#Putin's goal in #Ukraine is #genocide, #ethnofascist erasure of Ukrainian #identity. #Vatniks demur and refer to some other goal or their usual "reverse victim and offender" gaslighting. #Kremlin lies and venom

Today is the birthday of #TarasShevchenko, literary linchpin of Ukrainian #culture and #language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko

This was in #Balakliia, 2022. The billboard is a Shevvhenko poem, of Ukraine's struggle against #imperialism, 2 centuries ago

And still today

1/2

#UkraineWar

Once, the world was #USA and #USSR locked in #ColdWar

Both have fallen

#USA to #fascist #bigotry and #plutocracy

#Russia to #ethnofascist #imperialism like it's 1825

#Europe:

Russia is desperate to provoke a fight

To shift attention from their #UkraineWar failure

Of course that's insane

The USA is no help, it's insane too

Hold firm, be ready to fight, but stay sane

"Russian Navy Accused of Aiming Weapons at #NATO Ally’s Ships, Helicopters"

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-navy-nato-weapons-ships-helicopters-denmark-10822688

#Denmark #Danmark

Russian Navy Accused of Aiming Weapons at NATO Ally’s Ships, Helicopters

It comes as tensions drastically escalated between Russia and NATO over the war in Ukraine.

Newsweek

I don't want to sound like an airhead optimist

#Ethnofascist #imperialism has a death grip on Russian leadership. #Russia can weather a lot of misery

But if sustained and deepened, #Ukraine's relentless #drone strikes on #oil #infrastructure really fucks up Russia in spectacular ways

It *will* pay dividends militarily and politically

#SlavaUkraini!

💪 😤 🇺🇦

"Frontline report: Ukraine’s #refinery strikes trigger nationwide #fuel collapse across Russia"

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/30/frontline-report-ukraines-refinery-strikes-trigger-nationwide-fuel-collapse-across-russia/

#UkraineWar

Frontline report: Ukraine's refinery strikes trigger nationwide fuel collapse across Russia - Euromaidan Press

Ukraine's sustained drone campaign against Russian refineries has triggered a nationwide fuel collapse affecting at least ten regions from the frontlines to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Despite official claims of seasonal demand issues, repeated strikes have devastated fuel infrastructure, forcing civilians into massive queues and rationing supplies to frontline troops.

Euromaidan Press

The #Kremlin

Storied seat of Russian imperial power for centuries

A beautiful complex

Where the decision makers executing the #ethnofascist war on #Ukraine sit

'Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky has threatened to attack the Kremlin if #Russia continues the war against his country.

"First of all they have to know where their bomb shelters are. If they will not stop the war, they will need it"'

Bomb the fuck out of it

Reduce it to rubble

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/zelensky-threatens-attacks-kremlin-134123016.html

#UkraineWar

Plenty of these oil #refineries have been repaired (and hit again). But Ukraine is ramping up these attacks

This strategy represents the best chance to bring #Russia to heel on its #ethnofascist #imperialism. #Drone and #missile strikes on refineries

It's an endless game of cat and mouse:

AA, intelligence, and drone tech

And Russia is repairing furiously

But eventually, Ukraine could hit a level of enough incapacitated, and Russia unable to keep up, that real change happens

#UkraineWar

"The #War against #Russia's #Ethnofascist #Imperialism is a form of #Climate #Activism"

Proof #1:

#Ukraine destroying Russian #refineries

Proof #2:

"To defend against Russian tanks, #Finland and #Poland consider restoring #wetlands

Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out #peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant #environmental benefits"

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250828-to-defend-against-russian-tanks-finland-and-poland-consider-restoring-wetlands

To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands

Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.

FRANCE 24

@FishNamedDog

modern #Ukraine is being forged in a crucible of #Putin's deranged malice. it is unfathomable suffering, but Ukraine is going to come out of this stupid war amazingly coherent and strong

that is Putin's legacy

ironically, at the cost of a hobbled, enfeebled, perhaps dissolved #Russia, also his legacy

but Putin won't understand Ukrainian suffering as you wish, ever. what he understands of their suffering is as a sadist, it brings him joy in his #ethnofascist rotten heart

"#Russia seizes $50 billion in assets as #economy shifts during war in #Ukraine, research shows"

Russia's economy is in trouble

#Putin cannot reassess. He is stuck

#SunkCostFallacy has him staring into the abyss of economic destitution and the political fallout

The profound mistake of Russia's #ethnofascist #imperialism compounds daily with extraordinarily debilitating implications for the future of Russia

A wish:

That Putin lives long enough to reap what he sows

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fortress-russia-has-confiscated-50-billion-assets-over-three-years-kommersant-2025-07-09/

"#Russia's 'anti-#woke #visa' woos #Western #expatriates

#Moscow's "Shared Values Visa" welcomes #conservative migrants who are against #LGBTQ+ rights or globalism in general. Russia, meanwhile, uses the newcomers for #propaganda"

We can have a lot of different reactions to this

Mine is very simple:

Go

Bon voyage

Have a nice trip assholes. Enjoy the sinking ship under #Putin's #ethnofascist #imperialist government

Bye, Felicia

https://www.dw.com/en/russias-anti-woke-visa-woos-western-expatriates/a-73214511

Russia's 'anti-woke visa' woos Western expatriates

Moscow's "Shared Values Visa" welcomes conservative migrants who are against LGBTQ+ rights or globalism in general. Russia, meanwhile, uses the newcomers for propaganda.

Deutsche Welle