Vasyl Zvarych, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic:
"Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
To those who claim that Ukraine should not be given weapons or military aid because it will supposedly bring the end closer, I invite you to look at reality.
Last night, Russia attacked Kyiv with missiles and drones, killing at least 18 people [the death toll is now 31 people after the search and rescue operation ended] and injuring more than 100 others. It struck residential buildings, not military targets.
This is state terrorism. And if Ukraine had had sufficient air defense systems, many innocent lives could have been saved. Russia can stop its attacks at any moment, but it does not want to.
That is why military aid to Ukraine saves human lives. The path to peace leads only through pressure on Putin and limiting his ability to continue the war. And please do not justify Russian atrocities by claiming that Moscow is merely responding to Ukrainian strikes on military targets on Russian territory.
Russia is the aggressor, and Ukraine is defending itself. It is defending itself in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. There can be no sign of equality between the aggressor and the victim.
Help Ukraine protect innocent people, especially children, whose right to life and a future is being taken away by Russia. Stand with Ukraine. We greatly value this." - @Vasyl_Zvarych
@SpeakerJohnson The republicans are tearing America down: this the first time you confess. And you are even ready to fight. I call that an act of terror.
@mattvanswol Tourist visa have 3 months validity. Air travel after 7 months pregnancy is not allowed. A pregnancy takes 9 months. Hence, highly pregnant women between 6 and 7 months into their pregnancy fit your fear. Not a big ‘risk’ to the USA in my view.
@frans_nijhof Burgerdoelen dat is wat de Russen targetten Franske. Waarom zou je daar dure raketten aan uitgeven. Ukr zal strategische anti-agressor doelen kiezen.
The catastrophic reality of Brexit has exposed the entire project as a historical scam pushed by charlatans and traitors, on behalf of Moscow.
It has directly undermined European security and weakened the West to the absolute delight of Moscow, Beijing, and Washington DC.
The separation of the United Kingdom from the European continent has made both entities far more vulnerable to external threats. At a time when global stability requires absolute cohesion, this decision introduced needless fragmentation.
The geopolitical rewards of this blunder flow straight to Washington DC, Beijing, and Moscow. Russia and China look at a fractured Europe and see a continent that is much easier to manipulate, exploit, and destabilize because one of its strongest powers is isolated from its neighbors. The US sees the same, especially under Trump.
Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage will forever carry this betrayal as their core legacy. The United Kingdom must eventually rejoin the European Union to reclaim its economic sanity and strategic defense, a move that is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone
@BulwarkOnline And WHY would the democrats, or better formulated, the American people do that Mike? Any clue? Could there have been any illegal activities that have been pushed through such as insider trade, violation of human rights, starts of wars without the right approvals, anything?
@Its_ereko What a hypocrite: the murderer pretending to talk like a saint. What about the ruzzian federation of colonialized states and secondly their occupation of land in multiple countries?
Brilliant!
“Trump, the peacemaker.” - Jonathan Pie
“Back to you, Sophie.
Thank you. It's interesting, isn't it, that Trump signed this deal in Versailles, you know, the location of another famous humiliating, total capitulation. But you know, of course, Trump will spin this as a massive success because he's got form in declaring he's won when clearly he hasn't.
But this war was a success in the same way that paying $14 million to have large chunks of blue paint floating in an algae-infested reflecting pool was money well spent.
The truth is, the United States has rarely looked weaker, and Iran has rarely looked stronger, having now worked out that if anyone doesn't do exactly what they want them to, they'll just close the Strait of Hormuz, and they've got the whole world by the bullbags.
We went from week one: "I will win. Victory will be easier than that time I kidnapped the president of Venezuela."
To week two: "I won."
To week three: "Why aren't you helping me win?"
To week four: "I don't need your help to win, but if you don't help me win, I'm going to destroy NATO."
Week five: "If you don't let me win, I'll annihilate an entire civilization."
It's quite a feat to give the Iranian regime the moral high ground, but luckily, Donald Trump shattered the illusion of American morality a long time ago.
Week six: "We're winning, and to prove it, here's an AI picture of me dressed as Jesus.”
Week seven: "The Pope is a soy-filled, woke, Guardian reader."
Week eight: "I'm getting bored now."
Weeks nine through to 14: "Really bored now, and I've got ballrooms to build and cage fights on the White House lawn to organise."
And four months later, victory!
Thank you very much, where's my peace prize?
And if the rest of the G7 can just clear up the mess and pay the bill, that would be great.
The outcome was always inevitable, but you know, it's been fun to watch.
Most of Trump's posts on Truth Social around the conflict have sounded less like the leader of the free world and more like a 14-year-old boy who's the only one left in the class not to have fingered anyone.
One particular highlight being on Easter Sunday, when Trump went on to Truth Social to write, "Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards."
Which are the words of a true diplomat with supreme control of the situation.
He then spent some time at the White House Easter Egg Roll, where he gave a speech to a bunch of bemused primary school children about how he's thinking of starting World War III in Iran and Joe Biden's auto-pen.
But this conflict hasn't all been plain sailing. Trump got really angry with the UK, and Spain, and Canada, Australia, Italy—in fact, anyone who raised any objections to this gross example of imperial overreach was branded a coward.
It was as if he felt like we should all be grateful that his latest piece of American expansionism didn't involve making Canada the 51st state or carpet bombing the sleepy village of Greenland.
Perhaps if you want your allies to be good allies, then maybe start treating us like allies. Don't bully your allies, or slam illegal tariffs on your allies, or interfere with their elections by overtly promoting far-right parties across Europe whilst hurling insults at our leaders and threatening to invade Allied sovereign territory, and then demand we come to your aid just because you started a war because one, Benjamin Netanyahu told you to, and two, to distract from the fact that you appear in the Epstein files more times than Jesus is mentioned in the Bible.
But at least someone did all right out of this whole thing. Well, for me, the highlight of the whole shit show was the $2.1 billion in bets placed minutes before presidential announcements about the war in Iran.
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@GunEagleFreedom@warDaniel47 Respect is something that you need to earn and it is deeply entrenched in the army via trust, transparency and brotherhood. Hegseth, a tv-presenter with a big mouth, has earned and radiated none of that. So: he is not respected, maybe feared because he can fire them randomly.