Esben Ridder
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Mainly if not exclusively here to stay informed about Russia's illegal and unprovoked war of conquest, and to find the right places to donate in order to protect Ukrainians and kill/capture/drive out the invading Russians.
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German-made machinery still quietly fuels Russia’s war production despite sanctions.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
German-made machinery still quietly fuels Russia’s war production despite sanctions.
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People have done a massive disservice to Ukraine and Europe by pretending Trump might do the right thing and help Ukraine. It raised hopes in a fantasy and kept people from facing reality. Trump is with Putin and all Europeans need to face that squarely.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
People have done a massive disservice to Ukraine and Europe by pretending Trump might do the right thing and help Ukraine. It raised hopes in a fantasy and kept people from facing reality. Trump is with Putin and all Europeans need to face that squarely.
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
If you can, avoid anything with Musk behind it. It will rot your brain. And that's a feature, not a bug.
Must read. Basically, if you’ve fallen for Ru propaganda, the chatbots will dig you in even deeper. Also note this: “Grok provided the highest number of Russian sources even when asked neutral questions, the research found.” Higher than the Chinese chatbot!
‘The researchers believe that the chatbots use Russian sources more often when a topic is considered a data void, a search term that doesn’t have many high-quality results.’
AI chatbots are spewing Russian propaganda, study finds www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...
AI chatbots are spewing Russian propaganda, study finds www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you can, avoid anything with Musk behind it. It will rot your brain. And that's a feature, not a bug.
Moscow has no claims on anything within the internationally recognised borders of Ukraine. Nothing at all. They must not be granted any influence at all in any shape or form. No concessions, only punishment.
It's a big mistake for Europe to recognize even minimally/vaguely russia's imperialist cultural/linguistic/religious demands on Ukr. It's Ukr's sovereign right to determine through its own political process its language, cultural, religious policies. Ru's interference started w making demands...
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Moscow has no claims on anything within the internationally recognised borders of Ukraine. Nothing at all. They must not be granted any influence at all in any shape or form. No concessions, only punishment.
Beautiful. Call them out, all of them. Whether truly Kremlin propagandists or just criminally negligent in their research, people like Sachs are aiding the murderous Kremlin regime.
The Senator is spot on. Every step the West took before/during/after Maidan made it clear that Western priorities in Ukr were stability and accommodating Ru interests without entirely turning their (West's) back on the dramatic grass roots mobilization against the autocratizing Yanukovych admin.
Italian Senator left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and a propagandist.
It happened on Prime Time Italian television.
Priceless 🤩
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(The 2nd part in the next tweet)
It happened on Prime Time Italian television.
Priceless 🤩
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(The 2nd part in the next tweet)
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Beautiful. Call them out, all of them. Whether truly Kremlin propagandists or just criminally negligent in their research, people like Sachs are aiding the murderous Kremlin regime.
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1/ Russian 'grey imports' to support the war effort are facing a crisis, following simultaneous crackdowns by Chinese, Kazakh and Russian customs officials. Thousands of truckloads of drone parts and medical supplies are said to be stuck at the border. ⬇️
October 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Any country that allows itself to be ruled by a chaos clown like this deserves only the utmost disdain. You have given up all honor, all dignity. I'd say I hope you'll prove me wrong, but seeing how you've at this point almost entirely replaced citizenship with consumerism, I have no hope.
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Any country that allows itself to be ruled by a chaos clown like this deserves only the utmost disdain. You have given up all honor, all dignity. I'd say I hope you'll prove me wrong, but seeing how you've at this point almost entirely replaced citizenship with consumerism, I have no hope.
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It’s not Ukraine’s war against Russia — it’s Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Hard to believe we still have to remind major outlets of that in 2025.
Hard to believe we still have to remind major outlets of that in 2025.
October 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It’s not Ukraine’s war against Russia — it’s Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Hard to believe we still have to remind major outlets of that in 2025.
Hard to believe we still have to remind major outlets of that in 2025.
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Russians themselves proudly published a video of a drone attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region — openly boasting about their “achievements” and celebrating another war crimes.
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Russians themselves proudly published a video of a drone attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region — openly boasting about their “achievements” and celebrating another war crimes.
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New post just out:
The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.
In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.
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The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.
In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.
(£/free trial)
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Russia and the rise of the radical right
Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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October 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
New post just out:
The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.
In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...
The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.
In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...
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She stressed that Moldovan citizens voted for democracy, Europe and peace, but the victory is temporary.
"If authoritarian regimes adapt faster than democracies, freedom will be lost," - the president said.
"If authoritarian regimes adapt faster than democracies, freedom will be lost," - the president said.
October 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
She stressed that Moldovan citizens voted for democracy, Europe and peace, but the victory is temporary.
"If authoritarian regimes adapt faster than democracies, freedom will be lost," - the president said.
"If authoritarian regimes adapt faster than democracies, freedom will be lost," - the president said.
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1/ A Russian soldier has spoken of hellish conditions on the front line in Ukraine, with no evacuations of the wounded, rotting bodies lying around, no food or water for anybody, no pay, constant Ukrainian drone and mortar attacks, and suicidal orders from corrupt commanders. ⬇️
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
1/ A Russian soldier has spoken of hellish conditions on the front line in Ukraine, with no evacuations of the wounded, rotting bodies lying around, no food or water for anybody, no pay, constant Ukrainian drone and mortar attacks, and suicidal orders from corrupt commanders. ⬇️
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The terror against Kherson does not cease for even a single day.
Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.
Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The terror against Kherson does not cease for even a single day.
Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.
Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.
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Huge. Just huge. This is Eurobonds for Ukraine and it’s exactly what is needed. German leadership in Europe appears back. Credit to Merz.
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A new financial impetus for peace in Ukraine
We need the mobilisation of resources on a scale that will secure Kyiv’s military resilience
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September 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Huge. Just huge. This is Eurobonds for Ukraine and it’s exactly what is needed. German leadership in Europe appears back. Credit to Merz.
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🤬 Russian drones have started dropping explosives directly onto the streets of Ukrainian cities. One such incident occurred the day before yesterday in Nizhyn.
September 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🤬 Russian drones have started dropping explosives directly onto the streets of Ukrainian cities. One such incident occurred the day before yesterday in Nizhyn.
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Merz says again that no troops would deploy to Ukraine until a ceasefire, & even then only with reservations.
@bundeskanzler thinks he’s reassuring his voters, but he’s actually reassuring the Kremlin: You have nothing to fear as long as you keep the war going. We won’t stop you.
@bundeskanzler thinks he’s reassuring his voters, but he’s actually reassuring the Kremlin: You have nothing to fear as long as you keep the war going. We won’t stop you.
September 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Merz says again that no troops would deploy to Ukraine until a ceasefire, & even then only with reservations.
@bundeskanzler thinks he’s reassuring his voters, but he’s actually reassuring the Kremlin: You have nothing to fear as long as you keep the war going. We won’t stop you.
@bundeskanzler thinks he’s reassuring his voters, but he’s actually reassuring the Kremlin: You have nothing to fear as long as you keep the war going. We won’t stop you.
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They were in the hallway when a Shahed drone flew into the apartment in Kyiv: a camera captured the strike from inside the home.
Despite the extensive destruction in the apartment, bottles of champagne survived.
Despite the extensive destruction in the apartment, bottles of champagne survived.
August 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
They were in the hallway when a Shahed drone flew into the apartment in Kyiv: a camera captured the strike from inside the home.
Despite the extensive destruction in the apartment, bottles of champagne survived.
Despite the extensive destruction in the apartment, bottles of champagne survived.
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If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, and that it won't shit on your grass anymore if you just give it your garden, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆
August 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, and that it won't shit on your grass anymore if you just give it your garden, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆
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The crime was committed by drone operators of the Russian group “Doomsday”, who do not even hide that they are attacking civilians.
August 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The crime was committed by drone operators of the Russian group “Doomsday”, who do not even hide that they are attacking civilians.
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The amazing thing is that while Europeans are slapping themselves on the back for their dealings with Trump, what he has done is take sanctions on Russia off the table and put giving Ukrainian territory to Russia very much on the table.
August 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The amazing thing is that while Europeans are slapping themselves on the back for their dealings with Trump, what he has done is take sanctions on Russia off the table and put giving Ukrainian territory to Russia very much on the table.
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"An entire family - our neighbors from the sixth floor - was killed..."
Oksana, a resident of an apartment building in #Kharkiv attacked by Russian drones, told that this morning, Russia killed her neighbors: a father, a mother, their two-year-old daughter, and their 16-year-old son.
Oksana, a resident of an apartment building in #Kharkiv attacked by Russian drones, told that this morning, Russia killed her neighbors: a father, a mother, their two-year-old daughter, and their 16-year-old son.
August 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"An entire family - our neighbors from the sixth floor - was killed..."
Oksana, a resident of an apartment building in #Kharkiv attacked by Russian drones, told that this morning, Russia killed her neighbors: a father, a mother, their two-year-old daughter, and their 16-year-old son.
Oksana, a resident of an apartment building in #Kharkiv attacked by Russian drones, told that this morning, Russia killed her neighbors: a father, a mother, their two-year-old daughter, and their 16-year-old son.
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🤬Kharkiv... The attack was targeted - five enemy "Shaheds" approached it from different sides and hit people who were sleeping peacefully at five in the morning.
August 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🤬Kharkiv... The attack was targeted - five enemy "Shaheds" approached it from different sides and hit people who were sleeping peacefully at five in the morning.
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Ukrainian commander says no NATO country could protect its cities from 300 Russian-Iranian drones a day.
July 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Ukrainian commander says no NATO country could protect its cities from 300 Russian-Iranian drones a day.
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The hopelessness of the situation is not that there is no way to deliver water - because of leaky pipes, destroyed water intakes, and pumping stations. The real disaster is that the water itself has physically run out.
July 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The hopelessness of the situation is not that there is no way to deliver water - because of leaky pipes, destroyed water intakes, and pumping stations. The real disaster is that the water itself has physically run out.