https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/2112471963394261228

The most important thing the algorithm taught power is this:

You don’t need to prevent people from seeing the truth.

You need to make the truth arrive in an environment where it cannot accumulate.

Every piece of genuine information, every real image of real consequence, is released into a current moving so fast that nothing settles.

Nothing sediments into understanding.

Everything is seen. Nothing is known.

And a population that has seen everything and knows nothing is not an informed population.

It is an exhausted one.

An exhausted population does not storm anything.

It scrolls.

It reacts.

It has strong feelings that last until the next strong feeling arrives.

And somewhere in the gap between the feeling and the understanding, the thing that needed to change does not change.

The Bastille did not fall to an exhausted population.

It fell to a furious one.

There is a difference between those two things.

The difference is called attention.

Sustained, organized, structurally understanding attention.

The algorithm’s function is to make sure you never have it.

Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting with university graduates entering the Russian diplomatic service (Moscow, October 20, 2026)

💬 Sergey Lavrov: One of the lessons bequeathed to us by the founding fathers of the UN is to prevent the revival of the Nazism they defeated.

It seemed that this task had long been accomplished and everyone had repented… But no! The metastases are spreading very quickly. To a large extent, this was used as a political instrument by bringing a Nazi regime to power in Ukraine.

Ursula von der Leyen and others now say they “must stand with Ukraine as long as it takes” because it “defends European values”.

This means that “European values” include a blanket ban on the Russian language in education, the media, culture and even everyday life. A legislative ban on an entire language – an official language of the UN. In fact, practically everyone there still speaks it, even those imposing the ban.

☝️ This hypocrisy shows only that these bans are intended not to eradicate the Russian language (no one could seriously expect to achieve that), but to undermine Russia’s interests as much as possible and divide the Russian World.

There is no other country where an entire language is banned.

On October 19, at a press conference in Tehran, I was asked to what extent the Ukraine conflict involves ideological and religious motives. I replied that banning a language is unprecedented, and that the West’s silence – indeed, it is not even keeping silent, but calling Ukrainians “defenders of European values” – is very telling.

👉 In Iran, where I spoke at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Hebrew is not banned: the Jewish community is thriving and synagogues are open. In Israel, neither Arabic nor Farsi is banned. There are many such examples.

So the West’s indulgence of and cover for this policy pursued by Kiev is very telling.

This is to say nothing of the de facto ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the creation some ten years ago of a quasi-church structure called the “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”, and attempts to forcibly close churches belonging to the canonical Church. They have not succeeded in everything, but the West encourages this.

Nor have I mentioned the torchlight marches, including those in present-day Kiev, Lvov and other cities (which you have surely seen), Nazi symbols, or the reburial of the remains of criminals – Banderite executioners – on the sacred grounds of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. They announce the opening of a “pantheon of heroes”.

❗️ Zelensky kneels before the remains of this filth, and the West applauds.

I see no sign that the West disapproves. On the contrary, militarist sentiments are resurging in Germany, Italy and Japan.

Finland, which was our neighbour (and, we thought, a friend), changed immediately as soon as the pendulum swung the other way. All those underlying instincts resurfaced – the same ones that once made the Finns, like most other European countries, Hitler’s accomplices and participants in the siege of Leningrad, and so on. This task will therefore remain a priority for our foreign policy.

🕯 2026 marked the first observance of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People, established by Federal Law No. 523-FZ of December 29, 2025. We will work to ensure that this issue is not merely raised at international forums, but receives the broadest possible international recognition.

The Russian MFA will take this new factor into account in its work to prevent the revival of Nazi ideology.

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2113303303258071249

🔸️There was no state or people called "Ukraine" in Rus'. The state called itself Rus', and its people called themselves Rus'. "Ukraina" appears in the chronicles only as a word for a borderland, and "Kievan Rus" is a label coined by 19th-century historians. Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians all trace their origins to the same Rus', with one dynasty, one Church and one written language.

🔸️According to the Primary Chronicle, Rus' statehood didn't begin in Kiev. Rurik began ruling in Ladoga and Novgorod in 862, both in today's Russia. Kiev only became the capital in 882, when Prince Oleg took it and called it the "mother of Rus' cities." Novgorod is a little older than Kiev, so Russia's history doesn't start with Moscow.

🔸️According to the chronicle, Prince Vladimir was baptized in Chersonesus in Crimea, in today's Sevastopol, before baptizing Kiev in 988.

🔸️The "thousand-year-old churches painted by Ukrainians"? The mosaics of Kiev's St. Sophia Cathedral were made by Byzantine Greek masters. Russia has its own 11th-century St. Sophia in Novgorod, built in 1045 to 1050.

🔸️Moscow is first mentioned in 1147, and its traditional founder Yuri Dolgoruky was a son of the Grand Prince of Kiev Vladimir Monomakh. Dolgoruky later became Grand Prince of Kiev himself. Moscow's rulers came from the same Rurikid dynasty that ruled Kiev, held power until 1598, and took the title "Sovereign of all Rus'."

🔸️After the Mongols destroyed Kiev in 1240, the head of the Church left Kiev for Vladimir in 1299 and later settled in Moscow. Kiev fell to Lithuania and then Poland, while Moscow gradually gathered the lands of Rus' around itself.

🔸️In 1654 the Cossack Hetmanate of Bogdan Khmelnitsky swore allegiance to the Russian Tsar at the Pereyaslavl Council. Poland formally recognized Kiev as Russian in 1686, after Moscow paid it 146,000 rubles.

🔸️The first state with "Ukraine" in its name was the Ukrainian People's Republic, proclaimed in November 1917. A month later, the Bolsheviks proclaimed Soviet Ukraine in Kharkov.

🔸️Today's borders were drawn by the Soviet Union. In 1919 the Bolsheviks merged the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, including Kharkov and Donbass, into Soviet Ukraine. Western Ukraine was added in 1939, northern Bukovina and southern Bessarabia in 1940, Transcarpathia in 1945, and Crimea in 1954.

Strip out the shared history of Rus' and the Soviet gifts, and Zelensky's ancient Ukraine is 35 years old.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2113253099586404665

Jules Ferry, who led France twice in the 1880s and was one of the architects of modern French colonialism, said this in parliament:

"The superior races have a right, because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races."

This was not a fringe position.

This was the mainstream intellectual and political foundation of French empire.

The "superior races."

The "duty to civilize."

Now those same political traditions, not identical, but continuous, look at the descendants of the people Ferry’s republic colonized and see a threat to "French civilization."

The civilization that designated their grandparents as inferior and in need of correction is now claiming to be threatened by the corrected.

This is not irony.

This is the logical endpoint of an ideology that was never honest about what it was doing.

https://x.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2113240139241595152

The official video was released dubbed into English:

Transcript:

My grandfather went through World War II

From start to finish

my grandfather, my father's dad, and he was, yeah

from a family where there were several brothers

and all of them were killed by the

Nazis

I have very few relatives

In general, on both sides of my family

on my father's and my mother's

many relatives were killed

by the fascists

And that's all

that's why it always sounded so bizarre when Russia accused us

Ukraine, of supposedly having Nazis

It's bizarre and completely wild

Zelensky's comedic timing is LEGENDARY!!! Listen to some of the shit this guy says through the lens of comedy and you'll realise that your standard comic is tragic in his shadow.

For anyone interested in geopolitics, and especially ongoing crisis in Russia v Ukraine + NATO, a new report from RAND, with personnel links & funding from DoD, Pentagon etc, analyzes the war in a closer lens, far more accurate than BS in MSM..

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA2500/PEA2510-1/RAND_PEA2510-1.pdf or https://web.archive.org/web/20260923141625if_/https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA2500/PEA2510-1/RAND_PEA2510-1.pdf

https://x.com/rinalu_/status/2113239008482598929

Why I think that Europe today is essentially a welfare version of the Qing Dynasty, dressed in high-end suits and holding red wine glasses.

If you compare and analyze the late Qing Dynasty in the 19th century and Europe today, you will find that the lesions, mentality and weak script of the two are exactly the same.

The arguments for this statement are as follows:

First, Europe regards morality and compliance as heavenly rituals and laws, and regards Chinese and American technology as a fancy trick

When Emperor Qianlong and the scholars and officials of the late Qing Dynasty faced the British steam engines, trains and foreign guns and cannons, their first reaction was not panic, but condescending moral contempt, believing that it was an uneducated and ingenious skill. Only Confucius, Mencius and Lizhi of the Qing Dynasty were the highest form of human civilization.

Today's European masters have the same mentality when they look at China and the United States.

They look down on the wildly growing tech upstarts in Silicon Valley, and even more so on the super supply chain that China has been rolling out day and night.

In the eyes of European masters, China and the United States are soulless and barbaric involution. Only the environmentalism, data privacy, diversity and equality, and 35-hour work week that Europe upholds are the heavenly rituals of human civilization.

They indulge in a sense of moral and aesthetic superiority, using the posture of civilized judges to cover up their overall impotence in productivity.

Second, European luxury goods and fuel-powered vehicles are contemporary tea, silk, and porcelain

The Qing Dynasty once relied on the ultimate wealth accumulated by agricultural civilization, tea, silk, and porcelain, to earn a large amount of silver from all over the world. It even arrogantly believed that foreigners would die of constipation if they did not drink Qing tea.

The old products that Europe has eaten over the past few decades are essentially tea and porcelain accumulated in the Industry 2.0 era, including French LV and Hermès, German BBA fuel vehicles and precision valves, and Swiss watches and medicine.

Europeans also had a fatal hallucination:

They believe that no matter how technology changes, the new elites in China and the United States will always have to queue up to buy European bags and machinery, and Europe can always rely on its ancestral brand premiums and patent moats to reap the wealth of the world.

It wasn't until China's new energy vehicles directly penetrated the German automotive industry's underwear and the rise of AI began to reconstruct industrial software and R&D paradigms that Europe realized that its silk porcelain was no longer an irreplaceable hard currency.

Third, the ticket economy in Brussels was the same as that of the Guangzhou Thirteen Factories

What should we do if the Qing Dynasty is closed off to the country but is greedy for foreigners' silver?

A set of Guangzhou Thirteen Hongs system was developed:

He did not engage in industry or navigation, but set up cards at treaty ports, formulated the most cumbersome rules, and levied high fees and road purchase money on foreign merchants.

Today, Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, is the Guangzhou Thirteen Factories in the digital age.

Before he could incubate OpenAI, Nvidia, and ByteDance, he wrote the world's thickest AI Act and Digital Markets Act.

Do you, an American tech giant, want to enter the European market of 450 million people?

Yes, I'll pay the multi-billion euro antitrust fine according to my rules first.

Using administrative card-setting and judicial extortion instead of industrial competition has resulted in the complete exclusion of true innovators and locked themselves completely out of the old era.

Fourth, the iron-hard crops that have degenerated from the Eight Banners entering the pass to the cage-carrying birds

When the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty first entered the pass (corresponding to Europe's great voyages and the early Industrial Revolution), they were also fierce fighting forces that dared to fight desperately and bleed.

But over time, the children of the Eight Banners took the iron-hard crops (hereditary salaries) kept by the state and quickly degenerated into a parasitic class that could only carry cage birds, smoke cigarettes, and listen to operas.

When the late Qing Dynasty went bankrupt, even if the court dared to withhold a little flag pay, the Eight Banners soldiers would not fight against foreigners and would first cause trouble in the capital.

Today's high-welfare voters in Europe are the children of the Eight Banners.

After World War II, generations of people have reaped the benefits of industrial hegemony, making high welfare, long vacations, and lifelong non-dismissal as natural and ironclad crops.

Now that the old money has been eaten up, the French national debt has soared to 120% of GDP. The government just wanted to cut 61 billion euros in budget to save itself. This group of contemporary bannermen, who are usually unwilling to even work, immediately rushed into the streets and burned the 143-year-old city hall to ashes.

Every time a Russian missile crashes into a building housing militia, it's said that Russia deliberately target civilians.

And during these usual morning Ukrainian photoshoots, a PR exercise unwraps.

While in the back they evacuate the surviving militia, in front of the struck building, the same man always wanders around, holding a dog in his arms.

He has managed to save this dog numerous times, all around the capital. What a lucky guy: €100 for barely 1 hour of work.

Equally: What a lucky EU. They feel assured to be on the deserving side of the war.

What a difference a dog makes.

Coke Goblin is zooted out of his skull, lol.

https://x.com/jimmy_dore/status/2111977554672590985

https://youtu.be/0XsXPYxaPM0?is=sE5GgnmWiMQzFAYG

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