WhiteHarts

Hopeful hiker. Fella. 14th c. studies & reign of Richard II.✨💫✨ Все буде Україна! 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Ukraine is causing 38,000 Russian casualties per month. That's almost one Vietnam PER MONTH for Russia. They can't sustain that. Fund weapons for Ukraine and get this war over with. #NAFO

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

There is no such thing as Russian ‘retaliatory strikes’, remember, they’re just regular strikes

[WhiteHarts @squeakyvee]

@Mamulashvili_M Yiiiikes. 😮‍💨

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Putin is our enemy. He's helping Iranian soldiers target American soldiers and assets.

Zelenskyy is our friend. He's helping American soldiers shoot down Iranian drones.

Most Americans understand these basic facts.

Trump, for whatever reason, does not.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Failing to apologize for killing Iranian schoolchildren makes our country look immoral.

Denying that we did it -- claiming that Iran did it -- makes our leaders look like they think Americans and the world are stupid. We are not.

Reverse this stance now, President Trump.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.

[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

[Ander Bruckestand @Ander_Bruckes]

Italian Senator @CarloCalenda left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and a propagandist.

It happened on Prime Time Italian television.

Priceless 🤩

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[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

Today marks 6 months since the launch of the UNITED24 App, which directly supports 5 Drone Line units🇺🇦

You have helped raise ~$850,000 for the defenders of the @k_2army, @414magyarbirds, @achilles_429, @RAROG427, and Fenix units via the UNITED24 App.

Thank you🧵❤️

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story.

A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island?

It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel.

These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time.

Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’

Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’

Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind.

Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world.

I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived.

I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life.

Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

[Renee Libby @ReneeLibby95084]

Dear Dem Senators:
If you are forced into a filibuster over the SAVE Act, I suggest you use that time to read the Epstein files out loud into the record.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️US military aid to Ukraine dropped 99% in 2025, report finds.

European countries stepped in to fill the gap, increasing military aid to Ukraine by 67% and non-military support by 59% in 2025, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

https://t.co/VrzZuHFFZf

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Can we now quit pretending Trump is ok for Ukraine now?

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Ukrainians enjoy winter despite Russian attacks.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

And THAT, is how you correctly “do your own research”‼️

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

9 December 1929 | Czech Jew, Petr Schiff, was born.

He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 16 October 1944. He did not survive.

[kolibri.93 🇺🇦 @viktorikolibri]

❤️‍🩹🙏 He fought for every grain, cleared hectares of fields of mines on his own, and saved equipment and workers from shelling: Oleksandr Gordienko, a farmer from Kherson region who was killed, was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.

In September, the occupiers deliberately targeted his car with a drone while he was working in the field.

Eternal respect!🕯