Artis Pabriks

After USSR attacked Finland in 1939, it was excluded from League of Nations, after Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022 it should be excluded from UN. Especially, if UN wants to be respected again.

Larvijai jau sen bija piedāvājumi iesaistīties Igaunijas atomstacijas plānos un tas būtu mums jādara. Pēc tam varēsim sapņot paši par savus staciju.

@janis_sarts @krispumpurs RIP, leģendas aiziet.

Esmu no tās paaudzes kuriem Čaks Norris nebija tikai anekdošu personāžs. Viņš bija viens no tiem aktieriem, kas 80o gadu otrā pusē pusē pavēra durvis uz aizliegtu pasauli. Šobrīd varētu šķist jocīgi, kā gan vienkāšas kautiņu filmas tā varētu uztvert.⬇️

JUST IN: The country that learned to shoot down Iranian drones over Kyiv is now teaching the Gulf to shoot them down over refineries. Nobody asked Trump. The Gulf asked Ukraine. President Zelensky confirmed at the UK Parliament on March 18 that 201 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, with teams en route to Kuwait and 34 more ready to go. These are active-duty government military personnel, not private contractors. They are sharing combat-proven expertise from three years of intercepting Iranian Shahed drones over Ukrainian cities, power grids, and civilian infrastructure. The Gulf states requested the assistance. Saudi Arabia explicitly approached Ukraine. The arrangement is reciprocal: Ukraine provides the expertise that no other country possesses at this depth of operational experience, and the Gulf provides what Ukraine needs most, funding, technology, and air defence systems. Zelensky specifically highlighted Patriot missiles as part of the exchange. The country that cannot get enough Patriots from the West is earning them from the Gulf by teaching drone interception. Trump did not request this deployment. No reporting in any outlet, from Reuters to Al Jazeera to the Kyiv Post, indicates American coordination or approval. The recent Trump-Zelensky tensions over aid disputes and public friction are well documented. This is not a Washington-orchestrated move. It is a bilateral arrangement between Ukraine and Gulf capitals that bypasses Washington entirely. Zelensky built a parallel channel to the Gulf that gives Ukraine what America has been reluctant to provide while giving the Gulf what America’s $23.5 billion arms surge does not include: the people who know how to fight Shaheds because they have been fighting them every night for three years. The expertise is specific and irreplaceable. Ukraine has intercepted thousands of Shahed-136 and Shahed-238 drones since 2022. It has developed detection protocols, jamming techniques, acoustic tracking, small-arms interception methods, and integrated air defence coordination that no training manual teaches. The Gulf states purchased Patriot batteries, THAAD radars, and anti-drone systems through the $23.5 billion arms package. The hardware is American. The operational knowledge of how to use it against the exact Iranian drone variants now striking Gulf refineries is Ukrainian. Israel views this positively. Anything that strengthens Gulf air defences against Iranian drones reduces the threat environment for every country in the region, including Israel. Ukrainian-Gulf cooperation reinforces the anti-Iran alignment that the Abraham Accords established. Israel and Ukraine share a common adversary’s weapons system: Iran builds the Shaheds, Russia deploys them against Ukraine, and the IRGC deploys them against the Gulf. The expertise flows in one direction. The threat originates from the same factory. The Putin dimension is real but secondary. Iran supplies Russia with Shahed drones for use against Ukraine. Ukraine now teaches Gulf states to destroy those same drones when Iran uses them directly. The feedback loop is elegant: every Ukrainian lesson learned from shooting down Russian-deployed Shaheds over Odesa is now applied to IRGC-deployed Shaheds over Ras Laffan. Putin’s Iranian drone supplier is being countered by the country Putin is fighting, on a battlefield 4,000 kilometres from the front line. The irony is structural. The aggravation is intentional. Two hundred and one experts. Government military, not contractors. Gulf-requested, not Trump-directed. Shahed-specific, not generic. And the country with the most relevant expertise on Earth got there before the $23.5 billion in hardware arrived. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Nuo baimės iki pasitikėjimo – taip latviai augina vaikus 🇱🇻 Štai kur formuojasi charakteris 😉 IG 🎬 andisneiksans

@Gaumigais_joks Šādi Baltkrieviju neatdalīt no Krievijas, bet būs iespēja apgādāt krieviju ar avio rezerves daļām un no Krievijas importēt minerālmēslus. To var uzskatīt par nākošo sankciju atcelšanu. Bez tam, neesmu pārliecināts, ka te kāds prasīja pārtraukt hibrīduzbrukumus mums.

@Pabriks Ar Baltkrieviju Tramps nedraudzējas,bet panāca politieslōdzīto atbrīvošanu!Kartupeļu fīrers saprot,ka kļūdīties šeit nedrīkst,ja negrib kļūt par Maduro2.0. Ļoti labi vērtējams fakts,ka fīreru atdala no pļutkina! Vēl viena mums izdevīga lieta! Labāk lai amerikāņi tam maksā, ne pū!

Labs paskaidrojums tiem, kuri aicina “izlikties”, ka esam gatavi doties uz Līci atsaucoties Trampa mediju aicinājumam. Var papildināt ar mūsu atbalstu Ukrainai no kurasTramps ir atteicies un izvēlējies draudzēties ar Baltkrieviju, kura mūs apdraud.

Tajikistan’s 110-truck “humanitarian” convoy to Iran is raising alarms. Russia used similar convoys to mask weapon shipments in 2014.

Today, four years ago, 19 March 2022 When words no longer mean anything, symbols speak. Ukrainian border guards handed the ambassador of Belarus “30 pieces of silver”—a clear, cold signal: betrayal is remembered. With contempt.

Support @425Skala donate Chance for Peace. Ukrainian defence is fundamental for European security.

“Why are the russians doing this to Ukraine? Because they can, because the world has allowed them to.” Testimony of Taira (Yuliya Payevska) to the US Helsinki Commission. She was captured and imprisoned by russians on March 16, 2022 and released on June 17, 2022. ▪️ Taira about herself: "My name is Yuliya Payevska. By profession, I am a graphic designer, as well as the president of one of the Aikido federations of Ukraine. Russians call me a Nazi. This is what they call everyone who opposes them, or simply does not want to see russia in Ukraine. I spent the first 20 days of this war in Mariupol, which turned into hell. After that, I spent 3 months in russian captivity. And it was hell too." ▪️ About the proposal to commit suicide: "When my executioners suggested that I commit suicide, I said no. I wanted to see what would happen tomorrow, I wondered how far they would go in their madness and malice. And then one day, when it seemed that there was no hope, someone looked into the window and called my name. "Take your things and go out" — that's how my path to freedom began. ▪️About those who remained in russian captivity: "Pregnant prisoners whose fate is unknown neither to their families nor to the state. A soldier who was beaten for three hours and then thrown into the basement like a sack, and only a day later someone came to him." ▪️ About horrors in Mariupol: "A dead child in his mother's arms, a seven-year-old boy with a gunshot wound dying in my arms because I cannot stop his death. Prisoners screaming for weeks in their cells, dying of torture in hellish agony. I remember my friend's eyes, which I closed before his body went cold, and another friend, and another, and another... I saw half a million people dying under air strikes. Air strikes on hospitals and residential areas. A hospital full of wounded people, with no medicine. Surgeons and medical staff sleeping for three hours a day as operations followed one after another. Medical evacuation vehicles arriving every 5 to 10 minutes, with the living and the dead lying on top of each other. Cars that are on fire with people inside. Police officers pulling women and children from the rubble, mutilated beyond recognition. People collecting water from puddles. Dogs that were once pets dragging human limbs around the city." ▪️About questions from the executioner: "One of my executioners asked me: "Do you know why I do this to you?" I answered: "Because you can." He did not expect such an answer. But it is true. They do it because they can. Because their leaders told them they had the right to do so. Because once they were allowed to. Because the world gave them such permission. The world was silent, watching the crimes of the russians in Georgia, Syria and so on."

@counterbrange @Znotina Jāizvērtē ir visas situācijas, arī iespējamās partnerības ar “jauno stratēģisko partneri” Baltkrieviju. Nedrīkstam atpalikt.

@Znotina Latvija un Igaunija netika pat uzaicināta iestāties Trampa Miera padomē. "Izvērtētu". Saprotams, ka diplomātiem nav viegls laiks. Cerams, ka memuāros kādreiz varēs uzrakstīt, kā patiesībā bija, ko vajadzēja noklusēt, kādus "krupjus norīt".

Latvija izvērtētu palīdzības sniegšanu sabiedrotajiem operācijā Hormuza šaurumā, saka Braže delfi.lv/193/politics/1…

@jurgen_nauditt @DavidS50524529 Potash. Not potassium. And BTW, the revenue from potash sales by Belaruskalii, the largest producer in the world after Canada, will accrue to Russia, not Belarus, since the Russian company Uralkalii owns Belaruskalii. One more phillip for Russia’s genocidal campaign in 🇺🇦.

The US is lifting sanctions against Belarusian banks and potassium, according to US Special Envoy John Cole. This is outrageous! Trump rewards aggressors, mass murderers, and dictators while blackmailing and insulting the victim, Ukraine. According to Cole, the restrictions against the Belarusian Ministry of Finance, the Belarus Development Bank, and Belinvestbank will be lifted. Furthermore, the Belarusian Potash Company and Belaruskali, the main producers of potash fertilizers, will be removed from the US sanctions list. The US Special Envoy stated that the lifting of the restrictions would be swift and noted that he had discussed this matter with officials from the Ministry of Finance before his visit to Minsk.

Launched the 1st Latvia-Norway drone forum with more than 20 Latvian and 40 Norwegian defence companies, military and government representatives. 🇱🇻🇳🇴 Latvia co-leads the Drone coalition and provides to NATO an enabling innovation and test environment for the drone ecosystem.

@NileGardiner x.com/pabriks/status…

It is a dark and sad day for Europe when its leaders cannot bring themselves to send even a single warship or fighter jet to support the United States, which has shed so much blood in the defence of European nations. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/1…

@AmbDanFried Please, clarify, how does it work? US asks assistance to fight Iran while giving presents to Russia and its puppet Belarus which is fighting Ukraine, organizing hybrid attacks against your European allies and being closest Iranian ally. Any logic or sense?

Trump pushes Europe to help in the Gulf. One European country has stood up and offered meaningful military assistance. That would be Ukraine.

@JayinKyiv Just to remind our transatlantic friends that we are under hybrid attack from Belarus while we read this. How is it called when your friends and allies engage in friendship and business with your adversaries? What is the name for that?

The US delegation getting humiliated by the mass murdering Belarusian dictator today in Minsk. Putin needs sanctions off Belarus so it can act as conduit for western tech to get to the Russian war machine. Lukashenko even talking direct flights between his Russian colony and the US. Trump will give him everything for more cash into Trump family coffers. Belarus GDP is smaller than Delaware.

Europe told Trump and Vance, clearly and seriously, that Russia’s war against Ukraine and its hybrid warfare campaign across the continent represents the greatest security threat Europe has faced since 1945. Europe said this as a NATO ally. As a partner of seven decades. As a bloc that has housed American bases, funded American adventures, and sent its sons to die in American wars without much complaint. Trump and Vance looked at this and said: not our problem. It’s happening on your continent. We have important things to attend to. The important things turned out to be nothing. There were no important things. There was golf, there was television, and there was a remarkable amount of time spent being angry about things on the internet. Then, approximately some months later, the same administration announced it intended to seize Greenland. A sovereign territory. From a NATO ally. By force if necessary. So to summarise: defending Europe from an actively invading nuclear power is not America’s problem. Illegally annexing a Danish island in the Arctic is apparently a matter of urgent national interest. Now. If anyone in the MAGA universe is sitting there expecting Europe to provide diplomatic cover, logistical support, intelligence sharing, or a single sympathetic press release for whatever America is currently doing in the Middle East, I have some news for you. You told us you weren’t our allies. We were listening. You don’t get to turn the alliance on and off depending on which direction the aggression is pointing. That is not how it works. That is not how any of this works. Europe will not be helping. Europe will be watching. You made that bed. Enjoy it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

Padoms tiem, kuri grib vadīt un redzēt Latviju laimīgu-laba veselības, izglītības un sociālās drošības sistēma, iespējas brīvi bez birokrātijas īstenot savus sapņus un pārliecība par sevi turot krievus pēc iespējas tālāk. Somiem tas izdevās un deva ticību sev, kas mums pietrūkst.