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🇬🇪 Tensions escalate in Georgia: clashes again erupted between protesters and special forces as authorities mobilize reserves to bolster security services. Despite crackdowns, streets remain packed with demonstrators. Police are deploying tear gas heavily against the crowds.

Member of Georgian parliament appeals to European leaders. "We are fighting a Russian hybrid war, they are spending enormous amounts of money, help us" - Member of Georgian parliament, Vashadze

This whole story of unconceivable hesitancy and political short-sightedness is just tragic. A truly unique historic situation of 2022 was lost to absurd and self-consuming exercises in "escalation management," now bringing tragic results. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Six hundred teddy bears were placed near the Washington Monument to honor Ukrainian children killed, injured, or abducted by russia. A bell was rung and the names of children who died due to russian aggression were read out💔

I hope the Ukrainians will forgive us for the cowardice and weakness of our leaders.

Just listening to JB Priestley's wartime transmissions "Postscripts". Well worth a listen, the quiet strength of the English is better demonstrated, in some ways, by Priestley than by Churchill's bombastic jingoism. Very worthwhile in the current circumstances. www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cx716...

The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, the oxygen that fills your lungs each time you take a breath - all were forged in stars that lived and died before the Earth and Sun were born. You are literally stardust made flesh. You were literally born in heaven www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Furnac...

Just a reminder that we already know what a multipolar world looks like.