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TL;DR: Russia has decided that the UK is Russia's enemy, and there's nothing we can do to change that as long as Putin is in power. The choice is whether to be an undefeated enemy or a defeated one. That's all the choice we get.

and the "Russian world" as a living space that must expand offer no chance of a peaceful compromise. - I would expect only one thing from Europeans: understanding of this. Everything else must follow from this understanding - that this war is not just another regional conflict... 7/8

- Europeans, like Americans, largely fail to understand the existence of fascism in Russia, largely due to Russian propaganda and their own traumas after World War II. The cult of Putin, the complete fusion of media, politics, and the security services, aggression toward neighbors, chauvinism, 6/8

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Is Russia violating YOUR airspace? ‼️ Try this solution today! Shoot down the plane. Let Dmitry Medvedev rant about it until he passes out from drinking too much nail polish again. Go out to dinner. The reviews are in! “Worked as intended! 10 out of 10 ⭐️!” - Turkey

We are moving along the steps of 🇷🇺 guilt admission: 1. "No proof these drones were russian" 2. "It wasn't intentional" Next: 3. "🇵🇱 deserved it anyway"

Sink the Baltic fleet, take Kaliningrad and then claim it was an accident due to Ukrainian EW interference.

Europe had a choice: it could fight for a seat at the US-Russia table and thereby create agency for itself and Ukraine, or it could create another table entirely. Europe has consistently chosen the former. Hence, here we are. /2

There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US. Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them? Or just the brown people?

America withholds aid and Europe doesn’t send enough. But we citizens can help Ukraine defend themselves: United24 is fundraising for 10 AI-controlled air defense turrets to protect Ukrainians from russian attacks. Donate here to #SkySentinel at U24: t.co/SYQlkv1JMB

Very busy talks today in Berlin on a serious topic: 🇺🇦 civil society is facing an existential crisis. The abrupt halt of U.S. assistance in February 2025 has dealt a devastating blow to the organizations that have been the backbone of 🇺🇦 resilience and democratic reforms. A 🧵

How do ordinary people help us reach our fundraising goals faster? Last year, supporters like you stepped up to help with five of our projects -not just by donating but also by launching their own mini-fundraisers to speed things up.

Richard Littlejohn mostly lives in a gated mansion in Florida. Andrew Neil mostly lives in Grasse in the South of France.

Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

The people who were outraged by the Paris Olympics' are now here to tell you to take a joke about Pope Trump the 1st.

Ukraine doesn’t need America to win the war. Ukraine needs Europe to realize together we can win the war without America, assume responsibility, and make it happen.

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

This is bonkers, of course, but the point on threat to Europe does deserve clarification. Every time I present my book on Russia's centuries-long obsession with controlling Ukraine, there would be someone in the audience, often a Balt or a Pole, who would ask: So it is just about Ukraine only, then?

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Calling fentanyl a „weapon of mass destruction“ serves 2 purposes: 1) laying the groundwork to justify military operations against Canada and Mexico 2) strip language from any meaning and create an unreality where words are being used to justify every horror this administration inflicts

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

You can’t negotiate with Putin’s Russia. 1. You can deter them, or, if you fail to deter them, 2. You can stop them, or, if you fail to stop them, 3. You lose. Europe has long failed to deter Russia. We now have two options left: Stop them, or lose. Choose wisely.

Another conceivable scenario is Russia agreeing to the ceasefire but not respecting it, as seems to be the Russian custom with agreements. Then an interesting question will be whether the truth about who violated the ceasefire first matters to the US

A small team of young Ukrainians and a dog raised $1.2M for our defenders in 2024. With creativity, we turn donations into real battlefield impact. I’m the 24-year-old girl leading the team, and today, I’m incredibly proud to share our 2024 report. A thread🧵

We didn’t know then that it had all been agreed in advance in the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Today, we have no excuse for such naivety. It’s a safe bet that the Trump-Putin Pact already exists—and we should act accordingly.🧵14/14

Another “Continuing Crisis” post, this one covering some larger principles and explaining why I’m doing these in general:

Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer: savelife.in.ua/en/

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

All we need for peace in Ukraine is for Russian soldiers to return to Russia.

Good intention, bad idea. Don't bargain the assets. Just give them to Ukraine unilaterally. Then: reject US-Russia talks as invalid. No reward for Moscow. No promised punishment. Only strength and no talking. That's the way.

Rules 1. MAGA do not care about contradictions, everything that they do is transactional, they are nihilists and are ONLY concerned with money and power 2. NOTHING that they say is true and they don't care at all, they understand the first-message advantage 1/

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

🧵1/6 Europe won't survive sleeping through another wake-up call. We should jump out of bed and throw on a shirt. We should do what we can, with what we’ve got. And we’ve got a lot. Here's how to step things up as the US steps down:

The peace of our time 2.0

Elon is killing USAID because it helped end the legacy of his beloved apartheid in South Africa?

A terrifying new report by John Carreyrou illustrates why we have those pesky regulations and those irritating clinical trials:

Not unusual for a press spokesman to repeat the government line.

It is necessary to find measures that will significantly raise Russia's threshold for continuing similar operations in the future. If sufficiently effective means are not found, problems will continue to arise at an accelerating rate. Russia will not stop until it is stopped. 12/

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

John Mearsheimer, often called "controversial," is legitimizing a Russian neo-Nazi who called Ukrainians "a race of degenerates from sewer manholes" and literally repeatedly called for genocide, facing charges for genocide in Ukraine. This isn’t "controversy"—it’s complicity.

Today one of the world's worst tyrants has fallen. The collapse of Putin's regime will likewise be sudden and total. But it will take more than that to root out russian imperialism.

Women and CHILDREN being released from Assad’s Saydnaya prison by the rebels. ASSAD PUT CHILDREN IN THERE. #Syria More below