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@MJ @TonyStark US is now the kind of country my parents handed down to me 30 years ago when #Belarus failed to oust #Lukashenka the first time.

And yes, arresting judges was a milestone there, too, right before disappearing journalists and politicians.

I just realized that this year will mark 10 years since I stopped talking to my parents, in large part because of, well, this crap. No regrets.

#Poland trial of “migration activists” who were detained Hajnówka at #Belarus border has revealed new evidence indicating that the activists have been spending crowdfunded money for direct payments to the couriers who transported the migrants from Poland to Germany and other countries in EU.

If that’s confirmed, that’s no longer “humanitarian help”, it’s direct participation in human trafficking, coordinated by Belarussian KGB and Middle East organised crime groups. From what prosecution says, the evidence is quite solid as it’s literally what one of the activists was talking about in her chat with the human trafficker secured on her smartphone.

Source: https://www.radio.bialystok.pl/wiadomosci/index/id/249357 (in Polish)

Polskie Radio BiałystokProkuratura przedstawia nowe dowody w głośnej sprawie aktywistów [zdjęcia, wideo]Nie będzie zwrotu sprawy prokuraturze do uzupełnienia postępowania dowodowego - zdecydował we wtorek (15.04) Sąd Rejonowy w Hajnówce. Chodzi o proces aktywistów zaangażowanych w pomoc humanitarną na granicy z Białorusią. Są oni oskarżeni o ułatwianie migrantom niezgodnego z prawem
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@dianshuo @randahl I genuinely think they do - #misogyny and institutionalised #racism let them to this moment in time - there is no resistance to the Arancia Duce or any meaningful change, until the majority of society there accepts that these 2 things are a problem.Of course they need to work on these 2 things.There will be no real elections there anyway, so there is no point in even stating or debating if #USA a #democracy. It is not.It is as much democratic as #Russia or #Belarus.

Photo of Jewish musicians from Klyetsk, 1928, not far from Baranavichy. At that time in Poland, today in Belarus. From the YIVO collection, from the 1946 "Journal dedicated our Birthplace Kletzk" by United Kletzker Relief. The line underneath is a bit of a play on a Molly Picon song. "Di 'Kapelie' - Efrim mitn fidl un Asher mitn bas - 1928."

#German historian and military expert #Sönke_Neitzel:

"Nobody really knows what #Putin wants and does. Nobody can really foresee the future, not the intelligence services or the heads of state. Nor can I do that. But there are possible scenarios.

A worst case - possibly a peace treaty, a 'negative' peace treaty in #Ukraine, which frees #Putin with his forces to do other things. And we have the big manoeuvres, the #Zapad manoeuvres, coming up in #Belarus in autumn.