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Western Europe experienced the warmest September since weather records began in September 2026, along with the record summer, leading to extremely low water levels in rivers like the Rhine and significantly affecting shipping, water supply, and agriculture. #Klimawandel #Trockenheit #Wetterrekorde (translated)

The author argued that NATO should support Saudi Arabia in a time of need, citing a strategic partnership dating back to 1915, when Ibn Saud entered a formal relationship with Britain through the Treaty of Darin. They said the relationship deepened with the United States after 1945 and became a central pillar of the West. https://t.co/B1A03RtFRc #NATO #SaudiArabia #Partnership #SA #US #GB

The post described Saudi Arabia as a Western ally since 1915 and said the strategic partnership, which it put at 111 years, had helped shape the security of Europe, the United States and the Middle East. It traced the relationship to the 1915 Treaty of Darin between Ibn Saud and Britain. https://t.co/UbMnVjDVbB #SaudiArabia #StrategicPartnership #MiddleEast #SA #EU #US

The author described the proposal as “simple and historic”: Saudi Arabia would recognise Israel and establish full diplomatic relations, while the United States, Europe and all NATO allies would open a formal pathway for Saudi Arabia into the West. https://t.co/lc6YWPhQc8 #SaudiArabia #Israel #Diplomacy #SA #IL #US #EU #NATO

The author wrote that Ukraine’s attacks on Russian Yandex data centres destabilised Russia and weakened its capacity to conduct information warfare against Ukraine and the West. They described the attacks as a serious blow to Russia’s intelligence-warfare capabilities against NATO. https://t.co/DTB45Y6gP8 #Ukraine #Russia #NATO #UA #RU #NATO

Mick van Wely wrote that his Dutch grandfather worked as an optician for the resistance in Leiden and took photos for forged documents. According to him, his father grew up with a strong aversion to Germans. When, as a five-year-old, he received an apple from a German soldier, he thanked him with a curse word for Germans, Van Wely said. His Hungarian mother, he said, grew up under communism, which he described as just as bad as fascism. Van Wely wrote that he had been raised at home with love for and respect for freedom. This, he said, explained why he sometimes reacted angrily when he saw that the carefully built Western lead and achievements, which had long been taken for granted, were coming under heavy pressure and were slowly being rolled back. #vrijheid #geschiedenis #verzet (translated)

The author asked why the recipient had not condemned what they described as a US bombing of a school in Minab that killed 168 children this year, a US bombing of a children’s sports hall in Lamerd, and Saudi and UAE bombings of hospitals, schools and civilian infrastructure in Yemen, which they said were backed by the West. #Yemen #HumanRights #WarCrimes #US #SA #AE #YE

In an opinion piece, Rahma Bavelaar argues that Western institutions do not want to listen to the voices of Palestinians, such as that of a Gazan student who was wrongfully accused after a social media video, which led to a smear campaign and threats against him. #Gaza #Palestijnen #VrijheidVanMeningsuiting (translated)

Philippe Sands receives the Peace Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026 and criticizes in his speech Germany's silent stance on Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank, while advocating for a stronger public engagement with these issues. #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands #Menschenrechte (translated)

The author claimed that the Western-backed Saudi/UAE coalition had carried out 227 attacks on Sana'a Civilian Airport in Yemen over seven years, and accused the European Union of hypocrisy for saying nothing. They said its words were meaningless. #Yemen #HumanRights #Peace #YE #SA #AE #EU

The author questioned why business continued with the Israeli regime, which they accused of carrying out genocide in Palestine, if attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure were unacceptable. They also asked why people had remained silent when, they said, a Western-backed Saudi and UAE blockade caused 80,000 deaths from hunger in Yemen. #HumanRights #Palestine #Yemen #IL #PS #SA #AE #YE

Lisa wrote that America once understood itself as the guardian of Western values, but under Trump increasingly appears like a "rogue state" without a moral compass. She accused the country of lacking principles and credibility, referred to Trump as an "idiot," and asked how he could be elected. #Amerika #Politik #Werte (translated)

Emrah Erken criticized the UN Human Rights Council and Navi Pillay. He wrote that the body had condemned Israel for human rights violations a total of 116 times since its founding in 2006, while China, Turkey, and Qatar had not been condemned even once. The United Nations, he claimed, had turned human rights into a weapon against the West, particularly Israel. Pillay served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. During this time, the Human Rights Council never condemned China, Erken wrote. UN Watch and former UN employee Emma Reilly accused Pillay of having passed the names of more than 50 dissidents, including Uighurs, to China under her leadership. Additionally, Pillay stayed away from the Nobel Prize ceremony in 2010 in honor of the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Erken further wrote that Pillay later led a UN commission of inquiry that accused Israel of genocide and previously signed calls for sanctions against Israel. In 2012, she criticized the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for its Muhammad cartoons, describing the drawings as malicious and intentionally provocative. Critics also accused her of opting for appeasement and restrictions on freedom of expression rather than defending it in the debate over Muhammad cartoons. Erken called it a shame that Pillay would receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and expressed opposition to post-colonialism, the "Woke Left," and Pillay. #Menschenrechte #UN #Israel (translated)

In the Sardinian village of Bolotana, which is considered a new 'blue zone', the chance of women reaching the age of 100 is more than three times higher than the average in the West, contributing to the remarkable life expectancy of the female residents. #Bolotana #BlueZone #Ouderdom (translated)

Denis Trubetskoy wrote that Moscow's attacks on Ukrainian data centers were not a strategically wise decision. Although Russia can cause more damage in many areas than Ukraine, the latter's network is much more decentralized and can rely on Western backups. In conclusion, he sarcastically commented on Yandex and similar providers. #Ukraine #Russland #Cyberangriffe (translated)

According to economist Peter Heather and classicist John Rapley in their book Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West (2023), U.S. debt is part of a broader debate about imperial decline, as debt is a symptom of a change in the global distribution of wealth and power. #DeudaNacional #EconomíaGlobal #Hegemonía (translated)