🇳🇱🇺🇦 Dutch parliament gave a standing ovation to Zelensky!

Expectations management: There won't be a Ukraine deal anytime soon. This is what it would take to get Putin interested in negotiations: 1.) Territorial "presents" in Donbas. 2.) Ukrainian army below 100.000 men and strict limits on weapons. 3.) No functioning security guarantees.

All Trump supporters must acknowledge this. Their backing of the president means that they support the forced transfer of millions of Ukrainians from a democracy to a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. This is the America you have made. Own it.

This shit is just cartoonishly corrupt.

Have you noticed how “corruption” is a constant media buzzword in articles about Ukraine, yet rarely comes up when discussing the current administration? Many things the Trump administration did would be considered exorbitant even by today’s Ukrainian “corruption standards”.

"... Btw, this is one reason I believe Europeans must now stop listening to official American voices, as ultimately they will tell Europe to do what Trump wants." Precisely on the point. Europe must resolutely fight the imperialist #Putin – without #Trump, but together with #Ukraine. Now!

One Russian paper today sees "a split in the Western camp. This is objectively good for Russia.” Other papers: “crisis” in metals industry & “more than 40% of working Russians surveyed have barely enough/not enough money before payday for food & essential goods.” #ReadingRussia

Jeg har forfattet en kommentar til @raeson.bsky.social om det mærkværdige i, at egeringen så længe stædigt har fastholdt sit virkelighedsfjerne narrativ om et USA, der vil os det bedste. Alle - også SVM-toppen - ved, at det ikke passer. Det er på tide, at lovprisningen af amerikanerne stopper.

Yesterday, in just one day, I am told that the Ukrainians killed or critically wounded 900 Russians. In one day. All for the imperial dreams of a tyrant

Delusional! - The number of Ukrainians supporting capitulation is in single digits. - Trump’s appeasement of Putin makes a ceasefire and therefore also an election impossible - 🇺🇦 has authorities handling corruption

The Kremlin has announced their employees of the month.

A lot of American hysteria over Europe's civilisational condition is in effect projection of profound anxieties in US politics and culture over what could become an irreversible spiral of American geopolitical decline

Just sent out this post. For Europeans to start looking after their own security one step seems vital, they need to stop genuflecting to official Washington, which always "hopewashes" the policies of Donald Trump. Unless Europe can think for itself, it will fail. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

„When I was commander of the space shuttle, I told my crew mates they had to tell me when they disagreed with my decisions — because lives were on the line. Trump is the complete opposite. Someone says something he doesn’t like, and he throws everything at them.“ Senator Mark Kelly

This is what drone fishing looks like, by the way. The 🇩🇰 fishing nets help and protect life. #StopHumanSafari

"..humouring Trump was distasteful but necessary. Europe was able to avert much worse outcomes and limit Trump’s ability to do harm by patiently manoeuvring him back in line after each outburst. However, the grovelling strategy always had an expiration date. That date has now definitively passed..."

If this happens then the EU really must sanction India (and China for that matter).

🇺🇸🇪🇺👀 Landau: I knew many of these countries had tied their energy fortunes to Russia, but I had no idea of the extent of it, or how (collectively) it dwarfed their aid to Ukraine. The money sent to Russia is in blue; the money sent to Ukraine is in orange

I've paired the cartoon with some images from what Ukraine endures from Russia. Are the images below ever shown on India Today? (Followers in India, if you could share how the media show Russia's war in Ukraine in India, I'd be very grateful for your stories.)

A whopping 65% of Germans say Germany is acting too cautiously in asserting its interests towards the United States.

French intellectual and activist Bernard-Henri Lévi @bernard-henri-levy.com: "Of course we’re not ready. And thank God we have the Ukrainians. Thank God that in Europe there is an army that knows how to fight. Thank God there is an army in Europe capable of holding the line.

Day 1381 of Ukraine fighting for its life, fighting for the lives of every single person in the largest country entirely within Europe. Imagine going to bed 1,381 times in a row not knowing if you'll be woken by missiles, if you'll still have a home or even be alive. The Daily🧵 is here:

You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news. For the Irish for a start.

Holy moly, do people still think the U.S. is an ally of Europe? It is now an officially stated foreign policy goal to undermine the EU and centrist European governments that don't ideologically align with MAGA.

@economist.com his the nail on the head this week. Europe can easily afford to support Ukraine -- and it is not even that costly, as long as all members participate. Joint debt will rope in even the recalcitrant ones.

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

I would be so embarrassed if I was a citizen in a country that didn't back this - what monsters accept mass abduction of children?

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution demanding that Russia immediately and unconditionally return all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported since the start of the war. The document was supported by 91 countries.

Dear Pete, Donald, MAGA etc: “What will it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul” We are selling out our nation, our future, our morality, for the ego and wealth of a 79 year old man.

Everyone has to accept that the time of hiding is over. War is upon us. We have to fight and this means literally to fight.

This week could be pivotal for diplomacy. It is clear that Russia does not want peace, and therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible. My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council on Defence ↓

Underrated factor in the Trump-Witkoff-Kushner embarrassing Ukraine “peace” plan flop is the flood of praise they got for a Gaza plan that was also mostly “just tell everyone it’s over then think of how much money we’ll make.”

Russia is pure evil. Georgia, Ukraine, always destroying places and people. Europe needs to take the money instead of obsessing about it. Take it out of Trumps hands

It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.

🇵🇱🇺🇸 Polish media illustration: White House briefing: “Ushakov and Witkoff will take part in the U.S.–Russia negotiations.” Question from the press: “And who will represent the American side?”

Territory they hold? You mean Ukraine?

We must protect russian money better than Ukrainian kids. This is the law and will encourage tyrants to always follow it..

"a Russian military victory in Ukraine is not inevitable, and a rapid Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk Oblast is not imminent" and the US officials who keep saying so are repeating Russian propaganda

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Acting as an agent of Russian influence is a regular occurrence in Trump's camp and he always supports such people. It would be more surprising if someone around Trump acted like an agent of influence for freedom and democracy.

I fear that a lot of elements on European defense (including the nuclear component) will be viewed as politically impossible until the moment they become absolutely necessary, by which point it will be too late.

The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.

Meanwhile in Russia: state media hosts and experts praised Trump's 28-point "peace plan," noting that it's in perfect alignment with Russia's goals and does not take Ukraine's interests into account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqh...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step. There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close. So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.

Swedish foreign minister on the disproportionate amount of Nordic support given to Ukraine, vs rest of NATO.

The US has stepped back from defending democracy.

‼️ Putin's doubles are in place. They are needed to save time, send them where it is dangerous, - the head of the GUR Budanov

This👇

For almost four years now I have been getting YouTube comments from people dumb enough to support Russia telling me that Russia is not really trying their best to win this war. These people are not faking it. They really are this dumb.