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Jon Richardson

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Europeans care more about what FIFA is doing to football than what russia is doing to Ukraine.
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Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Australian band, breathe, on performing in Ukraine
Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...
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Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@darthputinkgb.bsky.social will be pumped to know that a “progressive” Australian public policy website has carried an article by his favourite apologist in cahoots with another grand expert on the region viz a UN advisor on the Middle East and Africa. Be merciful. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07...
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Ukraine: America’s enduring proxy war on Russia
Eisenhower warned that US policy could be captured by a military-industrial and scientific-technological elite. Ukraine is now paying the price.
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Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Important article.
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Imbecile. But also continues to suggest both Ukraine and Russia started this when this war is purely a result of Russian aggression. Also implies that US interests in the "fight" are even. Which they're not. Ukraine is defending democracy and Europe. This is Trump reading Putin talking points.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/07/2026
I estimate we're at most two years away from Donald Trump personally clearing all Line Umpire calls at the US Open.
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Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
You realise he’s not American in any meaningful sense? So farcical he was “representing” the U.S. in the first place when they’ve got a population of 350 million.
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
New essay on CNN, Ukraine, and the danger of mistaking attribution for context. A single emotionally loaded detail can obscure the forest of russia’s criminal aggression, even when the reporting is technically careful. chakhoyan.substack.com/p/everyone-i...
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Everyone is guilty, everyone lies, and everyone kills children, the kremlin wants you to know
CNN did not mean to tell that story, but it did, and that's the problem.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The 5 stages of 🇷🇺 grief over 🇺🇦's deep strike program 1 “This crosses critical red line” 2 “NATO bears full responsibility” 3 “The West will face terrible consequences” 4 “We remind you Russia is the world’s largest nuclear power” 5 “The situation is entirely normal”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I thought he was going to say Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?
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Vasyl Myroshnychenko @ambvasyl.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Kyle Wilson. Kyle was one of Australia’s foremost experts on Russia—a thoughtful analyst, a principled public servant, and someone whose insights were always grounded in deep knowledge and intellectual honesty.
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Netflix has acquired the rights to two new seasons of the russian animated series Masha and the Bear and extended its licence for distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide. This practically means generating revenue that ultimately will be used to kill Ukrainians.
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Roman Sheremeta (@romansheremeta)
Netflix has acquired the rights to two new seasons of the russian animated series Masha and the Bear and extended its licence for distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide. This practically m...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
OTD in 1940 USSR gave Romania ultimatum to cede large parts of the country to Soviet Union or be invaded. Imagine us threatening to invade countries & take their territory in this day and age…
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
OTD in 1941 USSR involuntarily switched to allied side of WW2.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
In Australia 59 per cent of GPs (General Practitioners or Family Doctors) were born outside of Australia. Please don't think you can significantly cut migration without creating lots of unintended consequences. Source: buff.ly/ssrkMF3
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Like so much Kremlin rhetoric for the last 15 years or so, this is a fascinating combination of self-pitying, paranoid conspiratorialism (it's all a giant plot against us!) and desperate attempts to show what a very great great power Russia is. 🧵
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Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Your “birthright citizen” striker is British. Never lived in the U.S. Grew up from one month and learned his football in England. His parents were never U.S. citizens. He’s never lived there. Farcical he’s playing for the richest and 3rd most populous country on earth. A version of stolen valour.
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The Kennan Institute @kennaninstitute.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
⚫ A legal exit is not always an economic exit. @kirland.bsky.social examines how Russia turned corporate departures into a source of revenue, intelligence gathering, and economic control while building new commercial networks. Read: www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/to…
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Baroness Themis @baronessthemis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#ObamaAppreciationDay
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My trolls: "Russia is losing in Ukraine so we don't need to care about it invading NATO in the future" Sure. Cos after Russia lost all its previous wars it then never attacked anyone ever again. Aside from after Crimean war, Japanese War, WW1, Poland, Finland, Afghanistan & 1st Chechen war...idiot.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026
Musk's father is fully a Kremlin asset. Now he's meeting with Tommy Robinson in a luxury hotel bar in Moscow while Robinson incites pogroms from his X account.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Mearsheimer is at it again, saying "European leaders have said we should fight to the last Ukrainian". First, *we* are NOT fighting; only Ukraine is. Second, it's astonishing to insinuate any European is making Ukr fight after yrs of Ukr asking for more support for the fight than they're getting...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/06/2026
At long last, there will be justice for every man in America who was very unfairly told no,” said the president, noting that all heterosexual males could claim up to $5 million each by documenting abuses such as being denied a second date
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Trump Launches $88 Billion Fund For Anyone Who Has Ever Been Rejected By Woman
WASHINGTON—Declaring the money long overdue compensation for some of the nation’s most persecuted individuals, President Donald Trump announced an $88 billion fund Tuesday specifically appropriated to...
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halyapuff.bsky.social @halyapuff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Five Ukrainians tortured for ‘confessions’ because the FSB couldn’t catch the partisans who killed a Russian-installed traitor khpg.org/en/1608815795
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Five Ukrainians tortured for ‘confessions’ because the FSB couldn’t catch the partisans who killed a Russian-installed traitor
It is very likely that Oleh Andrushak, Pavlo Borodin, Viacheslav Voronko, Mykhailo Shpakovsky, Mykola Kolomiyets were abducted and are facing up to life imprisonment because the FSB had to arrest some...
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People
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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026
An invitation to co-sign a statement by researchers of Eastern Europe @aseees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social @associationruta.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @kiu-network.bsky.social @ukrainianstudies.bsky.social @thebasuorg.bsky.social @udsn.bsky.social
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On the Exceptionally High Circulation of "The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins"
An invitation to co-sign a collective statement by researchers of Eastern Europe
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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“People Don’t Die, They Just Disappear." This is life under Russian occupation.
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“People Don’t Die, They Just Disappear”: How Your Children, Faith, and Home Stop Being Yours Under Russian Occupation
Russian occupation of Ukraine goes beyond the threat of violence; it enters every part of life, from religion and social media to people’s homes.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/05/2026
Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire
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Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire
People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As somebody who survived Russian captivity myself,hearing testimony after testimony describing the same methods, the same brutality and the same systematic abuse from prisons spread across Russia and occupied Ukraine reinforced one thing above all else: This is not isolated cruelty. It is a system
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
OTD in 1997 negotiations to end the 1st Chechen war began. As a result we promised to not use force, or the threat of force, “forever”. 2 years later we staged some false flags & invaded & killed over 100,000 civilians. So you can trust us in negotiations now.
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 12/05/2026
Budget 2026: Labor announces 100% increase in backbenchers saying 'hear hear'
Jim Chalmers talking in the House of Representatives
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Your Prez was accused of deleting pro Israel tweets. No posts have been deleted but here is🧵on tweets Prez made which were accused of being "pro Israel" TLDR. Asking for intellectual consistency from some folks causes false accusations. ..
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Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Pulling some threads together on Russia’s muted Victory Day. theconversation.com/russia-doesn...
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Russia doesn’t have much to celebrate on Victory Day, as Ukraine brings the war home to Putin
Putin is under growing pressure at home as Ukraine continues to strike far inside Russia and more critics are voicing discontent with the war.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Pleased we’ve been able to support this news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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Acclaimed Ukrainian war poet to share frontline insights with British Commandos and general public
A former Ukrainian soldier whose wartime poetry has earned international acclaim is to visit British commandos to discuss the realities of frontline combat with Russian forces. Artur Dron’, who joined...
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Russia’s economy is in a bad way, its army is struggling to advance, and Ukraine’s drone are regularly attacking targets inside Russia. Is Putin running out of options? My latest post looks at his predicament (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/i...?
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Is time running out for Putin?
Ukraine's Micawber strategy
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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026
A collective warning to readers of "The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War" (Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature, 2026). www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...
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An Elon Musk-Supported Apology of Russia’s War on Ukraine
A collective warning to readers of The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2026).
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Jon Richardson @jon-richardson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/le... @getup.org.au
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Let me stay in the country I love
The government has the power to change this. They can give young people like me the chance to stay – to study, to work, to build a future in the place we already call home.  Right now, the peopl...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Death of Captain Lawrence Oates During Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Expedition to the South Pole, Wherein Oates Left the Tent After Saying, "I Am Just Going Outside and May Be Some Time': This would not have happened in a ballroom attached to the White House, unless the expedition had gotten extremely
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Confession: I spit out my coffee on this one!
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Ariana Gic @arianagic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Russia says the US has invited Putin to the G20 summit. Putin is a wanted war criminal, waging illegal war and committing genocide of Ukrainians. Trump wants to bring his mafia dictator partner back into the western fold. More evidence of Trump's total BETRAYAL of the free world
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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 18/04/2026
Russian surveillance in the occupied areas of Ukraine works as a tight mix of digital interception, physical monitoring and state‑controlled apps that track people’s communications, movements and identities. @sceeus_ui
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Occupation, Collaboration and Resistance in Ukraine - Sceeus
SCEEUS Report | Occupation, Collaboration and Resistance in Ukraine | By Jakob Hedenskog
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Astonishing to equate democratic Ukraine with theocratic Iran, which murders its own people by the thousands, and which has for nearly four years actively aided fascist Russia in its aggression against Ukraine by supplying attack drones and missiles.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
That would have been Year 22 of the 47-year US-Iran War. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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