Catherine Douglas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦

China green lit the invasion too at the meeting with Putin at the Winter Olympics.

And when it went wrong for Russia, China doubled down on its support.

Europe has put some sanctions on Chinese companies but think it struggles to go further when America has waged trade war on them too

Anastasiia Hrytsiv and her family were killed by the Russian strike on Lviv region last night.

Anastasiia's school wrote about her death.

She had her life ahead of her, but Russia's damned war against Ukraine took the lives of the whole family.

Deepest condolences...

Same pattern as in every free country. The Russians dump a torrent of misinformation and manipulation into the public space, support populists of every sort and look for corrupt oligarchs to operate through.

The US, Hungary and Slovakia all failed the test.

Czechia is still fighting 🇨🇿 👊

bsky.app/profile/noel... well pretty disappointing but maybe slightly better than polls expected. At least Babis will be weak and maybe they will have to go to the polls again in not too distant future.

With Pavel as president things can’t get too bad but not good to see the Kremlin’s machinations

How to sum up the state of Britain at the moment?

A stagnant economy drowning in debt.

Discord and division with a society that feels totally out of control. Deep pessimism about the future.

Weakly surrendering to China and unable to rebuild our armed forces.

Labour has failed but what next?

Czechs have always been on the right side of history standing for freedom.

But it’s depressing how Moscow’s playbook of using populist, corrupt oligarchs to attack democracy is so effective.

Still, the Senate is better and they’ll have Pavel, a great man, as President so not all will be lost

We got good news from Moldova last week.

Now we hope for good news from Czechia.

I have faith in you my friends 🙏 🇨🇿

Russia now erecting ‘cope nets’ around its refineries.

Sure sign of how much Ukraine’s long range campaign is hurting them, their desperation and total inability to stop it.

More please Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Haha, cope nets!

Yes in long term they’ll discover playing fair with your friends was ultimately in their self interest

Is this just for Ukraine’s own long range weapons though like drones and the ‘Flamingos’ to come?

Doesn’t say they can use American systems and says decision on tomahawks still with the president

Not just victory but clear majority in parliament now for the pro-European party so it can drive reforms forward.

Bravo Moldova! 🇲🇩

Yeah hopefully not. Definitely a long way for Moldova but as long as it’s on the right path and working with the EU to make reforms I don’t worry so much.

It’s the geopolitical danger it sits under that has to be resolved really. Once the Russian troops are off its oil it can really move forward

Awesome!

Btw. I love your profile pic. Stealing that!

Those were glorious days. Hopefully we see them fall all across Russia some day

Yeah that’s why I said she has political savvy, she knows the balance between improving things while staying in office and keeping Russian influence out.

Ultimately though, outcome of the Russia-Ukraine war will be pivotal. Hopefully a good outcome there can open up opportunities with her in power

Maybe guns should be harder to get, and mental health treatment should be easier to get, in today's America.

Kind of the opposite of what the Trump administration and the Republican Party want.

As someone who wants to be sympathetic to America looking from the outside, this is an incredibly obvious observation that is somehow an unspeakable taboo in the twisted politics you’re enduring

Sandu is seriously impressive. Clean competent government but also the political savvy and steel to defeat the massive interference operation against her.

Tops off a rough couple of weeks for Putin 👍

She is seriously impressive. Clean competent government but also the political savvy and steel to defeat the massive interference operation against her.

Moldovans are clearly appreciating her more and more

Yeah it feels like a pretty accurate reflection of America today - oafish, ignorant, obnoxious, arrogant and ultimately self defeating

After all the crazy turns Europe and Ukraine have got trump to probably the best possible place for him-in NATO, sanctions stay and he sells weapons for Ukraine

Russia is running out of men and money and its only cash generator is being destroyed.

Let’s keep on this path until they are defeated 🇺🇦

Fills my heart with joy thinking about the panic in the Kremlin as their economic lifeline is cut

What he’s really saying is it’s up to Europe and Ukraine alone now. America will only sell weapons.

Which we knew already!

Ukraine is holding the line while its strategic air campaign against Russian refineries gathers momentum. And the EU just seized £170 billion for them.

On to victory!

💪🇺🇦

Trump says Ukraine can win back all the territory currently occupied by Moscow.

I agree but I’m sincere-for him it’s just today’s bullshit to distract from his pivot to Putin

Watch his actions. Don’t listen to his bluster

Very elegant Prime Minister 🇱🇻🇱🇻

Also needs to be said that the western allies absorbed far more of the military and economic resources of the axis than the USSR.

And they also supplied the USSR to an extent they couldn’t have survived without.

FDR in particular was extremely naive about Stalin and his post war intentions

Needs repeated a million times because so few understand this basic truth.

The USSR was an instigator of the war and a co-belligerent alongside Nazi Germany. It only fought Hitler because he turned on them.

The USSR then used the victory of the allies to occupy and subjugate half of Europe

Needs repeated a million times because so few understand this basic truth.

The USSR was an instigator of the war and a co-belligerent alongside Nazi Germany. It only fought Hitler because he turned on them.

The USSR then used the victory of the allies to occupy and subjugate half of Europe