Dear Europe,
Quit tip-toeing around it. The US is no longer your ally. Trump and Putin are allies. Crush russia now.
- $300B to Ukraine
- Complete import/export ban with russia
- Start punishing sanctions evasion for one. Do so harshly.
- Blockade the Baltic
If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence.
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I'm sorry but I have to vent.
Fuck the GOP for watering down the Lindsay Graham sanctions bill and giving Trump full power over it.
Fuck anyone who said Kamala would be worse for Ukraine than Trump.
Fuck all the Americans who are okay about the fact that US is now funding Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine - because that's what you're doing now.
And fuck people who still support Trump after all the shit he's done for Ukraine.
So tiring.
Pedophile Trump not only f*ks children, he kills them too. He is THE most vile specimen ever to become President.
How the fuck did 77m people vote for this?
What allowing Russia to sell oil products means was heard most clearly in Kyiv just now, when, after repeated attacks on energy facilities with jet-powered “shaheds,” Russia launched a ballistic missile attack as well. Some of the missiles were intercepted. This once again clearly demonstrates Russia’s true intentions. They count on prolonging the war, terrorizing ordinary people, and destroying infrastructure.
Every additional billion dollars they can earn from exports will be spent on nothing but sourcing and importing critical components and equipment to manufacture weapons, upgrading “shaheds,” producing missiles, and recruiting even more mercenaries to fight at the front. Russia’s choice is war. And they will be ready to end it only when they feel that their ability to drag the war out is diminishing.
Unfortunately, the signals Russia received yesterday were entirely different – signals suggesting that it could simply keep attacking. And this needs to be corrected. Strong signals are needed from the United States, Europe, and other partners – signals in support of Ukraine and to RESTRICT Russia’s ability to wage war and terrorize people. Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine!
Trump and his administration continue to escalate against British, Canadian and European interests, values, and security.
By attacking the ICC, he is attacking *our* shared court and our structures of international law.
By buying Russian diesel, he is giving Putin more capacity to kill Ukrainian civilians and threaten the security of all Europe, the UK included.
A YouGov poll this week asked “which country do you think poses the biggest threat to the UK today?” It showed Brits regard Russia (46%) as the greatest perceived threat, followed by the US (12%) - ahead of Iran, Israel and China.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Trump’s intentions towards us (in Canada, UK and Europe) are hostile.
As America’s financial and moral positions in the world tumble, his policies towards the rest of the West look increasingly kamikaze. We need to increasingly take up antagonistic positions towards the US administration and the Big Tech companies that are undoubtedly becoming an extension of US executive power.
Not a pleasant prospect, but absolutely necessary for our security.
Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
President Zelenskyy’s comment on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that the war in Ukraine is at a "strategic stalemate" and that there are now "no prospects for a negotiated settlement":
"You cannot negotiate future economic projects with Russians on the one hand and, on the other, claim that we are in some kind of diplomatic stalemate. We are not in a diplomatic stalemate.
Shut down Russia’s entire economy. Shut Russia's mouth. Stop feeding them through your sales. Impose sanctions on their weapons.
Open Starlink for Ukraine. You opened it when responding to Iran, after all. Everything worked there. Israel completely controlled the skies over Iran. So when you need it to work, it works.
It costs them nothing to help Ukraine. And I said quite frankly: help us protect our skies and gain dominance there.
Then Putin will sit down at the negotiating table. Why? Because he will lose everything. In two or three months, he will lose everything.
And instead, we are waiting for the Chinese to develop an equivalent and hand it over to Russians.
This is not a stalemate - this is called a lack of will."
Ukraine 1941 and 2024.
Ukraine 1941: German 𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐬 executing local civilians — and proudly photographing it.
Ukraine 2024: Russian soldiers executing local civilians — and proudly filming it.
Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull.
Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
If your definition of Englishness excludes a man like him, it is your definition that needs challenging.
In September alone, russia killed 10 children in Ukraine.
For some, these tragedies have become just another part of the daily news. But we must never get used to it. We cannot stay silent. Our children are dying. The next victim could be a child in any city, in any home.
Remember their names. They are not “statistics” — they are entire worlds cut short:
🌹 Sviatoslav Hapon, 11. Killed on September 5 in his own home in Chuhuiv.
🌹 Tymofii, 2. Killed alongside his mother, Natalia, in a strike on Kyiv region on September 19.
🌹 Artem, 3. Killed by a russian drone attack in Mykolaiv region on September 21.
🌹 Emilia Ivanenko, 3. Laid to rest in Zhytomyr region on September 22.
🌹 Danya, 14. Killed instantly when a drone struck his apartment in Kyiv on September 25.
🌹 Oleksandr Tsiatska, 13. Died in hospital on September 27 from severe injuries sustained in an attack in Kharkiv region. His mother was killed that day as well.
🌹 Kateryna Budko, 16. An 11th-grade student, killed by a russian guided bomb in Sumy on September 27.
🌹 Ruslan Bereshchuk, 15. Killed in a strike on Synelnykove on September 28.
🌹 Oleksandr Hubenko, 17. Killed alongside Ruslan on September 28.
🌹 Illia, 14. Killed under the rubble of a building in Vyshhorod on September 30.
Ten worlds that russia wiped out.
World, these are your “peace initiatives.” Our children are not the price of compromises with an aggressor.
Do not forgive. Do not forget. Say their names out loud, so the whole world hears them.