Praq
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Praq
@thepraqsis
Immanentizing the shitpost. Go away.
Saturn Katılım Ağustos 2025
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@GunterFehlinger @DiePressecom @WienerZeitung @a_unterberger Thank you Gunter for doing all of this !
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One of Austria’s leading conservative voices and former editor-in-chief of @DiePressecom and @WienerZeitung , Dr. Andreas Unterberger (@a_unterberger) , backs my initiative:
🇦🇹Austria should join NATO.
He then warns about Western complacency and demographic decline, and argues a state’s first duty is security, externally and internally, including firm, controlled migration enforcement. This episode is from the end of November but more relevant than ever. Full episode with subtitles on
YouTube: youtu.be/mf0dULvyrzw?si…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6aEh1O…

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@OrokuSa1979 @BiankaB12 @MachoSStorage They are elected I voted for them a years ago. How do you think they got there ? You are just showing a complete lack of understanding of the EU, just parroting propaganda, inform yourself more bcz its just sad...
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@thepraqsis @BiankaB12 @MachoSStorage whatever the level of your stockholm syndrome is at; doesn't change the fact that your masters in Brussels are unelected. Yet Europe wants to preach to the rest of the world about "true democracy" and free speech...🤷♂️
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@OrokuSa1979 @BiankaB12 @MachoSStorage Brussels has helped eastern europe immensly, the standard of living today vs 20-30 years ago is incredible, compare eastern eu countries vs non eu. Brusseles has helped stop corruption, no more local sheriffs and much less corrupt politicians bcz of eu policing.
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@BiankaB12 @MachoSStorage You cowtow to and grovel before the corrupt bureaucrats in Brussels ,perhaps not the kind of "friends" that anyone should be losing any sleep over?
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@LudensLudonauta Thats amazing, it must feel great being in the green finally, how long did it take you to get to here ?
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@ComplaymentdO @yuanyi_z Its legit ccp footage, it just seems like an interesting coincidence to have something like this leak in the middle of the Japan-Taiwan thing.
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@thepraqsis @yuanyi_z Hi,
Japan leaking the footage of that particular trial to piss off China. That's an interesting theory. But who shot this ?
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Someone just uploaded a 6 hour recording of the court martial of Xu Qinxian, the Chinese general who refused to take his army to Beijing in 1989. Astonishing stuff. youtu.be/m2NN0vSJ8rU?si…

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@Deepstate_UA After seeing your statement, we’ve fully removed the integration and stopped using your data. We mistakenly assumed a public endpoint meant it was intended for open use. We respect your work and won’t use it again without explicit permission.
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🟥 До уваги громадськості — DeepStateMap НЕ давала дозволу на інтеграцію з букмекерами
Сьогодні ваше, а також наше, обурення виклало повідомлення якогось букмекерського сервісу про інтеграцію з нашою мапою.
DeepStateMap та команда DeepState UA не мають ніякого відношення до цього сервісу.
Даний сервіс наживається на ставках на війну і здійснює підключення або через надане комусь безкоштовне АРІ для гуманітарних/військових потреб, або через сторонні парсери.
Подібні спроби нажитися на нашій праці трапляються не вперше, що змусило нас запровадити жорсткіший контроль API та створити індивідуальні ключі клієнта.
Через подібних осіб, ми не встигаємо опрацьовувати видачу нових ключів.
Також будемо вдячні та вітаємо допомогу фахівців у галузі захисту інтелектуальної власності для вирішення цієї проблеми і покарання шахраїв.
Дякуємо всім за розуміння.

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At the end of the day, @POTUS is the only one who can bring Russia and Ukraine together and hammer out a deal. We’ve made substantial progress towards a plan that would ensure a durable peace.
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@LogistFrontline I downloaded the demo yesterday at around 21:15, when I looked at the clock it was already 1 in the morning. Really fun game, cant wait to see where it goes, also left a positive review :)
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@allisonlopez @slantchev After months of "two weeks", now he is moving the goalpost on why he wont pressure russia. Also the moral ambiguity, transactional relationship and blaming the victim. If the eu places secondary sanction and tarrifs who can trust that trump wont change his mind afterwards.
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I’ve read this twice, probably should again before speaking. But in your thoughts to passing what the Senate may want for US to place more sanctions…. why? Doesn’t it seem like Trump is telling NATO basically to live by example.. if they don’t choose to why should we? I may be being too simplistic considering you have thought much more about this am I missing something?
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While this might sound good, it is in fact another way for Trump to do nothing against Putin while passing the buck onto others.
He is correct that Europe got too gleefully in bed with Russia on energy and appears to be doing the same with China on trade. He is also right that buying Russian oil , whether it is by India, China, or Europe, supports the Russian war machine. He is also on the mark by demanding the purchases to stop and for more sanctions to be imposed.
So where’s the catch?
The catch is that the conditions he’s listed as necessary for him to do anything are unlikely to be met anytime soon and he knows it.
For example, take “all NATO nations stop buying oil from Russia.” The EU has already been phasing out purchases of Russian oil and is on track to fully stop them next year. Yes, it takes a while to unwind the deep reliance on Russia that we’ve repeatedly talked about. Moreover, Hungary is in an even worse shape in that regard and despite just recently so m signing contracts for alternative supplies, it has repeatedly requested exemptions from this timetable, with the EU granted (as did the US, for oil related financial transactions). Neither Hungary nor Slovakia have evinced any desire whatsoever to side against Russia, and given how decisions in the EU are made, this has been an ongoing problem.
Trump knows all of this — the EU leaders who came to Washington had him call Orbán to tell him to drop his opposition to Ukraine’s EU membership, for example. So he knows that unanimity is very unlikely, and that at best we are taking another year before the full stop of Russian oil is implemented.
By setting this as a condition for US action — a totally unnecessary one as he can literally just greenlight the sanctions package that has 80% support in the Senate — Trump is in effect pursuing his do-nothing strategy of delay and blame shifting.
The issue with the tariffs on India and China is similar. After the initial escalation and retreat by Trump, the tariffs have settled at around 35% for now (it’s a bit complicated because there are several rules that apply to different products) and implementation of higher tariffs has been repeatedly delayed. I would be surprised if the US went higher given the havoc that the initial increases wrought domestically. The US did impose a 50% tariff on India about two weeks ago but is also in negotiations that will likely reach a deal that would have them reduced.
The EU doesn’t usually impose across the board tariffs and prefers to deal with specific products. For China, it does have some anti-dumping measures but, as I’ve repeatedly said, it is too open to China, whose exports to the EU have increased dramatically in the wake of the trade war with the US. The EU has indicated some readiness to improve on that but, in their usual way, also said it would take a while to coordinate and craft appropriate responses. While this is upsetting, there’s no reason to demand that the EU does more than the US (50-100% tariffs) as a precondition to act. Moreover, the EU is far more dependent on trade than the US, so one cannot expect it to start trade wars willy-nilly, especially when the mercurial Trump administration can change policies in any direction almost on a whim.
Demanding that the Europeans do something that we are not doing as a precondition to us acting when Trump has shown no consistency or follow through is a bridge too far, and I believe Trump knows this and exploits it to get cover for his refusal to sanction Russia.
I hope the Europeans work out a compromise with the US that would be sufficient to overcome this recipe for inaction. But then maybe we will see Trump giving Putin another two weeks.
The hope here is that Ukraine’s own oil sanctions that it’s imposing on Russia by attacking its energy infrastructure will bear fruit faster than the pathetic Western leaders who seem more interested in meeting in large rooms and passing the buck among themselves.

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@samuhyu @sparklyChicago They are insanely expensive compared to sending through a normal post office, 40-60 euros per package compared to 10-20 through post. Just send a thing sold off of ebay so I know.
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Wait, so are lots of countries going to be flat-out refusing shipments to the US over the de minimis rule? Because THAT will create massive shortages and price increases for US customers if it’s much more than Switzerland.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: Switzerland’s Post Office is suspending shipments of US goods beginning tomorrow, August 26th, due to tariffs.
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