From 🇮🇪 Irish shores to the hands of murdering, rapist pricks in 🇷🇺 russia, this alumina is being forged into the very weapons murdering Ukrainian Women and Children.
It is disgusting that these atrocities are being fueled by cooperation with Irish suppliers.
#Alumina21
“Liberated,” they said.
Imagine an entire European town wiped off the map.
This is Bakhmut.
Once home to 70,000. More than two years under the “russkiy mir.”
Today — nothing but ruins.
russia doesn’t liberate cities. It erases them. Don’t pretend you don’t understand this.
SNYDER: Politicians like Trump and Putin obsessed with the past. But with version of the past that never happened.
Trump and Putin like to say that in the past everything was good. But then somebody came, immigrants or Ukrainians, and took it all away.
It's always same story, and that's not history. Putin is always sure what happened. It's not about evidence, it's about feeling good, it's about defining an enemy.
That's why Trump and Putin hate history, in my sense of the word. They don't want historians around. They don't want history taught in schools.
What they do is, and Trump does this too, they turn history instruction into moral play about how we're good and other people are bad.
So yesterday Donald Trump posted a video of him crashing Stephen Colbert's final show, and literally throwing him in the garbage, and of course, I had to FIX it.
Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."
That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.
Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.
Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine just turned weather into a weapon.
A weather balloon drifts 26 miles into Russian airspace, reaches 5 miles altitude, then releases an American Hornet kamikaze drone with 95% of its battery still intact and a strike range extended to roughly 75 miles.
No radar signature, no engine noise, just the wind quietly doing all the work.
The part that stings most for Russia: they can't copy it. The prevailing winds in the region blow toward Russia, not away from it.
Ukraine's geographic position turns a basic meteorological fact into a permanent tactical advantage.
Physics picked a side.
Source: @NotWhatYouThink
APPLEBAUM: United States under this administration is no longer interested in leading democratic coalitions against Russia or anyone else.
President Trump has begun to align US foreign and domestic policies with values and practices of the autocratic world.
Democracy is no longer at center of United States foreign policy or American identity.
President and his administration attempted to strip funding from USAID or Radio Free Europe, American institutions that once promoted democracy around the world.
Trump verbally attacked Canada, European Union, America's Asian partners, placing inexplicably high tariffs on their goods.
Trump shouted at Ukrainian president in Oval Office, threatened to annex Greenland by force, claimed that EU was created to "screw US," and echoed Putin in calling NATO paper tiger.
Trump negotiated with Russia not to bring just peace to Ukraine or security to Europe, but also in order to help US businesses profit from lifting of Russian sanctions.
APPLEBAUM: Russia's war in Ukraine is sometimes described, including recently by American Vice President, as if it were nothing more than territorial dispute, kind of scuffle over lines on map.
But when Russia denies that Ukraine is a real nation, builds concentration camps on Ukrainian territory, bans Ukrainian language and systematically arrests mayors, teachers, journalists, and priests, then Russia is also attacking Europe that was built after 1945, Europe whose borders are not supposed to be changed by force.
Russia invaded Ukraine not only to destroy Ukraine but also to prove that treaties are meaningless, alliances are weak, and brute force still decides fate of nations.
By waging imperial war of conquest, Russia seeks to undermine Europe's post-imperial order.
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The visibility of all pro‑Ukrainian accounts, including mine, has dropped dramatically. Please help me fight the algorithm by visiting my profile and boosting posts about today’s Russian war crimes.
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Putin on cutting internet: People are facing internet outages in cities. If it's related to preventing terrorist attacks — people’s safety will be the priority.
We must ensure close coordination between law enforcement and civilian government to find optimal solutions. 1/
I often get accused of having a “pro-Ukraine bias.” Here’s the truth. I am biased.
I’m biased towards freedom, democracy, & human rights. That’s what Ukraine represents right now.
When you document war crimes, you don’t pretend there are “two sides” for balance. You show what is happening. One side is the aggressor. One side is the victim.
If that offends you, you’re morally bankrupt.