Although the political class might wear the Ukraine colours, they do not necessarily want Ukraine to win swiftly. Consider the impasse over tanks, with both Berlin and Washington seemingly reluctant to send offensive weapons. ...
I encourage the #Davos Blob-sceptics to look more closely at Ukraine. Remember: In 2014, Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity did something more extraordinary than the Ottawa Truckers or the Dutch farmers. ...
... The people, of all ages and walks of life, stood in the freezing weather until the corrupt pro-Putin government, with ties both to the Trump and Biden worlds, fled the country and put the people in charge ...
The knowledge that the people could take to the Maidan, the main square, is an ongoing ultimate check on power. ...
In both their democracy and their culture, the Ukrainian people are one of the few forces standing against the Blob ...
How often do you hear the White House speak about Ukrainian democracy, or the 2014 Revolution? Why would they, went the son of the then-vice president, now president, was paid by a friend of Putin, an oligarch whom the Ukrainian people sent fleeing to Moscow in 2014?
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War Day 335: Fighting tyranny, with songs, jokes, and tanks… my report from #Ukraine given every weekday since February on Chicago’s @WGNRadio … 🧵
#SuzanneVega made a haunting song about #Mariupol. Some people scoff at celebrity tributes to Ukraine but here is why it matters to Ukrainians:
What is going on in #Zaporizhzhia? … especially in #Hulyaipole (a village with a lovely name unless you mispronounce it, in which case it sounds like a common Ukrainian word for Putin these days)