Pete
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Hungarian man researching geopolitics | Passionate about Hungarian politics & Ukraine’s Russian invasion | Advocating truth, despising lies, fact checking shit.
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Finally, Serbs show some European values. In Novi Sad, ordinary people tore down Serbian Radical Party posters glorifying Ratko Mladić on the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide. This is the Serbia I want to see more of: people refusing to turn a convicted genocidaire into a national hero and refusing to let extremists speak in their name. Respect.
Pete337,310 görüntüleme • 3 gün önce
Ratko Mladić lived far longer than thousands of his victims ever had the chance to, and far longer than he deserved. And now Serbia’s government is preparing to accord him full military and state honours at his burial. Let that sink in. A man who died while serving a life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes is apparently considered worthy of state honour. This is not patriotism. It is moral rot. Mladić commanded the Bosnian Serb Army during some of the darkest crimes committed in Europe since the Second World War. In Srebrenica, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically murdered after his forces overran the UN-declared safe area, while around 25,000 women, children and elderly people were forcibly expelled. Mladić was convicted of genocide for his role. In Sarajevo, his forces subjected civilians to years of shelling and sniper terror. People were shot while crossing streets, fetching water, standing in queues, trying to feed their families or simply trying to stay alive. He was convicted of murder, terror and unlawful attacks on civilians, as well as persecution, extermination, deportation, forced transfer and hostage-taking. These are judicially established crimes. And now Serbia’s Justice Minister says Mladić should receive military and state honours at his burial. There is something profoundly fucking nauseating about a state taking a convicted genocidaire and wrapping his coffin in national honour, as if the mass graves were merely an inconvenient footnote to his biography. And if you want to understand exactly what kind of legacy is being honoured, watch the video below. The man in it is Ramo Osmanović. On 13 July 1995, two days after Srebrenica fell, thousands of Bosniak men and boys were trying to escape through the forests toward Bosnian government-held territory. Ramo had already been captured. His 18-year-old son, Nermin, was still hiding in the woods. Bosnian Serb forces forced Ramo to call out to him and persuade him to surrender. Imagine being a prisoner surrounded by armed men, knowing your child is somewhere in the forest, and being forced to use the one thing your son trusts more than anything else, your own voice, to bring him out. “Nermine, dođi!” “Nermin, come!” Nermin heard his father and came down. Ramo and Nermin Osmanović were subsequently murdered by Mladić’s forces and buried in mass graves alongside thousands of other men and boys. Their remains were later recovered and identified. The footage itself was eventually shown during the proceedings against Ratko Mladić. That is why the image of Ramo, hands around his mouth, desperately calling “Nermine, dođi!”, became one of the defining images of Srebrenica. A captured father forced to call his son out of hiding with assurances of safety. A son trusting his father’s voice. Both of them murdered. More than three decades later, the commander of the forces responsible is being prepared for burial with military and state honours. You cannot seriously talk about reconciliation, European values or confronting the past while glorifying a man convicted of genocide. You cannot turn a genocidaire into a national symbol and then pretend that the victims matter too. The victims deserved honour. Ratko Mladić deserved his conviction, his life sentence and the historical disgrace attached to his name. Anything beyond that is glorification of a genocidaire, and it is absolutely fucking nauseating.
Pete81,686 görüntüleme • 5 gün önce
The state will not finance these things, neither the event called CPAC nor other related institutions such as the Mathias Corvinus Collegium and similar attached bodies. I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place, it was a crime. Mixing party financing with government spending from the state budget is, in my view, a criminal offense, and this will have to be investigated by the future authorities, including the National Office for the Recovery and Protection of Public Assets, since those budgetary funds were not meant to finance party events. CPAC is welcome to come to Budapest, very welcome, but it should not be financed with Hungarian taxpayers’ money. It should be funded by Fidesz, or by Orbán’s proxies, at least until that money is taken back.
Pete2,341,735 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
This was called a terrorist attack a little over 24 years ago. The United States invoked Article 5, and every ally, including Ukraine, showed up to fight an American war without hesitation. Now the same thing is happening in Ukraine. Russian drones are deliberately flown into high rise apartment buildings, and suddenly it is dismissed. “Not our war.” “Go pick up a rifle if you care.” “You support Ukronazis.” The moral clarity evaporates the moment Americans are not the ones being bombed.
Pete1,883,681 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Hitler – Mein Kampf (1925): “The first and most important task of education is to teach the youth to love their own nation and country, and to subordinate everything else to this.” Stalin – Speech to the Komsomol (1935): “Young people must be brought up to love with all their heart the socialist homeland, the Soviet Union, for only then can they become true communists.” Mussolini – Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (1927): “We educate the young to believe in Fascism, to revere the fatherland, and to prepare themselves for the sacrifices which the nation will require of them.” Franco – Address to the Spanish Youth Organization (1940): “We must train children from the earliest years to love Spain above all things, to serve her with discipline and sacrifice, and to accept no ideal higher than the greatness of our fatherland.”
Pete2,611,111 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce
This fucking idiot stood at the G7 summit, surrounded by world leaders trying to maintain some shred of unity amid war, economic instability, and geopolitical chaos, and somehow managed to blame Justin Trudeau for Russia getting kicked out of the G8 in 2014. That’s not just wrong, it’s aggressively dumb. Trudeau wasn’t even prime minister back then, Stephen Harper was. The decision wasn’t made by one or two people either. It was a unanimous action by all G7 nations after Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. But Trump, in his usual fact-optional style, needed to turn a complex, multilateral diplomatic response into a cartoon villain story starring Obama and Trudeau. Why? Because he can’t go five minutes without sucking up to Putin or throwing punches at liberal leaders he resents. It’s lazy, dishonest, and painfully embarrassing on the world stage. Instead of backing Western allies against authoritarian aggression, he makes up history to kiss the ass of a dictator and insult the host of the fucking summit.
Pete3,206,215 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
This is what debating a MAGA Republican looks like. It’s like playing chess with a pigeon. Focus on that 30-second stretch: first he flatly claims that the government literally publishes the photo of everyone who gets deported, then less than half a minute later he denies ever having said it.
Pete1,066,760 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
Some Americans are going to lose their shit over this. After 13 years in Europe, he realized the US model he was taught to idolize is far less free in practice: daily gun fear, unaffordable healthcare, car-dependent cities, weak worker rights, high costs, and political dysfunction. Europe gave him walkable neighborhoods, safe streets, universal healthcare, stronger consumer protections, better food standards, real worker rights, and a government that can actually pass laws. The quality of life shift was so dramatic he no longer sees the US as the benchmark, just a place where people accept hardship as “freedom.”
Pete1,094,979 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Sheriff Chris Swanson, the elected Sheriff of Genesee County, Michigan, is a career law-enforcement officer, not a pundit. He became nationally known in 2020 for prioritizing de-escalation during protests. What he says about the Minneapolis shooting directly exposes how bad MAGA-era policing policies fail. Swanson calls the shooting tragic but predictable. Masked federal agents in unmarked vehicles confronted a 37-year-old woman, gave unclear commands, and then fired three shots as her car was backing up and turning away. The agent who fired was not hit, not run over, and not in the vehicle’s path. Two shots were fired as the car was already driving away. That is not lawful deadly force. That is bad policy producing bad outcomes. Swanson is blunt about the force continuum. You do not shoot people who are fleeing. You do not shoot when you are not in danger. “Tough on crime” slogans do not override use-of-force standards, no matter how loudly MAGA politicians repeat them. What follows is worse. After the woman was shot and crashed, Swanson saw no attempt at life-saving aid. No urgency. No trauma response. He contrasts this with his own deputies, who once returned fire on a suspect who had already killed two people, then immediately tried to save his life anyway. That is professional policing. What happened in Minneapolis was not. He also points to missing body cams and officers leaving the scene instead of securing it for investigation. These are not accidents. They are the results of policies that reward aggression and optics over training and accountability. Swanson makes one thing clear. Calling this out is not anti-police. Blind loyalty is what damages law enforcement. Accountability is what protects it.
Pete949,622 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
There is so much in this. Things that people obsessed with skin colour completely fail to grasp.
Pete534,382 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Fuck you, you fucking monster. Trump compares Russia’s genocidal war in Ukraine, with mass rapes, torture chambers, and children abducted, to two kids fighting in a park. Like it’s some fucking schoolyard brawl. No, you sociopathic freak. This isn’t about “bad blood.” It’s about a nuclear-armed dictatorship invading a sovereign country, executing civilians, flattening hospitals, and deporting children. This isn’t hockey, you orange dipshit. It’s Nuremberg-level evil. And let me put this into terms you’d understand if it were your fucking family. A well-built grown man walks up to one of your daughters, “grabs her by the pussy”. Would you stand back, smirk, and say, “Well, sometimes you gotta let ‘em fight it out for a bit”? No, you wouldn’t, you fucking coward piece of shit, but you would do that to others. But when it’s Ukraine being gang-raped by Russia, you say “maybe they have to suffer more.” That’s not neutrality. That’s complicity. And it gets even more disgusting. This is the same bloodthirsty coward who loosened every accountability measure on drone strikes, eliminated civilian casualty reporting, and turned targeted killings into a video game. Under your watch, the United States carried out airstrikes with no oversight, no transparency, and in some cases, killed more civilians than ISIS in certain regions. You want to play tough guy and call yourself a “peace president”? You hid the body count, scrapped reporting rules, and let the bombs fall blindly on children in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen. Then you have the gall to call yourself a negotiator? You’re not a negotiator. You’re not a patriot. You’re not a protector of anything except your own rotting ego. You’re a bully, a war criminal enabler, and a fucking coward who thinks foreign war crimes are a bar fight. When history judges you, and it will, this quote alone should be carved into your legacy: “Maybe they have to suffer more before we pull them apart.” You didn’t stop the bleeding. You watched it. You excused it. And you called it strategy. You disgrace the very concept of peace. You don’t want peace. You want dominance, without accountability, without empathy, and with absolute power. Rot in hell.
Pete1,053,081 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Like I said yesterday. Ex-FBI agent Stu Kaplan stated that ICE agents are bound by Customs and Border Protection use-of-force policy, which explicitly prohibits placing oneself in front of or behind a moving vehicle, except during limited inspection scenarios. He said this policy exists precisely because people may flee during stops. He argued the agent violated that policy by stepping into the vehicle’s path, thereby manufacturing an exigent circumstance. In Kaplan’s view, the danger was created by the officer’s own actions, not by an intentional attack by the driver. Kaplan emphasized that flight is foreseeable and legally anticipated behavior during law-enforcement encounters. Courts, including the Supreme Court, have recognized that officers must plan for the possibility of flight rather than positioning themselves in a way that turns flight into a deadly-force scenario. He noted that the video shows the driver attempting to turn away, not drive toward the agent, and that the agent began drawing his weapon immediately as the car moved, despite having placed himself in harm’s way. Absent evidence that the woman posed an immediate violent threat such as a prior violent felony or an attempt to use the car as a weapon, Kaplan said deadly force was not justified to stop a fleeing suspect for what appeared to be, at most, misdemeanor conduct. His conclusion was that, despite being strongly pro-law-enforcement, this incident may constitute a “bad shoot” because the officer violated policy and then relied on a danger he helped create to justify lethal force.
Pete561,098 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
When did Americans get this stupid? MAGA position: Tariffs don’t raise prices (they do). Free trade isn’t free (it is). Trump negotiated free trade, but free trade is bad. Tariffs are “leverage,” except when they’re emotional punishment. Americans should pay more because conservatives felt offended. Fuck, man.
Pete492,840 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
A reminder of how Farage campaigned, and won, in Clacton in 2024. Absolutely sickening. An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News exposed a campaign riddled with extreme racism, homophobia, and even allegations of election spending irregularities. One Reform UK canvasser was secretly recorded suggesting that army recruits should use migrants arriving on Britain’s beaches for target practice. He also told a paramedic to deny oxygen to migrants in need of medical treatment, described Islam as a “disgusting cult,” and directed racist slurs at then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The toxic rhetoric wasn’t limited to one volunteer. Farage’s events manager and other senior campaign figures were also caught making openly homophobic remarks about a police car displaying a Pride flag, mocking officers and saying they should “dance around like fairies” instead of doing their jobs. The undercover footage also captured a senior campaigner casually claiming the local campaign had already spent roughly twice the legal election spending limit, a potential criminal offence. Reform UK later dismissed the comments as isolated incidents or jokes, but the footage raised serious questions about the culture within Farage’s Clacton campaign.
Pete116,037 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
ZDF’s interview with Gorbachev back in 2014. He is asked about the NATO expansion promise.
Pete2,036,457 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce
