Our editorial: It's time for Zelenskyy to choose Ukraine over reelection Every catastrophic decision—delayed mobilization, protected corruption—traces to 1 thing: protecting his political future. He must instead choose Ukraine's survival: euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/20/e...

We have reached peak "NATO expansion propaganda". Jeffrey Sachs claims he was personally told by someone he didn't meet that there was a broken promise to a person who says it wasn't made.

To Budapest! Form the right thoughts in the morning!

Should Ukraine get security "guarantees" from a group of countries that can't even muster the guts to shoot down Russian planes and drones over its own territory?

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⚡️'Tyranny threatens Europe' — King Charles voices support for Ukraine during state dinner with Trump. "Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine, to deter aggression and secure peace," King Charles III said.

⚡️'Just get on with it' — Boris Johnson calls for European troops on Ukrainian soil, tells Russia to 'bog off.’ "You need something that's going to flip a switch in the Kremlin's brain," the former U.K. Prime Minister told the Kyiv Independent.

Elon Musk is now making sure that Kremlin propaganda outlet RT News is being recommended to new people signing up for his platform.

Responding to America’s call, Ukraine sent more than 5,000 troops to Iraq — the third-largest Coalition contingent. Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers never came home. They wore our flag in a distant war because allies asked, and because freedom’s defense doesn’t stop at borders.👇

One Prez's stated goals is to keep Western troops out of Ukraine. Western leaders who say they will only send troops as peacekeepers *after* the war stops, ensure that it will not.

Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

⚡️US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says America is ready to ramp up pressure on Russia, but Europe must join. He said that joint sanctions and tariffs on buyers of Russian oil could collapse Moscow’s economy and force Putin to negotiate.

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Elon Musk is a textbook example of a “free speech absolutist” who only supports free speech when it serves his interests. He actually hates free speech

🇺🇸🇪🇺 The US is pushing Europe to stop all purchases of Russian oil and gas and impose secondary tariffs against 🇮🇳India and 🇨🇳China, — Axios.

Cartoonist: Lectrr

‼️ The rate of recruitment for military service under contract in Russia has dropped to a two-year low. In total, in the first half of 2025, 127.5 thousand people received contract payments - 40 thousand less than in the same period in 2024.

7/7 Ukraine’s biggest mistake was believing the world would protect it. It gave up its ultimate shield for diplomatic paper. Now it fights alone. The Budapest Memorandum is a warning—not a model. The Budapest Memorandum is dead. And with it, the hope for a safer world

6/7 The US and UK didn’t break a treaty. But they broke trust. They had a chance to show that security assurances mean something. Instead, they showed the world that words without action are worthless

1/7 Let’s be clear: the Budapest Memorandum is dead. The US and UK failed Ukraine. In 1994, they gave security assurances in the Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine gave up its nukes. When russia invaded, those assurances meant no real protection. A betrayal in everything but name

But I wouldn't overstate Putin's gains either. Yes, got his moment of glory, and may have stirred up tensions in the trans-Atlantic alliance, but now he'll come back to the daily realities of a broken country that's facing a recession and a war that's not really going anywhere.

Tonight, countless calories will be burned powering the brains of analysts and political commentators, and millions of keystrokes spent explaining what happened in Alaska. Yet sometimes, a simple diagram explains it better than a PhD thesis: Photo credit: @vatniksoup.bsky.social

The difference is noticeable, unfortunately…

Putin would strongly prefer you neither see nor remember this

Why hasn’t Europe stepped up to help Ukraine win? Because most Europeans—politicians and voters alike—are weak cowards who would rather look away and hope the problem disappears than confront it head-on

5/6 Imagine if the US spent 3.5 years in Iraq, failed to take a single regional capital city, and controlled less than 20% of the country. That’s russia in Ukraine. A ”superpower” stuck, bleeding, and failing against a smaller neighbor

No, the key reason for the war is that Russia and Russians are fascists who cannot accept a free and independent Ukraine. In their view the whole Ukrainian nation (state, language, culture, people who identify as Ukrainian) needs to be destroyed and the Ukrainian territory occupied.

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺 Russia will try to use the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska to divide the US and Europe, rather than engage in meaningful peace efforts, — ISW

After ignoring Trump's words and insulting & belittling him with my actions every single day of his 2nd presidency, he has finally snapped and punished me with a 1-1 summit on US soil.

Today is the day that Trump was supposed to impose tough new sanctions on Russia if they didn’t agree to a cease fire.

Trump to Putin: "You've got ten days to stop waging war against Ukraine. And if you don't stop, I won't do anything."

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From today’s Russian newspapers: ▪️“Economy on the verge of recession” ▪️“Beetroot prices up 58% this year” ▪️“Petrol prices to rise” Plus, how the Russian government paper is covering the street protests in Ukraine. #ReadingRussia

This is very worrying... doesn't Zelenskyy understand that western support depends on Ukraine's democratic development? Or doesn't he care? kyivindependent.com/editorial-da...

‘It’s Not Going Away’: House Republican Promises to ‘Force a Vote’ On Release of Epstein Files After Trump Attack

A good, half-decade-old story from @annamerlan.bsky.social about how we got here:

Unearthed Video of Trump Judging Teen Models Goes Viral Amid Epstein ‘Secrets’ Bombshell

US Senator Lindsey Graham: But here's what I would tell China, India, and Brazil. If you keep buying cheap Russian oil to allow this war to continue, we're going to tear up the hell out of you and we're going to crush your economy because what you're doing is blood money

Ukraine's largest music event, the Atlas Festival, took place in Kyiv over the weekend. The Finnish group The Rasmus performed on the main stage, marking the first time a prominent international band performed in Kyiv over the last three and a half years.

Is this the kind of memo you want to be caught sending to the world’s biggest pervert?

🎖️ Zelenskyy posthumously awarded the Order of Freedom to 16-year-olds Tigran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanganov, tortured and killed by Russian forces in Berdyansk. Before his death, Ohannisian recorded a final message: “This is it, guys—death. Farewell. Glory to Ukraine!”

4/4 As @Jeff21461 said: Investing in European defense and buying US weapons for Ukraine aren’t mutually exclusive. Doing neither? That’s just helping russia kill more Ukrainian civilians. Europe must choose: protect its pride — or protect lives

🚨BREAKING: A video is going viral showing JD Vance calling for the full Epstein list to be released - on Theo Von’s podcast. Hey JD, what changed? Let’s blast this everywhere before he tries to erase it.

‼️ Russian dictator Putin is ready to fight as long as he wants because he is convinced that none of Ukraine's Western allies are going to put serious pressure on him, so his country is ready to endure sanctions, - Reuters

Not the answer a significant section of the MAGA coalition will want to hear.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: Representatives of China, India, and Brazil should call Putin and urge him to agree to a ceasefire if they want to avoid secondary sanctions. #Ukraine