Sergii Gulenok

Help Ukraine defend a free and democratic world:

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This post lives deep, deep inside my brain

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@Landswellsong Ну так в західній Європі у нас найдешевше і суттєво :)

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

Той день, коли навіть в західній Європі заправитись більш ніж вдвічі дешевше, аніж в Криму 🙀

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

Fuel prices in Yalta hit 450 rubles per liter, or about $5.87, compared to Russia’s pre-crisis baseline of around 67 to 70 rubles per liter.

A driver shows a receipt for 43.82 liters of AI-100 gasoline: 19,719 rubles total, around $257.

The 500-ruble benchmark is getting closer.

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@Landswellsong To be fair, я позавчора заправлявся в Австрії 🤪 І навіть в Італії було трохи більше 2 євро за літр, що все ще вдвічі дешевше, лол.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @TheAtlantic cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link:

https://t.co/HhTQ8EoHkg

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@JacekPiekara

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@juliaioffe «А глуповцы стояли на коленях и ждали. Знали они, что бунтуют, но не стоять на коленах не могли» ©️

100 years passed, nothing changed.

[Tatarigami_UA @Tatarigami_UA]

Waiting for the pro-Russian crowd, as well as overly concerned self-proclaimed humanists, to condemn such brutal mobilization practices in Russia

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

Allowing russian athletes to Olympic Games - Moral Disengagement is a framework coined by an American-Canadian social psychologist of Ukrainian and Polish descent Albert Bandura. It refers to the cognitive tricks people use to separate moral standards from their unethical actions. This allows them to behave without feeling guilt or shame. Bandura originally outlined these mechanisms in his foundational work on Social Cognitive Theory. It may be characterized by - Moral Justification: Harmful conduct is reframed as serving a higher, socially worthy, or moral purpose. Disregarding or Distorting Consequences: Minimizing, ignoring, or actively denying the harmful effects of one's actions, ensuring that moral self-sanctions are never triggered.
In his later book, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live with Themselves, Bandura extended these concepts to the organizational level, showing how institutional structures in the finance, tobacco, and entertainment industries facilitate these maneuvers. Today’s actions by International Olympic Committee @iocmedia may well serve as a good example of moral disengagement 👇

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

@GuntherEagleman How wonderful that “sport is out of politics” 🥰

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

Ideally the world is a patchwork of small, charismatic states competing peacefully for people, not territory. Keep every language and cuisine. The catch: distinct little nations get eaten one by one unless they pool the things great powers respect. So yes, I want a federal EU.

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

"Europe has to decide, do we remain merely a large market subject to the priorities of others, or do we take the steps necessary to become one power?"

- Mario Draghi

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

One of the most mature ways to approach history is to recognize that even the noblest causes can attract the wrong people.

In 2018, Poland published a 300-page book titled Bandits of the Home Army. Its editors did not deny the Home Army's enormous contribution to Poland's struggle for independence. Instead, they acknowledged an uncomfortable truth: alongside genuine heroes, there were also criminals.

As the editors wrote: "They were supposed to defend Poland, but instead they defended their own interests. The truth is not always convenient. The Home Army wrote a glorious chapter in Polish history. But, as in life itself, there were black sheep in the Home Army as well: antisemites, traitors, murderers, degenerates, and thieves. Tough guys who wanted to play at war, kill, and make money."

This is precisely how a nation should deal with its past. Honor those who fought for freedom while refusing to excuse those who committed crimes.

The same standard should be applied to Ukraine.

The existence of criminals within the ranks of the UPA does not erase the sacrifices of thousands who fought and died for Ukraine's independence. Just as no serious historian argues that the Home Army should be condemned because some of its members were murderers or bandits, the UPA should not be judged solely by the crimes of some individuals.

Every resistance movement has its heroes. Every resistance movement has its criminals. Historical honesty requires acknowledging both.

If we can distinguish between the heroes and the bandits of the Home Army, we should be capable of making the same distinction within the UPA.

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@KarolaAdamiec Should we expect polish jihad against Italy?
https://t.co/C7OOQ8IZZd

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@KarolaAdamiec If you have used the time you spent on writing this on actual research about the origins of this campaign and why it is called like this, you would not look that stupid right now :-/

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@beek38 The russian gas drug withdrawal is painful for Europe, but essential to keep a healthy economic organism. Don’t blame the doctor. And come on… since when gas is ecologically safe?

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@pwk Ukrainians know about that and are really pissed that the face of Ukrainian insurgence is Bandera and not Bulba-Borovets for example. However, it is not polish or anyone else’s business how to name anything in Ukraine.

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

Российский военный Даниил Туленков, откровенно написал о том, как его командир пытал гражданских в Бердянске. Людей насиловали при их детях.

Это не украинская пропаганда, не ИПСО. Это пишет реальный российский участник «СВО», который уже успел стать писателем и написать книгу “Шторм Z” про свой опыт на войне.

Фильм «Груз 200», который многие считали какой-то адской чернухой - на самом деле просто детский мультик, в сравнении с тем, что в реальности творят российские выродки.

Все это никогда нельзя забывать. Каждое такое признание очень важно запоминать и документировать. Чтобы никто потом не сказал, что этого не было.

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@iChief17 @FriendShade https://t.co/PjMFbqdiYL

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland have become among Ukraine's strongest partners by doing more than just donating weapons.

🧵 1/6 ⬇️

[Sergii Gulenok @ashenwolf]

@TrompBK Why poles always think that someone needs to dominate? Are the words "partnership", "equality" and "mutual respect" extinct from your language?