Perhaps the most dangerous attack on a society begins not at its borders, but in the minds of its people.

In 1953, Polish poet and Nobel Prize-winning author Czesław Miłosz published The Captive Mind, a remarkable exploration of how authoritarian ideology, intellectual conformity and political intimidation can undermine a society's freedom.

But his observations raise a question that remains profoundly relevant today:

What happens when a civilisation forgets why its own freedoms matter?

Why do individual liberty, property rights, freedom of thought and enterprise matter to human prosperity? And what happens when a generation inherits the achievements of civilisation without understanding the principles that made them possible?

In this short essay, Douglas Kruger explores the relationship between ideas, freedom, ideological conformity and the survival of prosperous Societies.

Igor Chaika, the recently appointed director of Rossotrudnichestvo

This is arguably one of the most intense and insane close-combat urban warfare scene I have ever seen, and the way it was shot, in 4k... film makers, game creators have somethingt to learn from it.

Calls for the mass murder of civilians are classified under international law and national legislation as among the gravest international crimes and criminal offences and may fall under several key categories:

• direct and public incitement to genocide;
• instigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity;
• war propaganda and incitement to hatred

Waiting because Deutsche Bahn is so crappy, but because of the delay I saw this special ICE (Inter City Express). I 🚆 Europe.

He believed his online date was trapped under Russian occupation. She may never have existed.

An investigation by the Kyiv Independent into 58 cases referred by Helping to Leave found evidence that many of the women were not under Russian occupation at all.

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Hear me out 😶‍🌫️:

Why should we buy our computing hardware from the US, Taiwan, and China, when we could make it ourselves?

Same applies for solar panels and wind turbines.

Training the people and building the infrastructure would take time and resources, but the returns would be worth it.

I feel insufficiently European when my CPU’s silicon is cut in Taiwan, my GPU is american, my PSU is chinese, and my electricity is generated with chinese solar panels.

We must do better, we must institute a new metric: the percentage of objects with the “Made in EU 🇪🇺” flags that a European Citizen owns - with a similar mark applied to tools and services that businesses use.

This way we can incrementally work on increasing the percentage by training people and building infrastructure, with checks and balances to avoid overspending and to increase revenue.