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TAVAlonia Jun 13, 2025

Ok- this is a bit over 2 minutes long and if you don’t like #spiders scroll on. This jumping spider lives in my studio and took a walk on my monitor this morning. I noticed it reacted as I was moving my cursor ….
Peaceful interaction and interesting to see when it noticed the movement! #Eyes-everywhere!!! #Pincers-pinching!

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Ramesh #NotGoingBack Dec 13, 2024

⬆️ >> #Hungary & #Turkey are the #pincers in #Putin's #revanchistDreams.

Not sure if it was this realization that #Putin might be using #Erdogan for his selfish ambitions in #Africa — like he was using #Assad — that caused #Turkey to help #HTS overthrow Assad without alerting #Russia and thus remove Russia from Syria 🤷‍♂️

#Orban's affinity to #Putin is still unexplained. But I hope, as member of #NATO, it is also wary of Russia using #Europe as a stepping stone to Africa and will help thwart it
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack Dec 13, 2024

⬆️ >> Soon after #Oct7, in a congressional testimony, #Biden's Def Sec and Sec State, #Austin and #Blinken, both testified that #Israel-#Hamas conflict and the #Russian aggression in Ukraine are "interlinked"

Path from #Kyiv to #TelAviv passes through former #IronCurtain countries #Moldova, #Romania, #Bulgaria, & through #Turkey ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434739906526615

Alternate path passes through Hungary & #Serbia ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111434764452759087

#Hungary & #Turkey are the #pincers in #Putin's #revanchistDreams
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Mary C Legg Jul 1, 2024

Green-eyed Hook-tailed Dragonfly, Onychogomphus forcipatus Canon 5D3 Sigma 70-300 Art Macro f/5.6 1/320 iso: 160 Revnice, Czech Republic 6/30/2024 #Odonata #Onychogomphus #Gomphidae #Dragonflies #pincers #hooktails #snaketails #insects, #invertebrates #macro

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Ramesh #NotGoingBack Feb 1, 2024

⬆️ @ncoca

>> Just saw a surprising headline "Southeast Asian countries dominate demand for Russian coal." The countries? #India, #SouthKorea #China and, most surprisingly, #Turkey.

Why is Turkey most surprising?

#Hungary & #Turkey are #pincers in #Putin's #revanchistDreams developed in plain sight ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111591513022426045

Turkey has been helping Putin openly — blocking ascension of #Sweden to #NATO until very recently, and not recognizing Putin-ally #Iran-backed #Hamas as a terrorist orgn.