Dave

No longer in Brisbane. In Fukui, Japan.

[Dave @davitopia]

@reshetz While the Trump/Musk admin helps them...

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.

[✙ Constantine ✙ @Teoyaomiquu]

There is a lot of confusion about these negotiations with russia.

Here are some observations and analytics from me:

1⃣. Russia is not negotiating over Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, or Kherson.

Moscow considers these territories legally part of russia. From its perspective, their status is already settled. Their only question is whether Ukraine withdraws voluntarily or russia forces it out militarily.

Russia treats this as a done deal, merely a matter of time. Nothing offered in negotiations can change it, so Moscow sees no point in negotiating their status.

But there is a reason russia is currently focusing on Donbas. Putin believes he can potentially achieve Ukraine's withdrawal from the remaining Ukrainian-controlled territory through political pressure from Trump, without having to capture it militarily.

Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are simply further objectives. Bringing them into the current negotiations would only expose how far russia remains from actually controlling the territories it claims as its own, weakening its negotiating position.

2⃣. Russia wants to negotiate a new "European security architecture."

This includes:

- Political control over Ukraine, effectively stripping it of sovereignty.
- Rolling back NATO's military infrastructure in Eastern Europe to the conditions of May 1997, before NATO's eastward expansion.
- Restrictions on Ukraine's military capabilities and its relationships with Western countries.

In practice, such a settlement would also include Ukraine's withdrawal from Donbas. And creation a platform for destabilization of Europe via military and political tools.

But russia deliberately separates the territorial question from the broader security negotiations because, according to its own laws, the territorial question is already settled, they just need the USA to confirm it.

3⃣. The American delegation seems to believe this is a real estate deal.

Rubio himself described the entire war as being about Donbas.

That tells us a lot about how the American delegation approaches these negotiations.

Their consider that once russia gets what it wants in Donbas, everything else becomes an easy deal.

Shower russia with money, lift sanctions, offer lucrative business deals, and Putin will suddenly lose interest in further military aggression and geopolitical ambitions.

This is the same Trump who promised to end the war in 24 hours because he thought it would be an easy negotiation.

The fundamental misunderstanding is that russia isn't negotiating over a few pieces of Ukrainian territory. It's just russian intermediary target.

Russia considers the territorial issue settled. What it actually wants to negotiate is the political future of Ukraine and the security arrangements of the entire European continent. Essentially a platform for further geopolitical powerplay including military means.

Meanwhile, Trump wants a deal that opens the door to making money with russia, lets him declare himself a great peacemaker, and gives him another shot at the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Dave @davitopia]

The republican boogeyman... "a communist" aka... anyone who doesn't vote for the GOP.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Emmer: "I'm looking at rocking the Democrats' world. These Marxist socialist anarchists ... "

[Havoc @Havoc_Six]

The usual suspects

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Smoking. Gun. Tulsi Gabbard used disinformation straight from Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 to smear Ukraine with absurd lies about “biolabs.” As the DNI, to distract from a humiliating story about her being controlled by a toenail-serving “guru” quack. While Ukrainians die. Appalling.

[✙ Constantine ✙ @Teoyaomiquu]

This guy disagrees.

[John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE]

‘And again, as our leader so vividly put it, wherever the foot of our Russian soldier has stepped, that is ours’

Good luck to the Quislings trying to explain this

[Armchair Copelord @ArmchairCopelrd]

Everyone serious is going through the John Mark Dougan stuff looking at all the serious bits.

Meanwhile I'm just here pondering "it was a good death" (re: Russell Bentley), coming from a man with fantasies of being tied up and raped by strangers.

[Андрій @Andriy1927]

So did he

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

CNN just called it for Scott Colom!!!!! It’s over!!!!!!! HE WON AND WILL HE A US SENATOR!!!! HE JUST FLIPPED MISSISSIPPI BLUE! Common sense prevails! The South has RISEN!!!!!!!

[Dave @davitopia]

For a country so concerned about border security, they sure do like to have all these illegal immigrants shooting the locals in Ukraine and rewriting their borders arbitrarily.

[Donk Media ♻️™ @donkoclock]

TRUMP’S SON-IN-LAW WANTS TO REWRITE EUROPE’S SECURITY RULES.

Asked if Putin was ready for peace, Kushner said, “We can say very strongly we believe so under the right conditions.”

Russia invaded Ukraine. Now Moscow wants a red pen for all of Europe.

THIS IS JUST WRONG 💯💯

[Dave @davitopia]

@VacuavPoley @v8mile @SpaghettiKozak "As good as..."

I am a white immigrant to Japan, trust me... white people aren't so special.

You are confusing adaptability and integration into culture with skin color.

[Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup]

@JakeLang Wait, are you the guy who groomed a 15-year-old girl?

[Piotr U @xoxoxoreu]

😂Musiałem to cudo przetłumaczyć dla zagranicznej widowni.

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

I am on my way to Abu Dhabi as part of the Ukrainian delegation to take part in negotiations.

It is important that the diplomatic process continues. Ukraine, more than anyone else, wants this horrific war to end as soon as possible. I very much hope for constructive dialogue.

We plan to devote significant attention to the humanitarian track. We need to intensify prisoner exchanges. I hope that the dialogue in the UAE will yield practical results and that we will be able to reach agreements on the next steps toward bringing our people home.

I am grateful to the United Arab Emirates for helping organize the negotiations.
Special thanks to the American side, particularly Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, for their personal efforts in the negotiation process.

We are working to achieve results.
Glory to Ukraine.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

But Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit.

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Senator, I wasn’t familiar with your game

[Dave @davitopia]

@FrankieOchidiaz @AdamKinzinger ... these are Polish police. Not Ukrainian. Are you okay, Frankie?

[Dave @davitopia]

@OzKaterji @russianforces Guy with the twitter handle russianforces.... not gonna lie but I feel he is in an echo chamber.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

@russianforces Ok when Russia has fully demilitarised unilaterally get back to us and we’ll consider it. That sounds like a reasonable solution to the war that Russia launched which you allegedly oppose.