France’s Macron Raises Defense Budget, Says Europe Under Threat https://www.byteseu.com/1193338/ #ColdWar #DefenseSpending #EmmanuelMacron #Europe #France #JULYSARL/CAEN #LUDOVIC #Military #paris #Politics #Russia #World
France’s Macron Raises Defense Budget, Says Europe Under Threat https://www.byteseu.com/1193338/ #ColdWar #DefenseSpending #EmmanuelMacron #Europe #France #JULYSARL/CAEN #LUDOVIC #Military #paris #Politics #Russia #World
#Islamism is the new #Communism
I've said for years that the #WarOnTerror started after the #ColdWar
possibly kicked off by #Putin
before #Gaza there was #Grozny
This time they're not hunting down #communists at least not by that name… "are you or have you ever been a pro Palestine protester"?
cc @kmpiw@infosec.exchange @kmpiw@kolektiva.social @kmpiw@aus.social @palestine
This piece about the new "autocratic international" got me thinking the #history of the last time Europe was under threat from both without and within - the #ColdWar - could hold many useful lessons for the future.
So: how #Finland was finlandized in 1958.
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Opinion | Iran’s eastward pivot: why China is now Tehran’s strategic default
At the latest Brics summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, much of the attention was focused on efforts…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #Aprindryport #beltandroadinitiative #Brazil #BRICS #CentralAsia #China #ColdWar #globalsouth #India #Iran #jointcomprehensiveplanofaction #middleeast #middleeastcrisis #PersianGulf #RíodeJaneiro #Russia #Tehran
https://www.europesays.com/2231803/
https://www.europesays.com/2231803/ Opinion | Iran’s eastward pivot: why China is now Tehran’s strategic default #AprinDryPort #BeltAndRoadInitiative #Brazil #BRICS #CentralAsia #China #ColdWar #Conflicts #GlobalSouth #India #Iran #JointComprehensivePlanOfAction #MiddleEast #MiddleEastCrisis #PersianGulf #RíoDeJaneiro #Russia #Tehran
Today in Labor History July 9, 1947: The Greek government ordered the arrest of 11,500 people on charges of plotting a Communist revolution. It occurred during the Greek Civil War (1943-1949), between Royalists (supported by the UK and US) and various Communist factions (supported by Yugoslavia and the USSR). It was the first US proxy war against Russia during the Cold War. Well over 200,000 people died and over 1 million were displaced. Nearly 80 years later, the U.S. continues its attempts to usurp Russia’s regional hegemony through another proxy war. This war has a similar number of deaths and refugees, but in only one-third the amount of time. And this time, both nations possess nuclear arsenals large enough to destroy the planet several times over.
July 10, 1950 #ColdWar TIME At what soft spot would the probing finger of Communist aggression aim its next jab? Western observers have long feared that one of the likeliest targets would be Russia’s neighbor, Iran, a backward land perched precariously on the USSR’s Middle-Eastern doorstep. Iran has been wallowing in an economic and political swamp for decades. https://time.com/archive/6607811/iran-next-target/
Today in Writing History July 7, 1907: Robert Heinlein was born. Heinlein was a pioneer of “hard” science fiction, which emphasized scientific accuracy in science fiction stories. He was considered one of the big 3, along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. Some of his best-known works include “Starship Troopers,” “Stranger in a Strange Land,” and “The Moon is a Hard Mistress.” He often used technological advances to explore provocative political and social issues, and to speculate how they might affect the future. The social commentary in the fiction of H.G. Wells and Upton Sinclair influenced him. He believed that some form of socialism was inevitable and that some aspects of it were already developing in the U.S. However, in his later years he became very conservative. He became a member of the Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy, which made policy recommendations that were later transformed into Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars.
#sciencefiction #scifi #author #writer #novel #books #heinlein #asimov #arthurcclarke #socialism #fiction #starwars #reagan #coldwar @bookstadon
In opening remarks to the summit, #Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva drew a parallel w/the #ColdWar's #NonAlignedMovement, a group of developing nations that resisted joining either side of a polarized global order.
"#BRICS is the heir to the Non-Aligned Movement," Lula told leaders. "With multilateralism under attack, our autonomy is in check once again."
BRICS nations represent >½ the world's population & 40% of its economic output, Lula noted…, warning of rising protectionism.
NATO Pt. 1: An Anti-Imperialist Introduction w/ Elina Xenophontos
https://www.patreon.com/posts/nato-pt-1-anti-w-132803642
#communism #coldwar #war #education #democracy #russia #soviet #blackmastodon
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism
Bomb Pop, which originated in Kansas City, turns 70 https://www.diningandcooking.com/2158909/bomb-pop-which-originated-in-kansas-city-turns-70/ #70 #anniversary #BillFoley #birthday #BombPop #Brand #celebrate #ColdWar #created #deliciousness #favorite #food #FoodTopics #fourth #FourthOfJuly #history #HotSummerDay #IceCream #IcePop #IndependenceDay #july #July4 #JulyFourth #KansasCity #KcIceCreamCo. #Lime #originated #owner #popsicle #summer #sweet #SweetTreatLover #Turns70 #War #year
Here's the bottom line
Eastern Europeans were promised a choice but denied the chance to exercise it. Between 1945 and 1949 every country behind the new “Iron Curtain” ended up with a Soviet-style single-party system—sometimes through rigged ballots, more often through outright coercion. Only the areas the Red Army did not control avoided that fate, underscoring how little real choice most people in the region had.
#ColdWar #EasternEurope #Europeans #Communists
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Yugoslavia &
Albania were liberated by their own partisans, but 1945 ballots offered only Tito’s or Hoxha’s single lists. #ColdWar
Why promises collapsed
• Red Army occupation = decisive leverage
• NKVD advisers ran police & counted votes
• “Salami tactics” dismembered rivals
• Land reform & antifascist prestige won some support, but coercion sealed power. #WWII #IronCurtain
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Hungary
The 1945 election was truly free—communists won only 17 %. Mátyás Rákosi’s “salami tactics” (arrests, show trials, forced party mergers) sliced rivals away; by 1949 just one party remained. #Hungary #History
Czechoslovakia
Communists took 38 % in the fair 1946 poll. When non-communist ministers resigned, armed “people’s militias” backed a February 1948 coup; all other parties were purged. #CzechHistory #ColdWar
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May I suggest reviewing some history. This is easily googleable stuff.
After WW II Eastern Europe was promised “free elections,” but Soviet troops on the ground decided otherwise. Country by country, one-party states replaced pluralism. #History #ColdWar
Poland
Yalta pledged a broad coalition, yet the Jan 1947 vote was run by the UB secret police: opposition jailed, ballots stuffed, communists claimed total victory. Choice over. #Poland
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Pretty telling isn't it when #fascism in #easternEurope was dying, & the #war was coming to a close, the eastern #Europeans chose #communist #revolution over liberalism.
Why? They had already had #liberalism & it sucked the first time. Then it was forced on them again after the #ColdWar ended.
PBS North: #ColdWar Secrets of Northern #Minnesota | Full Documentary
How the constant threat of nuclear annihilation affected everyone in northern Minnesota, America and the world.
The Golden Thread The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjold by Ravi Somaiya, 2020
A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag #Hammarskjöld.