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Fun fact: Dictator Alexander Lukashenko has been ruling occupied Belarus uncontested since roughly the time Kurt Cobain shot himself.

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Lugupeetud ERRi uudistetoimetus: võtke rahulikult, selles Telegraphi artiklis ei olnud ju üldse midagi uut. Tõdeti, et spooferid ja jammerid on olemas ja kõik. Pole vaja selle pärast vahtu üles lüüa. (@anvarsamost)

A reminder: "Oreshnik" was designed to carry nuclear weapons. When it doesn't, it's not a practical or cost effective weapon system (it's too inaccurate, and not destructive enough for the $30 million + price tag); it's a terror weapon designed to intimidate.

and it's Europe whose "biggest problem is censorship" (Vance) Really ? 👇

@tundmatutyyp Koolis õpetati ikkagi teistpidi.

Eesti kirjutatakse ikka suure algustähega ja veremaa väikesega.

pildi viskas ette Facebookis.

Geniuses of Russian marketing. An ad for the Russian military contract reads: "A job for real men." The name of the bus stop: "Meat Processing Plant." Perfect.

@mmm_merilin kas kellelgi on selline ukselingi fetiš, et need tuli ka pildil eraldi välja tuua? :D

Nagu kolm tilka vett: 1 - milline Kompassi väljak täna on, 2 - millisena seda kinnisvaraostjatele müüdi, 3 - sama arendaja märg unistus.

6 of Estonia's 7 MEPs gave supportive comments about banning alumina exports to Russia. PM was also asked about it in parliament and gave a supportive answer. @realLangerDan #Alumina21 ekspress.delfi.ee/artikkel/12058…

It is difficult to imagine whose idea this could possibly be outside Germany. Naturally, it never occurs to some thick-headed strategists that Europe could also be represented in talks with Putin by someone from a country that actually borders Russia and has spent decades dealing with the consequences of Russian policy firsthand (like @IlvesToomas). Instead, Europe keeps producing brilliant ideas about sending to Moscow specialists in throwing allies under the bus. Merkel is a monument of this kind of “policy”.

Lifelong Libertarian activist Ayn Rand enrolls in Social Security and Medicare, as she has gotten lung cancer after years of heavy smoking.

As a Danish and European politician, I am not accustomed to deliberate public falsehood as a political method. But it is probably something we will have to get used to. Take, for example, Jeff Landry’s blatant falsehood that Donald Trump was the first major politician to truly place Greenland on the world map. If we confine ourselves to this century alone, Colin Powell was co-signatory of the Igaliku Agreement in 2004 while serving as Secretary of State. John Negroponte, then Deputy Secretary of State, represented the United States when the Ilulissat Declaration was signed in 2008. John Kerry visited Greenland in 2016 while serving as Secretary of State. And Antony Blinken visited the island in 2021. Greenland was also visited by Angela Merkel in 2007, when the purpose was to study climate change. And the island has continuously received visits from American politicians who genuinely take an interest in Arctic affairs. The foremost among them is undoubtedly Lisa Murkowski. So Greenland has long been on the world map - partly because of climate change, and partly because of the question of Arctic security. And Greenland has continuously been integrated into Arctic cooperation, not least as a consequence of the Igaliku Agreement. There was a time when I read a great deal of Jürgen Habermas and believed that the norm of truth was an unbreakable norm among civilized people. I believed that, as Habermas put it, the better argument exercised a kind of “forceless force.” What we lack today is a new Habermas for the twenty-first century - someone capable of describing the performative role of the lie. Because the reality is this: to someone who knows nothing about Greenland, Jeff Landry’s statements sound perfectly plausible. But they are simply a fabrication. A good story. Something designed to generate support without any ambition toward truth. Harry Frankfurt argued that this is the very essence of what he called “bullshit.” We no longer merely disagree about values. Increasingly, we disagree about reality itself. Jeff Landry is part of the post-truth culture that permeates American politics. But it is also something we in Europe will increasingly have to adapt to, simply because of the influence the United States possesses. It is difficult to say where this post-truth strategy will lead the Western world. But I will be honest: I have reached an age where I preferred the world shaped by the ideals of the Enlightenment - by truth as a moral norm and obligation. That world is gone. Perhaps permanently. I understand that. But I cannot pretend to admire the replacement.

Watching a pan-Nordic discussion program on Finnish TV with Nordic ministers and researchers. One clear outcome is that if Southern European countries had helped Ukraine relatively as much as the Nordics, Ukraine would have already won.

@SimonOstrovsky has a YT channel, check it out

Has the war in Ukraine made Russia a second-rate power? See the full interview with @SethGJones of @csis on my YouTube channel SOSTROVSKY

These people call Ukraine corrupt by the way

Keir Starmer isn’t serious about getting tough on Putin spectator.com/article/keir-s…

Shot down by Romanian F16, thank you allies!

Insane.

So, Ireland is ok with their Alimina plant supporting the Russian war machine, bombing civilians. Quite dehumanising.