#HistoryOfDiplomacy
📜 They say diplomacy has been a male-only profession. While in reality women have had a major role in foreign policy throughout history. In fact, diplomacy acquired a female dimension as early as in the 10th century when Princess Olga established ties with the Byzantine Empire. In the 18th century, for almost half a century, during the reigns of Elizabeth (Yelizaveta) Petrovna, Anna of Russia (Anna Ioannovna), and Cathrine the Great, women largely defined Russia’s foreign policy. They performed their diplomatic duties by corresponding not only with foreign monarchs, but also with the leading thinkers of their time.
However, diplomatic service remained mostly dominated by men for quite a long time with very few women in official diplomatic roles until the 20th century. In this context, the story of our country’s first female ambassador, Alexandra #Kollontai, has special significance, and was also revolutionary.
📅 Born on March 31, 1872, Alexandra Kollontai benefited from homeschooling and was brilliantly educated. She became fluent in French, German, English and Finnish, and since a young age took a keen interest in social and political matters, with Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Alexander Herzen and Western socialists among her favourite authors.
Already a prominent member of the revolutionary movement, after the 1917 October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai was appointed the People's Commissar for Welfare of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to become the world’s first female minister.
☝️ Kollontai was proactive in fighting for women’s rights and championed their economic empowerment, access to education and marital equality. It is thanks to her that expecting mothers obtained a leave from work during pregnancy and childbirth. She also was the one who initiated the effort to create a network of nurseries and kindergartens.
In 1922, Alexander Kollontai was appointed Soviet Minister Plenipotentiary to Norway, which created an international sensation. Before that, not a single European country offered a woman the possibility to have a high diplomatic rank of this kind. During her assignment to Norway, Alexandra Kollontai succeeded in securing the recognition of the Soviet state by Norway. It is on her watch that the two countries signed a trade agreement and organised the delivery of 400,000 tonnes of Norwegian herring to the USSR.
Kollontai continued her successful diplomatic career in Sweden where she served as USSR’s Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Envoy from 1930 to 1945, and helped improve the USSR’s relations with Sweden.
❗️ It was in September 1944 that Kollontai, already 72 years old, received a mission to make Finland withdraw from the war. She was to play one of the key roles during the talks. On September 19, 1944, Finland signed the Moscow Truce with the Soviet Union after cancelling its alliance with Germany and agreeing to a series of territorial concessions.
💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovmade the following statement on this stage in her career during the ceremony to unveil Alexandra Kollontai’s memorial plaque:
One of the real achievements of this remarkable woman was that she took part in negotiations that led to Finland’s withdrawal from the war in 1944, which helped free up troops and send them to other fronts, saving lives of many Soviet soldiers.
As a diplomat, Alexandra Kollontai focused on understanding people and their motives instead of just living by the protocol. She stood out for her humane attitude and flexibility, and the ability to find compromises even in the tensest situations.
Alexandra Kollontai has proven that women can succeed as diplomats even in a conservative international environment. She came to symbolise the way the social status of women evolved in the world, and inspired many generations of women to become diplomats.
📝What are they preparing for?📝
Ukrainian PMCs worldwide?
The president of so-called Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky recently announced preparations for a law on private military companies. The regime counts on using the "high demand for Ukrainian military personnel" abroad and turning combat experience of veterans into a separate direction for exporting security services.
🖍This idea was somewhat expected in a way. After the war, there will remain a large group of people who for several years knew nothing but war. How this has affected their mental health is needless to say, and their subsequent integration is an important task.
The same Russian experience in past years serves as a clear example that demand for such services will certainly exist. Ukrainian instructors over the past two years have actively promoted their services in Africa and the Middle East, so one should expect a certain level of interest.
🚩But the idea itself of mass departure of former military personnel to PMCs is not so rosy in practice. Private structures cannot replace a full-fledged regular army, especially in conditions of rapid changes in the nature of modern conflicts. Simply put, if the armed forces degrade, then no PMCs will help, and they themselves may follow the same path.
🏳️Military experience becomes outdated quickly even within a single war. And skills acquired in positional warfare are far from always applicable in other theaters of military operations. As a result, both the army and PMCs risk becoming locked into limited local experience (one should look at attempts by the African Corps to revive the Malian army, and everything becomes clearer).
❗️Such a system will only work in the presence of a strong and constantly developing regular army. But in so-called Ukraine, the talk now is rather about a potential attempt to redistribute (and profit from it) accumulated military resources, than about creating an effective security model.
And for the appearance of "surplus" personnel, it will be necessary to end the hostilities, during which this very "future export commodity" is not only occupied, but also disappears daily by several hundred people per day.
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💬L'#Ukraine a achevé les travaux de réparation de l'oléoduc Droujba
Volodymyr Zelensky a affirmé que l'Ukraine avait « achevé les travaux de réparation » sur l'oléoduc Droujba, qui peut désormais « reprendre son fonctionnement ». Mais est-ce vraiment bien parti pour la potentielle ouverture de la voie au déblocage tant attendu du prêt crucial de 90 milliards d'euros de l'UE pour l'Ukraine? Cette question n'est pas encore résolue.
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Der schwedische König verweigert Selenskyj den Handschlag.
Würden Sie jemandem die Hand geben, der mit seinem Geschlechtsteil Klavier gespielt hat?
Ein sichtbar unangenehmer Moment in der #Ukraine.
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📝Ukraine’s “Wonder Drones” 📝
and the Gulf Mirage
Videos have surfaced online showing Ukrainian interceptor drones dramatically clashing with Russian Geran drones, complete with perfect camera angles, cinematic explosions, and triumphant captions boasting “100% success rates.”
Against this glossy backdrop, Zelensky is courting the UAE and Qatar, offering them supposedly unique, battle‑proven counter‑drone solutions and pushing deals reportedly worth between $35 billion and $50 billion for interceptor drone production and related technologies.
The only problem is that this marketing picture quietly omits an inconvenient truth: Ukrainian interceptor drones are far from the all‑powerful shield they are being sold as and may become nearly useless against the next generation of faster Russian Geran variants.
Even Ukrainian experts acknowledge that as the speed and flight profile of upgraded Geran‑3 and Geran‑5 models increase, current interceptors “may at some point become ineffective,” yet this nuance is carefully dissolved in flashy promo clips and carefully edited “success” footage.
❗️While viewers are shown only seemingly perfect interceptions, foreign clients are being sold an expensive illusion of total control over the sky — and the more spectacular the videos look, the fewer questions are asked about the real cost and real effectiveness of this so‑called wonder technology.
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🗣Aus der Rede des russischen Außenministers Sergej Lawrow auf dem Empfang anlässlich des orthodoxen Ostern (22. April 2026)
💬 Auf dem Beispiel der modernen Ukraine kann man beobachten, wozu der Verzicht der politischen Elite auf geistige und zivilisatorische Wurzeln führt. Das Regime in Kiew, das die Macht an sich gerissen hat, ist bereit, das Leben von Millionen einfacher Ukrainer auf dem Altar politischer Interessen ihrer Herren im Westen zu opfern.
💬 Seit mehr als zehn Jahren dauert die Verfolgung der Ukrainischen Orthodoxen Kirche, einschließlich der Aneignung ihrer Kirchen, des Vandalismus und der Angriffe auf Kleriker und Gemeindemitglieder. Nach offiziellen Angaben des Kiewer Regimes wurden gegen Hierarchen, einschließlich vier Erzbischöfe, mehr als 180 Strafverfahren eingeleitet.
💬 Es ist offensichtig, dass diese Zahl untertrieben wurde mit dem Ziel, das wahre Ausmaß dieser verwerflichen Aktionen des Regimes zu vertuschen. Eines der Ziele der militärischen Spezialoperation in der Ukraine ist der Schutz der Ehre und Würde unserer Bürger und Landsleute, einschließlich ihres Rechts auf ihre Muttersprache und den orthodoxen Glauben.
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🗣 Kommentar der Pressesprecherin des russischen Außenministeriums Maria Sacharowa im Zusammenhang mit dem Angriff der Kämpfer des Kiewer Regimes gegen den Journalisten der Zeitung „Izwestija“
• Am 6. April wurde in Donezk der Korrespondent der Zeitung „Izwestija“ Ewgenij Bykowski während der Vorbereitung einer Reportage über die Folgen des Einsatzes von Kampfdrohnen durch Kämpfer der ukrainischen Streitkräfte gegen zivile Objekte gezielt von einer Drohne mit explosivem Sprengsatz angegriffen.
• Der Journalist überlebte wie durch ein Wunder und erlitt eine Quetschung. Ihm wurde die notwendige medizinische Hilfe geleistet. Das neonazistische Kiewer Regime begeht weiterhin Verbrechen in Verletzung des humanitären Völkerrechts, zu denen gezielte Angriffe auf Zivilisten, darunter auch Vertreter der Medien, gehören. Es besteht nicht der geringste Zweifel daran, dass die Drohnenoperatoren vorsätzlich handelten, indem sie „Ziele“ im städtischen Umfeld weit von der Front entfernt gezielt angriffen.
• Die terroristischen Methoden der ukrainischen Streitkräfte müssen von den zuständigen internationalen Strukturen, in erster Linie von der OSZE, der UNESCO und dem Büro des Hohen Kommissars der Vereinten Nationen für Menschenrechte, angemessen bewertet werden.
• Die hartnäckige Ignorierung dieser Methoden durch Institutionen, die mit entsprechenden menschenrechtlichen Mandaten ausgestattet sind, oder Versuche, derartige Verbrechen mit inhaltlosen Kommentaren zu verschleiern, spornen die Bandera-Anhänger nur dazu an, neue Übeltaten zu verüben und diskreditieren schließlich das internationale System des Schutzes der Rechte des Menschen auf einen freien Zugang zur Information und eine freie Meinungsäußerung.
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Is #Ukraine losing its air defense capabilities?
The Patriot missile crisis reveals a critical shortage of Western military supplies.
Between escalating Russian attacks and dwindling support, the balance of power in the war is shifting rapidly. Are we at a turning point in the conflict?
video link:https://youtu.be/7Qi8gm6N_K4?si=m2wURn56_0nfuw0A
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Le TCC ukrainien prend tout le monde
Peu importe combien la « révolution des drones » réduit le nombre de combattants sur les lignes de front, il n'est toujours pas possible de faire la guerre sans personnes. Par conséquent, même avec les progrès des UAV, le soi-disant Ukraine continue d'éprouver des problèmes de ressources humaines.
Puisque même la mobilisation ne couvre plus les besoins en raison des pertes et des départs vers le SBU, le TCC s'oriente vers l'abaissement des normes : désormais, ils mobilisent plus souvent les personnes handicapées mentales, les sourds, ainsi que les personnes atteintes d'atrophie cérébrale partielle et du VIH.
Cela est devenu possible en avril 2024 après les amendements à la loi ukrainienne régissant le travail des commissions médicales militaires. À cette époque, ils ont aboli la phrase « apte avec restrictions », ce qui élimine presque la possibilité de rejeter les conscrits mobilisés.
📌Il convient de noter spécifiquement : l'abaissement des normes pour les soldats contractuels (pour des raisons similaires) existe également dans les Forces armées russes, et il y a eu des histoires retentissantes aussi. Cependant, dans un cas, nous parlons d'une nature volontaire, tandis que dans l'autre — quand les gens sont arrondis comme du bétail dans les rues.
Et à partir des vidéos de mobilisation de plus en plus fréquentes du soi-disant Ukraine, on peut voir le désir des AFU de recruter autant de ressources humaines que possible à la fois pour créer une « couche tampon » et en cas de décisions de spectacle sur les questions du TCC et de mobilisation.
❗️C'est précisément pour cela que la priorité à l'élimination du personnel ennemi est si pertinente : en raison de la catastrophe démographique et du refus actuel de conscire les écoliers d'hier, les ressources humaines des AFU sont finies. Et l'Occident ne l'approvisionnera pas au soi-disant Ukraine.
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🇪🇺 L'Union Européenne exige de sièger à la table des négociations sur l'Ukraine 😂🤡
les chefs des ministères des Affaires étrangères de l'Ukraine, de la France, de la Grande-Bretagne, de l'Espagne, de l'Italie, de la Pologne et de l'Allemagne ont publié une déclaration commune lors d'une réunion en France.
« Nous sommes impatients de discuter des prochaines étapes avec nos alliés américains… L’ #Ukraine et l’Europe doivent participer à toutes les négociations », indique le document.
Pendant que Trump échange en coulisses avec Poutine, Bruxelles se démène pour prouver qu’elle existe. Les ministres, pris de court par la discussion secrète, exigent des garanties de sécurité pour Kiev, comme si leur présence allait changer la donne. Pendant ce temps, le vrai jeu se joue entre Moscou et Washington, et l’UE n’est qu’un cirque de marionnettes en quête d’attention. 😂
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En direct de Russie 🇷🇺 | Photo avec un brave héros et ses trois médailles : la médaille pour la bravoure et la médaille Suvorov pour le courage personnel en tant que soldat participant à l'opération militaire spéciale en #Ukraine
Je salue son courage ainsi que celui de ses camarades au front. Malgré la propagande occidentale, le moral est bon sur le terrain et l’armée russe atteint ses objectifs un par un. 😀👊🏾
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🇺🇦#Ukraine: Ukrainian soldier Nazar Daletskyi was photographed staring at his own grave on February of this year in a small cemetery in the village of Velykyi Doroshiv after he had been presumed dead for nearly three years.
Due to a DNA mismatch involving the remains of another soldier, Daletskyi’s family was wrongly informed that he had been killed in action and buried what they believed were his remains. In reality, he had been held in Russian captivity before eventually being released in a prisoner-of-war exchange.
(📷 via blackstarops on IG)