Valerie Morkevičius

Color me not surprised.

Well put:

"Mr. Trump’s dangerous reliance on the military as the primary tool of foreign policy creates a perilous precedent. The American people must not become inured to their president using troops as an easy button to solve policy problems."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...

Frankly, I doubt anyone in the administration really believes that -- but they want their voters to.

You make a good point.

Yes, I agree.

I guess I should cite my sources: x.com/SecWar/statu...

I listened to the whole Hegseth statement on X.

"Our enemies' wicked ideologies" is very clearly talking about left-leaning professors and not Russian or Chinese ones -- it's a shocking and blatant effort at ideological control.

No. Next.

One ignores experts at their peril.

The new abnormal After four years on high-level alert, defence against invasion becomes a gruelling routine. But could the normalization of war in Ukraine be positive for long-term planning, the public good and the so...

This must-read will make you re-think the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Esp those who identify as "anti-war" should read it. For most Ukrainians, what matters more is not when the war ends but how, many have adapted to the realization that the end is not in sight www.eurozine.com/the-new-abno...

Being friendly is not a legal requirement for sovereignty.

This! 👇💯

💥BREAKING: Viktor Orbán ordered the military deployed to guard “key energy facilities,” citing a possible Ukrainian “attack” to disrupt Hungary’s energy system. The move fuels fears of a staged national security emergency or false-flag incident ahead of the April 12 elections. This is really scary.

Putin is making Russia small again:

”Our model suggests that Russian casualties are now between 1.1m and 1.4m, of whom 230,000-430,000 are dead. That would mean one in 25 Russian men between the ages of 18 and 49 may have been killed or severely wounded since the start of the full-scale war.”

Gross.

Note that the administration hasn’t even bothered to ask the same of Russia, although it has targeted American businesses in Ukraine.

In other words, Trump isn’t even trying to look neutral.

107 states voted in favor of lasting peace for Ukraine.
12 states voted to let Russia continue its aggression.
51 lacked the backbone to decide.

(and a smattering chose to stay away to avoid voting at all)

Is this really America now? Shameful. /3

Here's the text
@USAmbUN
apparently couldn't stomach. What's the problem?

Naming the aggressor?
Condemning attacks on civilians?
Calling for an immediate ceasefire?
Urging the return of POWS?
Demanding the return of kidnapped children?

/2

docs.un.org/en/A/ES-11/L...

This is shocking.

The US has abstained from a UN vote supporting lasting peace in #Ukraine, joining such illustrious state-sponsors of international justice and human rights as China, Saudi Arabia, and Libya. /1

@houseforeign.bsky.social

The hard part about doing propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.

Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Is Essentially Not About NATO Instead of buying Putin's claimed sense of military threat, theorists of realism should see the driver in his disdain for democracy.

On Feb 24, 2022, as Ru invaded, @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I wrote: "Putin’s rhetoric and actions over almost two decades reveal that his goals extend beyond imposing neutrality on Ukraine or even staving off further NATO expansion. The larger objective is...
www.justsecurity.org/80343/russia...

Texting my friends this morning, I found myself writing only: 'may this day somehow pass'. Because with each year, words carry heavier weight. In my comment for The New Statesman, I chose three words that must be used with caution. 1/2

YouTube video by Офіс Президента України Звернення Президента у четверті роковини початку повномасштабного вторгнення Росії в Україну

If you watch only one thing today.
This is it.

As some who studied @ZelenskyyUa speeches. This one is back to basics. We, the people, together united are what makes Ukraine strong.

Shoring up that state centered civic duty.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnAU...

An anniversary we never wanted to mark. A date we never wanted to remember.

Four years since #Russia launched its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine.

For every Ukrainian, life split into “before” and “after”.

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🇺🇦 Four years of Ukraine for me, & the worst of times to discover the best of places, but I will never regret being here.

I am honoured to call Ukraine home & to live alongside people who show the world what dignity, bravery and freedom truly mean, in the heart of Europe.

There will be better days.

Four years of Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine. Standing with Ukrainians. Supporting them in their fight for freedom and just peace. Bringing Ukraine to rooms and places that matter, big and small. That’s the least we can do.

Four years into the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine is nowhere close to defeat. ISW estimates Russia now occupies 20 percent of Ukraine and only seized 0.8 percent in 2025.

Read more of our assessments and special reports about the war in Ukraine: https://isw.pub/4thAnniversaryBSK

Russia launched its full-scale invasion exactly four years ago.

If anyone had told us, during that first month, that this would be the situation four years later, we would have instantly called it a massive Ukrainian victory and a staggering Russian defeat

The Ukrainian anthem performed in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia.

People have gathered to commemorate the 4-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion and to stand in solidarity with Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇬🇪

Thank you for your service!

Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago?

How many of us didn’t sleep at all.

We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.