🧵 2025: We Didn’t Start the Fire (Verse 1) Trump returns, Gaza burns, AI’s got some new concerns Houthi drones in Red Sea lanes, ships rerouted, global strains Bitcoin jumps, stocks dive, Boeing’s still not quite alive We didn’t start the fire—it was always turning, world keeps burning…

1/ 🎄🇫🇮 This was one of our most-watched videos of 2025: This is quite cool: The Finns refuse to call Russia by the stolen name “Rus”—which anciently defines Swedes and, later on, Ukrainians. Instead, they call Russia “Venäjä.”

For everyone who has ever wondered how Lesotho has managed to be an independent country while being surrounded by South Africa.

Best Xmas gift :)

Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Chris Rea and now Adam the Woo. A decidedly unfestive December. 😥

Tonight, on 60 Minutes.

I feel vindicated

Across the Sands — from Nelson Mandela Bay to becoming a bomb disposal expert in Iraq share.google/vB39MUVHVeCJ...

@darren.africandefence.net You're on BlueSky! Yay! 🙂

SANDF Cyber Command issues festive season cybersecurity warning - DefenceWeb share.google/NyqHDYcr9zGQ...

The Venezuela boat murders are meant to be a gateway drug to domestic murders. The “you can’t let this MAGA regime out of power now because you military are going to jail if we leave” is a powerful cooption technique but not atypical for authoritarian regimes

Certain Welsh commentators should stop whining about how unfair rugby is because South Africans are so huge.

Hawks arrest four over alleged recruitment of South Africans for Russian military share.google/NG3IxThWVBUh...

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

If Tom says it is a war crime, then I believe him.

Exercise VUKUHLOME IV .. the SANDF'S major yearly land exercise. I'm glad to see the great South African tradition of mounted infantry continue. 💪

Wonderful news ... what a piece of trash, like her father. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla resigns as an MP after allegedly duping party members to fight for Russia share.google/HCum37Ca49SU...

Zuma family feud: Affidavit alleges Zuma-Sambudla involved in luring South Africans to fight for Russia share.google/Y2oBCmCVgu0F...

The Chief of the South African Navy has no more fucks to give - well done, sir. 🫡 defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence-s...

He's, Britain has more stabbing than the Cape Flats these days. 🤔

For years, I've been exposing Russia's atrocities in Africa—from Wagner's blood-soaked mines in CAR to their wars in Mali. The truth hurts, and now Russian trolls are targeting me with insults & death threats. They want me silenced. I won't be. Africa's stories deserve to be told.

It was such a huge honor to have described crimes committed by Russian paramilitaries deployed in West & Central Africa at the Truth to Justice conference in Berlin.

Key Russian Defense Supplier Shuts Down Steel Line, Fires Hundreds as Losses Mount — UNITED24 Media share.google/bSgW3bRSX0lB...

When a state wages war, silence from its citizens isn’t neutrality, it’s complicity. The Russian regime may pull the trigger, but too many hands steady the rifle through apathy, fear, or fervour. History won’t forget the chorus of quiet.

I highly recommend finding out

Trump doesn’t admire Putin’s strength - he envies his impunity. From pardons to propaganda, it’s the same playbook: crush dissent, rewrite truth, and reward loyalty. Autocracy isn’t misunderstood. It’s mimicked.

Ukraine isn’t the exception - it’s the blueprint. From Syria to Mali to Georgia, Russia exports chaos, props up autocrats, and poisons dissent. This isn’t multipolarity. It’s imperial vandalism dressed as strategy.

Just a reminder. Your favored #ideology niche is shit, if you support ruzzia. #StandWithUkraine #UkrainianView

When U.S. Communists cheer for Russia’s invasion, they betray every anti-imperialist principle they claim to hold. You don’t fight Western hegemony by endorsing Eastern conquest. Colonialism in Cyrillic is still colonialism.

Ukraine didn’t ask for war. Russia imposed it. Every missile, every lie, every stolen child is a choice. And silence? That’s complicity. Decolonization starts with calling out the aggressor.

It’s not the first time Ukrainian soldiers have saved lives while on vacation in Europe. I won’t even mention that Ukrainian soldiers are stopping Russians from attacking other European countries. The world still doesn’t appreciate enough what Ukrainians are doing for all of the world.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t “complex” - it’s criminal. No amount of propaganda justifies bombing homes, stealing land, or silencing resistance. Call it what it is: imperial aggression.

This might seem a bit of a weird question, but who owns the seashore (beach) in your country?

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❗️Reportedly, these are armed uniformed Russian men at the Estonia-Russia border. Friends from Estonia, could you please provide more details? Thank you!

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Are we all still here? Good.

Poland to Localize Production of South African Armored Vehicles by OTT Technologies - Militarnyi share.google/2ZGjG3szS269...

I guess the Trump cult has found their Horst Wessel? 🤔

Ukraine's air defense is incredible. Imagine what they could do if they had what they needed.

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