Here are 10 things the EU and European countries could do right now to help Ukraine:
1. Seize frozen Russian state assets and use them to fund Ukraine.
2. Expand weapons aid and joint procurement, including artillery, drones, ammunition, and air defense systems.
3. Supply more long-range missiles (SCALP, Taurus) and remove restrictions on strikes against military targets inside Russia.
4. Deploy European troops to western Ukraine for training, logistics, maintenance, and air defense, freeing up Ukrainian forces for the front.
5. Crack down on sanctions evasion networks and tighten enforcement.
6. Intensify action against Russia's shadow fleet through inspections, sanctions, and port restrictions.
7. Create a Patriot coalition to provide more air defense systems and interceptors.
8. Launch a European lend-lease (PURL) program with long-term financing for weapons and industrial cooperation.
9. Lower the Russian oil price cap and ban remaining Russian LNG imports.
10. Commit to a postwar European peacekeeping and security presence to deter future Russian aggression.
By doing this, we could accelerate Russia's total collapse, but the biggest constraints for these actions are political will and speed.
Elon is the embodiment of this meme. At the very moment he became the world's first trillionaire (on paper), he was busy stoking unrest and racist protests in the UK.
There is a simple solution to the problem of Irish alumina ending up fueling Russia's war machine, and it could be implemented within months:
Ban alumina exports to Russia.
Without commenting on the usefulness of the EEAS, attacking Kaja Kallas has long been one of the Kremlin's favorite activities.
She has taken a strong stance on Russia and China, helped deliver several hard-hitting sanctions packages, and given some extremely powerful speeches on Russia and its imperial ambitions.
There is probably some constructive criticism in the article, but in the coming weeks it will be used relentlessly as propaganda, attacking "unelected Brussels eurocrats" and portraying the entire Union as weak and useless.
They are doing this because European unity and Ukrainian resilience are helping Ukraine hold the line and because Russia is losing. The Kremlin wants to avert the strategic disaster that would come with defeat and the eventual decolonization of the Russian Empire.
If russia will be ready to invade NATO in 2029 or earlier, sound policy would be for NATO countries to engage the russian invaders in combat in Ukraine now and defeat them – before it's too late.
Russia has sent their Kremlin state TV host Chay Bowes from RT to Ireland to defend their refinery. It shows they are genuinely worried about it getting sanctioned.
On the plus side all the signs are in russian so it was easy for them to find the place to make their propaganda
Now that SpaceX is preparing for its IPO, it's a good time to remind people who Elon Musk is. In addition to becoming the world's first trillionaire, he has publicly defended sex traffickers and pedophiles, even asking Epstein to be invited to his "wildest parties."
This tweet has since been deleted - let's not let people forget:
"Mass grave, 79 soldiers of the Soviet army"
Here, in Finnish soil, 79 invaders rest nameless and forgotten.
Just like hundreds of thousands of their relatives do in Ukraine today.
It's a russian tradition.
Nah, it's from invading your neighbors to destroy towns and cities, bombing children's hospitals, apartment buildings, churches, bus stops, and infrastructure amidst cold winters to freeze millions of people, hunting civilians with drones, raping, abducting... among other things
@__Mellanmjolk__@FredricMorenius Att stödja Ukraina mot ryssland är i högsta grad att försvara Sverige. Utgången av kriget i Ukraina berör också i högsta grad säkerheten för Sverige. Att kunna slå en angripare som attackerar Sverige betyder att kunna slå ryssland.
@__Mellanmjolk__@FredricMorenius "Vi försvarar oss mot alla hot", hotet är ryssland, vi besegrar ryssland ungefär som Ukraina gör nu - då hamnar vi såklart i din tanke om ryska kränvapen, eller hur? Du vill ju också att vi ska krypa för ryska kärnvapen - så jag ställer frågan hur går de här tankegångarna ihop?
@__Mellanmjolk__@FredricMorenius Jag tror att du är ryss pga din bristande svenska. Du skriver t.ex. formuleringar saker som "...svårt att skilja på fiktion och verkligheten". En svensk borde skriva "...svårt att skilja på fiktion och verklighet". Hoppade du av högstadiet?