kravietz 🦇

Information security consultant in UK and EU, entrepreneur. Education in chemical engineering, supporter of #nuclear and #renewables. Born in #Poland, fluent ##Russian and #Ukrainian. Been going to both for 20+ years. Actively supporting Ukraine's independence. I almost always follow back. I prefer to discuss any views as long as they are supported by arguments and evidence, I do ban for insults and hate speech. Started #networking on #Fidonet in 1990s.

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2026-05-06 23:12:18 UTC

WSJ unironically runs an article titled “What Happens When Europeans Find Out How Poor They Are?” where their main argument seems to be… the GDP difference
I wonder what happens when American neoliberals understand that how GDP and GDP per capita is calculated and what causal link it has to the welfare of the general population 🤔 BTW 6 out of 9 of the countries with GDP per capita higher than US are in… Europe.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-happens-when-europeans-find-out-how-poor-they-are-270cff5d?mod=e2tw

2026-05-01 13:27:01 UTC

1 May 2004 a whole new group of countries joined #EuropeanUnion - #Cyprus, #Czechia, #Estonia, #Hungary, #Latvia, #Lithuania, #Malta, #Poland, #Slovakia, and #Slovenia
Congratulations to all of the above, everyone who joined later and everyone who should join soon! 🤗
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2026-05-01 11:53:57 UTC

If you wonder how #USSR celebrated 1 May 1941, here’s video from Red Square parade of that day:
https://video.echelon.pl/w/eEbSWTpfyUzWSQqbpAk4g6

2026-04-28 12:35:25 UTC

Manipulation of this “infographic” beats all records - described as “percentage of Jewish population murdered by country during #Holoacaus” but:
There was no such countries as #Poland and #Czechoslovakia (100% occupied by #Germany and #USSR since 1939) or #Ukraine (did not exist as separate entity before and after WW2) etc
Ukraine was 100% part of #USSR yet there’s separate entries (!) for both #Ukraine and Soviet Union
Nazi #Germany (!) humbly ranks in the middle with 69% whereas it was 100% responsible for Holocaust in all other countries
Including #France which ranks at 25% even though its collaboration Vichy government actively cooperated with deportation of Jewish population to death camps, as did #Hungary
The purpose of this weird - in all aspects - chart is unclear, except for smear campaign against the Central-Eastern European countries that hosted the most Jews on the eve of WW2 simply because before that they were kicked out from Western Europe, while whitewashing others, such as Germany, France and Soviet Union 🤷
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2026-04-22 13:16:31 UTC

#Russia bloggers describe the reality of #Tuapse, a seaside town on the coast of Black Sea, which also happens to host a large oil depot that is now burning for the fourth day in row.[^1]
The aftermath of the bombing of Tuapse is simply horrific. This is no exaggeration, nor is it ‘dramatic language’ – it is simply a statement of fact. It is not really that emotional, when you think about it. In essence, what is happening there now is like Hiroshima, only without the radiation. Due to the massive fire at the oil terminals, ‘oil rain’ has been falling on the city and surrounding areas since yesterday, killing flora and fauna. The land is poisoned.
In another post he writes[^2]
The town of Tuapse no longer exists. It has been destroyed. That is a fact. The soil there is poisoned, the water is poisoned, the air is poisoned. Right now, black rain is falling there, just like in Hiroshima – water mixed with oil soot. It is killing the vegetation, the insects and the birds. As for the people, the consequences are equally predictable.
Russia could have easily stopped this mutual exchange of long-range aerial attacks. Of course, the easiest way was not to start the invasion on Ukraine in 2022. But even since then Ukraine several times proposed, including US mediation, a limited ceasefire specifically on long-range attacks against energy infrastructure. Russia always rejected this - initially because Ukraine “had no cards”, meaning it had no technical means to respond, but for at least at year it has. So Ukraine responds, and Russians are clearly experiencing it. In military doctrine it’s called “moving the military activities to the attacker’s territory” to impose the cost of invasion on them, rather than the attacked.
But you would be mistaken if you expected that - after five years of merciless pounding of Ukraine towns, hospitals and power stations with rockets and bombs accompanied with explicit statements that their purpose is to make the towns “unlivable” - the Russian bloggers would be calling to stop this madness. Quite the opposite, the same “Shakespeare”[^1] ends his apocalyptic description with the following appeal:
Who will be held accountable, and how, for the fact that since 2022 they’ve been stringing Ukraine along, telling us we’re ‘’good boys’, only to end up turning Tuapse into a second Hiroshima?
What he refers to is a popular Russian TV narrative that “we haven’t started yet” and that “Russia is moving so slow because it spares civilians”.
What he calls for is to increase the intensity of attacks on Ukrainian population, but there’s just one problem - there’s no more terror they can impose, Russians are already at their peak performance, and possibly passed the peak last winter, which they very much hoped would “break Ukraine’s back” - but it didn’t.

2026-04-22 11:39:05 UTC

In a recent discussion with some Western “socialists” the usual incendiary topic of “who owns Eastern Europe” arose. The “socialist” crowd is unfortunately plagued by Soviet and now Russian narratives, which are outright distortion of history on a scale you can’t imagine. It’s literally as if someone seriously argued “England owns USA because people there speak English” in 2026 and that was repeated by respected authors on World Socialist Website and the likes.
The territory of today’s #Ukraine was originally called Rus’ (Ruthenia), with the same language, religion and culture as today’s Ukraine. It was a powerful player already in 10-11th century, when Moscow did not even exist as a place. As a matter of fact, Rus’ was one of the largest states in Europe back then. The name “Ukraine” appears in written sources in 12th century for the first time, but when Ruthenian ambassadors visited Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth parliament in 16th century they were still described as “Rus’ ambassadors”, so Rus/Ruthenia was the still mainstream name and it still referred to what we today know as Ukraine.
In 13th century the north-eastern part of Rus’ was invaded by Mongols and was occupied by them until 15th. The vassal state of Mongols on Slavic lands was called “Muscovia” and heavily influenced by Mongol culture and language. That’s when written sources started using the term “Russia” to describe Muscovia. To distinguish between these two, modern historians started referring to the original Rus’ as “Kievan Rus”.
And here’s the trick: Moscow simply declared itself the sole successor of ‘Rus’, and claimed that the original Rus, aka Ukraine, never existed. Simple!
Nowadays, Russian historians no longer use the term ‘Kievan Rus’’ at all, instead simply referring to the ‘pre-Mongol period’, as any references to Rus’ are inconvenient for them. Yet ironically, old Orthodox Church books are written in an archaic language that is very similar to modern Ukrainian, but not modern Russian. There are many such details that betray the true origins; for example, consider how the letters G and H are written and pronounced.
As for cultural differences, Muscovia, aka Russia, is dominated by a collective society in which the concept of individual rights or freedoms does not exist. This is why it adopted totalitarian Bolshevism, and today, Putinism, with such enthusiasm. For the Western Slavs, including the original Ruthenians, Ukrainians and Poles, personal freedoms and rights are a fundamental part of the social structure.
Russians deeply despise this “anarchy”, which also rejects the concept of sacred authority of the leader, as seen by the cult of personality that overtook every single implementation of the Russian state. And this is the primary point of conflict between Moscow and Ukraine today, not the language spoken, Nuland or whatever other nonsense you read on “socialist” forums.
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2026-04-21 07:31:00 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
Once again, you have no clue about history of Eastern Europe, you don’t even know how “kings” are called there (not “kings”).
The territory of today’s Ukraine called Rus’ - with the same language, religion and culture as today’s Ukraine - was a powerful player already in 10-11th century, when Moscow was basically a swamp. Back then it was called primarily Rus’ (Ruthenia in English) but the name “Ukraine” appears already in 12th century. As a matter of fact, it was one of the largest states in Europe back then.
Eastern part of Rus’ was invaded by Mongols in 13th century and was occupied by them until 15th. The vassal state of Mongols on Slavic lands was called “Muscovia” and heavily influenced by Mongol culture and language. That’s when written sources started using the term “Russia” to describe Muscovia and historians started referring to the original Rus’ as “Kievan Rus’”. Much later Moscow simply declared itself the only continuation of “Rus’” and claimed the original Rus’ aka Ukraine never existed. This is of course bullshit, contradicted by many historic sources.
Today Russian historians stopped using the term Rus’ or even “Kievan Rus’” whatsoever and instead simply speak of “pre-Mongol period”, because any references to Rus’ are quite inconvenient for them.
As for the cultural differences, Muscovia aka Russia is dominated by collective society where the concept of individual rights or freedoms does not exist, which is why it adopted totalitarian Bolshevism and today Putinism with such an enthusiasm. For the Western Slavs, including the original Russians, Poles and today’s Ukrainians personal freedoms and rights are fundamental part of the social structure.
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2026-04-21 06:53:20 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
I’m not saying PRC is occupied, I’m saying it did not exist before 1949. Also, USSR did not exist before 1922 and Russian Federation did not exist before 1991. I’m pointing that out because you seem to have a very selective taste as it comes to what a “state” means, which interestingly aligns with interpretations forced by totalitarian regimes worldwide 😄Tibet declared independence in 1913, by the way.
@nprofile…duaj

2026-04-21 06:44:15 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
As for Tibet, People’s Republic of China also never existed before 1949. Show me any historic references to PRC, say in 10th century?

2026-04-21 06:40:55 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
As a matter of fact, Ukraine was a state long before Moscow even existed. You seem to have serious gaps in Eastern European history!

2026-04-21 06:30:32 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
So, using your logic, Palestine is not occupied.

2026-04-21 04:18:28 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
Was Palestine an independent state?

2026-04-20 22:07:29 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
So occupation of Tibet is ok, but occupation of Palestine is not? Honestly, I have no idea what you wanted to say. You can re-read your comments and try to synthesise a single, consistent message you want to relay to the humanity.

2026-04-20 20:07:46 UTC

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@nprofile…8ssu
So you agree Cyprus is part of Turkey? ✊

2026-04-19 10:12:23 UTC

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@nprofile…fd84 @nprofile…xep3
Or, an alternative hypothesis would be that the whole “left vs right” ideology labeling is fundamentally flawed and doesn’t explain anything 😉
We’re back to square one - guys calling themselves “British socialists” defend Putin’s oligarchic regime which has as much to do with the actual socialist ideas as Elon Musk…

2026-04-18 13:07:27 UTC

Why do the communists always support the most vile totalitarian regimes? 🤔 Here’s what Workers Party of Britain has just posted[^1]
Ukrainian fascists burned alive dozens of trade unionists and socialists in Odessa’s Trade Union House.
Every single word here is a lie:
There were zero “trade unionists and socialists” in Odesa on that day, the building was occupied by Russian nationalists, many with openly neo-Nazi views, such as Anton Rayevsky, portrayed below (he survived)
The conflict started with #Russia nationalists shooting three Euromaidan (pro-Ukrainian) activists to death in the morning[^2]
Euromaidan rushed to the Trade Unions House where Russians barricaded themselves and started throwing Molotov’s cocktails from the roof[^3]
According to participants interviewed by Russia’s own TV, the fire inside the building started… inside[^4]
And, if you’re wondering what Russians citizens were doing in #Ukraine town of #Odesa on that day, throwing Molotov’s cocktails… well, they were coordinated and funded directly from Moscow.[^5]
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/WorkersPartyGB/status/2045118519751139696?s=20
[^2]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/n1eFfHEheWLsnQtMTBB9Sm
[^3]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/3ovbn2enG8hQr65zV2YgNH
[^4]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/88oYyXmtSwrBQG9q8CbnRn
[^5]: https://video.echelon.pl/w/vtNvdabFS3f4KY8vV3xdMd
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2026-04-16 14:30:40 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
Publish it somewhere so I can troll the people in the British thread that they’re arguing with a standard that was proposed in 1999 :)
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 14:12:48 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
I see no mentions of Age Data Custodian in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2459
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 13:55:08 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
Can you elaborate?
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 13:46:37 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
As far as I understand these are merely means to cache the 18+ attribute but it’s not expected to be generated on the local system - it’s expected to come from some national API. Otherwise that would be not legally binding in any way.
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 13:42:03 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
Where does that “adult” flag come from?
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 13:39:07 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
It needs no other parties than user and target website
But that’s a much bigger privacy violation thatn national database, because you need to share your biometry.
There’s two ways of doing this:
person → biometry → random AgeCheck company in Cyprus → porn website
person → PESEL → 18+ → porn website
In the first case your full biometry ends up with a commercial provider that does with it whatever it wants.
In the first case PESEL issues you with a signed certificate attribute 18+ not bound with your identity or biometry, and the service provider must accept it.
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 11:06:12 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
Our solution builds on proprietary solutions
Ok, please first read the standards referenced - it’s all open standards with open-source reference implementations literally posted on GitHub :)
https://krvtz.net/en/posts/eu-digital-wallet.html
@nprofile…fu0r

2026-04-16 09:38:48 UTC

@nprofile…fu0r statement on the #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck mechanism that has been subject to tons of disinformation. I recommend the whole statement, but just will quote the critical fragment:
Our solution builds on zero-knowledge proof: this means that when users want to access an age-restricted service, you remain in full control of your data.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_820
I’ve written more about its technical details here:
https://krvtz.net/en/posts/eu-digital-wallet.html

2026-04-16 06:37:54 UTC

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@nprofile…qjgw
I’ve stopped watching several infosec channels and podcasts due to this aggressive NordVPN advertising, just as I did with Polish channels advertising the XTB.

2026-04-15 13:28:18 UTC

EU to cut funding for Chinese inverters as quiet offensive replaces grandstanding 👍
At a top-level meeting of her 26 department chiefs in March, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen quietly approved a plan to stop EU funds from going to clean technology projects containing Chinese inverters.
Inverters are the essential power electronics at the heart of solar and wind systems. Industry groups estimate that Chinese companies led by Huawei Technologies control more than 220 gigawatts of Europe’s installed solar capacity via the devices.
Why is it good news? Cyber-security and backdoors are one reason[^2], European inverter manufacturers struggling to compete with cheap imports from China, which are cheap thanks to use of forced labour, cheap energy, state subsidies, low import tariffs.
[^1]: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3350056/eu-cut-funding-chinese-inverters-quiet-offensive-replaces-grandstanding
[^2]: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/

2026-04-15 06:18:10 UTC

#Trump
Viktor Orban was my friend, he’s a good man. He didn’t let people come in and ruin his country like [Italian PM] Meloni.
I’m sure #Orban is such a good man that he would make a great politician… in the US 😉
P.S. that’s a joke, I’d never with such a cuckoo’s egg to our US friends 😄

2026-04-14 11:28:55 UTC

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@nprofile…td4u
1) “Can produce” != “do produce”
2) 85% supply chain control means even if you intend start your own production, you still depend on China for resources… which they can cut at any time, as they occasionally do with rare earth metals etc
3) moving production back to EU means cost increase because you no longer leverage Chinese forced labour, poor environmental standards, subsidies and low CO2 tax
Which are the reasons why China built that supply chain dependency in the first place 🤷

2026-04-14 09:44:16 UTC

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@nprofile…xep3
Nie wiem skąd to się bierze… W tym konkretnym przypadku podejrzewam połączenie trybalizmu i zwykłej ignorancji w zakresie faktycznych celów i metod Hamasu. Ewentualnie naiwne przekonanie, że “oni tak tylko mówią” (popularne dla odmiany na części prawicy w stosunku do Rosjan) albo, że “oni się zmienią”.
Do tego dochodzi konformizm współczesnej lewicy, w której emocje i chroniczne poczucie winy zastąpiły jakąkolwiek debatę. To jest w sumie zabawne bo przecież nawet bolszewicy jeszcze na początku XX wieku toczyli zażarte spory ideologiczne, dopiero potem pojawiła się autocenzura i “towarzysz chyba nie podważa żelaznych praw Marksa i Lenina?”
Zresztą Fediverse jest tutaj najlepszym przykładem bo tu jest znacznie więcej osób o poglądach lewicowych niż np na Twitterze. I oni chętnie dyskutują na tematy neutralne ale jak tylko pojawia się temat potencjalnie kontrowersyjny to odpowiedzią jest… wielkie milczenie, żeby przypadkiem nie powiedzieć czegoś co podważa “żelazne prawa” obowiązujące na lewicy akurat w 2026 roku albo nie obrazić kogoś kto z bycia chronicznie obrażonym zrobił sobie sposób na życie.

2026-04-14 09:30:38 UTC

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@nprofile…fsuf
Have you considered geopolitical tensions in an industry where 85% of the whole supply chain (!) is controlled by a single authoritarian country?
That’s the PV market today and includes not only the panels but also backdoored inverters…

2026-04-13 19:25:55 UTC

Trudno sobie wyobrazić organizację bardziej homofobiczną i wrogą LGBT niż Hamas, który, przekuwając słowa w czyny w ramach walki z zachodnią zgnilizną moralną, regularnie dokonywał egzekucji osób LGBT w Gazie… więc Hamas i jego szef Yahya Sinwar są reklamowani na polskim LGBT+ Festiwalu 🤷
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/de3211669b870f913eab8cff96dbbb650f39ff8ba75835fbe429c01a2e9ca05a.file?name=9CNKMiGLrsD0-g.file

2026-04-11 18:33:31 UTC

On 10 April, the anniversary of #Katyn massacre, #Russia opened a historical exhibition titled “10 centuries of Polish Russophobia”. Katyń massacre is where in April-May 1940 NKVD executed 20’000 Polish citizens taken prisoners in 1939 when it invaded Poland jointly with Nazi Germany. USSR consistently denied the massacre until 1991 when it shared original NKVD documents and orders of the massacre, along with the lists of executed.
On the photo below you can see a curious example of what, according to modern Russian “historians”, constitutes “Russophobia” - Polish president Duda hugging Ukraine president Zelenskyy in 2022.
P.S. Russia did not even exist “10 centuries” ago - Poland didn’t really have a target of its alleged phobia until ~400 years later.
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2026-04-11 08:18:03 UTC

Journalaist Aleksandar Brezar compared statements from Yanis #Varoufakis article “Why I went to Moscow” with #Russia narratives. Not surprisingly, he found almost 100% compliance (the quoted block is Varoufakis, then Brezar’s comment):
Russia also has the right to seek security by demanding, as it has done for three decades, that Nato stay out of… Ukraine.
Putin: “Over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement… (NATO) continued to expand despite our protests and concerns.”
Ukraine becomes in the 21st century what Austria used to be during the Cold War: a neutral but armed European country.
Peskov, March 2022: Russia would accept “the Austrian model” as “a certain compromise”.
The European Union unfreezes Russia’s assets and removes all sanctions.
Putin’s truce demands, Russian Foreign Ministry speech, June 2024: “All Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted.”
Ukraine becomes… a neutral but armed European country with its territorial integrity and political sovereignty jointly guaranteed by all European countries, plus Russia, under the auspices… of the United Nations.
Russia’s March 2022 draft treaty: “Ukraine should agree to permanent neutrality in return for international security guarantees from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.”
Signatories shall agree on gradual elimination across Europe of certain categories of weapons, including nuclear.
Russian MFA draft treaty with US, December 2021: “The Parties shall eliminate all existing infrastructure for deployment of nuclear weapons outside their national territories.”
Europe’s leaders chose forever war.”
Many in the West have called it Putin’s forever war. Varoufakis flips it and blames Russia’s ongoing all-out invasion on Europe. “Forever war” is repeated, but Varoufakis doesn’t state who started it anywhere in the article.
He does mention “war’s commencement,” as if it’s a natural disaster that “commences” on its own.
Varoufakis avoids using the word “occupied” for Ukrainian lands throughout. The Donbas and “other territories” are “disputed” and “under Russian control”.
Crimea — illegally annexed in 2014 — is not mentioned once in the entire article. There is no mention of the ICC warrant against Putin, either. Or Russian war crimes.
Yet Varoufakis says that “all war refugees will have the right to return to their pre-2014 homes.” Not 1991, when Ukraine declared independence. No, 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea.
Varoufakis also uses the Good Friday Agreement as a possible model. Except the agreement wasn’t signed while one country was bombing another and kidnapping its children.
Finally, Varoufakis says he visited Moscow last week for an “investment conference” and describes people in attendance as “Russian civil society.” The Russian civil society has been systematically dismantled since February 2022.
Oh, and he said that in Moscow, he also danced for peace. Yet now back home, he is advocating for what Russia wants and for what would effectively represent Ukraine’s capitulation, despite his pre-emptive protestations.
Source: https://xcancel.com/brezaleksandar/status/2042367610612863435?s=20

2026-04-08 12:25:03 UTC

Yanis #Varoufakis posted a long apology of his trip to #Russia this month. The full article is paywalled but the freely available fragment demonstrates clearly the scale of Varoufakis corruption - he’s repeating Moscow talking points, verbatim:
Since the invasion of Ukraine, Europe has had only two options regarding its stance toward Russia: forever war or offering Russia a sensible peace and security pact.
Whose “invasion of Ukraine”? If Varoufakis answered this question honestly for himself, the rest of the article would look like the nonsense it actually is. Because it was not some abstract force from the deep space that invaded Ukraine but the very Russia that he wants to offer a “sensible peace and security pact” a moment later.
More, precisely it’s not him who’s making the offer - he expects “Europe” to make offer to Russia, which is preceded by a clear threat of “forever war”.
https://unherd.com/2026/04/why-i-went-to-moscow/
Varoufakis simply replays the old trick of Soviet and Russian apologists of all times: presenting Russian imperialism as some kind of natural force that simply cannot be controlled by Russian leaders. As Varoufakis presents it, it was not Putin who made the choice to invade Ukraine in 2022 (a moronic one, as everyone admits), it just kind of “happened”. And thus it’s not up to Europe to “offer Russia a sensible peace pact” or “forever war”. But again, it would be not Russia’s choice to wage the “forever war”, it just has to. Because why? Varoufakis doesn’t explain.
But I can - Russian imperialism believes in its inherent right to own Central and Eastern European nations, regardless of international agreements or pacts it signed before, and the least it’s worried about the choice of the nations in question. “Security” for Russia means an inherent right to interfere in internal affairs of these countries, including their choice of street names, ownership of their industry or economic alliances they belong to. This “security” also automatically includes Russia’s right to invade, which is precisely why Russian leadership in 2010 presented air-defence (!) batteries in Poland as “escalation”, just as it presented defensive fortifications in Ukraine in 2019. It’s logical - their defense interferes with Russia’s offensive plans, therefore it’s “security issue” for Russia.

2026-04-07 20:57:42 UTC

#China primer minister has signed a decree of the State Council introducing new set of regulations on industrial and supply chain security.
China will establish a security investigation mechanism for industrial and supply chains, under which relevant departments may launch investigations and take countermeasures against foreign countries, regions or international organizations, as well as foreign organizations or individuals, that undermine China’s industrial and supply chain security.
As a reminder, China already controls 65-85% of the whole supply chain for many energy generation products, from PV, inverters, batteries etc.
“Undermining industrial security” can be essentially an attempt to make your own PV instead of buying them in China or enforcing EU NIS2 cyber-security standards on inverters imported from China.
Source: https://www.news.cn/politics/20260407/3486f14f38ca428481a34d9e860c0b36/c.html (in Chinese)

2026-04-06 21:22:41 UTC

#France strategic decisions in the last half year (summary by journalist Joan Larroumec):
Aircraft carrier “France Libre”: 80,000-ton nuclear carrier, largest warship ever built in Europe announced, €10-12 billion
Nuclear arsenal expansion: first warhead increase in 30+ years, stockpile size now classified, forward-basing on allied territory authorized
European nuclear umbrella: “forward deterrence” doctrine with 8 partners (Germany, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark)
UK-France nuclear pact: joint strategy consultations, joint submarine patrols, joint R&D since July 2025
140 Rafale sold to India: 26 Rafale Marine ($7.5B, April 2025) + 114 Rafale for air force ($39B, cleared January 2026), largest Indian arms deal ever
World’s 2nd largest arms exporter: 9.8% global share (SIPRI, March 2026), up 21%, replacing Russia
Gold repatriation: 129 tonnes sold at the NY Fed, repurchased in Paris, entire 2,437-tonne reserve now in France, €12.8B profit
€36B defense spending increase: budget to reach €64B by 2027, two years ahead of schedule
Strait of Hormuz: leading EU escort mission, 19 of 23 major warships deployed to Mediterranean/Gulf. On April 3, a French-owned CMA CGM vessel became the first Western European ship to transit the strait since Iran closed it
New SSBN “L’Invincible”: next-generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine announced
JEWEL program: sovereign European space-based missile early warning system
ELSA initiative: Franco-British-German long-range conventional strike missile program
SAMP/T NG air defense: next-gen surface-to-air system, Denmark and Ukraine already buyers
14 EPR2 nuclear reactors planned: largest nuclear construction program in Western Europe
Africa strategy reset: new Africa-France Summit in Nairobi, post-withdrawal from Sahel
2025 National Strategic Review: new strategic objective on scientific and technological sovereignty (AI, quantum, nuclear propulsion)

2026-04-06 20:43:26 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
the commercial partners pulled out during the global financial crisis
Guess what - this was exactly the reason for a number of nuclear projects getting delayed, such as Flamanville, OL3 and HPC. Yet they are being used as an example of some kind of fundamental failure of nuclear technology.
Do you like the taste of your own medicine?
The record time for completion of a nuclear power plant is 4.5 years. Yes, in China which all renewable fanboys use as a wonder child for renewables investment… because authoritarian countries generally are faster to make decisions. And yes, in EU we suck at large infrastructure projects, which also affects large renewable projects:
https://www.newsweek.com/denmark-energy-island-billion-delays-1945598
That’s something that I’ve been always saying, without differentiating between renewable and nuclear projects.
And I only use the DESERTEC example when confronted with the infinite arrogance of the German radiophobes 😉
@nprofile…k0a9

2026-04-06 20:13:05 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
How it was advertised in 2009:
As discussed previously, this project is a landmark, groundbreaking renewable energy project if it goes through. It is expected to produce 15% of Europe’s electricity requirements by 2050. It should also provide the MENA region with a large portion of its electricity needs.
https://cleantechnica.com/2009/11/02/desertec-560-billion-renewable-energy-project-moving-forward/
So my question is: how long it took to build it from start to first electricity output?
@nprofile…k0a9
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2026-04-06 20:01:17 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
Can you remind me how long it took to construct the German DESERTEC project started in 2011? 🤔
In general, I don’t see a point in using this argument for first-of-kind research projects, but you chose the game 🤷
@nprofile…k0a9

2026-04-06 17:44:14 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
Agreed. let’s instead turn to safe & natural lignite 👌

2026-04-06 17:35:59 UTC

#India prototype fast breeder #nuclear reactor built as part of Madras Atomic Power Station in Kalpakkam has just reached its first criticality ♻️ The fun with breeder reactors is that they produce nuclear fuel than is loaded into them, making the fuel cycle practically infinite.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/a-proud-moment-pm-modi-hails-indias-defining-step-in-civil-nuclear-journey-as-kalpakkam-fast-breeder-reactor-attains-criticality/articleshow/130066757.cms

2026-04-06 16:21:09 UTC

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@nprofile…8h7d
Yiddish sounds awesome 👌

2026-04-04 20:35:11 UTC

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@nprofile…heyt
O co chodzi z tym POL-MARE? W mediach brak jakichkolwiek informacji.

2026-04-01 11:51:50 UTC

#Russia war correspondent Andrei Medvedev quotes two private letters from his readers, who complain that the Russian authorities are “doing everything they can to stifle patriotic fervour among the people”. The first complains that “in 2022 I was ready for anything; today I’d think twice… . The worst thing is that no one is trying to explain (…) what is happening and where we are heading‘. The second writes, ’I will stay in the country, but my son is 20; he used to be a fervent supporter of ‘faith, tsar and fatherland’, decked out in eagles and tricolours, and now he is extremely disillusioned”.
The funniest thing is that the latter were disappointed not so much by the defeats at the front but above all by the Russian authorities’ decisions on domestic policy – that is, “blockades, restrictions on Telegram, etc.” – but also by tax hikes, including mainly the “utilsbor” or car tax, which has a tangible impact on owners of imported cars. Russians don’t particularly care about what’s happening abroad, but if the war starts to affect them directly, public discontent grows.
Will there be protests? It doesn’t really matter, because protests in Russia do not translate in any way into legislative action (see the recent protests against cattle slaughter in Siberia), as the legislature does as it pleases because that is how the architecture of the Russian ‘vertical of power’ (lit. ‘power vertical’) was designed. However, as the Russian anthropologist Arkhipova noted at the start of the war, a key feature of Russian society is group conformism – that is, as long as the majority of people do nothing, the rest will also remain passive. At the same time, however, in conditions of growing social discontent, sooner or later this will end in an outburst which, thanks to that very same conformism, could quickly spread across the whole country.
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2026-04-01 10:13:08 UTC

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@nprofile…e762
Regarding this argument:
OOXML is a format designed, controlled and managed solely by Microsoft
OOXML is registered as ISO/IEC 29500 since 2008, the same as ODF which is ISO/IEC 26300. I’m not supporter of Microsoft in any form and I’m aware of their lobbying going well beyond standardisation, but let’s stick to the facts.

2026-03-27 09:31:38 UTC

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@nprofile…uk3w
I don’t know about today, but back in 2010’s when Poland was legislating these standards for e-government I had a detailed look at ODF & OOXML specifications. Ironically OOXML specification was much more complete, had more exampled, details etc. Both were ISO standards and freely licensed, but on the specification level OOXML seemed more mature.

2026-03-27 07:59:20 UTC

#Russia “Max” messenger is being pushed primarily as a more secure alternative to messengers such as WhatsApp and Telegram, which are plagued by scam calls and messages.
However, the Russian “Bumaga” project checked that all the scams that worked on the “Western messengers” also work very well on “Max” - plus some more, previously unknown. “Max” closely integrates with GosUslugi, the Russian e-government portal, which was advertised as one of the additional security features, but in reality it has zero impact on scam prevention and instead only creates new attack vectors. In theory, opening a “Max” account requires a phone number from Russia or other former USSR country, but scammers buy them - as everything in Russia - easily on darknet or hire “droppers”, regular people who sell them their registered “Max” accounts. Russian scam calls are especially effective because the scammers usually know plenty of personal details, financial history and other sensitive data about their victims which they also… buy on the darknet, where it’s being sold by government officials and employees of large financial or telecommunications companies.
The video is in Russian but YT automatic subtitles translation works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjBIGhHIWGU

2026-03-27 07:22:45 UTC

Two days ago #Russia military channel “Voennyi osvedomitel” published a map[^1] (picture 1) of alleged #Ukraine drone routes over Baltic states based on three drones that fell down in #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia likely as result of electronic jamming in Russia or Belarus. They published the map speculating why Russian air defenses failed so miserably in this case (picture 2) and not even trying to explain how the swarm of drones could fly for three days over #Poland without being noticed - because their original post was exclusively part of nerd speculations about Russian air defenses.
The map has been however promptly picked up by various Russian and Western pro-Russian accounts and reposted as an authoritative map of “how Ukrainian drones flew under #NATO protection”, “Ukraine is pulling us into the war” etc (picture 3).
Eventually an #OSINT analyst Drone Bomber took these maps and simply compared them against Russia’s own air alerts announced in the regions where the drones actually flew through (picture 4 and subsequent ones). The red line is the speculative “NATO route” which has no factual confirmation apart from three (!) drones that fell next to the Belarus/Russia border due to electronic jamming. The blue line is the route implied by the Russian air alerts.
[^1]: https://t.me/milinfolive/169195
[^2]: https://xcancel.com/DrnBmbr/status/2037230238095335642?s=20
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2026-03-25 12:08:04 UTC

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@nprofile…2eth
Would you say the same about all Russian (genocide convicted, warmongering, children torturing war criminals mind you) collaborators in Europe?

2026-03-25 11:57:51 UTC

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@nprofile…2eth
I specifically wrote “never produced any weapons or drones for Israel” and this is the case.
In 2023 Elbit and LPP announced creation of “center of excellence of support of UAV manufacturing, lifecycle and training”. That means technical support, possibly call centers or something like that, not manufacturing.
Per your logic, the next step of GRU-inspired “Palestine supporters” would be to start killing Czech employees working at LPP, wouldn’t it?
https://www.denik.cz/podnikani/v-cr-ma-vzniknout-technologicke-centrum-excelence-v-oblasti-bezpilotnich-letounu.html

2026-03-25 11:51:08 UTC

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Also, I cannot but highlight this fantastic fallacy in defense of the most absurd decision of the German Energiewende - keeping coal-powered power plants in favour of nuclear power plants. Yes, from climate perspective this is absurd if not outright denialist, but a bit of dialectics comes to the rescue:
Now, ideally Germany would phase out coal plants before nuclear plants — coal plants are far more deadly by any measure, and obviously more carbon-intensive. That’s going to be a problem, though:
The stock of newer hard and brown coal power plants — i.e., those brought on line or thoroughly refitted since 1990 — amounts to 15.6 GW. In addition, new hard and brown coal power plants with a total capacity of 11.4 GW are currently under construction. This already surpasses the forecast base load needed in 2020.
https://grist.org/renewable-energy/why-germany-is-phasing-out-nuclear-power/

2026-03-25 11:22:37 UTC

Funny thing about #Germany #nuclear phase-out is that in 2012 its supporters claimed that “baseload generation is incompatible with renewables”. The first chart comes from [^1], a 2012 article using “common-sense” to explain why they have to get rid of nuclear because Germany will no longer need baseload generation. The chart shows the “archaic” way of generating electricity with the static lines for nuclear and lignite (brown coal) generation, and variable part provided by hard coal and natural gas.
It must have radically changed since, did it? Let’s see - the second chart comes from last week (March 2026) and shows… exactly the same thick ( ~8 GW) static baseload generation using brown coal and biomass (green stripe at the bottom) 😄
So let’s see what changed - the third chart shows a week from 2014, when nuclear power was still operating in Germany but share of renewables had significantly increased. Nuclear is the red stripe ~11 GW wide, brown coal is 16 GW.
The only thing that changed is that nuclear has disappeared, but baseload based on brown coal, the dirtiest possible fuel, has remained in place. So much about the fancy 2012 “common sense” arguments about baseload being “archaic”.
Germany could have replaced all brown coal baseload with nuclear power generation at 5.6 gCO2eq/kWh, but it preferred brown coal baseload generation at 1000 gCO2eq/kWh claiming to be the EU champion in climate protection 😄
Also, the lesson from the 2012 article is that any such “common sense” predictions using future tense can be complete and utter bullshit even if they sound convincing at that specific moment of history.
[^1]: https://grist.org/renewable-energy/why-germany-is-phasing-out-nuclear-power/
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2026-03-25 09:49:13 UTC

#CzechRepublic police arrested two morons posing as pro-Palestine “Earthquake Foundation” who burned LPP factory producing drones for #Ukraine. Another arrest was also made in Warsaw #Poland in relation to this case.
The group was previously unknown, their website was set up a week ago and they claimed the reason for the attack is LPP “producing weapons for Israel”. The attack was also quite professionally planned and executed.
However, LPP never produced any drones or other weapons fro Israel which suggests the saboteurs were misled by #Russia special services who have a history of such operations in EU, including blowing up a whole ammunition depot in 2014. The attack on LPP did not interrupt drone production, which was done in another compound, but it did impact manufacturing of optical
In any case, the detained morons are now facing up to 20 years in prison for terrorism charges. Whatever Russians promised them - evacuation or safety - they dumped them as always.
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2026-03-24 21:44:16 UTC

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@nprofile…ggmx
I think 90% success of Electron is in that the design can be done in HTML. I’ve tried some GUI design using Gtk and Windows long ago and it was the most terrible programming experiences in my life.

2026-03-24 16:07:57 UTC

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@nprofile…85zk
Russian army is a huge hierarchical system specialised in intimidation, blackmail and keeping discipline among soldiers using terror. The concept of “nullificiation” is the fundamental educational technique they use - so anyone who would even dream of mutiny, would be tortured and executed on spot, in an exemplary way.

2026-03-24 08:48:34 UTC

From my days of travelling to the Russian #Caucasus, I’ve got quite a few friends there – one of them is a highlander and he’s fine, whilst the other used to work for RIA (Russian state news agency).
I messaged the first one on Telegram, but the message isn’t getting through and I don’t know if he’s up in the mountains or if the Roskomnadzor is already blocking it. So I ask the other one, who spends most of his time in the lowlands, whether Telegram works there without a VPN. And here I get this reply that sounded like read from an official government statement 😂
It depends – sometimes it’s needed, and sometimes it isn’t. On the other hand, the number of cybercrimes and scams on social media has plummeted since communication restrictions were introduced. Everything has its pros and cons.
I gather he’s probably still working at RIA 😂 Let me emphasise – it was the sort of question that calls for a yes or no answer.
If they cut off the internet for them altogether, he’ll probably send me a letter by post giving a detailed explanation of why life without the Internet has “certain disadvantages, but also advantages”.

2026-03-24 08:24:26 UTC

#Russia military journalist Romanov:
average Russian soldier lifetime on the front line is 10-12 days
he has personally witnessed mobilised soldiers who were trained in Kazan for 3 months for tank crews, but immediately after arrival to the front line they were sent for an infantry assault
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2026-03-23 14:27:37 UTC

Overall, I think #Putin’s problems are merely a symptom of something much bigger – we are currently witnessing a convergence of some of the world’s political systems towards chaotic behaviour.
Putin, Trump and the European (including Polish) right-wing parties are making moves that are absurd from the perspective of their countries’ interests and contrary to the political systems they profess to uphold. The absurdity is, however, only apparent, because their actions are driven by forces far more powerful than politics – namely, the personal networks of deals and dependencies they have built up over the years, initially only ‘tactically’, to gain a ‘momentary political advantage’, ‘for a just cause’ and ‘for a short while’.
Now, however, the personal obligations and these hidden debts incurred by each of them towards various powerful interest groups have taken control of their decision-making process, plunging them into a spiral of decisions, every one of which is wrong, because the interests of these groups are by no means consistent with one another.
On top of this come systemic cognitive biases and all manner of other psychological phenomena, which only become apparent once we manage to ‘identify the leaders’ – for one of the hallmarks of impersonal democracy is precisely the systemic elimination of these cognitive biases, which are typical of systems based on specific individuals. There is no point in looking for any logic here or constructing ‘5D chess’ scenarios.
Putin prolonging a war which he is not only failing to win but actually seems to have fallen into some sort of catatonia, making one worse decision after another.
Americans electing Trump only for his approval rating to plummet to 30% after a year… This same President Trump threatens Iceland, instigates trade wars and nearly triggers a civil war in the US, then plays on the EU’s disintegration, tolerating Putin and supporting Orbán… and then starting a war with Iran. This is a fascinating example of an agent of chaos, taken almost straight from the novel ‘Illuminatus!’ (who remembers it?).
President Nawrocki and the DSA, cryptocurrency and SAFE vetoes, which are suicidal for Polish interests. The Polish right publicly supporting the pro-Putin and homophobic Orbán, side by side with the German revisionist Alice Weidel, who lives in a same-sex relationship – all these are fascinating symptoms of a global political system entering a chaotic phase.
And the more the ‘system fails’ (though it is no longer a system at all, but merely personal cliques), the more societies panic and instinctively… seek ‘strong leaders’. And here appears a powerful feedback loops, see above about the cognitive biases.
The consequences of this process are unpredictable precisely because the actions of its actors are not guided by any ideologies or rational considerations, but by forces hidden for decades beneath the surface of global politics, previously suppressed by the system.
Rationalism and the rule of law are just one of many ways of organising human societies – they yield the best results, but they are neither the only nor the easiest. For they require discipline, from us – politicians and voters alike. Without this discipline, a rational state slides merrily into the realm of chaos, the beginnings of which we are currently witnessing, and whose next stage could be mass violence on a 20th-century scale.
Of course, the fact that the entire system is gravitating towards such a chaotic phase transition does not mean it must inevitably descend into it – as in any dynamic system, the state of the system is the result of the complex interactions between its components. In other words, discipline in the application of the principles of rational politics can halt or slow down this process.
P.S. I have not mentioned the Left so far simply because the global Left drifted off into the realm of chaos a long time ago – the very concept of the left defending the religious, authoritarian, oppressive and extremely misogynistic regimes of Hamas and the IGRC is exactly the same level of absurdity as ultraconservative Ordo Iuris ranting about traditional values alongside Alice Weidel or Orbán 😆 The reasons behind this process are exactly the same as those on the right – magical thinking, ‘tactical alliances’ and ‘moral compromises’.

2026-03-21 16:37:16 UTC

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In a totally unrelated news #Trump affirms ‘total endorsement’ of #Orban ahead of #Hungary election
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday reiterated his “complete and total endorsement” of Orbán in the Hungarian elections. And U.S. Vice President JD Vance is reportedly due to fly to Budapest in April in support of the prime minister.
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-affirms-complete-and-total-endorsement-of-orban-amid-clash-with-eu/

2026-03-21 16:35:36 UTC

To tilt #Hungary election, #Russia proposed staging assassination attempt on #Orban
Officers from the intelligence service, or SVR, suggested that drastic action might be necessary — a strategy they called “the Gamechanger.” In an internal report for the SVR obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post, the operatives proposed a way to “fundamentally alter the entire paradigm of the election campaign” — “the staging of an assassination attempt on Viktor Orban.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/21/hungary-election-interference-russia-orban/

2026-03-21 12:18:27 UTC

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@nprofile…s4ce
By using the term “fascism” for everything hing you don’t like you make the word entirely meaningless, as described by Orwell in 1944 already https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
By not understanding the actual reasons for caching the age attribute in OS - these I have described in detail here https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/7cc327d7-b4ed-4776-9302-46998c93ba73 - you actually defend much more intrusive commercial techniques

2026-03-20 12:14:35 UTC

#DLSS nerd joke from #Ukraine Magyar Birds
P.S. if you haven’t heard about DLSS, it’s another technology to massively upscale digital images, in short https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Learning_Super_Sampling
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2026-03-20 08:10:32 UTC

Commenting on media reports about #Narva #Estonia separatist movements claiming they want to go to #Russia, Estonian journalist Toomas Hendrik Ilves produced this comparison[^1]
Average monthly salary in Narva: €1472, across the river in Ivangorod: 200-400 USD, i.e. 180-360€. In Estonia: quality education, healthcare.
Estonian basic pension, 817€/mo. Russia 240€
In Ivangorod, young men get sent to fight in Ukraine. In Estonia young men and women go study in Italy under the EU Erasmus programme
Estonia: #2 in freedom of the press. Russia: #171 out of 180 countries.
All permanent residents of Estonia, i.e. everyone in Narva enjoy free movement within the EU, i.e. you can live and work anywhere in the European Union. In Russia, well, there’s always Kamchatka.
This is all very rational and questions the sanity of any person that would really call for Narva to join Russia. The obvious problem here is in how many people actually think rationally in the area in question?
There’s an excellent book by Vorotyntseva & Kazansky “How Ukraine lost Donbas?” that shows all the complexity of the situation in #Donbas before 2014.[^2]
Technically, Donbas was richer than many Ukrainian and Russian regions in vicinity, at least on macroeconomic scale. But that’s where macro reality starts to diverge from the physical reality on the ground, because Donbas also concentrated all the typical problems of Russia & Ukraine of that time - huge income disparities and mafia controlling most state & private enterprises.
On top of that, add Kyiv practically giving up any attempts to regain political control over the whole Donbas for years, tolerating the local ‘elites’ who they believed aren’t a threat. Yet, Russians clearly found a vector on these elites that somehow bypassed their purely financial motives.
Can’t speak of Narva, so just adding this comment here for possible discussion from people who know more.
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/IlvesToomas/status/2034738061376925895?s=20
[^2]: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1761859/s/how-ukraine-lost-donbas

2026-03-19 20:57:07 UTC

Traditional shitstorm around this #systemd proposal:
userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
Yeah, let’s not even have a mechanism in our own systemd user database because true freedom lies in taking online photo for an US company where it will be kept forever 😂

2026-03-18 19:00:43 UTC

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@nprofile…mr3m
Very plausible!

2026-03-18 15:20:49 UTC

#Russia popular military and political blogger Ilya Remeslo (100k+ followers), but also recognised snitch of everyone who opposed war, posted a lengthy criticism of #Putin himself, which was previously carefully enforced red line. The Guardian provides a good English-language summary:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/pro-kremlin-loyalist-turns-on-putin-ilya-remeslo-russia
Original in Russian (in two parts)
https://t.me/ilya_remeslaw/11121
https://t.me/ilya_remeslaw/11125

2026-03-10 13:59:00 UTC

According to bank statements from the #Russia production company that produces programs for Kremlin propaganda’s “First Channel”, former #Austria Foreign Minister Karine Kneissl, who moved to Russia, earned over 1.2 million rubles in a few months by regularly promoting Kremlin narratives on Russian state television.
In addition to fees for television appearances, Kneissl also heads a research center at St. Petersburg University, funded by the Russian state. Over nearly 2.5 years of work, she received over 22 million rubles.
Source: https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2026/03/09/eto-khoroshaia-zhizn (in Russian)

2026-03-10 12:37:19 UTC

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@nprofile…c7z3
The fun fact is that, in UK law, ‘one pound’ is defined in kilograms, and ‘one yard’ in metres. So, it’s just a snobbish wrapper around the metric system. 😉
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/72/section/1

2026-03-10 10:37:42 UTC

Bitcoin media now showing panic news about “queues on petrol stations in the UK” with some random videos… branded by #Russia Today 😄 I can’t say about the whole UK but I haven’t seen any queues on petrol stations in my area for the last week or so.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/bfb0a8de7c2ec92871e67e5ee89730b7169cd061f67a0249b0a6749e2502d407.png?name=1_b3mg0KVgQa_w.png

2026-03-09 18:59:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ay24
No, it makes a lot of sense:
Allows to capture laws that are inconsistent, contradictory with other laws, often decades apart
Allows to capture laws that are inconsistent with fundamental EU values but have been pushed anyway as result of political trades
Allows to highlight laws that were introduced with a particular goals in mind but which had not actually contribute towards those goals
Allows to capture laws intended to achieve specific goals but whose cost is improportionally high as opposed to how much they advanced their goals
Allows to capture laws that are inconsistent with the latest scientific knowledge
None of these will actually change the laws because I have no illusion that the political trading can be somehow eradicated from the system, but that’s how jurisdiction works in general.
But I’d be quite happy if someone clearly enumerated all the pseudo-scientific regulation pushed by various lobby groups that rarely leaves the legislation committees and few people knows it’s actually there.

2026-03-09 18:29:24 UTC

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@nprofile…ay24
You’re talking about the prompt, which is biased, I’m talking about the idea. And yes, I wouldn’t use Grok, which is already biased LLM.
On the other points I disagree too:
instills inherent distrust in lawmakers
Nothing instills inherent distrust in lawmakers than poor quality law 🤷
where only small government and private enterprise
What prevents you from doing the same thing with a different LLM and a different prompt?

2026-03-09 16:22:08 UTC

An interesting project whose autor hooked up EU law database to Grok and asked the latter to review each regulation, assessing its relevance according to a number of programmed parameters.
https://bettereu.com
Right now the engine is around year 1968 with 9 regulations classified as irrelevant, 3 as relevant, with interesting even if vague justifications. I don’t think anyone will now rush to remove these regulations based on Grok recommendations alone, but maintenance of legacy law is a problem 10x worse than in the programming world - it simply does not exist in most countries. And LLM seem to be perfectly suited to critical analysis of large volumes of text.
P.S. it’s programmed in Lisp

2026-03-08 20:09:20 UTC

#Russia journalists visited #Vuhledar occupied by Russian army since 2024 and complain that the town is ruined, abandoned and devoid of any administration in spite of civilians living there (Russian audio, English/Polish subtitles). Just to be clear, this is Russian state media describing destruction brought to a town in Ukraine as part of Russian “liberation”.
https://video.echelon.pl/w/souZTJ8mFWGo4HvRrbEDdt

2026-03-08 11:14:53 UTC

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@nprofile…hfhx 🤔

2026-03-07 19:05:16 UTC

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@nprofile…cz3j
I have no idea, but I suppose it’s no longer a problem and that’s why don’t hear about it.
One thing I’ve learned from interviews with Yigal Levin is that when there’s lots of army moaning about something in the media, that’s how army draws public attention to an issue - and it usually helps. When there’s no moaning, that usually means they’ve got what they wanted ;)

2026-03-07 18:21:04 UTC

#Poland will begin producing 155mm #Ukraine Bohdana howitzers. A joint venture, PK MIL SA, has been established between Ponar Wadowice and the Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Plant. Formal procedures to start production of the guns are already underway. Poland owns 51% of the company’s shares, while Ukraine holds 49%.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/fc63cb7c84d0d757c326e8174cc182a972d9501ce093e99061147d18108139f2.png?name=-Va8E-N6j6nSnw.png

2026-03-06 10:53:02 UTC

Parliamentary elections will be held in #Hungary in April, in which #Orban is polling poorly, so a semi-official delegation of #Russia ‘siloviki’, ‘advisers’ and ‘political technologists’ has been sent to Budapest to avert the crisis using Russian methods – i.e. fraud, propaganda, intimidation and possibly special measures (state of emergency, etc.)
https://vsquare.org/goulash-kremlins-vote-meddling-team-in-budapest-slovakias-shady-help-for-arms-group-ipo/
The Russians did exactly the same thing in 2013 and 2014 when Putin’s order to Yanukovych that Ukraine join the Russian Customs Union instead of the EU caused a huge and fully justified wave of public protests. FSB advisers had been in Kiev from the outset, and in February 2014, an entire delegation arrived, including Surkov and Beseda, who were responsible for the ‘Ukrainian direction’ in the FSB:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2015/02/20/poroshenko-says-evidence-shows-kremlin-aide-surkov-directed-snipers-in-kiev-a44114
Pro-Russian militias in Ukraine in 2014 were directly financed and controlled by the Russian presidential administration:
https://uaposition.com/analysis-opinion/english-translation-audio-evidence-putins-adviser-glazyev-russian-politicians-involvement-war-ukraine
Despite these obvious facts of political intervention in both countries, there are still people out there whose minds are so dependent and clouded by Russian propaganda that they ignore these facts and instead uncritically repeat nonsense about ‘Yanukovych coup’ and ‘5 billion from the US’ when these funds were transferred over 20 years as part of official government support, including to the Yanukovych government…
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/04/ukraine-maidan-revolution-russia-coup-myth-yanukovych/

2026-03-05 12:16:55 UTC

#FreeBSD poudriere build of mail/stalwart from ports - 19:10 hours 😫

2026-03-05 09:00:54 UTC

Lengthy (as usual) analysis from the “Volya” channel about the latest series of #Ukraine counterattacks on the southern and eastern front and how they match the general Ukraine’s defense strategy and don’t match Russian offensive strategy:
Since 8 February, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been doing something they haven’t done in over two years — driving the Russians out of their territory. In the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Ukrainian units, operating in small groups of motorised infantry, have driven the Russian Armed Forces out of 19-22 settlements during this time. However, what is happening cannot be called a counteroffensive or a ‘major offensive operation’ because so far it looks more like a well-thought-out and prepared series of local tactical strikes on the enemy’s most vulnerable points, the goal of which is not to regain villages and kilometres, but to create conditions for changing the situation on the entire southern front.
While the Ukrainian Armed Forces are advancing north and north-east (and probably already east) from Huliaipole and have created a vast grey zone stretching almost from Stepnogorsk to Kamenskoye on the banks of the Dnieper, the Russian command seems to have decided to ignore what is happening. Instead of trying to restore order in the Vostok Military District, two of whose four armies have enormous problems in organising their defences and troops, the Vostok command is throwing most of its reserves into assaults in Huliaipole itself, because it needs to report its successes to the top. The fact that the Russians officially ‘took’ Huliaipole back in December 2025 does not bother anyone in the Russian Armed Forces or the Eastern Military District. Neither of them are new to taking for the second to fifth time what they have already ‘liberated’ before.
Attempts to solve the problem in Huliaipole at any cost, trying to patch up the expanding gap from Ternovato to Aleksandrograd, could lead the Russians to a serious crisis not only in one local area, but across the entire southern front.
There is nothing and no one to reinforce the Southern Front of the Russian Armed Forces and the combined group, because simultaneously with the events there, the Russian offensive is intensifying in the Limansky, Slavyansk-Kramatorsk and Dobropolsky (formerly Pokrovsky) directions.
The generals do not yet have any major successes to report to Putin and the people who support him. Moreover, the deadlines for achieving many of the objectives were missed a month or a month and a half ago. This is pushing the OGV command to make fierce demands on the commanders of the South and Centre groups to do everything possible to deliver results.
By results, they mean establishing control over Chasov Yar (also officially ‘liberated’ on 31 July 2025), Liman, Dobropillya, and direct access to Konstantinovka and Slavyansk.
To achieve this, to the surprise of the Ukrainian military defending Chasov Yar, the Russians attacked the city with tanks for several days at the end of February. Not dozens — between 5 and 16 vehicles were involved — but tanks in such numbers had not been used in an offensive in the city for a long time. The result is clear: most of the tanks have already burned out and cooled down in the ruins of the city.
Near Liman, Konstantinovka and Dobropillya, the tasks are being carried out by infantry, which is generously sent on infiltration, assault and consolidation missions. The results are, shall we say, limited, and the losses are high, partly due to the huge mortality rate among the wounded. The Russians are not thinking about evacuation under the tight deadlines.
Russian losses in January-February equalled, and according to some reports, exceeded the number of recruits. Given that the problems of the Russian Armed Forces in the south will only grow, and in other areas there is no sign of a reduction in losses, the command will have to solve the problem of a multiple increase in recruitment as early as March. If this is not done, by the end of March the problem will begin to resemble a serious crisis.
Options for solving the problem of recruitment in the Russian Armed Forces and what this may affect will be discussed in the morning posts.
Original: https://t.me/volyamedia/1933 (in Russian)

2026-03-05 00:07:22 UTC

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@nprofile…s4ce
I think you’re mistaking the concept of contemporary dignity from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, with international laws regarding countries. The dignity applies automatically and inseparably to all humans, including the worst criminals and sociopaths. No human can be stripped of this right.
But there’s no such equivalent concept for countries or any other legal entities. Countries enjoy exactly the rights that other countries agree to grant them on their own, this is purely contractual relation. There’s no global international courts whose jurisdiction automatically covers all countries and there’s no global enforcement agency, which makes international law fundamentally different from any national laws. The most important consequence is that the international law is exclusively based on bilateral or multilateral treaties that countries sign and ratify voluntarily as they see fit.
Historically, the largest such multilateral contract was the United Nations Charter, article 4 of which contains such qualification:
Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.
As you can see, the provisions of the Charter aren’t granted unconditionally or by default, they are very much conditional on the country’s stance towards other countries.
A country like #Iran that made its primary mission eradication of another country obviously doesn’t fit that qualification and does not enjoy the rights granted by other members of the UN simply because it neither fulfills its obligations to the UN Charter, not it is willing to resolve its grudges towards #Israel in a peaceful way.
Some UN members don’t care about this, but some do - and they refuse to recognise Iran’s contractual rights due to its lack of compliance with the contractual obligations.
And that’s precisely what Merz said.

2026-03-04 20:35:11 UTC

#Russia real budget deficit is actually 40% larger than the official figure, says #Germany intelligence:
The BND put Russia’s federal budget deficit at ‌8.01 ⁠trillion roubles compared to the official figure of 5.65 trillion that equates to 2.6% of GDP.
https://www.reuters.com/business/german-intelligence-accuses-russia-hiding-true-economic-cost-war-2026-03-04/

2026-03-04 12:19:18 UTC

#Russia military reporter: “On the liberated territories we’ve restored the 90’s - robberies, racket schemes and forced takeovers, no water, no gas, no jobs”. He’s referring directly to “several hundreds of thousands of people living in the new four regions”, describing mass-scale lawlessness, and apparently still not understanding why people in #Ukraine are unwilling, to put that lightly, to voluntarily join this shithole or be forced to emigrate 🤔 Russian audio, Polish/English subtitles.
https://video.echelon.pl/w/km3s9pb1cLdyyySVd82tBM

2026-03-04 12:13:08 UTC

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Some more details from the original Telegram post from Russians:
In a number of areas (primarily the Mikhailovka district), HX-2 drones (https://helsing.ai/hx-2) have been spotted. They arrived in large numbers, immediately spreading out to different areas. Reports that the Germans had transferred a batch to the Russians appeared back in January, and now we have confirmation.
This drone, like the Martian, has guidance and turns off the video transmitter when attacking a target. Therefore, the drone detector does not see it or sees it too late. Also, the drone prefers to glide towards the target, so it is difficult to hear acoustically. It works in tandem with a relay wing, just like the Lancet. Retric does not turn off its video, so it is always visible on the air. Perhaps you can see the HX2 take off on the second signal at close frequencies, as was the case with the Lancet. If anyone has a spectrogram of the airwaves during the operation of this drone, please post it in the comments.
They hit repair crews and road network installers in the relative rear. They are thrown off target by a smoke screen (if you manage to throw a checker, of course).
As I said, we are entering a new stage in the development of FPV technology, where a simple radio control will no longer be enough. Classic FPVs will continue to dominate for quite some time, simply because of their low cost, but the parallel creation of more sophisticated and mass-produced models in the West continues unabated. And they have the advantage of a more developed electronics industry, which is necessary to create the required functionality.
Original: https://t.me/VictoryDrones/52969 (in Russian)

2026-03-04 11:42:30 UTC

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@nprofile…6sld
I tried to be very diplomatic in my description of the “US company” because I didn’t remember all details and don’t have time to dig down, but that was precisely my feeling after reading that story back then 😉
The problem I see is that for example in Poland there’s a whole party of US-fanboys who are now trying to block the EU SAFE program (a 3% loan for 30 years) because Trump told them to buy US weapons instead (at 6% loans) and I’m sure these guys would be ready to buy Anduril “because it’s US made” even if it doesn’t work on our front line.
@nprofile…2z7u

2026-03-04 11:07:13 UTC

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@nprofile…2z7u
Can’t remember now but I think it was Anduril. And you’re right, it’s HX-2, that was just me brainlessly copying Russian transcription :)

2026-03-04 11:04:10 UTC

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@nprofile…0pc0
Oh yes, and then meticulous counting of all civilians killed in Iraq, blaming them all on US coalition when in reality 90% of them were killed by Arab terrorists recruited from former Hussein’s extensive army and security services.
There was a website called Iraqi Body Count where you could actually watch these numbers month by month. I was reading it on daily basis and it was literally one report like “two civilians killed in Baghdad during US military operation” and a dozen of reports “fifty civilians killed by a terrorist bombing attack on a mosque” each month. And media, most left-wing, consistently turned that upside down and still wrote about “thousands of civilians killed by US coalition” 🤷
Can’t imagine how moronic and dishonest one can be in such a manipulative imposing of their tribal narratives, where a truly bloody dictator suddenly becomes “the victim”.
And of course no mention of thousands of Kurds killed by Hussein using chemical weapons, hundreds of thousands tortured to death by the security police etc.
And all of the left-wing commentators suddenly forget about all their pro-woman and pro-LGBT agenda when it comes to regimes such as Iran or Hamas.

2026-03-04 10:56:46 UTC

An interesting case study in drone wars - last year #Germany passed a series of XC-2 assault drones (X-wing style) to #Ukraine, and these were susceptible to jamming and electronic warfare (EW), duly reported by #Russia channels with jokes and ironic comments.
German manufacturer took the feedback from Ukrainian army, improved the firmware and a new wave of comments from Russians emerged, complaining that XC-2 are now highly effective in destroying air-defense systems which they believed were protected by their EW. An additional feature of XC-2 is that they switch off engines in the last phase of flight, which means the characteristic warning buzzing sound is absent, which makes the attack much more unexpected.
Contrast this with another drone manufacturer, this time from the US, who also passed series of their drones to Ukraine, which had the same problems. They were returned to the manufacturer with number of notes and suggestions, which were… ignored. US company probably decided that fine-tuning software for an “overseas client” is too expensive and they just decided it’s not their market.

2026-03-04 08:06:53 UTC

Interesting that Greta missed the 30’000 killed by IGRC only in January and all the people before hanged from cranes before for things like women not wearing head scarf or gay people being gay. Or these were not Iranians? Or these were not the right Iranians to be remembered?🤔
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/3f6615d984302d0e0a5e17d28560d73647390165a99b128ced9fd1f253285a91.file?name=t80hjizKDwJ_UA.file

2026-03-03 17:05:24 UTC

#Russia discovering the old proverb about your own medicine….
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/cc2ca73892f92b2dfdb34bc554d39db08aea8f9bdc755906a57b312d8e3667b1.png?name=O8TvT2-0YuCxWQ.png

2026-03-02 14:08:34 UTC

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@nprofile…7w0l
So what? It’s funny and I don’t think anyone expects it to be 100% verifiable evidence of anything.

2026-03-02 14:08:20 UTC

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@nprofile…wgtp @nprofile…05rd
So what? It’s funny and I don’t think anyone expects it to be 100% verifiable evidence of anything.

2026-03-01 18:08:17 UTC

“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/b3a0f6f2488a42d7e4bff44b08e821211b7bf114da12e9c62f293906e6ee4e1a.png?name=BwkB3eWB8DPQcg.png

2026-02-28 21:30:38 UTC

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@nprofile…2z7u
Well, there’s also IRGC on the scene that has just slaughtered ~30’000 own citizens only in the last month or so.

2026-02-28 21:09:10 UTC

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@nprofile…2z7u
Nobody seems to be asking why would US/Israel hit a girls’ elementary school when all of their missiles hit other targets with deadly precision? Other sources say it was IRGC failed rocket launch from their own base in Minab.

2026-02-23 11:48:09 UTC

#Poland, #Germany, #France, #Italy and #UnitedKingdom to jointly develop low-cost air-defence systems
Poland, Germany, France, Italy and the UK have agreed to jointly develop and procure low-cost air defence systems, including drones and missiles, with the aim of boosting Europe’s ability to deal with growing aerial threats, especially from Russia.
The announcement was made during a summit on Friday in Kraków, southern Poland, of the so-called European Group of Five (E5). NATO deputy secretary general Radmila Šekerinska and the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, also attended.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/02/23/poland-germany-france-italy-and-uk-to-jointly-develop-low-cost-air-defence-systems/

2026-02-23 11:42:22 UTC

#Poland Łódź a fantastic example of cultural fusion in real life 😆 “Sobieski kebab” joins two apparently contradictory narratives - kebab (pita bread with salad and shaved meat) is a classic and extremely popular food of clearly Middle Eastern origin, while Jan Sobieski was a 17th Polish king famous for his victory over Ottoman army besieging Vienna.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/00d307c6870ec2d61d477a5f4507f26177eb3c07a41c8aadc23933412294bd72.file?name=z-ujcTZZ8qcu6g.file

2026-02-21 18:15:36 UTC

#Poland tightens cybersecurity rules targeting non #NATO suppliers
The government says the law is both a response to the rising number of cyberattacks and the need to implement the EU’s Network and Information Systems Directive 2 (NIS 2) directive, which was meant to be done by October 2024.
The main change creates a category of “high-risk” vendors who will be barred from providing goods or services to sectors considered vital to the state. One criterion for such a designation is a supplier’s origin and whether it is controlled by a country outside NATO.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/02/21/poland-tightens-cybersecurity-rules-targeting-non-nato-suppliers/

2026-02-20 08:47:25 UTC

#Poland PISM analyst Daniel Szeligowski on #Russia & #Ukraine “peace negotiations”
Let’s get some basic facts straight again, or who is “going to have to get moving” and come to the negotiating table.
In early 2014, Ukraine was a neutral country, led by a pro-Russian president, with around 70% of the population opposed to NATO membership. Yet Russia violated Ukraine’s neutrality, annexed Crimea, and then launched a covert invasion in eastern Ukraine.
Petro Poroshenko won 2014 presidential election after campaigning on a settlement with Russia and preserving a special status for the Russian language. He was initially sceptical about NATO membership and emphasized Ukraine had to rely primarily on its own army to ensure security.
Volodymyr Zelensky also won the presidency promising compromise with Russia - with politically naive statements to stop the shooting, sit down with Putin, and talk. He was even more sceptical about NATO membership than Poroshenko, once saying he never visits anyone unless invited.
Zelensky went to the Paris summit with Putin in December 2019 with a conciliatory position. He genuinely wanted to reach an agreement and was ready to make concessions. Later on, he negotiated multiple ceasefires, and even began withdrawing troops from the then front line.
Zelensky was also ready to drop Ukraine’s NATO bid in exchange for a Russian troop withdrawal from Ukraine’s territory, and talks were already underway before 2022. Yet Putin still launched a full-scale invasion.
A few hours before the Russian attack, on the night of 23/24 February 2022, Zelensky called the Kremlin to propose negotiations once again. But no one picked up. Predictably, Putin chose war over diplomacy.
Immediately after the invasion, Zelensky declared readiness to negotiate with Russia without any preconditions. Instead of accepting the offer, Putin sent his stooge Medinsky to present Ukraine with what amounted to a capitulation ultimatum.
In the first weeks of the invasion, Zelensky repeatedly signaled readiness to drop Ukraine’s NATO bid, but sought international security guarantees. Yet Putin demanded Russia be consulted before any assistance is given to Ukraine in case of aggression, and he broke off the talks.
Putin has so far shown no willingness to compromise with Ukraine. His war aims remain maximalist - subjugating Ukraine and changing its regime. He seeks Ukraine’s partition and turning what remains into a Russian protectorate. He has absolutely no real interest in Donbas.
The U.S. side’s messaging on peace talks is pure abstraction - it amounts to an attempt to construct a parallel reality. Putin has not changed his position on compromise with Ukraine, and the supposed technical concessions are meant to mislead inexperienced American negotiators.
Zelensky has repeatedly shown readiness to negotiate, from early compromise offers to dropping the NATO bid. Ukraine has come to the table more than once. It is Putin who must eventually come to the table, yet current U.S. policy signals to him that he still doesn’t have to.

2026-02-10 23:28:49 UTC

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@nprofile…5adk
17 декабря 2025 Путин сказал буквально, цитирую:
Российская армия завоевала и прочно удерживает стратегическую инициативу на всей линии фронта. Наши войска уверенно продвигаются вперед и перемалывают противника.
Кстати, не про “стачивание” но про “истощение” он говорил буквально год раньше 19 декабра 2024 😄
Происходит истощение боевой техники, снаряжения, амуниции, боеприпасов и, что самое главное, личного состава со стороны украинских вооруженных сил, истощение.
Ну а 2 декабря 2025 он заявил про “полный контроль над Купянском” 😂
Купянск состоит из двух частей — одна часть наибольшая, основная, центр города, на правом берегу реки. Меньшая часть — на левом берегу. Российские войска контролируют как правобережную часть целиком, так и левобережную часть тоже целиком
По поводу Украины:
такой Украины какой была раньше больше никогда не будет.
Конечно же, такой мягкой и дружественной по отношению к России точно никогда не будет - вы очень хорошо поработали над этим чтобы вас изненавидили целые поколения. Вы там вьёбались по полной программе…

2026-02-10 23:10:46 UTC

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@nprofile…5adk
Но ведь заявления про “стачивании личного состава ВСУ” и “ну а потом как заживём!” это как раз и есть стопроцентный Путин 😂