A compelling idea worth deep exploration.
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A compelling idea worth deep exploration.
I just deployed 101 tactics to accuse others of that which I am guilty.
@robin.berjon.com if the mountain of research and years of personal evidence haven’t persuaded you to abandon X, watch this. Your continued presence there is just troubling!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...
Another defining footage from the first hours of re-invasion: Russia claimed Zelensky had fled to break Ukraine’s unity. Instead, he stood in Kyiv’s streets with top officials, saying: “The President is here. We are all here. We are defending Ukraine.” A historic moment & start of Ukraine's victory.
Tomorrow everyone will be asking: when will the Russo-Ukrainian war end? The right question is: what can we do to make the Russian invasion fail?
This was the best negotiation with the Russians during the entire war. It was conducted by Ukrainian border guard Roman Hrybov on February 24, 2022.
It's four years since Russia wanted to take Kyiv in three days. They failed and they'll keep failing.
Slava Ukraini! 💙💛
And now, Foreign Policy have kindly made this short piece available without a paywall - foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/23/r...
OTD in 2022, Russian ambassador to US said "Russia recognises Donbas as a part of Ukraine, does not have any claims on Ukrainian lands, does not have plans of any attack".
So you can believe us now when we promise to stop.
1/ Far too many wargames and simulations of how Russia might move against a NATO neighbour treat the front-line states as a military vacuum, or an empty chessboard where it is only the moves of Russia and of slowly-arriving NATO reinforcements that count. But that's far from the truth.
@robin.berjon.com fair enough!
But also, Robin, you’ve interrupted a live rehabilitation session. The patient is in active withdrawal from X. Rehab isn’t linear. I’m trying hard!!
Sikorski: “As you know, Russia, the USA, and Great Britain guaranteed the security of Ukraine and its borders.
In exchange for Ukraine giving up what was then the third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. In 1994.
So you have an obligation to Ukraine to help them defend their freedom”
To be honest, I preferred JD Vance’s speech at last year’s MSC to Marco Rubio’s address this year. 1/4
🔴🇷🇺#Propaganda Machine: Secret documents reveal Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents.
@thecontinent.org @istories.bsky.social @opendemocracy.net @aeowinpact.bsky.social Dossier Center
OTD in 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia began. Less than a year before we signed a treaty with them promising we'd never invade.
Lying we won't & then invading anyway is a tradition I maintain to this day.
Implications will be beyond Russia: 1)replicable blueprint; 2)transnational repression - tracking Russians in democratic countries via Max app; 3)state-controlled ecosystem allow to curate an airtight info bubble, making it easier to mobilize domestic audience for hybrid campaigns against the West.
Dignity above all. You are my hero. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
As for IOC, I only have this to say: disgraceful, immoral, corrupt.
President Ilves spot on, as always. A reminder that in the initial 28-point “peace deal”, one of the points Russians were pushing was that Ukraine shouldnt launch missiles towards Moscow & St. Petersburg. Russia was ok with Ukraine launching missiles on Russian regions, where the elite doesn’t live.
Below I'm sharing a piece that my colleague Roman Osadchuk and yours truly produced last year, which examined the Kremlin’s strategic throttling of YouTube access for domestic audiences.
dfrlab.org/2025/01/31/h...
Through platform restrictions, economic consolidation, & ecosystem integration, Max is emerging as a central pillar of the Kremlin’s sovereign Runet. This has implications beyond Russia offering a replicable blueprint for other states seeking to consolidate digital control. 11/12
There is also an economic dimension. By eliminating YouTube, the Kremlin forces influencers and businesses to migrate to Max or VK Video, ensuring that advertising revenue is recycled entirely within the Russian economy. 10/12
Instead of waiting for a domestic video platform to surpass YT and others, the Kremlin is forcing users into a single, state-controlled ecosystem - Max. 9/12
By 2026, the situation is different. The “feature war” is over. The focus has shifted to creating a connectivity vacuum. The Kremlin is no longer trying to offer a better service; it is simply making global services disappear for the average user. 8/12
The intent was to make YouTube barely functional and users increasingly frustrated, prompting them to gradually abandon the platform or seek alternatives. This approach reduced the eventual shock factor of a full block. 7/12
During 2022-25, after the massive crackdown on other platforms, a sudden block of YT could have triggered public outcry, given its popularity in Russia. The Kremlin addressed this through phased digital exhaustion. In 2024-2525, it slowed YT down but did not block it. 6/12
it hesitated to block YT because domestic alternatives were technically inferior & lacked the massive content library that Russians relied on. While Russia was building a parallel internet with domestic alternatives, YT remained largely untouched, with 90 mln+ Russian users. 5/12
YouTube is one of the most interesting cases here. Between 2022-2025, the Kremlin faced what could be called the YT dilemma. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when the Kremlin began cracking down on Western online and social media platforms, 4/12
Reportedly, the app allows authorities wide-ranging access to user messages, contacts, internet usage, and precise real-time geolocation. It can reportedly remotely activate microphones and cameras. 3/12
