Petro K.

[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

@generalkellogg @LukeDCoffey Your boss could end this today (if he really wanted to).

[UNIS @UNISdirect]

CALL TODAY!
Ukraine Support Act: H.R.2913

The Ukraine Support Act (H.R.2913) would provide approximately $1.3 billion in security assistance, billions more in loans, reconstruction mechanisms, and expanded sanctions against russia.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

VOLKER: Trump looks at Russia's war against Ukraine as a matter of who's bigger, who has power. Russia's bigger country, so Russia's going to win.

Ukraine should give something up and make peace. Trump can't understand why they're not doing this. And he is making a huge mistake.

Russia is not as powerful as Trump thinks. They are completely corrupt and disorganized, poorly led, poorly equipped, poorly trained, and they're not making progress on the battlefield.

Moreover, this is a war of choice for Putin that even his own military and population are ambivalent about. Whereas for Ukraine, this is existential.

They have got to defend their lives, country, territory, families, and so on. And they've been remarkably determined and ingenious in how they have done that.

Trump is getting it wrong when he looks at the conflict as one that Ukraine is destined to lose. Conversely, I think Ukraine is destined to win.

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

There is no place for hyphenated Americans. Here’s what I think, as an American:

The decision to stop funding the war in Ukraine was premised on the belief that reducing American support would hasten peace. It has done the opposite. The war has grown more deadly, more destructive, and more entrenched. That outcome reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of leverage and of our own interests.

I want this war to end. Everyone who understands the human cost of combat does. But wars do not end because we wish them to. They end when one side concludes it cannot achieve its objectives at an acceptable cost. Until Putin reaches that conclusion, the fighting will continue, regardless of how deeply we all desire peace.

Withholding support from Ukraine did not create leverage over Russia. It created opportunity for Russia. It signaled uncertainty, rewarded persistence, and reinforced the belief that time and pressure will eventually fracture our resolve. That is a path to a longer and more dangerous war.

There is also a strategic reality that has been too often ignored. Much of the support provided to Ukraine did not simply sustain a nation under attack. It helped begin to revitalize a brittle defense industrial base that had been allowed to atrophy for decades. That investment, led in large part by Congressional Republicans, strengthened the US and directly contributed to the operational success we have since achieved elsewhere, including in Epic Fury.

If the objective is truly to stop the killing then the task is not to weaken the victim but to convince the aggressor that victory is impossible.

[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

@briansbrown @UnplannedMovie @PM_ViktorOrban @_KingaGal Brian, you say that V.O. stood for life … then how do you explain his unwavering support for Putin murdering thousands and thousands of his own soldiers, not to mention the countless innocent Ukrainian children, women, and men ? That doesn’t sound like a pro-lifer to me!

[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

@briansbrown @UnplannedMovie I feel so bad that you too are being fooled by V.O.

[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Sarah Makin @DCSas, former Senior Advisor to President Trump on International Religious Freedom:

For the past year, I've been digging into what Russia has been doing in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

They have one church that they allow, and the rest are not allowed. You can be arrested just for that.

This has been going on in Russia for many years. What they've now done is export that to Ukraine, where they are occupying territory.

In the occupied regions, there are 3 million Christians living under this threat.

Russia has bombed, shelled, and looted 650 Christian churches. They have murdered, a conservative estimate is 49 pastors, priests, evangelical leaders, and other faith leaders in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

They have tortured these men before murdering them. And again, a conservative estimate is 49.

We know that this is not new. This is what Russia does. But now they are doing it in Ukraine.

📹: CPAC

[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

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[Raymond Arroyo @RaymondArroyo]

A beautiful and important prayer for inner and exterior peace- from 
Eusebius, the third century Church Father:
"May I be no man's enemy, and may I be the friend of that which is eternal and abides. May I never quarrel with those nearest me: and if I do, may I be reconciled quickly. May I love, seek, and attain only that which is good. May I wish for all men's happiness and envy none. May I never rejoice in the ill-fortune of one who has wronged me. When I have done or said what is wrong, may I never wait for the rebuke of others, but always rebuke myself until I make amends. May I win no victory that harms either me or my opponent. May I reconcile friends who are angry with one another. May I never fail a friend who is in danger. When visiting those in grief may I be able by gentle and healing words to soften their pain. May I respect myself. May I always keep tame that which rages within me. May I accustom myself to be gentle, and never be angry with people because of circumstances. May I never discuss who is wicked and what wicked things he has done, but know good men and follow in their footsteps."

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

Zombies. It’s the same old thing since Nineteen-ninety-one. Zombies.

No matter who has been running America they have palled with the Russian devils while lecturing and abusing free Ukrainians.

Maybe they are all lizards.

George HW “Chicken Kyiv” Bush—ex-CIA chief with one of the weirder Epstein file appearances involving not a sofa but another man and a yacht deck—urged Ukraine to stick with the Moscow oppressor in 1991. Your nationalism is bad, hissed the goon to Ukraine. Embrace generic corporate-globalism now.

Wm Jefferson “Lolitta Express” Clinton did apologize at least 30 years later for making Ukraine surrender its nukes. But hey he was too preoccupied to worry about occupation.

Dubya was busy dancing with Putin and looking into his soulful eyes while Darth Cheney said no to NATO and Baby Senator Obama meanwhile oversaw the destruction of Ukraine’s best weapons.

Deep staters like Vicky Nuland urged Ukraine’s protesters to shut up about freedom and make a deal with the Kremlin demons—to go quietly like the Tiananemenese and Iranians.

Yes You Can Team Obama-Biden stood by while Putin took Crimea. Biden’s son, meanwhile was making money from anti-Ukrainian oligarchs in the Kremlin.

Trump Big Talk One, at least, urged silly Europe to stop funding the Russian war machine and sent Ukraine some lethal weapons. He got ever so close to exposing the scam against Ukraine but succumbed to the threats—and let the poison take hold.

Stumbly Biden Two via his Moscow-money son and other puppetteers restricted Ukraine again and again—losing hard-won chance after chance.

Trumpty Two had a great call
Trumpty Two did nothing at all—
nothing but prepare conditions for the fall.

Zombies. It’s the same old thing since Nineteen-ninety-one. Zombies. Keep your freedom in check, they say. Live like slaves and thank us for it.

[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

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[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

As this horrific and unnecessary war enters its fifth year the West and especially the United States needs to understand the truth: Putin does not want to end this war. Putin does not want peace.

Putin will not stop the slaughter until he faces much greater pressure. So for heaven’s sake let’s get on with it.

Impound his entire shadow fleet. Unfreeze all his frozen assets and give them to Ukraine. Give the Ukrainians the weapons they need to take out all the Russian drone factories.

Do all of it now. Putin will not negotiate sincerely until he feels he has no choice.

That moment could come soon. The Russian economy is reeling. Russian casualties are enormous. But on this miserable anniversary of Putin’s invasion the fundamental problem is the same as it has been for the last four years.

The Ukrainians fight like heroes while we in the West pussyfoot and delay. The West can end the war this year - if we stop pussyfooting around.

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Tonight, I will shine yellow and blue in support of Ukraine. 🇺🇦

[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

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[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

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[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

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[Petro K. @SmarkatchNY]

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