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The war will be over some day. Sooner or later in one way or another, but it will be over. And then everybody will have to ask themselves "what did I do, to end it sooner?"
It applies to us all, not just governments and officials.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
“If not us, who? And if not now, when?” -Ronald Reagan
#PassUkraineAidNow
#ArmUkraineToWinNow
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For anyone asking why Russian's should be banned from sports?
Since 2022 they have killed over 800 Ukrainian athletes and sports officials and damaged or destroyed nearly 960 sports facilities across Ukraine.
Fuck Russian Athletes.
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Cyberattack on France’s national blood service (EFS) via its refrigeration contractor Coolworld. Hackers reset freezers keeping blood donor samples at -30°C to a target of 110°C. The thing that stopped it from destructive impact was an on-call technician who noticed the temperatures going up. Frozen plasma intended for transfusion was stored there too. Fortunately nothing was destroyed. This was a cyberattack on a sensitive layer of healthcare. From frozen peas to boiling plasma in three weeks...?
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Russia occupied Oleshky, leaving civilians trapped in a humanitarian catastrophe.
Now it wants credit for rescuing them from the suffering that it inflicted.
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Imagine taking on russian and German armies at the same time, driving them both out, and today leading the world’s security council.
This is Latvia 🇱🇻🫡
Latvia has just assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the first time.
On this day in 1919, Latvian Colonel Krišjānis Berķis signed the order to launch a counteroffensive against German-Russian forces.
After liberating Riga, Latvian forces went on to achieve full victory in the Latvian War of Independence, securing the sovereignty of their young republic in international law.
107 years later, this now enables Latvia to take a world leading role in standing up for the sovereign rights of all nations to exist in peace and security under international law.
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Latvia has just assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the first time.
On this day in 1919, Latvian Colonel Krišjānis Berķis signed the order to launch a counteroffensive against German-Russian forces.
After liberating Riga, Latvian forces went on to achieve full victory in the Latvian War of Independence, securing the sovereignty of their young republic in international law.
107 years later, this now enables Latvia to take a world leading role in standing up for the sovereign rights of all nations to exist in peace and security under international law.
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I'm fucking tired of Russians trying to pretend to be the victims in this war.
Russia invaded Ukraine, bombed its cities, murdered civilians, and destroyed entire cities!
You can't cry victim here
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Nothing has changed. Russia murders Ukrainian children, women, bombs schools and hospitals.
Latvia is appalled by the CAS decision to legitimise Russia’s participation in the @IIHFHockey World Championship.
❌We reject Russia’s return. All hockey nations should do the same.
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Это РОССИЯ вторгалась, оккупировала Олешки, заминировала дороги, лишала людей пищи и воды. Это РОССИЯ устраивала сафари на людей пытающихся выбраться из города.
РОССИЯ никого блять не спасает, эта мразь сама всё это устроила.
Почему приходится это говорить в 2026 году???
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Russia is exactly the terrorist state that the Baltic countries always warned the world about. And it escalates its atrocities every time the world tries to appease it.
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Europe doesn’t need the Baltics to tone down their rhetoric. It needs more European countries to adopt the Baltics’ approach to Russia.
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🇺🇸🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 BREAKING: PENTAGON PRIVATELY URGES BALTIC NATO ALLIES TO TONE DOWN WARNINGS ABOUT RUSSIA
According to an exclusive Reuters investigation, senior Pentagon officials have privately pressured European NATO allies, including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to moderate their public rhetoric about the Russian threat.
Key revelations:
• The requests were delivered during private bilateral meetings.
• Pentagon officials reportedly argued that strong public warnings about Russia could undermine European security.
• An Estonian delegation was specifically urged to adopt a more measured tone.
• US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby personally delivered the message to at least one Baltic official.
The discussions come as Washington pursues renewed diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine and reviews its military presence in Europe.
One European official summarised the American message:
“Just don’t be loud. Don’t make noise.”
The revelations raise serious questions about the growing divergence between Washington and NATO’s eastern flank over how openly Russia’s military and hybrid threats should be addressed.
At a time when European countries are reporting repeated airspace violations, sabotage attempts and attacks on critical infrastructure, the Pentagon is reportedly asking some of the countries most exposed to Russia to lower their public warnings.
Reuters notes that the discussions were not described as confrontational. The Pentagon declined to comment.
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Oh, we get specific.
Their names are extensively documented in publicly searchable databases, often with details of their age, family and fate.
Tens of thousands of names are engraved into stone at memorials. Those names are read out annually.
Victims of Soviet mass deportations are mostly women and children, including babies, pregnant women, and separated children.
In Estonia, the youngest victim was Anne Ojaäär, a 3 day old baby from Hiiumaa. The oldest victim was Maria Räägel, a 95 year old from Abja parish.
They were snatched from their own homes in the middle of the night, packed into cattle wagons, and dispersed across remote parts of Russia in labour camps where they faced hunger, cold, and brutality. Many died on the way or shortly after arrival. Some were even settled in nuclear testing fallout zones.
Soviet mass repression in the Baltics began in 1940, immediately after the Soviet Union invaded, first aimed at decapitating our states that are independent under international law and whose sovereignty and territorial integrity Russia had previously agreed to respect.
Notice that 1940 doesn’t appear on Soviet war memorials?
When this persecution began, the Soviets were still colluding with the Nazis to turn Europe into their spheres of influence, igniting the Second World War. They were still colluding in 1941 when they launched their first mass deportation in the Baltics to continue state decapitation.
The second wave, Operation Priboi, was much broader.
It was mostly targeted at rural communities, and ultimately aimed at breaking society and national identity, while providing more hard labour inside Russia.
Around a quarter of the population fell into the Soviet category of ‘undesirables’.
They targeted some of the same people that the Nazis had targeted in their own brutal occupation of the Baltics after the Nazis turned on their Soviet colluders. They even used some of the same wagons to load up their mutual enemies across Baltic societies.
However, the snatching was chaotic. Many families were taken randomly just to fill quotas when the listed family couldn’t be found. Some were taken for just having similar names to those listed. Some local collaborators just wanted to settle scores.
Deportations also continued regularly outside of these mass waves.
It’s estimated that about 200,000 were deported just from the occupied Baltic countries & a further 6 million forcibly transferred in total by the Soviet Union, mostly based on ethnicity.
Soviet persecution of entire nationalities were “monstrous acts” and “terrible felonies”.
That’s not a Baltic take, by the way. Those are quotes from Khrushchev in his 1956 secret speech and the Supreme Soviet in its 1989 declaration.
The Soviet Union officially acknowledged and condemned both its own collusion with the Nazis and its brutal targeting of entire nationalities, even while tankies today continue to defend the Nazi-Soviet Pact and its consequences.
The Soviets were regretful, not out of compassion though.
Some historians argue these crimes were a major political mistake. They deepened opposition to occupation. The topic was heavily censored but people never forgot.
That anger eventually spilled out into the open during the Singing Revolution in the Baltics, which culminated with the annulment of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Tankies will never forgive the people of the Baltics for that.
It led to the restoration of our modern, independent, vibrant, fully restored states we live in here today where we can freely discuss history while continuing to build a better future for everyone, and also stand up for those in Ukraine still facing this kind of brutality.
It’s what Anne and Maria and so many others would have wanted.
That’s why we always get specific.
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By not holding the entire russian society responsible - the way Germans were held responsible - Europe and the rest of the world is ensuring that children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of current generations will have to experience war.
It's that simple.
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How do people think the USSR got so large?
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Ad agosto sono stato in Lituania. Abbiamo noleggiato una macchina e girato il Paese. È stato bellissimo, ma non è questo che voglio raccontare.
Una sera, a Vilnius, una persona che era con me mi ha detto una frase: «In Italia non ci abbiamo capito niente».
Quel giorno avevamo visitato l’ex sede del KGB. Celle grandi quanto un armadio, stanze di tortura, prigioni per dissidenti e religiosi. Una stanza dove i prigionieri politici venivano giustiziati, uno dopo l’altro, e i corpi fatti sparire. Ci sono ancora i buchi dei proiettili nel muro. Nel museo, oltre ai crimini commessi dall’URSS (milioni di persone deportate, intere famiglie distrutte, oppositori perseguitati…), viene raccontata anche la storia dei partigiani lituani. Uomini e donne che combattevano e morivano per liberare il proprio Paese dall’occupazione sovietica.
E quella voglia di non finire mai più sotto il dominio russo la senti ovunque. Nei musei, nelle testimonianze delle persone, nelle condanne ai crimini che la Russia commette ancora oggi. Senti una continuità storica fortissima, come se quello che succede oggi in Ucraina fosse anche parte della loro storia.
Quella persona era rimasta in silenzio per un po’ prima di dirmi quella frase. Aveva votato comunista per gran parte della sua giovinezza. Come tanti italiani, era cresciuta pensando che il comunismo fosse l’opposto del fascismo e quindi il massimo della libertà e della giustizia. Per lei la bandiera dell’URSS rappresentava la liberazione, la resistenza, la difesa degli oppressi. E invece: «Mentre in Italia votavo comunista, qui c’erano persone che venivano imprigionate, torturate e uccise proprio da chi finanziava il partito che votavo».
Non erano cose che non si potevano sapere. Le repressioni sovietiche erano denunciate già allora. Ma l’URSS finanziava il più grande partito comunista dell’Occidente, quello italiano, ed esercitava un’enorme influenza sulla nostra vita politica e culturale. La propaganda sovietica ha lasciato un’impronta profondissima in Italia. Quella di Putin ha saputo sfruttare anche quell’eredità.
Siamo cresciuti in un Paese dove gli stessi simboli che per milioni di europei rappresentavano occupazione, deportazioni e repressione venivano esibiti come simboli di libertà. E con questa storia non abbiamo mai fatto davvero i conti.
Ancora oggi c’è chi scende in piazza con bandiere sovietiche, convinto di stare dalla parte degli oppressi. E penso a quei ragazzi e a quelle ragazze lituane, e non solo, che mentre noi celebravamo l’URSS morivano per liberarsi proprio dall’URSS. Per essere liberi.
«In Italia non ci abbiamo capito niente». E purtroppo continuiamo a non capire.
“Dear Italian students, who today take to the streets carrying flags with the hammer and sickle and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘CCCP’,” began an open letter in Italian by Lithuanian expat Neringa Budryt.
“I would like to ask you a question: do you truly know what the symbols you carry represent? And do you know what would have happened to many of you had you openly demonstrated in countries living under the oppression of communist regimes?
Let me tell you something. It is easy to display a red flag when, for you, communism is merely an abstract idea of equality, social justice, and rebellion against the system. It is easy to wear a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it when you have never experienced the reality of a communist regime.
We come from that part of Europe where communism was not a T-shirt, a symbol of rebellion, or a romanticized notion of equality. It was the system in which we lived—a system we never chose.
We know the history of Soviet repression, Stalinist purges, the Gulags, and mass deportations. Above all, we know the word "Siberia"—a place to which thousands of innocent people were forcibly deported, simply for thinking differently.
In Siberia—amidst freezing cold, starvation, and forced labor—many lost their lives; those who survived carried the scars of that experience forever. Entire families were torn apart, and generations were denied the chance to live freely in their own homeland.
In the countries of the Soviet bloc, censorship, political police, surveillance, and the suppression of dissent drastically curtailed individual freedoms.
We grew up in a system where state control permeated even our daily lives. At school, we were required to wear the red necktie of the "Pioneers." We were monitored; they tracked where we went and even whether we attended church. Even faith—a choice that should belong to an individual’s own conscience—could become a cause for suspicion.
We used to celebrate Christmas with our windows blacked out, to ensure no one would see us and report us. Because it was forbidden—just like so many other things: jeans, rock music, and all the symbols of a Western lifestyle. My mother returned from a Soviet labor camp. And do you know what happened to her? She was barred from continuing her education because she had been labeled an enemy of communism.
Under a communist regime, you could not protest. You risked arrest, imprisonment, interrogation, persecution—and, in certain historical contexts, even death. In the Soviet Union and other communist regimes, political dissent could cost you your freedom and your life.
Demonstrations independent of the authorities were not a guaranteed right; they were often suppressed by force.
That is why it strikes me to see young Italians proudly displaying the hammer and sickle—symbols associated with regimes that persecuted and imprisoned millions of people.
Today, you are free to take to the streets, shout against the government, criticize institutions, and wave your flags precisely because you live in a democracy that grants you these freedoms. Under an authoritarian regime of that kind, protesting against those in power could have landed you in prison.
This is not about denying the existence of social injustices, inequalities, or the right to fight for a better world. You are free to take to the streets to demand a more just society—but you should not idealize a system that denied so many people the very things you are free to exercise today: the right to choose, to believe, to speak, and to dissent. Before wearing a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it, listen to those who experienced that world. Talk to the deportees and their descendants; read the accounts of those who endured the gulags and forced exile to Siberia. Learn what it meant to be stripped of your freedom, your home, your loved ones—and even any prospect of a normal life—simply because of your background or your beliefs.
Before waving the hammer and sickle, please, study history thoroughly.”
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🇺🇦🇱🇹🇱🇻🚀‼️ Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia have jointly developed the X-12, a high-speed jet-powered interceptor drone designed to destroy advanced Russian attack UAVs, including the Geran-5.
Developed under the Strategic Defense Alliance (SDA), the X-12 has reportedly completed testing under real combat conditions and is now ready for serial production.
The interceptor is equipped with a turbojet engine and has the following reported specifications.
▪️ Maximum speed of 700 km/h
▪️ Cruising speed of 350 km/h
▪️ Maximum range of 126 km
▪️ Operational ceiling of 10,000 meters
▪️ Maximum flight endurance of 12 minutes
According to its developers, the X-12 contains no Chinese components and is manufactured using parts produced by the participating countries. Its turbojet engine is manufactured in Lithuania.
The developers also claim that Ukrainian military personnel have given the interceptor positive evaluations following combat testing.
🔥 The X-12 represents a potentially important step in Ukraine’s efforts to counter increasingly fast Russian attack drones without relying exclusively on expensive surface-to-air missiles.
Its reported maximum speed of 700 km/h could allow it to engage targets beyond the capabilities of many slower interceptor drones.
Equally important is the multinational production model. By combining Ukrainian battlefield experience with Lithuanian and Latvian manufacturing capabilities, the project could help establish a more resilient European supply chain for drone-defense technology.
The decisive factors will be production scale, interception reliability and cost per successful engagement.
See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE1231
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“Dear Italian students, who today take to the streets carrying flags with the hammer and sickle and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘CCCP’,” began an open letter in Italian by Lithuanian expat Neringa Budryt.
“I would like to ask you a question: do you truly know what the symbols you carry represent? And do you know what would have happened to many of you had you openly demonstrated in countries living under the oppression of communist regimes?
Let me tell you something. It is easy to display a red flag when, for you, communism is merely an abstract idea of equality, social justice, and rebellion against the system. It is easy to wear a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it when you have never experienced the reality of a communist regime.
We come from that part of Europe where communism was not a T-shirt, a symbol of rebellion, or a romanticized notion of equality. It was the system in which we lived—a system we never chose.
We know the history of Soviet repression, Stalinist purges, the Gulags, and mass deportations. Above all, we know the word "Siberia"—a place to which thousands of innocent people were forcibly deported, simply for thinking differently.
In Siberia—amidst freezing cold, starvation, and forced labor—many lost their lives; those who survived carried the scars of that experience forever. Entire families were torn apart, and generations were denied the chance to live freely in their own homeland.
In the countries of the Soviet bloc, censorship, political police, surveillance, and the suppression of dissent drastically curtailed individual freedoms.
We grew up in a system where state control permeated even our daily lives. At school, we were required to wear the red necktie of the "Pioneers." We were monitored; they tracked where we went and even whether we attended church. Even faith—a choice that should belong to an individual’s own conscience—could become a cause for suspicion.
We used to celebrate Christmas with our windows blacked out, to ensure no one would see us and report us. Because it was forbidden—just like so many other things: jeans, rock music, and all the symbols of a Western lifestyle. My mother returned from a Soviet labor camp. And do you know what happened to her? She was barred from continuing her education because she had been labeled an enemy of communism.
Under a communist regime, you could not protest. You risked arrest, imprisonment, interrogation, persecution—and, in certain historical contexts, even death. In the Soviet Union and other communist regimes, political dissent could cost you your freedom and your life.
Demonstrations independent of the authorities were not a guaranteed right; they were often suppressed by force.
That is why it strikes me to see young Italians proudly displaying the hammer and sickle—symbols associated with regimes that persecuted and imprisoned millions of people.
Today, you are free to take to the streets, shout against the government, criticize institutions, and wave your flags precisely because you live in a democracy that grants you these freedoms. Under an authoritarian regime of that kind, protesting against those in power could have landed you in prison.
This is not about denying the existence of social injustices, inequalities, or the right to fight for a better world. You are free to take to the streets to demand a more just society—but you should not idealize a system that denied so many people the very things you are free to exercise today: the right to choose, to believe, to speak, and to dissent. Before wearing a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it, listen to those who experienced that world. Talk to the deportees and their descendants; read the accounts of those who endured the gulags and forced exile to Siberia. Learn what it meant to be stripped of your freedom, your home, your loved ones—and even any prospect of a normal life—simply because of your background or your beliefs.
Before waving the hammer and sickle, please, study history thoroughly.”
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Supporting Russia today is like supporting Nazi Germany in 1940.
Don’t bother to change my mind.
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I spent last night watching my honeypot server get hit 14,000 times in six hours.
And almost none of the traffic was human.
I've been in security for over a decade, and I can tell you with full honesty that what's happening right now doesn't resemble anything I've worked through before.
The shape of the threat has changed.
When I started, we tracked attackers like weather systems like individual storms with a direction, a motive, and a human operator you could eventually name.
These days I'm watching autonomous agents swarm login pages with the patience and discipline of machines, because that's what they are.
The numbers coming out of October are the ones keeping me up.
Cloudflare just absorbed a 4.2 terabit per second DDoS attack, the largest in recorded history.
Ransomware incidents jumped 41% in a single month.
In September, OpenAI-powered agents got caught attacking RubyGems, a package registry that quietly underpins a huge chunk of software I use every day.
In July, roughly 700 AI agents coordinated an attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure as part of a single automated task.
A Chinese threat actor was publicly caught running full attack chains through DeepSeek with no human at the keyboard.
I keep rereading these reports because each one by itself would've been the biggest story of the year five years ago. Together, in one month, they're the new baseline.
What I want people outside the industry to understand is why this specific moment feels like a hinge.
For thirty years, the thing protecting most of us was simple economics. Attackers had to choose who to target because their time was finite. That ceiling is gone.
An agent I can rent for pennies will try every leaked password you've ever used against every service you've ever signed up for, in parallel, overnight, and never get tired.
The same math that made ChatGPT useful made opportunistic hacking infinite. The old assumption that you were "too boring to be a target" relied on scarcity that no longer exists.
I'm not writing this to spiral anyone out.
Most of this fight genuinely isn't yours to win.
But the small things still matter more than people think.
Tonight I'd switch your most important accounts like email, bank, primary cloud, etc. to passkeys or a hardware key.
I'd kill SMS 2FA wherever an authenticator app is offered.
I'd turn on breach alerts in whatever password manager you use.
If you're in the US, I'd freeze my credit at all three bureaus, which is free and takes about ten minutes.
None of that stops the swarm.
It makes you a slightly worse target than the person next to you. In a month like this one, that's the whole game I'm playing too.
@mattshumer_ has summed it beautifully.
Drop everything and go give it a read. Nothing is more important than this article right now.
