I am utterly ashamed.
I am utterly ashamed that the US has stopped any help to Ukraine. We promised Ukrainians that if they give up their nuclear weapons we will guarantee their sovereignty. We made it official and called it the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. But when Ukrainian sovereignty came under attack in 2014, we did nothing. Just as we are doing nothing today to stop the russian aggression.
I am utterly ashamed of the US president – a man who not only refused to help Ukraine survive, but openly sided with war criminal Putin. Since Trump took office, russia has exponentially increased its missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities and civilians. Trump gave them silent permission.
I am utterly ashamed of those who voted for Trump, and especially those who still, after all the lies and betrayals, continue to cheer him on. I find such behavior despicable and morally bankrupt.
Finally, I am utterly ashamed of everyone who remains silently complicit in this genocide. People who claim that they are "neutral." The time of judgment will come – whether in this life or eternity. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said: "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
@RasmusJarlov@nordby35 We have to read the fine print on that, we love you danes, but long distance relationship work best for us, we are introvert and all....
@GandraStankela@ShaunPinnerUA No, they was russians hiding from mobilizations in the Philippines. Realy discusting people, reminds me about you, calling everybody fascist, without even knowing you are one yourself
Whatever your political preferences, when an EU member state is targeted by a migration attack, the response should be simple: stand with the member state bearing the brunt of it, help it restore control, and defend Europe’s external borders.
We can sort out our differences among ourselves once the situation has been brought under control. But under external pressure, the only responsible course is to circle the wagons.
‘Ukraine is an artificial nation. The language is a Russian dialect.’ Moscow’s oldest claim. Let the empire’s own archive answer it.
1863, the Valuev Circular, imperial Russia’s censorship chief: the Ukrainian language ‘never existed, does not exist, and cannot exist’ — in a decree banning it.
Sit with that sentence. They prohibited, by law, a thing they declared imaginary.
1876: the Ems Ukaz bans Ukrainian books, plays, even song lyrics. The 1930s: a generation of Ukrainian writers executed — history names them the Executed Renaissance. Today, in every occupied territory: Ukrainian removed from schools within months, as the first order of business.
Three centuries. One policy. And one logical problem the empire has never solved:
You do not ban a language that does not exist.
You do not shoot poets of a nation that is imaginary. You do not need four hundred years of decrees against a fiction.
Every ban is a certificate of existence — notarized by the empire itself, in triplicate, since 1863.
🇱🇹 Lithuania wants Russians and Belarusians to sign a declaration condemning the "special military operation" at the border
The new rules would apply to artists, athletes, academics, and other public figures.
To enter Lithuania, they would have to sign a document condemning Russia's aggression against Ukraine and recognizing its territorial integrity. Otherwise, they would be denied entry into the country.
The changes could come into force as early as January 1, 2027.
The West humiliated Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence.’
I’ve heard this in every language, from every podium. It is history rewritten backwards.
Recall what actually happened to defeated Russia: no occupation. No reparations. No tribunal. It kept its nuclear arsenal and its UN veto. Its debts were forgiven and refinanced. It was handed IMF billions and a seat at the G8 — a club of democracies admitting a wounded autocracy out of hope.
Now recall an actually humiliated nation: Germany, 1945. Occupied. Partitioned. Cities in ash, leaders hanged, guilt taught to its children by law.
Germany became the most peaceful democracy in Europe. Russia became this.
So spare me the humiliation theory. Russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute.
The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion.
Empires do not mourn their wounds. They mourn their slaves.
@USWPColby Tell me again what the US is capable of, that meet the demand of today. Is it ship building ?, or patriot intersepters ?, maybe submarines ?, or drones ?
Yes, you are so back, back to the 1930