So #Putin offers us ā€œpeaceā€ if we surrender four regions completely, including Kherson and Zaporizhe.

This is insane, since he wants #Ukraine to submit even two large cities #Russia doesn’t control.

We also have to promise not to join #NATO

This is not a peace offer, this is basically a demand for unconditional surrender. But my point is different.

Watch everybody in the coming days who say Russia wants peace. They are either idiots or russian assets.

Pls boost.

@mykhaylo

Sure… ridiculous.

Back to the borders of 2014, compensation payments and conviction of war criminals…

@mykhaylo
Look, I'm sure that once they've taken the Sudetenland that will be the end of their territorial demands... Oops, sorry, different century but same bullshit.

@mykhaylo Ah yes, all the areas that contain a lot of oil and natural gas, according to relatively recent surveys, but which Ukraine wasn't able to exploit by itself yet. Ukraine partly depended on importing Russian oil and gas, which made Russia quite a lot of rubles.

Of course this was never about ethnic Russians being discriminated by Ukraine. There are probably also valuable natural resources available in other countries with "discriminated ethnic Russians"... šŸ™„

@ElBeeToots @mykhaylo It was/is, but that’s no excuse for invasion and occupation. Whether it’s this war or the Yugoslav Wars.
@enoch_exe_inc
It never was and they (russians) never cared even about actual russians it's pure imperialism.
I can be considerer one of the so called *ethnic russians* that they came to "liberate", we were always second class compared to russians, just before other ethnicities that they "liberated". Fortunately I had an opportunity to leave occupied territories a few years back.
@ElBeeToots @mykhaylo

@mykhaylo "Watch everybody in the coming days who say Russia wants peace. They are either idiots or russian assets."

Is that new though? If someone said at any point in the last decade that Russia wanted peace, it should have been obvious to anyone they're either trolling or missed the news where Russia was the aggressor in Crimea and later the rest of Ukraine, and one of these two is very unlikely if they're bringing up a war of Russia's, right?

@luc @mykhaylo With Musk at the helm of Twitter it will be amplified and a right wing talking point.
@jenzi @luc @mykhaylo and in his case, I believe he is both a functional idiot and a russian asset ...
@colo_lee @luc @mykhaylo I disagree only to say that I think he's first owned by China.
@luc @mykhaylo They can have peace at any time by just withdrawing.

@mykhaylo

EXACTLY.

No matter what else they claim, no matter what kind of noises they make about freedom, America, democracy, family, etc. ... if they start talking about how much #Russia wants peace, they are wittingly or unwittingly a tool of #Putin. And unwittingly is worse, far worse.

#BidenHarris2024 #Ukraine #NoSurrender to #Russia

@mykhaylo

The color of the guitar is NO @#$%^& ACCIDENT.

Bruce #Springsteen and the E Street Band sing a song in #Europe that somehow means a hell of a lot more now than it did when it first came out, and it meant a lot then. #NoSurrender to #Putin.

#NoSurrenderToRussia

#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar

#music #nowplaying

https://youtu.be/7_R7B7R2cTU?si=xghGlGeu-BS_NJCC

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND - No Surrender (Live in Madrid 2024) 4K

YouTube
@YusufToropov @mykhaylo
At some point NATO/OTAN -v- Russia is going to happen, unless the Russian people stop Putin first before he gets all those conscription victims killed.
@mykhaylo
No to Russia!
Russia is a terrorist state and needs to be crushed.
I am glad Ukraine will get frozen Russian funds to rebuild but it doesn't make what Russia has done acceptable.
Russia must fall.

@mykhaylo
1. russia withdraws all troop from Ukraine (includes Crimea)
2. russia apologizes and pays reparations.
3. russian war criminals stand trial (includes putin himself)
4. Ukraine joins NATO and EU.

Peace.

Anything less then that will only mean ceasefire and benefit russian nazi regime.

@mykhaylo Yup.
And again.
If #Putin wants peace, all he has to do is tell his troops to turn around and go home.
That's it.
Putin doesn't want peace. He wants to unmake #Ukraine, and add what's left to the new #SovietUnion.
#Putin wants to be the new #Stalin.

#PutinsWar #DeathToPutin #DeathToRussia #PutinLies #PutinIsAWarCriminal #PutinIsAMonster #FuckPutin

@TheNovemberMan Worse, Putin bases himself on Ivan the Terrible, with a bit of Tsar Alexander for additional mood-swings @mykhaylo
@mykhaylo .. nothing putin says can be trusted ...
@Lstn2urmama that’s true. But wait and see how much ā€œputin offered peace but Ukraine wants to keep fightingā€ content will appear in the coming days.
@mykhaylo Good thing SOME of us know better and ignore the chaf AND STUPIDITY ...

@mykhaylo

*Any* demand by putin is complete bullshit.

"[...] Accordingly, states must cooperate to bring this aggression to an end through lawful means; they must not recognize as lawful any situation it creates; nor may they render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation.[...]"

source: https://www.justsecurity.org/80454/statement-by-members-of-the-international-law-association-committee-on-the-use-of-force/

I repeat: **[...]they must not recognize as lawful any situation it creates.[...]"

so #FuckYouVlad !

#NoJusticeNoPeace

Statement by Members of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force

All translations of this statement (including in Albanian, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Bahasa Malaysian, Burmese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tigrinya (Eritrea), Turkish, Ukrainian) are available here. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine. Article 2(4) […]

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@mykhaylo
"idiots or russian assets. "
I'm afraid there are a a fair few of both in UK politics

@mykhaylo

People may claim Russia wants peace, but a peace offer has been on the table since the start of the war: Russia to withdraw from Ukraine to its internationally recognised borders. War over, peace achieved.

Half a million Russian lives alone have been thrown away in the name of refusing that peace deal.

It's hard to make the case that a Russian peace offer that demands surrender of territory is more legitimate than a Ukrainian one that doesn't.

@mykhaylo

If anything, Ukraine should be awarded annexation of Russian territories after this is over.

@mykhaylo It's just part of the war of words. Russia's friends in Asia will think it's a fair deal, but they don't matter. Europe now knows Russia is a threat to Western peace and democracy. Even if the US vote in their own Putain in November, Europe will step up, because we have no choice.
@pyrrho it’s also part of the effort to undermine the summit in Switzerland. But that doesn’t change the fact that we need to notice those among us echoing his words.

@mykhaylo interesting - though his right-wing minion were successful at the eu-election putler seems to think such bluff is necessary. did g7 decide something that frightened him or is it just the logistical long term tendency.

and: I only think of us-american phrases for this ("make my day", "from my cold dead hands", "up yours"), isn't there something ukrainian for it?

@Odradek
I think, he's trying disrupt this weekend's convention in šŸ‡ØšŸ‡­.
@mykhaylo
@mykhaylo That narrative would also make it sound like Vladimir Putin is not at fault, or like he needed to invade. He didn't need to, He chose to,
@mykhaylo they fact they even tried this move says Russia is getting frazzled. Hope is in the distance
@mykhaylo
I totally agree. Putin made it pretty clear that he wants to reinstate the Russian Dominion from the 19th century. Any kind of "peace" according to Russian Terms will only be a truce until Russia has produced more weapons to continue this grisly mission. Unfortunately, so many people don't want to understand that fact. Slava Ukraini!
@stux
@mykhaylo Why would anyone even believe him? Remember when he said he's not going to invade Ukraine? He doesn't have a great track record with promises and truth in general.
@mykhaylo Appeasement didn't work with Hitler, and I don't see a reason to believe it'll work with a megalomaniac who directed his country to invade a neighbor either.

@mykhaylo

Russia has also never abided by any peace settlement. Ever.

Peace negotiations are just a pretext for a brief respite, then the military ventures resume. It's a ploy.

Ukraine will have peace when:
1. It's regained every inch of its territory including Crimea & Sevastopol. It's time that naval base ended.
2. Reparations to rebuild & secure Ukraine.
3. Putin's regime stands trial for war crimes
4. Putin's enablers in the West face consequences.

@Npars01 @mykhaylo

Unfortunately, I think Trump and the #GOP are not going to face any consequences for being Russian assets.

@MylesRyden @mykhaylo

The collaborators in America's last fascist movement got consequences.

Less than ideal consequences, but consequences nevertheless.

Died in obscurity. Scorned by all. Poverty stricken.

Read Rachel Maddow's "Prequel". Listen to her 2nd season of "Ultra"

Some got a away with it but not all.

@Npars01 @mykhaylo

Indeed. I am, of course, hoping for actual jail time. šŸ˜‰

@Npars01 @mykhaylo it’s just time to restock munitions. Develop worse.
@Npars01 @mykhaylo As long as there are any politicians in the upper levels of the hierarchy in Russia who think of Russia as the big powerful Eurasian empire, they will always try to conquer and control Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic nations, and also a lot of other areas that used to be part of the former Soviet Union, but also former Warsaw pact states. They want a buffer zone where any enemy army can be stopped before it gets even close to Russia.
@Npars01 @mykhaylo Removing Putin and those who think like him would only be a temporary solution. Russia as it is today, as it has been for the past few centuries, must cease to exist. But so must the USA, so must China, so must all those huge states which control so much territory and/or so many people to have become a global menace.
@Npars01 @mykhaylo The reason why Russia wants to keep Crimea and much of Ukraine's East is that they want to control as much of the Black Sea as possible. The reason they want to control Georgia is that they want all of the Caucasus mountain ranges plus a bit of land to the South so they can stop any attacking army from coming through there. Those imperialistic geopolitical strategists see Russia as one giant fortress, and they want to eliminate any possible attack vectors.

@LordCaramac @mykhaylo

A war with Russia won't be a traditional land-sea affair.

It'll be hybrid.

Financial. Technological. Bioweapons. Terrorism. Tactical subversion of ethnic minorities. Cyber.

Russia is always a century behind in its military strategy. Surprised they haven't brought back the horse cavalry.

@Npars01 @LordCaramac @mykhaylo
Normally, Russia knows it's not able to beat the west on the battlefield so they infiltrate and undermine. They'd been doing that for years in Ukraine, UK, US, pretty much all around the world, and sending weapons and mercenaries to Africa and the middle east. I think Putin has been part of nearly every disruption around the world since he took office. Certainly every country that has moved to the right has his fingerprints.

@LordCaramac @mykhaylo

That false narrative about "building a buffer zone" is the same Hitler used. And Napoleon.

It's horse manure.

The goal was always world domination.

@Npars01 @mykhaylo Well, dominating Eurasia is what Russian nationalists think Russia is destined to do.

@LordCaramac @mykhaylo

Russian nationalists can think what they want.

Their current regime is based on fossil fuel money.

Reduce consumption of oil & accelerate the switch to renewables and the funding for a war on Eurasia vanishes.

Their economy is smaller than Italy's and it's a house of cards.

@Npars01 @mykhaylo
Russia took Crimea and then came back for more. It'll do the same again until either Putin is dead or it's got all of Ukraine (& in this latter case it'll start taking other countries). & even Putin’s death may not be enough depending on who replaces him but if we give Russia a good beating the new guy might think twice before continuing on the war

@Npars01 @mykhaylo

Yes, exactly these five things.

@mykhaylo It seems Putin is all about re-creating the Soviet Union. I'm sure his hero was Stalin.
@mykhaylo Russia wants to annex territory from its neighbors, exploit it for resources, and make any people that remain miserable servants of the oligarchy. If peace happens... [shrug]. Peace, to Putin, means war can be threatened more credibly in other places.
@mykhaylo
I see Putin as the murderous leader of a kleptomaniac regime -- decades of proof
Focusing on his words seems to swallow the bait

@mykhaylo
Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for an agreement that Russia would respect their sovereignty and borders.

Any peace agreement that doesn't respect this prior treaty is proof, in and of itself, that Russia will not honor the agreement.

"We know we promised we wouldn't annex any territory, but if you agree to cede territory to us, we promise we won't annex any more territory."

Yeah, anyone who believes that is a goddamn moron or they think *you're* a moron.

@mykhaylo Keep those poor misguided agressors turning away at the borders while their inflatable IDOL pootin loses air pressure.
If he desperately steps too far out of bounds he pops and the curtain comes down. If he values his countrymen and people at all, he'll concede and vanish.
Keep hope!