Notices by João Costa 💚🌻🇵🇹🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 (joaocosta@mastodonapp.uk)

“Russia finances its military from oil exports. You can’t persuade countries like #India and #China to stop buying it. So you knock out Russian #oil refineries. You can do a lot of damage to the Russian economy.”

"About half of #Russia’s $420bn export earnings last year came from oil."

"The attacks have another advantage for #Ukraine’s hard-pressed military. They have forced Russia to move some air defence assets away from the frontline to defend newly in-range cities"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/ukraine-levels-up-the-fight-with-drone-strikes-deep-into-russia

'Fresh details of what is now being called “a #Scholz moment” emerged on Friday... the German chancellor suggested to Orbán that it would be a good moment to grab a #coffee as talks over enlargement hit deadlock. #Orbán left the room in the full knowledge of what was about to happen, and when he returned, everyone was laughing... "Someone asked him, ‘How was your coffee?’ He wasn’t very happy and told them he had “used the opportunity to go to the toilet”.'

#EU #Hungary

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/eu-emmanuel-macron-viktor-orban-ukraine-aid

Poland s new PM #DonaldTusk:

“We also need to speak with one voice about Ukraine. This must also #unite us. The attack on Ukraine is an attack on all of us.

We will demand full mobilisation of the west to help #Ukraine. I can no longer listen to politicians who talk about being tired of the situation in Ukraine.”

Now we're talking!

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#Poland #ArmUkraineNow #StopRussianAggression #UkraineWillWin #StandWithUkraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/dec/12/russia-ukraine-war-live-zelenskiy-to-meet-biden-in-push-for-aid

Between 1932-33, Joseph #Stalin ordered the death by starvation of 7 to 10 million Ukrainian people. This is called #Holodomor (means "death by hunger" in Ukranian) and was one of the worst genocides in History, committed by #Russians.

Today, 90 years later, while Ukrainians have a Remembrance Day to mark Holodomor, Vladimir #Putin ordered the largest drone attack of the war so far. #UkrainianHeros shot down 71 out of 75 Iranian-made drones.

#NeverForget #ArmUkraineNow

https://youtu.be/-o7VoM1jlOs?si=YKBIGNlxXbQK2TkL

We can immediately identify subverted citizens in democracies by noticing whom do they rally against: faced with complex issues involving both autocracies and democracies they consistently pick on the democracies, criticise them, protest against them while keeping quiet about autocracies all together.

#Responsibility #equality #fairness #peace #war works both ways.

Being a #democracy does not make us more culpable than an #autocracy.

Don't give autocracies a free pass.

#DemocracyUnderAttack

President of the @EU_Commission Ursula von der Leyen addresses the Parliament of #Ukraine to standing ovations from Ukrainian MPs today.

#UkraineWillWin #ArmUkraineNow #NATO #EU #EuropeanGreenDeal #Investment #GreenEconomy #ClimateAction #EuropeanMarket #Innovation
#StandWithUkraine

https://youtu.be/0tY7xt3irjY?si=1KzsvAZRoolPMjlX

#Kherson, in the aftermath of the latest terrorist attacks ordered by wanted war criminal and mass child abductor Vladimir Putin.

The #RussianFederation, one of the few permanent members of the #UN "Security" Council, continues to commit #genocide and #WarCrimes in #Ukraine every day.

The UN is a disgrace for giving this terrorist state a genocidal propaganda platform.

#ArrestPutin #StopRussianAggression #ICC #ICJ #ArmUkraineNow #StandWithUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState #UkraineWillWin

People who ignore, excuse or justify what #Hamas did by shifting the focus to what the #Israeli army did are doing one thing: supporting violence and death as a language.

We have to condemn what Hamas and armed Palestinians do to #Jews if we want to bring justice to what #Netanyahu's thugs do to #Palestinians.

#War and extreme violence happen when our arguments validate aggression on one side because of the aggression on the other, and they feel it's righteous to take revenge on each other.

Gary #Kasparov:

'There is no such community as "anti-war Russians." I also do not like the phrase "good #Russians," to put it mildly. I proposed a simple formula for identifying people who think like us: they need to declare in five seconds and without hesitation that, "the #war is criminal, the regime illegitimate and #Crimea is #Ukraine." It seems to me that only 25 percent of the #Russian opposition is willing to make that declaration without hesitation.'

#UkraineWar
https://news.err.ee/1609120397/kasparov-to-err-every-engineer-that-leaves-russia-means-one-fewer-missile

The preservation of all our own free democracies directly depends on completely defeating two men: Vladimir #Putin and Donald #Trump.

There are a lot of distractions on the news. Stay focused. Stay informed. Support everyone who fights against those two dangerous fascists.

#democracy #autocracy #fascism #US #Russia #NATO #EU #UkraineWar #freedom

Minority #FarRight voters have been using democracy at the ballot box better than centre majorities, by consistently voting for far-right politicians, and thus forcing bigger parties to shift to the right.

Many moderate voters vote less democratically by compromising their vote for fear of boogeymen coming to power.

Had people voted #green, they'd have increased its minority vote share and forced big parties to #ActOnClimate to appeal to their vote. Instead, the far-right changed their vote.

"#Portugal has signed an agreement to swap #CapeVerde's debt for investments in an environmental and climate fund that is being established by the archipelago nation off West #Africa's coast... Such "debt-for-nature" swap deals are emerging in other countries and are part of attempts to resolve a dilemma faced by world leaders on how and who will foot the bill for actions taken to reduce the impact of #ClimateChange

#Portugal #CapeVerde #environment #debt #ClimateAction

https://youtu.be/bTkMMbz_n8Y

Greta Thunberg: "I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as if you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is."

#Canada #US
#FossilFuelsKill
#DontLookUp #fire #smoke
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

@luckytran