Petra Ramsauer

@Petramaria
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journalist, writer & political scientist. studying psychotherapy, covers #iraq, #iran, #syria, #afghanistan. reads a lot about trauma & war. loves cats, dogs, lakes and the sea
It's all schadenfreudey watching what's happening as the Republican Conservatives try to drive the car off the cliff, until you remember that We Are All In That Car.
محمد مجيد الأحوازي on Twitter

“مدينة ايذج قبل قليل .. كيف يستطيع نظام خامنئي مواجهة هذه الجموع الثائرة ضد الظلم ؟! ⁧#مهسا_امینی⁩ ⁦#MahsaAmini”

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Ein Tipp für alle, die neu hier sind: Ich finde, @pallenberg hat eine gute Anleitung für den Start auf Mastodon verfasst!

👉 https://www.metacheles.de/p/mastodon-anleitung-und-einstieg

good to see you in my twitter exile. will be more active in a while. Have a lot of work right now, but hope by Dec I will be able to settle here + there. https://www.facebook.com/petra.ramsauer
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The 9th of November is a day steeped in history for us in Germany, terrible and wonderful at the same time: 1918 (proclamation of the Republic), 1923 (Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch), 1938 (start of the November progroms) and 1989 (Fall of the Berlin Wall). There is light and shadow, good and bad - an ambivalent day in our #history
"The West is facing a new Berlin blockade moment, and it should channel the same determination to prevent Putin from destroying Ukraine that it mustered with the Berlin airlift." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/can-ukraine-survive-winter
Can Ukraine Survive the Winter?

What the country needs to hold out.

Foreign Affairs
The Russian Air War and Ukrainian Requirements for Air Defence

Further Western support is needed to ensure that Kyiv can counter Moscow's updated approach to the air war in Ukraine.

"We were thrown into landings, they told us to dig in, we had three shovels per battalion...we dug in as best we could, and in the morning shelling began—artillery, 'grads', mortars, copters, we were simply shot."
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-officers-commanders-fleeing-retreating-soldier-ukraine-1757416?utm_source=push_notification&utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=fullauto&utm=1667884279290
Russian Military Officers Fleeing From Front, Conscripted Soldier Claims

"When it all started, the officers immediately ran away," a soldier who was conscripted as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilization said.

Newsweek

Gute Nachricht für uns Isabella Eckerle-Fanboys and -girls:

Sie ist hier @EckerleIsabella, wenn auch noch ein wenig schüchtern. 😉

#Mastodon employee of the month 💪

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