#GazaStabilizationForce Expands: #Kosovo and #Kazakhstan Join https://www.kore.co.il/viewArticle/205323

כוח הייצוב לעזה מתרחב: קוסובו וקזחסטן מצטרפות ליוזמת ממשל טראמפ

#CentralAsia and the #Balkans ? That sounds too #ISIS ? But I've never heard of much in Kazakhstan specifically? Maybe I'm over generalising the region? and I've not heard much Balkans? I just don't like the sounds of assorted armed men going to the Levant to support the [insert religion here] State

cc @kmpiw @kmpiw
#קוסובו #וקזחסטן #דאעש #עזה

כוח הייצוב לעזה מתרחב: קוסובו וקזחסטן מצטרפות ליוזמת ממשל טראמפ

לצד אינדונזיה, מרוקו, יוון ואלבניה, גם קוסובו וקזחסטן הביעו נכונות להשתתף בכוח ה-ISF שאמור לאכוף את הפסקת האש ופירוז חמאס. עם זאת, הכוח לא צפוי להיות כשיר מבצעית לפני מאי והמנדט טרם הוגדר רשמית

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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic’s coalition with the far-right Homeland Movement keeps coming back to haunt him. Having resigned from the government once over being filmed shooting guns in the air, Josip Dabro, a Homeland Movement MP, is again rocking the ruling coalition’s boat by singing songs glorifying Croatia’s World War II fascist Ustasha regime.

#Croatia #Balkans #FarRight

Eyes on the Balkans: Unusually high concentration of US KC-135 or KC-46 tankers spotted in Bulgaria. Refuelers don't deploy for exercises alone—they enable real-world reach. Full breakdown.
#Balkans #USMilitary #StrategicMoves
A Worrying Military Build-up in the Western Balkans?

Europe’s most fragile region is not sleepwalking toward war, but it is quietly recalibrating for it. Across the Western Balkans, military procurement

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US presses NATO for major reset, ending mission in Iraq

The push by Washington has become known internally as a ’return to factory settings,’ four diplomats told POLITICO.

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Day 2: Good morning from snowy Bucharest. In Romania they are currently learning a lot of hard lessons on winterization. Being greeted in the morning by departure boards showing delays of 300+ minutes, journalists with TV cameras and large crowds of people wasn't a good sign. The train eventually left with 60 minutes of delay, but BDZ (Bulgarian State railways) seems to have reacted and delayed the train 463 to Sofia accordingly. https://live.bdz.bg/en/ruse/departures
Love letter incoming dear BDZ for the amazing live information provided: delays, live positioning and a live bulletin of all interruptions across the country is available (in English, no less), making the information very well understandable.
#bahnBubble #trains #crossBorderRail #romania #bulgaria #balkans

[08.08.2024] Day 16 of cycling from Prague to Istanbul

#cycling #bikepacking #bulgaria #balkans #sofia #dog #streetdog #travel #spinoza #philosophy #body

[07.08.2024] Day 15 of cycling from Prague to Istanbul

#cycling #bikepacking #balkans #bulgaria #dog #streetdog

"How will the movement in Serbia continue? According to the students of the philosophical faculty, the plan is to participate in the next elections, which Vučić has announced to make sooner than his end of term.

In the student movement there are different factions and some want to create a new party. The students in Belgrade reject this and want to form independent lists with prominent but trustworthy figures, such as university professors that have supported the movement. They said the lists are decided by the direct democratic processes at the self-organized university assemblies.
(...)
There are a lot of similarities between Serbia and Greece, said Laura, “I have been in Greece and I’ve talked to comrades who are active in the movement for Tempi. And I think there are a lot of similarities. There is this aspect of government cover ups and foreign investments and neoliberal slashing of costs while at the same time investing in these construction and reconstruction projects that are then very useful for skimming off the top.”

There are also differences, she said. “In Greece, no institutions really formed around the protests. Like there wasn’t, in the same way that the student plenum or the citizens assemblies and so on, formed. I think that didn’t happen in Greece. And so, there wasn’t really a way to keep the continuity of this spontaneous energy going, I think in Greece there were situations before where this happened.”

The movement in Greece at the moment is at an important crossroad. Some parts of the movement are said to be considering participation in elections. Maria Karystianou, mother of one victim, Marthi Karystianou, and president of the Tempi Victims Relatives Association, has recently announced the creation of her own party. Different polls indicate that more than 15% up to 32% would vote for such a party.."

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/parallel-crimes-novi-sad-tempi-and-the-architecture-of-neglect-in-the-balkans/

#Balkans #Serbia #Greece #Activism #SocialProtests

Parallel Crimes: Novi Sad, Tempi and the Architecture of Neglect in the Balkans - UNICORN RIOT

Two recent deadly incidents in the Balkans shocked Greece and Serbia, leaving questions of political responsibility that quickly ignited massive protest movements.

UNICORN RIOT