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2·16 小时前Maybe its just me but I feel this is another misleading title by Politico & al.
Pistorous doesn’t 'pour cold water on the drone wall concept" as he stressed that
“the priority is to make sure that development and procurement processes are flexible enough because of how fast the technology is evolving.”
His Dutch counterpart Ruben Brekelmans said:
“We should all invest in more effective counter-drone systems [to protect] the entire eastern flank," he told the audience. “We need to cooperate with Ukraine and be much quicker than we are right now.”
“We talk about months and even years: we don’t have time because drone incursions are already here."
The framing of this article doesn’t reflect what the content says imo.
Addition: But the audience at Lemmygrads and Hexbears where this article is cross-posted will like the headline I guess.
6·22 小时前If Chinese companies exploit their migrant workers as some allege, and Spain’s law enforcement would investigate suspected human trafficking or forced labour crimes, how would it effect the police’s work as the Spanish judicial wiretap system is now in the hands of China’s Huawei?
The question is how long his polls will go up given the corruption probes surrounding Sanchez and former cabinet members and senior officials of his own party, as well as his wife and his brother were implicated in alleged kickbacks, rigged tenders, and influence peddling. Then he contracted China’s Huawei with the country’s judicial wiretap system.
And the next question is what alternatives Spain would have. I don’t know much about Spanish politics. Are there any reasonable alternatives in the country or just the right-wing opposition?
- Massive disinformation campaigns by Russia worth billions of euros
- Bomb threats even in European countries at polling stations trying to intimidate the Moldovan diaspora
- Vote buying attempts (Ilan Shor, an pro-Russian oligarch living in exile after he was convicted in absentia for his role in stealing $1 billion from Moldovan banks in 2014, posted a video to his Telegram channel offering to pay voters the equivalent of $28 if they registered with his campaign, and just to name an example
- Pro-Russian groups who train propagandists by giving them precise instructions and narratives to be shared particularly on TikTok (and, yes, they pay their their propagandists) to manipulate algorithms on social media
- Sowing confusion among voters by promoting nominally pro-EU candidates and parties who many suspect of harboring ties with Russia (Irina Vlah, a member of parliament for the Heart of Moldova party, part of the Patriotic Bloc, has dampened her pro-Russian rhetoric portraying her pro-EU stance, while she has been sanctioned by Canada “in relation to Russia’s malign interference activities in Moldova")
These are just a few examples of Russian interference in Moldova’s elections. Comparing this to a single social media post made by a politician who is openly showing his pro-EU stance is outright insane. It discredits you completely.
12·2 天前This is neither disgusting nor warmongering (and, in principal, China should not deliver cheap and unsafe stuff to North America but better reduce their overcapacity and improve consumption at home).
There are many excellent analyses on the issue. As one states, Russia and China are building an Arctic empire:
Canada risks being shut out of critical northern trade routes and resource development opportunities …
Dalziel analyzed nearly 200 posts showing governors celebrating how Chinese imports are improving Russian lives while their natural resources flow exclusively to Beijing’s markets. The governors openly dismiss Western sanctions as ineffective and promote China as a reliable partner during international isolation …
Most concerning for Canada, Russia is leveraging its Arctic territory to build what the study describes as “an authoritarian brand” that courts non-Western partners while explicitly rejecting North American and European influence.
The whole study makes an illuminating read. The author warns that democratic Arctic nations must work together to challenge this authoritarian model. By “reinvigorating their own international engagement” through enhanced co-operation on economic development, science, and Indigenous governance, Canada and its Arctic allies can offer a compelling alternative to centralized, authoritarian control.
“Whataboutism” or “whataboutery” (as in, “but what about X?”) refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation.
I guess you know the term “whataboutism”, right? It’s very widespread here: -)
“Whataboutism” or “whataboutery” (as in, “but what about X?”) refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation.
In addition to what others have said: Denmark currently holds the EU presidency, a lot of foreign officials are in the country.
There was a discussion already not long ago in another thread.
The headline is misleading.
"Taking Putin’s money and leaving the risks with [Belgium]. That’s not going to happen,” Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said.
And:
A Belgian official later clarified that Belgium is not categorically ruling out the Commission’s plan, but rather wants to see significantly more details before potentially agreeing.
So Belgium seeks a pan-European solution for a possible asset seizure, which is not so far-fetched I would say. But the country doesn’t rule it out as the title suggests.
Russian woman fined for ‘LGBT propaganda’ over 5-year-old rainbow flag post on social media
… The woman, who admitted her guilt, expressed remorse and requested leniency, told the court that she had created the page herself and had not opened it in the last five years. She was ultimately issued with a fine of 1,000 rubles (€10).
Earlier this month, a man from the city of Krasnoyarsk, in western Siberia, was likewise fined 1,000 rubles for posting audio recordings on VK of rap group Tyazhyolaya Atletika, whose album Injection depicts a rainbow in homage to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, according to human rights NGO OVD-Info.
In May, a court fined an activist from the republic of Bashkortostan, in the Volga region, 2,000 rubles (€20) for an emoji which featured the same Pink Floyd album cover, independent news outlet Mediazona reported …
It’s 2025, but some (most?) governments on the globe try to turn back time: Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, China, now the US, …
2·3 天前Even if you assume the data is accurate, you can’t infer from your picture that Chinese workers benefit more from productivity gains than workers elsewhere. For such an inference you needed more and other data.
Your picture proves nothing.
Gini is only one metric. Even if we assume the data is correct, it is not better than in Europe or Western democracies. But many experts don’t believe these numbers. Gini is based on official data provided by the Chinese government, hence not very reliable.
Social inequity in China is also higher by all comparitive standards. And Chinese workers’ rights, women’s rights, rights of minorities (essentially all other than Han- Chinese) are much weaker than in the West.
This week, the Kremlin has extended its export ban on diesel and other fossil fuels, particularly gas.
I don’t know. But Taiwan is building a similar drone wall …
Given some numbers I’ve seen, so far they have done better in this regard.
Which numbers are that?
This is not a European problem but a global issue imo.
Russian woman fined for ‘LGBT propaganda’ over 5-year-old rainbow flag post on social media
… The woman, who admitted her guilt, expressed remorse and requested leniency, told the court that she had created the page herself and had not opened it in the last five years. She was ultimately issued with a fine of 1,000 rubles (€10).
Earlier this month, a man from the city of Krasnoyarsk, in western Siberia, was likewise fined 1,000 rubles for posting audio recordings on VK of rap group Tyazhyolaya Atletika, whose album Injection depicts a rainbow in homage to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, according to human rights NGO OVD-Info.
In May, a court fined an activist from the republic of Bashkortostan, in the Volga region, 2,000 rubles (€20) for an emoji which featured the same Pink Floyd album cover, independent news outlet Mediazona reported …
It’s 2025, but some (most?) governments on the globe try to turn back time: Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, China, now the US, …
Buthan, Chile, Costa Rica, Ethopia, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, The Gambia look best, maybe one of the countries for which no data is available.
None is on the way to Paris, though.
It’s indeed a “marriage of convenience”: How the European Far Right and Far Left Converged on China, raising concerns about foreign influence.