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When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

In today’s Wumao Soup, I’ll introduce how and where the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) online propaganda and influence operations work. Due to China’s massive population and advances in AI, CCP-aligned online content has become increasingly visible.

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Or from Belgorod!

Even the russian asset knows this

The US would need 5 years of the income from tariffs at this new level to equal the $2 trillion wiped out in today's stock market loss.

US only has $4.1 trillion in annual imports.

EUR is up 2,2% against US. Largest gain in 10 years

Whiskey Pete Hegseth has a Russian burner phone which he uses to communicate in secret with someone. 👊🇺🇸🔥

3 years ago on this day, Russia bombed the Mariupol Drama Theater, which at that time served as a bomb shelter for civilians and had a huge sign "CHILDREN" written in russian in front of it.

Estimated casualties are over 300 people.

Propaganda for Export An investigation by IStories

Russia ramps up its "paid influencers" operations targeting western audiences, taking extreme measures to hide that YouTubers with huge subscriber bases are actually earning most of their income from Russian government, not views.

Donald Tusk has a point here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

Ukraine joined the US-led Coalition and sent over 5,000 soldiers to help the United States after 9/11.
18 Ukrainian soldiers died.

Russia paid the Taliban terrorists a $200,000 bounty for each American soldier they killed.

Spy agencies around the world may limit their information-sharing with the U.S. due to its reconciliatory approach to Russia - NBC News

Intelligence agencies among American allies - including Five Eyes Spy Alliance (US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada), Israel, and Saudi Arabia -

The Real Reason Russia Invaded Ukraine (Hint: Not NATO Expansion) Who’s truly responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? It wasn’t NATO expansion—it was Western weakness and the failure to deter Russian aggression.

www.19fortyfive.com/2025/03/the-...

@bsky.app - why cannot I just save such lists into my "feeds" and "lists" so that I can browse the topic and keep my general follows separately from different feeds.

We live free here in #Estonia 🇪🇪 thanks to brave men and women who stood up to tyranny and declared all peoples have the right to self-determination.

That’s why on Estonian Independence Day, as every day, we #StandWithUkraine.

Got a moment? Let us tell you a story. 🧵

❗️"Ukrainians have survived the Holodomor, Stalin, Chernobyl, Putin. Do you really think Trump can break the Ukrainian people?" — Canadian House of Commons Member Charlie Angus

"The leaders of Europe's ~450 million population are begging the US, with a population of ~335 million, to protect it from 144 million Russians, who have been repulsed by 30 million Ukrainians for three years, — Ukrainian People's Deputy Bezugla" ~Ukrainian Witness

From Z to X: How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk “Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according to Steve Bannon. But the the seeds for this tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago

🔴 From Z to X: How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk

My background piece about Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring, and how I was invited to a ‘digital barbecue’ at the Russian Embassy

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/h...

A potentially regime-ending showdown is brewing in the Russian government today as the Russian Duma is trying to stop the Central Bank's proposal to confiscate all funds from every citizen's bank account of any balance over 1.4 million rubles ($13,300).

Popcorn.

As clear as it gets

Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’ <em>Eagle S</em>, the Russia-linked tanker suspected of damaging an underwater electricity cable on Christmas Day, was kitted out with special transmitting and receiving devices that were used to monitor naval activity, according to a source with direct involvement in the ship, which has since been detained by Finnish police

www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Ru...

Musk seems focused on destabilizing Europe while strengthening russia and china. He will support anti-EU candidates as much as possible. Germany should be prepared, as he has already started influencing elections by openly backing the pro-russian and pro-chinese far-right AfD

A neurologist with 2 APOE4 copies tells us about his experience with #Alzheimers disease
washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

So migrants must speak russian in russia. But russians living abroad must also speak russian because? Anti-imperialism and WW2?

Kaart viimastest arengutest Süürias.

Elengfit

Fight corruption, zero tolerance. Make everything open to reasonable levels. More local resources to dig & prepare solid defence lines + any other means of support, local cars and other resources nationalised (or taken as a loan) and sent to front lines etc. Moral should die last.

1/17 The wannabe strategic thinker who often backs the wrong horse: Putin has created global chaos and is now too weak to manage the consequences, relegating russia to a pitiful pawn that china uses to cause more chaos and confront the West

If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Taiwan’s former president urges US to prioritize aiding Ukraine over Taiwan, Politico reports "A Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression," former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said during the Halifax International Security Forum on Nov. 23.

⚡️Taiwan’s former president urges US to prioritize aiding Ukraine over Taiwan, Politico reports.

"A Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression," former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said during the Halifax International Security Forum.