The EU agrees to Canada's status as an associate country with the Union, similar to Norway. In Brussels, it is said that even on better terms than Norwegian and Swiss with "open doors for full accession to the Union." (translated)
There is one thing that has made Poland and the UK similar since the 90s. It was maximum savings on defense because "there are no threats now, only missions in distant corners of the world, meaning men in flip-flops and with AK-47s as enemies." And the money returned to the budget or (translated)
If anyone is asking, this key critical infrastructure facility had no air defense. No defense at all. (translated)
Russians are running out of time, the cunning plan to capture Kramatorsk and Sloviansk is tearing at the seams, and the war reporters complain that it is worse than during World War II... now together with @MarekKozubel at @KremlinkaShow (translated)
"We will fight for peace until not a stone is left standing on the West" - Leonid Brezhnev 1976 year (translated)
One of the best African investigative journalists shows how Russia organizes and fuels the migration crisis. (translated)
The Americans have already declared that they will not comply with the UN's arrangements; Europe and Asia - for the most part - will approve them. Thus, we will have two different maps of the world - European and American. (translated)
Very interesting: there are growing concerns that during the USA-Russia meeting in Geneva, the rules for the use of autonomous weapons containing AI will be quietly established, which are very broad, and that both countries will then try to impose them on the rest of the world. (translated)
It turns out that based on "appropriately targeted ads for users" and actually their trackers, Iran - or rather the Russians and Chinese helping it - can create maps of American targets in the Middle East. The effects of new technologies are becoming more interesting... (translated)
It seems that the core of the Polish National Army has already been established and now the recruitment of volunteers is starting... (translated)
Let's not kid ourselves, it's just coming to light that we will have a damn, extremely big problem with the repairs of the SpW from Korea in case of W. Minister Błaszczak's negotiations, which should be included in textbooks at SGH as an example of the absolute position of the order from the ordering party, (translated)
Solidaridad con Ceuta y con su gente: la ciudad necesita apoyo real —más recursos, personal sanitario y educativo, alojamientos dignos y coordinación estatal y europea—, no solo palabras grandilocuentes. Pero llamar “asalto” o hablar de agresión para referirse a personas que huyeron en masa corre el riesgo de criminalizar a víctimas y de alimentar un discurso securitario y xenófobo que no soluciona nada. Defender la integridad territorial no puede ser excusa para instrumentalizar el dolor de la población ceutí ni para escamotear responsabilidades en materia de frontera y política migratoria. Las concentraciones pueden servir para expresar unidad, siempre que sean inclusivas y dejen claro que la protección de los derechos humanos y el cumplimiento del asilo y las obligaciones internacionales son innegociables. No más polarización: soluciones serias y humanas ya. ✊🙂
Today's day is a day of heroism of soldiers and officers on one side, and incompetence and chaos in the higher command on the other. The question is: could we have defended ourselves longer? The answer is - we could, but not for long. Since we could not even win time, because it is not only 1. (translated)
"Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met on the sidelines of a Group of 20 gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, the Russian government said in a statement. The two officials discussed bilateral financial cooperation and cooperation #G20 #Finance #BilateralCooperation #RU #US
Carlos Martens-Bilongo a raison : quand des projets politiques mettent en péril nos libertés publiques, il est non seulement légitime mais nécessaire que les syndicats et la société civile se mobilisent. Les syndicats ne sont pas des fauteurs de trouble, ce sont des contre-pouvoirs démocratiques qui protègent les droits des travailleuses et travailleurs, la liberté de manifester, et l’existence même de services publics accessibles à tous. Dire non aux régressions ne veut pas dire refuser le débat démocratique, au contraire — cela signifie défendre la pluralité, l’État de droit et les protections sociales qui permettent à chacun·e de vivre dignement. À gauche et au centre-gauche, notre rôle est de construire des alternatives concrètes, de préparer des mobilisations pacifiques et de convaincre dans la rue comme aux urnes. Face aux tentatives de fragiliser nos droits, la passivité n’est pas une option : solidarité avec les syndicats, engagement citoyen et défense résolue des libertés fondamentales. Les libertés ne se marchent pas au rabais.
Orthodox Catholics being killed by other Orthodox Catholics at the behest of a government flirting with Muslim countries in the region, which are already starting to perceive Ethiopia as a Muslim country... nobody made this up, it is happening by itself. (translated)
Perhaps it's time to announce this brutally: as an air defense, I predict that in case of an emergency, it will protect critical infrastructure, the most important military targets (and there will be quite a few) and try to block the most important routes for Russian drones and ballistic missile attacks. (translated)
Things are happening, and it's intense… Russian soldiers are disappearing in the Dnieper Islands and the Kinburn Spit. As a result of Ukrainian drone operations, other soldiers are starving, and war bloggers are talking about it, claiming that there are even proven cases of death from starvation… how to connect this… hmmm… now in (translated)
Very pointed. Let's add that even party professors are beginning to warn that China faces a pension crisis on an unprecedented scale. To make matters worse, attempts to patch this crisis through immigration of even low-paid workers from Central Asia have been in place from the beginning. (translated)
A Task Force Falcon Strike is being formed under the command of CENTCOM as drone strike forces. They are supposed to be international, but this "international" is so secret that "regional partners" from the Gulf are involved, and then it's no longer clear. (translated)