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[AngSoul ⚔︎ @ang_soul]

Don’t hate ruzzians - it’s like hating bubonic plague- useless and emotionally draining.
Don’t plead with them - it’s like pleading with bubonic plague- waste of time and energy.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

if you don't know what happened, in 1932-33 in Ukraine, here's a course that explains

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

Grok’s Conclusion:
“This document is almost certainly translated from Russian into English by a native Russian speaker or a non-professional translator. It is not originally written in English.

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

The situation on the front of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2023 and today - the strategic level.

There is a certain method, one of the first we were taught: for an objective analysis, put yourself in the shoes of a completely external (but competent) observer.

For example, if 50 years from now a Japanese historian — or even better, a Chilean one (Japan, after all, was on Ukraine’s side) — sees this map, a knowledgeable and competent historian, and also sees the figures showing what Russia spent and lost for such “gains,” he will unequivocally call it a military failure, a collapse, an act of glaring incompetence, and national impotence.

Yes, for Ukrainian soldiers who lost their friends, their health, and their nerves in those endless tree lines and villages, this offers no comfort. But the strategic level is not about the soldier; in fact, it is not about people at all.

Strategy and politics are always about big numbers, capacities, processes, potential, and capabilities.

A person, in strategy, is only the sum of sets — a resource. And in military language that is exactly what it is called: human resources.

And yes, attention: I am not going to write disclaimers here with caveats that Ukraine also has everything going badly or even worse. Any Ukrainian already knows and understands this better than you or I do; I show this map to point to something entirely different.

These virtually zero gains, achieved despite more than one million total Russian Armed Forces casualties — several hundred thousand of them killed (these are already documented facts) — along with thousands of destroyed pieces of military equipment, a wrecked Russian economy and finances, and other losses Moscow has suffered, all while Ukraine has: hundreds of thousands of deserters, “teaspoon-per-day” aid from partners, mobilization failures, organizational problems in the army, and so on.

This is what Moscow managed to achieve while fighting the Ukrainian Defense Forces in such conditions.

And what would the picture look like if the situation were improved even slightly: boosted a bit, shut down Russian information-ops, replaced the “help” from partners (especially the Americans) with actual assistance, and fixed at least 20% of the problems with desertion, mobilization, and organization?

Do you think the United States doesn’t understand this (and Europeans as well, though that’s its own story)? They absolutely do. Right now, with the situation exactly as you see it on the map, they are pressuring Ukraine into an agreement that is close in form and substance to a capitulation.

They pressure not because Ukraine is weak. If it were weak, you would be looking at a completely different map. They pressure because Russia is catastrophically weak and incompetent.

That is the essence of this pressure: at Ukraine’s expense, so that Ukrainians pay for Russian stupidity and bloody idiocy.

It seems to me that this is precisely what Kyiv’s diplomats will need to point out this week in their negotiations with the US and Europe.

Not in the sense of “look, Russia is weak, let’s finish it off” — no one planned or plans to finish Russia off (on the contrary). But in the sense of: we understand everything, thank you, but do not take us for fools.

That is the core. Everything else is dust.

[Alina Sarnatska @ASarnatska]

Щодо звернення Зеленського.

Покажіть, будь ласка, своїм знайомим іноземцям ось цю карту російських «просувань» на лінії фронту. Поширюйте в соцмережах англійською. Напишіть під постами американських лідерів думок.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Candles of remembrance will be lit today at 4 p.m. wherever there are Ukrainians. These millions of testaments to memory for the victims of one of history’s gravest crimes will show that Ukrainians have not forgotten and will never forgive Moscow for this genocide.

We all know how and why millions of our people were starved to death and how millions more were never born. And once again we are defending ourselves against Russia—a Russia that has not changed and once again brings death. We must stand united in our defense, just as we are united in preserving our national memory.

Eternal memory to all the victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor genocide and the mass artificial famines of 1921–1923 and 1946–1947. Today at 4:00 p.m., wherever you are—in Ukraine or abroad—light a candle in your window in remembrance of all the children, women, and men who perished because of this man-made famine.

We defended Ukraine, we defend it now, and we will always defend it. Because this is our only home. And in our home, Russia will never be the master.

[Fred Fella @FredFellaIMO]

Ukraine already gave up weapons for US security guarantees.

It was called the Budapest Memorandum.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

US wants to legitimise this

[AngSoul ⚔︎ @ang_soul]

@shkriblyaks Мітинги в США і не тільки діаспори були і є доречними вже майже рік

[AngSoul ⚔︎ @ang_soul]

Fck USA

[AngSoul ⚔︎ @ang_soul]

@RepSpartz ІДИ НА ХУЙ, ВОБЛА МОСКАЛЬСЬКА

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

Actually, we, among the soldiers, look very closely to what Zelenskyy does.

We have feeling that USA is trying to push us into a “bad deal” and this time again - Zelenskyy stands up for us and represents the will of Ukraine’s soldiers.

Soldiers disapprove Witkoff’s “peace”.

[Sanna Marin @MarinSanna]

The ”peace plan” for Ukraine is a chatastrophy not only for Ukraine and it’s citizens but for all of democratic world. If we repeat the mistakes from the past such as showing weakness and ignorance in 2014 when Russia annaxed Crimea, we will find only more aggression and conflicts ahead of us. The authoritarian mindset understands only strenght and deterrence.

[AngSoul ⚔︎ @ang_soul]

@Panchenko_X Omfg it reproduces 🤯😩

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Zelenskyy has posted a deeply difficult, ten‑minute national address. It is honestly heartbreaking to watch. I’m sure translations are already circulating and you’ll find it online, but the first point you need to hear is this:

"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."

I feel sick.

[COSSACKGUNDI @cossackgundi]

Russia and Chechnya Signing a peace deal... Glad we have history to tell us how that one worked out.

[Richard Branson @richardbranson]

This is not a peace plan for Ukraine

https://t.co/GQUWZBUPgp

[Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 @rynkrynk]

Cool. I don’t romanticise our government, either. Get Russian soldiers out of internationally recognised Ukrainian territory, bring back our POWs and kidnapped children and we can have new elections TOMORROW.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

A permanent member of the UN Security Council — terrorussia — bombed a World Food Programme warehouse in Dnipro, destroying at least 10k meal packages prepared for civilians in frontline communities, along w/ other food supplies.
"But russia wants peace."
📸 World Food Programme

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

💔

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

That’s funny, because it seems like you and Witkoff have only been taking input from Russia, which makes no sense because why would you develop ideas on how to end a conflict from the aggressor, are you really that stupid? Did we ask Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan for their input on how to end WWll, or Iraq during Desert Storm, or how about ISIS in Syria?