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Freelance creative in a niche industry (thus anon) former “conservative” (I thought) but found myself more a fan of democracy than any representative of the new right. I’m into the #outdoors a big fan of the #ocean, #photography, #sci-fi/fantasy books, a lapsed poli-sci/Russian studies major who got alarmed in 2014 & never looked back. Went “rogue” in 2016 & here for the intel/info & trying to do my part to keep our democracy.

#TimothySnyder taz #Ukraine interview

"Ukraine can certainly win... Europe and North America... have the economic and industrial base to decide this war. But we prefer to deploy them very slowly or not at all... Europe should become more independent of the USA in security matters. This year, the European goal must be to ensure that Ukraine does not lose the war. In the next two or three years, the goal should be to help it win. Regardless of what the Americans do..."

https://taz.de/Historiker-Snyder-ueber-Ukraine-Krieg/!5991717/

Historiker Snyder über Ukraine-Krieg: „Russland ist am Limit, wir nicht“

Die Lage der Ukraine ist schwierig, aber das Land könne gewinnen, sagt der Historiker Timothy Snyder. Das hänge von der Unterstützung des Westens ab.

Former CIA Director explains how Russia is using 'Republican lawmakers as tools’

YouTube

Video: In nightly address to nation, #Zelenskiy speaks of discussions about proposed €50 billion #EU fund to support #Ukraine financial and economic systems through 2027

Last week Hungary's #ViktorOrbán, a long-time ally of #Putin, vetoed the fund's creation

#UkraineWar

#Ukraine Air Force: We downed 24 of 28 #Iran-made attack drones fired by #Russia overnight

2 civilians injured in #Kyiv, w fires set in a high-rise residential block and a two-story house

#UkraineWar

The new Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radosław Sikorski, arrived in Ukraine on his first foreign visit. Today he will give a speech in the Vekhovna Rada, confirming that relations with Ukraine is one of the highest matters to the new government.

https://www.rmf24.pl/raporty/raport-wojna-z-rosja/news-radoslaw-sikorski-z-pierwsza-wizyta-zagraniczna-w-ukrainie,nId,7225160#crp_state=1

Radosław Sikorski z pierwszą wizytą zagraniczną w Ukrainie

Spotkania z najważniejszymi politykami Ukrainy znalazły się w planie wizyty ministra spraw zagranicznych Radosława Sikorskiego w Kijowie. To jego pierwsza podróż zagraniczna w roli nowego szefa resortu dyplomacji.

vladimir putin has had Donald Trump’s “number for some time … knows how to manipulate him” and still sees him “as an asset”, the former White House russia expert Fiona Hill said, discussing the russian leader and the Republican presidential frontrunner“

That’s literally [putin’s] trump card,” - Fiona Hill

Read more here🔗https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/20/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-us-elections-2024-moscow

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState #Trump

Putin ‘has Trump’s number’ and still sees him ‘as an asset’, says Fiona Hill

Former White House Russia expert argues in a podcast why Moscow is eager for the ex-president to return

The Guardian

@EugeneMcParland
if just 60 million US citizens donated just $10 dollars a month to United 24 the Ukrainian fund set up by President Zalenskyy we citizens could provide 7.2 Billion dollars annually unencumbered by republicans in Congress. United24 allows you to direct where you want the funds to go. So if you are against war you can provide for medical, or reconstruction costs. Please can you spare $10 per month?
Slava Ukraini 💙💛 🇺🇦

https://u24.gov.ua/

UNITED24 — The initiative of the President of Ukraine

The official fundraising platform for collecting donations to support Ukraine

u24.gov.ua

Russia has transferred Western-made weapons captured in Ukraine to the extremist organization Hamas fighting against Israel in an effort to discredit Kyiv, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) reported on Oct. 9.

Moscow plans to falsely accuse the Ukrainian military of selling weaponry provided by the U.S. and EU to Hamas, according to HUR.

https://kyivindependent.com/military-intelligence-russia-gives-hamas-weapons-captured-in-ukraine-to-discredit-kyiv/

#Ukraine #Russia #Israel #Iran #Hamas

Military intelligence: Russia gives Hamas weapons captured in Ukraine to discredit Kyiv

Moscow plans to falsely accuse the Ukrainian military of selling weaponry provided by the U.S. and EU to Hamas, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) reported on Oct. 9.

The Kyiv Independent
Reactions by the GOP to the terrorist attack in Israel reflect a dangerous and destabilizing trend to put politics before national security. Today, I walk through their attacks on the Biden Administration and how they are undermining our national interest. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/playing-politics-with-the-gaza-terror?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Playing Politics with the Gaza Terror Attack

Screen capture courtesy of NBC’s Meet the Press There once was an unspoken tradition in U.S. politics that, in the face of an attack by an enemy, either upon U.S. citizens or those of an ally, the parties would put aside politics for the moment and unite behind the President. It was important, once upon a better time, to present a united rather than a divided front, because otherwise the enemy could exploit our divisions and gain an advantage. There was no precedent for immediately blaming the White House, instead of the terrorists, for an attack like we saw out of Gaza on Saturday.

The Status Kuo

"Open brutality has again become celebrated in international conflicts, and a long time may pass before that changes."

There are No Rules:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

There Are No Rules

States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.

The Atlantic