I’ve just spent a week in Ukraine speaking Ukrainian everywhere and was SO appreciated!

fuck, man, let's go a step further and imagine gas stations start paying us to fill our tanks

They have no cards besides the cards they have

Translation Tuesday: Three Poems by Maryna Ponomarenko - Asymptote Blog The sky is closing.

Asymptote have published three of my translations of poems by Maryna Ponomarenko on their Translation Tuesday blog

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They’re repeating this more and more often. Ukrainian leadership knows what that means.

Great story! The first time I heard the chant “live” was at an Okean Elzy concert.

Minor obstacles in trump’s way here would appear to include: starting wars; being a client of Russia; loving dictators and hating democracy; being psychologically very ill; having the self-awareness of a dead squid.

“We must remain prudent” = “You’ve been crapping in the garden forever and that isn’t about to change”.

Zelenskyy hears about this and 28 seconds later he’s in Saudi Arabia doing a new deal … honestly, China’s poodle Russia and Russia’s poodle the USA can lie down now or later, as they wish, it’s only a timing issue

“I officially hold to the line that if you say the opposite of the truth long enough …”

Some part of Rubio knows there are things you shouldn’t say out loud. But of course it’s true. Those real estate guys have been coached to go in and say the same thing over and over and just wait and see if the constant repetition gets you anything.

“We’ve told the Ukrainians what Russia is demanding”=“We’re fine with what Russia is demanding”. Trump and his cult may feel strong and far away, but assiduously destroying the USA plus being OK with invasion, murder, rape, torture, child kidnapping, culturecide & ecocide … could be a perfect storm

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Zelenskyy has an all-round superior gift for timing

It was because he knew his endorsement was poison

Prez, relax!!

At least Putin had the self-awareness to endorse Biden!

Oh yeah they’ve cleaned up their doping game! That’s the most important thing! Spending four years trying to destroy Ukraine? Keep politics out of sport, please …

… just like the Russians do …

Why do I keep hearing pieces of silver jingle?

Yes but how sweetly those 30 pieces of silver jingle

Jesus yes please walk right away

So we’ll be seeing sanctions put back on Russia, then.

Thought not.

“Kyiv in three days … no region of Russia can feel safe”.

Kaja Kallas should have been NATO secretary general.

Mark Rutte is a 🤡

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It’s always intrigued me that the Russian leadership is so happy to admit their incompetence. Everything bad that happens inside Russia has been perpetrated by outside forces. I guess they just wander about leaving the doors open?

Too far underground

“Of course we’ll have to keep Russian sanctions lifted to compensate them for the chaos we’ve caused.”

Man, the war is over, the straits are great. Who’s going to audit the use of this $200 billion?

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