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For the second month now, #Putin has been ignoring the #US proposal for a #ceasefire. #Russia is confident it can continue killing #Ukrainians without any punishment in return.

Russia wants #war. Its rapidly growing #military machine can only be stopped by force — or by cutting off the money that fuels it.

If the current approach doesn’t change, #Russian missiles won’t just be falling on cities in #Ukraine.

📷: a rescuer in #Sumy where a Russian missile killed 32 people and injured 84 more

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@randahl
Those peeps are still deluded into thinking aggressive invasions are resolved with colonial-era lines drawn on a map. The #TrumpAdministration is a cabal of morons, bootlickers and narcissists which the US voters unleashed on the world.

The world can do no better than dump US Debt Bonds, sell USD short and pour as much financial and military aid into Ukraine as it can absorb to kill the #Orcs and get the #Russian out of its territory. Then start the ICC processes to put as many Putinists into confinement for the rest of their miserable lives. That’s how you fix this. There is no other way.

#RepublicOfGeorgia: First year of #Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how #autocracies are replicating #Russian model − and speeding up the time frame

Published: March 28, 2025 6:25am EDT

"#Autocracy is on the move worldwide and becoming more resilient.

"One of the driving forces behind this phenomenon is something scholars call '#AuthoritarianLearning,' a process by which autocratic leaders study each other and adapt tactics based on what appears to work, and how to proceed when they encounter #resistance.

"Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a '#ForeignAgent' law in May 2024 – legislation that came straight from #VladimirPutin’s playbook.

"Sold to the public as increasing #transparency, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s #opposition and arrest #dissidents with impunity.

"As researchers examining the structure and effects of autocratic regimes, we view Georgia’s first year of its foreign agent law as an example of how politicians are not only learning the tactics of Russian authoritarianism but improving on them in a shorter time frame."

Read more:
theconversation.com/first-year

#RightToProtest #AntiProtestLaws
#GeorgianLaws #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #HumanRights #RepublicOfGeorgia #GeorgianDream #ProtestSponsors #ExpandedPolicePowers #PoliceState #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Autocracy

The ConversationFirst year of Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how autocracies are replicating Russian model − and speeding up the time frameGeorgian legislation directly mirrors a contentious law Russia passed more than a decade ago to stifle dissent and quash the power of civil society groups.

Imagine you are a #Ukrainian defender on the front line and you hear about the outcome of the latest meeting of the “#coalition of the willing”.

For three years, you’ve been holding off #russian drones and meat waves, fearing for the safety of your loved ones back home, sheltering from missile strikes at night.

But #Europeans are planning to plan a meeting at with a meeting will be scheduled to determine when a meeting can be planned..

#Russian cable attacks ‘threaten to cut off world’s #internet
#Telecoms companies including Vodafone, O2 owner Telefonica and Orange have written to UK, EU and #NATO officials warning that a rise in #sabotage incidents was putting critical services at risk.
At least 11 subsea cables have been damaged in the #BalticSea since October 2023 and similar outages have been reported in the #NorthSea.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/

The Telegraph · Russian cable attacks ‘threaten to cut off world’s internet’By James Warrington