Russia Could Just Be Normal. But Here We Are. Russia has a choice. It always has. It sits on more land than any country in history, stuffed to the permafrost with oil, gas, and minerals of every conceivable variety. Brilliant engineers. World-class mathematicians. The finest vodka ever produced by human civilization. And what does it do with all of this? It invades its neighbors. Like a drunk uncle at Christmas. Because here is what Russians are missing. That first evening in Rome, when the sun drops behind the rooftops and the whole city turns the color of warm honey, and you are sitting outside with something cold and local, and the air smells of coffee and something frying in olive oil, and you think: this is the whole point of being alive. Or New York in October, the light doing something extraordinary between the buildings, eating a pastrami sandwich the size of a small child, feeling genuinely optimistic about the human race. Or a rainy London pub. Nowhere to be. A pint slightly too warm. The irreplaceable comfort of being somewhere ancient and unhurried. Russians could have all of this. Instead, the Kremlin has turned the largest country on Earth into a geopolitical pariah, weaponizing its own citizens’ futures for an empire that exists mostly in the fever dreams of one increasingly peculiar man in a very large building. Funny how every American who visits Russia comes home convinced that Putin is misunderstood. Nobody visits France and comes back defending Macron’s right to annex Belgium. France does not do that to people. The rest of us are just outside somewhere warm, drinks in hand, watching the sun go down, absolutely baffled. And a little sad, if we are honest. Because some of the finest people I have ever met are Russian. Warm, funny, generous people who deserve that Roman evening and that New York October and that rainy London pub just as much as anyone. People I miss. People a lot of us miss. Who knows if it ever comes back. Who knows if the thing that was broken can be unbroken. But somewhere out there, a table has an empty chair. And the drinks are getting warm.

Candace Owens said she was going to Russia on holiday to "see their churches," but in reality, she's going to be a speaker at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. There is also speculation that she will meet with Dugin while she's there. Read this thread:

Today, 77 years ago, around 95,000 people were violently deported from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to Siberia in 1949. Many were small children and elderly, forced into freezing, damp cattle wagons. Just four years after World War II, while much of Europe lived in peace, Soviet terror continued behind the Iron Curtain. Same russian terror continues to this very day in Europe.

Russian intelligence–linked networks appear to be pushing the idea of a so-called “Narva People’s Republic” on social media. Telegram, VK and TikTok accounts mix memes, flags and “state symbols” with the message “We are waiting for Russia,” portraying Narva as a separate political entity. A familiar hybrid warfare playbook. Estonia has seen and countered such information operations before. propastop.org/en/2026/03/11/…

Ukraine survived another winter that was supposed to be her last. Here’s what Taras Chmut, a very honest Ukrainian volunteer writes today. “Russia has lost the “battle for winter.” And we have won it. The first day of spring. The sunny days are getting longer. It’s getting warmer. Ukraine continues the fight. On the front line, for the first time in many months — perhaps even years — we have started liberating more territory than we are losing. Thank you to those who are holding the front. Thank you to the air defense forces. To the energy workers. To the utility workers. To local and central authorities. And to every one of us, for our resilience. Ukraine has won the battle for winter.”

On Twitter, I no longer see the people I follow. Instead, I see: • It’s OK to be white • Putin is a great guy, actually • Vaccines are bad, mmkay? • Trump may be a pedophile, but at least he’s not a Democrat • Look at all these attractive young white people in a European city. What do you notice? Blatant far-right propaganda is pushed 24/7 from faceless bot accounts. Twitter’s algorithm deliberately finds it and boosts it. Anyone who disagrees is shadow-banned. Musk wants a race war. He wants death camps. He wants all that Nazi shit, because he’s a Nazi. He is using Twitter to foment it.

Is Wagner marching on Moscow again, or starting with St. Petersburg this time? Hard to tell. From our side it looks like they’ve already annexed the Russian border guards. Who knows… @mfa_russia?

So, as of today, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has lasted 1,336 days. That’s: 85% of the duration of World War I, 61% of the duration of the entire World War II, 94% of the duration of the Soviet–Nazi war on the Eastern Front. And still, the world's top nuclear power and one of the largest militaries ever -- has failed to defeat Ukraine or conquer it yet. Since the Battle of Britain, never have the fates of so many depended so much on the heroism of so few -- the Ukrainian soldiers who, despite the unbearable weight and filth of this deranged world, keep doing the impossible every single day, with as little as what they have to fight with.

My god, this is horrifying. I just got caught up on Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy and I’m incredibly disturbed by what I saw. Let me explain how I see it: A Mike Lindell TV reporter asks Zelenskyy to make concessions to Putin on the spot, then Trump jumps in to talk about how much Putin wants this war to end. Throughout it, the U.S. President can’t even take a strong, clear stance against Russian imperialism. Zelenskyy has agreed to EVERY single framework that Trump has proposed. Even after Trump yelled at him the Oval Office, he agreed to a shitty mineral deal, he agreed to a 30 day ceasefire, he agreed to do a meeting with Putin. PUTIN AGREED TO NONE OF THIS!! He kept firing, and didn’t show up to the meeting. Putin is acting in bad faith. Putin’s entire negotiating tactic is stringing Trump along and promising peace is “coming soon.” Trump promised “very severe consequences” if they didn’t reach a deal in their Alaska meeting. Well, nothing was achieved, and there were no severe consequences. The photo below is the first Ukrainian guard to see Russian troops. It’s horrifying that only a few years later, the leadership at the top of the U.S. can’t even tell you which side launched this war. We need to inflict maximum damage on Russia and start acting like America. Let’s start acting like we’re the strongest country in the world, because jesus.

Russia poured hundreds of millions into trying to sway Moldova’s elections. And still, the people chose democracy. No amount of Kremlin cash can buy the will of a free nation. 🇲🇩✊

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Former Chief of Staff in the U.S. House of Representatives and founder of the Ukraine Freedom Project Steven Moore @MooreUSA: "I've lived here [in Ukraine] since day five of the war. So when there's an air raid, I experience it just like any Ukrainian. I have come to see them as Putin's symphonies. They always have too much percussion and not enough strings, because he only needs one string — the one around his neck. Next week, I will be in Washington. I worked as a Republican in Congress for seven years. I have a lot of friends there. I'm going to tell them what I see, but also about the victories of the Ukrainians. Without a navy, they control the Black Sea. Having spent about $100,000 on drones as part of Operation Spiderweb, they destroyed $7 billion worth of Russian military equipment."

RT @TallbarFIN: Remember what kind of enemy russia is. Up to 80 000 residents of Mariupol lie in these mass graves. This could be Lappeen…

“For more than a week, the Russians have been aware of the Mirage 2000D’s operations over the Black Sea and near the air defence base in the Kaliningrad region. It seems ordinary, but there are some nice nuances. This aircraft can detect the location of enemy radar installations, and therefore the location and type of air defence systems. After we received the Mirage 2000-5F, a Mirage 2000D was flown to a Romanian airbase for training, then this aircraft began to travel to airfields and fly over the above areas. It is interesting that it even went to the coast of Crimea, and the Russians did not even try to intercept it, a British reconnaissance aircraft also worked with it over the Black Sea, which did its intended work and summarised general intelligence data. This means that our French and British brothers have not abandoned us here and are helping with intelligence in the areas that we and they need. The most important thing in all this is that after the Mirage flights over the Black Sea, there were strikes on S-400 positions and radars in Crimea.” 👉 t.me/soniah_hub/9506?single

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As the Kremlin apparently pushes for new elections in Ukraine, remember former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, poisoned with dioxin when he ran against the pro-Russian candidate in 2004.

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back the Putin invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children. TRUMP IS MAD OR OWNED.

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“I had no idea that MacGyver was a cultural reference understood in Estonia!” Story time: MacGyver is understood in millennial generation of North Estonia but not South, like many other things shown on Western (Finnish) TV Knight Rider was shown in Finnish TV in late 80s or early 90s and was hugely popular in Estonia among those who could watch it North Estonia could receive the broadcast from Finnish TV transmitters in late 80s and early 90s, before cable TV became widely installed Finland actually installed extra powerful TV transmitters pointed south exactly for this purpose, to send some airwaves of freedom our way Having access to free information, entertainment, and even commercials on Finnish TV was a powerful contributor against Soviet russian occupation, brain rot, and censorship Fun technical facts: russian analog color TV used the SECAM system whereas Finnish used PAL. All TVs sold in Estonia used SECAM. But you could install an extra electronics module in your TV to also support PAL. The module was called “Finnish block” (soome plokk) because you could watch Finnish channels with it It became a big underground homegrown business in North Estonia to install these PAL blocks to TVs. Many crafty men skilled in electronics made good money with it There was no central factory for these blocks. The schematics and components were widely available so they were built and distributed as sort of a homegrown pirate network russians tried to jam the Finnish TV transmission but couldn’t. And these PAL blocks were technically maybe illegal under russian occupation? But I don’t think anyone ever got in trouble for it

Friends help us to spread the word‼️ After a fantastic effort from 1Team1Fight supporters in August, funding has slowed down rapidly. That’s bad news for so many units on the front. I refuse to let this happen, and I honestly believe all you do too.  So I need to ask: Can you please, commit to contribute just $10 in the next 6 hours? 🔗 linktr.ee/1t1f Ukraine's democracy depends on all of us working together on this. Thank you and love you all💙💛