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“The moment accountability enters the picture, he backpedals and shifts blame onto the uniformed military. That’s precisely the kind of cowardice that professionals, people who live in a world where responsibility is inseparable from lethality, find contemptible.”

12. “The ‘kill everybody’ chest-thumping only works as long as he never has to own the moral and legal weight that actual soldiers carry,” an authority on military strategy and civil-military relations told me.

He went on:

13. Contempt.

Once it’s sunk in, there’s no going back.

Polish PM Donald Tusk asked for a closed parliamentary session Friday am to relay urgent info on national security
Media speculate it’s to do with crypto and Russians, possibly in the context of presidential campaign / far right funding

BBB grijpt naar drastisch plan: partij wil Eerste Kamer ontbinden vanwege golf afsplitsers en overstappers

𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑏𝑢𝑖; 𝑛𝑢 𝑧𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑘 𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑘𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑒

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Scoop: Louisiana's fish/wildlife agency is detaining people not guilty of any crimes & transferring them to ICE. It's one of 1000+ state + local agencies that started doing so this year.

ICE couldn't provide any info on people the wildlife agency has detained for them:
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Putin 'morally responsible' for 'unsurvivable' Novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess, inquiry finds An inquiry into Ms Sturgess' death in 2018 came after an attempt to poison a ex-Russian double agent living in Salisbury.

"Putin 'morally responsible' for 'unsurvivable' Novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess, inquiry finds. The poisoning of Dawn Sturgess by a Russian nerve agent in Salisbury in 2018 was 'unsurvivable from a very early stage." www.bbc.com/news/live/cr...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐲, 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

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"Wir dürfen die Ukraine und Wolodymyr nicht mit diesen Jungs alleinlassen" In einem Bericht des Nachrichtenmagazins "Spiegel" wird ausführlich aus einer Telefonschalte europäischer Staats- und Regierungschefs zitiert. Einige von ihnen sprechen dabei mit drastischen Worten üb...

"Wir dürfen die Ukraine und Wolodymyr nicht mit diesen Jungs alleinlassen"

We cannot leave Ukraine and Volomymyr alone with these guys

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Transcript from the EU‑Zelensky call: German Chancellor Merz warned Zelensky that US negotiators are “playing games.” French President Macron warned the U.S. might betray Ukraine on territorial issues. Finland’s Stubb and NATO’s Rutte joined in: “We can’t leave Ukraine alone with these guys.”

My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.

JUST IN: The NY Times lawsuit names names, saying the Pentagon's new press restrictions violate the First Amendment by forcing out journalists who ask adversarial questions and replacing them with avowed MAGA supporters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions

Het is stil rondom het besluit van het gerechtshof Den Haag om het verzoek van het OM toe te wijzen om voormalig ING-CEO Ralph Hamers niet verder te vervolgen in het kader van de witwasboete die de bank in 2018 kreeg. Zo zie je maar; bestuurders verantwoordelijk houden.., het gebeurt gewoon niet.

⚡️ WAR IN UKRAINE & RUSSIA — DEC 4, 2025 (1/2)

■ Casualties remain above the 7-day average despite a drop in engagements
■ Notable equipment losses — mostly drones, unarmored vehicles, and artillery
■ ...

📈 See dashboard for full data:
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⚡️ WAR IN UKRAINE & RUSSIA — DEC 4, 2025 (2/2)

...
■ 140 overnight attacks, including two Iskander-M; decent interception rate, 14 locations hit
■ Increased Russian MLRS strikes; the 30-day 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 strike ratio is at its highest level to date

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Bellingcat has pieced together a detailed view of a crisis that has left much of Mali in the dark. Learn how the attacks behind the fuel shortages brought daily life to a halt here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

❗️The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hold the northern part of Pokrovsk. The battle is ongoing, – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrskyi.

2/“In the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad areas, through active operations we are blocking the enemy’s attempts to accumulate assault infantry groups and advance around these settlements. Directly in the cities, our warriors continue to hold the designated districts.”

🇺🇦❗️The battle continues. Ukrainian units continue to hold the northern part of Pokrovsk, - Syrskyi

In the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad area, we are actively blocking the enemy's attempts to accumulate assault infantry groups and advance around these settlements.

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Leiderschap is een beetje een cliché-begrip, maar wat Hilversum nu laat zien is het tegendeel: paniekerig schrappen wat van waarde is (en kennelijk weerloos).
Juist deze tijd zou gebruikt moeten worden om:
-te bepalen wat dat in de kern is, publieke media
-de organisatie daarop in te richten.
No ego

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Schon zwei Bundesländer (Berlin, Bremen) wollen sich für ein AfD-Verbot im Bubdesrat einsetzen. In vielen weiteren wird das gerade diskutiert. Die Luft wird dünner für die Faschisten.

Weil die #Sachsen laut der #CDU immun sind gegen "Rechtsextremismus", lassen sie alle Neonazis aus Deutschland im Freistaat zu Juristen ausbilden, an ihren Gerichten. Und weil das in Sachsen so einfach ist, soll jetzt das Bundesverfassungsgericht entscheiden, was im Bundesland seit Jahren geht.

"Russians really scale and that's the biggest threat," Kate Bondar, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International told Kyiv Independent. Bondar noted that non-Russian drone purchasers looking to buy from Chinese manufacturing were stuck behind backlogs of 🇷🇺 orders extending to May 2026."

If democratic Europe has any survival instinct left, it will do for our defenders in 🇺🇦 what 🇨🇳 is doing for 🇷🇺 imperialism: use our manufacturing power to scale up for defending Ukraine & ourselves. Because right now I don't think 🇪🇺🇬🇧 defence will fare well when 🇷🇺 turns its Chinese drone army on us

Reminder of cost of Europe's 4-year-long dithering: that sclerotic 🇷🇺 army we could have easily defeated in 2022 has grown - with China's manufacturing might - into tech even sophisticated Ukrainian defenders struggle with. If 🇺🇦 falls, this tech will be turned on 🇪🇺🇬🇧 unmodernised defence. Tick tock.👇

Armutsforscher zum Reichtumsbericht: „Wer mehr erfahren will, greift besser zum ‚Manager Magazin‘“ Der am Mittwoch von der Regierung beschlossene Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht verschleiert die wahren Probleme, kritisiert Armutsforscher Christoph Butterwegge.

Die fünf reichsten Familien verfügen in Deutschland über ein Privatvermögen von 250 Milliarden Euro.
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Russia escalates pre-invasion-style messaging against Moldova and Baltic nations, ISW warns With talk of "racist" laws and "discrimination", Lavrov again revives the same playbook once used to justify attacks on Ukraine.

Lavrov’s claims that Moldova and the Baltics “discriminate” against Russians are straight from the Kremlin’s old invasion playbook.

ISW warns this could be part of a new Russian buildup targeting NATO countries.
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