Trudy Rubin

Worldview columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Longtime Russia, East Europe interest, esp. Ukraine. RT not =endorsement

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

If the #Midterms don't stop #Trump, he is going to make his erratic, endless #Iranwar much, much worse. https://t.co/sfHkrrwd44 @PhillyInquirer @FPRI @perryworldhouse

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#TraitorTrump and @WitlessWitkoff sell #Ukraine/#USA out to #Putin for a mess of business contracts https://t.co/UTDt8OMH9t
@lrozen @JohnEdHerbst @BohdanNahaylo

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#WitlessWitkoff calls killer #Putin a "humanitarian." #TraitorTrump allies with #warcriminalPutin who takes U.S. hostages, helps #Iran kill U.S. troops. https://t.co/UTDt8OMH9t
@general_ben @GeneralClark @PMBreedlove

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#Trump's witless envoy #Witkoff calls #warcriminalPutin who murders #Ukrainian civilians and holds US hostages a "humanitarian." Sickening sign of #TrumpPutinAlliance! https://t.co/UTDt8OMH9t @fpri @SergiyKyslytsya @UKRintheUSA

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

Witless #Trump envoy #Witkoff calls #Putin a "humanitarian" for releasing elderly U.S. hostage #JamesHubbard held for years on false charges who was tortured, starved. https://t.co/UTDt8OMH9t @PhillyInquirer @PhillipsPOBrien @perryworldhouse

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

“The American president cannot understand why Zelensky and his people do not simply accept their situation and lie down under Russia’s tank treads.”

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#Trump has joined the #AxisofAdversaries, #Russia-#China-#NorthKorea, who kill #Ukrainians and help ##Iran kill #UStroops.
https://t.co/1u9ppUT3hB @PhillyInquirer @UKRintheUSA @general_ben

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#TraitorTrump is helping #Putin kill #Ukrainians and helping #Iran kill #UStroops. https://t.co/E7K4p2EleB
@Kasparov63 @FredKempe @JohnEdHerbst

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#Trump #dieseldeal = #Treason. #POTUS presses #Ukraine to surrender to #warcriminalPutin who is helping #Iran kill Americans. https://t.co/E7K4p2EleB @FPRI @Kasparov63 @MBielieskov

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#Dieseldeal = #Trumptreason. POTUS sells out #Ukraine and #USA for $$$ deals with #Putin who helps #Iran kill #UStroops. https://t.co/E7K4p2ET49 @PhillyInquirer @MelnykAndrij @Gerashchenko_en

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#Trump funds #Putin's war machine and his own cronies by gutting #dieselsanctions on #Russia. https://t.co/E7K4p2ET49 @general_ben @Kasparov63 @FredKempe

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#Trump presses #Zelensky to stop hitting #Russiandieselrefineries but won't demand Putin stop hitting #Ukrainian energy sites, #NATO sites. Whose side is #POTUS on?? https://t.co/LhdVIPtx9D @Gerashchenko_en @TheStudyofWar @TimothyDSnyder

[Status-6 @Archer83Able]

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the UN Security Council:

🗣 "To the representatives of the Russian Federation, I have this to say: You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over twelve years and Kyiv for over four. You have been stopped by heroic Ukraine, a country with one-tenth of Russia's GDP. But Poland has almost half of your GDP. Europe has 10 times your GDP. NATO has 25 times your GDP. You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win. You can stop this imperial war of choice at any time. Don't endanger Europe and the world any further. Stop destroying Russia's future. Sergey, I know you're listening. Tell your boss: 'enough is enough.' Thank you."

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, President Zelenskyy confirmed that Trump asked him to stop striking Russian oil refineries, citing rising diesel prices.

Zelenskyy’s response was straightforward: “Diesel may matter to some, but our lives matter more.”

Ukraine’s position remains the same: they attack us, we respond. If Russia wants Ukraine to stop hitting its refineries and energy infrastructure, then Russia has to stop attacking Ukraine’s electricity, heating and water infrastructure.

Ukraine is ready for an energy ceasefire but it has to work both ways

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

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[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#Trump's self-aggrandizing #UNspeech was a further embarrassment to the presidency and the overseas reputation of the #USA. https://t.co/PhpSilCZE6 @perryworldhouse @PhillipsPOBrien @general_ben

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

If #Trump wants win-win in #Ukrainewar he needs to ally with #Kyiv, not #Moscow. https://t.co/LhdVIPsZk5 @FredKempe @general_ben @ACEurasia

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

Violent Jewish settler attacks on West Bank Palestinians encouraged by Israeli government could provoke new Mideast explosion. https://t.co/UaIqwHQySE @FPRI @perryworldhouse @PhillyInquirer

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

An #IndependenceDay lesson in patriotic values from #FolarinBalogun, #PopeLeoXIV and @JDVance (in 2016). https://t.co/UnFnOiPTDK @ConstitutionCtr @Pontifex @TheAtlantic

[Trudy Rubin @trudyrubin]

#FolarinBalogun is a hero, despite #Trump's shameful interference in the #FIFAWorldCup games. https://t.co/UnFnOiPTDK @PhillyInquirer @perryworldhouse @FPRI