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Calling political purges, asset seizures and the dismantling of constitutional checks a “rule-of-law turnaround” is straight out of the radical-left Marxist playbook. The Democrats will love you. #RuleOfLaw #PoliticalPurge #Marxism #US

🇮🇹 SAVE MELONI FROM PUTIN’S TROJAN HORSE Italy faces a strategic choice. Roberto Vannacci is trying to build political momentum around positions that would weaken support for Ukraine, undermine NATO unity and reopen the door to normalization with Putin’s Russia. That is https://t.co/SQBtuHXl4J #SaveMeloni #Ukraine #NATO #IT #RU #UA

Hello, dear fellow Bulgarians! I am recording this video from Brussels. We are next to the European Parliament, where the new political season is already in full swing. Unfortunately, the problems facing the European continent and Bulgaria are piling up rather than diminishing. https://t.co/QZYoIhvAql #Bulgaria #EuropeanParliament #PoliticalSeason #BG #BE #EU

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“Socialism Was Good in Theory” That sentence assumes the theory was never seriously challenged. It was. Long before the Soviet Union existed, before Lenin seized power, and before socialism had been tested on a national scale, major thinkers were already attacking its foundations—from very different directions. Five of them stand out. Tocqueville: Equality Can Become Servitude In 1848, Alexis de Tocqueville drew a sharp distinction between democracy and socialism. Both spoke about equality. But Tocqueville believed they pursued it in fundamentally different ways. Democracy, in his view, sought equality while preserving individual freedom. Socialism risked achieving equality by expanding the power of the state over the individual. His warning was essentially this: equality is not automatically liberty. A society can pursue equality so aggressively that it begins sacrificing the independence that makes political freedom meaningful. Bastiat: Follow Where Redistribution Leads Two years later, Frédéric Bastiat attacked socialism from a different direction. His question was deceptively simple: What happens when the state acquires the authority to take from some people and give to others in the name of justice? Bastiat called this “legal plunder.” His concern was not merely that redistribution might be expensive. It was that once government becomes the instrument through which competing groups obtain benefits from one another, politics can turn into a permanent struggle over who controls the machinery of redistribution. The problem, therefore, wasn’t simply how much the state redistributed. It was the principle that made redistribution legitimate in the first place. (bastiat.org⁠) Nietzsche: Equality Can Become Resentment Nietzsche approached socialism neither as an economist nor as a constitutional theorist. He attacked its psychology. He saw modern egalitarian movements as part of a much older moral impulse: resentment toward exceptional individuals and suspicion of strength, ambition and hierarchy. For Nietzsche, the danger was not simply that everyone might become economically equal. It was that a culture could begin treating excellence itself as something morally suspect. The goal would cease to be lifting people upward. It would become bringing the exceptional downward. Böhm-Bawerk: Challenge the Economics Then came Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. In 1896, he turned his attention specifically toward Marx’s economic system. His criticism was not primarily moral or political. It was technical. Böhm-Bawerk argued that Marx’s theory of value did not adequately explain how the labor values developed in Capital could be reconciled with the actual prices Marx subsequently needed to explain. In other words, he attacked socialism where it claimed to possess a scientific economic foundation. The argument became one of the central criticisms of Marxian economics and helped launch a debate that would continue for generations. Mises: The Calculation Problem Then, in 1920, Ludwig von Mises attacked an even more fundamental question: Even if socialism is morally desirable, how would a socialist economy actually know what to produce? A functioning economy has millions of competing uses for scarce resources. Build a bridge or a hospital? Use steel here or there? Produce more machinery or more consumer goods? Under private ownership and markets, prices for capital goods provide information about relative scarcity and opportunity costs. Mises argued that abolishing private ownership of the means of production also removes the genuine market prices necessary for rational economic calculation. The problem wasn’t simply that socialist planners might make bad decisions. It was that the system deprived them of the very economic signals required to systematically compare those decisions. (Mises Institute⁠) And that was the sequence. Tocqueville challenged the political premise. Bastiat challenged the moral and legal mechanism of redistribution. Nietzsche challenged the psychology behind egalitarianism. Böhm-Bawerk challenged Marx’s economic theory. Mises challenged the possibility of rational central economic calculation. Five different thinkers. Five different objections. And all of them came before the Soviet Union had demonstrated what large-scale socialist government would actually look like. So “socialism was good in theory, but bad in practice” is not an argument. It is a historical claim that requires you to explain why these theoretical objections were wrong. The interesting question isn’t whether socialism had critics. It did. The interesting question is whether socialism ever adequately answered them” - ChatGPT

EUROPE MUST RECOGNISE THE REALITY: RUSSIA IS WAGING WAR AGAINST EUROPE. Not only in Ukraine. Russia is challenging Europe through military aggression, cyberattacks, sabotage, espionage, disinformation, political interference and threats against critical infrastructure. We https://t.co/DpFTC2EG10 #Russia #Europe #War #EU #RU #UA

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has been sworn in for a second five-year term following a disputed election and the arrest of his main opponent on treason charges https://t.co/u6cet40SPf #ZambiaElections #HakaindeHichilema #PoliticalTension #ZM

🔥 DISMANTLE THE HOSTILE NINE — H9 I am putting nine international structures on my political dismantling list: SCO • BRICS • OPEC • CSTO • EAEU • CIS • G20 • OIC • MECCA DEFENCE ALLIANCE By “dismantle” I mean peaceful political deconstruction: reduce their power, end #PoliticalDismantling #InternationalRelations #GlobalPowerShift #RU #IN #CN #SA #KZ #BR #TR #EG #ID #PK

🇮🇸 PUTIN WINS IN ICELAND? That is how I described the result of Iceland’s EU referendum — and Russian state television immediately picked it up. On 31 August 2026, Russia’s Channel One reported my statement that the Iceland result was another political victory for Vladimir https://t.co/E3YhlnSdmX #Iceland #Putin #EUreferendum #IS #RU

@Jabaluck It's not just about model capabilities. It's much more than that: Energy is a scarce resource, political acceptance probably even scarcer. Willingness and capability to work with AI another one. AI enthusiasts consistently do not think about the human factor (because they think #AI #Sustainability #HumanFactor #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

WHY WE LOST SOUTH VIETNAM 🇻🇳🇺🇸 South Vietnam was not lost because defending it was wrong. It was lost because Washington destroyed its own political credibility and eventually lost the will to continue. Kennedy backed the 1963 coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm and https://t.co/vreYRakzjp #SouthVietnam #VietnamWar #PoliticalCredibility

Austria must confront Putinism and the Russian “Z” war ideology with the same seriousness it applies to other anti-democratic extremist movements. @_CStocker No tolerance for organizations, propaganda networks or symbols that glorify Russia’s war of aggression, political violence #Austria #Putinism #NoWar #AT #RU

I ACCUSE KENNEDY OF POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF DIỆM Catholic President John F. Kennedy turned against Catholic President Ngô Đình Diệm. Washington encouraged the generals plotting against Diệm, maintained contacts with the coup-makers and ultimately https://t.co/ZX18lNNIyZ #Kennedy #Diệm #Assassination #US #VN

Interview by @ObservateursCH, a French-language Swiss conservative-sovereigntist outlet, covering the political situation in Hungary, the challenges facing the national camp and the future of Europe’s patriotic movement. After sixteen years, many voters wanted change. As #Hungary #PatrioticMovement #PoliticalChange #FR #HU

🇩🇪 In an AfD Stronghold, #Germany Confronts Its Political Future - Bloomberg https://t.co/5dodkEM0ty https://t.co/2diznpYemX #AfD #Germany #Politics #DE

REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN NOW. 🇮🇷 A government that answers protest with prison, torture and executions has no moral legitimacy. The Islamic Republic has had decades to reform. Instead, it has built a system of fear around the IRGC, political prisons, censorship and the gallows. The https://t.co/ooOHHOcF4w #IranProtests #RegimeChange #HumanRights #IR

Austria must not sleepwalk into a new era of political extremism. Today, radical pro-Palestinian far-left activists occupied the Google data-center construction site in Kronstorf. They openly link their campaign to anti-Israel politics, anti-capitalism and militant direct https://t.co/dLeb4rSblx #Austria #PoliticalExtremism #AntiCapitalism #AT

Russia tested the intercontinental ballistic missile Yars, which has a range of nearly 12,000 kilometers and can carry multiple nuclear warheads, thus sending a warning signal to the West and demonstrating its military strength following recent events in Ukraine. (translated)

„Zírali a mlčeli. Snad ani nerozuměli rusky.“ Srpen 1968 očima rozhlasové elévky

1975 was not an unavoidable tragedy. It was a political decision. South Vietnam was fighting for survival against a communist North armed and supplied by the Soviet Union and China. And Washington walked away. The Democratic-controlled Congress cut South Vietnam’s military https://t.co/ZvZyFVVjUU #VietnamWar #PoliticalDecision #HistoryMatters #VN #RU #CN #US

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🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu: "My wife and I were shocked to learn about the repeated attempt to assassinate Trump and his wife. "There is no place for violence, neither against political leaders nor anyone else." https://t.co/TtvTuEX0yv #Netanyahu #TrumpAssassination #NoViolence #IL #US

Never again. We will not permit the political perversion of National Security for partisan purposes in contravention of our Constitution. We are not the @BarackObama or @JoeBiden @WhiteHouse. #NationalSecurity #Constitution #PoliticalIntegrity #Nospecificcountrycodesarepresentinthetweet.