I cannot comprehend this level of depravity. The Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs makes memes about the Ukrainian city of Bucha, where the Russian occupying forces executed dozens of civilians and unarmed prisoners in March 2022. The names that @mfa_russia asks are engraved on the memorial site in Bucha; many names of Russian officers and soldiers who killed them were revealed in investigation.
This reminds me of the Katyn massacre of 1940, when Soviet secret police executed, on Stalin's personal orders, 22,000 Polish prisoners of war. Then the Soviet government tried to blame the massacre on Germans. Then denied, for decades, the responsibility. Finally, admitted what has been obvious, for the entire world. Then (now) started to deny the crime again.
Yet the Soviet government has never tried to make jokes and memes about Katyn. Putin's "diplomats" just reached a new level of depravity.
I woke up today and it's still hard for me to believe that the current American president @realDonaldTrump wants to use such a beautiful sport as ice hockey to justify and legalize the worst crimes of the 21st century! Instead of doing everything together with the entire democratic world to ensure that the greatest criminal of our time, Putin, is tried for his terrible crimes. Unfortunately, this is the reality today.
What a surprise - Putin rejects an unconditional ceasefire. He wants to keep bombing and killing innocent Ukrainians. He wants Ukraine disarmed. He wants Ukraine neutralised. He wants to make Ukraine a vassal state of Russia. He isn’t negotiating. He’s laughing at us.
1000% - "Wars are not caused by the build up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price."
Appeasement leads to more war, more suffering. There must also be a price for aggression or there will only be more aggression as the aggressor has learned the price of aggression is accpetable.
What’s it like living with yourself, @marcorubio? You’re advocating for a hostile takeover of a sovereign country and our top ally. What a pathetic joke you’ve become.
Trump saying that Ukraine “picked” on Russia when Russia murderously and illegally invaded Ukraine is one of the most disgusting things ever to leave the mouth of an American President.
Ukraine: *exists*
Ukrainians: literally just sleeping in their beds at 4 AM.
Russia: invades, bombs,kills, destroys, rapes, lots, kidnaps
Trump: "You don't want to pick on somebody that's a lot larger than you."
Leaders of Europe,
What are you waiting for? There will be no miracle, no breakthrough, no sigh of relief. Putin is now wearing camo.
Take his frozen assets. Sanction Russia as much as possible. Fully arm, fund and integrate Ukraine asap. Dithering merely increases the cost.
Poland is massively pro-America. They spend nearly 5% of GDP on national defence. They buy vast amounts of U.S. weapons. They even thought about naming a military base after Donald Trump.
Yet, the U.S. is now picking a fight with Poland and treating Polish officials with contempt.
This is a lesson for those who still foolishly say that Canada should just ‘give Trump what he wants.’
Our disgraceful treatment by the U.S. isn’t Canada’s fault, or Poland’s fault, or Ukraine’s fault, or the EU’s fault.
This is happening because the U.S. is led by someone who admires dictators and has contempt for democratic nations.
We must stop trying to appease the insanity currently overtaking our southern neighbour.
He calls a U.S. Senator a traitor for giving a position on Ukraine that is shared by most democrats and more than half of Republicans. He is a walking security risk, mentally ill, a drug addict, or both, and his participation in our government will backfire spectacularly.