ren

Find me with the same username on Bluesky. Fuck musk. Fuck fascism.

[ren @isensmith]

buy some comic books today!

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

I therefore respectfully ask my colleagues to reconsider the huge benefits of saving our reputation globally by deploying our vastly superior resources to secure victory for our bravest and most capable ally, providing whatever it takes, with no hands tied. 🧵10/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Failure to defend our fundamental principles would simply project the West's weakness to all observers, inviting aggression from those who wish to exploit our apparent tendency to abandon non-NATO allies. War will follow dishonour. 🧵9/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

The "peace agreements" being floated would condemn millions of people to misery, occupation and fates worse than death. Talk of "recovery" is hollow if Ukraine is left vulnerable, waiting for the next attack. Investments will not flow, refugees will not return. 🧵8/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Much hubris is required in order to ignore the advice of countries with decades or even centuries of experience of resisting the Kremlin, i.e. hundreds of years of crossed borders and broken “agreements”. We don't enjoy being right about this, we just ask that you listen. 🧵7/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

World leaders often sit around tables discussing Ukraine without inviting Ukraine. The NB8 countries, sitting on Russia's border, are collectively the second largest provider of military aid to Ukraine but are sidelined too. 🧵6/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

We all agree Chamberlain made a mistake when he trusted Hitler to be happy with stealing only half a country. Being kind, we could blame naïveté. But today we cannot claim this defence. Repeating his mistake is a choice, it’s either stupid or cynical. 🧵5/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Now is the perfect time to remember the advice of Winston Churchill – We must choose between war and dishonour. We are choosing dishonour, and we will have war. 🧵4/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Some hope a “peace agreement” would not only wash away our sins, but also make people forget that victory has always been possible. Sure, we could have won at any time, even now, but we chose to lose instead. Worse than that, we forced our choice on Ukraine. 🧵3/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

The messy failure and total bankruptcy of our strategy is hard to watch. In desperation some hallucinate that a “peace agreement” would be achievable, effective, practical and sustainable, a magic wand to make all the bad things go away. 🧵2/10

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

The peacemongers have failed.
Escalation was not managed, conflicts were not contained, people were not protected, laws were not respected. Now I hear victory is "unrealistic" and not even worth fighting for. But I see things very differently, and here's why. 👇🧵1/10

[Лeksa 🇺🇦 @lexa_lrnt]

russians are using these on civilians.
And we're letting them because eSCaLaTioN

[Nathanael Wolff @NathanaeI_Wolff]

“The arrival of North Korean soldiers on the battlefields of Europe is the result of more than a decade of weak Western responses to escalating Russian aggression in Ukraine, writes Peter Dickinson.” https://t.co/iFSx5qISuq

[LeBron James @KingJames]

What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

“We have heard now and then that Russia would never cross this or that red line of the civilised world. But open your eyes! Russia is not crossing your lines – it is walking down a red carpet. A carpet, woven from weak responses, unfounded hopes, and complacency. In truth, it is not even a red carpet but a river of blood, one that began flowing the moment Russia was given the Soviet seat in this Chamber. Do I need to remind anyone whose blood flows in this river?” - @SergiyKyslytsya speaking at UNSC on DPRK armed personnel deployment
Full text👉 https://t.co/X0GpURRHsy

https://t.co/1JIdwg6vcc

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇨🇳🇬🇧🇺🇦 China and other authoritarian states want us to fail. If we now fail to do everything that is required to ensure Putin loses, then we will suffer the consequences not only here in Europe, but in the Indo-Pacific and the wider world, - Grant Shapps to The Sunday Times

The cost of allowing the use of our weapons, even inside Russia if Putin attacks from there, would be minimal compared with the consequences of Putin winning.

We should go further by doubling our defence support to Ukraine, despite the expense of restocking ammunition, while challenging the rest of Nato and other civilised countries to follow.

Redoubling our support for Ukraine today would not only be doing the right thing but would also make an invasion of Taiwan much less likely, thereby protecting us from a recession or even depression.

[Sarah Larchmont @SarahLarchmont]

Once again demonstrating that courage doesn’t require balls. 💁‍♀️

[ren @isensmith]

TTTHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS

[Groundhog day @DreamescapePs]

@Oksii33 This attitude is a political suicide for all the European Union, if our enemies see that in order to conquer an european country they just have to take control of an oligarch and put false votes in the ballots while everyone else express deep concerns we're dead in the water

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

“Thirty months on, Biden’s containment strategy is failing miserably. Like an untreated cancer, Ukraine’s crisis metastasises uncontrollably.” https://t.co/N9PuxQHJlS

[Margaret Brennan @margbrennan]

US intelligence assesses that Russia was behind fake video of individual tearing ballots in Pennsylvania. US intel warns Russia plans more media content in coming weeks to erode trust in US systems & divide Americans.

[Ruslan Stefanchuk @r_stefanchuk]

Oxymoron.

The Secretary General of the @UN, @antonioguterres, an organization dedicated to upholding and strengthening international law, is going to Kazan to meet with an international criminal.

At the same time, António Guterres did not find time to attend the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland. He ignored the event, which brought together world leaders to discuss the restoration of justice and the territorial integrity of Ukraine, a founding member of the UN.

#UN-broken