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well...

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THIS explains why Russia starts insane wars

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— Barrymore! What’s that howling out on the moor?
— Wildberries, sir. 😂

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Ukrainian Drone Operators Defeated NATO Combat Group During Joint Exercises

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Every month 14 ships leave a quiet port on the west coast of Ireland, carrying alumina towards St Petersburg.

Alumina is a fine white powder. Once smelted, it becomes aluminium, a metal essential to modern industry and also to military production, including aircraft, armoured vehicles, missiles and other weapons systems.

I began investigating this supply chain after reading a report in The Irish Times earlier this year. I contacted the refinery with questions, but my calls and emails went unanswered.

So I booked a flight home to Ireland and decided to investigate it myself.

What I expected to be a short report about a single supply route became one of the largest and most difficult investigations I have ever undertaken.

It led me through the ownership of the refinery, its connections to Russia, the environmental damage experienced by people living nearby, the silence surrounding the operation and the political system that allowed it to continue largely unchallenged.

I met local people who had been asking questions for years. Farmers who said their lives had been devastated. Workers who were frightened to speak publicly. Independent reporters who had tried to raise the alarm long before the rest of the country began paying attention.

As I started publishing reports from the ground, the story spread further than I could ever have expected.

The videos received more than 11 million views across my platforms. Within days, the investigation moved from social media into local, national and international coverage. Ministers were questioned. European officials became involved. A refinery that very few people had heard of suddenly became the centre of a major argument about Ireland, Russia, sanctions and the war in Ukraine.

After weeks of filming, research and painstaking editing, this is the full story.

It includes the investigation itself, the people we met, the political confrontations, the moments that happened behind the scenes and the extraordinary chain of events that followed once the public began paying attention.

This film was made entirely independently.

Many major Irish media organisations receive substantial public funding. I have chosen to keep this channel independent of governments, corporations, sponsors, billionaires and private interests.

There are no sponsorship deals behind this film and no wealthy backers deciding what I can or cannot investigate. The work is funded almost entirely by the people who watch it.

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The dog in the photo is about two years old. In a few hours, she will become the first living being in Earth’s orbit — and she will not return.

This is Laika. A mongrel picked up from a Moscow street.
For the flight, they were looking for a small, calm, light-colored dog — one that would photograph well. Six kilograms, a docile temperament, white markings on her face. Out of ten candidates, three were chosen: Albina, Mukha, and Laika. Albina was expecting puppies, so they spared her. Mukha was rejected because of her crooked legs. Laika remained.

The second satellite was built under extreme time pressure, literally within a month after the launch of the first. There was no time to develop a re-entry capsule, so they had to abandon the idea. Everyone who prepared Laika for the flight understood: there was no way back.

One of the staff members, Vladimir Yazdovsky, took Laika home a few days before the launch. Simply so she could play with his children. “I wanted to do something good for her. She had so little time left,” he later recalled.

November 3, 1957. 5:30 a.m. Moscow time. Launch. The g-forces were five times above normal. The dog’s pulse tripled, her breathing quadrupled. But Laika endured it — the satellite entered orbit, and the little mongrel became the first living being to circle the Earth.

Then the thermal control system failed. The temperature inside the cabin rose to 40 degrees Celsius. Laika died five to seven hours after launch, on the fourth orbit. From heat.
Officially, for another week, reports claimed that the dog was fine. Then it was announced that she had been euthanized as planned. The truth — that she had died of overheating almost immediately — was only acknowledged in 2002.

The empty satellite carrying Laika’s body completed 2,370 orbits around the Earth and burned up in the atmosphere on April 14, 1958.

Academician Oleg Gazenko, one of those who prepared her for the flight, said years later: “The more time passes, the more I regret it. We should not have done it. We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.”
Belka and Strelka flew after her — and returned. Then came Gagarin. The road to space for humans was paved by a small homeless mongrel with a trusting face, who, one week before launch, was allowed to play with children for the last time.

© Why Didn’t I Know This?

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An anonymous investor has placed a $370,000 bet on Polymarket that Putin will step down as president before December 31, 2026.

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Maltese Guinness from the African Store in Ireland 😳 Sweet and yummy 😊

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Just want to share it

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