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Svetozar

@svetozar.bsky.social
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History buff, retired public servant, fan of Central Europe, as well as other cultures and languages. Former student of literature. Need to devote more time to reading my many books. Best found in a tavern behind a mug of dark beer.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 4h
💥 Russian war crimes are so bad, I can't even post them. Most people could not look at them without some emotional damage. This documentary gives an early account of the war in Ukraine. 💥 20 Days in Mariupol [Full] Ukraine | Academy Winner | FRONTLINE + APNews (2023) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAy...
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20 Days in Mariupol (full documentary) | Academy Award® Winner | FRONTLINE + @AssociatedPress
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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Darth Tugmutton @sheeparecheaper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 21h
🔴 Over the past month, Russia has launched a wave of sabotage operations across Europe and near its borders. 🧵 1/11 ⬇️
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bookgato.bsky.social @bookgato.bsky.social · 15h
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 02/10/2026
⚡ Russian-linked saboteurs attempted to blow up a Ukrainian An-124 cargo plane at Leipzig Airport, investigation reveals. united24media.com/world/russia...
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Russian-Linked Saboteurs Tried to Blow Up Ukrainian An-124 at Leipzig Airport, Investigation Finds
Oleg Levushkin is suspected of planning a failed Leipzig-Halle Airport sabotage using a drone to attack a Ukrainian Antonov An-124, investigation shows.
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 02/10/2026
"European officials are warning of the risk of Moscow intensifying its hybrid campaign aimed at increasing pressure on Ukraine's allies." Europeans really need to get beyond the idea that Russia is planning for a hybrid war. This is what preparations for a real war look like.
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Russia increases military spending as Putin prepares for years of war, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg reports Russia's draft 2027 budget shows record military spending, a 40% jump, signaling Putin is preparing for a prolonged war.
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Bunkerhunter @bunkerhunter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Putin rüstet für einen Krieg mit Europa, und Europa ist dafür nicht vorbereitet. Im Gegenteil „Einerseits herrschen in der EU kriegsfeindliche Stimmungen, die Russland zu verstärken versucht. Und genau auf diese Stimmungen spielt auch die AfD in Deutschland ein.“ Düstere Analyse von A. Kovalenko
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Philippe Poigeaud @philippepoigeaud.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Commander Andrii Biletskyi personally spoke with Russian POWs captured during Operation "Vivaldi." In total, the 3rd Army Corps has taken more than 250 enemy soldiers prisoner Severe hunger, exhaustion, abandoned casualties, and execution orders for retreating have pushed not just Russian infantry,
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 02/10/2026
President of France has to be among the top 3 most difficult jobs on earth. Anything you do, literally anything, stuff goes up in flames. Petrol prices too high? France burns. Petrol prices too low? France burns. Action? Flames. Inaction? Believe it or not, also flames. All fun, 24/7 365 days a year
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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Paris
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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The President has no idea how to end this war. And it could get worse: what will he do once the midterms are behind him and gas prices no longer cost him votes? My former CIA and NSC colleagues Cole Bucy and Nate Swanson lay out the trap in Foreign Policy:
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OTD in 1951 *2nd* wave of Operation Osen's deportations began. Over 16000 Lithuanians were forcibly sent to Siberia as USSR continued to liberate them from fascism & also their freedom 6 years after WW2 ended. Imagine mass deportations happening today?
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Svetozar @svetozar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US leaving the global stage, starting with Europe... wapo.st/4hVX59I
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Trump defies Democrats, diverts aid for Europe to Latin America instead
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars Congress approved for countries impacted by the war in Ukraine.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Europe braces for ‘severe hybrid attacks’ from Russia, says Merz www.ft.com/content/0499...
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Europe braces for ‘severe hybrid attacks’ from Russia, says Merz
German chancellor says Moscow’s escalation shows ‘desperation’ over war in Ukraine
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is basically the state paying for every job created for a decade.
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Lawmakers told Iowa steel plant could get $1.36 billion in tax credits
State officials have told lawmakers that a tax incentive package for a new steel plant in southeast Iowa could be worth as much as $1.36 billion.
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Svetozar @svetozar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's hoping Merz can dig in and rally Germany to support Ukraine.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten: "Russia poses a rapidly increasing threat to the NATO Alliance: in the Baltic States, where Moscow has cast its long shadows for many years. In the North Sea, where the shadow fleet operates with increasing impunity.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/ Russia's double attack on a major Kyiv bridge today marks a significant change in Russian tactics, reportedly aided by a new cumulative warhead for the Geran drone which has been designed to damage bridge supports. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/maks...
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For four years, Sen. Ron Wyden has followed Epstein’s money. Now he’s found an FBI interview with one of Epstein’s bankers that the Trump regime kept out of the Epstein files. My write-up in the link in the comments.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Glad to see GOP candidates tackling the real pocketbook issues: transgender pond life.
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Svetozar @svetozar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a world where friends matter. Hat tip to macspaunday.substack.com
Trump admin holds NATO meeting without inviting all NATO members, including key players.
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Svetozar @svetozar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, MAGA tells their version of "America's story" and a different welcome mat, now this. Imagine the impact on businesses. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Decline in tourism hits US economy
Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 30/09/2026
‼️ Ukraine's Foreign Ministry urges international community to demand Russia end siege of Oleshky
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Ukraine's Foreign Ministry urges international community to demand Russia end siege of Oleshky
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called for immediate international pressure on Russia to secure humanitarian access to occupied Oleshky and end the humanitarian crisis.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mobilization in Russia is already underway. Between 2024 and 2026, Russia built an infrastructure of permanent mobilization that allows it to continuously expand and replenish its armed forces without launching a politically conspicuous new nationwide mobilization campaign⤵️
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Relentless Russian terror on Ukrainian civilians.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Naturally, when Amy Klobuchar tries to politely point out to Eric Schmitt that the entire premise of his grand conspiracy on Jack Smith might be mistaken because he was confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, Schmitt interrupts and starts yelling at Klobuchar. MAGA!
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 29/09/2026
⚡ Gogolfest returned to Zaporizhzhia just 30 km from the frontline, moving art underground into bomb shelters and theaters. united24media.com/life-in-ukra...
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Art Goes Underground in Zaporizhzhia as GOGOLFEST Returns 30 Km From Frontline
GOGOLFEST Pokrova will bring theater, music, and workshops to Zaporizhzhia underground venues, 30 km from the frontline, from October 1 to 4.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can’t defeat Ukraine on battlefield. My strategy is: 1 Bomb hospitals, schools,power & stations to create refugees 2 Fund anti western & anti refugee parties in west 3 Humiliate western leaders who want appeasement 4 Repeat www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘This is terrorism’: daytime Russian strike hits science academy in Kyiv
Jet-powered drones are increasingly targeting Ukraine’s capital, with medical centre also hit
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥 A Russian strike against the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 9/28/26
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The WSJ piece on Robert Brovdi’s command bunker is worth reading. Not for the aesthetics, though the NASA-meets-Prymachenko description is vivid. It is worth reading for what it quantifies about how Ukraine is actually fighting. The alarm-clock device on his desk is the detail that should stick.
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Svetozar @svetozar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Darth Putin hits it out of the park. darthputinkgb.substack.com/p/the-agency...
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The agency of Russia. How this war was normalised.
Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to deny the world’s largest nuclear power is responsible for its actions. How. And why.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 26/09/2026
Council of Europe rights commissioner Michael O’Flaherty is calling for an immediate local ceasefire in Oleshky, saying civilians, including children, are trapped and face a high risk of death as basic services and supplies collapse. www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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Ukraine: The rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Oleshky demands attention and action
Strasbourg 25 September 2026
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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Die Fraktionsvorsitzende der CDU Heidenau erklärt die Stolpersteine (sie nennt diese despektierlich "so'n silbern-goldener Stein") seien ihr ohnehin "noch nie aufgefallen". Ein Stolperstein für den früheren Bürgermeister von Heidenau liegt direkt vor dem Rathaus, aus dem Sie hier gerade spricht.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting bsky.app/profile/chri...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 25/09/2026
⚡️ Estonia estimates 1.5 million Russians involved in the war could pose a future security threat to Europe. Calls to ban Russian military personnel from entering the EU continue to grow.
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
honestly think the Venera probes were the Soviet Union's greatest accomplishment; if nothing else, they produced some of the most spectacularly alien & eerie images in the history of space exploration
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CDU's Knut Abraham called it support for Putin's war. Green MP Robin Wagener said the text was written in the Kremlin. SPD's Ralf Stegner told AfD deputies they stand on Russia's side. When three mainstream parties use nearly identical language, the problem is not rhetorical excess.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This protection racket operates under a parliamentary letterhead. Demanding repayment from a country fighting an existential war while blocking the security it needs to survive long enough to pay anything is wrong. The Bundestag reaction was unusually direct.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We saw multiple vans & buggies bringing people of all ages to the site. Some attendees...said they came to get vaccinated because they were scared of getting sick. They explained that many people in the Plain community have contracted measles, & they wanted to protect themselves and their children"
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Peach Bottom clinic draws families seeking protection from measles
A pop-up vaccination clinic in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, hosted by the state health department, provided measles vaccines to members of the Plain community and other people in the area amid rising c...
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1673 days ago.
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Svetozar @svetozar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One thing I like about the French, when they make up their minds, they don't fuck around.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Géopolitique @geopolitique.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Europe / Incendies criminels, sabotages et opérations de déstabilisation / Russie / L’armée de l’ombre de Poutine
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L’armée de l’ombre de Poutine | ARTE
YouTube video by ARTE
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Financial Times A7 exposé into the Kremlin's ability to permeate Western financial institutions with $7bn in forged financial instruments was the most important financial reporting of the last month. It was not pick up or reported on in US corporate media.
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Agnieszka Brugger @agnieszka-brugger.de · 24/09/2026
Herr Pistorius, Deutschland muss endlich zeigen, dass wir den klaren Willen haben, unsere Sicherheit als Europa gemeinsam & souveräner in die Hand zu nehmen! Nach dem Scheitern von FCAS brauchen wir einen europäischen Plan B, der uns unabhängig macht - auch von der USA.
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