🌻 Marvelogue
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Ukraine accuses Israel of receiving shipments of grain 'stolen' by Russia bbc.in/48rCs04
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@LeviDunlap0226 @elonmusk What do you think happens in areas occupied by Russia? There is not just killing of innocent civilians, but filtration camps, torture chambers, mass rape, russification campaigns, child deportations, mass expropriations, etc. This is what you are proposing?
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@elonmusk Enough of the killing, this war must end too many young men have lost their lives for a war that shouldn’t have happened. At this point it’s about money in my opinion and greed and these young people don’t need to be the pawns for a crazed cause.
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@eshaLegal “Everyone” is exclusively Russians from the core of the empire. Why no ask anyone from the nations they colonised and oppressed? Or even members of ethnic minorities at the edges of the imperial territories they managed to keep?
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Everyone misses the Soviet Union
Kraut@The_Davos_Man
"modest leftist views" like "I miss the Soviet Union"
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@RyanRozbiani How was international law doing in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea?
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International Law is DEAD
It died when the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and NOT ONE country he visited enforced it.
The UN passed countless ceasefire resolutions for Gaza. Ignored. The ICJ ruled Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is ILLEGAL under international law. Also ignored.
When you start enforcing International Law for EVERYONE, then you can quote it.
Kaja Kallas@kajakallas
Under international law, transit through waterways like the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and free of charge. This is what leaders made clear in their call on reopening the Strait today. Any pay-for-passage scheme will set a dangerous precedent for global maritime routes. Iran has to abandon any plan to levy transit fees. Europe will play its part in restoring the free flow of energy and trade, once a ceasefire takes hold. The EU’s Aspides naval mission is already operating in the Red Sea and can be quickly strengthened to protect shipping across the region. This could be the fastest way to provide support.
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@BCStruggleLeag “A few bureaucrats” bringing down the wall that kept members of “a successful society” from escaping.
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@MikeLevin Guess who clearly sees America’s weakness and lack of credibility? x.com/mykhailorohoza…
Mykhailo Rohoza@MykhailoRohoza
During talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Pakistan, the topic of Ukraine unexpectedly came up. While discussing U.S. guarantees in the event that Iran halts uranium enrichment and abandons the development of nuclear weapons, the Iranian side asked how the United States is fulfilling the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which it pledged to respect and protect Ukraine’s sovereignty. The U.S. delegation left the question unanswered.
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JD Vance says ending American aid to Ukraine is one of the “proudest achievements” of this administration.
What is he proud of exactly?
Is he proud that Ukraine is running out of Patriot interceptors while Russian missiles rain down on Kyiv?
Is he proud of the Ukrainian civilians killed and wounded in strikes this week?
Is he proud that Ukrainian children are sheltering in subway stations tonight?
Is he proud that every NATO ally watching this is asking whether America’s word means anything anymore?
Is he proud that Vladimir Putin got exactly what he wanted? What exactly is this 'proud achievement?'
Abandoning an ally.
Emboldening a dictator.
Shredding American credibility.
Shifting the bill to Europe while calling it strategy.
JD Vance is proud of weakness, ant history will not be kind.
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During talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations in Pakistan, the topic of Ukraine unexpectedly came up.
While discussing U.S. guarantees in the event that Iran halts uranium enrichment and abandons the development of nuclear weapons, the Iranian side asked how the United States is fulfilling the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which it pledged to respect and protect Ukraine’s sovereignty.
The U.S. delegation left the question unanswered.
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@josef__lin @The_Davos_Man Eastern Europe, unfortunately, experienced both. That is perhaps why far right racist parties in the West are dominant polling forces challenging the establishment, while in the East they are either insignificant or facing significant setbacks.
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@The_Davos_Man I think in former Eastern block it's a bit other way around.Communism gets a lot of attention,as it should,but I think,people don't pay same attention to the nature of fascism, and how destructive it was for humanity. It may explain why far-right racist parties doing better here
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It may surprise some of the Poles and Ukrainians here, but in the Western education system we barely learn anything about how awful communism was. Our ideas & theories of what constitutes tyranny are largely shaped by the experience of fascism. Communism has been written out.
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@roddreher There is also this x.com/cathyyoung63/s…
Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱@CathyYoung63
Rod didn't just "repost" that vile and preposterous fake; he also circulated it in a post on his own Substack on April 9. roddreher.substack.com/p/europe-ameri… And in fact, it's still there. Screenshot from 2 seconds ago. "Live not by lies," huh.
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Friend just reminded me I reposted fake news (that I fell for) abt Peter Magyar before election. I’d forgotten. I was dumb to believe it & repost. I apologize. Moving soon, but I love Hungary & its ppl, and wish the incoming PM good luck serving this great land.
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@DarrenJohnson66 He did not respond to this x.com/yv_levchenko/s…
Юрій Левченко@YV_Levchenko
Here are some of your mistakes (I'll give you a respectful benefit of the doubt that these truly are mistakes and not conscious manipulations), which make @UkraineSol's reaction absolutely correct and justified. And when you're reading my reply, keep in mind that Iʼm Ukrainian and the leader of the only antineoliberal, pro wealth tax party in Ukraine. 1. You talk about the collapse of the USSR causing the invasion that killed hundreds of thousands, yet you don't mention the intentional starving of Ukrainians caused by the Soviet regime, as well as other repressions that together killed MILLIONS and are actually some of the main reasons why the majority of Ukrainians wanted to leave the USSR. 2. You explicitly single out ONLY the Baltic states from your "new USSR". Why don't you give Ukraine, or Uzbekistan for that matter, the same privilege in your hypothetical? 3. What "democratic basis" are you talking about, if Ukrainians overwhelmingly voted to leave the USSR? And, no, that was not because of the coup attempt in Moscow. The coup forced the Ukrainian communist party elites to finally make the decision and hold the referendum, but where the referendum to be held before the coup, the result would've been very similar, because most of the reasons for leaving were primarily tied to no longer having an appetite for being dictated to by Moscow as to how we should live. REGARDLESS of the type of regime that would sit in the Kremlin. 4. No, there was no "overwhelming vote to keep the Union together", as the ballot paper intentionally did NOT have an independence option and the vote was essentially a typical Soviet propaganda exercise, which, unfortunately you are repeating in your post. Furthermore, the whole premise of your post is factually incorrect. For some reason you equate "keeping the USSR but making it democratic" with an absence of criminal neoliberal "shock therapy". This is simply absurd. All of the newly independent republics that were democratic in the early 90-s (including the largest ones - Ukraine and Russia) went through various level of neoliberal "shock therapy". So if the parts of the whole did this, why would the whole, were it to survive, behave any differently? Obviously it wouldn't, and to suggest otherwise is simply a groundless fantasy. Thus, to sum up: you have indeed unfortunately repeated many of the Russian imperialist lies/manipulations that have plagued our people for years, while your main "mitigating statement" is patently false.
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Imperialist wants his empire back.
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@EYakoby This Russian fascist agrees with Hasan Pinker and takes the imperial ambitions even further x.com/igorsushko/sta…
Igor Sushko@igorsushko
Russia: Putin's goddaughter Ksenia Sobchak sat down for an "intellectual" conversation with Russian fascist Anton Krasnovsky who now admits that Russia can't defeat Ukraine. In 2022, Krasnovsky called for drowning and burning Ukrainian children alive on Russian state TV (RT).
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BREAKING: Speaking at Yale Hasan Piker express his devastation over the fall of the USSR.
“The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.”
This is who Democrats are now campaigning with.
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@owenjonesjourno This fascist agrees with you and takes the imperial ambitions even further x.com/igorsushko/sta…
Igor Sushko@igorsushko
Russia: Putin's goddaughter Ksenia Sobchak sat down for an "intellectual" conversation with Russian fascist Anton Krasnovsky who now admits that Russia can't defeat Ukraine. In 2022, Krasnovsky called for drowning and burning Ukrainian children alive on Russian state TV (RT).
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12 million people are estimated to have been killed by economic 'shock therapy' in Russia alone.
Russia suffered the worst peacetime economic collapse of a major industrialised nation in history.
The Russian economy nearly halved.
The fall in Russian output was much worse than that caused by the Nazi invasion in the 1940s.
Russian male life expectancy fell by 6.5 years, to 57.6 - back to its mid-1950s level.
The overall fall in life expectancy was on the scale of Vietnam during all-out war in the 1960s.
The suicide and homicide rates doubled.
Real incomes collapsed by 40%.
At the time of the Soviet collapse, one in fifty Russians lived in poverty. By the end of 1998, that surged to nearly one in every five.
Full employment gave way to mass unemployment.
As healthcare funding collapsed by a third and poverty surged, disease such as diphtheria, tuberculosis and syphilis rampaged.
Russia was taken over by oligarchs, gangsters implicated in serious crimes who stole the country's resources.
Murderous conflicts in the former Soviet territory included Chechnya, where potentially hundreds of thousands were killed.
Yeltsin's contempt for democracy was underlined by his bombing of the Russian legislature - and the undemocratic farce of the 1996 election.
Putin came to power after the Russian secret services almost certainly staged apartment bombings which killed hundreds.
The invasion of Ukraine has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Need I go on? Yes, the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the great catastrophes of our age.
An alternative would have kept the USSR together (Baltic states aside) on a democratic basis, without ruinous shock therapy.
Notably, a Soviet-wide referendum in March 1991 overwhelmingly voted to keep the Union together (although it was boycotted by six of the fifteen republics - in the Baltic and three small republics).
RNC Research@RNCResearch
Hasan Piker: “The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.” This is who Democrats are embracing.
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@RitaPanahi You thought Péter Magyar was a leftist? That’s hilarious.
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The Left thought they won in Hungary, instead they got a younger, bolder centre-Right leader.
Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱@alanfryermedia
This is quite something. The new Hungarian PM goes on state TV to announce the end of state TV.
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@markus_tm Shame also for not recognising the Holodomor as genocide.
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Anyone who knows anything about Ukrainian history understands what historical weight stealing Ukrainian grain carries.
It is a slap in the face not only to Ukraine today, but also to the generations who starved to death during the Holodomor for the same reason.
Shame 🇮🇱
The Ukrainian Review@UkrReview
🇮🇱❗️🇺🇦 Israel has accepted a Russian ship with stolen Ukrainian grain from the temporarily occupied territories. This was reported by Kateryna Yaresko, a journalist for the SeaKrime project of the Myrotvorets Center. The Russian dry cargo ship ABINSK received permission to enter the port of Haifa with a cargo of wheat in the amount of over 43.7 thousand tons. The ship loaded at the anchorage of the port of Kavkaz, where the grain was delivered from the occupied Ukrainian ports.
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@JeremiahDJohns The thing that was wild about it also was how few people expected it - it was like everyone had consigned themselves to fate EXCEPT him.
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"I need ammunition, not a ride" is destined to be one of the greatest quotes of the 21st century. Astonishing bravery.
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@LesiaLVD Israel has not officially recognized the Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people, partly due to sensitivities regarding relations with Russia. Why would an act of collusion with Russia to steal Ukrainian grain be surprising?
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I’m awaiting a comment from Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel, especially the final commodity destination, but regardless of the outcome, I must be honest: Israel can and should do better. The majority of
Israelis support Ukraine and hate Putin (my personal experience +look up the polls), but at the official level it's insufficiently reflected whether our interests align or don't align in some cases. This particular story will do a huge amount of damage because grain is sacred to a nation that was starved to death several times. Worse still, it happened on the day Zelenskyy signed a strict antisemitism law. It’s not a good look, especially since Russia is literally arming Israel’s enemies and Jerusalem effectively asked Ukraine for help regarding the Shahed drones because it turned out that it’s trickier than originally deemed. There has to be a change in this approach
Катерина Яресько@kattyfun1
ABINSK (IMO: 9303869) було прийнято в Хайфі (Ізраїль) з вантажем пшениці 43765.18т з окупованих територій України. Судно завантажилося на якірній стоянці порту Кавказ, вантаж було доставлено з окупованих українських портів. ABINSK очікував дозволу від Ізраїля з 23 березня, і сьогодні він його отримав.
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JD Vance: Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.
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@AgnesCallamard When was the last time @amnesty mentioned Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine (without blaming Ukraine for defending itself)?
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So today, at the Security Council, High Representative Kaja Kallas has lamented the gravest violation and breakdown of international law since the Second World War, evident, I quote "in today’s two pre-eminent global crises — Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the war in the Middle East."
Quick quantitative analysis of her speech:
Mention of Russia: 11
Mention of Israel: 0
Mention of the USA: 0
Mention of Iran: 1
Her unwillingness, her deliberate failure, to mention the two actors (in addition to Russia) responsible for the greatest violations of international law, is not just coward. It is criminal. It explains the repeated violations of international law, the breakdown of the UN Charter, the global regime of impunity.
The failure is counted in acts of aggressions, in a genocide, in deliberate or disproportionate or indiscriminate attacks against civilians, in thousands of civilians deaths, including children, in unlawful occupation and de facto annexation.
The double standards inherent in Ms. Kallas speech are destroying international law.
eeas.europa.eu/eeas/united-na…
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Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss
Orban's foreign minister offered Iran's assistance after Israel blew the balls off Hezbollah operatives. “Our secret service has already contacted your services and we will share all the information we have gathered during the investigation,” Peter Szijjarto told Abbas Araghchi, per @AineBelton's reporting: washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/…
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I want to express my deep appreciation to my dear friend @PM_ViktorOrban , a true friend of Israel, who stood firmly by Israel's side in the face of unjust international vilification and who supported Israel's soldiers in our just war of self-defense against brutal terrorists. The people of Israel will forever remember this.
I congratulate Peter Magyar on his election victory. I wish him success in leading Hungary forward, while strengthening the strong ties between our nations.
I look forward to continuing our cooperation for the benefit of both our peoples.
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