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[Caolan @CaolanReports]

31 years ago today was the Budapest Memorandum - the ultimate betrayal

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

Референдум в понимании Путина.

"Кто считал целесообразным быть с Россией - тот за это проголосовал, а КТО НЕТ, ОН МОГ СПОКОЙНО УЕХАТЬ В ДРУГИЕ ОБЛАСТИ УКРАИНЫ"

Либо голосуешь за Россию, либо тебя выгоняют из родного города и вынуждают покинуть родную землю.

И ведь он все это сам несет на весь мир и даже не понимает, что тут такого

[Bohdan Krotevych @BohdanKrotevych]

You know, I was born in 1993 — in an independent Ukraine.
Yet post-Soviet propaganda lived in our schools for a long time. We studied a triumphant, simplified, often fabricated history of the Soviet Union — a history in which the “side of the USSR” was automatically considered right and the only truth.
Everything that did not fit this narrative was either silenced or presented in a distorted way.
As I grew older and began to see the logical gaps in school textbooks, I started studying history on my own — not through official propaganda, but through the memoirs of people from different countries, different armies, and different ideologies.
For example, I only learned at 19, studying independently, that the USSR invaded Poland after Hitler. Yet only today, preparing this text and re-checking the facts, I discovered that it was actually a coordinated division of Poland between Hitler and Stalin, formalized in the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols.
This means it is never too late to learn.

The Prime Minister of Belgium, @Bart_DeWever , was born in 1970.
By age and by office, he should know a little more than I do.
But I will allow myself to remind him of a few lessons from history — because they seem to be slipping from his rhetoric, whether due to fear or simple misunderstanding.

On the eve of the Second World War, Belgium — much like today — tried to remain neutral.
It believed that restraint and the desire not to “provoke” an aggressor would protect it from war.
But history knows no case in which fear stopped a rapist or a murderer.
On May 10, 1940, Hitler invaded anyway. Belgium fell in 18 days.
During the German breakthrough through Belgium toward France, approximately 6,093 Belgian soldiers were killed, and another 2,000 died in captivity.
The price of the illusion of safety turned out to be devastating.
In total, Belgium lost around 88,000 people during the Second World War — soldiers, civilians, victims of the Holocaust, repression, bombings, and forced labor.

After capitulation, the Belgian army was sent to prisoner-of-war camps.
And although it may sound strange, even Nazi Germany in many cases adhered to international rules concerning Western prisoners — unlike the USSR and unlike modern-day russia.
At the same time, German propaganda worked relentlessly. The Nazis managed to recruit 15,000–20,000 Belgian volunteers into the Flemish and Walloon SS divisions.
This is a telling number: occupation, fear, and propaganda always break a part of society — exactly as russia does today in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
So did fear and neutrality — the desire not to provoke the aggressor — save Belgium then? The question is rhetorical.

Now — to Prime Minister De Wever’s statements about russia

When Belgium says today that it fears confiscating russian assets because of the threat of retaliation from moscow — this is not just concern.
This is a repetition of the same logic that once opened the door to the Nazi blitzkrieg.
The rhetoric and behavior of the Belgian Prime Minister demonstrate not only the caution of a small state facing a large threat — they reveal a deeper problem.
His words reflect the mindset of someone who:

• does not believe in his own security,
• does not trust the strength of allies,
• is not convinced that Europe and NATO can protect him from an aggressor.
This is classic victim psychology:
fear paralyzes more than the threat itself, risks are exaggerated, one’s own capabilities are underestimated, and the aggressor gains influence simply from the fact of your fear.
And the main problem is not even that Belgium is afraid.
The problem is that it fears russia more than it trusts Europe and NATO.

Fear has never saved anyone from a killer.
Submission has never saved anyone from a rapist.
Appeasement has never stopped an aggressor — it only makes him bolder and whets his appetite.

Therefore, Belgium’s position is not just disagreement with the confiscation of russian assets.
It is a symptom of a crisis of Western political will, when part of Europe still thinks in categories of “better not provoke moscow” instead of “we are strong, we stand together, we defend freedom.”
This is not just submission — it is a stimulus to the appetite of the russians, and I hope Mr. De Wever understands that his fear is already an argument for russia to consider invading Europe.

If Europe continues responding with fear instead of determination, this will mark the beginning of the West’s defeat.
Europe must respond to such behavior.
Those who try to sit on two chairs must face sanctions as well.
This is not a time when one can remain neutral while standing on a battlefield.
The battlefield is all of Europe, and there is only one occupier here — russia.
All those who support it must be held responsible.

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

🚨 Some Ukrainian children abducted by Russia were forcibly transferred to North Korea and placed in military camps, Ukrainian human rights organizations say. This was just announced at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The Russians started the war, and there is no other way to put it. The whole world is a witness. They came with aggression to destroy us. We stopped them. Europe helped, America helped. Russia failed to occupy Ukraine first and foremost because of the strength of the Ukrainian people – warriors and civilians – and, of course, thanks to our partners.

The United States says that a lot of blood has been shed and it’s enough. And we fully support them. But we must end this war in a way that prevents Russia from coming back a year later with a third invasion. They did not achieve their goal of occupying our country. But I am not sure their objectives have changed. They may simply hold up and we need protection for that.

What will happen tomorrow when our warriors come back home? When they once again become teachers, engineers, people of different professions? They will return, and Russia will continue building up its military strength, preparing for yet another invasion. This is why we want clarity. This is what Ukrainians need.

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

What Russia says and what Russia does. Don’t let yourself be fooled.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Get serious, Europeans. You are your only hope.

[Mykola Bielieskov @MBielieskov]

In Afghanistan US at least had major excuse when they left country in August 2021 - they didn’t have a functioning Afghan govt to fall back on despite 20 years on nation building.

In 🇺🇦 US has zero such excuse to leave Ukraine on its own and stop supporting Ukraine self defense

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
https://t.co/bLuBqKRrAd

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Unclear where this war profiteering plan came from or why it emerged right now, but clear that it is in every way disastrous

[Vitaly Portnikov @portnikov]

Because let’s be honest: if someone truly wants peace, they agree to a ceasefire.
Then they sit down to talk.
Putin has refused a ceasefire.
That refusal is not just a policy choice — it’s a signal. It tells us everything we need to know.
https://t.co/UKH5fNBVq8

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

If Europe does not want Russia to win and the war to expand, it must act!

Frozen Russian assets must be used to defend Ukraine NOW.
Missiles are needed NOW.
The plan for the participation of European armies in the defense of Ukraine must be ALREADY, not “after the war stops.”

There is no time. We, Ukrainians, have already given Europe a lot of time to prepare.

[Mykola Bielieskov @MBielieskov]

European countries ability to quickly agree for proper funding mechanism to cover Ukraine’s macroeconomic needs in 2026 would be much better counter-argument to joint US-RU sham peace initiatives than mere “We stand with Ukraine” posts here. Moment of truth for Europe has come.

[Tamara Krawchenko 🌻🍉 @T_Krawchenko]

Russian troops have raped and tortured children in Ukraine.
The proposed peace plan includes amnesty for crimes like these.

https://t.co/1zXicxjF07

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so.
https://t.co/myiTnyV8dh

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

Trump caved in to Putin and issued an ultimatum to Ukraine, the weaker side in the conflict, which had already miraculously resisted aggression for 4 years.

Someday, the American people will be deeply ashamed of this, just as the British are still ashamed of Munich 1938.

[Razom for Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @razomforukraine]

‼️We are troubled that the Trump administration is pressuring Ukraine to accept a punishing deal under duress.

If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to withhold weapons purchased by Europe and end intelligence support, the White House will embolden Putin, endanger the rest of the free world, and prolong the war, not end it.

We call on friends of peace in Congress and leaders across the United States to urge publicly and privately that any deal to end the war must include ironclad guarantees for Ukraine — and to insist that the White House take into account the will of Ukraine’s democratic society.

Read our full statement:

[Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler]

Ukraine can count on us. Together with @EmmanuelMacron and @Keir_Starmer, I reaffirmed our full support to @ZelenskyyUa. We will coordinate closely with Europe and the US, whose commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty we welcome. The contact line must remain the basis for any talks.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Donald Trump and his gang are forcing a European country into surrender to our common enemy.

This is not transatlantic, immoral, anti-Western & surely not American.

If Europe - and I mean all countries - are not rising up now, we deserve the war Russia will unleash on us soon.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Unacceptable. It is a 1938 Munich.