Sylvi Listhaug er seg selv lik. Hun sier: "Vi har advart mot svenske tilstander i årevis."
Og som alltid legger hun all skyld på Støre og regjeringen. Men fakta er at Fremskrittspartiet selv hadde syv justisministere, ansvar for justissektoren og satt med regjeringsmakt i seks år. Likevel gjorde de ingenting for å styrke forebygging, fritidstilbud eller nærpoliti. Det var i velkjent FrP-stil enklere å rope "svenske tilstander" enn å ta ansvar.
Mens Listhaug roper brann i nabolaget og fyller forsidene med sine "svenske tilstander", kutter høyresidens byråd i Oslo 495 millioner kroner fra bydelene. Det er det verste kuttbudsjettet på flere tiår.
Hvorfor? Fordi de kutter i eiendomsskatten, i Norges rikeste by, med de høyeste boligprisene og de høyeste lønningene. Resultatet er massive kutt i fritidstilbud og forebyggende arbeid for barn og unge, altså nettopp de tiltakene som skal forhindre at ungdom faller utenfor og faller for fristelsen til å rekrutteres av gjengkriminelle.
Paradokset er grotesk:
FrP advarer mot "svenske tilstander", men gjorde ingenting da de hadde makt. Høyre og Venstre snakker om trygghet, men kutter i alt som faktisk skaper trygghet, forebygging og integrering.
Dette er høyresidens politikk i praksis: Skattekutt til de som har mest, og regningen sendes til barna i Oslos bydeler. Og Listhaug? Hun peker på Støre, uansett hva saken gjelder.
Så neste gang Listhaug advarer mot "svenske tilstander", bør hun heller si det som det er: Vi var med på å skape dem selv, med åpne øyne!
Del gjerne 🙏
A horrifying scene - residential and commercial areas in Kyiv are burning after a massive wave of drone and missile attacks. This is a deliberate strike to terrorize and intimidate Ukrainians. Share this, so the world sees what Russia thinks of peace
Video credit: @KaterynaLis
As the world focuses on the escalating war between Israel and Iran, the war in Ukraine has not paused. Russia continues its brutal campaign, targeting civilians. These images, taken and shared with us by volunteer Jana, show the aftermath of recent strikes in Pokrovsk area
French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann responds to the White House press secretary’s attack after he suggested France should reclaim the Statue of Liberty:
“Dear Americans, since the White House press secretary is attacking me today, I wanted to tell you this:”
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Amplifying this translation of a powerful open letter to Trump from a Ukrainian doctor, on several Ukrainian FB pages. I believe it was first posted in late February.
Ukrainian doctor's appeal to Trump
You want to talk about "peace agreements," Mr. Trump? Then listen to me, a doctor who puts the torn bodies of children on the operating table every day! Who cuts off fragments from their brains with a scalpel, who wipes blood from the eyes of mothers who have lost everything! Are you talking about "giving up territories"? I will show you the territories: these are pieces of muscle on the asphalt near Mariupol. These are baby strollers crushed by tanks in Bucha. These are burned-out school classrooms in Chernihiv, where children managed to write "HELP" in chalk on the blackboards before they were killed.
Do you dare to accuse us?
Are we to blame for the fact that Russian executioners rape women in basements? For killing prisoners by shooting them in the back of the head? For spreading cluster bombs along civilian evacuation corridors? Your logic is the logic of a rapist: "It's your own fault that you didn't submit." Do you want us to "not lose land"? So why don't you say this to Putin, who slaughtered entire villages in the Kherson region? Why don't you threaten him, and not us - those who defend themselves with old machine guns against his army?
Your "negotiations" are a spit in the face of thousands of my colleagues who died under shelling of hospitals. Do you know what it's like to work in a basement without light, without antibiotics, without morphine, when a child dies in your arms from pain? Have you ever heard a person scream when their leg is amputated without anesthesia? Is this your "small loss of land"? Is this what you are kicking us out of the negotiating table for?!
You call Putin a "genius"? Then genius is the ability to burn people in their homes. This is a scorched earth tactic, when only corpses and mines remain after the occupiers.
Do you admire his "smartness"? He is smart as a plague rat: he knows how to escape responsibility, hide behind civilians, shoot with nuclear threats. And you, like a child playing with fire, want to make him a world leader.
Your plan is not peace. It is euthanasia for Ukraine. You propose to lift sanctions? That is, give Russia money for new tanks. Western technology for their kamikaze drones. Do you want to return them to the G7? As if they don't bomb gas stations so that we freeze in winter. They don't steal Ukrainian children. They don't destroy our museums, churches, theaters - everything that makes us a people.
You ask why we don't make concessions? Because every one of your "deals" stinks of corpses. Do you want us to give up even more territories? So that millions of Ukrainians live under Russian machine guns? So that my fellow doctors hide in bomb shelters again when Putin breaks this "deal" too?
You say: "The war could have been stopped without casualties." Lie. It didn't start in 2022. It started when Russia seized Crimea, when the world was silent. When the first bodies with tied hands disappeared in Donbas. Do you think that if we surrender now, it will end? No. Putin will come later. And then you will justify him again: "Oh, he's just restoring the empire, he's a genius!".
And what will you say to the families of the 15-year-old girl who was shot by the Russians on her bicycle? That her death is a "small loss of land"? Will you tell her mother that she "doesn't deserve a seat at the table"? That her daughter died because Ukraine "didn't agree"?
We are not asking you to fight for us. We asked for weapons - you gave them too late. We asked for sanctions - you relaxed them. But now you want to become an accomplice in genocide. Because when you lift sanctions, when you recognize the occupation - you give Russia a license to kill. Every dollar that Putin receives will become a bullet in the body of my patient. Every compromise you make is a new corpse.
I am a doctor. I swear to save lives. And you, Mr. Trump, swear to take them away. Don't you want to hear our voice? Then listen to our sirens. Our cries. Our curses. Do you want to be friends with Russia? Then be friends. But know this: history will not forgive you for this. Every child killed by Russian weapons, every raped woman, every burned doctor is your joint responsibility with Putin.
We will not be your "victims of politics". We are a nation that survives despite your cynical indifference. And when you celebrate your deal with the dictator, remember: we are already building new hospitals in the destroyed territories. And in each of them there will be a poster: Death to fascism. Shame on the traitors.
Ukraine has supplied the U.S. wirh extensive intelligence and vast amounts of data on Russian technology, captured equipment, battlefield operational guides, weapon performance, and countermeasures against US provided systems. A shame no one seems to remembers or appreciates it
Trump's demands to Zelenskyy (the defender):
1) Formal apology
2) Give up the minerals
3) Hold elections even though Ukrainian law forbids it
4) Declare Russia as the non-aggressor
5) Give up all the temporarily occupied territories to Russia
Trump's demands to Putin (the aggressor):
Absolutely nothing.
This cannot be stressed enough - Trump is allied with Putin.
knows he has no answer. (This is the problem with relying on talking points, versus actually understanding the topic. He's scanning his mind going, "I don't have a rehearsed talking point on this!!! What do I say when he he's done talking?!") 2/ So, instead...
@Tatarigami_UA same here. Europe needsto ditch and distance from the USA asap. We have a beautiful big ocean separating us from them. let them fix their shit first and if we like the outcome we can be friends again.
While we discuss this unreality show, Ukrainians are in trenches defending our continent, Russia's 190 billion euros are sitting in our banks untouched, our best weapons are in storage far from the front line and our pilots aren't closing any skies. This is not a drill, people.
This moment is going in the history books as the moment the US became irrelevant as a global power and ushered in the start of world war 3.
Zelenskyy exposed the traitors.
Quite predictably, they don't need any "deals," and they never wanted them.
All they need is to get rid of Zelensky and/or make Ukraine surrender.
Quite predictably, it never mattered whether Zelensky signed the ridiculous and unrealistic "minerals deal" because it was never about "$500 billion" or anything at all.
It was only needed to make it look like Ukraine is "unconstructive," "not interested in peace," and "disrespectful and unthankful," therefore it is to blame for Trump's failure to get an easy-peasy attempt to get "peace" from Putin, to which Putin promised Trump oceans of gold if he forced Ukraine to surrender and die.
I hope that soon enough the right words will be found. And the right decisions will be made.
This is my sincere wish for the sake of Ukraine and the world.
President Zelenskyy defends the interests of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
And, of course, Putin will absolutely betray Trump in the end, as he always does.
He will not end his vassalage to China, and he will gladly laugh behind Xi's back as America willingly commits suicide as a global superpower for a handful of non-existent jewels to caress Donald Trump's all-devouring ego.