Gediminas K 🇱🇹🇺🇦

Entrepreneur

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

All jokes aside…
How sick is Russian society?

500,000+ dead.
No mass protests.
No mass exodus.
Thousands of new soldiers signing up every month.
People still worship Putin.
Propagandists still cheer a war on foreign soil while calling it “defending the motherland.”
It’s 2026.

[Gediminas K 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @GKondrackis]

@ZygisPavilionis @Suntimes @BarackObama @Valdas_Adamkus Adamkus is from Kaunas, tho

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Depends which year you asked Moscow.

2021: NATO expansion. February 2022: ‘denazification’ — of a country with a Jewish president. Then: protecting Russian speakers — by flattening Mariupol, the most Russian-speaking city in Ukraine. Then: secret biolabs. Then: Ukraine was never real, per the president’s own essay. By late 2022, officially: a holy war on Satanism.

Six reasons in under two years. Curious behavior for a war of necessity.

Here is the rule, and it has never failed: when the justification keeps changing, the justification was never the reason. Reasons are stable. Alibis rotate.

The real reason hasn’t changed since Catherine’s century: the empire cannot tolerate a free, successful, European Ukraine — because every Ukrainian election is a referendum on Moscow’s claim that Slavs require a master.

They keep redecorating the motive because the motive is unpresentable.

When a man gives you six reasons for burning your house, understand: he wanted the fire.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

There is nothing more pathetic or contemptible than watching Russians launch what they thought would be a short splendid war to crush Ukraine in a matter of days, only to fail spectacularly in their blitzkrieg.

They wiped entire Ukrainian cities and regions off the face of the earth, committed an unimaginable number of war crimes, plunged Ukraine into darkness and freezing cold during the harshest winter on record, spent years bringing down apartment buildings with sleeping families inside night after night, destroyed supermarkets, children’s hospitals, theaters, and libraries, historic monuments, churches, and cathedrals, murdered people, beheaded and castrated prisoners of war on camera, executed and burned civilians, tortured them, and left mass graves behind.

And now they are hysterically wringing their hands and crying to the heavens because Ukraine is burning down warehouses full of Chinese junk meant for online sales.

“Why is this happening to us? How can there ever be peace with this Ukraine? They hate us!”

Fucking disgusting and pathetic.

[Gediminas K 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @GKondrackis]

@IAPonomarenko Ordinary in the extraordinary

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Meanwhile, a usual day in Kyiv

[Fellaraktar🇺🇦 @fellaraktar]

I’m not Ukrainian.

So I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me to offer a strong opinion on certain Ukrainian issues.

But I came here to support the Ukrainian people.

And if the Ukrainian people are angry.

I stand behind them.

Always have.

Always will.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

I often hear that Russia crossed the red line when it annexed Crimea in 2014 and should have been stopped then.

I disagree.

The red line was crossed in 2008, when Angela Merkel helped block Georgia and Ukraine from receiving a NATO Membership Action Plan under pressure from Russia.

A few months later, Russia invaded Georgia.

That was the moment the Kremlin learned that military aggression against its neighbours would not be met with a decisive response.

Everything that followed became more likely.

I believe Merkel’s Russia policy was one of the most damaging strategic failures of modern Europe.

History will judge it accordingly.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

By the way, for what it’s worth, no one anywhere in Ukraine among Russian speakers, including where I grew up in Donbas, not even the most diehard consumers of Kremlin TV propaganda, ever considered themselves “ethnic Russians” in the same sense as people in Moscow, Siberia, or Vladivostok.

They always saw themselves as ethnic Ukrainians, with Ukrainian surnames, living in Ukraine, but speaking mostly or exclusively Russian, while still knowing Ukrainian and practicing distinctly Ukrainian traditions.

Even for the most hardline supporters of closer ties with Moscow (who, in reality, naively believed Putin would come and shower them with oil money), the difference between Ukrainians and Russians was always obvious. On Donbas, ethnicity simply was never the issue.

It was only after the war began in 2014 that Russia’s Ministry of Truth suddenly declared that we had “always been Russians,” and its paid useful morons are still, with a straight face, trying to pretend that night is day.

[Vitaly @M0nstas]

як на мене 100 ракет краще стримають ворога ніж 100 протиракет, і коштуватимуть дешевше.

[Gediminas K 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @GKondrackis]

@nikicaga Leftists are a mad bunch. Good that they are mostly irrelevant

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Its funny how many online leftists love Ireland for being "poor colonized white people" but have a pathological hatred of the Baltics, the most clearly colonized people in Europe

[ᗺɹɐʞ Sóʍ, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 ᵣ𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚖ï𝚜ï𝚌 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚝. @exileoftza]

if your comment is in ᵣussian, don't bother - I only make an effort to read human languages.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

Many argue that the events of 2014 in Ukraine were in breach of the country’s constitution.

Others argue the opposite.

I don’t have a definitive legal view on that, and I won’t pretend that I do.

Intuitively, however, I believe that almost every genuine revolution is, by its very nature, extra-constitutional.

But here’s the more important question.

A constitution exists to serve the people.

A government exists to execute the constitution.

The moment that relationship is reversed—when the constitution serves to protect the government from the people instead of protecting the people from the government—it loses its legitimacy and becomes an instrument of oppression.

A constitution is not a holy document.

It is a contract between a nation and its government.

And like any contract, it can be amended, rewritten, or replaced altogether when it no longer serves the people it was created to protect.

[Gediminas K 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @GKondrackis]

@Sulkhan Let’s also not forget that Viktor promised EU integratiob

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

Many in the West argue that the Maidan Revolution of 2014 somehow justified Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

I won't go into why I think that argument is legally and morally indefensible. That's not my point today.

Instead, I'd like to address another claim that often accompanies it:

That Viktor Yanukovych was the "democratically elected" president of Ukraine.

To anyone familiar with how Russia projects influence across the post-Soviet space, that statement is, at best, naïve.

Russia has spent decades refining a remarkably consistent playbook.

Find an ambitious and ruthless man.

Make him extraordinarily wealthy.

Help him build a network of patronage through money, media, charity, corruption, and influence.

He doesn't even have to campaign on a pro-Russian platform. In fact, it's often better if he doesn't.

He campaigns on fighting corruption, improving living standards, or defending "traditional values"—whatever sells.

Money, propaganda, patronage, and, where necessary, election manipulation eventually bring him to power.

Only then does the gradual geopolitical shift begin.

First slowly.

Then faster.

Until the country becomes increasingly dependent on Moscow.

People did not vote for becoming a Russian satellite.

They voted for promises they never received.

When they eventually realise they have been deceived, they protest.

Sometimes they succeed in removing the Kremlin's proxy—as Ukraine did in 2014.

Sometimes they don't.

I've watched variations of this playbook unfold in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, and elsewhere.

So when someone tells me that the pre-2014 Ukrainian government was simply "democratically elected," I conclude one of three things:

They don't understand how Russian influence operates.

They have never seriously studied post-Soviet politics.

Or they are knowingly repeating Kremlin talking points.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

As you know, I’ve been trying to understand why so many Westerners support Putin’s Russia almost like a religion.

Sure, some are paid. But many clearly are not.

Recently, someone on X made a point that helped me understand it. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the username to give proper credit.

Many of these people are so deeply disappointed with their own political establishments that they have come to hate them.

From there, they make one fatal logical leap:

“If my government supports something, I must oppose it. If my government opposes something, I must support it.”

That’s how they end up genuinely cheering for Putin’s Russia.

To those people, I’d say this:

You have every right to dislike your government. That’s one of the great privileges of living in a free society.

But blindly supporting everything your government opposes is no more rational than hating Earth and therefore deciding to love Hell.

Your anger at your own establishment does not make its enemies your friends.

That’s a shortcut to Hell, not to wisdom.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

What Ukraine bombs

What Russia bombs

[восхищённый болгарин™ @dedzaebal]

Многие пишут что до россиян начало доходить – нет, не начало. Это называется по другому.
Им было ок пока их соотечественники вырезали Бучу били бомбами по драмтеатру, детским больницам, расстреливали машины во время эвакуации, им было норм когда били по Эпицентру в час пик, им было норм когда били по людям на лодкам спасавшимся после взорванной Каховской ГЭС, они радовались поднятому российскому флагу на развалинах уничтоженного их государством украинского города. Для них все это нормально. А не нормально для них то что война неожиданно вернулась к ним в дом и забрала бензин. Они не прозрели, этому есть другое слово – обыкновенное мерзкое, отвратительное бля..во и их любимое "нас то за что".
Они не против войны, они против неудобств вызванные войной.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

Another hilarious piece of Russian propaganda is that invading Ukraine was justified because Ukraine is supposedly corrupt.

This truly sets a new standard in international law.

By that logic, countries have the right to invade corrupt neighbours.

And if we're applying the principle consistently, the first country on the invasion list should be Russia.

Imagining a state more corrupt than Russia is beyond human capability.