Stoltenberg rules out land-for-peace deal with Ukraine

At the same time, Trump’s advisers are trying to push Ukraine to "renounce land for peace,” the head of the North Atlantic Alliance pointed to Russia’s refusal to honor previous ceasefire promises.

Russia broke the promise of a ceasefire... Sometimes I want to see a fantasy world through the eyes of these schizophrenics.

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A Kharkov schoolgirl was brought to administrative responsibility for dancing to a song in Russian.

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ELECTION FRAUD IN IRAN OR NOT?

✍️Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

Immediately after the polls closed in Iran, a news outlet was claiming that the turnout had been manipulated in favor of Dr. Saeed Jalili. However, both candidates were said to have had representatives in all polling stations to monitor the counting of the votes. On the surface, large scale fraud would seem unlikely.

The three provinces with the highest voter turnout were Yazd (70.9%), South Khorasan (70.24%), and Koohgiluyeh - Boyer Ahmad (68.74%). These are provinces that voted mainly for Dr. Saeed Jalili during the first round of the Presidential election last Friday. Just before vote counting results started coming out, Masoud Pezeshkian's security team was replaced with an increased security detail.

The first vote count results showed Pezeshkian with 49.61% of the votes and Jalili with 48.85% with 1.53% of the vote tally not counted for either.

At this point, some media falsely claimed Pezeshkian had won with 16 million votes to Jalili's 13 million votes. Very soon after Pezeshkian supporters were said to be celebrating in the streets.

The next official, government released, vote counting results showed Pezeshkian having 49.9% of the vote and Jalili with 48.37%. 1.72% of the ballots at that point were not counted for either candidate. At this point, Pezeshkian supporters were shown dancing on the streets. Half of Iran was said to be celebrating, while half was said to be sitting at home, worrying about what the results would mean for their country.

About an hour later new vote counting results showed Pezeskian with 51.51% of the votes to that point and Jalili with 46.67%. 1.82% of the votes were not counted for either candidate. A little later, official tallies showed Pezeshkian with 51.21% of the vote and Jalili with 46.92%. The percentage of votes going to neither candidate was 1.87%. A little later, with 16,546,660 votes counted, Pezeshkian had 52.54% and Jalili 45.54% with 1.92% going to neither candidate. With 20,611,971 votes counted, Pezeshian had 53.95% of the votes while Jalili had 44,14% with 1.91% counted for neither candidate. The final counting at 23,646,138 votes had Pezeshkian at 53.73% of the vote and Jalili at 44.3% with 1.97% of the votes going to neither of the two men.

This is an impressive election which Mr. Pezeshian officially won, but whether there was no election fraud or not is not clear. There may not have been enough to affect the election results, but the gap between the two candidates continued to grow throughout the vote counting process, something which, in actual practice, after an hour or so, never happens in unrigged elections. Another point of suspicion is that the percentage of invalidated votes grew, too, over the course of the vote counting process. Not knowing how democracy in Iran functions, yet being very familiar with how it misfunctions in America, I must conclude that the results should not be automatically accepted, without a close examination of events that took place on the ground.

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🇺🇦 Zelensky's mobilisation butchers tried to kidnap a man in one of the Ukraine cities' street.

Fortunately, passers-by stood up for him. We hope he managed to avoid mobilisation.

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🇧🇬 Bulgaria will propose starting peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine at the NATO summit in Washington, the acting Prime Minister of Bulgaria Dimitar Glavchev said:

I sincerely believe that we should advocate peace negotiations in which Bulgaria will act as a mediator. What could be better than this? This is what I will offer, there is no problem with that

Not so long ago, calling for talks between Russia and Ukraine would turn any European politician into a pariah, but times are changing...

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“Orban: NATO’s goal is peace, not endless war”: The Hungarian Prime Minister is convinced that NATO will collapse if it launches its operation in Ukraine.

“NATO’s preparations for an operation in Ukraine contradict the defensive nature of the organization and threaten it with suicide,” noted Hungarian Prime Minister Orban. NATO is approaching a turning point. Today, the agenda is not peace, but war; instead of defence, there is an offensive. All of this is contrary to NATO's core values. The more NATO leaders believe that conflict is inevitable, the greater their role in precipitating it. This is now becoming increasingly clear with news that preparations have begun for a possible NATO operation in Ukraine, and even high-level reports that NATO troops are already close to the Ukrainian front.”

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