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St Clair, MO 参加日 Eylül 2018
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everett@exist_you·
Can I like, get a twink from some far off land who will record literally ANYTHING for me this weekend? I feel like I didn't cast my net wide enough on my alt.
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everett
everett@exist_you·
@AddiSpotify I'm seeing them all over Twitter suggesting solutions to those flash robberies that THEY DIDN'T IMPLEMENT WHILE IN POWER. I'm seeing them screaming about Labour policies THEY IMPLEMENTED WHILE IN POWER.
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kieran 🩵🎧ྀི@AddiSpotify·
why are the conservatives polling so high. THEY HAD 14 YEARS!!! they’ve done nothing but destroy this fucking country WAKE UP!!!!!
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Jay in Kyiv
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv·
Russia's most popular bloggers all progressively getting on the same page, talking up a new invasion of the Baltics as a "more promising direction than Ukraine".
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@sigfig They want the Moon and a Uranus probe first
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sigfig@sigfig·
im still kind of surprised by the hard pivot away from mars missions. it is easily explainable but like, what was that all for then
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Kraut
Kraut@The_Davos_Man·
It's always worth remembering the first people the Marxists rounded up and murdered when they seized power in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary, were the people who resisted the Nazis, the WW2 veterans, the Spanish civil war volunteers, the Liberals, and the Social Democrats.
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everett
everett@exist_you·
@GaymerTheatre have they ever jerked you during a gang tickle before? Have them try that if you dare
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TheatreGaymer
TheatreGaymer@GaymerTheatre·
Sooooo I might be getting gang tickled at LVFC O///O
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everett@exist_you·
@ProgressiveEmma What if the reason is "they only care about their home state"?
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Emma ☪️🧀🌹
Emma ☪️🧀🌹@ProgressiveEmma·
If you are an American who hates America unfollow me im so deadass i dont care you are unserious. And get the fuck out of my country
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Polling USA
Polling USA@USA_Polling·
Many western nations have seen their approval of US leadership tank between 2024-2025
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
Someone made a global map of gas price increases since the Iran War began. Take a look:
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everett@exist_you·
@AddiSpotify Only because One Nation's coalition appears to be very inefficient
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everett@exist_you·
@ThankYouSir143 @clashreport Like imagine your foreign policy being this petty that you can't imagine siding with the other Arabs to isolate Egypt instead of making them side with Cairo
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Clash Report@clashreport·
Ethiopia’s UN Vote on Israeli Settlement Sparks Criticism & Confusion at Home Ethiopia voted 'NO' on UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Palestine, sparking domestic backlash for shifting its decade long diplomatic stand. Critics say the shift is a blow to Ethiopia's historic resistance against colonialism & Apartheid. clashreport.com/world/articles…
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everett
everett@exist_you·
@FRozners @lakshmibai14470 Yes, but Russia had practical influence there for far longer. Empress Anna after all had been duchess of Courland before becoming Empress of Russia.
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Dume
Dume@gietzschean·
The Latvian Versailles
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@christinelu @MsMelChen So, essentially, vulnerable NATO members like the Baltics should do everything possible to make themselves too important to the rest of the world?
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🖤 Christine
🖤 Christine@christinelu·
This is also why Taiwan knows it’s their semiconductors and now AI components that keep Taiwan free because of their strategic value to the rest of the world. I may want democracy for my people but am pragmatic enough to know that other countries don’t care. I mean, people still tell me they like Thai food when I tell them I’m Taiwanese. lol
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Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
May I offer a different perspective on the whole transatlantic family feud brewing over NATO. Europeans are furious at what they call American unilateralism and "wars of choice," while Americans are done subsidizing allies who won't lift a finger when Washington actually needs them. Given all the sentimentality and historical baggage, there’s been a lot of bad blood and high grade insults thrown both ways. A lot of pride here is at stake. But given that I am not American or European, what I can provide is an Asian perspective. The whole thing looks very different as there are no blood ties or cultural nostalgia to pull me either way. Because of distance, the default Asian lens on America has always been colder, clearer, and far more pragmatic than the European one. Asians have never lived under the illusion that their relationship to the US is one based on shared values. If they ever did, the illusion was shattered during the Cold War. Instead, Asian nations saw the relationship to America as a cold, interest-driven bargain in a dangerous neighborhood full of communists, insurgents, and bigger powers. Fast forward to today, and this lesson still holds. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia all partner with America because their interests (not values) align - especially when it comes to countering China. These nations have reasons to be alarmed about Beijing's ambitions in the South China Sea, around Taiwan, and across the Indo-Pacific. They don't need lectures about democracy or liberal international order to see the value in US forward presence, intelligence sharing, tech transfers, and security guarantees. It's a straight-up transactional deal: the US keeps the sea lanes open and the PLA at bay. Meanwhile, Asian nations host your bases, buy your weapons, and join your alliances (Quad, AUKUS, etc.). When interests diverge, they adjust pragmatically, without the drama and meltdown. Probably not many in the West know this, but one of the forces that shaped this attitude was the US pullout of Vietnam and the rest of America’s Cold War shenanigans. Lee Kuan Yew was one of America’s loudest cheerleaders in Southeast Asia. In 1967 he flew to Washington, testified to Congress, and begged Lyndon Johnson (and later Nixon) not to cut and run in Vietnam. He warned that a hasty US exit would trigger the dominoes - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and then pressure on the rest of Southeast Asia. Singapore became a logistical hub, providing a haven for US troops on R&R, oil refineries supplying the American war machine, and Lockheed servicing aircraft. At one point, US military-related spending made up 15% of Singapore’s entire GDP. Singapore didn’t support the war because it loved American democracy but because it kept the communists tied up and bought Southeast Asia time to build up its own economy and military. Then came the pullout - the Paris Accords in 1973 and then Saigon falls in 1975. Despite all the lobbying, despite the blood and resources America had spent, domestic politics in the US (the anti-war movement, Congress, Vietnam syndrome etc.) ended it. LKY watched in disbelief as the superpower that had promised to hold the line simply walked away. The lesson was that American commitments are real only as long as they serve American interests and American voters don’t get tired. It’s a brutal one to internalize. LKY was disappointed and noted American “unreliability” but Singapore didn’t collapse into panic or anti-Americanism. They just recalibrated and kept pursuing pragmatism by building its own deterrent, diversifying partners, and later offered the US naval logistics access (Sembawang port) when the Philippines kicked them out of Subic Bay in the early 1990s. Malaysia drew the same conclusion. The Tunku was pro-Western and anti-communist early on, but Malaysia never joined SEATO and pushed ZOPFAN (Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality) instead. When the British announced their East-of-Suez withdrawal in 1968 and Nixon’s Doctrine (1969) told Asians “you defend yourselves first, we’ll just help,” Kuala Lumpur accelerated its neutralist tilt. The message was clear - don’t count on Washington to bleed indefinitely for distant allies. South Korea is similarly pragmatic but it operates under far higher stakes due to baggage from the Korean War and the ongoing North Korean threat. American intervention literally saved the South from conquest, resulting in a bond that is forged in blood. While South Korea had to learn the same lessons - that the American umbrella isn’t permanent, sharing a border with a nuclear-armed adversary forces tighter coupling with Washington. The reverberations of Nixon’s 1973 opening to Beijing cannot be understated. It shocked the entire region that America, the great anti-communist crusader, suddenly would cozy up to Mao to counter the Soviets. If Washington could flip on core principles when interests demanded it, why should smaller states pretend the relationship was about anything deeper? The core Asian critique of the European approach to dealing with America is that it is entirely bound up in moral values and civilizational kinship. This means that every disagreement feels like a betrayal and breeds resentment on both sides. Because Europe is so hyped up on abstract values, it makes NATO feel like a sacred club that America is disrespecting. Asia's interest-based lens sees alliances as tools - useful until they're not. Maybe Europe thinks the Asian approach is cynical but the irony is that this is actually what keeps Indo-Pacific partners far more reliable counterweights to China than many NATO members ever were against Russia.
Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱@marcthiessen

So many longtime NATO supporters saying the same thing right now. I helped bring Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic into NATO. But denying us basing and overflight is inexcusable, as is their failure to help with Strait of Hormuz. No one asking them to bomb Iran, just let us use our bases and help escort ships. If they can’t do that, NATO has no purpose.

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Ælþemplær
Ælþemplær@Aelthemplaer·
Israel putting out feelers for a war with Turkey is beyond insane. Turkey has the same population size and mountainous terrain as Iran, plus a modern NATO-equipped and funded military. Israel would get curbstomped.
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Igor Sushko
Igor Sushko@igorsushko·
@ReinisBrigis Russia doesn't need a pretext to attack the Baltics. Your assertion is not logical.
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Igor Sushko
Igor Sushko@igorsushko·
🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇺🇦 Many of our Baltic friends appear to have misunderstood my words, possibly letting their very justified fear of Russia cloud their judgment. This has been my position for over a year. Allow me to make it crystal clear: For their own security, the Baltics must form a mutual defense alliance with Ukraine. The Baltics are the chief beneficiary of such an alliance, not Ukraine. Putin will think twice about invading if he knows Russians will have to face the same battle-hardened Ukrainians with housewife kitchen drones in the Baltics. I believe Ukraine will be willing to do this if the Balts send a battalion each to Ukraine. 1) Baltic states are vulnerable to a Russian invasion. Only about 60,000 untested active duty troops. No air force. Very small population. No capability to counter 1,000 drones-per-day sustained attacks. Russia currently loses in Ukraine the equivalent of the entire Baltic military force every 1.5-2 months. 2) European NATO capabilities and response to a hypothetical invasion of the Baltics are unclear. Europeans don't have sufficient munitions for sustained war beyond a couple of weeks anyway. 3) US is unlikely to come to the defense of the Baltic states. 4) Sending a few Baltic battalions to Ukraine could obligate Ukraine to send troops to the Baltics as part of such an alliance. Can be done on a rotational basis now, even just as rotational R&R deployments for Ukrainian troops needing rest from frontline duty. Permanent Ukrainian troop presence in the Baltics is THE deterrent against Russia. On the other hand, 1,000-1,500 Baltic troops in Ukraine is not going to turn the tide of war against Russia. This is why the Baltics will probably benefit much more than Ukraine from the alliance. 5) Russia invades countries it deems to be weak, to extract resources through occupation. The Baltics are weak without obligated Ukrainian defense. 6) A Baltic-Ukrainian alliance will reduce the risk of invasion by Russia, not increase it. 7) Such an alliance does not conflict with NATO membership. Baltic states are sovereign and have the legal right to join any other military alliances. 8) NATO Article 5 is not relevant. Russians fighting Balts in Ukraine is not an attack on the Baltics. Balts fighting Russians in Ukraine is not an attack on Russia. 9) Whether or not you believe NATO will actually defend the Baltics in case of a Russian attack (I don't), a Baltic-Ukrainian alliance only helps strengthen the Baltic states militarily. 10) 1,000-1,500 Baltic troops in Ukraine fighting Russians will not increase the chance of a Russian attack on the Baltics. Russia won't care about such a minuscule force. Militarily, it's insignificant. Russia loses that many soldiers every day. The only caveat here is whether Ukraine would agree to such a military alliance, as Ukraine stands to benefit significantly less than the Baltic states. I believe Ukraine will agree. ✊ I hope everyone can see that I'm spending my time and energy genuinely trying to help strengthen Baltic security contrary to various recent accusations against me by some Balts.
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