Aage Borchgrevink retweeted
Nothing says "the media manufactured the Russia hoax" than going on a hunting trip with one Russian oligarch right after another Russian oligarch had paid for your wedding.
The trip highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a tycoon with a criminal record who has close ties to Vladimir Putin’s personal security service. Intelligence experts say such connections are ripe for manipulation. ft.trib.al/p0LBRYI
Standard sovjetisk forhandlingstaktikk fra Putin i samtalen med Stubb og Støre, ser det ut til. Lat som du ønsker fred, men krev kapitulasjon — eller «root causes» som Kreml kaller det. Vanskelig å vite hvor produktivt dette sporet er
Aage Borchgrevink retweeted
This is the most significant piece of news on the 🇷🇺 war against 🇺🇦 today. The steadfastness of Europe’s support for 🇺🇦 will make a significant difference, and most immediately this is a question of financial support.
Merkelig. Tipper Kreml er fornøyde
Mette Frederiksen Denmark's Prime Minister has declined the offers from Finland and Norway
don’t know what the two countries think you can achieve when Europe that when others have gone solo and, have travelled to Moscow, that it is important that we Europeans go together," she said.”
Mette Frederiksen (S) has told Finland's President, Alexander Stubb, and Norway's Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, that she disagrees with their “going it alone.
I don’t know what the two countries think you can achieve with this. We have previously also stressed in clear reports from the rest of Europe that when others have gone solo and, for example, have travelled to Moscow, that it is important that we Europeans go together," she said.”
En myte om sanksjonene mot Russland er at de ikke virker, slik Kreml sier. Det er uheldig at forsker Julie Wilhelmsen gjengir den forestillingen skriver Erlend Bjørtvedt og jeg i @Aftenposten idag. Tallene viser nemlig at sanksjonene virker og redder ukrainske liv.
Aage Borchgrevink retweeted
As a follow-up of the meeting in Oslo on 20 October and in consultation with Ukraine, the President of the Republic of Finland Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre held a phone call with President Putin on Tuesday 27 October.
🇫🇮Finland and 🇳🇴Norway are firm supporters of 🇺🇦Ukraine.
Press release👇
regjeringen.no/en/whats-new/…
Aage Borchgrevink retweeted
Sanksjonene har ikke stanset Russlands krig. Men de virker. Erlend Bjørtvedt og Aage Borchgrevink viser hvordan de rammer russisk økonomi og krigsindustri. Men smutthullene må tettes. De bør svi enda mer.
aftenposten.no/meninger/deba…
En myte om sanksjonene mot Russland er at de ikke virker, slik Kreml sier. Det er uheldig at Julie Wilhelmsen gjengir den forestillingen skriver Erlend Bjørtvedt og jeg i @Aftenposten idag. Tallene viser nemlig at sanksjonene virker og redder ukrainske liv. Lenke👇🏻
Sanksjonene har ikke stanset Russlands krig. Men de virker. Erlend Bjørtvedt og Aage Borchgrevink viser hvordan de rammer russisk økonomi og krigsindustri. Men smutthullene må tettes. De bør svi enda mer.
aftenposten.no/meninger/deba…
If there was a Nobel prize for the best involuntary Eric Cartman impersonation, President Trump would be the red hot favorite
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
Aage Borchgrevink retweeted
This was key to yesterday's victory (and to us recovering our national colors previously usurped by the far righ). And Janones ended up in the hospital with all the work he had to keep us (yep, I am in the WhatsApp channel) constantly mobilized for 3 weeks. It worked 🥰
One in every ten Brazilian voters joined a single pro-Lula chat group, "Lula’s Army," in the three weeks between the first and second rounds.
The unprecedented act of digital organizing, led by @AndreJanonesMG, brought together more than 10 million voters.
If Somalis are low IQ and don’t work, but yet live better than Trump’s voters — what does that say about Trump’s view of his voters?
Aage Borchgrevink retweeted
Badass Norwegian parliament member Peter Frølich broke his country's export laws to smuggle thermal-imaging drones into Ukraine after Norwegian customs blocked the shipment in 2023.
When government bureaucracy stood between Ukrainian soldiers and urgently needed equipment, Frølich decided to take matters into his own hands.
The drones were delivered, the Norwegian government subsequently changed the regulations, and Frølich says he has no regrets.
Aage Borchgrevink retweeted
What “poor Russian conscripts” is he talking about? The Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine serve under official contracts and are paid for it. Their salaries are funded in part by the extra money Putin is receiving as a result of Trump’s recent decisions to waive some of the sanctions on Russia.
And now, something very important.
Russia pretends to be “great,” yet it is a very poor country. Its entire economy is comparable in size to that of the U.S. state of Texas. Millions of Russians live in economically depressed regions. For them, signing a contract with the Russian army is often the only realistic path to social advancement, because it lets them earn the kind of money they could only have dreamed of in their impoverished home regions.
The families of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine are perfectly satisfied. They receive sums of money that their husbands or sons could never have earned, even if they had worked for the rest of their lives.
That’s why our Russian human rights colleagues call this kind of economy a “necronomy,” meaning a “death economy.” Russia sells death. Literally.
Yes, this bloody war must be stopped. And to stop it, we must make the cost of war for Putin higher than the cost of peace.
So if Musk truly cares about the lives of Russian soldiers, America must break the Russian necronomy’s ability to fuel this bloody war. But the Trump administration has done exactly the opposite. America has begun to finance it.
I am attaching to this post just a few examples of Russian state advertising, showing the amounts in rubles for which “Russian kids” go to kill Ukrainians.
