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NATO vs Russia: NATO से आमने-सामने की जंग के मूड में पुतिन, इन तीन देशों पर रूसी हमले खतरा बढ़ा, पढ़िए डिटेल

NATO vs Russia: NATO से आमने-सामने की जंग के मूड में पुतिन, इन तीन देशों पर रूसी हमले खतरा बढ़ा, पढ़िए डिटेल

Image Source : PTI FILE PHOTO NATO vs Russia NATO vs Russia: यूक्रेन और रूस के बीच चल रहे भीषण युद्ध के कारण नाटो देशों के साथ भी रूस का तनाव अब बढ़ता जा रहा है। रूस ने लड़ाई तेज कर दी है और वह लातविया,  लिथुआनिया और एस्टोनिया पर हमला करके उन पर भी कब्जा करना चाहता है। यही नहीं, रूस स्वीडन के कुछ इलाकों को भी ​हथियाना चाहता है। दरअसल, NATO में शामिल होने को लेकर पुतिन स्वीडन को धमकी दे चुके हैं। …

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Eugen Dücker - seashore-, beach- and seascape paintings

Do you want to know how easy it was to entertain a latvian child?

No? Well you're about to find out because I want to rant a bit about this.

So, there's this market chain in the Baltics, Poland and Bulgaria, Maxima, right? And some years ago, they kept a fish tank with live fish (most likely carp) if the store was big enough.

It may seem a little unethical to squeeze them together like that in a small space but GODDAYUM YOU COULD LEAVE YOUR KIDS THERE LIKE AT A DAYCARE

I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING I REMEMBER ASKING MY AUNT IF MY COUSIN AND I COULD GO WATCH THEM SWIM AROUND AND FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN ON TIKTOK OTHER PEOPLE HAVE DONE IT AS WELL

Matt accidently scaring the shit out of Gil is so fucking funny. Love how Arthur looks at Matt and sees a little malnourished soping wet kitten left outside in a storm and everyone else sees some ghoulish, brutally stone-cold being 💀. Arthurs the 'it dont bite' to Gils 'GET YOUR DOG!!'. When Gil is over what do their normal breakfast table conversations even look like? It seems like itd be a little awkward.

To be fair, that version of Matt is the one he got when Matt finally stopped shooting at anything speaking English. Sad cold baby. I feel like this is something to try and avoid as best they can. Who wants to watch their parent/mentor make googly-eyes across the table 😂. Matt just like "😬 sorry about that time I slit your throat and drowned you in a trench crater. Or the time I rolled a grenade under your latrine. Or the surrendering prisoners of war— yeah, I'm just going to go— love you dad, bye!" as he grabs some toast and runs for a train to Glasgow as Arthur tells him not to forget an umbrella and his jacket because good god, Alasdair is going to think this is so funny.

Gilbert just dumping booze into coffee all 👀. "Katya would like him."

Arthur tries not to look proud or amused.

"It's nothing we didn't do to each other!"

"In the dark ages."

"Blame the Normans. He's a sweet boy! Breakfast?"

"I'm good with Müsli and you, sir, are delusional."

They don't bring up Ludwig 😂. Nations aren't supposed to fuck each other up so much! You never know who you might need as an ally 200 years down the road! Matt kind of forgot that bit. Father's favourite combat knife got off his leash and everyone forgets he's not the novelty butter knife Alfred advertises!

Is snowing in Kaunas ❄️❄️❄️

My home city Kaunas, Lithuania 🇱🇹

an authentic drive thru store in Eastern Europe

O.M.G. how funny, I can't stop laughing, L.M.A.O. сміялися всією Україною ha ha ha what can be funnier than Latvians dying in concentration camps in Siberia? Only Poland being adopted by hitler🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Guys, I'm gonna whip every single art like this because

modern days russia threats Baltics with occupation again.

Just so you know, if you visit Latvia and joke like this, they're gonna beat your ass.

💙 A fan about Louis' concert in Estonia, and the other Baltic states of Latvia, and Lithuania x

Summer's for the girls, the girls that like girls.

My Western, mostly American and Anglo-Saxon friends: Halloween

My Celtic friends: Samhain

Me, a Slav: DZIADY

But seriously, I really recommend you to read about Dziady (or the Forefathers’ Eve, as that’s how it is sometimes translated into English). It is traditionally celebrated in Belarus, Ukraine, Baltic countries, and some parts of Poland as well. Similarly to Celtic Samhain, it is also believed that during Dziady our ancestors come back to the world of the living. As the descendants, we are obligated to welcome them properly, commemorate them, and learn from whatever advice they may have for us. It's really cool, Adam Mickiewicz, the national poet of Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, even wrote a drama inspired by this feast!

(“Dziady, pradziady, przyjdzcie do nas!” Depiction of dziady ritual in Belarus, Stanisław Bagieński. Source: Wikipedia)

More under this link:

How trying new things ‘24 is going:

The head of the russian occupation administration of Zaporizhia, yevgeny balitsky, said that russia’s goal is to occupy not only Ukraine, but also the Baltic countries, Poland and Finland. Because these states are "the historical lands of russia".

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ATTENTION‼️ there has been leaked footage from the Estonian parliament. There is a quote unquote “gnome infestation” in the building.

Cleaners are reportedly walking around the building with shotguns hunting down the remaining population of gnomes.

TÄHELEPANU‼️ Eesti parlamendist on lekkinud kaadreid. Hoones on tsitaat "päkapiku infestatsioon.”

Väidetavalt kõnnivad koristajad jahipüssidega ümber hoone ja jahivad järelejäänud päkapikkude populatsiooni.

do you have any thoughts on prussia and Canada non romantically? I think they could have an interesting dynamic that’s way overshadowed by all the shipping in the fandom, like they were enemies at one point and i think Prussia would fear Canada bc Canadians had a reputation of being really strong on the battlefield in both world wars. I think they’re def chill w/ each other modern day though.

I understand if this just isn’t ur thing, just those two are making me think thoughts and I cannot find any non romantic content of them

this was all sparked by your fic where Matt and jack are captured by Gilbert and Ludwig btw, I really liked how you wrote the dialogue there. Also you mentioned they had interacted before, care to elaborate? 👀

Oh, man yeah. Idk what precisely about prucan makes me want to jump in a lake, but in my universe, Matt literally took or nearly took Gilbert's head off with an axe in 1918 to slow the German spring offensive so lol yeah. That was his little side quest during the whole 'Alfred was mad Jack and Zee moved back behind the lines without Matt' fic from a while back. A solid quarter of Matt's war crimes were directly against Gilbert and Ludwig personally.

With the whole invisible meme and how practically every man, woman and child in Quebec participated in extremely severe brutality against the Americans and British in the 17th and 18th centuries and then threw our war crimes record on top, it's just too perfect not to write him as a trench wraith. Other nations have limits. Europe may stay their hands personally often because they never know when they might need that ally later. But Matt's never held back in his life. He couldn't afford to when he was small, and crawling on his belly through no man's land was easy for him. Ghosting his way behind enemy lines, spitting skulls and slitting throats is nothing new for him. He did that as a child, the wee freak.

And Gilbert did, too. Knight, crusader, zealot whose hand was certainly not stayed. Mutual recognition of being so fucked up they can't spend much time with the other without being reminded of some USDA Grade-A beef. I fully adhere to the headcanons that Matt's a walking flashback for Gilbert in some circumstances. But they get along fine. It's incredibly funny to picture a 1,200-year-old war machine chatting with Alfred or Arthur and then absolutely jumping out of his skin because Matt appears out of nowhere wanting affection or is just interested in the conversation. The whole anglophone world has swallowed Alfred's or even Arthur's perspective about Matt being the milder, sweeter version of Alfred, but Gilbert's specific situational PTSD just sweating bullets gives me life. It's a kind of cruel, but Matt takes utterly too much pleasure in it.

As for before that point, the long 19th century of Anglo-German fuckery as Anglo-Saxonism and a largely German monarchy drew Britain into closer cultural ties among the elite of Germany and Prussia; Gilbert often found himself in Arthur's company. They fucked a lot, mutually griping about their children. Gilbert and Matthew met and saw each other, and I want to rewrite that ficlet where Gilbert isn't exactly clocking him when he really should be in my current timeline lol. The part from canon about how everyone sees Matt in his early life as being a menacing figure at Arthur's shoulder greatly appeals to me. The guard dog with the loyalty and obedience of the best of Arthur's hounds.

Like at least once in a group drinking setting, Francois' arse has caught and kept Arthur's attention and Matt and Gilbert find themselves at a table having a conversation and swapping stories that would have them both before the Hague if they were more recent. And they just vibe. Both men depend utterly on the goodwill of often testy and impatient brothers. There is a loneliness of having one neighbour that matches fairly well with having mostly neighbours who probably hate Gil's guts on some level and loving women who could kill them. This absolute canyon of difference in how Gilbert is relegated to the museum display case, and Matt is an active, dynamic part of the world political system that keeps them apart.