Donald Steckey

"This above all: to thine own self be true..." Shakespeare: Hamlet Act1 Scene3 Polonius to Laertes

[Donald Steckey @DSteckey]

@DakdaR22 LAVROV: 💩💩💩💩💩💩

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- russian Lavrov:

“The victory is needed. They do not understand any other language. This victory will be ours, we have no doubt. We have become truly united in the face of the war that the West unleashed against us by proxy of Ukraine.”
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To be clear, Russia has once again cast itself in the role of the victim.🤷‍♀️

Substantial support for Ukraine—including arms shipments—only arrived after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, serving as a means of defense for the attacked nation.
Thus, Russia is the aggressor here, and Ukraine is acting in self-defense.

It is a strange reality these people inhabit.🤦‍♀️

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

🇷🇺 Patriarch Kirill said the Soviet Union developed the atomic bomb through divine intervention.👀

Here is the Russian Orthodox ‘Church‘ leader's direct quote, from a sermon delivered on August 1 at the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent in the Nizhny Novgorod region:

“The scientists who worked here, in Sarov, created our Russian atomic bomb, which stopped the enemy's plans to destroy and enslave our Fatherland.

Thus, through the work of scientists, engineers, and workers here, God's grace and mercy were bestowed upon our country.

It is perfectly clear that it was no coincidence that scientific research and engineering work were carried out in this very place — work that saved our people and our country from terrible destruction, after which neither our nation nor our people might have remained.

The fact that all this happened precisely where St. Seraphim once prayed was no accident... It happened, among other things, through the prayers of our venerable and God-bearing father, Seraphim of Sarov.

Thus, this humble elder, through his holiness and his prayers, helped ensure that our people and our country continue to exist...

The Lord truly works miracles. He is the Master of history, and the life of all humankind depends on Him.

That, through His mercy and through Elder Seraphim, the miracle of His presence was revealed here, and that it was in this very place that the shield protecting our Motherland was created — all this was no coincidence, but parts of a single whole."

Source: https://t.co/3ua3VSWcKH

[The Epoch Times @EpochTimes]

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[Donald Steckey @DSteckey]

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[Olena_Wave🇺🇦 @OlenaWave]

In #Beryslav, #Kherson region, Russian fascists used a drone to burn down the oldest #Cossack #church in southern #Ukraine.

It was built in 1784. It survived the Bolsheviks and World War II. It did not survive the invasion by the "defenders of canonical #Orthodoxy."

[France @la_france_sur_x]

🚨 Au Japon, une femme musulmane enceinte a visité 7 hôpitaux différents pour son accouchement, exigeant à chaque fois uniquement des médecins femmes.

Son mari insistait sur le fait que l’islam n’autorise pas une femme à montrer son visage ou son corps à un médecin homme.

Le médecin japonais a fini par demander : « Et si l’accouchement se produit la nuit et qu’il n’y a que des médecins hommes ? Que ferez-vous alors ? »

Que pensez-vous de cette exigence ?

🇫🇷 Soutenez-nous en nous suivant sur 𝕏 🌐 Notre Telegram en cas de censure : https://t.co/7BI2uMGmUb 🇫🇷

[Donald Steckey @DSteckey]

@LauraLoomer @wapo I’m delighted you took the steps you did. Russian influence on the conservative side of politics is frightening, so much so that it’s s threat to national security

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

In @wapo today.

I am glad my reporting in Ukraine is opening people’s eyes on the right about the epidemic of Russian propaganda in our political and media landscape.

As I told the Washington Post, Russia is running a foreign influence operation on social media to sow chaos and division in American politics and to radicalize people, specifically right-wingers.

We need to be honest about how this propaganda is shaping the way Americans feel about US foreign policy and how that social engineering and information warfare is deliberately being carried out by our adversaries to make us weaker.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Marco Rubio:
“There are ships moving through the Strait. There is oil moving right now through the Straits.”

Fact: Six ships passed the Strait yesterday.

Also Fact: During Biden’s presidency 100 ships easily passed the Strait daily.

[Donald Steckey @DSteckey]

@frontlinekit 😂😂😂😂😂

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

For those who don't understand the protests in Ukraine right now, they are all about making sure we rid our country of occupiers as fast as possible 🔥🔥🔥

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Tired of waiting for corrupted western leaders to allow Ukraine to defend Europe from Russian ballistic missiles, waiting for Patriot deliveries, waiting for phantom US-joint production agreemements, Ukraine will now just produce the world's best air defense system, reliant as as little western tech as possible, similar to what they've been forced to do with everything else.

[Alexandre 🇺🇦 @Toriadus]

The world must finally see this hell!!!

Russian monsters are reducing entire Ukrainian cities to rubble, along with the people who live in them. Systematically. Deliberately. Every single minute.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

🇷🇺 Quite an admission from Russian military analyst Maxim Klimov:

“The money is running out.

The colossal investment in our submarine fleet is a complete hoax.

Our nuclear submarines are not combat-capable.”

[Alexandre 🇺🇦 @Toriadus]

Russians have no right to call themselves human beings.

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

Something extraordinary happened in the studio with the propagandists – a person expressed an opinion that wasn't based on a history taught from a Putinist perspective.

A Harvard student gave her colleagues, including Solovyov, a masterclass in reality. As a result, the broadcast unexpectedly took place without the usual mentions of the Pechenegs, Polovtsians, and other perennial heroes of the Kremlin's version of the past.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Putin’s brutal war is a vanity project. He doesn’t care about Ukrainians, but he doesn't care about his own citizens either.

This war ends when we strengthen Ukraine on the battlefield, tighten sanctions to starve Russia's war machine & force Moscow to negotiate on equal terms.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

If you truly want to understand what Ukrainians are living through, just read this.

Konstantynivka is no longer a city where life is possible.

In Druzhkivka, the bodies of civilians still lie in their beds because no one can safely recover them.

Kramatorsk has lost the sound of children's laughter, music, and crowded streets.

Sloviansk is slowly losing its architecture, its people, its soul.

Our Donbas is disappearing.

It isn't the Donbas it was six months ago. Six months from now, it won't be the Donbas it is today.

It's happening so fast that the world barely notices an entire homeland being erased.

Adapted from a post by the Ukrainian Telegram channel Розвідка Ноєм.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Everyone can see the ballistic missile threat posed by Russia – and this threat is growing. At the same time, Russian enterprises that manufacture ballistic missiles are still not subject to strict global sanctions.

Some key Russian enterprises involved in ballistic missile production are not under sanctions imposed by the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Switzerland, and other jurisdictions. Of the seventeen key Russian enterprises involved in producing ballistic missiles, most, unfortunately, can exploit sanctions loops in the jurisdictions of various partners. We need greater coordination, daily engagement with partners on sanctions, and greater synchronization of sanctions.

Unfortunately, one of the worst consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine – and of Iran’s tactics as well – is that potential aggressors around the world can see how much harm ballistic missiles can inflict on human life. The global ballistic missile threat will therefore continue to grow, and all anti-ballistic defense capabilities must grow as well.

Our FREYJA can become a shared European system providing integrated protection. FREYJA will be quick to produce and battle-tested. Ukraine is capable of manufacturing both the missile itself and the launcher. The decisive factor is cooperation with those European countries and companies that have the radars, sensors, and everything else required for an effective anti-ballistic system. And we already have agreements in place with all of these companies and all the necessary countries.

These are the ten countries participating in the Anti-Ballistic Coalition: Ukraine, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom – as well as twelve manufacturers that have already joined. The Anti-Ballistic Coalition and the FREYJA project are open to other participants capable of making a genuine contribution to security across Europe.

From an address at the meeting of heads of Ukraine’s foreign diplomatic missions. (4/7)