If my troops were losing a battle I wouldn't criticize them endlessly, I would send REINFORCEMENTS. I would send MORE help. I would boost their morale and get MORE recruitment for the fight. NOT bitch all day long about how my troops are losers, sell-outs, but still owe us our saviorism.

Because your enemies—yes, enemies—will not stop until you are cowed, imprisoned, or otherwise politically silenced and powerless. They do not care about your eloquent arguments and intellectual credibility. The sort of person who can mount effective resistance is going to be focusing on...

I want Democrats who understand that the goal is to lay waste to Trump, his toadies, his movement, and his party, and that after you’ve done that you can turn the country over to the survivors and they can quibble over how to fund the social safety net with less-than-existential stakes

One of the first things we learnt in our American politics graduate seminar was just how much of an ad hoc political coalition the Democratic Party was and is, with a huge number of interest groups latching onto it and amalgamating into the whole. The GOP on the other hand is more cohesive.

I don't imagine the thought process behind this is too different from tyrants who set up brutal police states and totalitarian governments. The elites in those systems, when they establish their systems, don't tend to linger too much on "what happens when I am ousted" or the overall negatives.

A clear explanation: "further westward, Moscow’s goal isn’t to fight but to have us wake up one day to find NATO’s guarantees void, EU institutions ruined and transatlantic solidarity gone. No need for Ru to fire a shot if it can convince Europeans that defending themselves isn’t worth the effort."

I just got back from a week in El Salvador, mostly in San Salvador and Morazon (look it up). The idea that the US politics is driven by widespread poverty, or any kind of material privation, is surreal and absurd. Go somewhere else, see what real poverty is.

#russiaisaterroriststate Primarily attacking civilian homes because that’s who they are. Genocidal maniacs.

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Another techbro preaching the gospel of his digital Messiah. It's bullshit, of course.

Liberals are too apologetic about their ideology. I'm technically not a liberal but I'm close enough being a social democrat. Liberals need to remember why they are liberals, instead of why they aren't something else. Be proud of it. The fascists, both red and brown, aren't sorry for being fascists.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

OTD in 1939 USSR as per Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, USSR handed Polish town of Bialystok over to the Nazis. As part of “fighting fascism”, we handed 100,000 people to the Nazis. Who were very nice to all of them.

I mean, this is the country that did Bucha and Irpin. Of course they're committing war crimes.

Yeah um it's kind of hilarious in a dark way just how insanely good the F-35 proved to be against Iranian air defence systems. The mullahs had no idea what hit them and it reduced Khamanei to hiding in a bunker for fear of being picked off.

Trust nothing that comes out of Moscow and assume only the worst of intentions. Furthermore, I think that the Muscovite entity must be destroyed.

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

Time Russian jets allowed in Turkish airspace before getting shot down: 17 seconds Time Russian jets allowed in EU airspace before angry press release: 12 minutes “Quick and decisive” indeed.

Holy shit, that is tacky beyond my worst dreams. That is actually really really bad.

Do what we did in 2015 and actually shoot the Russians down, yes. Europe, come the fuck on.

Shoot them down and then say "Whoops - we thought they were drones. How unfortunate." A Russian response to a Russian problem, basically.

Shoot. Them. Down.

This is imo the big difference between old school Zionists, especially Jews & liberals, & both modern reactionary "Zionists" & antizionists. The Christian Zionist and the antizionist agree that Zionism is the ideology of power. To the liberal Zionist, it is a downtrodden people fighting back.

I get that a part of an ambassador's job is to make performative statements which are bullshit when taken at first value, but did nobody on this chode's team think "you know, we could just not say anything of the sort" and advise the moron to say something less profoundly dumb?

As always,

Yeah, people have no idea how bad the optics of batoning, handcuffing, or tear gassing a bunch of 50+ mothers and 70+ grandmothers are. 20-30 year old adults are, in comparison, cost-free to abuse by the police, easy to frame as anarchists. The former? Impossible to frame.

yeah, they have it roughly backwards. the ideal protester isnt an armed cadre who only uses signal, its a retired teacher and grandmother of three who makes the security services decide whether they’re comfortable batoning her to get by

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 U.S.-funded research has identified more than 210 sites where Ukrainian children have been taken for military training, drone manufacturing and other forced re-education by #Russia, as part of a large-scale deportation programme. www.reuters.com/world/europe... #Ukraine #RussianWarCrimes

That is a point that goes both ways. For every wildly anti-Centre Right Leftist there have also been enough Conservatives and Christian Democrats willing to condemn even the mildest Socialists or Greens as wild-eyed revolutionaries. Shared defence of democracy requires discursive de-escalation.

Poland should have been thinking about a nuclear weapons programme since February 2025. That's when we knew that the US was no longer an ally of the free world.

The scary part is that the fascists have entrenched themselves everywhere. It's not just the frontline in Ukraine, it's western political parties, governments, business. The fascists have become a virus and we have no vaccine and no cure.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Likely went over their heads, but these are a series of three arrows by people who fought desperately to preserve liberal democracy against fascists, both red and brown. Of course the American Nazis would want to put the Three Arrows or anything resembling it into the "enemy" bin.

Funny, because the former led Labour to a massive victory and is currently in the process of bungling it, while the latter did jack shit and can reap the rewards of merely being loud.

The problem here is, for Russia, is that it broke its bank and lost a million men invading Ukraine. There's little reason to think that Poland will be less of a quagmire, even if NATO just sent thoughts and prayers to it.

Good thinking, if several dozen of military drones are simultaneously violating your airspace, there are indeed indications that it was done intentionally.

Poland formally asks for Article Four consultations. “Tusk later announced that the consultations with the allies had already taken on the form of a formal request to launch art. 4 NATO. - This is our joint recommendation - the head of gov’t pointed out.” www.fakt.pl/polityka/ros...

Europe is in a fight. A fight for our liberty and our ability to determine our destiny for ourselves. This must be Europe’s Independence Moment. A moment we can seize if we're united ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVnm...

It is of course always dangerous to assume "surely Russians can't be THAT incompetent", but 10+ drones "getting lost" at once strains credibility. HOWEVER, that is somewhat beside the point. Even if this was inadvertent, it happened, and therefore it is now a test of the West.

Last night the Polish airspace was violated by a huge number of Russian drones. Those drones that posed a direct threat were shot down. I am in constant communication with the Secretary General of NATO and our allies.

I'm getting to that moment where I feel as if I will end every post with "Ceterum censeo Moscow delenda est." Increasingly I am convinced that the safety and security of Europe can only be ensured by dismantling the Muscovite empire.

That we haven't shot down Russian planes and drones every time they violated our territory has been a grave mistake. Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet in 2015 and ww3 didn't start. Instead Russia stopped violating Turkish airspace.

In retrospect this is true but from a Turk: in 2015 we were absolutely terrified that Russia would do something terrible, since we didn't know how much of a paper tiger the Russian military was. We still did it, but it wasn't some kind of "molon labe" moment for Turks.

The main lesson from last night for Poland (indeed all NATO in CEE) should be that their defense starts in Ukraine. Imagine the results if Russians could launch a massive UAV attack on Poland from just over the border in Ukraine?

The time for the West to start arming democratic Ukraine to the teeth and imposing crippling sanctions on fascist Russia was... over three years ago. Putin has been given time to switch his economy to a war footing. Stopping him now will be much more costly - and risky.

Isn't that why you get nuclear weapons in the first place? It's the ultimate guarantee and the golden ticket to doing whatever you please, without regard for international law.

You know, this brings to mind a criticism I have regarding how US military power and its usage tends to be viewed. The whole idea of "the US lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan!" is a trope trotted out many times when US military power is brought up as some kind of evidence that the US military is weak.