@joni_askola This is how horse shoe influence works.
If you influence the Commies and the Neo-Nazis they in turn influence the far-right and left who influence the middle who are the Democrats and Republicans.
Sean Wiswesser, former CIA officer:
Russian intelligence officer told me earlier in my career: "Make no mistake, you were the main enemy during Cold War.
You're the main enemy now. You always will be the main enemy of Russia and our intelligence services.
For us, United States comes first. NATO comes second. UK, France, Germany, all of you right after that."
Russians do penetrate governments in the West. They work very hard to penetrate governments in NATO, UK, United States, and they pay very well for it.
We’re their number-one target, United States. I still believe that today, but numbers two, three, and four are all of our NATO allies.
We would be fools to think they’re not actively penetrating the governments of UK, United States, other NATO countries right now.
We’re in their crosshairs. They spend too much time and effort on it. They get all the resources they need to do it.
Jack Barsky, ex-KGB agent (2025): Putin was not a good KGB agent. His former boss described him as average.
Putin spoke fluent German, yet KGB sent him to East Germany as a liaison and perhaps a courier, not to Austria, Switzerland or even Berlin, where the real action was. 1/
All I know is that just like that dog the only option is to keep going cause the only way out of the situation is to finish the mission .
Therefore after this war we have to create the material conditions where NATO exists with Ukrainian membership.
🇺🇦🚫 Unfortunately, we will never join NATO, - Zaluzhnyi
"I know NATO very well. For 12 years, I must have personally been involved in ensuring that we mastered NATO standards and listened every year to tales that we were about to join NATO," - says the Ukrainian ambassador to Britain.
The former head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also gave an extremely negative assessment of the Alliance's capabilities. In his opinion, NATO will remain in the same form.
"Russian propaganda has long portrayed queerness as part of Western decadence and what amounts to repression as tradition. Ukraine cannot defeat Russian imperialism on the battlefield, only to preserve some of its inherited habits of humiliation at home...
In 2023, Ukraine adopted the Law on Decolonization, which instructed local authorities to remove representations of Russian imperial policy from public spaces. But decolonization is not only changing street names, removing imperial monuments or returning Ukrainian literature to the center of Ukrainian life; it is also refusing the old hierarchies of shame. A country does not become free merely by changing its geopolitical direction. It becomes free when it stops building unity on the invisibility of some of its people.
Ukraine asks the world to understand that freedom is not an abstraction. It is how people live their lives, whether under the threat of airstrikes, in air-raid shelters, at a front line or in hospital corridors. It is something you fight for. Freedom is also the right to hold the hand of the one you love without the state pretending that person is no one."
one of my favourite Ukrainian writers, Alex Averbuch, for @nytopinion on long-overdue legal equality for gay Ukrainians and why it is as urgent as ever.
https://t.co/m2DPh8kqhp
russia's combined missile attacks damage homes, infrastructure, and local businesses. Tetyana's flower shop was among the damaged buildings.
A local man, Edward, came to support her. Then many others followed suit. This is the spirit of Ukrainian unity!
Europeans who side with Russia today are doing the exact same thing as WWII collaborators who backed Hitler and Stalin against their own countries.
Plain and simple, they are traitors