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International Trade, Productivity, Security @ Aston Centre for Business Prosperity | Born and raised in Ukraine | Large data analysis enthusiast | Views my own #EconSky #trade #economics
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you wanna talk about waste and fraud? trump went all the way to rome just to take a nap

What is he talking about?

(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

Chinese officials have insisted that no tariff negotiations are occurring, even as President Trump — whose trade war has rattled financial markets and threatened to disrupt huge swaths of trade — suggested on Friday that he has been in touch with Xi Jinping.

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump. This is a REAL section of the transcript. It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.

Watching America reduced to the needy lapdog of this preening fascist is truly horrific.

"Taiwan Semiconductor's Arizona Factory Faces $441 Million Loss Amid Supply Chain, Labor Cost Challenges" 🤔 finance.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-... "The Arizona factory hugely depends on importing key components and raw materials"

“a neighbor girl, a ray of sunshine, got burned alive, together with her father. they were refugees. she was playing with her dog. now she is gone, her dad is gone. everything was on fire” Valentyna survived russian attack on Pavlohrad, her neighbors did not

Winning bigly with the art of the deal

I sat in Kyiv last September hearing Johnson assure the Ukrainians that Trump would back them and get them a great deal. It’s was a cruel act of a dissembler.

Vladimir, stop? Has the U.S. ever looked weaker?

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war” - risks becoming Trump’s political epitaph, unless Kyiv and its European allies can somehow persuade him to change course, writes the FT’s editorial board about Trump’s disastrous push for “peace”.

Russia and Putin's peace initiatives in action. #StayWithUkraine

‼️ Today's missile strike is connected with the pressure of Russia on the US, — Zelensky 📍Yesterday Russia was counting on a big scandal in London when we met with the Americans, but this did not happen; 📍Now we are much stronger than at the beginning of the war.

💔 A brother and sister died in Kyiv: the boy was 21 years old, the girl was 19 years old, — Zelensky

‼️‼️ Combined massive attack by Russia against Ukraine (video - direct hit on a high-rise building in Kyiv): ▪️Kyiv: Now it is known about 10 dead and about 100 injured and people are still being searched for under the rubble. Strikes on residential buildings and more than 20 fires.

Kyiv today 💔 russia launched a massive combined strike. 9 people were killed, 63 injured, 42 hospitalised, including 6 children 🔗 www.facebook.com/DSNS.GOV.UA

Russian barbarians attacked various parts of Kyiv, killing and injuring dozens of civilians, including nine children. The evil savages continue to pursue their genocidal objectives by depopulating Ukrainian cities of Ukrainians.

Nine killed, 63 wounded in Kyiv after mass attack last night by russian cruise missiles and drones. Good morning, the West. I am visiting Kyiv city hall office next hours, finalizing my residence permit paperwork. Show me any European capital so capable of functioning.

This outrageous blackmail attempt on Ukraine will go down as a dark moment in diplomacy history. Unlike past leaders who admitted their mistakes, we now have a demagogue who continues his failure, blames the victims, and talks about deals even as conflict continues. This isn't leadership.

Trump asked today, why didn’t Ukraine fight back in Crimea in 2014? As I wrote in my book, The War Came To Us, Ukraine’s decision to not fight against Russia’s invasion was largely influenced by behind-the-scenes pressure from the US. Here’s what then-interim President Oleksandr Turchynov told me:

Warrior culture

Trump failed to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine. He started a tariff war that hurt market, weakened the USD, and damaged confidence - without securing any good deals. Now he’s caving to China in tariff wars. No production is returning. All he did was boost Xi and Putin’s confidence. Pure incompetence

restoring the warrior ethos

Trump is an appeaser. Trump is a useful idiot. Trump is Putin's poodle. Trump will go down in ignimony as an enemy of democracy, an enemy of decency and an enabler of a murderous fucking tyrant. But none of that helps Ukraine. Ukraine needs allies NOW and Europe and the UK need to STEP UP. NOW

Reminds me of that NFL pool I was in once, where I kept getting the Jets wrong. Finally I resolved to pick the opposite of my Jets-game pick, which worked great for a couple weeks--until I could no longer discern whether "my Jets-game pick" was my actual pick or its opposite.

🚨🚨 #Trump's absolutely despicable betrayal of Zelenskyy and public #Putin appeasement is so flagrant and utterly shameless that he sounds more like a #kremlin spokesperson than a president of the United States. What a fucking useless and massively incompetent cunt. 👇👇

America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump did we have a president who combined all these nefarious qualities.

Zelensky isn't going to agree to this We'll know if the US is bluffing by the end of the day

The United States now refuses to contribute to individual and collective security in the North Atlantic area. In particular, it doesn't oppose Russia's invasion. As the U.S. doesn't respect the articles of the North Atlantic Treaty it should leave NATO or suspend its membership.

We’re eliminating programs that save millions of people from disease And ending a lot of research that has cured diseases and will cure more Because we need to funnel resources into AI Because someday it may be able to figure out cures for disease Do I have that right?

I mean, seriously?

Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you're wondering why so many right wing individuals are saying hateful things about the late Pope, the reason is simple: he told them that they should care about other people.

Going back to the exact status quo ante bellum that enabled Russia to invade Ukraine is not a serious approach to end the war in Ukraine — as everyone knows.

USD is falling today, Trump is risking losing any remaining control over the US financial system

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Trump’s Easter message to America is about all the Americans he hates and has nothing to do with Easter.

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

Today is Day 9. 0 deals.

Trump has zero credibility abroad and will soon lose all US influence. I wonder what he is going to tweet when either country starts having a bilateral trade surplus against the US

Will anyone tell Grandpa that the US has been off the gold standard since he graduated from college?