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Oh America, land of the Freedom... Source: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/protests-los-angeles-immigrants-trump-f5089877?st=dvDUA7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Soviet Union had no permanent internal control checkpoints, but every citizen had 'propiska', that is address of primary residence registered and stomped into passport. If milytsia (soviet police) patrol decided that you are suspicious or acting suspiciously then they would approach and would...

1984 is far more based on real events (Soviet Russia mostly in 1920ies and 1930ies) than many casual Western readers realize,

"blames" is not best word in this case. Perpetrators have been arrested and they admitted guilt (Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens, one underage). This operation caused real damage: they burned mall in Warsaw, Poland completely, fire inside IKEA in Vilnius, Lithuania was noticed and stopped...

Putin signs decree ordering all Ukrainians to either obtain Russian citizenship or leave the occupied territories by September 10th. If they don’t leave within 90 days, they’ll be forcibly deported: View: https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1902782773003423927

Forbes published article about Lithuanian drone company: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2025/03/18/battlefield-experience-and-advanced-software-build-better-drones/ Drone warfare are advancing rapidly. Few interesting tidbits inside. For example: On related news, previously...

Random political analyst: Trump improves foreign politician ratings: Zelensky 57% ➜ 68% Macron: 24% ➜ 31% Starmer: 26% ➜ 31% Sheinbaum: 69% ➜ 85% Liberal Party of Canada: 21% ➜ 30% :)

Sorry, but I do not believe that photo-ops during protests had any significant impact in ultimate result of revolution. As far as I can remember, on contrary, Western leadership tried to 'negotiate' some sort of 'compromise', but ultimately revolutionaries had their own opinion and Yanukovich...

"Minor nationalists"? :) First, there is no "a case of grass is greener on the other side". One key reason why Ukraine exploded in 2013 (besides corruption) was that millions of Ukrainians traveled to work to Poland and had possibility to compare proverbial 'grass' in Poland (EU) and in Ukraine...

Your post is great example of top level problem with Americans: American obsession with American-centric 'explanations' of anything that happens anywhere on the planet. Ukrainian revolution of 2013 had nothing to do with anything that happened or was done by American politicians. Root cause was...

All you need to know are real facts. "NATO expansion" was simply not discussion subject during 2013-2014 Ukrainian revolution and subsequent Russian invasion. There was no support in Ukraine for NATO membership and (almost) no one in Ukraine believed that Ukraine would have any real chance to be...

... and Boeing tanker procurement scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X#Background Darleen Druyun (then Principal Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Acquisition who had moved to Boeing in January 2003) pleaded guilty of criminal wrongdoing and was sentenced to nine months in...

More context regarding Lukashenko and his search for rare earths in Belarus: Soviets were quite obsessed with geology in general and with search for domestic natural resources in particular. Could they miss rich deposits of anything? Definitely, but odds are not that great.

Almost comical relief: Belarusian dictator Lukashenko orders his government to find rare earths in Belarus: Source: https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/04/lukashenko-orders-search-for-rare-earth-minerals-in-belarus

That qualifies somewhere between 'stupid' and 'very stupid' on stupidity scale. Yes, Poroshenko and Timoshenko were main opponents against Zelensky in 2019 Presidential elections, but simple glance into electoral maps would reveal where their supporters live (Hint: NOT in regions with...

Depends on few fine details. Starlink shutdown would be immediately catastrophic for Ukrainian military. They heavily depend on networked applications. Next critical item is intelligence. As fat as understand, NATO intelligence information... somehow finds way into Ukrainian hands. If those...

This might be top-level goal of Russian propaganda as they slowly spread their own propaganda among US isolationists, Americans may be unaware, but Russia lived in revanchism mindset for last 30+ years since crash of Soviet Union. We may think that everyone accepted Soviet Union was internal...

I think simplest explanation is US cultural wars projected on bigger world: China? No DEI, no gay rights, no loud feminism, no queers/transgenders = good Russia? Pretends to be socially conservative = good EU? Left-liberal 'cesspool' according to US conservatives = bad On top of that, I think...

Polish PM Donald Tusk is frustrated with European indecisiveness: View: https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1896198819341344892

Sigh... This is colonial war. Outcome of colonial wars by their very nature are binary: either imperialist power (in this case Russia) manages to conquer (in this case re-conquer) colony or fails to do so. Most Ukrainians and most Russians instinctively understand this, but most westerners...