Alexis Moore-Jones

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.

And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.

I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!

[Cyrille Amoursky @AmourskyCyrille]

‼️🇷🇺/🇫🇷 À DIFFUSER AU MAX !

Toujours 0 réponse de Fedorova.
On passe à la vitesse suivante.

CE MERCREDI 3 JUIN À 18H, À PARIS :

📍RDV près des locaux de CNews, à l’angle des rues des Cévennes et Balard, pour dire NON à la propagande russe dans nos médias !

SOYONS NOMBREUX !💪

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When this war is over, and Ukraine is victorious and whole again, and every innocent victim, every fallen defender, every destroyed city and town is documented, let no one say they did not know. These Russian crimes against humanity are happening in full view in real time.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

A reminder that Russia is waging a terrorist war on Ukraine, and a reminder that standing by and watching are the richest nations on Earth, controlling the most powerful military alliance in history, an alliance created specifically to stop Russia in Europe. Sickening.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

America was never a nation in the classical European sense - a people bound by common ethnicity, language, ancestry, religion, and ancient soil. It was founded as a civic and economic project: a constitutional republic designed to protect liberty, property rights, commerce, and individual advancement.

The colonies themselves were culturally fragmented from the beginning - English, Dutch, German, Scottish, Irish, French, African, later waves of every European group imaginable. What unified them was not blood or heritage, but a shared political framework and mutual economic interest.

Even the Revolution reflected this. The colonists did not rebel because they considered themselves a separate people oppressed by foreigners, but because they believed the Crown violated their rights, imposed taxation without representation, restricted self-government, and interfered with colonial prosperity.

In that sense, the United States was founded less as a traditional nation-state and more as a voluntary constitutional order - an economic and political zone organized around principles of liberty, markets, property, and opportunity.

That is why American identity has historically been ideological rather than ethnic. To become “American” was theoretically to adopt a creed, not join a tribe.

From this perspective, classical European-style nationalism simply doesn’t fit America.

I didn’t create your history, you did. 🤷‍♀️

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

Russia, at the beginning of the war in Syria, asked the UN for a list of hospitals in free territories, under the pretext of protection. After receiving the list, they began bombing all 58 hospitals, managing to do it in a week. All with double strikes, to kill the rescue teams. This is who Ukraine is fighting.

[Alexis Moore-Jones @alexismj]

Lest we Americans forget…
“Empires are expensive. Global dominance is expensive. Maintaining reserve currency status, securing trade routes, projecting power across continents, and shaping the financial system all come with a price tag.”

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

Oh, look at that. So it was never really about altruism or “protecting Europe,” was it?

To be fair, most of us already knew that - and honestly, that was fine as long as the arrangement benefited both sides. What wasn’t fine was the endless stream of propaganda about the U.S. supposedly “paying for Europe’s defense,” “protecting Europe” (from what exactly?), or subsidizing European healthcare with American taxpayer money.

The moment that narrative turned into a full-blown political propaganda - one that painted Europeans as freeloaders and adversaries - the entire understanding started collapsing. Not because the interest of cooperation disappeared, but because the honesty did.

Instead of explaining to Americans that their extraordinary prosperity is heavily tied to the global position of the dollar, the Treasury market, and the affordability of endless deficits - all underwritten by overwhelming GLOBAL MILITARY SUPREMACY - politicians such as Rubio chose the easier, yet false story of “Europe is costing YOU money.”

That was always nonsense.

Empires are expensive. Global dominance is expensive. Maintaining reserve currency status, securing trade routes, projecting power across continents, and shaping the financial system all come with a price tag. If the U.S. were just another normal nation-state without imperial reach, it would have to operate under the same fiscal constraints as everyone else, and Americans won’t be going around bragging about how rich they are.

But rather than explain that reality, they framed the entire American defense posture as a charitable donation to Europe. And now they wonder why nations refuse to cooperate. Why would they?

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

Oh, look at that. So it was never really about altruism or “protecting Europe,” was it?

To be fair, most of us already knew that - and honestly, that was fine as long as the arrangement benefited both sides. What wasn’t fine was the endless stream of propaganda about the U.S. supposedly “paying for Europe’s defense,” “protecting Europe” (from what exactly?), or subsidizing European healthcare with American taxpayer money.

The moment that narrative turned into a full-blown political propaganda - one that painted Europeans as freeloaders and adversaries - the entire understanding started collapsing. Not because the interest of cooperation disappeared, but because the honesty did.

Instead of explaining to Americans that their extraordinary prosperity is heavily tied to the global position of the dollar, the Treasury market, and the affordability of endless deficits - all underwritten by overwhelming GLOBAL MILITARY SUPREMACY - politicians such as Rubio chose the easier, yet false story of “Europe is costing YOU money.”

That was always nonsense.

Empires are expensive. Global dominance is expensive. Maintaining reserve currency status, securing trade routes, projecting power across continents, and shaping the financial system all come with a price tag. If the U.S. were just another normal nation-state without imperial reach, it would have to operate under the same fiscal constraints as everyone else, and Americans won’t be going around bragging about how rich they are.

But rather than explain that reality, they framed the entire American defense posture as a charitable donation to Europe. And now they wonder why nations refuse to cooperate. Why would they?

[inna shevchenko @femeninna]

When They Let Russia Back In

(few thoughts post-action in Venice by Pussy Riot x FEMEN)

1. There is no such thing as “apolitical” culture. Every biennale, every festival, every museum, every stage is political territory, shaped by power, financed by institutions, protected by governments.

When those institutions welcome Russia back during its war against Ukraine, they are not defending art. They are making a political choice. They are choosing Russia.

2. And this is not some simplistic “punishing identity” debate, as people nervously try to frame it. This is about refusing to let an aggressor state continue its war against you through the side door - through culture, prestige, sport, glamour, visibility, normalization.

Empires have always understood culture better than liberals do. Culture is never decoration. It is atmosphere. Legitimacy. Seduction. The production of normality itself.

Russia understands this perfectly. That is why the Kremlin invests in culture so heavily during wartime.

3. Russian culture today does not exist separately from Russian violence. It travels with it. It advances with it.

Russian culture is built today on the attempted erasure of another culture.

While Russian pavilions reopen in Europe, Ukrainian libraries are burned. Ukrainian museums are looted. Ukrainian books are removed from occupied territories. People are interrogated, tortured, sometimes killed for speaking Ukrainian, teaching Ukrainian, existing as Ukrainian.

4. A Russian pavilion is not an innocent room full of art. It is the Russian state laundering itself through aesthetics while its army destroys Ukrainian cities.

5. And no, “free speech” is not the issue either.

Free speech protects individuals from censorship. It does not oblige democratic societies to provide prestige platforms to a fascist state waging a colonial war.

Speech is a right.
Legitimacy is a privilege.

As long as Russia wages war against Ukraine, there should be no Russian normality anywhere.

No red carpets.
No festivals.
No rehabilitation through culture or sport.
You do not get to destroy one culture while celebrating another.

This is how normalization works.

Not suddenly.
Gradually.
Elegantly.

With wine glasses in Venice while Ukrainian blood is still wet.

[Alexis Moore-Jones @alexismj]

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[Cyrille Amoursky @AmourskyCyrille]

🇫🇷❤️🇺🇦 Fier de la solidarité entre la France et l’Ukraine !

Je suis parti à Zaporijjia à la rencontre de Loïc et Yves, boulangers sans frontières.

Tous les jours, ils distribuent 1000 pains aux civils ukrainiens les plus nécessiteux.

Merci à eux ! On n’oublie pas l’Ukraine !

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

The American VP traveled all the way to Hungary to support the most pro-Kremlin and corrupt EU leader before the elections. What an embarrassment it is for the USA.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

$300 billion? The Pentagon doesn’t write checks with “for Europe” in the memo line. America’s total defense budget is nearly a trillion dollars, and most of it is pointed at China and the Pacific.
But let’s talk about showing up. When Russia invaded Ukraine and started running hybrid warfare across Europe, sabotage, cyberattacks, election interference, the works, Europe didn’t blink. Poland hit 4.2% of GDP on defense. The Baltics fortified their eastern borders. Germany doubled its budget almost overnight. Europe has been arming for the fight you keep pretending only you can handle.
And what did America do? You cut all military aid to Ukraine. You told Europe it was on its own. Your Vice President flew to Munich to lecture your oldest allies about free speech while a land war raged on the continent. Then you threatened to walk out of the alliance entirely.
You talk tough about defending Europe. But when it was time to actually stand firm against Russia, you got cold feet and ran.

Europe remembers.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

We say: Ukraine won’t surrender its territory or its people to Russian genocide.
People hear: Ukraine “doesn’t want peace.”

Russian propaganda is massive. Even when support for Ukraine is basic common sense - moral, strategic, logical - journalists, activists, and public figures are forced to keep explaining basic facts.

So me and Marichka Hlyten (@marichkahlyten) we put together the most common talking points.

Please share, use it & explain to friends/family - and follow us for more 😉🙏 We do need your boost.

[Alexis Moore-Jones @alexismj]

“Ukraine never asked for charity.
Ukraine asked its guarantors to honor their own signatures.”

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

You want to calculate what Ukraine “costs”?

Fine. Let’s calculate what the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum owe Ukraine.
People who complain about “how much the West spends on Ukraine” forget one thing:

Ukraine has already paid the highest possible price for promises that were never fulfilled.

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1. What Ukraine gave up under the Budapest Memorandum

Ukraine surrendered the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal:
• 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads
• 176 ICBMs
• 44 Tu-160 / Tu-95MS strategic bombers
• Full launch, storage, and command infrastructure

Current value: $2–4 trillion.
Yes — trillion.

Ukraine traded this arsenal for security guarantees from the US, UK, and Russia.
Guarantees that cracked in 2014 and completely collapsed in 2022.

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2. How much the US has spent on Ukraine

In 11 years of war, the total US support amounts to:

$80–90 billion.

For comparison:
Ukraine gave up a nuclear deterrent worth 30–50 times more.

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3. How US support has been restricted

For years, Ukraine was denied critical tools needed for survival:
• ATACMS long-range missiles
• F-16 fighter jets
• Adequate Patriot air-defense systems
• Permission to strike inside Russia (only partially allowed in 2024–25)

These delays cost thousands of Ukrainian lives and entire cities that could have been saved.

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4. The real cost of war for Ukraine

In 11 years:
• 450,000+ killed and wounded
• Over 50% of energy infrastructure destroyed
• Trillion-dollar economic losses
• Factories, investments, and human capital wiped out
• A development trajectory comparable to Poland’s — shattered not only by Russian missiles but also by Western hesitation

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5. So who really owes whom?

Ukraine never asked for charity.
Ukraine asked its guarantors to honor their own signatures.

While the US and UK insisted the Budapest Memorandum “was not binding,” Russia prepared for a full-scale invasion.

Today, Ukraine is defending:
• NATO’s entire eastern flank
• Europe’s energy routes
• The Black Sea
• The global security system the United States built after WWII

Ukraine is presenting the real bill: for cities erased, for millions of lives broken, for decades of development stolen — and for the security guarantees that existed only on paper.

And that bill is not for Ukraine to pay. It is for those who promised protection — and failed to deliver it.

Author: Yuliya Azizova

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Cela fait quatre ans que l’Europe s’est réveillée au bruit des bombes russes en Ukraine.

Quatre ans d’une guerre d’agression choisie par la Russie, au mépris flagrant du droit international, de la souveraineté d’un peuple, et de la vie humaine.

Quatre ans de villes frappées, d’écoles et d’hôpitaux détruits, d’infrastructures énergétiques méthodiquement ciblées pour plonger des familles dans le froid et l’effroi.

Quatre ans, 15 000 civils ukrainiens tués.

Quatre ans de vies brisées, de violences, de viols, de tortures, de crimes de guerre et de terreur.

Quatre ans, et des milliers d’enfants ukrainiens arrachés à leur terre et à leurs familles.

Mais quatre ans que l’Ukraine tient et résiste.

Un jour, les Russes prendront conscience de l'énormité du crime commis en leur nom, de la futilité des prétextes invoqués et des effets dévastateurs à long terme sur leur pays.

Alors que le Kremlin promettait de conquérir l’Ukraine en quelques jours, seulement 1 % du territoire ukrainien a été conquis depuis la stabilisation du front en novembre 2022. Le mois dernier, l’Ukraine a même repris du terrain.

Et cela à quel prix pour les Russes ?

Plus de 1,2 million de soldats russes ont été blessés ou tués, c’est le plus grand nombre de victimes russes au combat depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Face aux pertes, la Russie enrôle des individus sur le continent africain pour les envoyer combattre sur le front ukrainien, souvent sans aucune formation préalable.

Cette guerre est un triple échec pour la Russie : militaire, économique, stratégique.

Elle a renforcé l’OTAN dont elle voulait éviter l’expansion, soudé les Européens qu’elle voulait affaiblir, et mis à nu la fragilité d’un impérialisme d’un autre âge.

Parce que l’Ukraine est la première ligne de défense de notre continent, la France et l’Europe se tiennent résolument à ses côtés.

Aide financière, militaire, humanitaire et énergétique : l’Europe a déjà mobilisé 170 milliards d’euros. Lors du Conseil européen de décembre, nous nous sommes mis d’accord sur un prêt de 90 milliards d’euros pour garantir à l’Ukraine un financement prévisible sur les deux prochaines années. Rien ne justifie de le remettre en cause. Nous devons désormais le concrétiser.

Les livraisons de matériels et de munitions, la formation, le renforcement de la défense aérienne et de la lutte anti-drones, et le soutien aux équipements déjà fournis se poursuivront.

Pour que l’Ukraine tienne et pour que la Russie comprenne que le temps ne joue pas pour elle.

Nous continuerons également à nous en prendre à l'économie de guerre russe : nous tiendrons le cap sur les sanctions et nous poursuivrons nos actions contre la flotte fantôme.

Parce qu'il n'y aura pas de paix sans sécurité et que notre sécurité se joue en Ukraine, nous continuerons de nous engager au sein de la Coalition des Volontaires.

À Paris le 6 janvier dernier, nous avons bâti une convergence solide avec les États-Unis sur les futures garanties de sécurité. La nouvelle réunion d'aujourd'hui doit nous permettre de continuer à avancer.

Nous veillerons également à ce que les intérêts des Européens soient bien pris en compte dans les discussions, y compris le moment venu quand il sera question de l'architecture de sécurité nécessaire pour notre continent.

Aux Ukrainiennes et aux Ukrainiens : nous pensons à vous avec émotion. À vos familles éprouvées, à vos enfants, à celles et ceux qui résistent sous les frappes.

À ceux qui croient pouvoir compter sur notre fatigue : ils se trompent.

Nous sommes et resterons aux côtés de l'Ukraine.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Tonight, we adorn our European institutions with the colours of Ukraine.

Two colours, carrying the spirit of courage.

Two colours, burning with resistance.

Four years into Russia’s full-scale war, these colours are shining brighter than ever

Slava Ukraini.

[Alexis Moore-Jones @alexismj]

💯

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

The war is not senseless. Putin wants to subjugate Ukraine and the Ukrainians want freedom, so they fight. It’s hard to imagine a cause more worthy than what Ukraine is fighting for. And this is why the U.S. approach of pressuring Ukraine into concessions while exerting minimal pressure on Russia is immoral, strategically dumb, and, yes, senseless. We are governed by spineless clowns like Marco here and corrupt grifters like his boss.

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

I race for them / Я змагаюсь за них ❤️‍🩹

Сьогодні розкажу про шолом, в якому я збираюсь виступати на Олімпійських іграх вже через кілька днів. На шоломі намальовані спортсмени які були вбиті під час війни, а точніше лише маленька їх частина.
Це несправедливо, й ці люди не мали б йти від нас в такому ранньому віці. Цим я хочу віддати данину цим людям та їх родинам.
Світ має знати ціну Української свободи.
——
Today I’m going to tell you about the helmet in which I will compete at the Olympic Games in just a few days.
On the helmet are depicted athletes who were killed during the war — or to be more precise, only a small fraction of them.
It is unfair, and these people should not have left us at such a young age.
With this I want to pay tribute to these individuals and to their families.
The world needs to know the true price of Ukrainian freedom.

[Alexis Moore-Jones @alexismj]

Before and after the russians have come to town to “liberate” you 🤮

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

What Russia leaves behind after its invasion... More precisely, what Russia brings.