Alice Weidel: "I personally consider the war waged by Ukraine to be high security risk for Germany. You can’t keep poking big bear in the eye with hot iron, like drone attack deep into Russia, and expect nothing to happen."
What a vile Russian shill. She lacks basic cognitive ability to remember that Russia started this war, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Russia is deliberately poking itself in the eye with hot iron every single day instead of just going home.
Alice wants you to believe that imperial invasion is fine, but self-defense is wrong. Reject this Kremlin mouthpiece, dear Germans, do not vote for her!
The grim battlefield math shows Russia is losing a record number of soldiers.
For the first time in years, Moscow’s Victory parade is about to take place without any heavy military equipment.
This tells a lot about how the war is going for Russia.
Next month, EU Foreign Affairs Ministers will continue the conversation on our approach to Russia, and how best to defend our security interests.
My press remarks following the Nordic-Baltic Ministerial meeting ↓
Inaction is complicity.
We have legal and moral duties to STOP genocide, not ignore its existence in order to pretend we have no obligations to the victims.
That we did not stop Russian genocide of Ukrainians which we witnessed with our own eyes in real time will haunt us.
As I’ve said since that first Trump term, we may never know why Trump is so loyal to Putin. Bribery? Blackmail? Affinity for dictators & oligarchs? KGB asset? All of the above? More important is stopping him, because if he were a Russian agent, what would he do differently?
What Russia is doing in Ukraine is a genocide.
Moscow uses explicit genocidal rhetoric to justify erasing the Ukrainian identity, and their military is actively putting those exact words into practice every single day
Trump: "Biden gave $350 billion to Ukraine. This was insane. It’s one of the reasons the war went on."
U.S. aid to Ukraine is not the reason the war continues. It continues because Russia invaded Ukraine and, every day, makes a conscious choice to keep waging war. If they all go home, we won't follow, you know?
If he means that without U.S. help, especially in the beginning, much more Ukrainian territory would have been occupied and turned into one gigantic Bucha, then yes, he's probably right. But occupation doesn't end war, it merely masks war crimes and silences the victims.
“Putin is dangerous, but he is not 10 feet tall. Nor is he invincible. He has been made to appear stronger than he is by years of wishful thinking, self-deterrence and delay in the West. Russia can be contained. Ukraine can prevail. All that is required is clarity: to call Putin what he is – an enemy”
More in my piece for @theipaper at https://t.co/rti44FyxyP
PS: The text delivers. The photo, less so.
It’s hard to understand the psychology of a psychopath, but for some reason, Russians keep targeting maternity hospitals - last night in Odesa, before that in Mariupol and Kyiv and other cities. It’s especially perverse and difficult to explain what logic is driving the sick, depraved people behind these strikes.
PHOTO: AP/ Evgeniy Maloletka/Mariupol, March 9, 2022
Hello everyone.
My name is Illia.
I’m 9… forever.
From Chernihiv.
Last month, my life ended in a shelter while russians attacked our city.
We tried to leave in mid-March, but a russian shell hit us before we could reach safety. My mum, dad, and I were injured. I died despite the doctors’ 24-hour fight to save me; my family survived.
I loved it when my mum read to me, and I was always active—doing gymnastics, practising on horizontal bars with my dad, and taking hip-hop classes. I dreamed of winning a competition, but my dreams were cut short.
At school, teachers called me Iliusha. I was curious, gentle, and had many friends. I loved trips, picnics, walks in the forest, throwing stones into rivers, and pretending to be a ninja.
My parents didn’t learn about my death for weeks because they were seriously injured. Their bodies are healing, but their hearts are still grieving for me. They haven’t learned to live without their Iliusha.
📝 My life, my story—my family speaks for me, as recorded by Ukrainska Pravda.
Maternity ward in Odesa. Again.
The hardest was evacuating newborn twins on ventilators.
When Russian Shaheds attacked, doctors moved 33 pregnant women and 19 newborns to safety in a bomb shelter.
Then helped put out the fire.