Anders Östlund

I don't think Putin will stop the war under any other circumstances than a complete Russian victory (no more Ukraine) As long as the war goes on Putin can claim Russia can still win. If Russia lose after Putin is gone he believes his reputation will be intact because people will blame his successor.

3/ Putin’s rejection of meaningful Western security guarantees for Ukraine is a greater impediment to a prospective peace deal than Ukraine’s position on ceding its territories.

🇺🇦 Zelensky awarded Vladyslav Heraskevych the Order of Freedom.

I think Iranians got fucked over by the U.S. just like Ukrainians. Putin called Trump and asked him to back off. Trump follow his master's orders. Iranians pay the price.

Anybody with a brain knows the "peace negotiations" are a rain dance. Still, the world plays along because the baby-man in Washington wants it and the most evil man in the world supports him. The rest of us are just idiots without any say.

Yet another massive Russian attack on Ukraine last night.

Russia attacked energy infrastructure in the western parts of Ukraine.

Emergency electricity shutdowns in Ukraine.

There are injured and a lot of damage.

Yet another Russian war crime.

UNITED24 Russia has killed more than 650 Ukrainian athletes and coaches, since the start of its full-scale war against Ukraine.

Who came up with the idea of Putin changing his calculus and then negotiate a peace? Is there anything anywhere that supports that idea? Has Putin ever backed off before? Cut his losses and called it a day?

I smell Russia a long way in the Iran - U.S. deal. I guess Iran asked Russia for help to avoid a U.S. attack. Russia's interests were also at stake since Iran is an important arms supplier, and provide a safe route to the ocean. So Putin ask Trump to back off and offer a face saving deal.

In my opinion the talk about security guarantees is just a way to fool Ukraine into signing a "peace" agreement that let Russia win the war while Ukraine is made to believe it's safe. Just like the Budapest Memorandum but far worse.

Is there anybody who actually believe that Ukraine's allies and the U.S. will actually provide real security guarantees? Isn't that the highest level of phantasy? The Trump admin might just break the agreement, the Europeans might chicken out when it's time to deliver.

There is no scenario in which Russia win a war against Europe as long as Europe chose to resist. But Europe has been uninterested in defending itself against Russian aggression, just as Europe has been uninterested in a Ukrainian victory against Russia. The result is terror against Ukrainians.

Make no mistake. For Europe Russia's war against Ukraine was always a choice. At anytime since Putin came to power Europe could have limited Russia's aggression, but it chose not to. At anytime after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 Europe could have helped Ukraine to win, but it chose not to.

Russia has working on destroying the West for many decades.

Belgorod moment of the HIMARS MLRS strike. Lights out, Ork bitches!
#russianLosses
#UkraineNews

Exactly. If Europe wanted to stop the terror, push Russia out of Ukraine and make sure Russia is pacified it could do so with a stroke of a pen. It is all about political will. The resources to win are available in abundance.

To create prosperous societies we must first and foremost defend ourselves against fascism and other extreme ideologies (like communism and islamism). A community oriented ideology based on lifting each individual of society is my current answer. I shall get back to that later.

Free markets and globalization have increased wealth enormously. But if they make it possible for fascism to surcae again it's not worth it, because the destructive nature of fascism and the wars that always follow it will destroy the wealth created by liberalism.

There must be a reckoning with the dark forces that have taken hold in our societies. Personally I have changed my ideology altogether. Prioritizing free markets and globalization in order to increase wealth is a no-go in the face of fascism.

Ukraine has paid an enormous price for this corruption, and so have countries like Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia and others. Fascism has yet again surfaced and now threatens our way of live at its core. Again we have to fight for survival.

Part of the endless appeasement of Russia and the enormous resistance to do anything at all to stop Russian aggression can be traced to the new Russian weapons. Since 1991 western societies have not acted in their own but their corrupt elites interests towards Russia.

Propaganda to create domestic and international division and hatred in the West, election interference, massive corruption, energy blackmail and collection of compromising material became new Russian weapons against the West - and it has been a real success.

But the Epstein connection of course makes perfect sense since Russia never stopped working for the destruction of Western civilization. After losing the Cold War Russia had to rethink and come up with a more economically efficient method to win.

I have lost count of how many times people have said I am too conspiracy minded with regards to Russia. But I have very often been proven right. However, it never occurred to me that maybe Epstein also had a Russian connection.

Russian terror bombing of Ukraine continues. Ukraine's allies donate generators but not long range missiles to strike Russia's capacity to terrorize. Western media ignore the humanitarian disaster altogether.

This is the Ukrainian ground drone armed with a machine gun that made history by becoming the first to capture enemy infantry on the battlefield.

Flying the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the same as embracing the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent Iranians who protested for freedom. People embracing that regime should be isolated and pushed out from wherever they are.

Some very smart people in Ukraine are probably working on new concepts for air defense. I will not be surprised if Ukraine will develop a top-level air defense industry before too long.

Even Russia Is Starting to Admit the War Is Failing The Lie That's Breaking

For the first time Russian politicians are admitting the war is a failure. Great article by @olddogua.bsky.social

The worst thing about the ongoing ”peace negotiations” and Trump’s Greenland gambit is that they distract from Russia’s ongoing humanitarian warfare.

Happy to report that @lapatina.bsky.social and friends have been busy delivering emergency batteries around Kyiv ! A good way to help ⬇️