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1/7. In case you haven’t been following, here is a short summary of the misnamed Russian-American "peace process" regarding Ukraine.

Elbows up, Canada!

Hard truths: - US is gone - Peace deal is a long time off, not currently realistic - Russia must be defeated on battlefield - Strategy has to be: - help Ukr defeat Ru - build European forces to deter Could result in hot war for UK/EU regardless. youtu.be/2lghJcrrvb4?...

This goes for anything for which the US is the single or principal supplier. Another example? Cloud IT services. If Trump weaponised access to @microsoft365.microsoft.com @googleworkspace.bsky.social, @amazonwebservices.bsky.social, Azure etc, even for a day, entire economies could be screwed.

An alleged Belarusian refugee is accused of setting fire to a Warsaw hypermarket on behalf of Russian intelligence, Polish prosecutors say.

When it was just a ship rushing headlong into an anchored tanker full of jet fuel, leased to the US mlitary, easily spotted miles off, we only raised an eyebrow. But now there's surely grounds for at least a little suspicion as to whether this was really an accident? news.sky.com/story/captai...

This has the potential to turn Teslas into a red MAGA baseball hat you can drive.

Deeply concerning news about our friend and former BF teammate Rebecca Burke whose backpacking trip to the US has ended with her being detained by ICE for over ten days, with no clear timeline for her release. Please read her father's statement here: www.facebook.com/paulrburke

Twitter down. Tesla stocks down. SpaceX crashing down. Concerning.

And now Trump is turning off military aid to Ukraine too. What will it take for European leaders to see that clinging onto false hope will prevent us from saving ourselves? Trump is not someone we can negotiate with in good faith. Plan B now. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...

Every one of these points is correct, and this is where we will end up. Too many people are wasting too much time on the delusion that a peace plan can be made to work, and that the US will have anyone's back going forward. We need to change gears now, not next year or even next month.

"They" in this context means Ukraine AND Europe, not just Zelensky as I saw @skynewsrss.bsky.social report. Trump is signalling he *won't* provide a US backstop. I fear Kier Starmer is flogging a dead horse, and just hope he has a plan B, as from here on in it looks as though Europe is on our own.