Germany has asked the European Union to activate an emergency clause that would allow it to rapidly increase defense investment without breaching the bloc's spending rules.
National security agencies across the Trump administration are ramping up investigations into alleged leaks to the news media, in some cases using polygraph tests that current and former officials say are creating a climate of fear and intimidation.
There’s an interesting phenomenon in the Western perception of #Russia I’ve noticed a while ago and can’t really explain in rational terms.
Russian officials can make the most violent, or openly genocidal statements but as long as they make them in Russian and directed to internal audience, they don’t exist. Of course, they do exist and they play their intended role - that is inciting and justifying violence against the targeted groups among Russians. But they go completely unnoticed in the West, as if they were never made.
Of course, there is a number of experts who closely follow Russian narratives in Russian like Julia Davis or yours truly, but their findings very rarely find their way to the mainstream media.
I don’t quite understand this. Before 2014 I do get it - Russian media were running in violent overdrive mode all the time but nothing came out of this talking. Today, Russians say it’s necessary to “eradicate Ukrainian identity”, “bomb civilians” and “blow up Western factories” and they simply do it. They kill hundreds civilians at a time and blow up things in EU.
Yet, we still live in 2014 mode - “they’re just talking”… That’s the part I don’t get.
Secret ‘Mission’ Of Eliminated Russian General Moskalik Revealed
"The eliminated Russian general Yaroslav Moskalik was regularly involved in planning, coordinating, and preparing reports on strikes against Ukraine using missiles and drones."
none of the Russian war criminals should be able to sleep peacefully, they could be caught at any time
Remember Trump just said #russia was being generous by not taking all of #ukraine. Remember #witkoff is Trump’s personally appointed (unqualified) agent who has pushed for a very favorable resolution for Russia.
Trump just likes a well-framed spotlight. He likes “holding the cards” as #europe watches.
One thing I forgot to add, #USSR spent massive resources on the immediate liquidation of the effects of the disaster it caused, but it was only for 5 years - in 1991 it collapsed and dissolved. Since then the country that formally inherited majority of the USSR resources - that is #Russia - did not spend any resources on long-term mitigation of the effects, mostly suffered by #Ukraine and #Belarus.
These costs were taken mostly by the international community, including funding of the new massive #Chernobyl Containment which, in 2025 was damaged by a drone sent by the Russian motherfuckers 🤷
Astonished authoritarian discovers *some* nations don't enjoy having their personal space violated by another nation's military. The woke jerks refuse to let invaders keep the land they took by force! It's all so ungrateful to the authoritarian and his plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Chairs of the foreign affairs committees of eight European parliaments on April 25 urged #Trump to end "the policy of appeasement" towards #Russia, and called for a "resolute stance" against Moscow, according to a document seen by the Kyiv Independent.
The statement is signed by chairs of the foreign affairs committees of the U.K., France, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and #Ukraine