WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202632/32 The best way to honour her is to stop fascism. Because it does not stop by itself. 011
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202631/32 In Western Europe, it may be outsourced to activist clubs and leaderless terrorist cells. Next week, I hope we honour the memory of Politkovskaya, who warned earlier than most about what was coming. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202630/32 The latter is often outsourced to actors who appear to operate independently: the mafia, private armies such as the Wagner Group, or groups like Russia’s Night Wolves motorcycle club. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202629/32 As the Italian writer Antonio Scurati has reminded us, fascism has had two faces since its birth: populism and terrorism. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202628/32 Everyone wants to look democratic; no one wants to call themselves fascist. Behind the democratic façade, however, there remains both the will and the capacity to use violence against internal and external enemies. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202627/32 But it was only a façade, used to legitimise the continued rule of those already in power. Today, this has become a preferred form of government for authoritarian regimes around the world. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202626/32 Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev has written that the society taking shape under Putin looked like a democracy from a distance: a democratic constitution, elections, several political parties and even some free media. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202625/32 If history has taught us anything, it is that fascism must always be stopped. And the earlier it is stopped, the lower the human, economic and social costs. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202624/32 We should not assume that professions of support for democracy, elections and multiparty systems can simply be taken at face value — or that a movement toward fascism, once under way, will stop by itself. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202623/32 But we would be wise to listen to those who warn us today not to become fixated on the outward appearance of political movements and systems. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202622/32 What if we had listened to Politkovskaya’s warnings before it was too late? Of course, it is impossible to know. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202621/32 What if we had drawn a line instead of making ourselves dependent on Russian gas? If we had listened to Chechens, Ukrainians, Georgians and others who tried to sound the alarm? 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202620/32 What might the world have looked like if we had supported those trying to build free trade unions, political parties, cultural institutions and media in our vast neighbouring country? 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202619/32 His political godfather, Vladimir Putin, meanwhile almost swept the board in the Duma election, securing a supermajority of 355 of 450 seats. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202618/32 Just over two weeks ago, Ramzan Kadyrov “won” the Chechen election with 99.85% of the vote — a modest improvement on the 99.73% he received four years earlier. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202617/32 “That is exactly what is happening to Chechnya: We must stop the war ourselves. No one is going to help us.” 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202616/32 She wrote of moments when everyone distances themselves from you: when the waters get rough, even close friends pull away. You discover that you have no allies and simply have to deal with things yourself. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202615/32 She predicted: “The West will turn a deaf ear and adopt the view that ‘they are only fighting among themselves.’” She also wrote that “no one in Russia will care much about the slaughter, even if it was initiated from above.” 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202614/32 Abroad, however, Politkovskaya was a well-known and powerful voice. She criticised the UN and the international community for not taking Chechnya seriously enough and for allowing Putin to get away with it. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202613/32 Russian authorities limited her reach at home by blacklisting her from television and ignoring everything she uncovered — “as though nothing had been said and no one had noticed.” 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202612/32 She reported on mass graves and unofficial prisons where brutal torture and killings took place. She also warned early about where Russia was heading if such abuses were accepted. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202611/32 She wrote for Novoye Vremya and Novaya Gazeta, when free media still existed in Russia. She covered the second Chechen war from 1999 and exposed how Putin accepted systematic human-rights abuses, war crimes and corruption in the Russian Defence Ministry. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/202610/32 What “crimes” had Politkovskaya committed? Roughly the same ones American anti-fascists are now accused of by the Trump regime, after it defined “Antifa” as terrorism. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20269/32 Shortly before she was murdered, Dmitry Demushkin declared that “the Night of the Long Knives is near!” Similar wording used by the Slavic Union — abbreviated SS in Russian — appeared in near-identical form in Putin’s speeches soon afterwards. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20268/32 The list included anti-fascists, Jews and others accused of being “foreign agents” and “corrupt human-rights defenders.” One of those singled out was Anna Politkovskaya. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20267/32 News of Girenko’s killing was celebrated in parts of the media and on far-right websites. Around the same time, the Greater Russia party published a list of 47 alleged “enemies of the Russian people.” 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20266/32 Politkovskaya wrote that the reason was simple: the institutions meant to uphold law and order were themselves permeated by chauvinism and xenophobia, intensified under Putin and during the second Chechen war. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20265/32 Before Girenko was killed, fascists had issued a “death sentence” against him. As an expert witness, he had helped secure convictions of neo-Nazis who might otherwise have been acquitted. Few dared testify, even when offered witness protection. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20264/32 A few years earlier, anti-fascist academic and human-rights defender Nikolai Girenko had been shot dead in his apartment. Politkovskaya wrote in her diary that it was a political murder carried out by Russian fascists as a show of force. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20263/32 She drew lines back to Russia’s anti-Jewish pogroms and the Holocaust, trying to sound the alarm: “Remember this! We will all have to admit to our children and grandchildren that we were complicit in this fascism, and did nothing to stop it.” 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20262/32 While she was still alive, Anna Politkovskaya repeatedly pointed to parallels between Putin’s Russia and interwar fascism. In one report from Chechnya, she wrote that what was happening in Moscow was not fundamentally different. 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/20261/32 OPINION: We Should Have Listened to Anna Twenty years ago, Vladimir Putin received a birthday present that destroyed Russia. By Jonas Bals, author and section head at the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). 111
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/vi... English translation follows:dagsavisen.noVi skulle ha lyttet til AnnaFor 20 år siden fikk Vladimir Putin en bursdagsgave som ødela Russland. 110
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Can anyone please explain to me why a billionaire needs people to donate to his wedding? 161
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same as the rest of the world, if they could elect trump twice who the fuck knows which clown the hillbilly's will elect another time. One sane next president can't unfuck the fuckity 080
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What's the polymarked odds on trump tearing down the Kennedy center before the midterms so "they" have to rebuild it anyway? 000
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm so excited over this new EU <3 Canada relationship! But also saddened Norway still isn't in the EU. But we're kind of asociated members ourselves. 010
Reposted by WarHawkFellaJeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026REMEMBER: They all knew. 6131771210515
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The stock is tanking and there are 900 million shares ready to enter the market, he's desperate. Next he will merge Tesla and SpaceX so he will be closer to the 8500 billion milestone where his 1000 billion bonus will be paid. 020
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Nå skal ikke jeg forsvare Listhaug, men bensin og diesel pris er ikke bare basert på oljeprisen. Det avhenger av raffinerier også, og dermed lager beholdning og kapasitet. Nå er jeg heller ikke energi analytiker så jeg aner ikke hva prisen vil kunne bli, men det er som sagt andre faktorer enn råolje 020
Reposted by WarHawkFellaRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Oh how the cultists used to cheer at his campaign rallies when he said this. 498144025406
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It takes 5-10 years to open a new field, he probably thinks this will help him in the Hormuz 000
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026That McConnel is nowhere to be seen doesn't this mean that he, dead or alive, is holding up the "SAVE" act? Could this be Seante GOPs way of defying trump, without defying him directly? 110
WarHawkFella @realthomas.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Tbh my thoughts immediatly wandered to the same place 000
