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Ukrainian protests today -

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Today’s rallies in defense of the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions in Kyiv.

The funniest part is that Russian Z-fascists are watching it, rejoicing and rubbing their hands, thinking these rallies somehow bring Ukraine closer to collapse and defeat.

While in reality, it’s precisely the fact that Ukraine’s civil society takes to the streets, protests, and keeps kicking its own government in the arse even during wartime -- this is one of the key fundamental reasons why this country broke free from Russian colonial subjugation, is carrying out difficult and painful reforms, reviving its identity and national pride, and has been resisting Russia’s power for twelve years already, including three and a half years of full-scale war.

If not for this, among other things, Ukraine would’ve ceased to exist long ago.

This is what makes Ukraine stronger - not weaker.

Russian fascists have spent years, with the stubbornness of an imbecile, refusing to admit that democratic, active Ukraine is not a servile tsarist Russia -- and that there is an abyss between the two countries, even on the mental level.

And that is what will ultimately bury them.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy /
@ZelenskyyUa

I’ve just approved the text of a draft bill that guarantees real strengthening of Ukraine’s law enforcement system, independence of anti-corruption agencies, and reliable protection of the law enforcement system against any Russian influence or interference. The text is well-balanced.

Most importantly, it includes real tools, excludes any Russian ties, and upholds the independence of NABU and SAPO. The draft bill will be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine today.

It is important that we are maintaining unity. It is important that we are preserving independence. It is important that we respect the position of all Ukrainians and are grateful to everyone who stands with Ukraine.

6:46 AM · Jul 24, 2025

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Doubles says nations often break the law in war time. I never said it was OK, but it is understandable.

I’d think Ukraine could hold elections if there was enough political will in their country to break their laws or if they rewrote the laws.
But it would be tough to do given Russia occupies 19% of Ukraine and millions of Ukrainians are no longer in their homes and many have left Ukraine.
Try and do better if you want to quite DoubleB

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Switch accounts next time

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The Russian MFA claims Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania benefited economically from Soviet occupation compared with now when they are "reduced to Europe's economic periphery". The beneficial effects of having Moscow run your economy are obvious to everyone.

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More evidence of the "significant advantage" to Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians of Soviet occupation compared with independence:

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GDP

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Global GDP has gone up 5x since 1989, so those numbers are roughly in line with the global trend

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Life Expectancy

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The life expectancy in 1989 was higher than the global average, and increased in line with the rest of the world's from then until present day. That dip was (obviously) from when their government collapsed and services became harder to access for a time.

Life expectancy during the USSR's time in those countries was a bit higher than the global average then, and they are currently a bit higher than the global average now.

There is PLENTY to criticize Russia and the USSR about, but at least be statistically literate when you do it.

terrorism update

Bodies of a family of three recovered from the rubble of a house in Pidlyman, Kharkiv region, after a Russian airstrike


A house after extinguishing a fire, where the bodies of three people were recovered, July 24, 2025. Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office/Telegram



The Russian military launched an airstrike , previously carried out by FAB-250 from the UMPK, on Pidlyman, Borivska community, at around 11:30 p.m. on July 23.
This was reported to the regional prosecutor's office.

"Households were damaged, fires broke out on their territory. The bodies of three people were found under the rubble of the house. A family died: a 57-year-old woman, her 58-year-old husband, and their 36-year-old son," the report says.

Suspilne Kharkiv

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They are fighting to be free of Russia. They aren’t fighting for elections. As long as Russia is attacking them they are the enemy.

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Ukraine has suffered badly at the hands of Moscow ever since the Mongols invaded. The animosity has a deep history.

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He refused to realistically negotiate because he thought he could frick off to one of these nice European countries that have treated him like a hero and live in a big estate in the countryside somewhere.no matter what happened to Ukraine.

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He serves a purpose for the socialist elites of Europe. Keeping the war going means the US is still tied to the defense of Europe. That strategy seems to have worked.

They will build statues of him in Brussels while the people of Ukraine will build gallows.

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You're criticizing my 'statistical literacy' yet you include no linked data? Impressive.

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If someone really doesn't believe the stats, its incredibly easy to google "GDP in 1989 compared to present day" and do the same thing for life expectancy.

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But to repeat the point of this data, which it seems we need to do, with Soviet control these countries were unable to improve their GDP and life expectancy.

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Ah, really? That is what your post was about? Then why is the GDP chart 1988-2024?

As for the life expectancy data, in all of Europe life expectancy 1960-1990 only went up about 4 years. The line is fairly flat there.

I will help you out with a link here. You clearly don't understand statistics, maybe you don't understand Google either.

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Maybe take the time to think 2 seconds about something you saw on Twitter before blasting it over here. You saw the raw stats of "during the Soviet Union vs today" and thought you had something. When really the thought never even occurred to you to compare it to global or even regional trends.

I know you have a quota to meet, though.

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A logistical railway hub in Russia that connects key strategic directions - Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh, Volgograd, and Kamensk-Shakhtinsky - has been attacked. This hub, located in Novocherkassk in the Rostov region, is used by the occupiers to transport military equipment, ammunition, and fuel for Putin's terrorist army to the Ukrainian border.

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First Ukraine hit a thermal power plant supplying electricity to southern Russian railways, then a railway bridge & now a southern Russian railway marshalling yard?

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@grok , have we seen this operational pattern of railway strikes from the Ukrainians before?

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Grok: Yes, this sequenced targeting of railway power sources, bridges, and yards echoes prior Ukrainian sabotage patterns. In 2024, ops disrupted Moscow-area rails; June 2025 saw bridge blasts derailing trains in Bryansk/Kursk. July's Novocherkassk strike fits, per Ukrinform and Kyiv Independent reports, aiming to cripple southern logistics.

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