History shows why #Putin's #Russia is trying to annihilate #Ukraine with Nazi-like fervor. It's fascist, & self-proclaimed Russian anti-fascism has been nothing but a hegemonistic pretext since WWII. https://t.co/Adnf2Ft6fg
@LindseyGrahamSC "Yelling across the room at your guest is not a show of strength." Just a big ambush to create a public pretext for Trump's long-planned to pivot to Russia.
Anybody who pretends to want peace more than Zelensky and Ukraine is lying about the nature of war and of a just peace. #Trump has never understood or valued the sacrifice of citizen soldiers for their family, homes, and country.
I am so ashamed of #Trump and #Vance's attack on #Zelensky today. No visiting foreign leader deserves to be attacked and talked over like that. And Trump's litany of stupid, narcissistic old lies and grievances.
@davidaxelrod I am outraged and ashamed at what very well might have been a deliberate ambush by #Trump and #Vance, in attempt to create a pretext for what they have always planned to do, anyway, rollover for #Putin.
@TrumpWarRoom@JDVance Nobody wants peace more than the people of Ukraine. But the leader of a country with 100,000 innocent dead can't be anyone's lickspittle, even if that's what you have learned to be, tag-teaming Zelensky like that.
@JDVance Vance, so shameful the way you acted as Trump's attack dog, tag-teaming a foreign leader today who was struggling to stand up for himself and his country and the truth, in a foreign language, no less. #VanceBully
@WhiteHouse You disrespected the American people and our history by bullying and hectoring a foreign leader who was our guest in the Oval Office. I guess you want Zelensky and Ukraine to lick your spit. What a shameful spectacle!
@POTUS I think you and Vance ambushed Zelensky on purpose to play tough for your MAGA base. How could you possibly want the war to end more than the Ukrainian people do? But it must not end in a way that throws away a hundred thousand brave Ukrainian lives.
@POTUS Yes, you are all about bullying advantage. Shameful way to treat the president of a country with tens of thousands of people injured and dead from Russian aggression.
@elonmusk@realDonaldTrump And so is Zelensky the commander in chief of his own country, which happens to be at war. Shameful bullying by Trump and Vance of a guest in the Oval. Probably a planned public ambush.
Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
@WhiteHouse No, Vance and Trump disrespected and bullied the brave leader of a country at war in what looks like a planned ambush. No respect even for his struggleto speak English. Shameful!
@Saint_Hadrian@RarelyTolerated Washing our hands= Giving Russia ownership/influence over Eastern Europe and Europe as a whole. Also = rewarding criminal aggression and many other war crimes.
@bishopb0b@TimothyDSnyder I would like to think we are going to defend them for themselves and for our principles, not just for their minerals, and surely not for most or all of their minerals. That feels like extortion. Gonna make you a deal you can't refuse.
The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025.
Full essay: "Recoup the costs: The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine"
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Enough talking, it’s time to act! 1. Let’s finance our aid for Ukraine from the Russian frozen assets. 2. Let’s strengthen air policing, the Baltic sentry and the EU borders with Russia. 3. Let’s swiftly adopt new fiscal rules to finance the EU security and defence. Now!