Quick refs for Russia’s genocidal acts in Ukraine:
- multiple independent reports have demonstrated that Russians have raped, murdered, tortured, and kidnapped Ukrainians, including children.
- western countries have accused Russia of genocide in Ukraine
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ᵣussia didn’t just wake up the Ukrainian dragon, they woke up the sleeping giants in Europe too.
Bad news for Russia. Good news for Ukraine and Europe.
The European company Destinus has ramped up serial production of its "Ruta Block 1" cruise missile. According to the company, 1,750 units have been completed, with a monthly production rate approaching 300 units (as of late October 2026).
📍 Production: Primarily in the Netherlands (including proprietary T150 engines, airframes, and avionics). An expansion in collaboration with Rheinmetall in Unterlüß (Germany) is planned.
🇺🇦 Ukraine: Confirmed—the missiles are being supplied and are currently in service. President Zelenskyy confirmed their use in combat operations in 2025 (with ranges exceeding 250 km). The Netherlands is funding approximately 700 units. Debris has been reported in Russia.
🚀 Block 1 Specifications: Range >300 km, payload ~150 kg. Features low-altitude flight, terrain-following capabilities, and operates independently of GNSS.
Future variants: Block 2 (>700 km) and a planned Block 3 (up to 2,000 km).
European-scale production, free from Chinese components—with a monthly output now exceeding what Europe produced annually prior to 2022.
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Zhanna and her daughters have finally been reunited with her father again who was evacuated from Oleshky today.
With no phone signal or connection, the family was left in complete dark, not knowing if he was safe, if he had been evacuated, or even alive.
All they could do was wait for the buses and hope.
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Oleshky: a return of some of the Ukrainians to Ukraine-controlled territory who survived the Russian occupation and the aftermath of Russia blowing up the Kakhovka Dam, a Russian crime that flooded their land and homes.
Russia has starved them, took away their food, provided no medicine, and did not allow them to leave. Many people died - were killed - during the Russian occupation and in the aftermath of the flooding. We cannot know the exact figures, as this territory remains under Russian control.
Now Russians are trying to portray this as an act of humanism on their part. But in reality, they were pressured into letting these people go - people whose land and homes they had seized, whom they had tormented and condemned to death by starvation.
People left behind their seized and destroyed homes and fled to avoid starving to death. Almost all chose to go to Ukraine.
And I thank everyone who took part in this extremely difficult humanitarian mission, everyone who contributed and helped save Ukrainian lives.
Newsmax journalist Shelby Wilder on the situation in Oleshky:
Russia is using this humanitarian operation as a propaganda opportunity.
Moscow wants to portray itself as the rescuer of civilians in a city that it occupies, one it has destroyed and plunged into this humanitarian crisis.
And we need to be clear, Russia controls what we are going to be allowed to see.
Moscow appears to have brought in numerous Russian media compared to just the one American news outlet.
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👼🏻23 days old. They didn’t even have time to register her. A Russian shell killed her together with her parents and brother.
Sofia Konyshcheva was 23 days old.
She was born on July 22, 2023, in the village of Shyroka Balka in the Kherson region. Her parents didn’t even have time to officially register her.
On August 13, the Russians opened fire. The family ran to a neighbor’s basement — they didn’t make it. The shell exploded right in the yard.
Sofia, her mother Olesya, her father Dmytro, and her 11-year-old brother Artem were killed. The boy kept calling for his mother for several more hours.
Eternal memory.
#StopRussia #KhersonRegion #SofiaKonyshcheva
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❗ Wow. Kanada na konci roku pořádá MS juniorů. A teď musí řešit účast Rusů. Ale vláda Kanady má očividně pevný názor shodný s Evropou. Zástupce kanadské vlády, náměstek ministra sportu řekl:
"S rozhodnutím CAS důrazně nesouhlasíme. Kanada od roku 2022 zastává stejný názor. Rusko by se nemělo účastnit mezinárodní soutěže, zatímco vede neoprávněnou invazi na Ukrajinu a na všech akcích v Kanadě, které jsou dotované ze státních peněz, bude platit zákaz účasti ruských sportovců."
Podle kanadských médií ale není zatím jasné, jestli MS junioři v Kanadě dostane nějaké veřejné peníze...
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🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed questions about the Trump administration paying $496 MILLION for a shuttered Minnesota prison that private contractor CoreCivic had previously offered the state for just $75 MILLION, a staggering $420 million difference. Asked to explain the purchase amid the administration’s crackdown on government waste and fraud, Bessent responded: “I don’t know anything about that. That’s a waste of our time.”
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She was in the park with her baby.
Putin did this.
A stroke of genius for Trump.
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The US is trying to pressure Lithuania to let Belarusian potash be shipped through their ports.
The response? "We say very clearly 'fuck no.' If Americans are not able to learn from history then we have to stand the ground."
Thank you Lithuania for your steadfast support.💙💛
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Canada's Secretary of State for Sport, Adam van Koeverden, says Canada "strongly opposes" the decision to overturn IIHF's Russian hockey ban:
"Canada maintains, as it has since 2022, that Russia should not be represented in international sport competitions while Russia's illegal and unjustifiable full-scale invasion against Ukraine continues.
Canada will maintain restrictions on the participation of Russian athletes at events hosted in Canada that receive funding from the Government of Canada and explore further options to ensure that the Russian government is held accountable."
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(We Dutch don't suffer bullshit).
'Even the Dutch':
Top Dem warns five foreign governments have dirt on Jared Kushner
rawstory.com/jared-kushner-k…
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The timing of today's market crash is noteworthy.
As selling pressure spreads, the Nasdaq 100 is now down nearly -5% on the day.
Meanwhile, the market-implied odds of a Democrat "sweep" in the Midterms next week has surged from 65% to 72% today, a record high.
That's +7 percentage points in 2 days amid this market downturn.
We have yet to receive a comment from the Trump Administration regarding the current situation in the market.
However, what is clear is that the timing of today's market crash will be consequential.
And, even as technology stocks drop sharply, US Treasury Yields are barely seeing any relief.
This leaves us with high rates, a falling stock market, $100+ oil prices, and rising CPI, PPI, and PCE inflation.
Next week is going to be interesting, to say the least.
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Ukraine treating Jared Kushner with all the respect he deserves.
WSJ feels the timing on this one.
Kushner, dialing into a meeting remotely because he was sick, told Zelensky to hold off on strikes since he and Witkoff are burning time and jet fuel brokering with Moscow, and a 30-day pause on refinery strikes would be Ukraine's way of saying thanks, per a WSJ source.
wsj.com/world/ukraine-pauses…
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What The Reality Is
The US 🇺🇸 wants Europe to pay $2 billion for interceptors to be sent to the US and Gulf States over the next 5 years to start another war with Iran while Ukraine 🇺🇦 will receive nothing
Americans will read the news and think Ukraine will receive 500 PAC-3 interceptors while the US hasn’t shipped hundreds of Patriot, NASAMS interceptors in months which Europe paid for years ago
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Replying to @USA_Polling
South Dakotans are proud Trump power bottoms.
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NON, il n’y a pas de « coup d’État » en Pologne.
Depuis quelques heures, des comptes militants diffusent des images de policiers devant le Tribunal constitutionnel polonais en prétendant que Donald Tusk aurait fait prendre la Cour par la force.
C’est faux.
Voici ce qui s’est réellement passé.
Le conflit remonte aux années de gouvernement du PiS, entre 2015 et 2023. Le parti avait placé ses proches au Tribunal constitutionnel au terme de procédures gravement irrégulières, transformant progressivement cette institution en instrument politique.
Ce constat ne vient pas seulement du gouvernement Tusk.
La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme a jugé que certaines nominations avaient rendu des formations du Tribunal illégales. La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a également conclu que les nominations de plusieurs juges et de l’ancienne présidente avaient violé des règles fondamentales et que le Tribunal ne répondait plus aux exigences d’indépendance et d’impartialité.
Depuis son retour au pouvoir, la coalition de Donald Tusk tente donc de remettre cette institution en état.
Le Parlement actuel a élu de nouveaux juges, mais le président Karol Nawrocki, soutenu par le PiS, refuse de recevoir leur serment. Ces juges ont effectué une prestation de serment de substitution, dont la validité est elle-même contestée.
Le 30 octobre, plusieurs de ces juges sont entrés dans le Tribunal. Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, qui se considère comme la juge possédant la plus grande ancienneté, a suspendu pour un mois le président Bogdan Święczkowski et son vice-président.
Elle leur reproche notamment d’empêcher les nouveaux juges de siéger, de refuser de réunir l’assemblée générale complète du Tribunal et de composer certaines formations de jugement en violation de la loi.
La direction liée au PiS refuse cette décision, affirme rester en fonction et accuse les nouveaux juges de commettre un « coup d’État ».
Concernant les images de policiers : la police polonaise affirme ne pas être entrée dans le bâtiment et ne pas avoir pris le contrôle du Tribunal.
Elle a sécurisé les abords à la demande d’une juge et du procureur général en raison des manifestations, des risques de violences et des menaces pesant sur le personnel. Trois personnes ont été interpellées après avoir franchi la clôture. Des objets ont également été lancés sur les forces de l’ordre.
Il n’y a donc :
Aucun déploiement de l’armée.
Aucun renversement du gouvernement.
Aucune arrestation du président.
Aucune suspension du Parlement ou de la Constitution.
Aucune prise militaire du Tribunal.
Il existe en revanche un conflit constitutionnel majeur entre deux directions qui revendiquent simultanément la légitimité.
La méthode employée par le camp Tusk est juridiquement contestable. Pour suspendre les dirigeants du Tribunal, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska s’appuie sur plusieurs textes combinés et invoque un « état de nécessité constitutionnelle ». Cette interprétation devra être tranchée par les juridictions compétentes.
On peut donc parfaitement considérer que Tusk prend un risque en voulant réparer l’État de droit à l’aide d’une procédure juridiquement fragile.
Mais appeler cela un « coup d’État » reste une manipulation grossière.
Le PiS a largement créé cette situation en capturant auparavant le Tribunal. Le gouvernement actuel tente maintenant de reprendre le contrôle d’une institution discréditée, avec une méthode qui soulève elle aussi de sérieuses questions juridiques.
La réalité est donc plus complexe que les vidéos anxiogènes diffusées sur X :
Ce n’est pas un coup d’État.
C’est une crise constitutionnelle très grave, née de plusieurs années de politisation de la justice polonaise et désormais aggravée par une bataille de légitimité entre deux camps.
Sources : Cour européenne des droits de l’homme,
Cour de justice de l’Union européenne,
Associated Press,
police de Varsovie et médias polonais.
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Aktuell läuft im von Russland besetzten ukrainischen Oleschky eine hochempfindliche Evakuierungsaktion. Auf einem der Bildern sieht man einen jungen Mann, der zur Partei „Gerechtes Russland“ von Sergei Mironow (Absolvent der 401. KGB-Schule) gehört.
Sergei Mironow und seine Ehefrau Inna Warlamowa stehen ganz oben auf der Liste derjenigen, die für die völkerrechtswidrige Verschleppung und Identitätsauslöschung ukrainischer Kinder verantwortlich sind. Sie haben die damals 10 Monate alte Margarita aus einem Kinderheim in Cherson entführt, nach Moskau verschleppt, ihr Geburtsdatum gefälscht und sie in „Marina Mironowa“ umbenannt, während ihre rechtmäßige Pflegemutter seit Jahren verzweifelt um sie kämpft.
Beihilfe bei diesem Verbrechen leistete direkt die sogenannte Menschenrechtsbeauftragte Jana Lantratowa, die aktuell in Oleschky die russische Propagandapresse füttert und von Oktober 2021 bis Mai 2026 Abgeordnete der russischen Staatsduma für die Partei „Gerechtes Russland“ war.
Und jetzt taucht ein Parteigesandter mitten in Oleschky auf, um bei einer „humanitären Evakuierung“ zu „helfen“? Wo Mironows Leute auftauchen, geht es nicht um Humanität. Es geht um Kontrolle, Propaganda und möglicherweise um das Auskundschaften neuer Opfer. Genau diese Partei „Gerechtes Russland“ pflegt seit Jahren enge Kontakte bis mitten in die deutsche Politik:
Im Jahr 2022 besuchte Andrej Konstantin Hunko, Co-Vorsitzender des BSW in Nordrhein-Westfalen (zuvor Die Linke), die Partei „Gerechtes Russland“. Zudem traf Sergei Mironow am 20. November 2019 eine offizielle Delegation der Linken-Bundestagsfraktion unter der Leitung von Dietmar Bartsch, um ein gemeinsames Kooperations-Memorandum zu unterzeichnen. Mironow erklärte dabei offen, „die Linkspartei sei die beste Partei in Deutschland für die Zusammenarbeit mit Russland“.
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Think about this for a moment. He’s not angry at the corruption. He’s angry he wasn’t included IN the corruption.
NEWS: Trump erupted after he learned Alina Habba signed a $50 million deal. He told allies she should donate a portion of that money to his future presidential library or another Trump entity. He also suggested the family should not pay out her contract.
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/po…
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For the first time in years, people in Kherson can walk the streets without being hunted from the sky. It’s worth remembering however that once the ceasefire is over, russia will immediately continue their disgraceful human safari.






































