Torixas

[Torixas @Torixas]

🇳🇱❤️🇺🇦 Operation Stroopwafel is rolling out again.

🚐 Three trips to Ukraine — delivering scarce medical supplies, IT equipment to the 93rd Brugade and Azov. We conclude these trips with donating a van to the Alcatraz Battalion.

🍪 Every €10 donated = one pack of Dutch stroopwafels for the front.

🔗 Donate via https://t.co/nER8Gtct6B

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#OperationStroopwafel #Ukraine #93rdBrigade #NAFO #HumanitarianAid #SlavaUkraini #NAFOfellas #StandWithUkraine #DutchNAFO

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Trump's "ballroom commissioner" Rodney Cook seated next to Steven Seagal at Putin's propaganda event in St Petersburg.

[Ukraine News 🇺🇦 @Ukrainene]

🇺🇦🇩🇪🚀 Ukraine offered Germany a "missile barter" for Patriot, - Bloomberg

Kyiv is asking to transfer dozens of Patriot interceptor missiles this year. In return, Ukraine is offering to return a similar number of missiles to Berlin, but later - when they are manufactured by the Ukrainian defense industry in the future.

[Mariam Lambert : CEO Emile Foundation @Mariam__Lambert]

On the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, I spoke with @RFERL /@current during the @GLOBSEC Forum in Prague about the abduction of Ukrainian children.

This is not only about separation from families. It is about identity, culture, language, and the future of a generation.

When children are used as instruments of war, the consequences extend far beyond Ukraine.

Every child still missing is a reminder that our work at the @emile_fondation is not finished.

Thank you to Ksenia Sokolyanskaya and Pavel Butorin for the interview.
#ProtectChildren #Ukraine

[LX @LXSummer1]

Occupied Crimea ❗
⛽❌ In occupied Crimea and Sevastopol, residents are buying fuel canisters and traveling to Krasnodar Krai to purchase gasoline amid worsening shortages. Up to 100 liters can be transported across the Kerch Bridge, making it a common workaround as hopes of refueling on the peninsula fade.

[Torixas @Torixas]

When you reduce the exchange to assumptions about my motives, my knowledge, or imaginary attempts to ‘silence’ you, you’re no longer engaging with what I actually said.I raised a structural point about narrative asymmetry and Western systemic corruption not about your expertise, not about your career, and not about silencing https://t.co/3Z0nHW19LE still haven’t addressed that argument once.If the response to a structural critique is to attack the person instead of the thesis, that simply shows the thesis couldn’t be met on substance.

[Torixas @Torixas]

When a discussion about structural corruption is reduced to assumptions about my motives, my knowledge, or which leaders I ‘adore,’ it stops being analysis and becomes https://t.co/HJItmxvWhn point has been consistent: Western systemic corruption, insider trading, regulatory capture, tax havens is vastly larger in financial scale, yet rarely framed as corruption. Ukraine’s corruption is real, but its hyper‑visibility compared to Western normalization creates a narrative https://t.co/V7hAXqnszM still haven’t addressed that argument once.If the response to a structural critique is to invent positions I never held (‘adoring kleptocrats’) or to claim that mentioning Western corruption is somehow ‘trashing NATO,’ that simply shows the argument couldn’t be met on substance. 👋

[Torixas @Torixas]

When a discussion about structural corruption is met with personal insults, invented stories about who hid where, and claims about who ‘got their ass handed to them,’ it’s no longer a debate it’s ego.I raised a clear analytical point: Western systemic corruption is normalized, Ukraine’s is hyper‑visible, and that asymmetry shapes the discourse. You still haven’t addressed that once.If the only response is to attack the person instead of the argument, that simply shows the argument couldn’t be met on substance.

[Torixas @Torixas]

When a discussion about structural corruption shifts into personal insults, war metaphors and dominance language, it stops being about Ukraine or NATO and becomes a performance of https://t.co/LwUAmdifch original point was about narrative asymmetry: Western systemic corruption is normalized, Ukraine’s is hyper‑visible, and that imbalance shapes discourse. You haven’t addressed that once.If the only response to a structural argument is mockery, it simply shows the argument couldn’t be answered on substance

[Torixas @Torixas]

@don_bowser @Soppie_nl @PaulConRO Btw lots of deflection 😉

[Torixas @Torixas]

@don_bowser @Soppie_nl @PaulConRO I hope you can respond more professionally when you are doing your job and not randomly stuff your opinion in someone’s face on Twitter

[PaulC @PaulConRO]

The President of Romania has appointed a new prime minister, a guy born in Ukraine.

[Torixas @Torixas]

And just to be clear I do read Ukrainian news, and I hear the discussions among Ukrainians themselves, including friends. I’m not ignoring that at all.But Twitter is not Ukraine, and the Western discourse on Twitter is shaped by Western framing, not by Ukrainian society. That’s exactly why I’m raising the point about narrative https://t.co/Vc2o2Y9oZZ intention isn’t to deny Ukrainian agency it’s to highlight how Western systemic corruption is normalized while Ukraine’s is hyper‑visible. That imbalance matters when discussing corruption in a global context.

[Torixas @Torixas]

I hear your point about wartime stakes, and I’m not dismissing Ukrainian voices at all.
What I’m reacting to is the tone of your replies, it shifts quickly into moral absolutism and sarcasm (‘Westplain’), which makes it hard to discuss structural issues calmly. My point remains simple: Ukraine’s corruption is real, but Western systemic corruption is far larger in financial scale and far more normalized. When Western experts focus almost exclusively on Ukraine, it creates a narrative asymmetry, regardless of what Ukrainians themselves say.I’m trying to discuss that imbalance, not deny Ukrainian agency. Perhaps something to consider and not stay trapped in tunnnelvision

[Torixas @Torixas]

So corruption is only important if a country fights for existence? I’m not disputing Ukraine’s need for reforms. My point is that Western corruption — insider trading, regulatory capture, tax havens, corporate fraud — is far larger in financial scale, yet rarely framed as corruption. When Western experts focus exclusively on Ukraine, it reinforces a skewed narrative. How do we balance that?

[Margo Gontar 🔱 @MargoGontar]

So, Germany now doesn’t have a vote at UN Security Council , but somehow Russia, who’s been bombing its neighbour right as we speak somehow does? World is a peculiar place right now.

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

Moscow is killing our children. No words in the world can ever ease this unbearable pain and horror.

According to official figures alone, Russia has taken the lives of 707 Ukrainian children. Another 2,548 have been wounded and maimed by explosions. More than 20,000 have been abducted and forcibly taken from their homes. These are just dry numbers, but each one represents a lifetime of pain for a Ukrainian family.

Today, June 4, is the Day of Remembrance for Children Killed as a Result of Russia’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine.

Everything the Russians are doing amounts to genocide. It is a systematic and clearly planned attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation. They deliberately target our children, committing war crimes for which there can be no justification. They are destroying our history, our memory, and trying to physically kill our future.

We will never forgive the Russians for this. There is no and will never be any justification or forgiveness for crimes committed against our children. Everyone who gave these orders and everyone who carried them out will be found and destroyed. The ground will burn beneath your feet wherever you try to hide.

There are no words that can comfort parents whose lives have been shattered forever by Russian killers. But we have a duty: to bring home every abducted child and to do everything to ensure that the truth about these crimes is heard around the world.

Eternal memory to the innocent victims of Russian terror.
Glory to Ukraine!

[Torixas @Torixas]

Ok. There’s corruption in Ukraine, no doubt. But let me ask you this.. you are aware of the insider trading atm in the U.S. no one is held accountable, so why is Ukraine treated as an anti‑corruption laboratory, while Western countries with far larger corruption footprints are not? With more accountability in Ukraine

[Torixas @Torixas]

@don_bowser @Soppie_nl @PaulConRO You think we are morons don’t you. Today’s new. NATO promised 6 billion for airdefense. We in month 6. Delivered 1B. So bugger off with petty billions in UAH over years, there’s bigger fish to catch. Now I keep you silent. Silly prick