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[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Russia is making bombs to wipe Ukraine off the map & mobilizing half a million soldiers. Europe is scrounging for shells under the sofa. Biden acts helpless. Trump & Johnson are asking Moscow for instructions. Graham wants more Ukrainian soldiers but they fucking need weapons!

[Yevhen Klopotenko @klopotenko_chef]

Meanwhile

It’s seems like Ukrainians are living in a never ending surreal dream where we struggle to win this war, while @JakeSullivan46 is saying “not to hit russia” because oil prices will rise 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓

It’a a SHAME!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

Forget Navalnaya. Spread the word about Yevgenia Chirikova, who calls on her fellow Russians to join the armed resistance, which is fighting as we speak and includes independence groups. This is the opposition

[Михайло Подоляк @Podolyak_M]

I suppose that the events in #Ukraine do require the abandoning the traditional political ambiguity, when on the one hand the pro-Ukrainian coalition is looking for the resources/ammunition/money for military aid to Ukraine, and on the other hand commercial (including branded ones) companies from these countries are actively working in the Russian consumer markets, making up a significant share of the federal "war budget" with their taxes. There is a chance to fight indefinitely in that circumstances, periodically making leaks about the inevitable "war of #NATO countries against #Russia in 2026-2030".

Do you want proper and fair development of events? Then you need to focus on three basic actions.

1. Real joint investments in conditionally united European military production. And the weapons must go to the battlefield, not into warehouses...

2. A full-fledged audit of sanctions and their subsequent substantial tightening. Without a game of give-and-take. And additional sanctions on "intermediaries" that allow Russia to circumvent them...

3. Real actual isolation of Rf (minimal contacts due to total rejection of international law by #Rf). Businesses cannot work in Russia. Rf cannot receive invitations to global summits...

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

There is no one for whom the ongoing war in Europe does not pose a threat. This war defines more than just the place of Ukraine or entire Europe in the world. This is Russia’s war against any rules at all.

But how long will the world let Russia be like this? This is the main question today.

Please, everyone in the world, do not ask Ukraine when the war will end. Ask yourself – why is Putin still able to continue it.
Let’s not fear Putin’s defeat and the destruction of his regime.

Let’s instead – work together to destroy what he stands for. It is his fate to lose, not the fate of the rules-based world order to vanish.

And may our world, based on rules, never become the world of yesterday.

#MSC2024

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

To the US & German governments:
Ukraine has now taken out Russian radars on Crimea & chased away the Russian Black Sea Fleet after having taken out half of it (not with your arms).
Contrary to your "intelligence," Russia did not respond with a nuclear war.
Start thinking!

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺���� @IAPonomarenko]

My dearest congratulations to @20DaysMariupol, which is now short-listed for the Oscars as a documentary and as a foreign film.

I say it loud and clear that this is one of the most important war documentaries of our time.

What they've done to our City of Mary by the Sea...

[Михайло Подоляк @Podolyak_M]

That's weird.

The Russian Federation is losing entire military units. Elite forces – paratroopers, marines, special forces, contract. 87% of the "regular army", into which an incredible amount of money was pumped before the full-scale invasion and which was literally demonized in many countries, has been destroyed.

Russia is panically withdrawing the remnants of its "Black Sea Fleet" to the bays of Novorossiysk and is already silent about total control in the waters of the Black Sea.

Russia is hysterically searching for shells/ammunition anywhere and already lives under an obligation to North Korea.

Russia conducts endless recruiting in its perpetual prison camps, sending more and more convicts to the war. Russia is not advancing anywhere, piling up corpses and burned wrecks of its armored vehicles...

Yet we continue to read fabulous stories in the media that the Ukrainian offensive is not as successful as it could be (based on a classic two-hour Hollywood blockbuster) and that we should probably start negotiating with... a murderer who is in shock himself.

Weird. Weird again.

What's the point? To demotivate their own politicians and their voters? To let Russia hope that this time too, there's a chance to escape justice? To avoid telling about the "glaring successes" (sarcasm) of the Russians and thereby prolong the debate about the need to ramp up military production and aid to Ukraine? Maybe we should return to standards and start describing what is happening on the battlefield fairly?

And tell, for example, where the entire order-bearing Russian guard divisions disappeared and what happened to key field generals Teplinsky, Zavadsky and a dozen others? Because the objective picture of the war is somewhat different, and despite all the difficulties, Ukraine continues to effectively confront the militaristic Russian Federation for almost two years...

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

To those who have missed the previous 30 years, here is a short list of the results of negotiations with Russia that it never respected:

1. The Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Russia agreed to “respect independence, sovereignty, and the existing borders of Ukraine” as well as “refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine”. Breached by Russia invading Crimea in 2014.

2. The Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty of 1997. Russia agreed to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and “reaffirmed the inviolability of the borders” between the two countries. Russia breached it in 2014.

3. The OSCE Istanbul Summit in 1999. Russia committed to withdrawing its troops from Moldova’s Transdniestrian region and Georgia until the end of 2002. That never happened.

4. The 2008 Georgia ceasefire agreement following Russian aggression against the country. Russia agreed that “Russian military forces must withdraw to the lines prior to the start of hostilities”. That never happened.

5. The Ilovaysk “Green Corridor” in August 2014 and other “humanitarian” death corridors. Russia pledged to let Ukrainian forces leave the encircled town of Ilovaysk in the east of Ukraine, but instead opened fire and killed 366 Ukrainian troops. In the following years, Russia attacked numerous humanitarian corridors in Syria.

6. The “Minsk” agreements of 2014 and 2015. Russia agreed to cease the fire in the east of Ukraine. There had been 200 rounds of talks and 20 attempts to enforce a ceasefire, all of which the Russian side promptly violated. On February 24th, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

7. The 2022 Black Sea Grain Initiative. Russia pledged to “provide maximum assurances regarding a safe and secure environment for all vessels engaged in this initiative." It then hindered the initiative's operation for months before withdrawing unilaterally a year later.

NB: I am only focused on deals made with Russia to address specific issues and conflicts. I am not mentioning almost 400 international treaties that Russia has breached since 2014.

There are no conclusions to be drawn here, except that no one can seriously use the words "Russia" and "negotiations" in the same phrase.

Putin is a habitual liar who promised international leaders that he would not attack Ukraine days before his invasion in February 2022.

Russia's tactic has remained consistent in its many wars over the last three decades: kill, grab, lie, and deny.

Why would anyone genuinely believe that Russia in 2023 is any different from Russia in 1994, 1997, 1999, 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2022?

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

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2. Go to Unilever’s page and leave a comment reminding them that they are sponsoring war crimes.
3. Stop buying their products.

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[tekra @tekra]

@elonmusk Yes, Elon. It concerns only the “true Christian” priests who believe in the God called KGB and his son Putin who blessed many countries with “ the peace”

[Eerik N Kross 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @EerikNKross]

Russia has conducted hundreds of airstrikes on hospitals in Syria since 2015. Physicians for Human Rights have counted 266 such attacks. Where were all the trigger happy idiot journalists then who now jumped to blame Israel for an attack that Israel didn't do?

[Kasper Krogh @KroghKasper1978]

Russiske kommentatorer siger det åbent. En ny krig i Mellemøsten er »fordelagtig« for Putin.

Den vil få Vesten til at glemme og forråde Ukraine, spår de.

Og måske derfor taler Zelenskyj nu om en krig mod terror, skriver @crusoes

https://t.co/EU4wBXZ9ZK

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Friends,

Over the past 567 days, we have seen numerous examples of the UN not fulfilling its "central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security." Terrorist and aggressor state Russia still remains not just in the UN Security Council - it even chaired it this year.

Russia continues vetoing all the important decisions on Ukraine in the UN Security Council. It uses this platform to keep spreading disinformation and outright lies about Russian invasion into Ukraine.

Russia must be kicked out of the UN Security Council! Let's #unrussiaUN together!

Please consider signing this petition: https://t.co/4B1fx5wJBq

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Two brothers, Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG, are inviting the third, TAURUS, to join them.
We have a lot of work to do this autumn.
#freethetaurus #TaurusForUkraine

[Serhiy Prytula @serhiyprytula]

Ми запустили подкаст! Будемо з @_Tymoshenko обговорювати важливі та цікаві тем, які нам обом резонують.

Наш подкаст «Гуртом та Вщент» можна дивитись тут: https://t.co/LBesB2wqNL

Запрошую до перегляду та прослуховування.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Thank you Japan!
For the warmth of our homes in wintertime, for the protection of our soldiers, for your assistance in clearing mines from Ukrainian land. Eight thousand kilometers, as it turns out, is a distance easily bridged between caring hearts. Ukrainians are lucky to have friends in Japan at one of the most difficult moments in our history.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Together we prove that life is a value, that people matter, freedom matters, and Europe matters. And It will be written in history also due to Denmark being with Ukraine.

Jeg takker jer Danmark 🇺🇦🇩🇰

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Read this post and do these three things:
1. Share it with your friends.
2. Go to @Unilever page and leave a comment reminding them that they are sponsoring war crimes.
3. Stop buying their products.

1/n