OTD in 1990 at the Washington Summit G H Bush told Gorbachev that the USA would *not* make any promise regarding new members joining NATO.
He said USA wanted a "Europe whole and free" and cannot accept agreements limiting nations' rights to choose alliances".
Nothing new. In Italy, during a talk show, he said he had been taken to Maidan by someone who pointed out the people who had been paid to organize a coup.
It's strange that he remembered this only 12 years later and forgot that on that same day in 2014, he had attended a press conference in Kyiv, where he hadn't mentioned this, had called Russia an aggressor state, and had even said he had offered his help to the Ukrainian government—the same one that, if what he says is true, he should have considered a coup plotter.
Sachs is just a pathetic liar, as well as a useful idiot.
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.
Mariupol was a city of half a million people that was systematically erased.
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program high estimate sits at 88k deaths in under three months.
We must acknowledge that this single Russian operation likely claimed more lives than the whole war in Gaza
Russian historian Yuri Pivovarov, April 2026:
"I know nothing in Russia’s military history more disgraceful or more shameful than the current war. This is a Great Patriotic War of the Ukrainian people against an invader. Unfortunately, the invaders are our [Russian] people."
Trump in 2016: “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to play golf.”
Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has spent 106 of his 473 days golfing, costing taxpayers nearly $150 million.
This is categorically false. Not merely a stretch, but a straight-up lie.
Congress (not Biden alone) appropriated roughly $188 billion total for Ukraine-related support from 2022–2024. NOT $350 billion.
Of that, the bulk (~$110–130B in security/military categories) stayed right here in the U.S., paying American defense contractors & replenishing our own stockpiles.
Actual direct financial ("cash") support to Ukraine was roughly $31–38B. Those funds were tracked by the World Bank and were audited by firms like KPMG & Deloitte. We were not writing blank checks.
It's extremely frustrating to watch this President demonize an ally while downplaying Putin as the aggressor. This administration has ended new U.S. financial/military support for Ukraine (they can buy via the EU if needed). Combined with eased sanctions on Russia and the President's moral ambiguity on the war, it is just a complete betrayal that I will never, ever understand.
Polls show that the vast majority of Americans are very much clear eyed about this — we support Ukraine and we sympathize with Ukraine. Our President does not reflect that majority view.
Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas," Pavel Gubarev, confirmed that the so-called "uprising" in Ukraine's Donbas in 2014 was entirely funded and coordinated by Moscow and carried out with Russia's military involvement.
▪️russia dropped 1,450 bombs, launched 3,000+ drones, fired 40 missiles at Ukraine this week.
▪️Iran? 150–350 drones, 40 missiles.
So why is the world quick to call Iran a “terrorist state”… yet buys russian oil and invites russia to peace talks?
Hypocrisy has a price.