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1/ Adding a few points of my own to this list, from experience and observations. Some of them are more technical, some are more behavioural notes. Tailor as necessary.
Russian bot farms use paid individuals to spread misinformation, continuing KGB-style “active measures” from the Cold War.

Here’s how you can spot them 👇

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Võib olla ka valimisliidu oportunism - voodisse minnakse kõigiga, kes võivad hääli tuua.
"Some NATO countries" isn't a NATO framework. It's what you say when you CAN'T say it's NATO - mostly to users who can't list countries of either EU, NATO or G7.
What is exactly the suggestion? Israel can't be helped? Or NATO members aren't allowed to do anything aside helping Ukraine?
It is important, but this comparison isn't at all applicable in this context. Why doesn't Ukraine get called to BRICS meetings? Becuse it isn't a member. Whay was USA assisted by NATO post-9/11? Because USA was NATO member, and invoked Article 5 according to its requirements.
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Personally, I think Zelenskyy (also the EU + NATO if they helped prep for this meeting) has to take a strong look at his advisers & make changes.

Sorry to take up so much time with my thoughts but I am really angry because I saw elementary mistakes being made.

On with the news
Yeap. That's something that can be seen a few times.
Before the media were thrown out + the doors closed, Zelenskyy missed chances to sow the seeds of both these themes.

I've trained politicians, executives, directors etc., on the key to communicating & getting your message across to the media.
This was not done by Ukraine's team
Useful idiot. No quotation marks.
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The German magazine KATAPULT visualized the occupation of Ukraine on a European scale.

The map shows the area of occupied Ukrainian territories with comparable areas in other European countries so that their citizens can understand the scale and imagine it for themselves.
2022 would not have happened. But they didn't and remained more optimistic (and naive) regarding Russia, for many years. Maidan, Crimea were turning point for many and that's recent.
Navel-gazing has limited uses. Better focus on what can be done.
All desire to help Ukraine aside, Ukraine isn't NATO member and US is. It matters in things like this. Ukraine and Baltics went different paths after soviet disintegration - if Ukraine had chosen to steer hard west and go for EU and NATO then as well, they would be members and 2014,
See ei ole nomaalne.
Mulje jääb, et lapsevanemad peaks seal pead kokku panema ja Haridusameti ja/või kooli kohtusse kaebama, põhjusega, et lastele ei tagata koolis kvaliteetset õppetegevust, mis kahjustab laste õigust hridusele. On seal selliseid lapsevanemaid muidugi, keda see huvitab?
Odot, see on päriselt klassitunnis?
Russia works in shadows but populism and local ignoramuses aren't their work, even if they play to them. Any society ignores locals with poor education and habit to blame everyone else and not take responsibility at their own peril. Because even if you eliminate russians, they are still there.
Also note how "russian liberals" are always doing Moscow's job of fighting any sanctions for them. Can you imagine advocating for nazis and demanding to be taken as anti-nazi back in the days? Cognitive dissonance ftw.
Caring for themselves, not about war, not about Ukrainans.
The divide between the Old Europe and the new. Money, not really caring about russian colonialism unless it's hurting them hard, looking down on smaller nations and I suspect having a colonial past of their own has some impact as well. It's more familiar to them than suffering under it.
Indeed. It's astonishing how EU is chubby with the nazis of today.
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Yap, remember that wave of russia trying to create public terror.
Bullies all the time, everywhere.
🇪🇪 Bomb threats in Estonian schools, 2023

In October 2023, hundreds of Estonian schools, government offices, and businesses received emailed bomb threats sent by Kremlin-aligned activists from Russia. Estonia's Internal Security Service (ISS) confirmed the campaign was directed… […]
Original post on zpravobot.news
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Um. Over half a million tourist visas for russians in 2024 alone.
Why were any allowed to come?
That's a misrepresentation of facts. Estonians let through citizens, residents, humanitarian c-s.
Do you konw what Baltic countries don't do? Tourist visas to russians and passage.
Do you know what countries DO tourist visas to russians?
Put the blame where it lies.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...
Seems to be the case of opening his mouth, ergo lying.
I'm not surprised he is from Latvia - they are most agressive in Baltics, were they still think they are colonial overlords and want the "good ole times" to return.
If he acted like that outside Latva, imagine how he acts in Latvia.
👀 Russian, who attacked a family over the Ukrainian language, detained by Swiss police, — KyivPost.

❗️He also received criminal proceedings from the Latvian State Security Service, because the Russian turned out to be from the city of Riga and does not have a Swiss passport.
Well done.
In Latvia, police took down a cybercrime group suspected of being responsible for thousands of scams across Europe. Seven members of the network were arrested.
Most non-russians aren't as eager to pick a fight. Other passengers look like airspace to him - harmless.
That's the result of not correcting bullies' behaviour when it happens.
And the only language they understand is personal consequences.
Yeap. He is threatening to murder ukrainian family with his "guys" because they dare to ride the same train wagon.
There is crowd that is more racist and hateful than KKK.