We need more people having dialogs, not fewer.
There's nothing wrong about learning from someone from the other side. You're not “helping the enemy” when you hear what people have to say. Even if you disagree with someone vehemently, learning about their views may help you learn.
We should not have the hubris to think that we're 100% right. We all have changed our mind about many topics many times, which means we'll probably change our mind again in the future. That's the beauty of learning and growing: we will change our minds and we'll never be 100% right. That's what being human is about.
Putin enjoys this war.
He loves it.
Here’s your answer.
He enjoys bathing in blood and watching the misery, death, and destruction delivered by his hand, at his own will.
He has all the money in the world, everything a human being can possibly have.
So war is his ultimate pleasure—it gives him purpose, strokes his wretched ego, lets him imagine himself the new Stalin, and enables him to sow pain simply because he can, sadistically.
It relieves his daily boredom amid infinite luxury and gives him a thrill from the safety of his bunker, at the expense of millions.
He enjoys being begged for peace, making the entire media world wait for a word from him until long after midnight—only to say nothing.
He enjoys spitting in the faces of world leaders through his petty, theatrical stunts: ignoring the Brazilian president’s visit, derailing the Istanbul talks, or making Steve Witkoff wait for hours outside his door, or wiping out an entire city block in Ukraine in the night, just because he can.
He doesn’t care whether he wins in the end or whether this war, with its absurdly disproportionate costs, makes any sense at all.
Putin is a small, insecure, immoral man who has found a new toy in waging the largest European bloodbath since World War II.
And he remains safe and unpunished while doing it.
Of course he won’t stop—his petty lust for power and sadism is far too pleased by what’s happening.
Dear Republican Senators of America. Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us to win back our freedom and independence, must be turning in his grave today. Shame on you.
The other day, a filmmaker from Beverly Hills called me.
He said he was really interested in making a documentary about the Battle of Kyiv.
And he asked me if I was interested in joining the project and also asked if I had good ideas and thoughts that could be pitched to Hollywood bosses.
And heaven knows I did have quite a few ideas on why people should tap into that page of modern history.
I often get back to those days in my thoughts. This always gives me a new bit of strength and motivation.
On those days of February and March, we in Ukraine were all alone. Half of the world was literally burying us alive. Our fate seemed to have been decided upon forever.
We were surrounded by a cloud of darkness that was closing in. We had very few weapons sent to us from the West in the final moments before the H-hour. We all were facing a gargantuan wall of doomsday that was just about to bring an end to our little world.
I don't think that many of us were seriously thinking about a new day to come when hundreds of Russian missiles were roaring from all around Kyiv in the invasion's initial hours.
Yet, there was this 'fuck this shit, we're not going down that easy' kind of attitude. The spiritual uplift of the final stand or the finest hour, if I may.
So many of us were doing what he or she should and ought to do.
The military was ambushing and slaying gargantuan advancing Russian armored columns. Reporters were staying in the semi-encircled city and doing their job. Many ordinary people were getting rifles and ammo from the police just in the streets of Kyiv and were cooking up Molotovs to give Russians a warm welcome in the end.
Many, yours truly included, took care of their loved ones and got back to the city under attack to never ever feel ashamed of themselves.
Businesses were keeping the city afloat and feeding the old and the poor. Those whom we elected to lead us were doing their thing.
Those tragic days were about this very simple and basic moral principle: do what you must and come what may.
We did not come to terms with 'there's nothing that can be done' and 'Kyiv will inevitably fall within 72 hours.'
And now, whatever happens, be it America abandoning us in the worst European war of aggression since Adolf Hitler or anything else, we'll still be doing what we all should.
Because we still have no choice but to do what is right.
But until then - good night from the fighting Ukraine that is repelling the biggest European war of aggression since Adolf Hitler for over 700 days and is not even thinking of giving up.
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As a full member of NATO, Ukraine will be able to significantly enhance the Alliance's potential. Our army has invaluable experience in defending against Russian aggression.
Today, I met with @AndersFoghR, the Rasmussen Global Chairman and NATO Secretary General from 2009 to 2014.
I thanked him for his assistance in drafting the Kyiv Security Compact, which served as the foundation for the G7 Vilnius Declaration and envisioned significant security commitments. We have already achieved the first results on this path.
⚡️Zelensky, Danish PM Frederiksen visit injured Ukrainian soldiers in Mykolaiv.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visited wounded soldiers in a hospital in Mykolaiv, a regional capital in the south of Ukraine.
Video: Zelensky/Telegram
Hvis i synes det er svært at få pengene til at række, er her lidt af forklaringen. Og så husk nu at der kan IKKE spares i det offentlige! #dkpol#dkfinans