David A 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🌻 🫏 🎶 🎸🇨🇦🇬🇪 🆘

Retired. Old school Dem, world news, ❤️Ukraine🇺🇦, Democracy. 🎸 Dickens, the Kinks. NATO. *No DMs*. Opinions mine. #NAFO bastard Fella

[David A 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🌻 🫏 🎶 🎸🇨🇦🇬🇪 🆘 @MickRhythm]

Free and Sovereign Ukraine.
#СлаваУкраїні

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia killed Ukrainian volunteer Olha Kuzmenko, along with the animals Olha was caring for.

Olha chose to stay in the frontline town of Druzhkivka, Donetsk region. She refused to leave because of the animals - Olha spent her days feeding them and helping with their evacuation to safer areas.

Yesterday, while Olha was feeding the animals, a Russian guided aerial bomb hit the area and killed Olha along with them.

RIP, Olha. We are losing our best people.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

russia is a vicious, rabid beast that tries to bite what they can't chew. Still, they keep going, grinding their fangs against Ukraine’s shell but refusing to stop.

Our task is to make their teeth crumble to dust as soon as possible. Let’s knock them out:
https://t.co/NJNUAIL9f2

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

This is why @JDVance doesn’t talk about inflation. He doesn’t experience it. He lives in a bubble, and brags around it.

November is coming.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

STUBB: Finland and Sweden wouldn't become members of NATO were it not for Russia's attack on Ukraine. We wouldn't be ramping up our industry were it not for lessons we're learning from Ukraine. So, Europe needs to ramp up, Ukraine needs NATO, but NATO needs Ukraine just as much.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Democrats cannot let people forget that it was the Republicans who cut their healthcare. Millions are struggling or without insurance, and as Rick says on MSNOW, the GOP is to blame.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

4 people were killed after 3 Russian glide bombs struck Sumy‼️

​Russians targeted civilian infrastructure in the city's Zarichnyi district. 7 other people were injured and have been hospitalized.

Bloody russian terrorists kill civilians every day!

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

Yesterday, at a meeting of the Global Foresight Council in Paris, we discussed security. War has changed dramatically over the past five years. At the start of the full-scale invasion, I refused to evacuate and remained in Kyiv, which the Russians were trying to encircle. Back then, the war took the form of a column of Russian tanks storming my city. But today, it’s a completely different war.

It’s a war of unmanned vehicles, the use of AI, massive drone attacks, complete battlefield transparency, and rapid-fire long-range weapons. All the military experience of the last century is simply irrelevant.

Today, it’s not just military power that takes center stage, but a society’s capacity for resistance. You can have modern equipment and weapons, but if the country lacks people willing to defend it, that won’t help you much. Likewise, if the people on the home front are unable to withstand the onslaught of war, even the most experienced army cannot hold back the enemy without support from the home front.

This winter, with temperatures at minus 25 degrees, millions of people in Ukraine lived without heat, electricity, or water. It’s hard for me to convey just how difficult it was. But all the banks were open, parliament held sessions, classes took place in schools, and hospitals performed surgeries. This is what the world calls Ukrainian resilience. But in reality, this is “total defense” itself. When a simple action becomes an act of resistance.

People matter. Without working with people - those who take their freedom and security for granted - neither a powerful economy, nor military potential, nor even nuclear weapons will save developed democracies. Because if you are rich and weak, in a world where the international system of peace and security is dysfunctional, you will be plundered.

And I see almost no frank discussion of this in developed democracies. Only a few countries stand as rare exceptions. In the rest, a psychological mechanism of denial dominates - the idea that “we are unique, so something like that simply cannot happen to us.”

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Fixed it for you

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

Russian innocent athletes according to the IOC.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party 4 months before midterms: "You're not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights"

Great message.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

All of it.

[David A 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🌻 🫏 🎶 🎸🇨🇦🇬🇪 🆘 @MickRhythm]

Very dumb idea.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to lift its suspension on Russian participation on July 7, provoking angry reactions from Ukraine and across Europe.

"As long as sports in Russia remain an instrument of state propaganda and support for the war, international sports organizations should not weaken, but maintain the policy of isolating those who promote aggression," said Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukraine's sanctions chief.
https://t.co/bFK6eeuRJK

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

STUBB: I think Russia's economic troubles or soldiers' losses won't end this war. But Russian population turning against this war might. War already hit Russia itself. Ruined summers, internet blackouts, long gas lines. These kinds of things will probably make Russia reconsider.

[David A 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🌻 🫏 🎶 🎸🇨🇦🇬🇪 🆘 @MickRhythm]

Folks, this -
(Why doesn’t this resonate more with more people? I’ll never understand)

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The strongest argument for Ukraine is not a military argument. It is not even a legal argument. It is a moral argument. Ukraine deserves to survive because Ukraine, at its best, represents something russia has been trying to extinguish for four centuries - the idea that a people can govern itself with dignity, worship freely, speak its own language, remember its own dead, and refuse to be told by an empire that it does not exist. That is what my grandparents fought for. That is what my cousins are fighting for now. That is what the friends I have lost died for.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

Ukrainian defenders spotted a damaged vehicle on the road Druzhkivka near Donetsk, with brothers-in-arms trapped inside under russian fire.

Every minute could have been their last.
But they did not leave their own behind.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

There are many small ways to cheat. And they will try all of them

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Seems bad if we are going to have free and fair elections

[David A 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🌻 🫏 🎶 🎸🇨🇦🇬🇪 🆘 @MickRhythm]

@fellas please make sure you follow @KaterynaLis so you can receive important news about Ukraine.

#StandWithUkraine️

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Okay, fellas, we haven’t done a boost for some time now, and the coverage of important news has unfortunately slowed down. So please, help me get out of my bubble - leave a comment, share my page, and ask your followers to join my page as well. Thank you so much! 🙏

Photos are from my latest live hit on the British @FubarRadio . We were discussing the results of the NATO Summit and what to expect going forward. I will share the full interview soon.

P.S. Looks like I’m becoming popular on British radio stations. I mean, I’ve always liked Brits - they have a very similar sense of humor to Ukrainians, and in general, we are real pals 😉

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇨🇦 FM Anita Anand: "The Donbas area — this is Ukrainian territory. Crimea — this is Ukrainian territory. We must never forget that."

Interviewer: "Do you think it's going to come back? Crimea?"

🇨🇦 FM Anita Anand: "I do, and I will say Ukraine is going to win this war."

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NEW: Donald Trump has terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide just a few months before the midterm elections

“It is ⁠irresponsible and dangerous that this Administration remains dead set on causing chaos for our election officials across this country,” Arizona secretary of state Adrian Fontes said in a Thursday statement. “This ‌move undermines the integrity of nonpartisan election administration.”
https://t.co/8b6Lqcoqvz