In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll explain the Alaska Fiasco and how it marks the peak of Trump’s two-year betrayal of Ukraine. What was sold as “peace talks” turned into a spectacle of weakness, humiliation, empty promises, and photo-ops that handed Putin exactly what he wanted. 1/24

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Not a fan of Boris Johnson but this is spot on!

These are negotiations about a ceasefire. It is insane to give these kinds of concessions before the negotiations about a final peace settlement even begin. One has to wonder what Russia will expect to get at that point.

Great windows alternative! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZI...

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

Strong email. She knew she would be fired.

I wrote a new piece for foreign policy. The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over – and may even turn adversarial. But Europe has an overlooked trump card. When it comes to manufacturing Europe blows the US out of the water. Thread. 1/ foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/e...

I agree with @kajakallas that the EU should become a beacon of freedom. So when do we start? Here I offer six ways to actually light the beacon and step into the role history has chosen for us. Our response to the current uncertainty can be firm and long term. A thread.🧵1/17

The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.

don’t be that guy

The latest RUSI Commentary by Tim Willasey-Wilsey argues that Europe will need to decide whether the relationship with the Trump administration is manageable or if an entirely new approach is required.

France is leading the free world these days it seems

With Trump's administration, facts are always funnier than attempts at satire...

French senator, Claude Malhuret, has given a powerful speech setting out how the continent must deal with the twin threats from America and Russia.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

🇺🇸 J.D. Vance in 2016: “I never supported Trump—I didn’t like him from the start. He’s a total fraud who just uses people. I might have to vote for Hillary if he had a real shot, but I can’t stand him. He’s toxic and leading the white working class into a dark future.”

Winston Churchill in the White House I wonder if the American administration also yelled at him because of the suit….

After being kicked out of the White House (the first foreign president ever to be treated that way) Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky gave an interview to Fox News. www.youtube.com/live/g-frvSR...

The beginning of the heated argument. Zelensky wanted to Point out what happened the last time he made a peace deal youtu.be/z2s2pogllis

Per @chrisdjackson.bsky.social on another platform: “It took me 30 seconds to find at least ten postings from Zelensky directly thanking the United States for their support. There are many more. This is pure BS.”

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.

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

The mistake is to think Zelensky could have salvaged this. Trump admin just doesn’t want to support Ukraine. Period. There was also never going to be a peace agreement. That’s been clear but everyone has been pretending otherwise. There can be no confusion now.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Niepewność, nieprzewidywalność, układy. Czy to naprawdę powinny być zasady, na których opiera się nowy porządek międzynarodowy? Uncertainty, unpredictability, deals. Are these really the rules that the new international order should be based on?

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

🇺🇸🤔🇺🇦 Trump’s confidential plan. US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations, - The Telegraph Donald Trump’s demand for a $500bn (£400bn) “payback” from Ukraine goes far beyond US control over the country’s critical minerals.