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Risto Ikonen, Joensuu
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No one has direct access to the world as it is. That's why I want to know how others see it.- I am a true democrat and a former university teacher (University of Eastern Finland, Education and Adult Education).
Komeessa voisi olla asennettuna konekivääri. Pommidroonien kanssa noin ei kannata toimia. Sinällään ihmettelen, miksi droonijahdissa ei käytetä enemmän potkurikoneita. Ne ovat ketterämpiä kuin F-16.
Kostiantyn "Kamikaze" Oborin was a Ukrainian Defender who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion when he was 60 years old.

📹: Yak-52 aircraft piloted by Oborin rams Russian ZALA reconnaissance drone with its wing
February 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Entisaikaan tauteja hoitivat poppamiehet ja -naiset. Soitettiin noitarumpua ja juotettiin tervavettä. Sitten tulivat rokotteet. Tauti toisensa jälkeen nujerrettiin. Unohdettiin polio, tuberkuloosi ja rokkotaudit. Ja kas, äkkiä rokotteet haluttiinkin korvata poppamiehillä ja -naisilla. Outoa.
February 17, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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WP kysyi chatGPT:ltä mm. mitkä ovat viisaimpia osavaltioita?

Laitoin tuohon verrokiksi 2024 presidentinvaalin tulokset. Selvä tendenssi on, että pöljät äänestää Trumppia.

#Yhdysvallat #Trump #Trumpismi #MAGA #Vähäajattelu #Umpimielisyys #Regressio
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Kun ei liittovaltio Ukrainaa auta, silloin tulee Kalifornia hätiin. Uskomatonta! Saas nähdä toteutuuko.
Wow - I have been thinking if California could do something alone (as being the wealthiest state and anti-Trump) for some time now.

Big if true.
California now bypassing Trump to help Ukraine with billions.
February 16, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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Kaja Kallas:
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield
Russia is no superpower.After more than a decade of conflict,including 4yrs of full-scale war in Ukraine,Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines
February 15, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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What are today’s Russian papers reporting about the second anniversary of Alexei Navalny’s death & the joint statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany & The Netherlands that Mr Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin?

Nothing.

#ReadingRussia
Russian papers avoid mentioning Alexei Navalny and poisoning claim.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Venäjä olisi voinut kehittyä toiseen suuntaan. Nyt kansan parista löytyy niitä, jotka iloitsevat, koska nyt Venäjää pelätään. Ei ole siis ihme, että Putin on nostanut uudelleen palvonnan kohteeksi Stalinin. Nemtsov olisi toiminut toisin.
Russian oppositioner Boris Nemtsov in 2014:

"Instead of focusing on building up Russia, instead of making sure Russia doesn’t die out, instead of investing in roads, education.., the regime focuses on the worst traits in humans- meanness,hatred,lies,wars"

Nemtsov was killed by the Kremlin in 2015
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Ukrainalaista upseeria syytetään Nord Stream kaasuputken räjäyttämisestä. Jos näin ei olisi tehty, virtaisiko puken läpi yhä tänä päivänä kaasua Eurooppaan? Tiedoksenne: viime vuoteen saakka EU-maat ostivat Venäjän fossiilienergiaa suuremmalla rahasummalla kuin mitä koko Ukrainan apu oli ollut.😬
A former Ukrainian officer, Serhii Kuznietsov, spends his days in near-total isolation at Hamburg's detention center. He is accused by Germany of destroying Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines months after the start of the all-out war.
In Germany, Ukrainian veteran's role in Nord Stream attack tests wartime law
A former Ukrainian officer, Serhii Kuznietsov, spends his days in near-total isolation at Hamburg's detention center. He is accused by Germany of destroying Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines months a...
kyivindependent.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
As a Finn, what would I say? Perhaps this: President Pavel, you got it! - What I hope is that the Nordic countries would send volunteer troops to Ukraine. Just like Sweden did in 1940. 1/2
🇨🇿 Czech President Petr Pavel:

What we probably need in Europe is what I would call more of a Scandinavian spirit.

Russia is a weak country with a lot of nuclear weapons, and we should approach it that way.
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Unkari haluaa tukea Venäjän sotaponnisteluja ostamalla venäläistä öljyä. Saapas nähdä, suostuuko Kroatia auttamaan Ukrainaa. Mainehaitta EU:n sisällä olisi kyllä hirmuinen. Saa nähdä pitääkö Kroatian johto omaa etuaan tärkeämpänä kuin Koratian euta. Tuo diili ei nimittäin synny ilman lahjuksia.
🇭🇺 Hungary Wants to Supply Russian Oil via an Alternative Route

Hungary officially appealed to 🇭🇷Croatia, asking to allow Russian oil deliveries through the Adriatic route. The reason is the suspension of transit through 🇺🇦Ukraine.

Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/hungary-want...
Hungary Wants to Supply Russian Oil via an Alternative Route
Hungary officially appealed to Croatia, asking to allow Russian oil deliveries through the Adriatic route. The reason is the suspension of transit through Ukrai
theukrainianreview.info
February 16, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Gasparov: Putin ei halua rauhaa vaan korkeintaan aselevon. Miljoonan sotilaan kotiuttaminen vaarantaisi Venäjän sisäistä turvallisuutta. Siksi, jos taistelut Ukrainassa taukoavat, armeija on työllistettävä jollain toisella erityisoperaatiolla. Ehkäpä Baltiassa?
Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social :

If you listen to what Russian propaganda, Putin himself, and his entourage are saying, there are no signs that the war could end tomorrow.
February 16, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Macron:
Like all the allies,we must be the only ones to negotiate new security architecture for Europe because our geography isn't going to change
We’ll live with Russia in the same place&the Europeans in the same place.I don't want this negotiation to be organized by anyone other than the Europeans
February 13, 2026 at 7:03 PM
On hölmöä väittää, ettei Venäjää tarvitse pelätä, koska tämä ei ole kyennyt lyömään ukrainalaisia taistelukentällä. Ihan vain vinkkinä: Naton sotaharjoituksissa pieni porukka ukrainalaisia drooninohjaajia "tuhosi" Nato-osaston. Emme pärjää modernissa sodankäynnissä.
These are very dangerous conversations -- saying that Europe has nothing to fear and that, in the event of an invasion of Western countries, Russia would not win, since Putin couldn’t "even" defeat Ukraine.
February 16, 2026 at 8:54 AM
J.D. Vance ei ole ainoa, jolle on buuattu. Tyler Cohenin mainio video aiheesta. Näyttää siltä, että jos yleisö ei koostu MAGA-henkisistä ihmisistä, buuauksilta ei voi välttyä. Näin jopa urheilutilaisuuksissa. Pitäisikö osa kansasta vaihtaa? Ainakin heidät pitäisi hiljentää. ICE.
It's not just there its wherever Trump or his gang of thieves show up.
I clipped this to show Trump..
youtu.be/0kfKBO9djD0?...
JD Vance MERCILESSLY BOOED at Olympic opening ceremony
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Mitä tapahtuukaan selkäsi takana? Puhuipa toimittaja mitä hyvänsä, mielenkiinnon vie jokin muu.
JD Vance, gets OWNED by a Phone.

The irony is delicious.

America have now shut their borders and are destroying mobile devices. ;)
February 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Paradoksi: Venäjä julistaa propagandakanavillaan taistelevansa NATOa vastaan. Silti sen armeija rakentaa viestintänsä amerikkalaisen satelliittijärjestelmän varaan. Kun sen käyttö lopulta estetään alkaa älämölö teon epäreiluudesta. Häh? Vaikka Venäjä muka taistelee NATOa vastaan?!?
No, I still can’t get this out of my head, and I keep trying to grasp the full abyss of this idiocy, unsuccessfully.

Russia spent years, decades "fighting all of NATO," turning America into "radioactive ash" every night on state TV.
February 16, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Näin se menee. Jos joku puolue pitää vapaan sanan rajoittamisena sitä, että he eivät saa vapaasti julistaa rasistisia tai uskonnollisia ennakkoluulojaan, merkitsee se sitä, että valtaan päästyään he haluavat rajoittaa eri mieltä olevien sananvapautta. Sensuroidaan oppikirjoja, otetaan media haltuun.
The party of free speech strikes again.
House Oversight hearing on ICE opens with the rules:

"It is also a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might personally be offensive to the President or the Vice President of the United States."
February 16, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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February 14, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Then do something about it. Graham keeps talking about supporting Ukraine and putting pressure on Russia, but nothing happens.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Senator Lindsey Graham in Munich:

“I want to give Tomahawks to Ukraine. I want the U.S. to supply Tomahawks to reach out and hurt the infrastructure that Putin counts on to build the drones and all the other stuff. I want to change the military equation”
February 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Alex Stubb on EU competitiveness - excellent

"Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy"

MSC '26
February 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Tämä tiedoksi persuille ja persumielisille kepulaisilla: poliittinen elin ei voi kumota tieteellisiä löydöksiä. Ihminen on käynnistänyt ilmastonmuutoksen, ja jotteivät tuhot yltyisi mittaamattomiksi, kasvihuonekaasujen päästöjä on rajoitettava. Tahallinen tietämättömyys on poliitikon pahin rikos.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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NATO is not at its strongest no. But if NATO can reinvent itself to NATO 2.0, an alliance without US control, it would still be the strongest military alliance in the world.
February 15, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Yes, it is. Shaheds would be perfect targets for shooting practice.
Do F-16s not have an M61 Vulcan 20mm cannon? 🤔
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Very interesting! Wang is not talking to the US, but to the EU. Approximately translated: "Wake up, you lazybones! Don't wait for the Orange Clown to come and save you. Together, you are stronger than the US and much stronger than Russia. You can do it!"
Europe should be at the table not on the menu Chinese FM Wang Yi said in Munich apparently pleased that Europe has finally "found the courage" to talk to Russia.
February 16, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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In December Ukrainian forces killed or wounded 35,000 Russian troops. In January around 30,000. Russia pays 156 soldiers per kilometer on the Donetsk front. It mobilizes about 40,000 a month, not all reach the front. Our target is 50,000 occupiers a month Zelensky said.
February 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM