Alexander Black

Bisexual, White, Cis-Male. Aspiring Writer - Failing Adult. Currently Stuck Cohabiting With An Octopus.
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[Alexander Black @WritingFates]

One city suburb. One street. One month. And this list of names is only the people the @nytimes could identify.

The youngest was just fourteen years old.

This is who Russia is.

Europe will never be safe until Ukraine is, and the people responsible for this are in The Hauge.

[Malachy Browne @malachybrowne]

Using exclusive phone logs, military files and 23TB of video, we unmasked the Russian unit and commander that killed dozens of people on one street in Bucha

By @YousurAlhlou @MashaFroliak @ckoettl @heytherehaley @dim109 @ajcardia @NatalieReneau & more 👇
https://t.co/fskpcoWgBF

[Christian Borys @ItsBorys]

Dmytro endured 886 days of torture as a POW in Russian captivity and dreamt that if he survived, he'd do the Ironman competition.

Now that he's a free man, @saintjavelin bought him a bike so he can realize his dream

[Alexander Black @WritingFates]

@YigitBruxelles @hochu_dodomu @Rebel44CZ @bayraktar_1love @MarcinRogowsk14 Yeah, that's all correct and would work. Just odd that other sources specified 2x Ka-52 Losses earlier.

[Alexander Black @WritingFates]

@YigitBruxelles @hochu_dodomu @Rebel44CZ @bayraktar_1love @MarcinRogowsk14 Now I'm back to being slightly confused. If only they meant that 🇷🇺 lost a Mig-31, two Ka-52 and a Mi-8, with the crews of all three helicopters dead. 😅

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The more Trump appeases Putin, the more Putin demands

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

“Russia’s violation of the principles of the European security order is a reason to enforce them, not to replace them with arrangements requiring Russian permission.”
Sound and sober analysis by Slawomir about the “ridiculous circus” presided by Kushner and Witkoff.

[Alexander Black @WritingFates]

@NotWoofers 2x Ka-52 and Mi-8, seemingly.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

As they say in Russia, appetite grows while eating.
Russia’s top negotiator Medinsky says in Abu Dhabi that Moscow’s demands extend to all of Europe, far beyond Ukraine.
“The security system in Europe works very badly. The entire organism is sick. Ukraine is just an abscess that burst. The organism must be cured as a whole, a band-aid will not be enough.”
Dr Putin to the rescue of poor sick Europe…
The more Trump seeks to mollify Putin, the more megalomaniac the Russian demands become.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Hamawy here reflects a broadly well-intentioned sentiment that at this point can be found across the US Democratic Party which will struggle to cope with realities in which the Iranian regime's leadership continues to pursue a course as murderously destabilising as Trump's

[Luke McGee @lukemcgee]

I think what this clip really reveals is how little influence the US actually has as a peacebroker. You can only play world policeman if you are willing to actually do the policing bit.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Trump, Witkoff and Kushner's deluded inability to get either Ukraine or Russia to budge from core strategic goals might however tell us a lot about the future trajectory of American power

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Russia's demands BEFORE A PEACE AGREEMENT are for Ukraine to withdraw from its own territory in Donetsk & Luhansk, territory they hasn't been able to conquer in 12 years, which would leave Ukraine vulnerable to a new invasion, and then MAYBE after that Russia will discuss peace.

[Liza Fokht @lizafokht]

Russia's chief negotiator Medinsky: "Every inch of our land will be returned to Russia. One way or another."

So, the attempt to discuss broader security issues in Abu Dhabi didn't relllay mask the lack of progress on the key issue: sovereignty over Ukrainian territory

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

It's kind of fascinating to watch the Putin regime double down on efforts to influence and rely on the power of a US President that is extraordinarily unpopular within the US.

Almost reminiscent on how it doubled down on support for Yanukovych in the mid-2010s.

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

WTF is “warmongering resistance”

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

"Oh no, the EU is not always at the table of a pointless clusterfudge of pseudo-negotiations run by American envoys about to be subpoenaed within an inch of their lives by US Congress".

C'mon people, let's stop pretending that Trump has any lasting leverage over anyone here.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

I find baffling the self-flagellation among many European commentators about the EU having to elbow itself on to the table of Ukraine-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi that everyone knows will flop even as US envoys running it are about to be dragged down by domestic political turmoil

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Typically meaningless gibberish from Kushner. Every combatant in every war since the dawn of time has been ready for peace "under suitable terms". I'm sure Putin would happily end the war if Ukraine decided to unconditionally surrender. This is not news.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

It's the exact opposite; American displays of weakness - which is how Witkoff and Trump's obsequious submission is viewed by Moscow - makes Russia less likely to compromise and more likely to stick to maximalist positions.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

"Another idea, according to people involved in the talks, is a cartographic fudge: to redraw Ukraine’s administrative boundaries to allow Russia to claim full control of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions it wants to conquer without Ukraine surrendering the remaining cities it holds."

Seriously, what is this if not the stupidest and most absurd war in the entire history of mankind?

And isn't this entire farce of “negotiations” the single dumbest thing to ever happened to the world diplomacy?

Who the hell engages in this kind of never-ending clownery with a straight face?
https://t.co/8acZm2MKmG

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

The funniest part is that even the fake, retroactively invented memories of Russia's online shills shift in perfect lockstep with the Party Line of the moment.

For roughly the first three years of the war, nobody even remotely remembered any lost paradise of peace and brotherhood supposedly offered by Russia and rejected in Istanbul in 2022.

Then, SUDDENLY, it turned out that the treacherous Boris Johnson was to blame. Then it was the American masters of the “Kiev regime” in the White House.

And when the White House itself became a Kremlin puppet, the blame for sabotaging the “Istanbul peace deal” was hastily reassigned to some mysterious “Europeans.”

And as you can see, even anonymous witnesses from the highest diplomatic circles have miraculously emerged, finally beginning to reveal the TRUTH five years later to chronically online shitheads on "X".