The focus of humanistic thoughts is not prejudice and obedience to authority, but action of individuals and personal intuition. ~ Edward William Said // NO DM
Thank you to all 2,234 of you from around the world!
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1. USA (32%) 🇺🇸
2. Germany (15%) 🇩🇪
3. UK. (8%) 🇬🇧
Can you see your country?
Yesterday in Crimea, the Ukrainian Armed Forces sank the ruZZian transport and landing craft BK-16 alongside the flagship Moskva.
Hope you had a Happy Valentine's Day!
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.
Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.
Extract of my speech at @MunSecConf ↓
Gerhard Schröder is a textbook example of a modern European traitor.
He sold Germany’s energy security to the Kremlin for a seat on a board.
He traded his country’s future for a paycheck from Putin
Marco Rubio refuses to meet with European leaders in a multilateral format and refuses to talk to the EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas.
Rubio is meeting with two insignificant Putin puppets, Orbán of Hungary and Fico of Slovakia.
The USA is a pathetic proxy for aggressor Russia.
Ukraine knocked out another Pantsir air defense system in Crimea and set an oil terminal ablaze in Krasnodar in a single day of strikes.
The General Staff says these operations are part of a systematic campaign to degrade Russian military and economic assets until the war ends.
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Yes, both #Russia and #Ukraine are suffering tremendous damage.
But one side -- Russia -- started this war.
Other side -- Ukraine -- is victim of aggression.
Would be nice if @SecRubio recognized that every now and then.
A day after saying "I stand with Vladyslav Heraskevych" when the IOC disgracefully disqualified him for his helmet remembering athletes murdered by Russia, I had the honor of standing with him in Munich. He put principles over glory & showed why Ukraine can never be defeated. 🇺🇦
On average, Canadians have a better quality of life and enjoy greater political freedom than Americans. There is less violence in public life – a benefit of "Peace, Order and Good Government."
It's important to consider these things given threats of annexation by the USA.
Given that Trump supporters seem to think of Europe as an underdeveloped backwater where people live in underground holes and bow hunt rats for a meal, it might be worth revisiting this short thread tackling common U.S. stereotypes about Europe and American exceptionalism.🧵
Astonishing.
Four years into defending themselves from Putin’s brutal invasion, outmanned, outgunned, after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US, Ukraine is still pushing back, now with a tactical counter offensive.
In an age of growing nihilism, the Ukrainian people are showing the world the meaning of the ancient virtues: fortitude, patriotism, valour.
Slava Ukraini!
Imagine if the French had abandoned us during our War of Independence? Thats what we are doing now to Ukrainians as they fight for their independence. And they are not asking for our soldiers, only our ammunition.
10.000 Drohnen für die Ukraine.
Produziert in Deutschland.
Die erste davon übergaben wir @ZelenskyyUa am Freitag.
Der Rest folgt bis Ende des Jahres.
#BuildWithUkraine ist, was die Ukraine 2026 braucht.
Russland muss den Krieg verlieren.
Trump said yesterday:
“Russia wants to make a deal, and Zelensky’s going to have to get moving, otherwise he’s going to miss a great opportunity. He has to move.”
Really?
As Amb to Ukraine for 3 years, under missiles & drones, I saw that Putin has zero interest in peace.
It’s bizarre that at the same time as Trump 🇺🇸 exaggerates 🇷🇺 threats against 🇬🇱, his team is in discussions with 🇷🇺 on 🇺🇸🇷🇺 cooperation in developing Arctic energy resources off the Siberia coast. If there is one 🇷🇺 priority in the Arctic - that’s the one.
The idea that we’re going to ruin our long standing alliances and waste billions of dollars to buy Greenland while our own people can’t afford health care or groceries is maybe the dumbest thing a president has done in the history of this country.
Danes died supporting American interests abroad at the request of a Republican president.
Now the Republican Party repays them by threatening invasion, brutalization, and economic pillage.
Absolute dishonor. Shameful.