Mike Terry

I love America, my family, my God, and the great outdoors. Love to participate the free exchange of new and interesting ideas.

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@konstructivizm Pretty interesting idea... I wonder if it will be financially viable? I can see people paying a ton when it is new and novel but after three years I wonder if they will bother to do it again.

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@globaltimesnews Not knowing much about this technology, it seems like it could be dual use, meaning it could direct kilowatts of electricity into a grid, or into any other object (or person?) the Chinese want to overload with electricity from space. Interested to see how this goes.

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@archeohistories There is a face in that tree right above her hand. This looks like something right out of a horror movie to me... But cool nonetheless.

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@ZelenskyyUa Great to see your continued success. Russia is slowly grinding itself into dust against your front lines. With well over a million casualties and a birth rate that is below replacement rate, Putin has simply expedited the demise of the Russian people with this embarrassing war.

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@EuromaidanPress Fight the good fight. Victory will be yours.

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@PM_ViktorOrban @ZelenskyyUa They should open the pipeline and send you nothing but blood. Maybe then you'll understand the hypocrisy of your ultimatum.

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@jrockyourd0me @sw_holocron @WarwickADavis No... He means Wicket. Since when is Willow a star wars character?

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@AfricanHub_ Two tomatoes processing plants? How metropolitan!

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@histories_arch False.... This is my little sister's key chain collection that I buried there after she broke my Lego death star. Surprised you didn't know that.

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@JustinWitmer6 @archeohistories Lol... These are white dudes. Every single one of them.

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@sfiscience In my experience, some people run on a little less than 20w

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@JamesTruax18 @archeohistories The Sandman

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@fasc1nate The kind of discipline that makes a tiny island nation master of a huge portion of the world for centuries

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@CollinsCart94 @rshereme Funny meme comrade

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@histories_arch So how long does someone need to be dead before it's socially acceptable to dig them up, steal their jewelry, and study their remains? This has always seemed odd to me.

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@ChristopherJM The very definition of asymmetric warfare.

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@XHNews Funny idea... Declaring a nature preserve in another country's territorial waters.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

You want to calculate what Ukraine “costs”?

Fine. Let’s calculate what the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum owe Ukraine.
People who complain about “how much the West spends on Ukraine” forget one thing:

Ukraine has already paid the highest possible price for promises that were never fulfilled.

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1. What Ukraine gave up under the Budapest Memorandum

Ukraine surrendered the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal:
•1,900 strategic nuclear warheads
•176 ICBMs
•44 Tu-160 / Tu-95MS strategic bombers
•Full launch, storage, and command infrastructure

Current value: $2–4 trillion.
Yes — trillion.

Ukraine traded this arsenal for security guarantees from the US, UK, and Russia.
Guarantees that cracked in 2014 and completely collapsed in 2022.

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2. How much the US has spent on Ukraine

In 11 years of war, the total US support amounts to:

$80–90 billion.

For comparison:
Ukraine gave up a nuclear deterrent worth 30–50 times more.

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3. How US support has been restricted

For years, Ukraine was denied critical tools needed for survival:
•ATACMS long-range missiles
•F-16 fighter jets
•Adequate Patriot air-defense systems
•Permission to strike inside Russia (only partially allowed in 2024–25)

These delays cost thousands of Ukrainian lives and entire cities that could have been saved.

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4. The real cost of war for Ukraine

In 11 years:
•450,000+ killed and wounded
•Over 50% of energy infrastructure destroyed
•Trillion-dollar economic losses
•Factories, investments, and human capital wiped out
•A development trajectory comparable to Poland’s — shattered not only by Russian missiles but also by Western hesitation

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5. So who really owes whom?

Ukraine never asked for charity.
Ukraine asked its guarantors to honor their own signatures.

While the US and UK insisted the Budapest Memorandum “was not binding,” Russia prepared for a full-scale invasion.

Today, Ukraine is defending:
•NATO’s entire eastern flank
•Europe’s energy routes
•The Black Sea
•The global security system the United States built after WWII

Ukraine is presenting the real bill: for cities erased, for millions of lives broken, for decades of development stolen — and for the security guarantees that existed only on paper.

And that bill is not for Ukraine to pay. It is for those who promised protection — and failed to deliver it.

Author: Yuliya Azizova

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

On this day, 31 years ago, Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum. Under this agreement, Ukraine relinquished the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances from the United States, the United Kingdom, and russia.

Before the Memorandum was signed, renowned political scientist and international relations scholar John Mearsheimer warned that Ukraine should keep its nuclear weapons. He argued that this was the most effective way to prevent a future russian-Ukrainian war, describing such a war as a potential “catastrophe” that could lead to repeated conquest of Ukraine and “undermine peace across all of Europe.”

Despite these warnings, Ukraine was pressured by the US into signing the Budapest Memorandum and dismantling its nuclear arsenal. As part of the agreement, Ukraine destroyed its fleet of long-range strategic bombers and transferred more than 1,000 cruise missiles. The United States even assisted in destroying Ukraine’s bomber fleet.

In return, Ukraine received “security assurances” from the US, the UK, and russia.

Russia, of course, has brutally violated these assurances along with dozens of other treaties. In fact, the same missiles Ukraine surrendered to russia are now being used against Ukrainian cities.

And now, instead of honoring those commitments, the United States is pressuring Ukraine to surrender its own land to the aggressor — offering another set of “assurances” that will collapse the moment they are tested.

Budapest was a historic mistake. Repeating it today would not bring peace — it would pave the road to the next, even bloodier war.

[Mike Terry @MikeTerry113]

@FoxNews Fascinating