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In day-to-day life under capitalism and class society, the vast majority of people feel alienated from society, including from its greatest art and culture.
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The oil blockade decreed by Trump on 29 January is slowly but surely asphyxiating Cuba, which relies on oil imports for 60 percent of its energy production. The
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APPLEBAUM: If you are leader of Russia or China, what’s thing that’s most threatening to you? Language of liberal democracy.
All this stuff we find boring and we’re used to, like idea of freedom of speech, separation of powers, rule of law, all those things we take for granted in our societies are huge challenge to political systems in Russia or China.
What’s Putin most afraid of? He’s most afraid of street revolution of the kind we had in Ukraine in 2014. When people are standing in the street and they have signs saying “we’re against corruption, we want democracy, we want to be in the European Union, we want to be integrated with Europe.”
He’s afraid of that happening in Russia because if you live in autocratic state where you don’t have freedom of speech, where there’s no justice, where government decides what all the rules are, then those ideas are explosive and exciting.
They were the same way in 18th century when they first appeared in Declaration of Independence. People can be motivated by them, people will go into the street for them, people will risk their lives for them, and autocrats know that.
Really, for the past decade you see them seeking to spread those ideas, to promote them. I mean, we all know now about Russian propaganda campaigns, we know what Russian disinformation
looks like.
There’s a Chinese version, too, which we don’t see that much in English, but it appears in other countries. We see them seeking to undermine democracy, trying to spread the influence of different set of ideas.
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During one operation, Ukrainian forces quickly captured a column of Russian armored vehicles. But instead of simply blowing up the tanks and IFVs, Ukrainian crews did something the Russians never expected.
They climbed into the captured Russian tanks, switched on the Russian radios, and calmly drove deep into enemy territory pretending to be Russian forces.
The Russian convoy had been moving in tight formation. Ukrainian soldiers rapidly neutralized the crews, seized the vehicles, and within minutes were driving along the very road the occupiers had just used. They spoke Russian over the radio, used Russian call signs, and even copied the style of Russian communications. At checkpoints, Russian troops simply waved them through, believing they were friendly units returning from a mission.
The Ukrainians then drove straight onto the grounds of a Russian brigade headquarters.
Once the tanks were inside the base, Ukrainian crews suddenly turned their turrets and opened fire. Headquarters buildings, ammunition depots, and vehicle parks instantly descended into chaos. Russian troops ran between tents in panic, shouting and firing in every direction — but it was already too late. They had allowed a “Trojan horse” directly into their own base.
The entire operation lasted only minutes. Ukrainian forces captured the headquarters, took Russian officers prisoner, destroyed key military targets, and withdrew without losses.
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Rep. Kevin Kiley of California completed a discharge petition backed largely by Democrats.
— Read on www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/13/congress/ukraine-aid-discharge-petition-00918716A bill that would deliver new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russia is set to get a House vote in the coming weeks after a bipartisan group of lawmakers completed a discharge petition forcing it to the floor.
Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-Calif.) delivered the decisive 218th signature Wednesday on the effort to push the Ukraine Support Act through the House over the objections of Republican leaders.
Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, launched the discharge effort almost a year ago. Now Democrats are planning to force the vote the first week of June, according to three people granted anonymity to describe private plans.
It’s the latest headache for Speaker Mike Johnson, who has already seen a staggering number of discharge petitions succeed this Congress and is now seeking to unify his conference around a party-line immigration enforcement bill.
A pair of centrist House Republicans, Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Don Bacon of Nebraska, had already signed the Ukraine petition and had been lobbying GOP colleagues for months to join them.
“A message to our Ukrainian friends: Help is on the way,” Fitzpatrick said Wednesday.
The bill, introduced by Meeks, would provide $1.3 billion in aid to Ukraine and implement new sanctions on Russia amid the four-year war between the two countries. The bill also reaffirms U.S. support for Ukraine and the importance of NATO.
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