Never forget the price Ukrainians have paid and continue to pay.

🇵🇹 VENCEMOS AS FP-25, QUE TENTARAM SUBJUGAR A DEMOCRACIA

Há quem defenda que o turismo é responsável pelo nosso atraso económico, pela baixa produtividade e pelos salários baixos. Se tiverem razão, os Açores estarão prestes a ter um boom económico, com grande aumento de produtividade e salários.

Oleksandr Yakovenko, the founder of TAF Industries, one of Ukraine's largest drone makers wrote a good response to @RheinmetallAG's Papperger's irritating statement. I used AI to translate it for you. It is worth reading in full. "Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, When you called Ukrainian drone manufacturers “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers in their kitchens,” you demonstrated how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare. This is not about emоtions. This is about battlefield reality. Here are the figures your industry refuses to acknowledge: In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They accounted for 90% of all combat losses of the Russian army—more than all other types of weapons combined. A single company, TAF Industries, produces up to 100,000 FPV drones per month. Over any given 90-day period, the products of my company alone have more confirmed hits than your entire fleet of equipment over its entire history of combat use across all conflicts. And most importantly—I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that. Our drones achieve greater kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century. Why? Because the battlefield has changed, while your business model has not. Russian electronic warfare has rendered GPS-guided Western munitions (Excalibur, GMLRS, etc.) almost ineffective. Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and conventional “peer-on-peer” conflict have become easy targets for drones costing $500–2,000 that attack them from above. The cost-effectiveness ratio has been turned upside down: one 120mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones—yet our drones still prevail. This is not a “Lego game.” This is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate weekly. We lose factories to missile strikes and rebuild them within weeks. We print parts in basements and deploy 100,000 strike systems per month, while your engineers still require 3–5 years and hundreds of millions of euros to certify even minor upgrades. The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms—no matter how expensive or “serious”—are becoming increasingly irrelevant if they do not integrate the very technologies you are mocking. So when you say “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf offices.” The hashtag #MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do over full campaigns. And they do so while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st-century prices. The invitation stands, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how the war of tomorrow is actually fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think: Those who still believe in 1979 will lose to those who are building in 2026. With respect (but with facts), Oleksandr Yakovenko Founder of TAF Industries One of those “Ukrainian housewives”" pravda.com.ua/columns/2026/0…

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In honor of International Women’s Day, name your favorite quote by a woman.

As of today, Russia is not acting as an ally of Iran. Perhaps it would like to, but we have already seen it with Syria, and now we see it with Iran – I believe they simply do not have the capacity for this. All their forces are either buried in Ukrainian soil or engaged in the war against Ukraine. I am confident that the Russians are supplying the Iranian regime with weapons. We understand that they may be providing electronics for “shaheds.” I think all of this is found in the fragments of the “shaheds” striking the Middle East today. If our partners’ intelligence services share their information, it will be confirmed. Because Iranian “shaheds” contain Russian-made components. This is something we know for certain. What else might Russia supply to Iran? Air defense systems could be provided – they have plenty of those. From an interview with Rai Italia (3/5).

Dieses Mädchen, Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh, geboren 1987, wurde 2004 in der Haft von ihren Wärtern und dem Gefängnisdirektor vergewaltigt. Anschließend warf man ihr vor, keine Jungfrau mehr zu sein, was zu ihrem Todesurteil wegen "Unkeuschheit" (Zina) führte. Inhaftiert wurde sie, weil sie in einem Auto ohne Hijab aufgegriffen wurde. Atefeh war 16 alt, als sie grausam und sinnlos sterben musste, qualvoll an einem Kran in die Höhe gezogen, statt mit dem Ziel eines schnellen Todes herabgeworfen zu werden. Mit ihrer Hinrichtung verletzte der Iran internationale, bindende Abkommen, weil sie unter 18 war. #Völkerrecht

Ontem tive um debate na CNN com o @fpcoutinho78 sobre o Direito Internacional. Ele é um purista da norma, eu defendo os direitos humanos concretos. Deixo aqui uma história real sobre direitos humanos no Irão. Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh, de 16 anos, foi enforcada publicamente numa grua em Neka, no Irão. Sahaaleh foi condenada por fornicação ao abrigo do artigo 221.º do Código Penal iraniano (um crime contra a castidade) quando tinha 13 anos. Na sequência de uma rusga policial, foi encontrada sozinha num carro com um rapaz. Foi presa e recebeu 100 chicotadas. Enquanto estava na prisão, foi torturada e violada por guardas prisionais. Ela disse à sua avó que só conseguia andar de gatas devido à dor. Nos anos seguintes, foi presa mais duas vezes por crimes “contra a castidade”, e ambas as condenações foram punidas com açoites e pena de prisão. De acordo com o artigo 136.º do Código Penal iraniano, uma quarta condenação por um crime hadd, pelo qual a punição foi aplicada três vezes anteriormente, resulta na pena de morte. Essa quarta condenação ocorreu em maio de 2003, quando Sahaaleh foi presa em casa e acusada de adultério e imoralidade. A polícia apresentou um relatório que alegava apoiar as acusações contra Sahaaleh, mas as únicas assinaturas no relatório eram de agentes da polícia e outras autoridades locais. O juiz que presidiu o julgamento foi Haji Rezai. Depois de Rezai interrogar Sahaaleh, ela confessou ter sido violada por Ali Darabi, um ex-guarda revolucionário de 51 anos, casado, que se tornou motorista de táxi. Sahaaleh foi violada repetidamente por Darabi nos últimos três anos. Quando Sahaaleh percebeu que estava a perder o caso, ela removeu o hijab, um ato considerado um grave desrespeito ao tribunal, e argumentou que Darabi deveria ser punido, não ela. Tirou os sapatos e atirou-os ao juiz. Rezai condenou Sahaaleh à morte. A sua idade foi falsificada para 22 anos para permitir a execução, violando as obrigações do próprio tratado do Irão contra a execução de menores. Ela pediu perdão à multidão. Foi executada aos 16 anos e o seu corpo foi cuspido por crianças. É este regime que tantos defendem.