Aardige samenvatting van wat een week: #Europa draait door: #9 - #Trump zet de wereld in de fik: heeft Europa een brandblusser? (S07)
https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/europa-draait-door/120864/9-trump-zet-de-wereld-in-de-fik-heeft-europa-een-brandblusser-s07
https://podcast.npo.nl/file/europa-draait-door/120864/trump-zet-de-wereld-in-de-fik-heeft-europa-een-brandblusser.mp3?awCollectionid=feed-366-europa-draait-door&awEpisodeid=feed-366-europa-draait-door_episode-120864-WO_VPRO_20255599
I always enjoy @anderspuck commentary for a balanced perspective on the #Ukraine war situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaCbUtTuLhA
" #Trump's decades-long worship of John Gotti-style mob rule reached its zenith Friday in the Oval Office, with the shakedown of #Ukraine's #Zelensky aided by his underboss #JDVance
Like Gotti, America's embrace of an amoral strongman will not end well.
If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.© 🧵 1/...
As a part of this socially-asocial #Fediverse network I would like to talk to you on the other side of the ocean.
I rarely write posts in #English and I only have very few followers that are not #Czech or #Slovakian, so I'm not sure if this ever reaches my target audience of this post - the #USA citizens.
I am seriously concerned about what is happening lately with your country, who was supposed to be (or was acting like) a #democracy beacon. Yet, somehow you managed to reach the point, where #president, who most of you (!) elected is felon, who pardons criminals and does pretty rude political statements to country, who is losing lives of it's citizens only because they have chosen the path of being a #free nation.
As a person from central #EU I must admit this is seriously hard to watch as I expected your society to be #freedom and #liberty friendly and yet I see your president fueling #propaganda from #Russia and bullying president of #Ukraine.
I do not think this is a great way to #StopWar - this is a way to lose it. I'm hell-of-a-sure that befriending pretty much dictator of #Russia while his propagandists talks about nuking Washington is not a good idea, but somehow your president believes it is.
Please reconsider and act, this is not funny and people are dying. Your voices need to be heard or somehow you might find out you live in country you never imagined...
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels.
Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces as well.
There's an interesting analogy between Volodymyr Zelensky and Osama Bin Laden. Both received US military aid to fight wars against an illegal Russian (Soviet Union) invasion and both were betrayed and publicly humiliated by the US at the end of those wars... #ukraine #russia #us #afghanistan
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Editorial by Kyiv independent is spot on: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t #Zelensky
The only way this can be resolved is by huge protests in the US.
Shakedown. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
I think it's super cute that Trump thinks it's Zelensky that is disrespecting the Oval Office.
77,302,580 Americans disrespected it by voting for a criminal con-man as their President.
Trudeau should refuse Trump's presence in Canada and participation in the upcoming G7 meeting. He doesn't deserve our attention or respect.
"This brilliant cartoon clearly explains Trump's current position on #Ukraine.
It is in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Share it with anyone who keeps repeating Russian propaganda."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_uRkEdLOTE
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Today, it's 3 years since the full scale Russiam invasion of Ukraine. A good day to read up on the history of the conflict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War
Specifically, I would recommend to read about the #MaidanRevolution:
Suggest Fedi Block @icedquinn@blob.cat
Who is promoting Russia propaganda and agreeing with Donald Trump, claiming Ukraine is a dictatorship.
And anytime someone backs them into a corner, they claim "oh, I do not care, I am only being autistic".
There are many people who have disabilities and a disability does not encourage people to promote Russian propaganda and then use the excuse of that disability, whenever they fail to sway people.
WTF ??????
#Ukraine started the war ?
Just 4 percent still supports #zelensky ???
I know, I have to stay calm but #trump makes that very very hard to do.
#uspol
Listen to Kaja Kallas who perfectly explains the situation, glad that she is part of the EU Commission.
https://youtu.be/t7HCKOkWUB0?si=UutPI7GwHUU5niZj
#Ukraine #KaljaKallas on #RussianDiplomacy
Estonia has been independent from the Russian Federation since 1991.
The people, and most certainly their PM’s, are very well aware of the danger Russia poses nowadays.
Please, please listen to what she says on the negotiation tactics of Putin.
Words the American traitors don’t seem to heed.
Putin just gets everything he wants, so Trump can deliver on his grande promisses.
Ukraine and Europe are the ones paying the price.
Listen to Kaja Kallas [0:57 min]
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Surprise Counter-Attack in Kursk Advanced 3 Miles | French Jets Arrive | Ukraine Update by Artur Rehi
The latest video from @anderspuck is a must watch for all citizens of countries in the NATO alliance, not just the USA.
Donald Trump is accelerating the change of the Post-WWII world order. We citizens outside the USA need to be very aware. And #Ukraine is going to be the key to the outcome.
#russia #russiaUkraineWar #canpoli #cdnpoli #nato #worldOrder #usa
Organizations, activists, political and material collectives who run for environmental issues, #ClimateCrisis etc. should take action to fight #warmongers. They openly say (everywhere, not just in #EuropeanUnion) that they must spend the money of #workingclass (you remember that big companies have less taxes than us?) for armaments and to leave the (capitalist) green transition aside. Means they don't care at all about the destruction war industry and their inevitable wars produce. Tusk explains better.
«Making references to Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine and Belarus's campaign of instrumentalised migration, which his country has experienced firsthand, Tusk implored EU states to address security "seriously" and be "flexible" and "creative" to design novel ways to finance the necessary boost in military expenditure.»
«"I'll be honest: we shouldn't really care too much about what method we adopt to finance pan-#European defence projects," he told lawmakers in #Strasbourg.»
«In the prime minister's view, "some" of the environmental regulations that the #EU has introduced in the past five years are responsible for the "prohibitively" high #energy prices. - Energy bills began rising in 2022 when the market hit record-high levels in reaction to #Russia 's manipulation of gas supplies.»
Every hour you read something more warmongering than the previous. Everyday they say openly that they take our money to give em to a bunch of capitalists and we, the working class, just standing there like hypnotized waiting for the military call to be meat for their profits.
#Warmongers #FuckWarmongers #Eupol #USA #Uspol #ArmsIndustry #ClassWar
#Europe is seeing a dramatic boost in defense budgets, driven by both long-standing pressure from Washington and the continent’s own reaction to #Russia ’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. That promises a glut of military contracts for weapons-makers in Europe as well as in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.
...The enormous scale of new defense spending — the European Commission estimates that the bloc’s members will need to spend €500 billion on defense over the next decade — still means there will be a lot of money available for European defense firms.
That said, the early winner of Europe’s defense buildup is likely to be the U.S.
What helps against #russia's continued systematic mass murder of civilians:
❌ dictatorial peace
❌ unconditional surrender by 🇺🇦
❌ ceasing weapons deliveries
❌ gifting the Baltics to 🇷🇺
❌ buying gas from 🇷🇺
❌ allowing 🇷🇺 to continue cutting internet cables
✅ long-range missiles like #Taurus
✅ destroying military targets inside 🇷🇺
✅ annihilating the Black-Sea fleet
✅ downing 🇷🇺 fighter jets
✅ assassinating #Kadyrov
✅ actively helping #Ukraine defend their western airspace
QT
Ukraine’s newly formed brigades face devastating losses as poor leadership, inadequate training, and mismatched foreign support hinder their effectiveness on the battlefield, writes commander Serhii #Filimonov in his recent op-ed.
Should we return Crimea to dinosaurs? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2glnQTMLHY
#Russia #1420 #Moscow #People #Street interview #Public interview
Great explainer (as always) by @anderspuck on how #Russia might win the war in #Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhpoNL1gZbw It is not about the territory!
Ukrainians responding to #JoeRogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35G3hNEQXwI
Yesterday #Poland and #Ukraine media quoted fragments from the joint statement of foreign ministers of both countries regarding #Volhynia exhumations, but in reality the statement was much broader. The original text in Polish has been posted here, but below I’m posting its English translation:
BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨
Another submarine telecom cable has been cut in the Baltic Sea.
This time it’s a cable between Sweden and Lithuania.
Yesterday, the news broke that a cable between Finland and Germany had been cut.
