The EU has the moral duty and responsibility to let in all the Russians that claim to have no moral duty or responsibility for their country's invasion of Ukraine. Did I get that right?

"We will defend every inch of NATO territory!" Except, apparently, for all the inches Russia chooses to sabotage.

This is just one of the many reasons why Russians should not get EU visas.

In November, China reduced its purchases of Russian oil by a rather impressive 36%, replacing it with crude from Saudi Arabia. Similar drop is expected to take place in India next month, with the country's top 5 refineries having already rejected Russian oil for December.

No, your account was frozen for a whole variety of both practical and moral reasons, and if this and other measures like this get Ukraine even an inch closer to victory, they will be prioritized over the comfort and convenience of nationals of the aggressor state.

While I am as thrilled as the next man by the idea of ingesting longevity elixirs ordered from Temu, worth waiting for someone to survive the refund window before placing an order.

The Russian manufacturer Baikal Electronics, which has been ‘experimenting’ for three years with the production of advanced processors, has now announced that it has pretty much given up on the idea, mostly on grounds of having no clue of what they're doing really.

Enraging and incredibly fascinating to see this ability the Russians have to blame anyone and everyone for their failure to create anything but demented dictatorships ruled by psychopaths. Anything at all the Russians are responsible for and guilty of Mikhail?

You just have to give it to them, they've really built a robot in their spitting image. Rather telling how you can just guess which country I’m talking about without me having to say it.

How utterly surreal that the President of the United States and the First Lady are each currently running their very own cryptocurrency scams.

Not an inch. Not a step. Not as long as we draw breath.

In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a Romanian politician and conspiracy theorist, Călin Georgescu. He’s best-known for his pro-Kremlin and conspiratorial views, running for president of Romania, and doing it by only campaigning on TikTok. 1/25

Last night, the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu dropped the act and began issuing threats and ultimatums on prime-time TV: "Tell the young people now in the city squares to go home to their parents, we don't want anything to happen to them, something really bad to happen to them."

BREAKING: Starting tomorrow, TikTok will likely be banned in Romania for "failing to comply with the regulations for the conduct of the electoral process".

BREAKING: Romanian President has convened an emergency meeting of the Supreme Council for National Defense of Romania.

The first picture, taken during the 1989 Revolution, reads "our children will be free". The second one, taken yesterday, reads "your children ARE free". And they will stay that way.

POLITICO: TikTok CEO summoned to European Parliament over role in shock Romanian election. "Romania is a warning bell: Radicalization and disinformation can happen all over Europe with catastrophic consequences [...] We call on the CEO of TikTok to come to speak in this house."

Romanians are taking to the streets in various cities across the country to send a clear message to the openly fascist pro-Russian candidate: "better dead than fascist". Expect these demonstrations to spread and grow exponentially every day until round 2 of the election.

Many of the people that voted for the pro-Russian Calin Georgescu are now coming forward and virtually all of them are saying more or less the same story - one I think you should very much give a read to. 🧵

To anyone thinking Romanians are the kind of people that will gently go into that dark night and to whatever Romanian needs reminding, here's the story of one of our heroes, back from when Russia last ruled over us. 🧵

It will help us a great deal here in Romania if this video about the pro-Russian candidate gets to as many views as possible. Do help out with that if you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBj...

Elena Lasconi: "In the next two weeks, Romania will face an existential struggle! [...] We will bitterly defend the freedom we died for 35 years ago in the revolution! The story does end here! Romanians have fought off tens of Russian invasions and we will fight them off again! [...]

In what is a miraculous turn of events, by a margin of just 0.02%, Elena Lasconi (the most pro-West/pro-Ukraine candidate) managed to secure the second place in the first round of the presidential election and will be facing the guy planted by Russia in round 2.

Say what you will about Romania, but when some of our "farmers" tried illegally blocking the Ukrainian border in "protest", it took our special forces about two days to "convince" them how much wiser it is to take the protest elsewhere. Stuck to those other places ever since.

Not taking the Gazprombank sanctions particularly well, Hungarian MFA Peter Szijjarto would like to let us know - somewhat threateningly - that a task-force of Hungarian lawyers has been assembled and are ready to fight tooth and nail for their right to buy blood oil and gas.

If you breach every treaty you ever signed, shoot and torture every POW you get your hands on and turn every territory you grab into hell on earth, doesn't matter how many nukes you have or how willing you are to use them, you leave no option to anyone but to fight to the end.

Russia has apparently just now launched a second ICBM towards Ukraine.

I hope now everyone understands, Sullivan included, just how much the Russian "red lines" are worth. The emperor has no clothes. Never did.

Spanish and American embassies in Kyiv suspended operations due to "a possible massive attack by the Russian Federation". Meanwhile, Viktor Orban just convened a meeting of the Hungarian Defense Council and will apparently make some sort of statement shortly.

This newest Russian red-line is turning out to be a particularly short lived one.

While there's really no good time to find yourself in Russia, by the looks of it, tonight will be a particularly bad moment.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the genius that managed to bring the Dollar to Turkish Lira exchange to an impressive 1 to 1 wheel-barrel parity, decided to defend Russia's decision to change its nuclear doctrine, calling it a "natural step" Russia was "forced" to take to "protect itself".

Not a lot of things can disqualify a man quite as much as being publicly praised by Lavrov and getting eulogies and commendations from the Russian state "press".

Another Russian drone has hit the territory of Moldova, this time right in the middle of the capital city, Chisinau.

Anders Breivik, Norwegian terrorist and mass murderer, showed up in court today with the letter Z shaved on his head and a poster with a message of support for Russia. Just a reminder about what kind of people tend to support Russia.

Russia began the mass production of "mobile nuclear shelters" (designed to protect against shock waves, radiation and radioactive contamination of the area).

Here's a neatly organised timeline of "major" Russian "red lines" we crossed, with Putin doing absolutely nothing about🧵

In Moscow, a brave Russian man climbed on top of billboard carrying a poster reading “Putin, where are you, b****?" and shouting all sorts of other things we can all resonate with. Police forces are apparently still desperately trying to figure out how to get to him.

Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's MFA and top Himmler cosplayer, announced today Hungary will block any further EU sanctions on Russian nuclear, oil and gas sector, while simultaneously having total meltdown over US's decision to allow strikes on Russian territory.

Between January and October 2024, despite losing the contribution of an ever increasing number of young men, Russia managed to break the all time ever alcohol-consumption record with an impressive 184 million deciliters of alcohol, no doubt all enjoyed in moderation.

One of the undersea telecommunications cables that links Finland to continental Europe has been cut off. Per Finish authorities, the fault was noticed sometimes after 4AM today. The cause of the failure remains unclear, but likely to be intentional.

Out the hundreds of thousands of Russians living in Berlin and millions living throughout Germany, about 1.8k attended the march of the now "unified Russian opposition". The march was intended to show just how many Russians are against the war, and I believe it did just that.

Following the US's decision, UK and France have now also approved long range strikes into Russian territory using SCALP/Shadow Storm missiles.

NYT: Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles.

Just as the "Russian Opposition" gets ready to take to the streets in Berlin to show the world "it is just Putin", millions of Russians took to their smartphones today to celebrate last night's attack, quite committed to show the world it's not just Putin.

Episode 2: A Vatnik's Guide to the Galaxy In May 2023, having had enough of the decadent LGBTQ EU, a Slovak man - whom I shall name Flipper for no particular reason, decided to deal a severe blow to the Western world by moving to the promised land - Russia.

EPISODE 1: A Tale of Two Vatniks Shortly after the war began, two regular everyday normal vatniks from Romania felt the whole war thing is a little bit suspicious... 🧵

Per an AP report, Russia has began the large scale production of drones carrying thermobaric charges. "Thermobaric explosions [...] can reach inside civilian shelters, sucking out all the oxygen in their path, leading to collapsed lungs, crushed eyeballs and brain damage."

Olaf Scholz apparently called Putin today to "urge and plea" with him to "enter negotiations for a just and lasting peace with Ukraine" - because that's the conversation you want to have with a wanted war criminal responsible for an immeasurable amount death and suffering.

In Abkhazia (yet another one of those "breakaway republics" created by Russia), things are starting to spin out of control, with protesters storming the "parliament". Ever so slowly, the little bits and pieces of the Russian "Empire" are starting to come apart.