Ulf Göransson

What? Why? How? Questions I try to answer at the interface between chemistry and biology.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Never forget the GOP lawmakers & right-wing media who babbled endlessly about Hunter Biden yet remain silent at the grotesque levels of Trump and family self-enrichment. And if you think the family's days in politics will be over when Trump Sr. is gone, you still don't get it.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The acting U.S. ambassador in Kyiv, Julie Davis, is stepping down after clashing with Trump over his weakening support for Ukraine—FT

Last year, Bridget Brink, who served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine for three years, resigned over Trump’s anti-Ukraine policies.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

The Trump administration has rewarded Russian terrorism by quietly removing sanctions on Russian oil at the end of Friday work hours today, just one day after Russian ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine killed at least 18 civilians including a child and injured over 100.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Congratulations to @magyarpeterMP and the TISZA party on their resounding victory. It is important when constructive approach prevails.

Ukraine has always sought good-neighbourly relations with everyone in Europe and we are ready to advance our cooperation with Hungary.

Europe and every European nation must get stronger, and millions of Europeans seek cooperation and stability.

We are ready for meetings and joint constructive work for the benefit of both nations, as well as peace, security, and stability in Europe.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Take a moment to fully appreciate what you are witnessing: the President of the United States is campaigning so aggressively for a pro-Russian autocrat that he has reached the point of effectively attempting to bribe the entire nation into re-electing said pro-Russian autocrat.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Allies? What does Hungary do for the US? Or do you mean your personal ally and his and your personal prosperity? Trying to buy Hungarian votes with American taxpayer money on Putin's orders may be a new low for Trump, at least until he surpasses it tomorrow.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Including Russia, right? RIGHT?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Vance: ​“What I would say to both Russians and Ukrainians is we're talking about haggling over a few square kilometers of territory. Is that worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional russian and Ukrainian young men?"

Vance is once again failing to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim, attempting to convince you that it is acceptable to pressure the victim into complying with the aggressor’s demands.

He fails to recognize that he is not only urging Ukraine to surrender territories, but also the people who live there, our homes, and our most fortified defense lines dooming us for future attacks, because this war is not at all about territory, but about Ukraine existence as a state.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

"A whole civilization will die tonight” are words no President of the United States had ever spoken until this morning. Donald Trump’s behavior is unhinged and making Americans less safe. After a 25-year career in the United States Navy, I have never met or served with anyone who so completely lacks the qualities of good leadership as Donald Trump does.

If the President takes the actions he has threatened to take, countless Iranian civilians will die, it will massively escalate this war, and the United States will be seen as a country without a moral or ethical compass. That will make Americans less safe right now and risk the lives of thousands of service members. The consequences will have a lasting and damaging effect on our nation.

Trump's mistakes have led us to this perilous moment, but the solution is not to escalate even further. This must stop.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting this article: Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the EU. Vance wants this for America?
https://t.co/Qx1CaKNL2E

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator.

The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization.

Congress is on recess.

This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Vance's speech in Budapest is truly outrageous:
1. The US vice president campaigns for an enemy of the EU & NATO, but a friend of Putin & China.
2. Vance attacks the EU for pressuring Hungary, but Hungary has received net about 3% of GDP a year from the EU, but it has squandered much on corruption.
3. In effect, Vance argues that the EU should promote corruption just as the Trump administration does.
Trump and Vance fight freedom and the rule of law in favor of autocracy, kleptocracy and Russia.
US foreign policy has hit the bottom.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

I hope this statement is the end of Rubio in Europe:
1. Trump has insisted on annexing Canada & Greenland, which are part of NATO. That aggression is impermissible.
2. The main threat to European security is Russia's aggression against Ukraine & Europe. Your National Security Strategy ignores that and claims that Europe is the main threat.
3. The US has cut off all assistance to Ukraine.
4. The US has voted with Russia & a dozen of its rouge states in the UN claiming that Russia did not pursue a war of aggression against Ukraine.
5. NATO Article 5 has only been invoked once, but the US in 2001 after 9/11 & the whole of NATO stood up for the US.
6. Trump has repeatedly insulted the allies that lost about 1,000 soldiers for the US in Afghanistan.
7. Trump has all along claimed that NATO allies do not pay their share of NATO costs, which is untrue. They are now spending more on their own defense because nobody trusts the US under Trump.
8. Trump incessantly insults NATO allies for no reason. If you don't know how to behave, you deserve no sympathy or support.
9. The US started a mad war of aggression on Iran without consulting any allies but Israel. Immediately afterwards Trump started insulting allies as usual.
10. Trump's war on Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz & is causing a global economic crisis, which is entirely due to the stupidity and power of Trump, but you are defending this atrocity.
If you don't know how to think or behave, shut up!

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

I am honoured to receive the Order of Princess Olha.

Ukraine has been on my mind every day since Russia started its war of aggression.

Thank you again, dear @ZelenskyyUa, for this great honour.

I will do what I can to support your country defend itself.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Attacking civilian infrastructure, and acutely desalinization plants, is a war crime. Will 🇺🇸 armed forces accept orders to do so?

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The US delegation is now meeting with the dictator of Belarus, a country with a GDP smaller than the US state of Vermont.

Putin needs the US to take sanctions off Belarus to use it as a conduit for western technology for the Russian war machine. The US gains absolutely nothing, but surely the Trump family will make billions from the coming arrangement.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NEW: Jared Kushner, one of the U.S. government’s chief negotiators in the Middle East, is working to raise $5B for his private equity firm from governments in the region, the New York Times reports.

His team has already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which previously invested $2B in the firm.

Corruption in broad daylight.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

@SEPeaceMissions @fpleitgenCNN Did you talk about Russians giving intel on American soldiers and bases to Iranians?

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

If a government attacks its own people, silences journalists, and curtails freedom, there are consequences.

This is why the European Union has now suspended visa-free travel for Georgian diplomats and officials over the country’s democratic backsliding and its crackdown on protesters.

My statement with @MartaKosEU ↓
https://t.co/HVcwTHv9hj

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

How could Trump not fail on everything: No knowledge, no strategy, no preparations, no thinking, just crude attempts at personal money making & propaganda.
Trump and his crew are an extraordinary embarrassment to the US.
And it will only get worse.