@snackowska I just checked the feed of the person you chose to repost and made the assumption you mostly agree with her very patronizing views. I followed you many years ago mostly because of Phd takes.
@snackowska As usual, this take doesn't consider Ukrainians as people with their own goals and agency. Nothing new under the sun. It's always these mysterious Western leaders who control them and force them to resist instead of dying.
1/3 Musk ordered last week's slowdown of Starshield, which Ukraine fights on, after talking with Trump, per @WSJ. In '23 the Pentagon signed a contract with SpaceX to “prevent Musk from turning off the switch," per fmr Under Sec of Defense Colin Kahl.
https://t.co/spSZRuaowe
They will sell out all of us, betray everyone - this current government is just a mafia state with a demented head of state and non-existent legislative branch.
@snackowska Ok. You can block me if you want but it would be for telling that you are insightful, smart and funny. We all struggle with self esteem, Phd really was a challenge for me, I just don’t think bitterness helps. Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer helped a lot🙂
One of the most prolific figures in Ukrainian literature, Vasyl Stus, spent years behind bars and in exile for defending Ukrainian culture and human rights against Soviet oppression. Even in the camps, he refused to compromise his integrity, repeatedly defying camp authorities and calling them out for their brutality.
https://t.co/aRAH8RAk3L
For anyone wondering what's going on in the "news" about a looming Russian attack, landgrab, drone strike etc.
Please remember this.
Scaremongering is a Kremlin psy-op.
The real attack is not on
-- infrastructure
-- industry
-- individuals
or any other physical target.
It's on our decision-making. Kremlin is trying to spread FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt).
Far too many supposedly expert/hawkish voices are amplifying this.
Also: the Baltic states are not squares on a chessboard. They have agency. Vigilant, prepared, supported by allies. Stop patronising them.
That September, I was 16 years old and had an intense interest in politics. I grieved for the victims of 9/11 and studied political science with a naive hope that the world could get better. Now I don't have that. The US citizens allowed their country to become a mafia state.