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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2026-04-06 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

2026-03-27 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 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”.

2026-03-21 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 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

2026-03-09 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 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%.
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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 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 12:13:08 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 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.

2026-03-03 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 14:08:20 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/

2026-02-20 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 😂

2026-02-10 22:22:09 UTC

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@nprofile…k3ke
Of course you can refuse – or not. Which, in case of military or government structures operating in democratic countries, I have no problem with, especially at war time.
@nprofile…s4ce @nprofile…k30q

2026-02-10 22:20:40 UTC

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@nprofile…5adk
Вернутся можно всегда. Дело в том что маленькая ложь - как январский бред Путина и Герасимова про Купянск - обычно предсказывает большую.
Я поэтому спросил ты был уверен когда Путин говорил про Купянск…

2026-02-10 21:33:01 UTC

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@nprofile…5adk
Это очень хорошо. А когда Путин говорил про “польный контроль над Купянском” ты сомневался или нет?

2026-02-10 21:30:16 UTC

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@nprofile…5adk
И даже Купянск возмут на конец-то? Как думаешь?

2026-02-10 21:06:27 UTC

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@nprofile…5adk
Да никто не спорит что демонстрирует - с 2022 года армия ведь РФ продвинулась 18 км из Горловки, это безспорный факт.
Но Телега, Старлинк а ешё и Дискорд всё такие мешают, если читать русских военкоров а я их читаю каждый день. Конечно мелочь, но радует.
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2026-02-10 20:57:53 UTC

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@nprofile…5adk
Пока он вредит армии РФ я ему ещё буду хлопать :)

2026-02-10 18:52:21 UTC

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@nprofile…auyu
I don’t know, if you don’t like Poland or EU in general you could always move to Belarus or what is the preferred “anti-system” safe haven today 😂

2026-02-10 18:49:13 UTC

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@nprofile…auyu
I’m from Poland, currently living in the UK, but my experience with the cops in both places was… okay. In Poland I’ve spent 30 years living on a football fan district in Kraków, where beatings, knife stabbings were a normal occurrence so the cops were generally the only force that could discipline these animals. In the UK my experience with cops was limited to them dealing with drunk Britons which also wasn’t too controversial.

2026-02-10 18:43:19 UTC

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@nprofile…auyu
If it works this way in your country, I’m very sorry. You can always consider moving to another country where rule of law applies. I have different experience with police so your generalisation is simply not convincing to me.

2026-02-10 18:30:44 UTC

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@nprofile…auyu
Fediverse is a global network, you have to account for cultural differences. So you have to explain your point in a way that is globally understandable rather than expect everyone will be duly researching your prejudices.
A few years ago some fanatic was compulsively throwing “ACAB” into my face as if it explained everything and was very surprised why I don’t respond the way they expected. I simply did not understand what that means. I had to look it up but still, it made little sense. Came out they were from the US and it had some special meaning there due to widespread police violence there - I kind of feel sorry, but again, not my problem.
@nprofile…s4ce @nprofile…k30q

2026-02-10 14:10:53 UTC

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@nprofile…3f6w
Read the second paragraph of your comment in which you conveniently built a strawman of an opponent, clearly using words which you consider insulting even if you don’t fully understand their meaning.
@nprofile…s4ce @nprofile…k30q

2026-02-10 09:45:35 UTC

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@nprofile…s4ce @nprofile…k30q You can also read about the “white fascist” legislators of Germany here https://ukandeu.ac.uk/diversity-bundestag/

2026-02-10 09:44:03 UTC

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@nprofile…s4ce
For reference, here’s a sample of your typical “white fascists” from the French government. So I think you’ve gone a bit too far with equating any government in the world with US ICE, and then with “white fascists”.
@nprofile…k30q
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/38fb0b774bc9c17aaa6d1c6a84d2b311e92531411c2168f82b4664e16a050dff.webp?name=RKDVqEZWHnYgvw.webp

2026-02-10 09:34:32 UTC

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@nprofile…s4ce What is exactly your problem here? Matrix is an encrypted messaging standard - as a maintainer of an Internet standard quite natural to sell consulting services to commercial clients, including your government. This is exactly the same case with HTTP or SMTP, which are widely used by governments and law enforcement, so why single out IM?
@nprofile…k30q

2026-02-09 18:16:49 UTC

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@nprofile…76vj
Russia is very predictable, they just follow organised crime logic. Here are the facts.
When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 what was the West response? Reset with Russia, Obama got Nobel prize and pushed buttons on camera with Putin.
How West read it? “We’ll be nice and they’ll follow” - classics of German Wandel durch Handel. How Russia read it? “Soft pussies, we can push them more”. So they did.
Then a whole range of energy blackmails, sabotages and assassinations followed in Western Europe, starting with Litvinenko and others, related to Russian mafia. What was the Western response? None. How Russia read it? Same as above.
Then there was Crimea, Donbas, MH17 etc? What was Western response? Lukewarm sanctions, Germany pushing for NS2, France selling them advanced weapons. Russia blew up ammunition depots in Czech Republic and Bulgaria? Zero response. So they blew up more and killed more people. And then they invaded in 2022, because the West encouraged them all the time.
Where do you see any “unpredictability” here?

2026-02-09 14:01:14 UTC

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@nprofile…76vj
As a reminder, the war goes on since 2014, in 2021 Russia executed the first energy blackmail on Europe and the full-scale war goes since 2022. Today we have 2026…

2026-02-09 13:38:28 UTC

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@nprofile…76vj
Point of entry is the easiest one to shut 😉

2026-02-09 10:43:54 UTC

In January 2026 imports of #Russia LNG reached a record 2.276 billion cubic meters with key importers being #France #Spain and #Belgium. In total this makes only 18% of overall LNG imports into EU but it’s still embarrassing that the above EU Member States directly support Russia military budget by their purchases.
As many media especially in the US love to speak of “EU imports”, that’s quite opposite of the truth - energy policy of individual member states is explicitly excluded from EU competences, which is why they can make these purchases on their own and actively block sanctions that would prevent these imports. It’s not “EU imports”, it’s literally France, Spain and Belgium importers bypassing EU in order to support Russian budget.

2026-02-08 18:37:00 UTC

A beautiful commentary on the attempted assassination of #GRU general Alexeyev:
Just think how difficult it is to be a Z-patriot. Since 2015, they have been mourning the “hero of the Russian Spring”, Alexey Mozgovoy. Since yesterday, we should be concerned about General Alexeyev, who gave the order to liquidate Mozgovoy. And he was liquidated by Prigozhin’s “Wagnerites”, who should also be remembered with respect.
As they say, “the history of Russia is highly unpredictable”.
Mozgovoy was killed in an attack by “unknown perpetrators”, then officially blamed on “Ukrainian saboteurs”, but everyone knew he was killed as part of in-fighting, on the orders of the very general Alexeev.
But even more absurd was the story of the liquidation of Alexander Bednov, aka “Batman”, who was shot “during his arrest by the DNR prosecutor’s office”, but the statement on this matter was only published on the DNR website and never reached the English-language sewage outlets doing PR for the DNR/LNR, such as Sputnik or blogs like Moon of Alabama.
So, they published very angry statements about the ‘terrorist attack on the DNR hero’, and I had a lot of fun posting the statement from the ‘DNR prosecutor’s office’ because they had to change their entire narrative by 180° in the blink of an eye 😄
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/3d19470d3a1002446f7dea135001139a9f413b6398f9530b009017671defcf9b.png?name=tOvVp3kV0WKfIQ.png

2026-02-08 18:32:22 UTC

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@nprofile…4c26 100% agreed!

2026-02-08 14:13:24 UTC

#USSR “Pravda” article from the period of WW2 siege of #Kyiv (July-September 1941) describing #Germany attacks on the town’s power plants, very much like #Russia is doing today:
During the occupation, Kiev’s power stations suffered the most damage. The barbaric Germans wanted to leave the city and its inhabitants without light or heat. Although construction in the energy sector is complex, we have achieved significant victories in this area today. Two of the three power stations are already operational. At the second GRES, in addition to the already operating turbogenerator, the installation of a second one is being completed. The launch of the second turbogenerator is a matter of the next few days. By the October holiday, the first stage of the combined heat and power plant will be put into operation.
Original (OCR):
Электростанции Киева подверглись в период оккупации наибольшим разрушениям.Немцы-дикари захотели оставить город и его жителей без света, без тепла. Вак ни сложна стройка в энергетическом хозяйстве, но и здесь мы имеем сегодня серьезнейшие победы. Лво электростанции из трех уже работают. На второй ГРЭС, помимо уже действующего турбогенератора, заканчи-вается монтаж второго. Шуск второго турбогенератора — дело ближайших дней. К октябрьскому празднику вводится в действи первая очередь теплоэлектроцентраля.
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2026-02-07 16:14:35 UTC

Since clickbait about ‘damaged #Ukraine nuclear power plants’ is already flying around, I will post today’s announcement from “Ukrenergo”.
Background: a #nuclear power plant produces electricity that is fed into the grid. When Russians destroy parts of this grid, it could no longer receive this electricity, so the operators of Ukrainian nuclear power plants manually and in controlled manner reduce their power output so as not to produce electricity that had nowhere to go. And that’s it.
Ukrainian nuclear power plants are the only ones in the country that are fully operational, and once the grid is repaired, the operators will restore them to full power.
The original communication:
During the night and in the morning, the enemy carried out another massive attack on Ukraine’s power grid, the second since the beginning of the year. Energy facilities in eight regions were hit by Russian missiles and drones. Power plants and substations of the electricity transmission and distribution systems were attacked. As a result of missile strikes on key high-voltage substations that supplied power to nuclear power units, all nuclear power plants in the controlled territory were forced to reduce their output.
Source: https://t.me/Ukrenergo/4635 (in Ukrainian)

2026-02-07 14:04:55 UTC

The bipolarity of Russian propaganda at master level – a few years ago, they referred to Ukraine as ‘America’s puppet’, ‘Lenin’s bastard’ and ‘country 404’. Now, on state television, #Russia experts are shouting that ‘Ukraine cannot be controlled’ and ‘we ourselves have cast it in the role of a clown, we have underestimated Zelensky for years’. Then they turn into even more surrealist narrative in which Ukraine and Zelensky are now some kind of Illuminati, ruling the whole world from the back seat. The guy literally says that ‘Ursula sits behind Zelensky and writes down his thoughts in a notebook’😂 English & Polish subtitles, Russian audio.
https://video.echelon.pl/w/uYeVt2Jthtrc2uCRLsPhxt

2026-02-06 21:01:51 UTC

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@nprofile…rt4c But there’s English subtitles - can’t you see them? You just need to watch it on the original PeerTube viewer (=click the link to video.echelon.pl) because subtitles aren’t rendered on Fediverse correctly.

2026-02-06 20:27:26 UTC

Some interesting background information about #Russia #GRU general Alexeev who was today shot in Moscow - audio RU, subtitles EN & PL. He seems to have had enough enemies inside and outside of Russia that there’s now a whole competition on who could have shot him…
https://video.echelon.pl/w/uhFoNax1e8ZcbEnrAjNux5

2026-02-06 19:57:04 UTC

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@nprofile…du6u
What do you think “establishing the fact of car theft” is really necessary for? Either the car is listed as stolen, or not. What does Russian police want to know - what tools it was stolen with? Of course, this is bullshit excuse for legalising registration of stolen cars, nothing else.

2026-02-06 19:43:06 UTC

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@nprofile…l7em
Oh, those guys are on board with Russian organised crime long ago except they don’t need any scrap metal - they do it over cryptocurrencies.

2026-02-06 19:28:48 UTC

#Russia is introducing regulation that will allow registration of vehicles registered as stolen in “unfriendly countries” even if they are listed as such in #Interpol database. Russian authorities present it as a “justified retaliation” to European countries refusing to cooperate through Interpol on Russia’s criminal requests - of course, they don’t mention that their requests are usually related to prosecution of opposition, anti-war activists or enforcement of Russian censorship laws - and obviously denied. In revenge Russia will allow registration of stolen cars. Russian auto trading websites generally support the idea but at the same time they warn their owners better don’t try to drive anywhere outside of Russia or Belarus.
Source: https://ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/05/vrossii-razreshat-gosregistratsiyu-mashin-ugnannih-vnedruzhestvennih-stranah-a186532 (in Russia)

2026-02-06 19:21:28 UTC

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Of course, Corbyn had zero problems when Chomsky denied Assad war crimes in Syria and justified Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine… 🤮

2026-02-06 19:20:45 UTC

Noam #Chomsky cancel culture continues 😂
Jeremy #Corbyn “Peace and Justice Project” has just deleted mentions of Noam Chomsky from its website.
Good old tradition, comrades…
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2026-02-06 10:05:44 UTC

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@nprofile…x0ca
Could be many overlapping factors, including weather - here’s what Playfra has just posted on Konstantinivka:
Kostyantynivka. Ukrainian logistics continue worsening day by day. Russian drone pressure is extremely high, and there are shortages of supplies in the city. Everything in the city is destroyed by now, and Russian eyes can monitor it effectively, which is why bad weather gives relief to Ukrainians, too. Prognoses for the defense of the city in the future aren’t encouraging.
Whether that’s pre-Starlink or post-Starlink (unlikely) observation we will only probably see in a few weeks…
@nprofile…7040

2026-02-06 09:10:31 UTC

#Russia military blogger posted an ironic comment on the #Starlink woes of his colleagues: “The Second Army of the World is begging an American businessman to restore their communications”
As a reminder “Second Army of the World” was a popular self-denomination that Russia routinely boasted about before 2022. After, they somehow stopped using it 😉
#Playfra OSINT channel meanwhile posted some updates on the observed activity of Russian assaults:
After unregistered users were cut off from using the terminal, Russian attack intensity suddenly and sharply dropped, at least in the Ternuvate and Borova directions, and likely dropped in many other areas too, which I’m currently clarifying.
Kostyantynivka - yes. Russian attacks generally slowed down. The biggest difference is noticeable with attacks coming from the Chasiv Yar side, but a slowing down is also noticed in the other parts of the direction.
An #Ukraine military engineer posted his account on front-line comms before and after Starlink - this applies to both sides equally, except Russians no longer have Starlink:
Once, they laid 3 kilometers of field cable for us across the field to ensure communication between the gun and the drone; one such time, the guy pulling the field cable arrived only after the shooting had ended (we’d adjusted by coordinates, no time to wait), and he told us that the field he’d been dragging it through was a bit mined.
In the conditions of modern warfare, laying wired communication and maintaining it in proper condition in frontline zones is extremely difficult, even when there’s no shelling—cables get gnawed by mice, worn through by wind, torn up by wild boars, twists oxidize, and so on.
So the alternative is Wi-Fi networks, but they’re limited too: building a bridge requires radio horizon, where it’s absent, you need to set up intermediate nodes, each node needs power and maintenance.
On top of that, the bandwidth of such a network isn’t all that high, and it drops with each node, plus if the main line breaks, the whole branch goes down, and an entire section of the front might be left without comms.
In the era of Starlinks, these networks were built for redundancy, but they themselves had to be backed up via Starlink or by connecting to local providers’ communication networks.
It works, but it’s heavily limited, and laying a dozen streams over such a network to HQ is quite challenging. That’s why Starlink gives such an advantage.
Russian channel, quoted by Playfra:
“After the blocking of Starlink, our soldiers on the frontline urgently need our help to launch attacks and repel enemy attacks. Due to the blocking of Starlink terminals, the command and control of troops has become difficult on almost all fronts. Soldiers are writing to us and asking for help with equipment - radio bridges and radio stations.”
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2026-02-06 00:40:35 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
Someone’s right to flee presumes someone’s obligation to host them. The extent of how unconditional this hosting should be is precisely what we’re arguing about.
@nprofile…k0a9

2026-02-06 00:28:34 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
Yes, I always read your articles, but they don’t give me the answers you see there - quite the opposite:
The fear is there, day and night, said Mamadou from Chad, who asked that DW not use his full name for fear of reprisals, recounting what happened to him earlier this month after he failed to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa with the help of human traffickers.
This is all very sad, but I will be blunt - why these people should have right to move to the tiny island of Lampedusa and why it should be the responsibility of Italian government to take care of them?
Because as you phrase it, common logic leads me to the conclusion that maybe EU should just start regular unlimited ferry routes from all North Africa ports to taxi anyone willing right to any EU country of their choice? And why limit them to North Africa, there are wars going on in all parts of Africa, Asia and Central America, as mentioned in your previous article.
@nprofile…k0a9

2026-02-05 23:53:00 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
Clearly, they don’t seem to be any obvious to you if you can’t word them clearly. Or your definition of “obvious” is based on assumptions that seem to be obvious in your bubble, but aren’t in mine.
@nprofile…k0a9

2026-02-05 23:52:06 UTC

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@nprofile…3jlm
Of course I wouldn’t because this kind of compassionate exemption from legal liability is also enshrined in European values. The “values” I’m talking about is a combination of high-level documents such as Fundamental Rights Charter being part of Lisbon Treaty and Constitutions of individual Member States, on which actual low-level laws and court interpretations are based.
Based on the combination of all these elements, someone who stole bread because they were hungry would be obviously exempted from legal prosecution and rather referred to social services.
At the same time an ardent supporter of a female genital mutilation on religious or traditional grounds should be probably not allowed to come into Europe in the first place, because it’s very likely they won’t stop doing that - quite the opposite, they will use legal loopholes like taking their underage female relatives out of EU to conduct the operation anyway.

2026-02-05 23:31:37 UTC

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@nprofile…x0ca
Well, that’s precisely the core of the “horseshoe theory” which claims that far right and far left aren’t really on the opposite end of the spectrum, but actually quite close to each other:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
@nprofile…k0a9 @nprofile…eazw

2026-02-05 23:30:35 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
Okay, so we return to the one of the most prevalent left-wing tactics I documented in the very beginning of the thread - “let’s no talk about it”. As an easy escape, you can also always call me a “fascist” or something.
And yes, I did my homework and a lot of research into the human trafficking routes going both through Mediterranean and Belarus, which is precisely why I presented the map I presented because it shows the scale of the manipulation by people who claim these routes are sailed in small boats across the whole width of the Sea.
@nprofile…k0a9

2026-02-05 23:25:53 UTC

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@nprofile…3jlm
Yes, all citizens born in a country are bound by its laws from birth, including constitution and any other laws. This includes both rights and duties, such as the duty to pay taxes or defend your country, for example.
And your comparison is entirely wrong in this context, because I very much support legitimate migration. Specifically because it allows initial screening and background checks. In the same way I don’t want Russian “war veterans” or any Putin supporters migrating to EU, just as I don’t want supporters of strict Islamic tribal traditions likefFemale genital mutilation or Hindu caste system (with the concept of “untouchables”) etc because that guarantees refusal of the core European values and assimilation.
You simply can’t built a tolerant society by inviting people who reject the whole idea of tolerance. I can’t understand why most left-wing people fully embrace this idea when it comes to native extremists, as nicely worded by Popper’s paradox of tolerance, but they immediately reject it when it comes to foreign extremists?

2026-02-05 18:28:13 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
This from the report piece is critical:
In 2024, at least 103 human remains were found on North African shores not linked to any known shipwreck, indicating likely invisible shipwrecks.
Because it’s consistent with this map of Mediterranean human trafficking routes which are 100% built on the assumption that the small boats only sail 40 nautical miles (60 km) from the coast - out of minimum 300 km needed for the actual crossing to closest EU territory.
And the expectation is that then, just outside of the territorial waters of Tunisia, they should be picked up by the “rescue ships” who should taxi them the remaining part of the route, pretending it was a “sea rescue”.
If they don’t make the 60 km or they are not picked up, they do sink and their remains are washed out on the closest shore which is the same Tunisian shore where they started from. All this happens hundreds of kilometers from European continent, which is then cynically blamed on “fortress Europe”.
Once again, this has nothing to do with “refugees” because there’s no war going on in Tunisia or Morocco. This is 100% commercial human trafficking, in which unfortunately “rescue boats” serve as a convenient taxi service who cynically deliver their customers to Malta or Lampedusa, dumping them on tiny islands only because they’re formally EU territory.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/75518991602ffaa6b8849173bbdf1312e16f71b25a7afbf6787a9c8369224893.png?name=ZABc6JggfgxuSA.png

2026-02-05 18:28:13 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
This from the report piece is critical:
In 2024, at least 103 human remains were found on North African shores not linked to any known shipwreck, indicating likely invisible shipwrecks.
Because it’s consistent with this map of Mediterranean human trafficking routes which are 100% built on the assumption that the small boats only sail 40 nautical miles (60 km) from the coast - out of minimum 300 km needed for the actual crossing to closest EU territory.
And the expectation is that then, just outside of the territorial waters of Tunisia, they should be picked up by the “rescue ships” who should taxi them the remaining part of the route, pretending it was a “sea rescue”.
If they don’t make the 60 km or they are not picked up, they do sink and their remains are washed out on the closest shore which is the same Tunisian shore where they started from.
Once again, this has nothing to do with “refugees” because there’s no war going on in Tunisia or Morocco. This is 100% commercial human trafficking, in which unfortunately “rescue boats” serve as a convenient taxi service who cynically deliver their customers to Malta or Lampedusa, dumping them on tiny islands only because they’re formally EU territory.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/75518991602ffaa6b8849173bbdf1312e16f71b25a7afbf6787a9c8369224893.png?name=ZABc6JggfgxuSA.png

2026-02-05 18:11:00 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
You’re quoting data about deaths in Africa, Middle East and… Central America (!) claiming this is EU border… and you want me to treat you seriously?
2024 was also the deadliest year for migrants in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America. 
The death toll in 2024 includes at least 773 females, 3,084 males, and 480 children who died on migration routes worldwide. Compared to 2023, these figures represent a decrease in information on the age and sex of missing migrants in 2024, indicating that fewer people may be identified.
@nprofile…eazw @nprofile…ze5h

2026-02-05 17:27:37 UTC

🇵🇱 Maria Wienikowska level hard - wizytuje Królewiec, stoi na rosyjskiej łodzi podwodnej i mówi, że “jakby stąd rakiety wyleciały to w Warszawie są po dwóch-trzech minuatach” a te brednie puszcza w eter… Kanał Zero.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/461527740a9b2c628c1ae31a48a13abe4516d94c5f1d5b7645baad570ac0114c.png?name=maJKfN3o8fyzfA.png

2026-02-05 16:36:14 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
And the latter is happening - German police is happily returning people to Polish border if they suspect they came from Belarus.
This is precisely why Denmark active immigration policy is so interesting - they post paid advertisements in the Arabic media explaining how the process works to counter the advertisements of human traffickers who promise “easy trip to the EU countries where you get social benefits for free and don’t need to work”.
Unfortunately, Merkel’s brainless 2015 Wir schaffen das largely sabotaged this effort and created the wave of uncontrolled human trafficking into EU, as many other decisions she made, including Nord Stream 2.
@nprofile…k0a9 @nprofile…eazw

2026-02-05 16:28:32 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
Very good point - among these destination countries listed do you see any country that, I don’t know, kind of doesn’t match geographically?
@nprofile…eazw

2026-02-05 16:27:16 UTC

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@nprofile…j7y7
Because they were fleeing… from USSR, which happened to have a border with Iran. Also, events from 1939-1945 do not necessarily explain or justify events from 2026.
@nprofile…k0a9 @nprofile…eazw

2026-02-05 15:17:44 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
As explained in the other post, I don’t consider the right to asylum to work like in a holiday office - I’m from Syria and I want asylum in France or Germany, depending on where you get more social benefits without taking any jobs. Sorry, this is not even close to any refugee or asylum situation in any way and Merkel’s Wir schaffen das was a huge mistake and great favour for AfD. If you’re from Syria, you seek asylum in Turkey, Jordan or all the other Arabic countries that have great wealth and are close culturally.
You might also start wondering why the migrants in Poland - mostly Ukrainians - are 80% employed and migrants in Germany are ~25% employed and instead live on state benefits, and how that impacts AfD ratings.
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2026-02-05 15:13:36 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
“taking great risks (deadliest border of the world, would you take the risk just for fun?”
“Deadliest border” - that is really funny 😂
I have personally seen the border of Russia and Belarus from both sides and I guarantee you that it’s much more deadly if you tried to cross it into Russia/Belarus than into EU. You would be simply shot on spot or arrested if lucky.
The customers of the FSB/KGB human trafficking business crossing into EU get guides, fence cutting equipment, camping equipment and even training on how to attack EU border guards. Yet, the only victims were a few people who got lost in the forest and died of hypothermia… and one Polish border guard who was stabbed to death by one of the migrants previously trained by KGB.
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2026-02-05 15:08:54 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
“I just advise for caution because this discussion is a minefield.”
Yes, I have noticed this - and therefore among left-wing supporters the most preferred strategy for that “caution” directly translates “let’s not talk about it”.
One reason being that when you actually start discussing it in these circles, even in the most cautious, balanced, respectful and fact-based way you’ve got 100% of being called “fascist, Nazi, ACAB and right-wing supporter” within the first 24 hours of the debate. It does require some personal courage to counter this nonsense, but it also requires some courage from your peers to support you rather than look away.
That’s precisely why I wrote in the beginning that it’s the left-wing people who are directly responsible for the rise of AfD and the likes because in response to the fanatics in their own circles they chose self-censorship rather than open debate.
And that’s precisely why I quoted Mette Frederiksen words as something truly refreshing on this side of the political spectrum, which I myself also lean towards.
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2026-02-05 12:57:16 UTC

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@nprofile…k0a9
“And there is a word for treating the population differently by law”
Of course the “population” should be treated differently by law - when you’re citizen you have different rights than when you’re not. That’s the whole point of the idea of citizenship and state borders. That’s precisely why I believe anyone considering migration to another country should do it using the legal path.
The only exception is legitimate asylum seekers and by legitimate I don’t mean people who fly from Syria on tourist visa and a commercial flight to Belarus and then try to force their way to EU through border fence on Polish border, or use small boats to cross the English Channel or Mediterranean Sea.
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2026-02-05 12:00:09 UTC

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@nprofile…eazw I fully agree here and that’s 100% compliant with my views.
One important disclaimer: I don’t consider someone flying on a tourist visa and commercial flight to Minsk and then trying to force their way through the border fence as “asylum seeker” but I guess this isn’t very controversial view either.

2026-02-05 11:47:27 UTC

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@nprofile…ercc
I’ve explained it here:
https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/7fe6bb2f-17a3-4709-9bf6-475df61d89bf

2026-02-05 11:46:53 UTC

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@nprofile…cz3j Yes, that’s euphemism level master 😂

2026-02-05 11:46:37 UTC

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@nprofile…cz3j It wasn’t just like behind the DJI drones ;)

2026-02-05 10:32:23 UTC

#Russia Lavrov complaining that “following the events in Venezuela, our companies are being openly forced out of Venezuela” 👍
https://tass.com/politics/2082049

2026-02-05 10:18:58 UTC

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@nprofile…z8su The industrial mesh they’re using only works if they have a whole fleet in the air to relay the messages, and they need enough number at right distances for that to work. This is probably why they started experimenting with Starlink for deep strikes, which apparently had resulted in the current Starlink blockade.

2026-02-05 10:06:22 UTC

#Denmark social-democratic prime minister Mette Frederiksen recently made a statement that caused stir in some left-wing circles:
“To those who have come here and commit crimes: you shouldn’t be here. We don’t want your reckless driving or your culture of dominance. You’re destroying the world’s most beautiful country.”
There’s nothing “right-wing” or “fascist” in this statement. If you believe in equality of all citizens, rule of law and human rights which are fundamental set of left-wing values you can’t support someone who rejects the very idea of human rights, believes in fundamental inequality on gender or tribal grounds or that homosexuality should be punished by hanging only because “they come from another culture” and “they will change over time”.
It’s quite the opposite, they won’t. If you don’t clearly signal rejection of these archaic values straight away, what happens it the archaic and oppressive culture is reinforced and gradually takes over. In short, you can’t bash fundamentalist Christians for patriarchy and oppression of women or LGBT, but at the same time pretend fundamentalist Muslim don’t share the very same archaic values.
And the largest problem with any illegal immigration is that people who come to your country this way have zero formal obligation to share your country’s values or laws and you can’t really expect them to do so… because they arrived illegally.
And I personally believe that those left-wing circles who in some bizarre logic adopted this cultural laissez-faire approach where all cultures are somehow “equalt” even if they categorically openly reject any equality are largely responsible for the current rise of right-wing parties like AfD in Germany, MAGA in the US, National Front in France, Reform in the UK and “Konfederacja” in Poland.
So what Frederiksen said is very refreshing as it signals a very clear return to simple universal moral values on which the European society was built and rejection of this weird double-morality where the most oppressive cultures are treated somehow preferentially simply because they come from oppressive countries.

2026-02-05 08:54:55 UTC

#Russia #Gubarev posted probably the most detailed description of the #Starlink shutdown for Russian troops on the front line:
Our comrades-in-arms on the front line report that the StarLink terminals have gone dark.
Now we will be at a disadvantage in terms of decision-making speed and situational awareness. This is called technological backwardness.
If the internet on Gazprom’s satellite dishes is working poorly at key communication nodes and command posts, then UAVs, electronic reconnaissance/electronic warfare, firepower and infantry positions are now without internet. This means that there will be no broadcasts, no battlefield imagery, etc.
Now, no matter how ingenious the decisions made by local commanders may be, we will simply lose in terms of the speed of decision-making and implementation on the battlefield.
It’s like putting Schumacher behind the wheel of a Lada and an ordinary driver behind the wheel of a Ferrari. Schumacher will lose the race in any case, because the technological base is different, no matter what.
No alternative domestic systems for operational data exchange have been created.
Source: https://t.me/pgubarev/1512 (in Russian)
Context of the “no alternatives” that he’s talking about:
https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/7fe6bb2f-17a3-4709-9bf6-475df61d89bf

2026-02-05 08:12:51 UTC

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@nprofile…0pc0
Oh, in Poland we have plenty of this thinking, which even has its own name Dulszczyzna derived from the name of a main figure of a drama that ridiculed this attitude.[^1] But I would say it all boils down to the common tribal morality - “he’s a paedophile but our paedophile so he deserves a powerful defense”. Chomsky had, as many intellectuals, an obsessive fixation on vilifying all Western, which in his tribal morality meant that he had to support “the opponents”, regardless how terrible they were. Many people I see today also follow this thinking in the form of “whataboutism”, “both sides are wrong” etc. But eventually I would attribute all this to gradual fall of moral universalism globally and return to tribal moralities.
[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morality_of_Mrs._Dulska

2026-02-05 07:27:09 UTC

Okay, if even Aaron Mate drops his support for #Chomsky then it signals that the “world’s brightest intellectual” became a friend so toxic that even scumbags who built their whole career on systematic denial of #Assad war crimes in #Syria like Mate consider him a liability. Both Mate and Chomsky never missed any opportunity to deny and justify (in that order) any possible war crime conducted by Russia or other regimes as long as they were declared anti-Western attitude. Chomsky started early, by fiercely denying Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia in 1970’s.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/a4564e6adc812f784152d33e15da1acb2d6a874f51c89c7ec59adac3f260a0fa.file?name=C6HBpw0pOxPqXg.file
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/17538248183533b90c73ece310525ade40fb8b81b2d1f19d2c5ffd255a0d87ba.file?name=kVjr5ahbs3LtTg.file

2026-02-05 07:19:13 UTC

#Russia military channels moaning that their #Starlink terminals used on the occupied territories of #Ukraine stop working en masse, indicating that the whitelist enforcement discussed between Ukraine MOD and Starlink technical lead only last weeks started to be implemented. One Russian milblogger complained a few days ago that if this happens, Russian tank crews will be “returned to last century” in terms of communications and situational awareness.
https://akkoma-media.obj.krvtz.net/akkoma-media/ca9689f9dac6f15da3a9cfeea5cfe5d59776b6074edd1cbaed8c74d438dbede7.file?name=JNWfAX9VpnPfNg.file

2026-02-04 14:19:58 UTC

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@nprofile…wj5a
I definitely wouldn’t let them anywhere close to NHS, here I agree 100%…