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Good morning all Have a great Friday If Russia left Ukraine there would be peace immediately, but it is happy to carry on commiting genocide

"Donald Trump’s first Venezuela oil sale deal goes to megadonor’s company" "John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who donated about $6mn to political action committees backing Trump’s re-election campaign" Trump is all about corruption. www.ft.com/content/da74...

The US needs Greenland so much for national security that it has closed all but one of its bases there and keeps only 150 soldiers on the island, while Denmark would allow as many US troops as it wants

Let’s stop being cowards and finally do it

😂 😂 😂 newsthump.com/2025/12/22/d...

Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social, can you please tell us more about how free speech is threatened in Europe?

Anyone can read the redactions of the Epstein Files by just copying and pasting them into a word doc. The people at Trump's Justice Department are so stupid they used Adobe Acrobat to black out the documents.

Trump's "business deals" with the Russians are just billions of dollars in bribes from Putin to get Trump to sell out Ukraine and betray our NATO allies.

All of Ukraine is currently covered with hundreds of Russian drones and missiles. It's impossible to have sufficient "air defense." Ukraine needs thousands of long-range offensive weapons to destroy Russian military bases.

youtu.be/qKE8V_KTWPE Why do we allow Russians to live here. Anyone behaving like this should be tried, punished and sent back to Russia.

Ukraine is stepping up, providing security guarantees to the EU and will close the sky for hostile aircraft.

The fact that Trump allowed Israeli strikes on Qatar right after Qatar gifted him a plane just shows again that trying to appease authoritarian figures like Trump doesn’t work. They don’t respond to goodwill — they only respect strength

Excellent question...

“Any decisions made against us, any decisions made without Ukraine, are at the same time decisions against peace,” Mr. Zelensky said. “They will bring nothing. These are dead decisions; they will never work.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/w...

The truth may sometimes be expressed with just one brutal sentence because it is the most relevant option for describing the brutal truth.

@marossefcovic.bsky.social Mr Sefcovic I just watched you saying ”a trade war will have serious consequences” imagine if Carney said “Canadians a trade war have serious consequences let’s give in”. Imagine Zelenskyy seeing Russias army saying “a war will have serious consequences let’s give in.

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Ursula you have to resign after this. You do not have what it takes to be effective in this situation. You have confirmed Putin and Trump’s view the EU is irrelevant. And to our internal critics like Orban and Fico, you gave another reason to cosy up to neared strong man.

This should be a way bigger scandal than it will be. Why was he hiding this? We can all try to guess

Trump has halted the shipment of arms to Ukraine, including Patriot air defense missiles, precision artillery shells, and missiles fired from F-16s. Trump loves and worships Putin. He always has.

5/5 Either we rise to the challenge—or we get crushed by it. Europe has the means. Now we all need the will. The war isn’t close to ending. Let’s finally start acting like it

4/5 We also need tougher sanctions on russia. Putin must understand he won’t outlast us. That requires long-term, strategic commitments—not short-term gestures. This is about endurance, not optics

3/5 We must act like we understand this war will last for years. That means: - Long-term orders of heavy equipment for Ukraine - Relaunching production lines - Supplying Ukraine with SAMP/T batteries and Aster interceptors - Investing even more in Ukraine’s defense industry

2/5 Trump has weakened Ukraine by cutting aid and refusing to add sanctions on russia. Meanwhile, Europe has stood by, letting Trump and Putin decide its fate. This war isn’t just Ukraine’s fight. It’s existential for Europe

1/5 A message to Europe: We must stop holding on to the illusion that the war in Ukraine will end soon. It won’t. Trump’s actions—and our inaction—have made that impossible. If we don’t wake up now, we’ll pay the price later

🚨 Zelensky: Russia is preparing military operations against Europe Time to act. 1. Arm Ukraine to Win - Ukraine wants to purchase weapons from the US 2. Bankrupt Russian Economy - already in dire straits. 3. Negotiate Peace with a defeated Russia. igorsushko.substack.com/p/preventing...

Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social:If we don't help Ukraine further,we should all start learning Russian She called Ukraine "Europe's first line of defense,"stressing the importance of piling on the pressure on Russia with sanctions,as Moscow "responds to strength&nothing else”

6/6 Let’s stop waiting for Trump and Putin to decide Europe’s fate. We have the power, the resources, and the moral clarity. What we lack is courage. Ukraine is fighting for all of us. It’s time we finally act like it

I disagree. The worse things go for Russia in Ukraine, the more risks they will take to turn things around. A limited attack on NATO could be a coercive move to force the Europeans to stop sending aid to Ukraine. (Not saying it would work, but that doesn't mean they won't try.)

www.youtube.com/live/MS0p4-A... Ca 15 min he said this might anger Russia so much that they might completely destroy Ukraine. I have heard similar arguments from several Italians. Is this a common view? Surely if Russia could destroy Ukraine they would have done so.

The best bluff I make is not that I will use nukes. It is that there is some way to appease me that will take my nukes off the table, when it all does is re-enforce the value of the bluff. Can’t believe idiots still fall for it.

While Russian officials continue to "feed" Russians with tales about patriotism and the "decaying" West, their wives live in luxury on stolen money abroad and their children receive elite education and own real estate worth millions of dollars⤵️

If you want to know what Trump's whitehouse will say tomorrow, listen to what Kremlin says today kyivindependent.com/nato-expansi...

DESTROY PUTIN AND MAKE EUROPE SAFE!

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

Just a couple facts. 2022: rusnya invades Ukraine, captures 28% territory, brags about taking Kyiv in three days on the national TV. 2025: ru controls only 19% territory, Ukraine shoots down russian aircraft using drones, cripples their oil industry, and launches Ukrainian ballistic missile program.

Not. A. Single. Freaking. Time. Have. They. Trashed. Russia. For. Exterminating. Ukraine. Instead. Of. Blaming. Ukrainians. For. Resisting.

youtu.be/5GPInxrk0eg This will be a true marker for the Trump administration. A lot I people hope Hegseth will be fired for his security breach. Another possibility is that this will bond him closer to Trump who himself breached security. Corrupt politicians rely on corrupt underlings.

Short sighted western politicians. How much Silicon Valley investment will Bulgaria attract if Russia defeat Ukraine. They will have Russia with a massive, aggressive, battle tested army on their border. guaranteeing no multinational investmenting in Bulgaria. www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

In case anyone had doubts abut the relationship Moscow thinks it’s building with Washington, this is from the website of Russia’s SVR (foreign intelligence service):

My article in Kyiv Post on How Europe can help Ukraine win the war. www.kyivpost.com/opinion/50602

“JD Vance says US hopeful of ‘great’ trade deal with UK.”How will such a deal look? Give us half of everything, forever, say thank you and wear a suit!

Face it: Trump supports Putin's killing of Ukrainian civilians.

It would definitely be appropriate to ask him who he believes operated the ballistic missile that his Sumy this morning.