It's always a pleasure to be in conversation with Volodymyr Yermolenko, one of my favorite interlocutors, for whom *thinking* is always a moral imperative.

Trump, Israel, Iran, and Ukraine: Alex Vindman on the State of American Foreign Relations "We are hyper-transactional, we are extremely short-sighted, and nobody embodies this flaw more so than Donald Trump."

Trump, Israel, Iran, and Ukraine: Alex Vindman on the State of American Foreign Relations
"We are hyper-transactional, we are extremely short-sighted, and nobody embodies this flaw more so than Donald Trump."
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Days - 1200
Victories-0
Casualties - 995,000🌻
Ruble-💩🧻
Oil price - ↘️
Economy - 🚽
War crimes - ♾
Bombers - -30%
Bridge - 🌉💥
Oil refineries - 💥🔥
Scooters - 💥
Trump/Musk - 😭
Racoons - 1

I remain a master strategist

Dass diese Rechtfertigung als Nachricht in den halbstündigen Nachrichten lief, das zeigt, wie gut der Informationskrieg für Russland immer noch läuft.

Tag 1199 seit Russland die Ukraine kontinuierlich angreift. In der letzten Nacht eskalierten die bisher schon brutalen Angriffe auf Charkiw und seine Bürger.
Vergeltung?
Nein. Weitere Kriegsverbrechen, die Russen mit der Zerstörung ihrer Bomber rechtfertigen.

Morning from Kyiv!
The night was calm here,
but russians terrorize other parts of Ukraine.

Five people were killed, including a child in the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast. Houses in a residential area were damaged.

I had my warcoffee. Life is precious. Time has taught people nothing.

A writing on the wall of a cafe in Kharkiv.
Our current life is in those four lines written by Vitalii Lisovytskyy:

"Put on your warmest pants,
Or your feet will get cold in the shelter.
I have loved you long before the war,
And I'll say that on Victory Day."

Heartwarming.

Kyiv Book Arsenal

So ist es.

"Europe at a crossroads": Open letter calls for 180,000 European troops to defend Ukraine - Euromaidan Press 500 European intellectuals implore Europe to send boots on the ground ahead of another possible Russian invasion

"Europe at a crossroads"

Wir sind überzeugt,dass eine Absicherung der territorialen Integrität der Ukraine nur mit europäischen Truppen gelingen kann.Deshalb dieser offene Brief unterzeichnet von 500 Intellektuellen u Personen des öffentlichen Lebens.
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A BlueSky thread by VITSCHE on Skyview 1/ Wir haben @rebharms.bsky.social, Ehemalige EU-Abgeordnete gefragt, was sie zu den Forderungen sagt, die Ukraine-Hilfe zu stoppen ⬇️

Was sagt @rebharms.bsky.social zur Ukraine-Hilfe?
Thread:👇

skyview.social?url=https://

1/ Wir haben @rebharms.bsky.social, Ehemalige EU-Abgeordnete gefragt, was sie zu den Forderungen sagt, die Ukraine-Hilfe zu stoppen ⬇️

Kühl am Bosporus...
@rebharms.bsky.social

Und der Frühling kommt doch.

Vor Ortaköy...
@rebharms.bsky.social

Not to mention that this award for a TASS Photo taken in Georgia happens while Georgian journalists and photographers are beaten, incarcerated and tortured by Ruzzia’s puppets in Tbilisi because they are documenting the protests in Georgia.

It is also an examplary story about how to lose the war on information. It shows how Western media are useful for ruzzian propagandists & media. After years of debates on the war on information and ruzzian state media @WorldPressPhoto offers the big stage to @tass_agency….

Selçuk Salih Caydı / 19 Mart ve Dünya Demokrasi Cephesi YouTube video by Konstantiniye notları

YouTube’da yeni Podcast:

“19 Mart ve Dünya Demokrasi Cephesi”

Bkz: youtu.be/yMG_uQa3sPw?si…

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Meanwhile No 47 is talking about US interest in rare earth of Ukraine.
Shame.

Dass zu Nordstream noch offene Briefe geschrieben werden müssen, das ist im 4. Jahr seit der Zeitenwende schon erschreckend.

Ich habe diesen offenen Brief gern mit unterschrieben. Die künftige Bundesregierung sollte klar machen, wo sie Russland- und Energiepolitisch steht.

libmod.de/offener-brie...

Administration’s Details on Deportation Flights ‘Woefully Insufficient,’ Judge Says In an angry order, the judge, James E. Boasberg, told the Trump administration to explain why he should not find that officials had violated his instructions for the flights to return to the United St...

Breaking News: A federal judge in Washington demanded Trump officials answer questions about two flights that deported Venezuelans, calling previous details “woefully insufficient.”

“Mitgemacht” scheint mir untertrieben.

France and Italy Stall EU Push to Commit Ammunition for Ukraine An effort by European Union leaders to deliver €5 billion ($5.4 billion) to secure ammunition for Ukraine this year was held up by France and Italy, European diplomats said, another sign of the challe...

Can't help but say it.

As too often, France champions strategic autonomy - then waits for someone else to fund it. Not a good look.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

re: UK participation in EU defense

President of Finland Alexander Stubb at a joint press-conference with President Zelenskyy:

I think the basis of statehood usually rests on three pillars: independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity. And Finland in 1944 with the peace of Stalin lost two of those pillars.