AI Lead | Managing Data Scientist | Public Speaker

May 18, 2024

“It’s us 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 who came here. This is their land.”

☝️ Captured russian says he went to war for #money because in Yakutia, the region he’s from, terrible #poverty is commonplace.

“Don’t come here to make money. Don’t come here at all.”

💎 Russia mines 𝟏𝟓% of the world’s diamond reserves in Yakutia and sells them abroad, but the region itself is repressed and poor.

This is how Moscow drives its 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 to war in #Ukraine
By weaponizing their poverty at home.

“(Commanders) don’t hear you, don’t solve your problems, they don’t consider you human.”

⚠️ The man, like many others, was told he’d be a guard, a sapper, a driver mechanic. Instead he was sent straight to the front line, like so many others.

“Just meat. You’re meat to them, expendable.” he says 🍖

Russian soldiers who refuse to fight (called ‘500’) are sent into the assault in without armor and just two grenades, he claims. 🤯

“I told you they don’t consider us human beings.
Everybody wants this to be over and go home.”

❗ Yakutia is a modern day Colony in all but name.
A region where poverty reigns and children go hungry.

📉 A land whose resources and people are exploited and extracted by Moscow, their ruler, to wage war abroad.

And until Ukraine is Victorious and Moscow falls,

This tyranny and oppression will continue.

Interview #Ethics

StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

VIDEO HERE:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marijnmarkus_money-poverty-ukraine-activity-7197609692976545792-D8Em?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

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Another important post from today from Marijn:

💔 Vovchansk, #Ukraine is being systematically destroyed by Russian troops. Two weeks ago, this was just a quiet town at the border with Russia.

Then the ruscist plague arrived.

Again.

💥 Moscow begins to bomb yet another town into dirt
Just because they can.

Where is the outrage around the western world?
Where are the protestors? Are those only on TikTok?

Too busy watching #Eurovision to see war spread in #Europe ?

I am mystified about how little reaction there is from the people of the West.

☝️ If you ever wondered what you’d do at the onset of World War Two,

Well, you’re doing it now.

Ethics #Photography

StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Marijn Markus comment :

Ukrainian media showed this bird’s eye view of Vovchansk, which Russia is trying to seize. The town almost doesn’t exist anymore.

🇺🇦 Steve Roberts

The only way the Russian army knows how to fight is to flatten everything in its path. Look at Grozny or Aleppo or Mariupol or Bakhmut. They don’t know any other way.

VIDEO HERE:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marijnmarkus_ukraine-eurovision-europe-activity-7197571559547371520-PKT6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

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And one more post; from yesterday:

💡 Why Community Notes is great: Russia is claiming to have destroyed 600 out of the 150 warplanes #Ukraine has.