Search results for tag #ukraine
According to Reuters, the United States has informed its #European #NATO #allies that by 2027, it plans to withdraw all conventional U.S. military forces from Europe. Not reduce. Not restructure. Not rotate differently. Withdraw. #democracy #peace #freedom #justice #russia #ukraine #china #northkorea #war #peace #diplomacy #military #germany #italy #england #nationalsecurity #putin #trump #maga #politics #nuclear #congress https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-sets-2027-deadline-europe-led-nato-defense-officials-say-2025-12-05/
Ukrainian children being sent to North Korea sparks outrage
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-children-being-sent-north-151600242.html
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #DPRK #NorthKorea
@jpmens Thankfully, Donald, you are not in charge in #Ukraine. You are also not in charge of the #EU. You are, however, #russia 's rent-boy. With an approval rating of 41% among your own people.
If you were to have elections right now in your own country, your party would be wiped out and no amount of huffing, puffing, intimidating, deflecting, gerymandering and plain old lying is going to help you.
No one wants you. You are done.
The Deathonomics of Putin’s War
“Black widows” marrying soldiers to collect death benefits are symptomatic of society-wide rot.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/russia-putin-war-dead-black-widows-death-benefits-fraud/
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #putinswar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead
An online bazaar of freelance headhunters finds new recruits to fight Ukraine, emboldening Vladimir Putin at the negotiating table and scaring European leaders about what his growing army might do next.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/russia-planned-war-of-attrition-00672960
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
I read the serious discussions about ‘who eavesdropped on Ushakov and Dmitriev’ and can’t help but chuckle to myself.
All these deliberations about whether it was the NSA or GCHQ are based on the assumption that Ushakov had to use a secure means of communication. Had to… because why exactly?
Because politicians are renowned for their unwavering commitment to adhering to rules, including #OPSEC? But they are not.
Let us recall the US and European leaders who, in #Ukraine Kyiv in 2013, happily chatted on the phone and were recorded (‘Nuland–Pyatt call’).
Shortly afterwards, Sergei Glazyev from the #Russia presidential administration did the same and was recorded… by the new SBU (‘Glazyev tapes’, much less well-known but much more devastating).
In summary, if one can generalise the concept of high-level politics in #infosec matters, it is that those in power do not apply the rules to themselves and do not learn from their mistakes precisely because they are in power.
In short, Hanlon’s razor applies.
"We are living through the most disgraceful episode in American history since slavery and it’s not even close. Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had told Adolph Hitler in 1941: 'I’ll force the British and French to let you keep half of Poland in exchange for some kickbacks to my friends and family.'”
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine #Russia #PutinsPoodle
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-thieving-crooks-selling
"This analogy is not a stretch. It is exactly what is happening now, as described in a recent explosive Wall Street Journal exposé that documents exactly how much Russia is dangling the prospect of riches to friends of Donald Trump Jr. and other connected Americans in exchange for a dishonorable peace that sells out Ukraine, our European allies and the vast majority of Americans who oppose Vladimir Putin’s genocidal war."
"Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
Dmitriev, a Goldman Sachs alumnus, had found receptive partners in Witkoff—Trump’s longtime golfing partner—and Kushner, whose investment fund, Affinity Partners, drew billion-dollar investments from the Arab monarchies whose conflict with Israel he had helped mediate.
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“Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land,” Witkoff told (...) describing at length his hopes that Russia, Ukraine and America would all become business partners. “If we do all that, and everybody’s prospering and they’re all a part of it, and there’s upside for everybody, that’s going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody’s thriving.”
When a version of the 28-point plan leaked earlier this month, it drew immediate protests. Leaders in Europe and Ukraine complained it reflected mostly Russian talking points and bulldozed through nearly all of Kyiv’s red lines."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290
#USA #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #Kleptocracy
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russian officials on how to pitch a Ukraine peace deal to President Donald Trump, according to an audio recording reported by Bloomberg.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-peace-deal-trump-putin-witkoff-11108302
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
The U.S.-Russia Plan Gives Trump a $300 Billion Signing Bonus
If Europe moves fast to seize Russian assets, it may be able to sink this bad deal.
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #uspol #trump
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#Denmark #Estonia #Finland #Iceland #Latvia #Lithuania #Norway #Sweden #Ukraine #UkraineWar #Danmark #Eesti #Suomi #Ísland #Latvija #Lietuva #Norge #Sverige #Україна #SlavaUkraini #NordicBalticEight #Nordic #Baltic #Russia #россия #USA #US
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22 NOVEMBER 2025
Joint Statement by the Leaders of the Nordic-Baltic Eight
We - the leaders of the Nordic-Baltic Eight - spoke with President Zelenskyy today. We have from the outset of Russia's war of aggression stood by Ukraine's side and we will continue to do so. Our resolve comes from the fact that we know that this is not only about Ukrainian security, it is also about the wider security of Europe.
Ukraine has continuously shown that it is serious about peace. We commend President Zelenskyy for his efforts to steer Ukraine through these very challenging times. Ukraine remains ready to negotiate and, as stated by President Zelenskyy, is working on the document prepared by the US. Russia has so far not committed to a ceasefire or any steps leading to peace. Instead, Russia continues its brutal attacks against Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure.
Solutions that respect Ukraine's sovereignty and that will bring Ukraine and Europe greater security and stability have our full support.
We will continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen Europe's defence to deter further Russian aggression. As long as Russia continues its war against Ukraine, we will also support strengthening sanctions and wider economic measures.
Finally, to the Ukrainian people: Your resolve, determination and courage has been truly admirable from the outset of the war. We want you to know that you are not alone and can count on our support.
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
This ‘peace plan’ is not only a tragedy for Ukraine, but an immediate crisis for Britain
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a0233ca03bfe
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #politics #trump
November 21, 2013, 12 years ago: #Ukraine's govt suspends integration with #Europe
Very soon the center of #Kyiv looked like this:
The rest, as they say, is history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan
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Huge crowds in Maidan Nezalezhnosti
Also in 2013:
The #USA was respected under Barack #Obama
Today, the USA coughs up hard cringe, embarrassing shit from incompetent brainless morons like this:
"#JDVance asks 'why don't #Ukraine and #Russia stop killing each other and start trading'"
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JD Vance asks 'why don't Ukraine and Russia stop killing each other and start trading'
Story by Simon Hamalienko • 23h • 2 min read
Vice President JD Vance
© Getty Images
Dear most esteemed intellectual statesman #JDVance:
#Ukraine and #Russia can't "stop killing each other and start trading," you pathetic piece of shit, because Russia daily mass murders Ukrainians for ethnofascist #imperialism
2 days ago a Russian missile struck an apt bldg in #Ternopil, killing 31
2nd grade student Ameliia Hzhesko and her mother Oksana were found burned to death, embracing each other
This happens regularly, you fuckwit fucking shitstain
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0yere4k0zo
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russia kills young girl and her mother in attack on ternopil
photo: ternopil secondary school no. 27
Trumps "Ukraine peace plan" has more money for Trump than in the original Russian.
The answer is, No thank you.
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Nancy wants you to help Russian citizens remove the Putin
Good day to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
Still.
But we are back in a reality where #Ukraine is being pushed toward capitulation.
Myroslava wants her son to live in a free world.
She voiced The Counteroffensive's stance: #Trump's peace plan is a roadmap to more #war. https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/trumps-peace-plan-means-more-war
The "#EU-US Data Privacy Framework" is the agreement that lets the US tech giants operate in Europe despite insufficient privacy regulations in the US, down to secret service level crap like "National Security Letters". It's widely criticised for having not much more substance than a mere "trust me, bro."
Still, the European General Court just decided in September that the reforms by the US are sufficient to make it a dependable framework. One cornerstone of these "reforms" is an Executive Order - those things that trump bases his rule on (after congress gave up on its job) and that he can change nilly-willy.
With trump basically adopting putin's demand that #Ukraine surrenders (and thereby encourages that genocidal maniac at our footsteps to continue), maybe it's time to discuss if this trust is still warranted.
The framework supports 7.1 trillion USD in trade (a lot of that going towards the US), so it could be quite a lever to reign in on the autocrats.
I wrote an #MEP about this. If you want to join in, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home has the list.
@EUCommission a picture with bright sunshine over military vehicles is just disgusting - just ask your dead grandpa’s bones in Russia. Or the people of #Ukraine how bright sunlight eases them the day under Ruzzian attacks.
Fields near Pokrovsk, Donetsk region. Everything is covered with fiber optic cables, which have enveloped hundreds of hectares of Ukrainian land. In the sky, there are more drones than birds.
The fields are polluted with chemicals from explosives and unexploded shells. Mines are flooded. Groundwater is contaminated. Cities are destroyed. This is what 'Russian liberation' looks like.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
Old fishing nets from France become vital protection against Russian #drones in #Ukraine - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/08/old-fishing-nets-vital-protection-against-russian-drones-ukraine fab win-win
#Chatbots parrot #Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of #Ukraine - https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/chatbots_still_parrot_russian_state/ "Fake views from Moscow's pet media outlets appear in about one in five responses"
Better late than never. Now do Israel, you hypocrites.
#EU #EuropeanCommission #russia #Ukraine #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115425140994554866
Very understandable trend #ukraine
(source @TheEconomist)
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Scatter plot titled "Bear hunt" showing EU27 countries' defense spending as a percentage of GDP in 2023, with the x-axis representing the distance of each country's capital from Moscow in thousands of kilometers. The graph illustrates a negative correlation between defense spending and distance from Moscow, highlighting countries like Estonia and Poland with higher defense spending.
#Ukraine war briefing: Ukrainians may get #Gripen fighter jets bought with Russian money - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/ukraine-war-briefing-ukrainians-may-get-gripen-fighter-jets-bought-with-russian-money sounds great, but how long will it take to deliver them?
Ukraine invasion [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
The both-sideism here, akin to framing a burglary as 'a dispute over property', with the judge telling burglar and victim to just split it 50/50.
While I'm at it, calling it a "war" or a "conflict" is not helping. It began as an invasion and still is an invasion, with the invaded defending their home.
You know what I haven't learned to say in Spanish? F off…
“Spain has not come through, Spain has not been loyal to NATO,” Trump said from the White House... Trump added, “I think Spain should be reprimanded for that. … But that’s up to NATO and Spain.”
¿Qué dirías tú, ciudadanos de España? :D
Muchas gracias!
#España #NATO #USA #TheAmericanFascist #RussiaUkraineWar #Ukraine #Spain
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-government-shutdown-updates-zelensky-meeting-10-17-25?post-id=cmgv5bgl6000i3b6nag505j5u
In recent days, #Trump had shown an openness to selling #Ukraine long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, even as #Putin warned that such a move would further strain the #US – #Russia relationship.
But following Thursday’s call with Putin, Trump appeared to downplay the prospects of Ukraine getting the missiles, which have a range of about 995 miles.
“We need Tomahawks for the United States of America too,” Trump said. “We have a lot of them, but we need them. I mean we can’t deplete our country.”
#Trump says he'll meet with #Putin in #Hungary. He first meets Friday with #Zelensky at the White House
Trump said Thursday he will meet again with #Russia’s Vladimir Putin in an effort to end the war in #Ukraine. A date has not been set, but Trump wrote on social media that the meeting would take place in Budapest, Hungary.
“I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation,” Trump wrote after talking to Putin.
#geopolitics #posturing
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zelenskyy-putin-russia-ukraine-e3a1d62d2a24f459aa6dbbfa940e1067
The #Netherlands provides #Ukraine with a new support package to intercept #Russian drones and will create a defense cluster, a grouping of defense enterprises, in Kyiv.
The countries also signed a memorandum of cooperation at a meeting in #Kyiv.
"Look at that smirk on Putin's face. He's trying to shovel as much ego shit as Trump can digest. He knows how to play Trump like a fiddle."
- Aure
Putin says the Nobel Peace Prize has lost all credibility after US President Trump did not win the award.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mathrubhumi_English/115348554105616651
While we are busy celebrating a ceasefire which for some reason still involve shelling and shooting civilians, let's not under look the fact that overnight #Kyiv was again heavily targeted by drones and rockets, and also a 7 year old child died in Zaporizhzhia
context:
why deal with industrial/ economic policy to reduce fossil fuel use,
when you can just blow oil refineries the fuck up?
(#Budanov is head of #Ukraine's Intelligence services, #Malyuk heads the Security Service (SBU), and Brovdi aka "#Magyar" is founder and commander of the military #drone unit)
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THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECOLOGY 2025
{a sketch of three men}
Kyrylo Budanov
Vasyl Maluk
Robert Brovdi
"for reducing fossil fuel production in russia"
THE NOBEL ASSEMBLY AT KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
why do the window designers in #russia keep creating such dangerous products?
#defenestration #defenestrate #putin #vladimirputin #windows #window #ukraine #ukrainewar #oligarch #oligarchs #sadoligarch #pravda #VyacheslavLeontyev #Leontyev #moscow
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Publisher of famous Soviet newspaper Pravda falls to his death from a seventh-floor window
Here’s what we’re reading today:
GOP Rep. Bacon says DefSec Hegseth is blocking Trump’s approval for Ukrainian long-range strikes inside #Russia.
#Ukraine could potentially target airbases & factories fuelling Moscow’s war — upping pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-long-range-strikes-hegseth-trump-bacon-10795777
Today In Labor History September 29, 1941: Nazi forces, with the aid of the Ukrainian auxiliary police and local Ukrainian collaborators, began the two-day Babi Yar massacre, killing some 33,771 Jews. Other victims included Soviet prisoners of war, communists and Romani people. It was the largest single massacre in the Holocaust up to that date, and the 3rd largest, overall, after the 1941 Odessa massacre (>50,000 victims) and Aktion Erntefest of November 1943 in occupied Poland (> 42,000 victims). During the Nazi occupation, up to 150,000 people in total were murdered at Babi Yar.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #ukraine #nazis #fascism #antisemitism #romani #jewish #massacre #babiyar #soviet #odessa #occupation
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Soviet POWs being used by Germany to cover the mass grave after the massacre, 1 October 1941. By Johannes Hähle - http://history.kby.kiev.ua/publication/illu_b15.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107741041
"2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say." - Timothy Snyder
#Ukraine #Europe #EuropeanUnion
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Screenshot of BlueSky Post by Timothy Snyder
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
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.
15. Februar 2025 um 23:44
@Strandjunker
The #Gaza & #Ukraine genocides continue.
#Russia tests America/NATO resolve by lobbing drones into #Poland.
#Jobs down. #Inflation up (he thinks the opposite is true.)
Suddenly, #DisasterDon is no longer saying "This never would have happened if I had been president." 🤔
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Fake tweet of Trump claiming a hurricane wouldn't have happened if he were president.
NATO's Article 4 Enacted!
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the activation of Article 4 of the NATO treaty - which requires urgent security consultations among member countries if one of them feels threatened.
Tusk said that last night there were 19 cases of violations of Polish airspace.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #Poland
This is #Romanian #comedian #VictorPatrascan
He is doing a set in #Iceland, and he encounters a brainwashed #vatnik heckler, also from #Romania, and...
😆
Why do people think they can heckle comedians? Their entire job is wit
TRUMP THREATENS TOUGHER SANCTIONS (AGAIN): #Trump has threatened new sanctions against Moscow after #Russia launched its heaviest strike on #Ukraine since the start of the invasion.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyrx205dj2o
The famous double standards of #Europe.
#DoubleStandards #EU #eupol #eucomplicity #Ukraine #Russia #GazaGenocide #eucrisis #DestroyEU #gaza #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #HumanRights
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EU Targets Russia With Toughest Sanctions Package in Years
Bloc is set to impose new banking, energy sanctions as Europe hopes for tough new measures from Washington
By Laurence Norman and Bojan Pancevski
July 18, 2025 7:41 am ET
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EU delays measures against Israel on Gaza despite pressure to act
Photo of European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, center, talks with Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, left, and Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel, right, - Copyright AP Photo - AP
By Maïa de La Baume
Published on 15/07/2025 - 19:19 GMT+2
boostedThrough the #European Innovation Council (#EIC), a body of the European Commission created to promote scientific and technological excellence, "#Israel" receives millions of euros that directly fuel its industry of #war and #genocide.
#Drone technologies, #surveillance systems, and artificial intelligence programs applied to population control continue to receive European financial support. These are not “neutral innovations”: they are integral components of the genocidal machinery devastating #Gaza.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the #EU suspended all scientific and technological cooperation, imposed sanctions, and politically isolated Moscow.
When "Israel' destroys Gaza and accumulates accusations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, with an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court, Brussels maintains and strengthens its cooperation, transferring public funds that end up in Israeli military-industrial companies.
An intolerable double standard: in #Ukraine, international law is invoked to sanction #Russia; in #Palestine, it is trampled to protect "Israel".
...Every euro flowing from Brussels to Tel Aviv becomes active complicity in genocide.
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-european-union-finances--israel-s--war-machine
#EUcomplicity #DoubleStandards #DestroyEU
When Russia invaded #Ukraine it was kicked out of the World Cup football tournament within days, but next week, Italy is due to play #Israel as part of this year's competition
A number of Italian officials have refused to participate in the game
Would you sign the petition and show solidarity with them and the people of #Gaza and #Palestine ?
If thoughts could kill, Putin would be dead a million times over!
This is Anhelina, two years old, celebrating her recent birthday.
Anhelina and her mom, 24-year-old Nadiia, were killed by Russia in Kyiv on August 28.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #murder #WarCrimes
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Before / after pictures of Putin's actions
The Russian flag raised at the Venice Film Festival.
Woody Allen participated in the Moscow Film Week
There are people to whom evil is attractive. It fascinates many. The urge for aggression and violence is embedded in human nature. And evil will always have its followers.
But in reality, evil is primitive and banal.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #movies
"why can't we have peace"
{adjusts brass knuckles}
"i just want what's good for you"
{POUND}
"embrace me"
{CRUNCH}
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/one-dead-mass-night-time-015951361.html
"#Russia missiles pound #Ukraine, damage #EU and #UK offices
At least 21 people were killed in the capital, city officials said
#Zelensky said the strikes also damaged a #Turkey enterprise and the #Azerbaijan embassy"
This is the peace that #Putin wants
Wake the fuck up world
Look with clear and open eyes and understand what Putin is
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a mafia mass murdering ghoul
Revealed: US Vice President #JDVance called comander-in-chief of of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy #Zaluzhny to discuss “potential leadership changes” after Oval Office meeting of February 2025.
Zaluzhny refused to talk, instead immediately called Zelensky to inform what Vance was planning.
So. In other words, #US leadership was directly involved in trying to arrange a #coup in #Ukraine. In February this year. This is the state of matters.
https://baltimorechronicle.com/world/2025/08/26/vance-attempted-to-arrange-a-call-with-zaluzhny-after-the-trump-zelensky-confrontation/
#NAFO
There are many methods we can use to tackle the #climateCrisis #climateChange by reducing our dependency on #fossilFuels
Personally, I am inclined to embrace #Kyiv's method for doing so:
Just fucking bomb the refineries
💪 😤 🇺🇦
"#Ukraine knocks out 17% of #Russia’s oil capacity — and that’s just this month, Reuters says
#Moscow’s #energySecurity unravels as Ukraine escalates long-range attacks on its most vulnerable assets."
Not unrelated to the Putin-Trump show of dominance (P) and submission (T): as kos reminds us,
"There is a genre of MAGA conservative so right wing, so brain dead, that they go through the immense hassle of moving themselves and their family to Russia—where gay and transgender people supposedly don’t exist, and … well, that appears to be the bulk of the motivation for fleeing."
"A Ukrainian intelligence officer says the Americans are being “unbelievably aggressive” in pushing Ukraine to forfeit more land. The Russian interest is clear enough, he says. “They want to maximise the package they will get in return—from sanctions relief, to the return of seized assets, to the re-opening of energy markets.” What, he says, is far less clear is why the Trump administration was pushing so forcefully to promote Russia’s interests.
Despite the obvious headwinds, Mr Trump appears committed to his quick-fix peace. The Economist understands a three-way meeting between Mr Trump, Mr Putin and Mr Zelensky could come as early as the end of next week. Before that, on Monday, the Ukrainian leader is scheduled to arrive in Washington for his first visit since his humiliation in February. European leaders will join him in a show of support. But some of the ingredients appear ominously similar to his previous visit. Channelling the logic of Mr Putin, Mr Trump is already preparing to blame Ukraine if his plans blow up, Ukrainians fear. “Make a deal,” he advised Mr Zelensky, via Fox News. “Russia is a very big power. [You] are not.”"
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/08/17/fear-of-a-new-oval-office-fiasco-over-ukraine
Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/trump-confesses-that-the-united-states-is-a-client-of-russia/ "Effectively, #Putin ordered #Trump to make #Ukraine capitulate. Hell, maybe he even gave Trump a deadline."
"Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, once considered the Trump of London, called the Alaska summit meeting 'just about the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy.'”
~ Peter Baker
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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N.B. My choice to link to a website or publication or to cite a particular author does not constitute endorsement of the site, publication, or author.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/us/politics/trump-putin-approach-ukraine.html
"Sources inside the administration and Putin’s surrogates made clear that Putin did not budge an inch during the Alaska negotiations. Trump, on the other hand, has begun to prepare European allies for a peace deal that includes transferring 20% of Ukraine’s territory to Russia."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/zelensky-and-us-allies-to-confront
"Donald Trump was famously admiring of Vladimir Putin, then he was disappointed with him, then he was mad at him, then he threatened him with new sanctions, then he shortened the timeframe for the sanctions, then he invited him to American soil and rolled out the fucking red carpet for him" (continued in /5)
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/adults-in-the-room-are-on-planes
(continued from /4)
"and caved when Putin told him no deal on a ceasefire, no concessions to Ukraine, no nothing for you or Zelenskyy. Asked on Air Force One on his way back to play yet another round of golf on Saturday, Trump called his meeting with Putin 'a 10.'
Pardon me while I step away from my desk to puke."
"The Times, the Post, CNN, Associated Press, all the major news outlets are reporting the fact that a team of adults in the room are flying to the United States to protect Zelenskyy from Trump as if it’s a normal news story, not the story that it is -- disgusting evidence of how far we have fallen as a nation, politically, morally, and in every other measurable way."
"[Zelensky] is showing great courage. Further, he is playing chess while the ever tactical and strategically-impaired Putin is left playing checkers. As for Trump, he is just getting played."
~ David Rothkopf
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/trump-between-two-summits
Greg Dworkin offers an array of Sunday headlines illustrating that the media are not being duped by the empty pageantry of Trump's meeting with Putin and are not ignoring Trump's being played by Putin.
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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Sunday headlines gathered by Greg Dworkin commenting on Trump's meeting with Putin
"[Trump's humiliating performance with the Russian war criminal] was a disgraceful encounter by a weak man who reminded the world that he is an empty, unprincipled clown spurring a tragedy for a once-great nation."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/which-side-of-history-are-you-on
"Meanwhile, National Guard troops roam the streets of Washington, D.C., linger around Union Station and set up checkpoints in safe neighborhoods, underscoring the lie that this federal takeover is intended to rid our nation’s capital of crime."
And, of course, all these shows are designed to distract from Epstein, the fact that Trump is repeatedly mentioned in the Epstein files, and that he refuses to release them.
#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine #WashingtonDC #Epstein
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Proposed peace plan for #Ukraine after Alaska summit. Over 1m people in the 'Russia gains' part of Donetsk.
(source: New York Times)
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Map showing Ukraine and Russia with a highlighted area indicating "Russia gains" in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. A bold line marks the front line. Crimea is also visible at the bottom.
Here’s what we’re reading today:
#Putin demanded #Ukraine leave swathes of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which #Russia never fully seized, in exchange for pockets of Sumy and Kharkiv.
#Moscow wants sanctions eased, recognition of Crimea as Russian, Ukraine’s #NATO bid dropped.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/outline-emerges-putins-offer-end-his-war-ukraine-2025-08-17/
I knew #Alaska resisters wouldn't let us down.
#Trump and #Putin are indeed being met with a sea of yellow and blue for #Ukraine.
From @oldamerica on Bluesky
#protests #50501movement
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A protest crowd is standing under a cloudy sky in Anchorage with a giant Ukrainian flag that says "ALASKA STANDS WITH UKRAINE."
Off in the distance behind the flag, you see loads of other people waving smaller Ukrainian flags.
NEWS OF THE DAY:
PRO-UKRAINE RALLY IN ALASKA AHEAD OF TRUMP-PUTIN SUMMIT: Alaskans took to the streets on August 14, on the eve of the Trump-Putin summit, the first since Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Of course, #Putin hasn’t said this out loud. The #Kremlin is pushing for control of the entire Donetsk region, which would push #Ukrainian defenses out of the trench lines and into the open, making #Ukraine much more vulnerable to future attack.
