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Kadri Kõusaar

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Writer-Director-Photographer My latest book "JKKK", co-authored with Jaan Kaplinski (in Estonian) www.healugu.ee/product/kirjavahetus… My latest film "Deserted" www.eyewell.se/deserted My photography portfolio katarsis.eu

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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Polymarket’s Alpha traders - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Polymarket’s Alpha traders
In a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ review: achingly cool love letter to a jazz great
Shot in just 20 days, this stylish biopic is a minor miracle
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
If Jeff Bezos believed that when his drivers needed to pee that it felt the same as when *he* needed to pee, Jeff Bezos would let those drivers pee: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v...
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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.
A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.


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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Following a summer marked by extreme events and destruction, public awareness may begin to shift thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/r...
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Rethinking prosperity within planetary boundaries
Would it be possible for every country to one day achieve a national income of about €5,000 per month per person, a level close to what is currently observed in the richest countries, while also ma…
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worthy winner at this year's Venice Film Festival thefilmverdict.com/woman-unknown/
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Woman Unknown - The Film Verdict
A dark secret could upend an upcoming marriage in May el-Thouky’s vibrant and resonant period piece ‘Woman Unknown’, set at the tail end of World War II in Denmark.
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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‘Imperium’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa Brings Together Nearly Three Hours of Italian Footage From the Early 1970s Covering the Vastness of the USSR
Sergei Loznitsa's sprawling USSR documentary 'Imperium' shows a multicultural nation stubbornly resistant to Politburo attempts at homogeneity.
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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‘Naza’ Review: Two of the ‘No Other Land’ Filmmakers Deliver a More Devastating Exposé of Israeli Genocidal Policy, This Time in Gaza
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's devastating documentary 'Naza' has Israeli soldiers explain their orders and the methods by which they’re carried out.
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Inside ‘Dau’: The Movie that Became a Functioning Soviet State
Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his origi...
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A young woman and the sea. And the music of Markus Reuter, which just pulls you in. What could be more cinematic? My new music video, "Death and the Maiden", is out. youtu.be/bDVzn_wCmhk?...
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Guardian-produced Gaza documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli directors of No Other Land to screen at Venice film festival www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Guardian-produced Gaza documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli directors of No Other Land to screen at Venice film festival
Film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, co-directors of No Other Land along with Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal , investigates ‘Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians’ during ...
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood
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Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood
A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Jean Hegland, American novelist: 'The idea that humans must dominate the Earth and animals has not served us well'
In an interview with Le Monde, the author of the cult novel 'Into the Forest' calls for thinking beyond infinite growth, which she sees as incompatible with protecting the living world.
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Borges and Me review – a sweetly imagined literary odyssey through the Highlands www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
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Borges and Me review – a sweetly imagined literary odyssey through the Highlands
Luis Gnecco brings warmth, wit and quiet melancholy to Jorge Luis Borges in this gently enchanting adaptation of Jay Parini’s semi-fictional memoir
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Absolutely crazy story.... ‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?
Neil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and the...
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Boris Johnson: Into Ukraine’s Kill Zone review – the self-serving narcissist ruins this documentary www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Boris Johnson: Into Ukraine’s Kill Zone review – the self-serving narcissist ruins this documentary
Just by his being there, the ex-prime minister undermines the honour of every brave fighter he meets in this tour of the war’s frontline. It should never have made it to TV
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
‘The explosion is what I remember’: man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane recounts ordeal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘The explosion is what I remember’: man nearly sucked out of Ryanair plane recounts ordeal
Exclusive: Ljubisa Karović tells Guardian the fact that he lived to tell the tale is nothing short of a miracle
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 17/07/2026
“I'm too old, too tired, and too talented quite frankly to take any shit.” Brian Cox tells Ghida Fakhry why so many in film stay silent on the genocide in Gaza, and why he chose to speak out 💯
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Dustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Good piece @jakubkrupa.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Polish-Ukrainian solidarity over Russian threat undermined by bitter historical dispute
Kyiv’s decision to honour second world war fighters who killed about 100,000 Poles has revived simmering tensions
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2026
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Gaza’s World Cup screenings – in pictures
Mohamed al-Wahidi died when a missile struck his taxi shortly before Egypt played Argentina in their last 16 World Cup match. He had organised the screening of World Cup games across the Gaza Strip, w...
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is genuinely glorious
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Greenlandic woman wins case against Danish authorities who removed her two-hour-old child www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Greenlandic woman wins case against Danish authorities who removed her two-hour-old child
Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter was taken from her after she was subjected to parental competence psychometric tests
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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A new analysis by WePlanet & the @anthropoceneinst.bsky.social asked what would have happened if Chornobyl has been built a coal-fired power station rather than nuclear. Coal remains the largest single source of global electricity generation. Full report: weplanet.short.gy/coal-chornobyl
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Art is good for mental health? Not when you’re a novelist in poverty | Letter www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Art is good for mental health? Not when you’re a novelist in poverty | Letter
Letter: Publishing pays abysmally, says an anonymous writer, who feels closer to their neighbours on benefits than to their former peers in teaching and academia
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
What a touching story... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Excited to share my first AI film, "War Princess" #militaryindustrialcomplex #feministforeignpolicy #girlboss #war #warprincess #justpeace #ukraine🇺🇦
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My first attempt at AI video. #WarPrincess #feministForeignPolicy #ForeverWar #Ukraine Feel free to share :) vimeo.com/1145309095?f...
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War Princess - Part One
My first attempt at AI video. Created primarily with #openart and #veo3 Edited and graded "normally" in Final Cut Pro and Davinci Resolve. #FeministForeignPolicy #war #warprincess #JustPeace #ukrain...
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 13/11/2025
JFC...people obsessed with Hitler's genitalia are SO FUCKING WEIRD. It's also just ...not super helpful. Because hidden JUST below the surface in all these things is an attempt to...explain Hitler. Or, rather, to explain him in some unique way instead of just seeing him as a normal, awful human.
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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'Likud supporters wanted us raped and burned – and that's what happened'
Yocheved Lifshitz Recounts Her Sense of Betrayal by Israel, Life at Kibbutz Nir Oz, and Her Time in Hamas Captivity, as the Writings of Her Slain Husband, Oded, Are Published
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Can images of war stop the war? lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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The Rest Is History | Los Angeles Review of Books
Mary Turfah writes on Gaza and the limits of the war photograph, in an essay from the upcoming issue of LARB Quarterly, no. 46: “Alien.”
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
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The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
‘Riefenstahl’ Review: Hitler’s Favorite Filmmaker Revisited www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/m...
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‘Riefenstahl’ Review: Hitler’s Favorite Filmmaker Revisited
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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'Astonishing backlash': Hear the Orthodox rabbi who spoke out against Gaza's famine
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The Argentine junta, the crusading lawyer and the imposter - on.ft.com/3I08c2n via @FT
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The Argentine junta, the crusading lawyer and the imposter
After decades spent helping survivors, lawyer Javier Garín thought he’d seen it all. Then came a victim who changed everything
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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · 14/08/2025
I watched CASABLANCA last night as it recently came to iPlayer. Haven't seen it in years. Absolute masterpiece, obviously. Just an incredible screenplay. Wild this came out in the middle of WW2. We didn't even know how the War was going to end when this released.
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A ★★★★★ review of Casablanca (1942)
Just incredible. A perfectly written movie. The way all the core pieces are introduced right from the start (all the characters, the papers, the final destination) with very little new information rev...
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of our ravaged planet are gorgeous — and troubling - on.ft.com/3UB07DK via @FT
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Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of our ravaged planet are gorgeous — and troubling
Images of toxic streams, mountains of rubber and razed cities whip viewers between astonishment and repulsion in this New York retrospective
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90
The Estonian composer’s music of simplicity, spirituality – and silence – is universally appealing and enduringly rewarding. We pay tribute ahead of his milestone birthday
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 15/07/2025
A very powerful essay by Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov, arguing that: a) Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and b) denying this threatens to "undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for." Do read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Reminded of this yet again "I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit."
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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The crimes of anti-communism
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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
‼️The other environmental NGOs don't want you to see this video‼️ A great injustice is being conducted against the world's poorest people. Find out more: www.juststopcooking.org 🧵
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The other environmental NGOs don't want you to see this video
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This article by Betz & Rainsborough is worth a read. They capture the kinetic essentials of fighting. At the same time, digital tech itself needs more explanation, only then can we understand just how exaggerated the false promises of digital warfare really are. dailysceptic.org/2025/06/15/t...
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The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West's Digital-Age Delusions – The Daily Sceptic
The war in Ukraine has shattered a generation of the West's digital-age delusions, say David Betz and Michael Rainsborough. The End of History did not arrive. The Return of Artillery did.
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Kadri Kõusaar @kadrikousaar.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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'Qatar, please give Sara Netanyahu a plane too, in exchange for ending the war and saving hostages'
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