Andrij Halushka

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

The ‘4 Horsemen of the Western Civilization Apocalypse’ Have Arrived https://t.co/tm9cp7QWUQ

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

Silencing Dissent: The Chilling Implications of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination https://t.co/ernMzVlRrx

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

Хрестовий похід у Європу https://t.co/IDPfug3TqJ

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

Russia continues to strike Ukrainian critical and civilian infrastructure under the cover of the ceasefire on energy infrastructure strikes — which is not in line with US President Donald Trump's goal of using the temporary ceasefire to facilitate a lasting peace in Ukraine. ⬇️

The Trump administration has previously characterized a temporary general ceasefire (which Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly rejected) as a "necessary step" toward achieving an enduring peace settlement.

Continued Russian strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure, even under the conditions of an alleged ceasefire on energy infrastructure strikes, will be detrimental to the establishment of a sustainable peace in Ukraine.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

So, Putin made Witkoff wait humiliatingly in the reception room for eight hours, just so he could have yet another "urgent" meeting with Lukashenko—once again spending hours chuckling at his clownery in front of the cameras.

And this, despite Witkoff coming for a pre-arranged meeting on matters of war and peace.

Then, he sent Trump's special envoy home with a deliberately impossible list of demands, designed to be nothing but an insult.

I don't get it -- how many more times does Putin need to wipe his feet on America—how much more blatantly—before the Trump administration finally admits that he is not their friend and that there was never going to be any easy or quick "deal"?

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

Trump stopped all military aid to Ukraine.

And North Korea and Iran did not stop military aid to Russia.

We live in a reality where the US has become an ally of North Korea, Russia and Iran and is helping them carry out aggression against a European country

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

‘Putin is THE dictator and 10 Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril.’ My column in today’s ⁦@nypost⁩ https://t.co/DTgRuRcpnF

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The brutal stalemate on the Ukraine/Russian front line makes the case for peace talks to explore what can be agreed to stop the killing.
But there are times when the Trump White House forgets who it is dealing with.
Putin started the biggest land war in Europe since Hitler. It was unprovoked and unnecessary.
His actions have killed hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians — and maimed many more.
He has fired his missiles on Ukrainian apartment blocs and train stations.
He has tried to freeze Ukrainian civilians into surrender by crippling electric-power plants.
His troops have kidnapped hundreds of Ukrainian-born children and relocated them to unknown new homes in Russia.
Ukrainian troops have been tortured and executed with Gestapo-like barbarism.
Realpolitik may mean we have to deal with this monster. But let us not forget he is a monster and presides over a barbaric regime.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

This Putin interview is striking. As always, it is obvious that Putin lies, but the bigger point is that he is badly pressed & clearly feels that he is losing it. This is a sweating loser. What lies he presents is irrelevant. His conundrum is apparent.

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

"Biden has promised the Ukrainians that he will stand by them 'for as long as it takes'—but he has nevertheless made sure that the war has gone on much longer than it had to," @PhillipsPOBrien writes. https://t.co/rlxL5nvL9G

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

The case against a ‘climate emergency’ https://t.co/rAkQ24cezC

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

Who’ll join my war against liberalism? https://t.co/xT8QH2Bt1b

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

‘If any political party wants to do something about the scandal, they will need to stop reviewing and start acting. Where to begin? One good starting point would be to work out why Pakistani rapists in Britain seem to have more rights than their victims.’ https://t.co/7y6Mfq6Q19

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

Ukraine War, 28 November 2024: Air/Missile War, 22-28 Nov. https://t.co/BDKCMpmiDC

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

How to get on the housing ladder https://t.co/TZEurMr4Gu

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

The SAS have been betrayed in the name of human rights https://t.co/i8jc8TM6j8

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

You Can’t Be a China Hawk and a Russia Dove at the Same Time, by @McFaul https://t.co/ULdPGA6ItL

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

The unforgivable bias of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall https://t.co/knQ4kDt82q

[Andrij Halushka @chestnut_ah]

I made the mistake of reading a book that won the Booker Prize https://t.co/repEz1lGKZ