in which Islamist terrorists killed 130 people enjoying a night out in Paris, Arab nationalist activists climbed the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to demand a free Palestine […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Chinese communist dictatorship has placed bounties on two citizens of Taiwan, a democratic country that guarantees freedom of expression. If liberal democracies fail to defend the influencers Wen Tzu-yu and Chen Po-yuan, this brazen act will set a global precedent for other fascist countries […]

Russia, Russia, Russia, ... "“I think you might suggest to Putin that Lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway" […]

The Russians continue to endanger the Arctic marine environment unscrupulously. "As a matter of fact, a major share of the cargo that in 2025 was shipped on the Northern Sea route was carried by shadow fleet ships. Many of them are not designed for shipping in the Arctic." […]

The betrayal of the Budapest Memorandum is still at the core of MAGA's agenda. "Rubio’s discussion of US aid centered on defensive weapons to protect the grid, rather than a new financial pledge for reconstruction, a stark departure from the specific energy support announced by other allies" […]

This week, members of the German fascist party AfD, backed by MAGA administration's JD Vance and others, are traveling to Sochi, Russia, for a conference organized by Russian fascists Dmitrij Medvedev, Oleg Voloshin, and Viktor Medvedchuk. The conference is part of a broader Russian influence […]