China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) announced that the No. 2 reactor of the Taipingling Nuclear Power Plant, located less than 100km from Hong Kong in Huizhou, had been plugged into the grid on Saturday.
The plan called for maintaining a “steady pace” of nuclear plant construction with a 43 per cent rise in operational nuclear power installed capacity during the period to reach 110 million kilowatts (110 GW) by 2030.
Hot take: Skrajne nierówności doprowadzą nas do tragedii. Albo opodatkujemy gigantyczne majątki, albo historia powtórzy swoje najgorsze scenariusze.
Czy radykalny reformizm to dziejowa konieczność?
📷✈️ Yesterday's downed Russian Su-35S through the lens of FPV 3 AK.
#Poland president Nawrocki:
Following the NATO summit in Ankara, the President of Poland Karol Nawrocki met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The meeting focused on bilateral relations, including historical issues.
#Ukraine president Zelensky:
We face one common threat – Russia. And it is critical to maintain mutual understanding, support, and unity of action. Our countries need only strong relations. We agreed to continue our dialogue.
(statements from their official profiles on, where else, Twitter)
Poland has now confirmed it sent PAC-3 MSE interceptors to Ukraine. Still, the more interesting question is how many Warsaw could have spared at all—because Poland’s own stockpile may have included only 208 of the critical Patriot missiles, Defense Express reported on July 7.
JD, to twoja kura?
https://mastodon.com.pl/@ihor/116882862311138296
That’s a very similar explanation to “why Russians are like they are, it all started with Ivan the Terrible”. Understanding historical reasons why societies are like they are is one thing, but that’s a very different thing from justifying their today’s actions.
This applies equally to Russians, Poles or Ukrainians.
To be brutally honest, if I have a neighbour like Russia I either get my shit together and make choices that allow me to survive… or I don’t. But I don’t blame people who died centuries ago because it’s only me who is responsible for decisions I make today.
As for now, I see this kind of weird suicidal rush of both Poles and Ukrainians to get back under the “friendly” wings of Russia once again. And nobody else is to blame if that happens.
Nigerian medical student killed in Russian strike, days before graduation
https://www.africanews.com/2026/07/07/nigerian-medical-student-killed-in-russian-strike-days-before-graduation/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@kravietz Probably this one?
@kravietz How lucky are we to be European. There are endless propaganda videos on Youtube et al about China building five hospitals in a lunchtime and ngl truly impressive 'biggest span bridges in the world' and look I'm not a civil engineer but we don't have building regs in the West because we just fucking love paperwork. MAGAs bang on about eurocrat bureacracy and yeah sure we are on the safe side in Europe but would you prefer to be inundated with several billion liters of water instead?
#Russia war correspondents do not seem to share Putin’s enthusiasm regarding the “liberation” of #Konstantinivka
Romanov writes succinctly: “Konstantinovka = Kupiansk”. This refers to the boastful declaration by Putin and Gerasimov in January, when they announced “full control over Kupiansk”, after which President Zelenskyy paraded through the town. https://t.me/romanov_92/54456
Pavel Gubarev writes in somewhat greater detail:
As for the ‘captured’ Konstantinovka. It is highly likely that the ‘stripes’ [the generals] prematurely declared almost half the town ‘liberated’, and only then was its capture reported. (…) Currently, on the front line in Konstantynówka, soldiers from reserve units, military specialists and wounded soldiers who have not fully recovered are being ‘scraped together’ for the assault units. An analogy with Kupiansk may well prove entirely justified. With similar consequences. https://t.me/pgubarev/1642
@kravietz I can only shake my head. We see where the Russian nationalism has led to. And what do we do? More nationalism.
Nationalism requires conflict as fuel. So it regurgitates every real or perceived slight of the last 1.000 years.
#Ukraine Budanov[^1] about relations with #Poland
Budanov had warned publicly that the standoff’s worst moment might still be ahead — a forecast he repeated without softening. With the July 11 anniversary of the Volyn tragedy now less than a week away, he said his information points to a “whole series of, as I see it, immature escalatory steps” still being prepared in Warsaw, and expects the friction to continue accordingly. (…) No offense to Poland, but it’s somewhat more powerful than Poland — and we didn’t accept its ultimatum either. Yes, it was hard, it was bad, there was a lot of blood. But we didn’t accept even their ultimatum. So why would anyone think we’d accept something else from another side? You don’t negotiate with us through ultimatums.
Meanwhile[^2]
The Polish government carried out a discreet transfer of surface-to-air missiles from the MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence system to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with this reported by multiple regional sources to have occurred in the spring of 2026.
I don’t think you need to be extremely insightful to see where this is going.
[^1]: https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/interview/you-don-t-talk-to-us-with-ultimatums-kyrylo-1783404039.html
[^2]: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/poland-patriot-missiles-ukraine-refusing-us
Putin pretends to visit front line
#Hamas dissolves its government in #Gaza to transfer power to a UN-backed committee
Which may be fiction as the topic of disarmament is still not closed. Also speaking of “Hamas government” is a bit of a euphemism as Hamas last won its first and last elections in 2006, after which it took control over Gaza in an armed coup, killing and arresting Fatah (PAA) representatives, and never allowed any elections since.
👀❗️ Budanov explained what the Russian "spirit of Anchorage" means
The Russians put the "3+2" formula into this term - Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk regions and the occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, which Russia wants to "consolidate" for itself.
Budanov emphasized that such a scenario is unacceptable for Ukraine.
If you’re not convinced:
Once again, there’s lots of “rational” arguments being raised on “why #Putin would attack Europe”, especially that he’s stuck in #Ukraine hopelessly.
They key misunderstanding is that Putin does not think in terms of the rational interests of the Russian state – if that were the case, he would not have annexed Crimea, let alone started a full-scale war, but would simply have been quietly counting the money from the sale of hydrocarbons.
Putin thinks solely within the framework of a world of paranoia, phobias, cognitive distortions and megalomania (“we are like Peter the Great”) that he has constructed for himself, in which an attack on NATO is entirely justified.
Let me remind you of his words, I believe from around 2024 – “we will go to heaven as martyrs, whilst they will simply croak”. This is the logic of ISIS – it may seem absurd or incomprehensible to us… but it is a fact. It drove ISIS do terrible things and ultimately lose, but this rather easy to predict perspective did not prevent them from doing them in the first place.
At the same time, #Russia, as an authoritarian state, lacks the mechanisms typical of democracies to curb a leader’s cognitive issues, because all its institutions – from the National Security Council to the Duma – are mere rubber-stamp machines for Putin’s decisions, as was perfectly evident on 21 February 2022.
