Eerik N Kross

For high school kids across the civilized world, summer vacation means fun, trips to the beach and all night video game sessions.

For the kids of Kyiv, it means all night missile attacks, explosions, sleeping in shelters, and shattered lives.

But our kids are unbreakable.

YouTube video by Warthog Defense AWESOME STRIKE! UKRAINIAN DRONES HIT RUSSIAN ELECTRONIC WARFARE FACILITY IN CHUVASHIA REPUBLIC

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The Hungarian draft law on ‘transparency in public life’ must not be adopted, say PACE monitors Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Hungary, have made the follow...

The Hungarian draft law on "transparency in public life" must not be adopted, say PACE monitors @eeriknkross.bsky.social and George Papandreou.

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This is what 🇷🇺 peace looks like‼️🤬🤬🤬 Hitting residential areas with multiple shahed drones, injuring and killing civilians!

Europe may not hold the cards.

But Europe holds the eggs

Massive protests in Belgrade, Serbia call for the resignation of the pro-Kremlin president Vucic. #3E #EndImpunity #SerbiaProtests

AZOV 12th brigade needs support and help in Toretsk direction, support them if possible linktr.ee/1t1f

This needs no comment, as even the dudes who think Curtis Yarvin is a philosopher should be able to understand

and they thought that there was no way out, save only to suffer the pains which they had themselves inflicted, not in retaliation, but in wantonness and unjustly upon the people of small states, for no other single reason than because they were in alliance with the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)"

Xenophon writes:

"Now the Athenians, being thus besieged by land and by sea, knew not what to do, since they had neither ships nor allies nor provisions;

What happened to the Athenians and their realism is described in Xenophon's Hellenica (2.2.10). Having lost the war, Athens was forced to tear down its walls.

The latter passage is known as "the foundational statement of realism in international relations." It conveys the idea that smaller states have no real say in negotiations, as the strong will impose their will upon them as they see fit.

."..since you (people of Melos) know as well as we (Athenians) do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

In short - don't try to sweet-talk us into anything because we don't care about anything but our interests

"…and in return, we hope that you - instead of trying to influence us by claiming that you did not join the Lacedaemonians (Spartans), despite being their colonists, or that you have done no wrong to us (Athens) - will focus on what is feasible, keeping in mind the true interests of both sides."

"—or that we are now attacking you because of any wrong you have done us—and make a long speech that would not be believed."
(In short, we do not bother with moral arguments because we are strong.)

"For ourselves (i.e., the Athenians), we shall not trouble you (the people of Melos, an ally of Sparta) with specious pretenses—either by claiming that we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede (Persians);

The current attitude of the US administration toward small states has been compared to that of the Athenians, as described by Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War.

The famous passage by Thucydides (5.89) is as follows:

No spark left between Estonia and Russia. Estonian photographer Sergei Stepanov captured the moment of the last one during the final disconnection of our electric grid from Russia.

Why America Abandoning Europe Would Be a Strategic Mistake The United States is on the cusp of perhaps the most fundamental rethinking of its foreign policy since 1945. The inauguration of the second Trump administration has the potential to reset how future ...

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Ambassador Giorgi Badridze:

✔️A Russian oligarch succeeded in capturing the Georgian state

✔️Georgia is an important ally of the West

✔️Georgia: the key and the bridge to a strategically important region

✔️Helping Georgia to stay independent is vital for Euro-Atlantic security

‼️ Russian Railway December 2024 Loading Update Thread

The numbers look suspicious…

OSCE/ODIHR: Well, it’s not in our mandate to outright state that the elections were illegitimate, but we can provide an entire document proving just that, and hope everyone comes to that conclusion.
We did! Thank you!

#TerrorInGeorgia

Arrested on Criminal Charges: 30+
Administrative Arrest: 372
Administrative Detention: 62
Fined: 100+
Police forces held responsible: 0

Data via @rferl.org.web.brid.gy Georgian Service

En tiedä sopiiko tämän alustan kutyymiin, mutta todetaan se nyt täälläkin. Kiitos Mestari!

President Zelensky: we will never accept occupied territories as Russian.

Funeral of Tondi Military School cadets who died defending against the coup

THE 1924 RUSSIAN COUP ATTEMPT IN ESTONIA

Exactly today one hundred years ago, on December 1, 1924, russian garbage did what it always does, and attempted to overthrow the democratic government of young Republic of Estonia with a violent armed communist coup.

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Based 🇫🇷 affirmed Ukraine's right to strike deep into Russian territory using French missiles, as stated by based 🇫🇷 Foreign Minister.

He noted that Ukraine may launch missile strikes on 🇷🇺 territory for self-defense and does not rule out the possibility of deploying 🇫🇷 troops to the conflict zone.

Жительницу Красноярска обвинили в призывах к терроризму за комментарий на YouTube. Ей грозит до семи лет колонии Против жительницы Красноярска Елены Морозовой возбудили уголовное дело о призывах к терроризму через интернет, пишет «ОВД-Инфо» со ссылкой на ее близких

A resident of Krasnoyarsk has been charged with calling for terrorism for a comment on YouTube. She faces up to seven years in prison

Global Innovation Index 2024 is out. Estonia has broken into the top group of all countries. 16th in the World, the next European ex-communist country is the Czech Republic, number 30.
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