Eelco Gorter

Pro Oekraïne en pro wolf

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Having lived through a similar, nationwide version of this in Trump's model, Putin's Russia, it’s not easy to fight against. And Trump and many of his gang have passed the point at which they feel they can afford to lose power, even in Congress. It’s a perilous moment.

[David Jan Godfroid @djbelgrado]

Toestand in Oekraïne kritiek. Energie- en warmtevoorziening op een haar na dood. Vele miljoenen mensen in het donker en de kou. Resultaat van continue Russische terreuraanvallen. Veroveren kunnen ze nauwelijks iets, dus moeten burgers het slachtoffer worden van hun moordzucht.

[Emine Uğur @overlistener]

@Diep_Triest @a_lahlah @gl_pvda @RobJetten Deze Esmah Lahlah?

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelenskyy!

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As Ukrainians have learned the hard way for the past 11 years, "support" and "stand with" don't mean "fight". And that's all Putin cares about.

[Johan Sanctorum @JohanSanct48388]

Vaststelling: Israël kan met grote precisie, in een land duizenden km weg, leiders, militairen en wetenschappers gericht uitschakelen. Maar in de strijd tegen Hamas moesten ondertussen al meer dan 50.000 burgers sterven. #genocide

[Paul Shapoval @Frialum]

A lot of people still incredibly chauvinistic toward Ukrainians. And it’s not just Americans, I saw Indian “influencers” that said, that how could we achieved such a result without any western help, must be CIA.

For centuries Russians spread the narrative that we’re inferior, stupid “villagers” and, unfortunately, it still rots among different societies.

[Simon van Teutem @S_VanTeutem]

Janan Ganesh on 'the revolt against over-management' in @FT today.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Same song, only slightly different tune. And don't forget Panama! Note that aggressive dictatorships like Russia and China love to hear the president of the US speaking the same way they do about spheres of influence and the use of military force for conquest.

[Bijan @Bijan63]

Wauw, wat een politica!
Esther Ouwehand is weer on fire!
Zo moet je opkomen voor belangen!

[Eelco Gorter @EelcoGorter]

@D62Darya Satire mensen 😳🫶🏻

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

People who brag about not being politically correct tend also not to be factually, morally, or grammatically correct.

[Paul Shapoval @Frialum]

Russians hit another residential building in my hometown. My family is fine, but some people lost their loved ones because of genocidal empire that could have been tamed two years ago. And we still can’t do this, but we need courage

[Nina 🇺🇦 @ninaselyna]

A bit of optimism ✨ amidst the worries: 😉
- russian frontline losses are unprecedented—record-breaking since the war began. They’re filling ranks, but resources won’t last forever; their advances will soon stall 😈
- In just a week, russians lost 90 pieces of equipment in Kursk with no gains. Our defenders continue to capture POWs and dismantle their units 💀
- russian oil refineries face bankruptcy and halt production—even without our "drone debris" 😅!
- orcs see they are losing, so putler seeks aid from impoverished nations despite having far greater resources than we do 🤡
- Next year may bring an end to this war with russia collapsing ✌️ and everything will be Ukraine! 💙💛
#WarDay997 #SlavaUkraini #HeroiamSlava

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

It’s surreal to be trying to ascertain the depth of Putin’s grotesquely irrational, overwhelming hatred of Ukraine.

Over the last decade, he:

- unleashed grandiose propaganda of hate and war not seen since the Radio of Thousand Hills
- ruined his lucrative relations with the West
- started a dirty and abominable proxy war in Donbas and shamelessly lied about it for a decade
- caused the deadliest shoot-down incident in human history with the MH-17 flight
- unleashed the largest war of aggression in Europe since WWII
- made his military suffer the most catastrophic losses since WWII (and lose exponentially more than in all Soviet and Russian wars after WWII combined), including close to 3,500 tanks and about 150,000 dead.
- recruited convicts en masse as suicidal cannon fodder and pardoned scores of the most violent murderers, cannibals, and maniacs
- gave the green light to a giant suicidal mercenary army that once almost dethroned him
- brought the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust
- made it to the wanted list as an international war criminal
- made nuclear threats a usual everyday instrument of global politics
- emptied seemingly bottomless Soviet-era weapon stocks
- begged Iran and North Korea for weapons, equipment, and munitions
- continues multiyear full-scale missile and bombing campaigns to strip a 40-million European nation of electricity and heating or at least to kill as many as he can
- made Russia an ultimate Chinese vassal totally dependent on Xi
- sent hundreds of thousands to die for his bruised ego in suicidal frontal assaults
- re-introduced human wave attacks as a usual reality of war in Europe
- erased entire regions and got a war on Russia’s home territory

And that’s all for the sake of erasing a country that’s only guilty of willing to live on, keep its identity, and stay independent -- which is a terrible offense to Putin and his insane lust for absolute power -- as well as his megalomanic perception of himself as a new tsar with a messianic mission.

[BowTiedMara @BowTiedMara]

This is why I hate LinkedIn.

[Eelco Gorter @EelcoGorter]

Herkenbare verwondering

[Emine Uğur @overlistener]

In wat voor geestestoestand moet je als mens verkeren als je denkt dat een samenleving of de rechtsstaat er bij gebaat zijn dat een 11-jarig kind wordt uitgezet? Welk doel dient een rechtsstaat, of de samenleving die het bedient, als de menselijke maat verloren is geraakt?