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As I suspected, the US sanctioned the Serbian oil industry owned by Russia in a broad sanctions package against Russia and not targeting Serbia specifically. Russia is on track to lose its main hold on Serbia. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

The far left - far right axis is back! The person on the top is far left, the person on the bottom far right.

Bropinion peace im Weld

Is Musk actually being criticized by JFK or is this fake information? No one knows, there's no moderation now.

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Meanwhile, on Twitter

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all the denizens of the blue space!

I know I'm a foreign agent, because I receive Christmas greetings from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

Vucic stated tonight that the US is getting ready to impose sanctions on the main oil company in Serbia, majority owned by Russian state corporations. Two days ago Bloomberg reported that the Biden administration is seriously considering imposing sanctions on the Russian oil sector.

I can understand the dismay of those Syrians reading tankie comments online about how Assad was a great anti-imperialist fighter, because they wrote the same thing about Milosevic, who absolutely wrecked Serbia.

Original vs. bad copy

When the right remembers the MENA Christians it's always a bad sign for the entire region, including the Christians. I think we missed the moment to help the MENA Christians, it was somewhere around the 7th century AD. Things went downhill from there.

A monodrama starring Jake Sullivan, in which he lives cowering in the shadow of the big, great Chekhov's gun, but in the end, the gun turns out to be his whitebread grandad's tobacco pipe.

Russia collapsed in on itself two times during the 20th century, withdrawing in shame from many countries it had occupied, but we need Assadist Syria collapsing to remind us that Russia is not invincible.

Forgive me, if I don't base my opinion on Trump's Ukraine strategy on the color of his suit and tie.

Regime terror in Georgia.

With Tulsi Gabbard, a person awfully close to a Russian agent of influence, appointed for director of national intelligence in the US and the European center in a state of flux, the West is doing remarkably well doing coups around Europe and the Middle East.

The Georgian regime is using Russian terror tactics against demonstrators. That's why they're protesting in the first place, they don't want to live in a Russian governorate where this kind of behavior is the norm.

Inshallah

Is Turkey kicking out Russia and Iran from Syria, with the US just standing and watching from the sidelines, its jaw on the floor, the multipolarity we've been waiting for?

Bloomberg: Russia doesn’t have a plan to save Assad and doesn’t see one emerging as long as the Syrian president’s army continues to abandon its positions, according to a person close to the Kremlin.

It was an alluring idea that Russia could be appeased, without changing the security structure of the European continent. Unfortunately, Russia wasn't after economic and societal development, it was after the status of a great power, dominating Europe, like it attempted after WWII.

Eastern European states which were occupied by Russia since 1945 did not need the US to push them into NATO after the Cold War ended. They gladly applied to join NATO to be protected from precisely this kind of Russian expansion we are witnessing now.

President of South Korea:

I did pass the Wargame: Red Dragon Korea campaign, which starts by South Korea issuing martial law, forcing mass student protests, enabling North Korea's ultimately unsuccessful invasion to unfold, so I feel pretty comfortable right now cause the good guys win in the end.

I know Donbas villages by heart, I'm not learning Hama villages now too.

The exit polls in Romania show that the moderate parties can form a coalition against the right populist wave. It also indicates a period of enhanced political instability moving ahead, as there is no clear winner and the party system has been shaken up quite a bit.

What half of my Sunday looks like (the other half is writing articles)

Quick recap: 1. Russian economy not collapsing. Stagflation scenario entered. Economy encumbered by war - 41% budget defense/security spending, 8% GDP, factory capacity above 80%, labor shortages in 73% of companies, inflation 8,5%, real rate of inflation much higher. Russia still war operational.

Don't say that memes didn't warn you

Between Georgia losing its democracy, Romania fighting to protect its own, Russia threatening with elusive missiles, the Syrian war unfreezing, today I wished I studied literature instead of polisci.

Trump appoints former general Keith Kellogg as a special envoy for Ukraine. That makes correct the previous statements that the position will be given to a senior figure with experience, unlike Grenell.

Territory isn't the primary issue in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, it's whether Ukraine's security is guaranteed for the future. That's what Ukraine needs and Russia opposes. Focusing on territory is a smokescreen to cover up this main contradiction and shift the blame on Ukraine.

"Putin has already lost the war" is not a useful narrative in this stage of the war. While it's true that Russia has suffered significant loses, that its economy has been set on the wrong path and that it doesn't occupy major Ukrainian cities, the war can still be ended with an unfavorable peace.

When my sarcastic comments on Twitter are massively being liked by profiles who obviously think I'm being serious, I feel like the anti-Trump Liam Nissan™️ account, which regularly gets mistaken for the actual actor.

As of now, there are four corroborated strikes on military targets inside Russia by Western-made missiles launched by Ukrainian Armed Forces:

This is how it looks to be bombarded by missiles constantly. Russia may threaten the West, but all its threats it takes out on Ukraine.

A very important day is coming for Georgia tomorrow. The regime will try to constitute the undemocratically elected parliament. The opposition will try to stop this from happening. The way things go from there will be an indicator of the trajectory of the protest movement as a whole.

The war against Ukraine, on a strategic level, should end with the stabilization of relations between the West and Russia. The stabilization has not yet been achieved. Like during the Cold War, the West has to define and defend red lines, or Russia will keep pushing them back.

"He (Putin) pointed out that deployment of weapons or soldiers to Ukraine would cross a ‘red line’ for Russia and trigger a strong response, including potentially mobilizing Russian missiles targeting Europe." Written in December 2021

If you don't like saber-rattling, I'm going to have to disappoint you, because as Trump's presidency gets nearer, Putin will use escalatory rhetoric more often, in order to convince Trump that prolonging the war brings too high a cost and that he should cut the knot in Putin's favor.

The first thing I see when I open Steam. I love capitalism

And so life moved on, while the "I don't wanna die in a nuclear Holocaust" people learned nothing

Read the whole thread. This is professionalism. Dismissing false Russian threats and keeping the focus of analysis on the actual impact.

I sometimes wonder what do the tankies think when they see that they have more in common on foreign policy with the MAGA crowd than with the center? Then I remember that tankies don't think, otherwise they wouldn't be tankies.

Karl Marx pick me up, I'm scared

A new day, a new paranoia.

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Biden's administration is not escalating the war, it is implementing necessary measures to slow down or bring to a halt the Russian scramble for Ukrainian territory before Trump is inaugurated. This will strengthen the Ukrainian position and Trump's leverage on Russia.