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Why Should We Care About China’s Human Rights Abuses? | with Luke de Pulford Épisode de l’émission · Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific? · 16/05/2025 · 51 min

Fascinating episode! An absolute MUST-LISTEN!!
🙏 @indopacpodcast.bsky.social! Where it is shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that China, while it is more discreet, is just as aggressive as Russia on the international front and just as disregarding of human rights.
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Crimea is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.

That’s a fact.

Russia’s “referenda” in these territories were shams, held at gunpoint. That’s also a fact.

Facts matter.

Homunculus Loxodontus

All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this

Inside the new plan to seize Russia’s shadow fleet European countries are pushing for new powers to squeeze Moscow’s shadow fleet after a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea.

🚢 Europe is planning to seize Russia’s shadow fleet after a spate of sabotage incidents. Talks are underway to use legal, environmental & piracy laws to crack down on tankers dodging sanctions & fueling Moscow’s war. Challenges remain, momentum growing.

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

French TV channel France 2: Orbán has been found to own an undeclared luxurious Austro-Hungarian-era palace worth €45 million.
Trying to emulate his idol - Putin?

Familiar

A Ukrainian drone takes down 3 Russian Mavic drones using a shotgun, then fires at a Russian combatant and finishes them off with a grenade.

Russia is running GPS-jamming machines in St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, affecting aviation and sometimes shipping around Baltic Sea.

Some of my most appreciated work has been localizing these machines in time, space and volume.

Here's a rundown of previous geo-work, reversed chronological order.

A major offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk operational zone is not a rumour; fighting is underway, and the Ukrainians have achieved some successes. Let’s wish the warriors good luck.

A platoon of 14 Russian soldiers surrendered to just two Ukrainian paratroopers from the 79th Air Assault Brigade.

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events Drawing the top stories around the globe.

🎨 Every week, the world’s political cartoonists draw their take on the stories that have people talking around the globe.⁠

And every week, we round up the best ones 👇

What a POS

Călin Georgescu's shock win in the first round of Romania's presidential election led to allegations of an orchestrated TikTok campaign to rig the race.

The situation is becoming a serious test of the EU's new social media regulation rules.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/roma...

NATO’s Rutte wants a return to Cold War-level military spending Governments need to make more orders and defense contractors have to take more risks, NATO’s secretary-general said.

Alliance countries need to return to Cold War-era defense budgets to fend off Russia, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said today.

Biden has approved a new aid package for Ukraine.

It will include additional air defense systems, artillery, drones, and armored vehicles.

Excellent piece, as always

The Sudden Collapse of Bashar al-Assad The fall of the Russian- and Iranian-backed regime in Syria offers the possibility of change.

Gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Baltic countries sanction Georgian officials after violence against protestors New EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas says democratic backsliding in Georgia “will have direct consequences.”

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have imposed sanctions on Georgia’s ruling officials following the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tbilisi.

Russian hybrid attacks may lead to NATO invoking Article 5, says German intel chief Russia's extensive use of hybrid measures against western targets increases the risk that NATO may eventually consider invoking the alliance's Article 5 mutual defence clause, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service said.

Germany's intelligence chief warns that Russia's sabotage and hybrid warfare may push NATO to consider invoking Article 5, its mutual defense clause. He also highlighted the risk of direct military confrontation as Moscow ramps up its military potential.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Delighted.

❤️‍🩹 A baby girl was born in the shelter of a perinatal center in Lutsk during Russian attack on Ukraine this morning.

📷: Volyn Regional Medical Association for the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood

Gazprom shares are trading at an all-time low.

A person who invested $1,000 in Gazprom shares in 2008 would only get $11 today! Eleven dollars!

russia is collapsing.

UK Sends Kyiv More Storm Shadows as Starmer Pledges Support The UK government recently supplied Ukraine with dozens more Storm Shadow cruise missiles, according to people familiar with the matter, a first under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has pledged cont...

🇬🇧 The UK secretly delivered dozens of Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine weeks ago when Ukraine started running low on the long-rnage missile, reports Bloomberg. These shipments were not publicly announced.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"We were once kids, too!"

No one should endure the horrors of war, say the fighters… neither the children who attend school despite missile attacks nor the adults who work 24/7 for Ukraine or risk their lives defending the country.

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Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko is asking the world to have some courage and reject Russia's empty nuclear scare tactics. Russia can only win if we let them win.

Angela Merkel sold 40 million people to a slaughter house for cheap russian gas stolen from indigenous lands russia colonized. that’s the only way she deserves to go down in history. period.

Total Monopolization as a National Strategy: Why Does Russia Destroy the Industrial Donbas The Donbas, which has been holding back Russia's assault for over 10 years, is one of the richest regions in Europe in terms of mineral deposits. However, once…

The Donbas, rich in mineral deposits and once industrially thriving, has spent over a decade resisting Russia's assault.

Now, its cities are becoming ghost towns, unlivable under the strain of war.

What a pig

World War III has officially begun, Ukraine’s ex-top general says The former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army has a grim outlook on the state of the war.

Ukraine's former military Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said that the direct involvement of Russia's autocratic allies in its war on Ukraine means that World War III has started.

A Russian kamikaze drone fails to reach a Ukrainian tank thanks to effective electronic warfare (EW) systems.