BC ICU Doc

Intensivist & Anaesthesiologist. Aspiring stoic. Avid Nak Muay. Professional value investor. Proud and grateful husband, step-father and grandpa. Slava Ukraini!

[BC ICU Doc @LPorayko]

“Never interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of destroying themselves.”

[Viktor Kovalenko @MrKovalenko]

Today, the Russian air defense in the occupied #Kherson province shot down their own attack helicopter Ka-52 Alligator (cost $15 million) after it mistakenly attacked the Russian positions. Source: The South Command of UAF. Photo is illustrative.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

In the latest Trump grift, Truth Social will now sell faster access to Trump’s market-moving posts to institutional investors willing to pay for it. This is yet another example of Trump's unprecedented exploitation of the presidency for personal financial gain.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Myocarditis after Covid vaccine

5 per million

Myocarditis after Covid infection

150 per million

[BC ICU Doc @LPorayko]

@IM_Crit_ I also probably caused every possible complication at some point. Including some pretty uncommon ones like chylothorax.

[BC ICU Doc @LPorayko]

@IM_Crit_ I’m from the same era. I am amazed that we didn’t get into more trouble than we did, putting in all those lines blind.

[Olеnа Gаrna @Gar_na_ua]

Через надзвичайну ситуацію в тимчасово окупованому Криму Червоний Хрест почав видавати гуманітарну допомогу: продуктові набори, засоби гігієни та воду.
Окупована Київщина знаходилась без світла, води, їжі, газу і під обстрілами 36 днів.Жодної допомоги від червоного хреста не було

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

Don’t provoke Russia’ is the most expensive sentence in European history. Every red line we drew for ourselves — no tanks, no F-16s, no strikes inside Russia — collapsed later, at a higher price. Appeasement isn’t caution. It’s paying more for the same result.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Putin Has Some Life Advice For You, Europe. Yes, Really.

VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I want the ordinary citizens of Western countries to hear me. The truth is that the problems you are facing now are the result of years of actions by the ruling elites of your own countries.”

Right. Let me get this straight. The man running a country that reminds the rest of the world what a living hell hole actually looks like has decided he holds the answer to Europe’s problems. A fossil from the previous century, preserved in botox and paranoia, is now dispensing lifestyle advice to 600 million Europeans in 2026.

These would be the same Europeans who live fifteen years longer than the average Russian, which is quite the achievement when you consider we do it without falling out of windows. The same Europeans with better health, more beautiful cities, most of the world’s actual innovation, and streets you can walk down at night without being robbed, murdered, or conscripted.

Europe tops the global charts for tourism every single year. People save up for a lifetime to see Paris, Rome and Lisbon. Nobody has ever saved up to see Omsk.

We have press freedom, which means our journalists write embarrassing things about our leaders and then go home for dinner instead of to a penal colony. We have free speech, fewer murders, fewer robberies, and we get invited to every international sporting and cultural event on the planet.

Russia gets invited to precisely none of them, which is what happens when your national sport becomes invading the neighbours.

And here he is, this relic, lecturing us about our “ruling elites.” A man who has been in power for a quarter of a century, whose friends all mysteriously own superyachts on civil servant salaries, is worried about elites. That’s like being lectured on sobriety by a man asleep in a skip.

So thank you, Vladimir, but no. We’ll take our long lives, our cathedrals, our free press and our functioning hospitals, and you can keep the hell hole. You built it. Enjoy it.

[BC ICU Doc @LPorayko]

We went for a walk along the break water and then this happened…

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

If you support Ukraine please tell EVERYONE you know to never donate a single cent to the Red Cross if you want to support Ukraine.

They are by far the largest and most hurtful organisation to Ukraine, from the abduction of Ukrainian children to the feeding of russian soldiers.

Fuck the Red Cross.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

“It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes.”

— Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin

[Josh Ryan 🍁 @joshryanjames]

At age 54, Justin Trudeau finally gets his big break in the entertainment industry with a bit-part playing a mexican jumping-bean in a Katy Perry video.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The strongest argument for Ukraine is not a military argument. It is not even a legal argument. It is a moral argument. Ukraine deserves to survive because Ukraine, at its best, represents something russia has been trying to extinguish for four centuries - the idea that a people can govern itself with dignity, worship freely, speak its own language, remember its own dead, and refuse to be told by an empire that it does not exist. That is what my grandparents fought for. That is what my cousins are fighting for now. That is what the friends I have lost died for.

[Ruslan Volkov @RuslanVolkov25]

Я не очень понимаю, как люди обсуждают “эскалацию” в войне, где одна армия пришла в чужую страну, снесла один город, потом другой, потом третий, а потом между руинами этих городов кто-то начинает рассуждать: главное - не допустить эскалации.

А что было блядь до этого? Когда город превращали в пыль - это не эскалация? Когда били по домам, энергетике, портам, вокзалам, больницам - это не эскалация? Почему эскалация начинается только в тот момент, когда жертве дают возможность реально мешать агрессору продолжать разрушение?

В такой логике слово “эскалация” становится не описанием насилия, а способом связать руки тому, кто защищается. Поясните мне пожалуйста 🤔

[David Dylan 💉💉💉💉 @KzoneDD]

@olex_scherba An old Jewish man is sitting on a park bench in Moscow reading Torah. A cop sees him and asks "what are these strange letters, is that Ukranian?" The old man replies "No, it's Hebrew, the language they speak in Heaven, I want to be prepared."

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

A fine Russian “kitchen joke” of today. I.e. not be used in public, only in the kitchen. In whisper.

A pro-Putin guy pulls into a gas station and asks:
- How much for gasoline?
The attendant answers:
- 200 rubles a liter.
- What do you mean, 200?! Yesterday it was 100!
- That’s right: 100 rubles is for the gasoline, and another 100 goes toward building a multipolar world.

The pro-Putin character sighs, but proudly hands over 200 rubles.

The attendant takes the money, hands back 100, and says:

- There’s no gasoline.

[Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markomihkelson]

A deeply immoral decision.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Matviichuk, Nobel Peace Prize laureate: The "perfect victim" is beaten, raped and kicked into a corner. They kneel, cry and accept their fate. The world says, "This is terrible" and moves on

When the victim says, "No. I will fight," anger shifts from the aggressor to the victim.

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

For all the morons in my comment section yelling, “but what about Dresden or Hiroshima?”

Let me explain.

There is a difference between tragedy and criminality. Dresden and Hiroshima were decisions made in pursuit of ending the deadliest war in human history. And every option before them carried immense human cost.

By contrast, Putin chose to start an illegal war against a peaceful neighbor. The strikes on Kyiv are part of his campaign to conquer a sovereign nation through terror and coercion. Russia is not trying to stop a genocidal aggressor. Russia IS the aggressor.

Bottom line: there is a profound moral difference between using overwhelming force to end a war of aggression and using indiscriminate violence to prosecute one.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Well, it was inevitable, and it happened.

Time and again, Russia brings down another Ukrainian apartment building with a missile in the middle of the night, burying entire families beneath the rubble.

Ukraine strikes one of Russia’s largest and most strategically important oil refineries, around 3,000 kilometres from its own borders.

One side deliberately targets civilians. The other targets the infrastructure that fuels the war.

If anyone still struggles to see the difference, they’re choosing not to.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

A night of missile massacres in Kyiv, as Ukraine's air defenses no longer have interceptor missiles for Patriot batteries.

Trump's witholding of ammo has finally accomplished its intended purpose.