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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2025-01-29 at 12:21

Russian families' business model: get married, send husband to #war, receive KIA compensation.

Repeat.

[#]RussiaIsATerroristState #RussianEmpire #ArrestPutin #StopRussianAggression #ArmUkraineToWIN #StandWithUkraine

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2025-01-26 at 11:30

“Nuclear powers lose wars all the time. If you want to have a world where there aren’t nuclear wars, you have to make sure that the conventional power defeats the nuclear power. If you let #nuclear bluffing lead to victory in a conventional #war, then other countries have to get nuclear weapons so they can nuclear bluff, and then middle-size countries have to get nuclear weapons so they can hold-off countries that are going to carry out the nuclear bluff. That is not a hypothetical prediction.”

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2025-01-26 at 11:29

Timothy Snyder outlines three major trends in #warfare history:

1. Superpowers lose wars, e.g. #russia, #us

2. Since WWII, the empire aggressor is more likely to lose wars, and the post-colonial nation usually wins against the colonial power

3. States defending their own territories very often win wars against states which are attempting to assert force onto their territories

https://youtu.be/maVpWFWHKxI?t=2500

[#]TimothySnyder #ArmUkraineToWIN #RussiaMustLose #russia #Ukraine #NATO #BRICS #US #EU #UN

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2025-01-22 at 20:56

"We seem to be very near the bleak choice between war and shame. My feeling is that we shall choose #shame, and then have #war thrown in a little later on even more adverse terms than at present."

Sir Winston Churchill, 1938

The same could have been written about #NATO in 2025.

When will we learn?

[#]appeasement #cowardice #weakness

[#]Europe #Ukraine #russia #china #EU #US #BRICS #StopRussianAggression #ArmUkraineToWIN #ArmUkraineNOW #ArrestPutin #RussiaIsATerroristState #EuropeUnderAttack

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2025-01-19 at 16:12

[#]TikTok's users have made some Chinese oligarchs into billionaires.

TikTok's users hand over data to the Chinese communist party every day.

TikTok's users will support #Trump's decision to unblock this Orwellian platform.

If you are a TikTok user, you should give yourself a good look in the mirror and consider quitting the platform all autocrats want you to be addicted to.

[#]TikTokBan #surveillance #autocracy #china

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2025-01-10 at 15:29

Rather than obsessing about russian #propaganda talking point on #corruption in Ukraine, may I suggest we focus on how #US corrupt presidents are above the #law:

"Juan Merchan issued a sentence of “unconditional discharge”, meaning the president-elect will be released without fine, imprisonment or probation supervision for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records... he will face no penalty other than this legal designation [of convicted felon]."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/trump-hush-money-sentencing-new-york

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2025-01-09 at 05:22

“I often hear adults say: ‘We need to give the next generation hope’. But I don’t want your hope. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I do. Every day. And want you to act. I want you to behave like our house is on #fire. Because it is.”

[#]GretaThunberg 25/01/2019

"There are now at least six fires raging in #LosAngeles and its neighbouring Ventura county. Apart from one in Woodley, which has decreased in size, the others are 0% contained"

[#]BBCNews 09/01/2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y81zyp1ext

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-22 at 21:30

[#]Hungary and #Slovakia are not NATO and EU "members", they are #NATO and #EU parasites.

Get out.

[#]ArrestPutin #corruption #autocracy #RussiaIsATerroristState #FossilFuelsKill

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-19 at 10:40

The #media in democratic countries have the #freedom they wouldn't find in autocracies.

That freedom, like all freedom, comes with #responsibility

Yet the media amplifies #autocrats who are against that freedom

E.g. there's barely any addresses by our democratically elected European leaders as they meet this week. You'll struggle to find a livestream of #Zelenskyy's interview to the press.

But multiple media outlets live-stream war criminal #Putin's yearly address & "interview" to the #press

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-18 at 11:27

"Moore Threads and Biren Technology are subject to #US export restrictions over their development of #chips that “can be used to provide artificial intelligence capabilities to further development of weapons of mass destruction, advanced #weapons systems”

"the two companies secured extensive licences with the #UK-based Imagination Technologies, which is among a handful of firms worldwide that design an advanced type of #microchip crucial for #AI systems"

[#]China #NATO

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/18/concerns-chinese-access-uk-microchip-firm-imagination-technologies

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-17 at 06:48

"A Russian general in charge of radiation, #chemical and biological protection forces has been killed in an explosion in #Moscow, the country’s investigative committee has said."

"The report comes a day after Ukrainian prosecutors charged the general with using banned chemical weapons in #Ukraine, according to the Kyiv Post."

"The #UK placed sanctions on #Kirillov in October this year over the transfer and use of chemical weapons in Ukraine."

[#]RussiaIsATerroristState

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/17/lieutenant-general-igor-kirillov-russian-general-killed-moscow-explosion-chemical-weapons

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-15 at 10:36

"Dominic Grieve, a former Tory MP who chaired the #Intelligence and #Security Committee until 2019, said ministers were advised five years ago to introduce laws to criminalise foreign agents, but failed to do so. “We remain without an important weapon in our armour. We asked for [this #law] in the context of the #russia inquiry report” – which accused the #government of failing to investigate russian interference in #British #politics"

[#]UK #china #brics #Ukraine #NATO

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/14/advice-ignored-by-ministers-could-have-blocked-prince-andrew-spy

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-08 at 15:13

It puzzles me when people talk about #Ukraine giving up land... why on Earth should Ukraine do that?!

To save russian orcs' lives and military equipment?

To be betrayed again, 30 after the last time the very same world powers gave Ukraine #security assurances in a useless memorandum?

To give russian orcs sanctuary to build more fortifications (like in 2022-23), recover and regroup?

To accept genocide of Ukrainians in occupied territory?

To enable #russia to get closer to NATO's border?

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-08 at 15:04

"Nevertheless, the end of the #russian- and Iranian-backed #Assad regime creates something new, and not only in #Syria. There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair. The fall of a Russian-backed, Iranian regime offers, suddenly, the possibility of change. The future might be different. And that possibility will inspire hope all around the world."

[#]russia #WarCrimes #ArrestPutin

[#]ArmUkraineToWIN #UkraineInNATO

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/sudden-collapse-bashar-assad/680917/

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-07 at 19:27

While President #Zelenskyy is joining world leaders in #Paris and meeting to prepare for #victory and #peace, wanted war criminal and mass child abductor #putin is stuck in stinking russian bunkers, losing #Syria, #Georgia and the #war in #Ukraine.

[#]SlavaUkraini #ArmUkraineToWIN

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-06 at 16:17

[#]russia is signing security guarantee agreements with #northKorea, #belarus and probably others soon. It has stationed #nuclear weapons in belarus. It has thousands of north korean troops in the European frontline.

Meanwhile, the #US, #Germany, #Spain, #Hungary and other NATO members continue with their meaningless wording and no action on #NATO membership for Ukraine, or #security guarantees for #Ukraine. Cowards.

WHEN WILL WE LEARN??

[#]UkraineInNATO #UkraineInEU #ArmUkraineToWIN #ArrestPutin

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-06 at 13:35

"A top #Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential #election, days after declassified intelligence alleged #russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round"

"The constitutional court’s decision – which is final – came on Friday after Pres Klaus Iohannis declassified #intelligence two days earlier that alleged russia ran a sprawling campaign comprising thousands of #SocialMedia accounts"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/06/romanian-court-annuls-first-round-of-presidential-election

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-03 at 14:41

I should add #SouthKorea to this list, apparently...

"South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “emergency martial law” on Tuesday, accusing the country’s opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathising with #NorthKorea and paralysing the government with anti-state activities."

"Yoon made the announcement during a televised briefing, vowing to “eradicate pro-North Korean forces and protect the constitutional democratic order.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/03/south-korea-declares-emergency-martial-law-yoon-suk-yeol-north-korea-latest-updates

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-02 at 18:20

[#]NATO's shell production really is one of the key issues in sustaining a strong #defence against aggression from #russia

Not only because, together, russia and north korea produce more than all NATO allies combined, but because the "meat grinder" tactics the russians employ mean that there are many more and bigger waves of enemy troops to eliminate than expected in 21st century warfare. This is what consumes artillery.

BBC: MoD stress-testing how #UK would cope in #war

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwl3zlqv77o

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Written by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 on 2024-12-02 at 01:29

Now would be a good time for Belarusians to take to the streets and take their country back from #russia's Lukashenko regime...

[#]Georgia #Syria #Belarus #ArrestPutin

[#]RussiaIsATerroristState

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