However, Biden’s appeasement policy reminds us of Chamberlain, and Trump’s policy looks like capitulation. No historic parallels can be drawn, because no other leader in the West has ever placed the interests of an aggressor above those of an ally.🧵9/17 - ThreadSky

glandsbergis.bsky.social • 17 hours ago

However, Biden’s appeasement policy reminds us of Chamberlain, and Trump’s policy looks like capitulation. No historic parallels can be drawn, because no other leader in the West has ever placed the interests of an aggressor above those of an ally.🧵9/17

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jovotesblue.bsky.social•8 hours ago

May I respectfully disagree. President Biden did all he could to support Ukraine. He will never get the respect or recognition he deserves because media and the MAGA Republicans wanted their tax breaks.

paulsheehan.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Indeed, Biden’s immediate response to the invasion was the very extensive and brutal sanctions against Russia. That they were so devastatingly effective is evidenced by, among many other things, the numerous defenestrations of Putin critics over the following year, and the collapsing ruble.

birgitt.bsky.social•16 hours ago

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-intelligence-officer-alnur-mussayev-claims-kgb-recruited-donald-trump-under-codename-krasnov/

glandsbergis.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Trump the self-appointed peacemaker is increasing the likelihood of war, not decreasing it. Putin is being given a licence to kill, not a one-way ticket to The Hague. It’s even more than a licence to kill, it’s an invitation.🧵10/17

jan.brogger.no•17 hours ago

Europe is strong, if we want it to be.

moordeifl.bsky.social•3 hours ago

😭 these egomaniacs with cravings for revenge will let the world burn to rule over the ashes. europe must shed its corset and form a new coalition without fckptn's puppet orban blocking decisions. the brainless orange wig is just parroting what the last person he met told him.

spewintothis.bsky.social•12 hours ago

📌

pietervanpelt.bsky.social•16 hours ago

At my age (82),I have seen it all. Hungary, Tsecho-Slowakie, Poland, Romania, East-Germany (when the empire fell), and the final crumbling of the Sovjet Union. The brief spring of Gorbachov and then the rise of Putin. Restoration of the Russian empire.

bobortiz.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I'm somewhat jealous you saw the fall of the Soviet Union. Can't wait to see the fall of russia myself in my lifetime, hopefully soon.

pietervanpelt.bsky.social•16 hours ago

But I never saw this coming. The bastion of freedom, the USA, being enslaved by a criminal real estate tycoon, doing Putin's bidding. How deep did we fall. It is insane. Europa must save democracy and the rule of law and do this on our own. The trans-Atlantic alliens is broken.

bobortiz.bsky.social•14 hours ago

What's your vision on the best path forward for Europe?

newmexicanextexan.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I live in New Mexico. We vote Democratic. We are horrified and ashamed at the Republican treachery toward Ukraine.

pietervanpelt.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Read George Orwell's book "1984" and see how this all may play out. Orwell was a visionary in 1936 !! He predicted in a way our current situation..

ellenenders.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I've been watching it happen...the corruption of the GOP & malign foreign influence
We are such an ignorant country...so ignorant about history & other countries
And so influenced by money & celebrity & unself aware of our weaknesses (racism for one)

godfly.bsky.social•4 hours ago

😥

ca4ua.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Canada still stands, however threatened. We remain with you.

pietervanpelt.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I have two brothers and a sister living in Canada. All at a ripe age, 65 plus. My other sisters still live in Netherlands where I live. So we are a Dutch - Canada family. Rather unusual.

maxim.wzzrd.com•4 hours ago

I fucking love this image

judeet44.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I wonder whether the thawing of relations with Russia during Gorbachev contributed to the world taking their eye off the ball with regards the ever-present danger of Russia and it's avowed intent to destroy the West?

glandsbergis.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Putin escalated in 2022 because he believed President Biden’s responses were weak. If he escalates now, it will be because he sees that President Trump doesn’t care, or doesn’t realise how weak America’s stance appears to be.🧵11/17

davidslevine.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Thank you for this perspective. Trump has been bankrupt several times, and is known to all who does business with him as a cheat who doesn’t pay his bills. He has a bully’s sense of the world, and no self-awareness or empathy. It’s why he admires Putin and can be played by him at the same time.

freedomshift.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Thank you. This was fierce and clear eyed.

glandsbergis.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Iron Curtain 2.0 is a blurred boundary of indifference, of hesitation, of shirked responsibility. And this suits Putin, because he doesn’t want the West safe and sustainable behind a fixed border, he wants the West to fail completely.🧵12/17

glandsbergis.bsky.social•17 hours ago

And so the only hope for Europe is Europe itself. But Europe was never designed to move fast or break things. Europe was designed to be slow, calm, and never again able to fight against itself.🧵13/17

glandsbergis.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Putin’s only hope is that Europe stays in a self-induced coma, unable to seize frozen assets, unable to manufacture weapons, unable to move troops in any significant numbers. Unable to defend the values that were chosen for very good reasons.🧵14/17

glandsbergis.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It is far too late for further discussion on this. We know what needs to be done, we have talked ourselves almost to death. Now the only thing left to do is to back up the words with actions.🧵15/17

sjoblom.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Not all!🇫🇮

sjoblom.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Not all!🇫🇮

fritzbischoff.bsky.social•4 hours ago

👏👏👏👏👏

sulali.bsky.social•1 hour ago

📌

jeb2025.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Yes, “today not tomorrow”. 💪🏼🇺🇦💪🏼

johndalton1108.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Biden is to blame but much less remember Republicans have been calling his support for Ikraibe waste of US money for very long time. Unfortunately Biden had to care abt local politics too

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