Imagine how many Ukrainian lives, soldiers and civilians, could have been saved and how sooner this war could have been over if it wasn’t for this endless don’t-provoke-Putin thing over tank killers/artillery/air defense/IFVs/tanks/whatever…and now F-16s.
At every step, Ukraine had to pay with thousands of its troops to prove it that hiding one’s head in the sand just doesn’t work — and that irrational fears, lack of resolve, and high-minded Realpolitik theories are only making things worse.
When this war is over, there will be decades of bitter mourning for those who died to make the West wake up and go on doing the right thing, one step at a time.
Speaking of NATO at war with Russia, here is a great joke about it - President @ZelenskyyUa told it to @Letterman while filming the interview (now available on @netflix, by the way).
The loss of Kherson has unleashed levels of discontent on 🇷🇺 state TV that I'm yet to see in the war
Maxim Yusin says Ukraine is laughing at his country, and that Russia only has itself to blame
He derides the TV pundits who claim Russia will reach the Polish border as "clowns"
Interviewer: “Do you still think this is a righteous war?”
American volunteer “Elvis”: “Yes, absolutely. We are fighting pure evil. Anybody in the West who asks Ukraine to just do peace talks, they need to go to these villages, they need to see what's been done to these people.”
.@nytimes : russia is buying weapons from North Korea.
Soviet weapons have indeed exhausted their potential.Thus 🇺���� is switching to NATO standards.
Those who are unable to transform to NATO standards, switch to North Korean standards: be it weapons, politics,standard of living.
Чего добился Путин за два месяца убийств украинцев? Ничего. Абсолютно ничего. Усилилась ли безопасность России? Абсолютно нет. Стала ли богаче? Нет. Стала более уважаемой мировым сообществом? Нет.
It’s Easter, a young Ukrainian family is killed by a Russian missile in Odesa.
Zelensky is barely holding back tears, calling the perpetrators “scumbags,” in an largely off-script speech, filled with grief.
Putin, the perpetrator, goes to church for a photo op.
Suspilne: 5 people killed, another 13 injured in Russian shelling of Kharkiv.
Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synehubov says that Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s second-largest city 23 times in the past 24 hours.
This is everyday life in Ukraine.
Oil prices are decreasing, gas prices should too.
Last time oil was $96 a barrel, gas was $3.62 a gallon. Now it’s $4.31.
Oil and gas companies shouldn’t pad their profits at the expense of hardworking Americans.
@jimmykimmel and @out_leone, came across you two trying Ukrainian salo. Yes, my uncle is still alive! He’s the owner of European American Sausage Co. Happy to serve you anytime you are in the Philadelphia area!
Let me say to the oil and gas companies and finance firms that back them: We understand that Putin’s war against the people of Ukraine is causing prices to rise. But that is no excuse for excess price increases, or padding profits, or any kind of effort to exploit this situation.
@POTUS Your silence is killing then slowly. Perhaps I’ll be silent when you need me to speak up for you. @GovMurphy Please advocate for the Ukrainian people loudly. I’ll do the same on Election Day.
@JoeBiden A nuclear power plant is on fire. If the smoke alarm is going off, you don’t just wait for the cross breeze to eventually take effect. You act immediately to make the alarm stop ringing. Close the sky in Ukraine! #Zaporizhzhia#CloseTheSky@NATO@ZelenskyyUa