“Ukrainian defense is proving to be durable and it’s the Russian offensive that’s struggling. The way to end this war is not to rescue Putin from a failing campaign, but to help Ukraine make it fail faster.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Jeff Sachs spreads lies and manipulations about Ukraine; he appears on russian propaganda shows and speaks for Ru at the UN. There's no excuse to defer to his academic credentials, platform him, and treat him w respect. Whoever does it (for e.g. the Irish president) is complicit in Ru propaganda.

Orban wants „to break the Ukrainian oil blockade by force“. Hear, hear.. I’m seriously intrigued to see how he intends to do that.

One of Ru's sanctioned shadow fleet tankers had a bad day today kyivindependent.com/russian-tank...

Ahaha, this will happen to me when I finally muster the courage to do a lecture or presentation in French

Global South countries' "what's it to me?" attitude towards the Russo-Ukrainian war might start to shift. It was always a mistake to think Russia destroying the intl order through aggressive territorial conquest wouldn't destabilize the world and affect everyone. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

⚡️ Ukraine captured more territory than it lost to Russia over February 2026, Syrskyi says. The claim came amid a slowdown in Russian advances on most parts of the front line over winter.

Soft on the outside, steely determination on the inside. Just look at his expression!😍

Academia? Not surprised! forbetterscience.com/2026/02/25/r...

Over at Twitter, an assorted combo of paid russian stooges and probably unpaid useful idiots from academia are involved in another cycle of « imagine if Ru did X » about a bunch of international law violations Russia has been committing for a decade. It’s pathetic.

Btw, it’s evident that Yarvin shares Hitler’s view of Eastern Europeans as inferior. No wonder his friend JD Vance despises Ukraine and wants it occupied.

Or their direct PayPal. Many thanks for every donation 🫂 Many thanks for being with Ukraine in these turbulent times. www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

Thoughts and prayers for putin's useful idiots in Western policy circles and academia who tirelessly predict that russian victory is near/imminent/inevitable while ignoring that putin is losing one international ally after the other, wasting thousands of soldiers, and running out of money to burn.

Really interesting historical parallel. TL;dr don’t be an idiot and spy for disgusting regimes

Iranian drones hit the famous Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai, UAE. The hotel is burning. Unbelievable.

😱Yet Trump was all worried about some mythical Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s residence. Goes to show you « the president of peace » just wants to protect his idol putin.

Again, for emphasis: russia has not agreed to ANYTHING. Nearly 100% of the media coverage presents the current situation as: if Ukraine agrees to giving up Donbas, there will be peace. That is not the case! Stop acting as if it were.

The US and russia are jointly pressing Ukraine for XYZ while Ukraine refuses and still people who teach political science for a living (e.g. Nicolai Petro) are sending me articles entitled "4 Years of Ukraine Proxy War" 🤦‍♀️Doesn't get much dumber and more embarrassing than this.

This is how the "NATO expansion provoked Ru" crowd tries to wiggle out of evidence falsifying their theory again! After Finland/Sweden's NATO accession provoked no reaction from Ru, they said it didn't count because Ru's afraid specifically of Ukr in NATO. Now that taking Ukr NATO membership off...

The non-stop gaslighting of Zelensky abt what Ukr can do for peace needs to stop. Let's be clear: Ru hasn't agreed to ANYTHING. The US is badgering Ukraine to offer concessions up front. There is zero commitment from Ru to stop the war if the Ukrainian army started retreating from Donbas tomorrow.

I'm seeing commentary that a formal commitment to keep Ukr out of NATO *no longer* satisfies Pu. What?? It never would've. There's plenty of evidence Ru always aimed to control or absorb Ukr and replace Europe's security architecture w an arrangement allowing Ru to reassert domination over EEurope.

The Trump admin has abandoned Ukraine. It hasn't actively put its lot with Ru's war effort. Does Rubio want to be congratulated for it? Or are they considering jumping in on Ru's side? Either way, the admin's Ukraine policy is shameful from a moral standpoint and the opposite of what Americans want.

The pro-russian part of the European political spectrum essentially brings together the Eastern European far right (AfD counts as EEuropean, imo) and the Western European far left. Supporting russia's fascist regime makes sense for the far right but what the hell is the far left smoking?

This must-read will make you re-think the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Esp those who identify as "anti-war" should read it. For most Ukrainians, what matters more is not when the war ends but how, many have adapted to the realization that the end is not in sight www.eurozine.com/the-new-abno...

Disastrous naivite. You either do security with Ru or against Ru. You can't have it both ways. The first way failed miserably as early as 2008. Clinging on to the idea that seeking Pu's agreement would lead to anything but Ru paralyzing/controlling Ukraine is delusional.

I'm waiting for "We have the best Russo-American alliance in history by far!". It'll be the truth, for a change.

The journalistic chit-chat as Trump walks in for his State of the Union address is the perfect illustration of the normalcy bias that prevents many from seeing the deep crisis into which Trump has plunged American democracy.

"The Trump administration peddles the idea that meeting Russia halfway requires drawing a border somewhere in Eastern Ukraine, but the reality is that from Russia’s standpoint, meeting them halfway means putting up a new Iron Curtain somewhere in the EU." www.policymagazine.ca/ukraine-four...

It's wrong for journalists to ask Zelensky whether Trump can end the war. You know Zelensky has to avoid insulting the thin-skinned Trump. You know Trump could help Ukraine if he wanted to but is helping Ru instead. Don't use Zelensky for your edgy "Trump is failing" commentary; it's cowardly.

Shows you how much Ukraine has achieved with the moderate, cautious help of its allies. It has thwarted russia's plans, in the process defending Europe and the international order.

The best way to make the war end sooner

On Feb 24, 2022, as Ru invaded, @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I wrote: "Putin’s rhetoric and actions over almost two decades reveal that his goals extend beyond imposing neutrality on Ukraine or even staving off further NATO expansion. The larger objective is... www.justsecurity.org/80343/russia...

Spot on. "Meetings happen, but the fundamental problem remains: Russia’s objective is not land, but the destruction of Ukraine. [..]The dark truth remains. Nothing could be more dangerous than any kind of victory for Putin or defeat for Ukraine." www.policymagazine.ca/in-ukraine-t...

What could go wrong with dumb and dumber in charge?

A terrorist attack!

Ru propagandists from Orban to Jeff Sachs claim Zelensky doesn't want the war to end because funding for Ukraine would end. They can't be dumb enough to believe this. If the war ends, funding would simply shift towards reconstruction and there's likely to be more of it as investors flock to Ukraine.

In Feb 2022, those who took Western intelligence reports seriously wondered who the Ru-installed puppet would be. @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I predicted Ukrainians would fight hard and a puppet couldn't rule, Ru would have to try to achieve full occupation: www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukr...

The fact that they want to increase military spending by 500bln but stopped aid to Ukraine and whinge about why Biden sent about 130bln over a few years illustrates how deeply pro-russian the Trump administration is. And hypocritical.

Recent reports indicate that there are approx. 10,000 North Korean soldiers in the Russian military at the moment - we've taken a number of POWs, most of whom beg not to be repatriated to their mad king. And yet South Korea is still mulling over whether to aid Ukraine.

There will be many nuanced takes on this news but the basic take away from a comparative politics standpoint is that the US Supreme Court hasn’t lost its independence and can still constrain the executive.

Trump's friendliness to Ru has created this favorable scenario for Pu-- Ru advances in Donbas without fighting, gets a breather through a temporary ceasefire, destabilizes Ukraine through forced elections, and either manages to install a puppet or invades again when ready because there's...

The 57th Separate Brigade’s infantryman Vladyslav spent 8 months at his position, was wounded, and then evacuated by a robot after 4 attempts. Missions like this one save lives🧵 Join the Allies of Steel fundraiser for lifesaving robots: u24.gov.ua/allies-of-st...

This is the way. Each Russian demand list must be mirrored. The battlefield is stalled and no one is winning. Thus, there's no reason to preemptively concede a single russian demand. The deference to russia's supposed might, which has long characterized European/US policy needs to end. Russia...

"Pu thinks he's winning" strikes me as a psyop to make him look delusional (and thus dangerous in terms of nuclear escalation). Of course he's going to feign confidence in victory. What choice does he have? He can't show weakness and can't admit his vanity imperialist project is failing.

Trying to get signatures to separate Alberta from Canada In Arizona Couldn't be more "American Psyop" if you tried lol

Your regular reminder that anyone who pushes "let's give Donbas to Russia to end the war" as a solution is either ignorant or pro-Russian. Donbas is not a "disputed" nor a special region and therefore its occupation by Ru doesn't solve anything at all. Ru wants all of Ukraine.

As a Trump doormat for the last few years, Graham has been so thoroughly and consistently humiliated that he's helplessly lashing out at others.

No surprise there. Ru wants Ukraine to surrender but can’t compel them. Ukraine isn’t losing on the battlefield and they don’t want to submit to Ru occupation. The US is not an honest broker but trying to help Ru achieve its goals diplomatically. US has stopped aid to Ukr so it has little leverage.

Putin, of course, has no understanding or belief that public opinion matters. I wonder if Trump does. Ukrainian politicians know viscerally and confidently that they can't go against majority public opinion.