About the fire at the Dormition Cathedral at Kiev Pechora Lavra: An Iskander-M carries a 480–700kg warhead. A Zircon carries an estimated 300–400kg warhead but strikes at Mach 8 — the kinetic energy alone is devastating before you factor in the explosive yield. Either one striking the Dormition Cathedral would have left a crater where a thousand-year-old cathedral used to stand. The structure would be unrecognisable. What we see is a roof fire, which , as in many other cases, is the work of Ukrainian AD and the debris falling on top of the building. Russia obviously didn't target one of the most ancient cultural sites of the Orthodox Christianity, but this will sure give Zelensky some propaganda ammo to beg for some more money during the G7 summit that starts today. Knowing some previous instances of Zelensky's regime producing some loud propaganda before similar meetings, one can not exclude a nefarious deliberate action by the nanoführer to manufacture consent.

Western propaganda media say it was Russia, but I can't imagine why it would be deliberately targeted because a.) mutual heritage and b.) needless escalation that would invite retaliation in kind. It's feasible it could have been an accident on the Russian end, but it's also entirely feasible that it was an errant Ukrainian missile as well. But you won't hear that in the mainstream West and Ukraine will likely never admit it, because this is Ukraine's Saint Basil's.

Heard today from a man: "I'm not trying to be a Karen, but...." But you're still being a "Karen." Sorry to everyone named Karen out there. It's a nice name.

Lol, I wish this were actually real. Trump and the Nordics.

This. Exactly this.

Many will use it against them and turn to it as a weapon, yes. And I am all for it - with a caveat: I am sure AI can create wonderful and inspiring scenes and movies - but it will never be able to replace the appeal of a human actor. People see movies to witness performances as much as be told stories.

Honestly, I don't know what Trump is waiting for. The Islamic regime is just leading him around by the nose. They will never cooperate, they will always be a permanent enemy. iranintl.com/en/202605292427

Tf is this.

"I think a lot of people get the point about the band, which is...a sense of individuality, and the importance of that. We go out of our way to not expose specific political beliefs. Our message has always been 'think for yourself.'" #SmashingPumpkins youtube.com/watch?v=ES17XqgR…

So many are asleep.

90 milliards pour envoyer des drones sur des civils à Moscou ? Même avec 600 drones, l’Ukraine n’a aucune chance de gagner cette guerre. Ces attaques ne font que tuer des civils avec notre argent et ne changent rien au déséquilibre de force sur le front.

I agree, anything nefarious Ukraine does is downplayed, justified or buried while anything nefarious Russia does is amplified in Western mainstream media - and I do not consider X to be true mainstream, just a popular emerging alternative to it. I'll never forget being in London last summer and my Russian wife wanted to take a picture with a man in traditional costume near castle grounds who was taking pictures with other people. When he heard her accent, he asked where she was from. She answered honestly and he turned his back towards her. I'll never forget how proud my kids were (and are) to have Russian ancestry, but how when the war in Ukraine started (or shall I say, finally escalated), suddenly everyone had an opinion about it (including fellow school children). People who never knew much of anything about it before 2022 and who were only fed "good guys vs. bad guys" narratives. Suddenly, my kids were on the receiving end of Russophobic bullies, because that's what the media and their stupid parents told them to think. Whenever a war starts between nations, it's always the dumbest people who turn it into the equivilant of an Alabama vs Auburn football rivalry and then suddenly become extremely prejudiced towards anyone of the nationality not on their "team." And unfortunately, there are a lot of very, very stupid people. It's too much to bear. Targeting civilians should be condemned, no matter which side is doing it. Yet there is only silence from the West - and because of that, your moral high ground is a fucking joke.

That is a really interesting take.

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It's like only black Democrats are mad...🤔

>be keir starmer and labour >preside over totalitarian state without free speech protectiobs >arrest 12,000 people yearly for thought crimes and online posts (4 times higher than Russia) >invite third world rapists and murderers to stay in luxury hotels >give harsher sentences to British criminals than foreign criminals >ban Western activists and even politicians from entering the country >yell about the "far right" after two months of islamist fire bombings and stabbing attacks against Jews and near weekly migrant rapes >refuse to step down in the face of complete collapse and everyone begging you to >genuinely believe you are the right person to hold power >never have dreams (yes, really)

Unpopular opinion... The historical conflict between monotheism and polytheism is a fundamental misunderstanding. The Many are not rivals to the One; they are its functional vocabulary. Polytheism is the symbolic manifestation of a Primordial Source through archetypes... 🧵

Ayn Rand came from Russia, and there's just something so Russian about this 😂

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Kind of blows my mind to watch Democrats shun common courtesy and hospitality to King Charles in order to somehow try and insult Trump. You "don't do kings" but you do communist authoritarians, is that right? Absolutely ridiculous.