"Show of Force"
And the revival of #democracy
Timothy #Snyder Sep 18, 2025
The overall design of Trump’s policy is clear enough: weaken the United States abroad to create an environment friendly to dictators, while using the American armed forces as an intimidation force to make #dictatorship possible at home.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/show-of-force
#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#FreedomOfSpeech
#america #usa #tyranny #militarism
#Trump
#StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Russia
Russia warns oil producers of possible output cuts after Ukrainian drone strikes
#Russia's state-owned #oil #pipeline monopoly #Transneft warned producers they may have to cut output after #UkrainianDrones damaged key export ports & #refineries, 3 industry sources told Reuters
The warning comes as #Ukraine intensifies strikes on Russian energy infrastructure in an effort to undermine the #Kremlin's #war effort and revenues.
#Video shows #Russian drone hiting #Kharkiv #University building
Video of Russian drone hitting university building in #Kharkiv's #Slobidskyi district
Several #civilians wounded in the streets. Victims include 3 women aged 51, 52, 54, & 89 y/o man. All are in stable condition
Strike was in broad daylight, near the city center. Damaged facility was purely civilian target with no connection to military or defense industry
Good evening, Fediverse.
It's usual day in Dnipro. Few air raid alerts, some shaheds flying nearby.
I'm gonna get a sandwich and go to meditation center.
And 50 UAH from that sandwich is going to support Third Assault Brigade, that's a special promo some of our restaurants/cafes are doing.
Please, donate to this fundraiser, UAV pilots need a van.
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/8ehVp9FEhG
PayPal in the top post.
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Friends, I remind you about the Ukrainian Necklace draw. As a gift, I am adding these earrings to the set
One ticket is $10, (you can take an unlimited number)
Pay on PayPal: Omelchuknadiia2021@gmail.comPlease include your Mastodon username in the payment note.
I wish everyone good luck!
#raffle #gift #Ukrainiannecklace
#SupportUkraine #StandWithUkraine
@anderspuck
I live in Kyiv. Maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems that when the weather is rainy, we have fewer air alerts. I can’t imagine the ballistic missiles are much affected by rain, but maybe the cruise missiles and Shahed-type drones are. Do you have any information about this?
Thanks for your time.
#StandWithUkraine
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#madeinUkraine #handmadejewelry #SupportUkraine #StandWithUkraine #Ukrainianart #etsygifts
#Ukrainian #swarm #drones #AI startup secures $15 million in record defense investment
The sum represents the single-largest investment in a Ukrainian defense company since the start of Russia’s full-scale war in 2022.
The company’s software allows a single operator to coordinate multiple drones, limiting human involvement to selecting targets and authorizing strikes.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-swarm-drone-ai-startup-secures-15-million-investment/
#Ukrainian forces struck #Saratov #oil #refinery overnight on Sept. 16, causing explosions and a fire at the facility
Ukraine's campaign against Russian oil & gas is key source of #Moscow's revenues fuelling its all-out invasion of #Ukraine
Refinery produces over 20 types of petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel fuel, fuel oil, bitumen, & more
The facility, whose processing volume amounted to 4.8 million metric tons in 2023
#RusslandIstEinTerrorstaat #RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussiaNOW #StandWithUkraine
Verdächtige Drohne in #Warschau unschädlich gemacht.
Nach dem Vorfall mit russischen Drohnen in #Polen ist die Anspannung in der #NATO groß. Jetzt ist wieder eine Drohne aufgetaucht: mitten in Warschau, über Regierungsgebäuden. Zwei Belarusen wurden festgenommen.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/polen-drohne-warschau-100.html
Trump pretends to support Ukraine but bends to Putin at every turn. He backs genocide in Gaza and fuels far-right extremists targeting migrants and asylum seekers. We’re seeing the impact in Northern Ireland in real time - communities divided, people living in fear. We stand with Ukraine, Gaza, and justice. Not Trump.
@JayinKyiv #RussiaIsATerroristState and #DonaldTrump is a puppet #POTUS subservient to #VladTheInvader #Putin.
Ed Davey to boycott Trump banquet as a protest over Gaza. Trump's behaviour over Gaza has been reprehensible, no one with morals should attend that banquet. The list of Trump's immoral behaviour is never ending - Trumps deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles earlier this year had absolutely nothing to do with curbing civil unrest or political violence, Trump 2.0’s massive reductions in expenditures for law enforcement and to the mismanagement of criminal justice for social control purposes is immoral, This administration has also been suppressing any person, place, or point of view that upsets the president’s false narrative, renders Trump’s dystopia and repressive America as merely authoritarian hoaxes, or challenges any fraction of his antidemocratic and anti-constitutional agenda as being un-American or anti-patriotic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlz6rp2ln8o #RejoinEU #ClimateCrisis #StandwithUkraine
#Ukrainian troops clear another village near #Dobropillia in #Donetsk Oblast
#UkrainianForces have spent the past month pushing #Russian #troops back after they advanced nearly 10 kilometers (6 miles) toward the strategic #Dobropillia–Kramatorsk highway, near the embattled city of #Pokrovsk. Since late August, Ukrainian units have regained control of several villages in the area.
#Ukraine today. Russian missile strikes National University of Pharmacy in the city of Kharkiv. #StopRussia #StandWithUkraine
How Does Putin See Himself in Historical Terms? A Counter-Revolutionary?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42_x1z8_NU0
#putin #ruSSia #kleptocrat #fascist #kgb #rotten #decay #canibal #billionaire #looter #torture #rape #killings #deportations #childabductions #terror #maffia