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France & Italy are slowing down a €20B aid package for Ukraine, citing budget constraints & diplomatic concerns. The package includes 1.5M rounds, air defense support & troop training, but faces resistance from Hungary, Slovakia & now key EU players. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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🇺🇸 TIME cover when Trump first became President. Unfortunately, fits current events…

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Americans should know that Trump just abandoned allies with a combined GDP equivalent to US GDP, in exchange for Russia which has a GDP only 6% the size of US GDP. And Trump convinced MAGA that they were all going to be rich.

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Der Spiegel cover 👀🇺🇦

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Another collapse of opinion. Trump claims Zelensky doesn't need to attend peace negotiations since his presence isn't crucial. Meanwhile, he insists that Putin could have seized all of Ukraine if he truly wanted to. According to Trump, the war in Ukraine isn't Russia's fault at all.

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🚫🇺🇸 The United States has signalled it could leave an international effort to prosecute Russia for invading Ukraine, - The Telegraph

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Said a man who was fired from his role as a father by his own children

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Imagine how this administration would respond to an Article Five contingency. There is every chance it would respond in similarly predatory & exploitative fashion.

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Trump: “I believe President Putin when I spoke to him yesterday. I know him very well. I think he wants peace. I think he would tell me if he didn’t.” Putin:

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⚡US, Russian participants held unofficial talks on Ukraine in Switzerland, Reuters reports. Unofficial U.S. and Russian representatives have been quietly meeting in Switzerland in recent months for informal discussions regarding Ukraine, Reuters reported on Feb. 21.

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Trump could start wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre, and people would still be in denial about what's happening.

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Following Scholz, other European leaders condemned Trump's "dictatorial statement." Finnish President Stubb backed Ukraine’s Constitution and Zelenskyy. Norwegian PM Støre called the remark deeply unfair. Czech President Pavel: "Calling such a country's leader a dictator takes great cynicism."

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“It’s fantastic news that [Europe is] now producing vast amounts of artillery shells for Ukraine. But what about advanced munitions, long-range missiles, next-generation weaponry?” the official said. “For that, it’s all America.” www.ft.com/content/beb3...

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Absolutely shocking!!!

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square / Tank Man to call on U.S. defiance.

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Excellent analysis by @MTSavill. "Assuming six-month deployments, this would essentially commit the deployable Army, if the current UK presence in Estonia ... remained in place. At best, it might represent a force of around 4,000–5,000" www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

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Interesting comparison by Jack Watling between UK's 3rd Division and Ukrainian force which spear-headed Tokmak attack in 2023 counter-offensive "Britain’s 3 Division armoured soldiers are better trained, but are worse equipped than their Ukrainian counterparts" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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Revival Of Internship Program Heralds CEO’s Daughter Coming Of Age theonion.com/revival...

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Russias Baltic Fleet are in active preparations for confrontation not seen since Cold War. Chilling assessment by @jjdroxford.bsky.social of increased and changed communication activity indicating a change closer to war footing.

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"European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics and perhaps further west, leaving the EU vulnerable to a Russian army that Nato governments warn is preparing for a larger conflict beyond Ukraine." Oof. @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/11f1...

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Zelensky was given just one hour to sign a mineral deal in exchange for continued U.S. support. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent set the deadline. Zelensky responded: "We are not a raw materials country. It’s about investment, not just taking our resources." www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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🇺🇸🤔🇺🇦 The US blackmailed Ukraine in Munich so that Zelensky would sign the agreement on resources, - "RBC-Ukraine". ❗️If not, they threatened to cancel the meeting with Vance. In the end, this condition was removed, and the meeting took place.

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Another outstanding racing weekend for Toyota at #rallySweden #WRC Elfin Evans was awesome!

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Ukraine should make the deal with US for the minerals on the territories currently occupied by Russia - if America helps those territories become free by force or by negotiation, then 50% of the resources is a fair price.

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The U.S. seeks to obtain 50% of Ukraine's rare minerals and has signaled openness to deploy American troops to guard them if there is a deal with Russia to end the war, NBC reported on Feb. 15, citing unnamed American officials.

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Shaping up to be a great weekend for Toyota, Evans with good speed and Kalle is back in the game! Go #69 #WRC

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‼️ "In the summer, Russia plans to send troops to Belarus. Are these forces for an attack on Ukraine? Maybe they are for you, for Europe," — Zelensky at the conference in Munich. 🇪🇺 "Are your armies ready? How quickly will your allies respond, or will they respond at all?".

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⚡️Senior Republican senator calls Hegseth’s Ukraine remarks 'rookie mistake,' Politico reports. Senator Roger Wicker slammed U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s remark on Ukraine’s borders as a “rookie mistake,” comparing it to something “Tucker Carlson could have written.”

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☢️ If the radars don't see the drone (that hit the Chornobyl nuclear power plant), then they did it on purpose. It flew low, and the hit was right in the sarcophagus, on the day the Munich Conference began, — Zelensky

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Russian defence spending soared last year by 42% in real terms to Rbs13.1tn. That's equivalent to $462bn on the basis of purchasing power parity, - FT European defence budgets, including the UK and EU member states, rose by almost 12% last year to $457bn, slightly less than Moscow’s spending.

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🤔 NATO never promised Ukraine membership following peace talks with Russia, - Rutte

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BREAKING: Donald Trump has just said: I want the Department of Education to be closed immediately.

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USA tells Ukrainians to forget about NATO membership and their 2014 territorial integrity, but what is Hagseth telling Russians to give up ...anything? edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/p...

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Journalist: "The example of fraud you gave was sending $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza, but it was Gaza in Mozambique to protect them from HIV." Musk: "Some of my statements will be wrong…"

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⚡️ Ukraine's SBU detains its counter-terrorist center chief accused of working for Russia. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained the head of the agency's counter-terrorism department, who is suspected of working for Russian intelligence, SBU head Vasyl Maliuk announced on Feb. 12.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley will travel to Washington on Wednesday to warn members of Congress that the 25% tariffs President Donald Trump has proposed on Canada and Mexico would “blow a hole” in the US auto industry

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For the third season of “The White Lotus,” the creator Mike White is again asking fans to transfer their loyalty to an almost entirely new show. “It’s about death,” White told Kelefa Sanneh. “But I also find it maybe the funniest season.” #NewYorker100

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Three years ago, on February 10, 2022, Lavrov publicly stated that after drills in Belarus, Russian troops would not invade Ukraine but would return home. Two weeks later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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In Budapest, during a Nazi march, individuals with Russian Z-symbols were spotted alongside people bearing German swastikas and SS markings. The "denazifiers"...

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✌️ Zelensky: Today is an important event for our region, for Europe in general. The Baltic States, good friends of Ukraine, have disconnected from the Russian energy grid. Moscow will no longer be able to use energy as a weapon. And it also means that Europe has become even more integrated.

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