Doru Apostolescu

[Costin Andries @CostinAndriess]

Theodor Paleologu:
Zilele astea Șoșoacă i-a surclasat pe toți trădătorii și imbecilii de care dispune Rusia la noi în țară. S-a ploconit în persoană la picioarele sîngerosului tiran. A obținut o victorie de etapă în concursul național al turpitudinii. Putin a zîmbit satisfăcut, căci știe că puterea unui tiran se bazează pe zelul prostesc al ticăloșilor.

[aktual24.ro @ak24ro]

Primarul Buzăului: ”Grindeanu și cei doi soţi de la Craiova trebuie să plece din conducerea PSD. Țara este într-o situaţie foarte, foarte proastă”
https://t.co/Br10icPRJi

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Marco Rubio Has Discovered That NATO Exists

Marco Rubio stood at a podium recently and said, with the confidence of a man who has never read anything, that if NATO can’t be used to “project to other contingencies,” then “we have a problem.”

He is correct. There is a problem. The problem is Marco Rubio.

Article 5 of the NATO treaty has existed since 1949. It says, in language so simple a golden retriever could grasp it, that an attack on one member is an attack on all. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

You don’t need a law degree. You barely need literacy.

What Article 5 does not say, and what no page of the NATO founding treaty has ever suggested, is that 31 sovereign European nations signed up to serve as a strategic parking lot for American military adventures on the other side of the planet.

Denmark did not join a defensive alliance in 1949 so that, 75 years later, it could help Washington bomb a country it got bored looking at.

NATO is a shield. Not a sword. Not a taxi service. Not a valet for whatever impulsive geopolitical tantrum is trending in Washington this quarter.

The Americans have now spent 15 months confused by this distinction.

Their finest minds, their cabinet secretaries, their very best people, staring at the treaty like a dog watching television. Ears up. Deeply engaged. Understanding absolutely nothing.

The good news is that Europe has finally understood something too: you cannot outsource your survival to people who find a single sentence intellectually challenging.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"How could they have screwed everything up this badly? It’s hard to comprehend."

Russian "Z-blogger" Ilya Remeslo sharply criticizes Putin and Russian authorities in these "ceasefire chronicles":

"As usual, gloomy news ahead of Victory Day. The 'ceasefire' chronicles are as follows.

Ukrainian drones carried out hundreds of strikes across Russia. Perm again, Yaroslavl, and other cities with oil refineries.

Also, after a drone hit an air navigation administration building, operations at 13 airports in southern Russia were suspended.

Clearly, the opponent feels not the slightest fear - or even respect - for the ominous threats coming from the foreign ministry and defense ministry. Western embassies remain in Kyiv.

Nobody negotiates with people who are incapable of keeping their promises.

Earlier, when the situation at the front was better, there was a real window of opportunity for a deal. Everyone was running around Putin - Trump, Erdoğan, various European countries - while Zelenskyy was being publicly humiliated and pressured into negotiations.

Remember Trump at that scandalous White House meeting telling Zelenskyy, 'You have no cards'? How happy we were then, thinking our great geopolitical strategist would quickly secure a favorable peace deal?

Well, that time is gone forever. The longer the war continues, the harsher the conditions imposed on us will become - while destruction inside Russia keeps growing.

How could they have screwed everything up this badly? It’s beyond comprehension. I do not know another example in history where a ruler makes catastrophic military mistakes at the beginning, then receives completely undeserved opportunities for victory - and still manages to throw it all away.

Well, he wanted to end up in history books. And now he definitely will."

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well, I honestly don’t know what else there is left to say when, in the fifth year of the Kremlin’s war to take Kyiv in three days, oil refineries are burning daily in the Urals and air raid sirens are roaring in western Siberia — and this has become routine background noise in the news cycle.

Russia has ultimately failed in its attempt to break Ukraine, and now it is slowly but inexorably losing the war.

[Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @AdrianP_doc]

Even my parents, who never voted for the Liberal party, like Bolojan. Disagree with the austerity measures but respect him for having a backbone, for calling out corruption and for the fact that his mother is a modest pensioner like themselves.

Unlike the mothers of leaders of PSD and AUR who own properties in Italy or have millions in their bank account even thought they declared a modest salary all their lives.

[Mugur Ciuvica @MugurCiuvica]

Putinistii, care o ard proamericani, se plang ca sunt oropsiti de Google si de Facebook😁🤦‍♂️😁 Si ca Google ii sustine pe Bolojan si pe USR, adica pe trotinetistii proeuropeni😁👍😁 https://t.co/9PDAi3rbIh

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

So the US policy of taking Russia’s side and trying to force Ukraine to surrender to occupation and slaughter has stagnated thanks to the fierce resistance of Ukrainians and their allies in Europe. Good.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇸🇺🇦👀 The US has removed Ukraine from the list of countries that were subject to automatic restrictions on arms imports, - Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Stefanishyna.

The 1997 rules that equated Ukraine with Russia and other post-Soviet countries in terms of arms purchases are being repealed.

Now Russia remains the only country under the ban.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

@StateDept This is funny because you said that the UN is useless and left all international organization.

Clean your own mess.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

For every dollar that we [the US] put into Ukraine, Europeans and others put in a dollar and a half. So the notion that they were free-riding on Ukraine is simply not true.

And much of the money that we spent on Ukraine was actually spent here in the United States to either buy weapons systems for them or to replenish the systems that we gave them.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

An important step in relations with Hungary – today, the funds and valuables of Oschadbank that were seized by Hungarian special services in March of this year were returned. At the time, the Hungarian side unlawfully detained Ukrainian cash-in-transit officers. We brought our people back sooner, and now both the funds and the valuables are back on Ukrainian territory in full. I am grateful to Hungary for its constructive approach and civilized step. I thank everyone on Ukraine’s team who fought for a fair decision and defended the interests of our state and our people. Glory to Ukraine!

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Joe Rogan: "They'll pretend that Hillary Clinton didn't do multiple speeches where she said that the election was stolen, Russia stole the election, with no evidence. But when [Trump] questions the election, it's a threat to democracy."

Hillary's point was that Russia interfered in the elections on a massive scale - she's never claimed any voter fraud.

There is also strong evidence for the interference, mainly the Mueller Report. Even her and the DNC's emails were hacked by the Russians and spread on Wikileaks.

All this was even admitted by the late troll king Yevgeny Prigozhin, who said that "They [the Internet Research Agency] have interfered, are interfering and will interfere in the future."

And Rogan probably knows all this, but he gotta play his role in Trump's stupid game.

Also, Hillary's statements never led to violence and death, unlike Trump's during Jan 6.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

In Russia, business investment has collapsed to level not seen since COVID, according to Russian Central Bank data.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Alexei Petrov, callsign “Medved” from Yakutia won’t make it to the tribunal.

He served in Storm-2, 39th OMBr. A unit suspected of torturing Ukrainian POWs.

Reportedly strangled by his drunk friends during a fight. Russian media’s official version: he “felt unwell on the way to a friend’s.”

Mind you that Yakutia is one of the most remote corners of Russia, over 5,600 km from Ukraine. And he still came to Ukraine to kill.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The Russians have turned our Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant – the largest plant in Europe – into an instrument of their war. They launch attacks from there against our cities and villages, store weapons, ammunition, and military equipment at the plant, mined its perimeter, and are effectively holding our city of Enerhodar hostage. The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has already gone through a full blackout fourteen times.

When the world deals with Russia, everyone must understand that they are dealing with a completely irresponsible – and in many ways simply reckless – force that must be truly constrained for the sake of the security of us all. That is why global sanctions must be strong, resistance to evil must be strong, and support for those defending lives must also be sufficiently strong.

The very fact that the Russians even went so far as to strike the confinement structure that covers the remains of the fourth power unit with a drone shows that Russia cannot be a participant in civilized international relations.

From an address marking the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster (2/3)

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

The Russians have decided to hold the ceremony after all, but without any military equipment. The event itself will last less than an hour, but that was the plan all along. Everything is going according to plan.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇦 Territories located 1,500–2,000 km inside Russia are no longer a “peaceful rear.” The freedom-loving Ukrainian “bird” flies there whenever and wherever it wants, — Magyar

“Putin extracts natural resources and turns them into bloody dollars, which he then directs against us in the form of ‘Shaheds’ and ballistic missiles. If oil refineries are a tool for generating money used for war, then they are legitimate military targets and must be destroyed.”

[SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre @StratcomCentre]

Russians in the city of Tuapse outraged that the only remedy the government has sent to address the ongoing devastation are guys with shovels, saying "is Russia really so weak that we don't have equipment" and "what era is it anyway, worse than pre-revolutionary times", further citing that the government doesn't care about the people.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

Literally, withdrawing is the only military operation anything connected to the Russian military does even half way competently.