"History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...

Russia will continue with this aggression until we finally decide to stop them. Clearly, nothing we have done in the last 10-15 years worked www.politico.eu/article/finl...

Not surprised at all to see it, but I'll point out the problems w the headline: 1) sticking "former Soviet republic" everywhere 35yrs later helps russia's rhetoric that these states somehow belong to it; 2) "issues" don't hurtle countries into war; russia invades countries against international law.

These Russian agents are completely sick.

This is their mind-set, their understanding of the world.

Any cruelty is warranted.

You want them in your country?

So, when exactly do we arrive to the point where we finally decide to act against this state terrorism? Are we still waiting until even more people get killed by the Kremlin? Does anyone have a number of how many deaths are necessary to act?

Instead, we see policy makers falling for the same trap as during the Cold War. Either people are scared to do anything against the Kremlin, "we can't escalate"; or they don't feel the need to do anything, "they just scored a loss here or there, the regime is collapsing anyway".

Faces of Ukrainians killed by #Russia.

A mother and daughter were killed in a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia on December 6. That evening, on St. Nicholas Day, 36-year-old Iryna Syrovatko and her 14-year-old daughter Tanya drove to a yoga class.
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It's been nearly three years, and chip maker companies still haven't found better sources of income than supplying Russia with tools to murder Ukrainians.

Governments must make this impossible because companies won't bother
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Inconvenient but unavoidable: Finland's Chief of Defence points out that it doesn't matter how highly trained your troops are, they won't stop a Russian attack if there just aren't enough of them. A warning for UK and Western Europe's Bonsai armed forces.

www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a...

Polecam wywiad z @kalenskyj.bsky.social
wiceszefem European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE).

Voter: I'm tired of being kicked in the nuts
Pollster: Are you in favor of or do you oppose nut kicking
Voter: in Favor of
Pollster: um ok Do you think it will hurt
Voter: oh yeah

The media could finally learn that all this Kremlin's talking about escalation is only a way to a) paralyse the West into inaction; b) identify the useful idiots that will help them spread the paralysis further.

It's 2024, this really should be Kremlin reporting 101

This is my favourite soup aswel.

It could not be more clearly described the threat of Russian disinformation and what we can do to counter it.

Unfortunately, we are tremendously behind as geopolitical developments show.

I think this was the first time someone asked me about my favourite soup 🍜 Many thanks to Pekka for his interest and for his great work on #vatniksoup youtu.be/PA0XntvAglk?...

How Ukraine fights Russian disinformation. 10 key lessons from the frontline for the West. A fresh paper by me & Roman Osadchuk.

🔗 t.co/nJJLkxFbM2