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Tomorrow, many of you will think of Ukraine. As Ukraine faces pressure to accept capitulation, remember: there will be no peace without justice. We owe justice to every innocent life taken by russia's war. For every fallen defender. For every murdered civilian. For every atrocity committed.

Hugo Dixon makes an excellent point: move frozen Russian assets, including associated liability, out of Belgium into full control by the European Union. Eliminate any Russian threats & subversion which has turned weak Belgium into a deer in the headlights.

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

"Europeans who found comfort in the misdirection perpetrated in Munich that all is well in the transatlantic alliance may find themselves slowly losing not only their reassurance, but also their dignity." www.policymagazine.ca/marco-rubios...

I am a Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. I have a question. Why has Trump's year of negotiations been the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since the full-scale invasion? The number of deaths and injuries has increased by 31 percent compared to the previous year.

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

The russian energy ceasefire at its best is shaking the entire Ukraine now. Of course, let's give russia Ukraine's fortified towns of Donbas and russia won't attack any more, we have their word! All russia wants is Ukraine to succeed.

In the Pavlohrad district, near Dnipro, Russian Shahed operators attacked a civilian bus. After the first strike, injured civilians were visible exiting the bus. A second drone was then deliberately guided onto those people. This was a conscious act of terrorism.

430th day of protest dedicated again to Georgia's controversial education reform.

Kyiv is in total blackout, as are many parts of Ukraine. No water, no heating, no electricity. Severe frost outside. This is the result of constant russian attacks. Thank you to those few who still care.

This humanitarian disaster could have been avoiding if western leaders hadn't spent the last 35 years lying about Russia. The big lie.

Washington's pressure on Kyiv to cede Ukrainian territory to Russia is in manifest contradiction to the US security assurances in the Budapest Memorandum whose signatories announced their respect for Ukraine's sovereignty & borders. UN, NPT, OSCE... principles all under question.

🇨🇳 China is sending tools to help Russia build its Oreshnik missiles! The Telegraph can reveal that specialised manufacturing machines and tools are being used to build the warheads. The tools are part of $10.3bn (£7.7bn) worth of technology and advanced equipment.

Spoke to folks in Kharkiv and Kyiv - people are freezing to death while being bombed daily for hours. It’s a humanitarian crisis. Tweets of “how incredibly strong Ukrainians are” and “prayers” aren’t enough. They need help. Now.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

When reading the physician's sworn statement under penalty of perjury on shocking denial of medical care to Alex Pretti ⬇️ Remember Kristi Noem's statement earlier today: "Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject."

Apparently people are surprised that a man whose only friends on the world stage are a KGB agent & a North Korean Stalinist planned to unleash a murderous secret police on his population. Looking back, there were signs.

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

Leaked footage from Iran show how regime thugs from the IRGC in technicals are indiscriminately shooting into crowds using automatic weapons. This scene probably happened around January 8 to 10 in Tehran.

Iranians were drowned in their own blood but the monsters who run and control Iran. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Integrity, courage, and morality - that's what almost all Western politicians lack and that's what we would desperately need right now.

Same with confiscation of Russian frozen assets.

Mark Carney gave the best speech at Davos by far. He understands the situation with clarity while others prevaricate, appease, and send late-night “Dear Donald” texts or call him “daddy.”

Important perspective from Greenland.

Among things that give me hope and restores my faith in humanity is: reading posts by people of Kyiv who have electricity , heating and water, inviting over those who don’t have it so they could take a shower, charge devices, have a warm meal and just warm up ❤️‍🩹

My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/text-messa...

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

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It's not ok to watch an entire nation being bombed into freezing in brutal subzero t°. It's not ok to pretend russia wants peace while it targets homes, hospitals, and energy grid, aiming to destroy Ukraine. It's not ok to delay air defences while civilians sleep in cold shelters and darkness.

American Democrats are new to this dictatorship thing, so here's an unsolicited advice: you will need support from abroad at some point like other oppositions in dictatorships, so it's time to message also about stuff that the rest of the world cares about. You know, from Gulags to foreign invasion.

How did that "Daddy" speech work out for you, Mr Rutte? Was it worth it?

It's not remotely silly.

This is Kyiv. Ukraine’s capital. An apartment building where the temperature is below 0. Where people live. Some of them can’t leave. (UNITED24)

🙏🇺🇦 Kyiv on the Brink of a Humanitarian Crisis Due To Russian Strikes The city is receiving only about 50% of the electricity needed for 3.6 million residents, many districts continue to live without centralized heating and electricity. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/kyiv-on-the-...

Europe should share its escalation plan tomorrow. Tariffs on US goods, taxes on tech companies, dumping US stocks, currency and treasuries. That's the order of escalation. That should set US markets in motion on Monday and maybe get some sane Americans to call their senators and congressmen.

Literally begging for help to save civilian lives from being murdered while Trump blames Ukraine, threatens Greenland, plays golf for the next 4 days, and Witkoff and Kushner negotiate deals with Putin.

It's surreal that the terrorist state russia openly puts to death the entire Ukrainian nation by weaponizing frost while it hardly even makes breaking news anymore. It's -12°/-17° today with new massive attacks expected soon. 📷: Stas Yurchenko.

This is a great response. 🤣

Putin, failing in his east European war, summons his American clients to organize a diversion in western Europe.

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

Today I approached energy repairers on the street to thank them for what they do for us. They were extremely exhausted, dealing with a russian-made catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Nearly 19h with no electricity at my home. But in this darkness, I see even more clearly that russia is a terrorist.