These look like the demands Nazi Germany made of Vichy France.

To the dictator Putin, NATO member states are collaborators and weaklings to be subordinated. The only real opposition to Russia’s imperialist aggression in Europe is Ukraine.
Putin is a KGB man, not a military thinker. He regards the United States as weak because Russia was able to recruit Trump as an agent of influence in the 1980s and put him in the White House in 2016.
Putin believes he understands Americans. He’s got their number. He can bend enough of them to his will (MAGA, anti-vax) that he doesn’t fear them.

Putin doesn’t understand Ukrainians. He projects imperialist fantasies on them, e.g. “one people.” Putin fears Ukrainians.
Putin doesn’t need the support of the Russian people for his imperialism. He demands and gets their complete submission.

Putin doesn’t care if Russians are slaughtered, are impoverished, and starve.

Putin isn’t a politician. Failing to understand that leads to global war.

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19 Dec
When Russia started mobilizing for an offensive against Ukraine, Jake Sullivan advised Biden to meet with Putin, delay a meeting with Zelenskyy, waive sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 war project, and cut a deal with Merkel to complete NS2.
Ukraine betrayed. Russia encouraged.
Jake Sullivan is a more effective asset for the Russian regime of state terrorism than Putin puppet Trump was.
Jake Sullivan is doing harm to United States national security, greater harm to U.S. allies in Eastern Europe, and devastating harm to Ukraine – the only fighting defender of the West from Russian armed aggression.
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18 Dec
Ukrainians call enemy Russian soldiers орки (orcs), москалі (Moskali), кацупи (Katsups), ватники (vatniks), тероросіяни (terro-Russians), Талібан (Taliban), груз 200 (Cargo 200).

Some names I’ve missed? Let me know.

#RussiaInvadedUkraine
орки - orcs, from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; orcs are inhuman creatures who make up Sauron's army from Mordor

москалі – Moskali is a vulgar term for a Muscovite with the sense of a barbarian, a savage, and an imbecile; someone who believes anything the Vozhd (Putin) tells them
кацапи- Katsapy, from a Turkic (Tatar) word meaning "butchers", "slaughterers”; the Muscovites are the slaughterers of the Crimean Tatar people

свинособаки, meaning "pig-dogs"

відпустники – vacationers; Ukrainians mock Putin who said captured Russian soldiers were "on vacation"
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11 Dec
In February 2014, Putin puppet Yanukovych ordered the Maidan Massacre in a failed attempt to crush the Revolution of Dignity of the Ukrainian people. The Donetsk gangster fled Ukraine to Russia. #RussiaInvadedUkraine in the chaos of the following weeks. 1/14
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Putin gulled the worst appeasement nations, Germany and France, to be false “guarantors” of Minsk Agreement II. Russia was given years to consolidate. 2/14
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In 2016, Russia sponsored the GeenPeil joke referendum in the Netherlands against Ukraine. A massive effort of information warfare turned the result in Moscow’s favour. 3/14
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13 Nov
Russia is not preparing to invade Ukraine.

Russia already invaded Ukraine – 7 years, 8 months, 23 days ago – and has been waging a war of aggression inside Ukraine every day since. The invasion battlefront in Donetsk and Luhansk regions has never been idle.

War is here already.
Ukrainian military intelligence has been telling us for years about the movement of Russian military personnel, weapons, ammunition, fuel and matériel into occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The Russian army of occupation in Donbas is carrying out the invasion already.
Russia began mobilizing for a new offensive – to expand its invasion of Ukraine – at the end of March 2021. There are some 90,000 RU troops at the border with Ukraine.

But that’s just the reserve. The Invasion troops are already inside Ukraine: in Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk.
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12 Sep
See the world the way Ukrainians see it. Invaded by Russia in Crimea and Donbas. Surrounded by Russian forces and Chekist warfare on all sides. Excluded from NATO and the EU. Left to defend Europe from Russian armed aggression for 7 1/2 years – alone.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine

I translated a map from the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, talks about how many Russian troops are in occupied Ukraine and near Ukraine.
armyinform.com.ua/2021/09/golovn…
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6 Sep
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There’s no clear reason for the Kyiv visit.

president.gov.ua/en/news/prezid…
By entertaining the American treason caucus, Zelenskyy risks reviving the Putin/Trump/Giuliani active measures to undermine Ukraine. The “peace plan for Crimea” operation of 2016 and the “dirt on Biden in Ukraine” fabrication of 2019 are still fresh in the minds of Ukrainians.
To Zelenskyy’s left, leaning forward, is Andriy Yermak. He was made head of the presidential administration in violation of Ukraine’s lustration law.

Yermak is suspected by Ukrainian analysts as well as British and US intelligence of being Russian agent “Kozyr” – “trump card.”
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