I cannot believe what I’m witnessing in Kyiv tonight. Priests at the Kyiv Lavra one of the holiest Christian sites in Europe are rushing to save crucifixes, icons and sacred artefacts while Russia attacks the city. This is what Moscow’s “Christian values” look like.

Europe Wins Again. Obviously. Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire. They chose Europe. This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost. Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant. Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you. Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story. Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage. So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings. The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling. Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1 x.com/LesiaLVD/status/206374…

2008 год. Россия начала военное вторжение в Грузию. Президент Польши Качиньский в Тбилиси призвал объединиться и дать отпор России, пока не поздно: «Сегодня - Грузия, завтра - Украина, потом - страны Балтии». Его тогда не услышали. Через два года его самолет разбился в России

Biden got Gish gallopped in that meeting. He shouldn’t have tried to make sence of the rubbish he was spewed but just made a ‘😳 are you demented’, but he’s too decent for that, isn’t he? cnn.com/2026/06/01/politics/…

Lose weight isn’t excellent health, and why pop Asperin for thinner blood? cnn.com/2026/05/29/politics/…

Around 50 UN member states, including EU countries, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea, signed a statement condemning Russia’s threats of systematic strikes on Kyiv. The US did not sign. The true free world has made its position clear.

holy fuck. russia is admitting that the front is breaking !!!!

One of my favorite videos from last year. Italian politician @CarloCalenda shuts down Jeffrey Sachs and his propaganda bullshit. "Are you calling me a liar?" "Yes."

OMG this is good news. I really hope it is true! 🙏

Reported Trump is headed AGAIN to Walter Reed for another EXAM! Thoughts? 💭

Lavrov is claiming that the enemy, under the banners of Nazism and revanchism, is creating an all-European assault group to attack Russia.

🇷🇺🇮🇱🇺🇦 Israeli military observer Yigal Levin criticizes Moscow’s strikes and writes: 🗣️ “Lately, Moscow has been trying more and more often to present its large-scale attacks as ‘retaliatory strikes.’ As if this is a response to Ukraine’s effective and massive attacks on Russian territory. Moreover, unlike Russia’s strikes on peaceful civilian objects, Ukraine targets oil refineries, military factories, ships, logistical hubs, arsenals, ports, army and FSB headquarters, etc. This thesis is absurd from the very beginning, because it was Russia that started the war. Accordingly, all of Ukraine’s actions are a reaction. That is, when Kyiv strikes Russia, it is actually responding to aggression. This is completely logical: war can never be a ‘one-sided game.’ If you decide to bomb someone, you must be prepared for them to bomb you back. Russia, on the other hand, behaves in an extremely infantile way — just like its citizens, who express surprise when explosions and strikes begin on their own territory as well. Instead of taking responsibility — yes, we started it, we are bombing, so what? — Moscow, like a frightened and confused teenager, tries to present its own strikes as ‘responses’… Responses to what? No special intelligence is needed to engage elementary logic: no one was bombing Russia and no one was preparing to do so until Russia itself started the war. What will happen next is quite clear: while Russia has been attacking with full force for a long time, using the same ‘Oreshnik’ for the third time already — Ukraine’s strikes will only intensify. In 2022, Ukraine struck weaker than in 2023; in 2024 — weaker than in 2025; and now it is 2026, when sometimes Kyiv’s strikes already surpass Moscow’s in terms of the scale of damage inflicted. War has its own inexorable logic of progression: Ukraine’s next strikes, the real retaliatory strikes, will be even more massive and powerful than they were at the beginning of the year. And yes, Russians should be endlessly grateful to Ukrainians for how they are conducting this war. For example, with the same FP-5 type drones that carry a ton of explosives, striking the civilian population would not be difficult at all. And yes, Ukraine has this capability. It has the capability, but Kyiv chooses not to take this path. And when the war ends, if I were in the Russians’ place, I would express gratitude and respect to Ukrainians precisely for this restraint. But as long as the war continues, every Russian citizen must clearly understand that strikes from Ukraine will only increase, and there is only one party responsible for all of this — the Kremlin. These are quite banal and obvious thoughts, but what can we do if Russian society continues to behave infantilely. The problem is that this infantilism is taking on a bloody form.” Video is generated by grok AI

It is absurd that anyone thinks we need to offer concessions to Moscow. We owe Russia nothing. They owe us for shattering their agreements and committing genocide in Europe. It is time we start making the demands. Russia is in no position to dictate

Today the russians opened an art Pavilion at Venice Biennale to convince the world they are a civilised country. Today they also did this

Europe keeps asking how much Ukraine needs help. Stubb asked the question that changes everything. ㅤ Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said he has always supported Ukraine’s EU and NATO membership. But his strongest point was bigger than membership: he said no military in Europe — or even the United States — can conduct modern warfare the way Ukraine is doing it now. ㅤ His message was simple: Europe should stop seeing Ukraine only as a country that needs protection and start asking what Europe needs to learn from Ukraine. ㅤ Ukraine is not waiting outside Europe’s security system. Ukraine is already teaching it how to survive. ㅤ

Russian diplomacy y’all! 😵‍💫