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Today's front page of The New York Post.

submitted 1 day ago • 718 comments

If you call Zelensky a dictator, you're insulting the entire Ukrainian people. Ukrainians are literally famous for toppling dictators. This war is happening precisely because they ousted one 11 years ago, and they've been bleeding terribly for it ever since.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Let's fact-check the recent post of the US President Donald Trump dedicated to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. ...I mean, why not? youtu.be/NxprEPFJXVY

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

This is alerting. Another alert to watch out for is a change in discourse: russia's war in Ukraine seems now to be 'word-laundered' as 'a conflict' or 'the Ukraine conflict'. This is not a 'conflict between two state actors'. It is a war caused by one actor. A war is a war is a war. russia's war.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Please spread this powerful message as far and wide as possible. Bernie speaks the truth. I wish Bernie was #POTUS, instead of the evil clown we now all have to suffer. #USA #Ukraine #RussiaMustCeaseToExist www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

💢 Senator Sanders: Trump lies about Ukraine, Zelenskyy and Europe while cosying up to Putin – video

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submitted 3 days ago • 998 comments

📉 Russia’s arms exports have plummeted by 92% from 2021 to 2024, dropping from $14.6 billion to just $1 billion.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

The two key take aways from Trump’s post-truth diatribe of narcissistic submission to Putin is that (1) Western democracies are heading out of the bay into open ocean, where some may sink and (2) Article 5 is unlikely to be a reliable security guarantee in the near future.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy. Pretty incredible achievement.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

This post will be quoted everywhere, and I hope journalists will remember to fact check the numbers. U.S. didn't even spend half the amount that Trump claims, and in fact Europe spent more than U.S.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

submitted 4 days ago • 1092 comments

Good stuff.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"Putin is a war criminal and should spend the rest of his life in prison - if he is not executed." – base from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Anybody here have any experience with this program: online.icu/en/news-en/w... #SlavaUkraini #Ukraine

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Madness. Trump really says that Ukraine should never have started the war with Russia. He is twisting the facts and will plunge 38 million Ukrainians into the abyss with his deals. What a disgrace for the USA.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

March 2022 Marco Rubio might have been surprised to learn that a leading figure helping Russia try to achieve its war aims is February 2025 Marco Rubio.

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

Truth. Keep destroying the Russian orcs. Burn it all to the ground. #RussiaMustCeaseToExist #SlavaUkraini

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I can't even.... USA, what happened to you?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The amount of stupid and evil on display here is staggering. USA is lost. Its leaders are all in the pocket of Putin. We stand alone in Europe. Hopefully this will serve as a wake-up call. We urgently need to rebuild or defense industries, and shed the rotten deadweight that is the US.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 7 days ago • 311 comments

If Europe wants to be taken seriously, be serious: 1. Send a permanent team of military advisors & trainers to #Ukraine 2. Commit to sending peacekeeping troops in future 3. Seize the 200Bn€ of Russian assets in the EU to finance 🇺🇦 defense 4. Announce these steps now. #Paris

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

Disgusting. How on earth did USA fall so deep? Such weakness, such cowardice. They've lost themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The US tried to blackmail Ukraine in Munich: sign the mineral deal or no meeting with VP Vance, per European Pravda. When Kyiv sought a compromise, the US rejected all key changes. Zelensky refused to sign under pressure—suddenly, the hardline stance disappeared, and talks with Vance went ahead.

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

If we look at the numbers,it’s obvious how enormous the contribution of the EU to Ukraine’s defense has been.To say that the EU helps Ukraine less than the USA is simply untrue The total aid allocated by Europe to Ukraine over the past 3 years surpasses the US– nearing almost €140 billion,—IFW

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Dear European politicians who for three long years have claimed, that you wanted to defend Ukrainian democracy: Put your military where your mouth is. #UkrainianVictoryNow 🇪🇺♥️🇺🇦

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

#RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaMustCeaseToExist

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

submitted 9 days ago • 230 comments

Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

submitted 10 days ago • 172 comments

I’m not sure you could more effectively and rapidly dismantle the U.S.’s soft power projection and global influence if you tried.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

We now live in a world, where the US President has bent the knee to a violent thug. #Trump is a spineless coward. US weakness and betrayal on full display.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A powerful encapsulation of Western decline - you only get a clown show like this when your institutions are in trouble:

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

russia performed worse in the Corruption Perceptions Index than Honduras and Guinea. The country ranked 154th out of 180 – the worst result in its history.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Putin saying he wants people to stop dying in a war he unleashed and carries on for three years with human wave assaults to the last Russian (and now the last North Korean) at any price, no matter how inadequate and absurd, is like bees standing firm and strong against honey.

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

@anderspucknielsen.dk is the man. No doubt about that. A must subscribe on youtube.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The first Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter for the 🇺🇦 Air Force has arrived in the country, according to statements from the defense ministries of 🇫🇷 and 🇺🇦. With this development, 🇺🇦 gets its second Western-made fighter type, following the arrival of the 🇩🇰 F-16, last summer. www.twz.com/air/first-mi...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The first French Mirage 2000-5s fighter jets pledged to Kyiv have arrived in Ukraine; Ukraine's armed forces have reportedly launched a new offensive in Russia's Kursk Oblast; and more.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Musk has reached the find out phase: In Germany the January sales of electric cars grew 53.5 percent. But the sales of Teslas dropped 59. Thank you Germany! 🇩🇪♥️🇩🇪 www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/k...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments