Jerome W. Sheridan

Director and Professor, American University's Brussels Center

[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

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[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

❤️‍🔥 American band Metallica has shared a cover of "Nothing Else Matters," performed on a bandura by Ukrainian artist and soldier Taras Stoliar.

📹: metallica / Instagram

[AOMDA Belgium @AOMDABelgium]

On Memorial Day itself, ceremonies for SSGT Gerald Sorensen, 1LT Donald West, PFC Joe Farina, and 2LT Bobby Garrett

[AOMDA Belgium @AOMDABelgium]

2024 Memorial Day commemorations in Belgium have begun, with ceremonies in Deinze, Oudenaarde, and Anzegem

[Robbie Gramer @RobbieGramer]

GOP Rep Mike McCaul on the House floor:
“Think about the blood & treasure that could have been saved from my father's generation had we stopped Hitler earlier. And now we are faced with that same opportunity…you have to ask yourself this question. Am I Chamberlain or Churchill?”

[Natalie Sabanadze @natasabanadze]

Read this thread…time to confront Russian imperialism, it’s legacy and it’s successful propaganda now deployed in courting the Global South. #RussianAggression

[Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @stavridisj]

Good news: this will add a safeguard against the foolish idea of pulling out of NATO. Bad news: that this is needed at all. But I will sleep better at night. "Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO" https://t.co/PIk3jaddKP

[Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1]

Lech Wałęsa turns 80 today. He celebrated with a cake made of meat

[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

The underlying assumptions, the distortion of history, the lack of empathy, the crudeness of the language, and the contempt it demonstrates for the rest of the world reveal a deep fundamental immaturity in the intellectual development of the Russian regime’s political elite.

[Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE]

WHY WILL UKRAINE DISAPPEAR? BECAUSE NOBODY NEEDS IT
1. Europe doesn’t need Ukraine. The forced support of the Nazi regime, by the American mentor’s order, has put Europeans into a financial and political inferno. All for the sake of bandera’s unterukraine, that even the snobby, insolent Polacks don’t take for a valid country, and time and again toss in the issue of its western areas anschluss. There’s a nice perspective ahead: to permanently put the nouveau-Ukrainian blood-sucking parasites on the decrepit EU’s arthritis-crippled neck. That’ll be the final fall of Europe, once majestic, but robbed off by degeneration.
2. The US doesn’t need Ukraine. True, the military and sanction campaigns are attempted for PR by political blabbermouths, who long ago attested to their impotence and imbecility. Average Americans don’t understand what “Ukraine” is, and where “it” is. Most of them won’t show this “power” on the map on the first take. Why won’t the US establishment focus on inflation and job issues, or emergencies in their home States, instead of a country 404, unbeknownst to them? Why does so much dough go across the ocean?
Sooner or later, they’ll ask for that. Then, storming of the Capitol in January 2021 would seem like scout games.
3. Africa and Latin America don’t need Ukraine. The hundreds of millions spent by US on pointless fights in Ukraine, could finance many development programmes for Latin American and African states.
Latin America is gringos’ backyard – that’s what they’ve been rubbing in for decades. Africa’s had its share of suffering from the genocide, and colonial dependence, imposed by former western slave traders. That’s why the people of African huts and Latin American favelas ask a very reasonable question: for their former suffering and present-day loyalty, why is somebody else rewarded – very, very far away?
4. Asia doesn’t need Ukraine. By Russia’s example, they see “colour” technologies at work to eradicate the largest competing powers. They understand what scenario the America-led collective West has for them if they disobey. “Help us to overcome Russia, and we’ll soon come to you”, the utterly brazen Western leaders tell them. Such gigantic countries as India, China, and other Asia-Pacific states face the big enough challenge of post-pandemic economic recovery, let aside the drugged clowns, with their whining for aid.
“We are not interested in you”, Asia tells their messengers, responding to the calls to support Ukraine and confine Russia. The country, geopolitically many times closer to Asian powers, the one that historically has proven itself a reliable strategic partner. Do Asian giants need such headache coming from former colonisers?
5. Russia doesn’t need Ukraine. A threadbare quilt, torn, shaggy, and greasy. The new Malorossiya of 1991 is made up of the artificially cut territories, many of which are indigenously Russian, separated by accident in the 20th century. Millions of our compatriots live there, harassed for years by the Nazi Kiev regime. It is them who we defend in our special military operation, relentlessly eradicating the enemy. We don’t need unterukraine. We need Big Great Russia.
6. Finally, its own citizens don’t need the Nazi-headed Ukraine. That’s why out of 45 million people there’re only some 20 million remaining. That’s why those who stayed want to leave for any place: the hated Poland, EU, NATO, to be America’s 51nd state. Joining the Antarctic with its pinguins will also be fine. As long as it’s quiet, and the food’s good. The ruling junta’s criminal ambitions forced Ukrainians to beg and roam around the countries and continents, searching for a better life. All that is for an obscure European perspective. Or rather, to let the harlequin in a khaki tricot and his band of thievish Nazi clowns to put the money stolen from the West into their offshore accounts. Would ordinary Ukrainians need that?
Nobody on this planet needs such a Ukraine. That’s why it will disappear

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Bakhmut holds.
We are standing our ground.
We are protecting our land.
We will win.
Glory to Ukraine!

🎥 @operativno_ZSU

[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

For those of you who know my interest in WW I, enjoy. This is from 1918. Happy Valentine’s Day Ukraine.

[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

Mama Samia is a leader! https://t.co/mlx9ERqO8D

[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

This cartoon is more relevant for new year 2023 than we would maybe like to believe or think. However, we must remember the lessons of history and shoulder the burdens that the defense of liberty requires.

[PJ Kleiweg @PJKleiweg]

Dutch cartoon published on 1st January 1940: the old man of 1939 tells the New Year baby of 1940: "Now you take care of this!"

[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

Zelenskyy’s new year message is a powerful reminder of what the war is all about. https://t.co/y0RHmFsdNv via @YouTube

[Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @stavridisj]

Big day for President Z. His message in 5 words: to Ukrainians:Reassurance, to Americans: Gratitude, to Europeans: Solidarity, To Russians: Defiance and To Putin: Scorn

[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

@USAmbNATO @AmericanU @NATO Thank you Ambassador Smith. You are brilliant and an inspiration for the leaders of tomorrow!

[EUMM Head of Mission @EUMMGeorgia_HoM]

1/2 This is my last week as the @EUMMGeorgia_HoM . Serving as Head of EUMM has been the most rewarding professional experience in my career. I am immensely proud to have been part of the @EUMMGeorgia team during so many landmark moments in the Mission's history.

[Oleksii Reznikov @oleksiireznikov]

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum.
Ukraine fulfilled its part of the agreement to voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances from 🇺🇲🇷🇺🇬🇧.
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[Jerome W. Sheridan @eunatoprof]

The music of my youth in the service of a just cause

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Just get the hell out of our land!🎶 Led Zeppelin @ledzeppelin

[Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @stavridisj]

This tweet by Lithuanian Foreign Minister quacks me up.