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I confronted the russian ambassador at Venice Biennale because no one else did. In the last 24 hours russia bombed city centres & a kindergarten. Dozens murdered in the streets. The russian pavilion here is filled with free champagne & art to whitewash their war crimes.

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1/ A thread about the class dynamics of air-conditioning in Europe. I believe attitudes toward air-conditioning are class markers in many European countries. Air-conditioning is seen as prototypically American, and that's important.

@IlkoKowalczuk Hi Ilko, sehr guter Brief aber der Briefkopf braucht eine Überarbeitung

Amazing news from the N Side of Everest….Sandy Irvine’s body has been found, 100Years since he was last seen!! @thealpineclub @RGS_IBG @ExplorersClub @EverestToday

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When it comes to Ukraine, Joe Biden made a lot of mistakes.  The most painful thing about that is that so many of those mistakes could have been easily avoided if Biden had people in his team who genuinely understood what Putin’s Russia was and how things worked with the Kremlin mafia.  Heaven knows, and we know it too, that the Biden administration, along with other Western leaders, spent way too much time in vain trying to talk Putin out of invading Ukraine. We all remember those endless, humiliating summits, diplomatic powwows, meetings, calls, and conversations behind closed doors that resulted in nothing in the winter of 2021-22— nothing but Putin and his cronies openly jesting at their frantic attempts and spitting at their faces.  The decision to invade and devour Ukraine had been made a long time ago. Putin’s TV propaganda within Russia was only using those pictures to send a message to the domestic audience: Look, the American president is now seeking Putin’s attention and is reasoning with Russia, but who is he in the face of the inevitable? (Yes, the galaxy brains who keep saying that Biden “never tried diplomacy with Russia” are either fucking utterly dumb, or extraordinarily shameless, or just never actually followed the developments at all). I think it would be honest and true to say that the U.S. administration in the days of February 2022 was ready to accept the option of Ukraine going down, establishing a national government in exile somewhere in Poland, and gradually coming to terms with “new territorial realities in Europe.”  They decided to go the easiest way and take as little action as possible, assume as little responsibility as possible, and make decisions as free from risk as possible. Moreover, the administration appeared to be very, very reluctant to change its course due to new circumstances and opportunities.  That was one of the Biden administration’s key mistakes regarding Ukraine, which, in a certain way, has affected Biden today’s electoral chances.   A very unexpected and catastrophic Russian defeat at Kyiv (which essentially spelled the failure of Putin’s “special military operation”) in 2022 should have destroyed a lot of long-ingrained illusions. And it shouldn’t have taken months of Ukrainian begging to start providing Ukraine with artillery to stand against Russian “walls of fire,” destroying everything on their way in Donbas. It shouldn’t have taken months of Ukrainian begging to provide Ukraine with a handful of HIMARS systems that effectively derailed Russian offensive campaigns in the summer of 2022 and precipitated the liberation of Kherson in November 2022. It shouldn’t have taken months and years of Ukrainian begging to provide Ukraine with PATRIOT missile defense systems, which not only did not lead to “World War III” but instead demonstrated the greatest results in the type’s entire operational history and set a number of milestones in defending the Ukrainian capital from Russian missiles and saving lives.  It shouldn’t have taken months and years of Ukrainian begging to give the green light to provide Ukraine with armored vehicles, particularly M2 Bradleys, which demonstrated extraordinary results in Ukrainian hands. The same goes with tanks, particularly a handful of M1 Abrams, which unblocked the scarce deliveries of Leopard tanks from European nations.  It shouldn’t have taken years of Ukrainian begging to get long-outdated ATACMS missiles that not only did not trigger “a major escalation” but effectively wiped out Russian military airfields and sophisticated air defense systems used against Ukraine. And, of course, it shouldn’t have taken years to finally admit the fact that the policy of not allowing Ukraine to use American weapons to strike Russia's military infrastructure in Russian territory is deeply absurd and ineffective; it only provides the aggressor with a safe haven for escalating its offensive operations and terror bombing campaigns in Ukraine and only encourages to move on unpunished.  This list can be continued for a long time. The problem is that way too much authority was given to people who graduated from the most elite universities and read all of Kissinger — but never had the experience of fighting back to street thugs and discouraging them from harassing someone with a good old punch in the face.  Amid endless “escalation management” and heeding Russia’s “nuclear threats,” way too much time was given to Putin to recover from the initial stress of the failure in Ukraine, to restructure production and economy, to adapt to sanctions, to find allies in Iran and North Korea, and reshape Russia into a totalitarian state obsessed with exterminating a neighboring country. This is what our military has had to deal with for more than a decade since Russia invaded Ukraine for the first time in 2014. Even in the final months before the resignation from the presidential race, the Biden administration was still placing way too much hope on trying to reason with Putin or trying to motivate Putin to get reasonable to strike a fair deal on Ukraine via the tactics of slow bites. So, after two years of war, Putin is still not ready to talk serious business and leave Ukraine alone? Okay, we let Ukraine use ATACMS, but only in Crimea and not against Russian territory.  Many months later, Putin is still defiant as always? Okay, let’s let Ukrainians strike targets in Russian territory, but only within 100 miles of the Ukrainian border and no ATACMS.  And this drags on, and on, and on. And failure to realize that the moment when Putin says “Okay, now I’m ready to leave Ukraine alone” would never come unless Putin is forced to stop and calm down was among Biden biggest mistakes.  Yet — even though so many mistakes were made, every Ukrainian should remember that we owe a lot to the old man.  Even though there have been a lot of incompetent Putin appeasers whispering things in his ear, without his faith and without his decisions — even though many of them were half-hearted, terribly belated, and questionable — there wouldn’t be the Ukraine as we know it now. Half of us would have been rotting in mass graves with Russian bullets in our foreheads and with our heads tied behind our backs. For this, we will always be thankful as we should.  But there were critical, terrible mistakes that prevented Joe Biden from having a large geopolitical victory right now.  I really, really hope that whoever replaces the old man in the Oval Office will be smart enough to draw conclusions.

Ich verabschiede mich heute aus Deutschland mit folgenden News der vergangenen Tage: - Shoa-Überlebende werden in Auschwitz von antisemitischen Protesten gestört. - in den Unis weltweit, auch in Deutschland und der Schweiz, werden Dinge wie „there is only one solution…“ gebrüllt. (We remember?) - in der Unibesetzung in Amsterdam werden Juden mit Holzbrettern angegriffen (Security steht völlig hilflos daneben). - in Athen sammelt sich ein aggressiver Mob vor einem Hotel, in dem Israelis eingecheckt haben, um sie anzugreifen (it’s called modern-day Pogrom). -ein israelisch-kanadischer Geschäftsmann wurde in Ägypten getötet. (jns.org/jewish-busines…) - und ein absolutes Highlight zum Schluss: mitten in Berlin bei einer Demo fordert jemand einen „neuen deutschen Führer, einen Krebsheiler, der dieses Land vom Zionismus befreit“. (Siehe Video via DJ Phonatic. Frage an @polizeiberlin, ob da Konsequenzen folgen?) Gleichzeitig werden in Israel jeden Tag junge Soldaten von Hamas und Hisbollah getötet, weil sie uns beschützen, während die deutschen Medien den Judenhass befeuern, in dem sie Hamas-Propaganda und Halbwahrheiten veröffentlichen. #judenhass #Antisemitism

(THREAD) This is a brief thread from a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer on what everyone—literally everyone—is missing about the 34 felonies Donald Trump committed to win the 2016 presidential election. This will change how you understand the 2016 election cycle. Please RETWEET.

.@TimothyDSnyder rips apart MTG‘s Russian 🇷🇺 narratives about Ukraine 🇺🇦 in a 🇺🇸congressional hearing.

Ich habe für den Freund eines Kriegsverbrechers nur noch Verachtung übrig und wundere mich über die milden Töne, die plötzlich in Deutschland ihm gegenüber wieder angeschlagen werden. Seine Ex-Frau Doris Schröder Köpf wünschte ihm, „dass sein Leben und seine politischen Leistungen eines Tages wieder stärker in Gänze betrachtet werden.“ Ich wünsche ihm, dass er einmal selbst in Charkiw erleben könnte, wie sein Freund Putin hemmungslos mordet. Dass er dieses Grauen einmal „in Gänze betrachtet“. Mein @bild Kommentar: 👇 m.bild.de/politik/inland…

In the Guanxi Cultural Revolution, official records show between 100,000 - 150,000 people were killed, by methods like live burial, drowning, boiling alive, and disemboweling. Local offices of the Communist party sponsored cannibalism. Public records show at least 137 people were eaten by Communist Party Members, though some scholars claim there are at least 421 named people who were eaten. This scene from Three Body Problem might've been based off the story of Wu Fushang. In 1968, "a geography instructor named Wu Shufang (吴树芳) was beaten to death by students at Wuxuan Middle School. Her body was carried to the flat stones of the Qian River where another teacher was forced at gunpoint to rip out the heart and liver. Back at the school the pupils barbecued and consumed the organs." Song Yongi, Chinese Historian working at Calstate LA, documents: "Independent researchers in Guangxi counted a total of 421 people who were eaten. There were reports of cannibalism across 27 counties in Guangxi; that's two-thirds of all the counties in Guangxi. There was one man who was said to be in the so-called fifth category, who was beaten to death where he stood. He had two kids, one of 11 and one of 14. The local officials and armed militia said that it was important to eradicate such people, and so they not only killed those two children: they ate them too. This took place in Pubei county, Guangxi, where 35 people were killed and eaten in total. Most of them were rich landowners and their families. There was one landowner called Liu Zhengjian whose entire family was wiped out. He had a 17-year-old daughter, Liu Xiulan, who was gang-raped by nine people [for 19 times] who then ripped open her belly, and ate her liver and breasts. There were so many incidents like this." Frank Dikotter, professor and chair of humanities at the University of Hong Kong states "it is not enough to eliminate your class enemy. You have to eat his heart, so there are very well-documented cases of ritual cannibalism. There was a hierarchy in the consumption of class enemies. Leaders feasted on the heart and liver, mixed with pork, while ordinary villagers were allowed only to peck at the victims' arms and thighs." The Cultural Revolution in total killed between one and two million people and lasted for ten years, between 1967 and 1977. It was initiated by Mao Zedong to purge the country of political dissidents. In 1981 there began an investigation into the cannibalism in Guanxi. In Wuxuan County where at least 38 people were eaten, fifteen participants were prosecuted, receiving up to 14 years in prison, while ninety-one members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were expelled from the party and thirty-nine non-party officials were either demoted or had a salary cut. This is Communism. Millions dead to purge political dissidents, boiling people alive, and cannibalism. The punishment? A salary cut.

We choked the weapons supply, we failed to provide enough air defence, and now we ask Ukrianians to sit on their hands while cruise missiles land on their families. Such mistakes are setting the course of the entire century. And there is no justification for any of this.

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Warum Putin den Westen unterschätzt: Ich war mein Leben lang ein vergleichsweiser verweichtlicher Dully. So auch noch 2021. Hätte mit 18 den Wehrdienst verweigert. Strikt gegen eine Wehrpflicht. Themen die mich interessiert haben waren Wirtschaft und progressive Gesellschaftspolitik wie Homoehe etc. Ich war sogar so naiv, dass ich pro Nordstream gewesen bin. Heute 2024 gibt es für mich kein politisch wichtigeres Ziel als die Verteidigung der liberalen Demokratien gegen die Tyrannien im Osten. Und ich wäre bereit alle meine bisherigen Prinzipien hierfür in Frage zu stellen, inklusive Wehrpflicht, für einen Liberalen eine unglaublich schwere Entscheidung. Ich werde sogar selbst der Reserve beitreten. Ich werde mein Leben lang 2022 mit mir mittragen. Zu groß war die Schmach. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, jemals wieder eine Partei zu wählen die für Appeasement steht. Und ich weiß, dass Millionen junge Europäer, gerade auch die die politisch an den Demokratien partizipieren, die gleiche Entwicklung durchmachen wie ich. Putin hat den Westen für die nächsten 80 Jahre geformt. Zu Russlands Nachteil. 🗽 🛡️

"...wird es eine sehr gefährliche Situation geben und dies wahrscheinlich viel schneller, als die meisten von uns erwarten." Der Warnruf des Schweizer Geschichts-Professors Oliver Jens Schmitt. #srf srf.ch/news/internati…

1/ In Ausgabe 4 von #EsoGulasch schauen wir uns einen für viele wohl alten Bekannten an: Daniele Ganser. Daniele Ganser ist ein berühmter Historiker, “Friedensforscher” und Verschwörungstheoretiker. Seine Aktivitäten als Lebenshilfe-Guru sind weniger bekannt. 🧵

The full DEFUSE proposal on gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses is available, and I'd say it's quite shocking. It does not lay out a plan to create SARSCoV2, but does propose to identify and culture natural sarbecoviruses with the ability to infect human cells. A 🧵

I hear this is the most hotly anticipated story of 2024!!! 1,200 docs obtained by USRTK reveal plans to engineer viruses with the properties of SARS-CoV-2 — including a furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction and six restriction sites — in Wuhan. usrtk.org/covid-19-origi…

In this thread, I will explain why we are much closer to war with 🇷🇺 than most people realize and why our time window for rearmament is shorter than many believe. In my opinion, we have at best 2-3 years to re-establish deterrence vis-à-vis 🇷🇺. Here's why 👇 1/20