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🇪🇺🇺🇦 EX-RUSSIA IS COMING. For decades, Europe has treated the Russian Federation as if it were eternal. It is not. Empires collapse. Dictatorships crack. Artificial federations held together by repression can unravel far faster than diplomats expect. Estonia’s intelligence chief https://t.co/H5QQEuUQ6F #ExRussia #EuropeanSecurity #IntelligenceInsights #EU #UA #RU #EE

The Deadly Seduction of Democratic Socialism Young people are being urged to support “democratic” socialism—ideas blamed for tens of millions of deaths in the last century—promising that consent will make it work this time. But consent cannot make an economic system wise. A ballot cannot set the right prices for wages, goods, or services, nor prevent shortages, repression, or famine. This isn’t fringe. New York elected Zohran Mamdani, who says there should be no billionaires and backs rent freezes, state-run grocery stores, free CUNY, and higher taxes. Polling shows strong support for socialism and communism among Americans under 30. The core error is believing resources can be taken from creators and transferred without losing the knowledge that made them productive. Mao’s China illustrates the outcome: land reform dispossessed and killed landowners, production collapsed as local expertise was treated as an enemy, and grain seizures during the Great Leap Forward worsened a catastrophic famine. The lesson: destroying incentives, property rights, and local knowledge destroys production itself. Envy is often disguised as justice. Communist regimes cultivated resentment and turned grievance into political energy, making societies less focused on creating wealth and more focused on making others lose it. Even when central planners tried to subordinate families to the state, people preserved knowledge through markets, private plots, and community practice. Civilization isn’t a machine bureaucrats can redesign. Take away property and you don’t automatically transfer knowledge—abundance can vanish with it. Redistribution may promise equality, but if it destroys the people, incentives, and knowledge that produce abundance, the result is a hungry one.

The Transitional Logic of Political Violence A recurring problem in revolutionary and religious political movements is that violence may be justified as a temporary measure for establishing a new political order, while the institutions created to suppress perceived enemies can become permanent. In Marxist-Leninist theory, the transition from capitalism to communism involved a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” The coercive state was ultimately expected to “wither away” once class conflict disappeared. In practice, however, revolutionary governments developed extensive systems of repression. The Russian Revolution was followed by the Red Terror, Stalin’s purges institutionalized persecution of alleged internal enemies, and Mao’s Cultural Revolution demonstrated how political repression could re-emerge long after revolutionary power had been established. A comparable dynamic can be examined in some interpretations of Islamic political thought, although the ideological foundations are different. Ridda (apostasy) has, in certain historical contexts, been associated with both religious and political disloyalty. The early Ridda Wars illustrate how religious and political boundaries could become intertwined. In modern history, the 1988 executions of political prisoners in Iran provide another example of religious or ideological accusations being used to justify state violence. The important question is not whether these traditions are identical—they are not—but whether their political applications can create similar institutional dynamics. When governments define groups as existential threats, extraordinary measures may initially be presented as temporary. Once institutionalized, however, the definition of the “enemy” can expand. The fundamental risk is that a transitional period of coercion may lack a mechanism for returning to normal political conditions. If authorities can continually redefine internal enemies, emergency powers can become permanent. The broader lesson is universal: political systems should be judged not only by the order they promise, but also by the safeguards that prevent temporary coercive powers from becoming permanent.

In Iran, since the beginning of the conflict with Israel and the United States, the regime has intensified its repression, resulting in the execution of 500 people, including twelve for espionage, particularly targeting teachers, students, and lawyers deemed influential. (translated)

Amira Hass, a reporter for Haaretz, denounces in an interview with La7 the complicity of the EU and the USA with Israel, emphasizing that most Israelis justify the violence against Palestinians, while calling for external intervention to stop the ongoing deportation and repression policies. (translated)

FEHLINGER VS BIA @VulinAleksandar I call on the European Union to investigate Serbia’s BIA and to examine its designation as a terrorist organization. @vonderleyen @kajakallas For me, the BIA is the Black Hand of today: a symbol of intimidation, spying, political repression and https://t.co/Or8DebxF5q #BIA #Serbia #Terrorism #RS #EU

The article addresses the Russian assault on the free press, criticizes the repression against journalists in Germany, and highlights the brutal persecution of Putin opponents like publisher Lew Schlossberg, who was sentenced to years in prison for his critical remarks, while the war in Ukraine continues to claim civilian lives. (translated)

After the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it looks like a new, hardline military leadership group, led by among others General Mohsen Rezaei, is taking power in Iran and is aiming to transform the country into a military dictatorship, focusing on repression and security. (translated)

Argentine President Javier Milei, in view of his candidacy for the 2027 elections, allies himself with the economic elites while facing increasing popular opposition and warnings from Amnesty International regarding the repression of dissent and the evictions of indigenous communities, in a context of social crisis that sees 48% of citizens in economic difficulty. (translated)

A new research paper by Daron Acemoglu examines the potentially threatening effects of artificial intelligence on democracy and discusses whether Marx's theories on class conflict could become relevant again in the context of automation and AI, while questioning capitalism on whether it maintains social stability through redistribution or repression. (translated)

1876–2026: 150 YEARS OF SERBIAN PERSECUTION, EXPULSION, ETHNIC CLEANSING AND MASS VIOLENCE AGAINST ALBANIANS. From the expulsions from Niš, Toplica, Jablanica and Vranje in 1877–1878, through the Balkan Wars, repression in the Yugoslav state, the Tito–Ranković era, Milošević’s https://t.co/Z64pDS0Cwj #SerbianPersecution #EthnicCleansing #AlbanianHistory #RS #XK