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JP Lindsley | Journalist Profile picture
@JPLindsley
Jan 24, 2023 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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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)
Echoing @BorisJohnson : if you want victory for freedom, if you want to reduce the cost of Russia’s war, send weapons (not just old shit) now, and Ukrainians will get it done
About Nestor #Makhno and Ukraine’s gentle #anarchy: independent of government, dependent on the people around you. Like the American dream described by #tocqueville
@WGNRadio ‘s Bob Sirott on his father’s Ukrainian roots…
And some Odesa humor: what do you do when there is no electricity, no light? “Rotate the planet manually” 🤣💀

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Feb 21
KYIV—For years in Ukraine, I’ve heard complaints about Zelenskiy almost daily, from Lviv to the front. The normal stuff of a vibrant democracy. But even most of those who want him out agree: Now is not the time.

Here are six reasons why most Ukrainians I know don’t want elections right now. These insights come from a post by a Ukrainian woman who voted against Zelenskyy, along with my own observations. 🧵⤵️Image
1. The basic question: Who will actually vote? More than a million Ukrainian citizens are serving in the Armed Forces, with many on the frontlines, stationed at military bases, undergoing training, or working in essential production. Do they vote from the trenches?

Plus: Thousands of Ukrainians are under russian occupation—how are they supposed to vote? And what about those who fled the country and haven't done much to help the war effort? Do they vote?
2. Who will run for office? Many would like to see Ukraine's defenders and veterans become new political leaders. How the hell can any warriors launch a political campaign from the front?

The only people who could properly prepare for an election are those doing very little to help the daily work of victory, people like @arestovych. Most Ukrainians object to this.
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Feb 16
If you care about Ukraine, walk with me through just how tricky Russian propaganda is.

It’s an uncomfortable walk—which is exactly why the Kremlin is so good at this game. They count on us screaming rather than calmly analyzing. The tactic? It’s called reflexive control—but let’s call it THE PARIS TRICK. 🧵⤵️
Remember the Algerian boxer at the Paris Olympics, Imane Khalif? Please don’t roll yours eyes or run away from this yet!

It’s precisely because this topic is so polarising and controversial that the Kremlin uses it so well! ⤵️
After Imane won the first round, rumors spread: She’s a man! Or not enough of a woman! The frenzy took off in election-year America but also throughout Europe—another scandal of a transgender beating up a woman. People were upset. ⤵️
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Feb 15
A smart retired American general who cares about Ukraine told me recently that Ukraine is just going to have to give up a lot, it's so sad. But then I remembered from my experience that even generals and White House officials often lack real evidence we see here in Ukraine every day.

I told the general these five quick anecdotes and suddenly instead of me being depressed by his dark analysis, it was he who was energised by possibility ... 1/7🧵⤵️
1. Kharkiv May 2024 - almost destroyed; Kharkiv June 2024- almost no bombs after 'red line' crossed when reluctantly the Biden White House let Ukraine use HIMARS to strike Russian missile launch points on Russian soil in a limited way very close to the border. No one has reported well or analysed this major success.

Instead of paying attention to how crossing the red line made Kharkiv safer, Biden team slept, and after a month of regrouping, Russia began to attack from further away.

Kharkiv was bombed again but not with the brutality of May 2024. Kharkiv today is clean, prosperous, low-crime city friendly to entrepreneurs and creative people. I know people from Lviv in safer western Ukraine moving TO Kharkiv.

What does this show us? Doesn't it show that fighting back works? 2/7
2. Russia's Black Sea Fleet is GONE. Why does no one talk about this? In 2022, the UN and others negotiated a grain deal so Ukraine could export a middling amount of stuff through the Black Sea under protection. When that deal fell apart in 2023, Ukrainians free to use their brains and punch back with homemade sea drones.

Within a year, Ukraine had DESTROYED much of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and forced the remains of it out of the deep port in Crimea and back to the Russian mainland.

Ukraine now is exporting more grain through the Black Sea than before 2022.

This is a huge success that if we pay attention opens up a world of possibility. 3/7
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Feb 15
Here are my takeaways from General Kellogg's @MunSecConf panel and Q&A. I see reasons for hope—but also places where the Americans urgently need better information. 👀🧵1/8 ⤵️ Image
First: For balance and a less optimistic take, please see this thread from Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Lithuanian foreign minister, whose perspective I trust and whom I recently interviewed: 2/8 ⤵️
At tonight's Munich Security Conference panel talk, General Kellogg was joined by the foreign ministers of the UK, Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania. At the end, Ukrainian opposition MP Mariya Ionova asked General Kellogg whether the strategy is "to stop the war or to win?"

Kellogg said that question is ultimately up to the Ukrainians.

He also noted his disgust with Biden's "as long as it takes" strategy: "That's a bumper sticker, not a strategy." 3/8 ⤵️
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Feb 14
🚨 Give me Radio Free Europe. 🚨

After nearly three years of live reports from Ukraine—every single weekday, no breaks—my U.S. radio broadcast was canceled. I was the only person making a live report from Ukraine every weekday of the war for three years.

Not by Russia. Not by bombs. But by American corporate radio overlords. So be it. But now I see that @elonmusk and @DOGE are reforming Radio Free Europe. I have a plan, and I want to move RFE to Kyiv ... 🧵⤵️Image
2️⃣ Why It Matters

I always thought my last report would be from under the rubble after a missile strike—or on the day of Ukrainian victory. I was prepared for both options.

Instead, my unexpected last WGN broadcast came on a sad ordinary December morning. Somehow we kept the broadcast alive through 2022, 2023, and 2024, until the moment of the biggest possible turning point since 2022, just as Team Trump was preparing to take power. I know many people in the White House--and so these could have been extraordinary reports from Kyiv! ⤵️
Indeed, the listeners agreed! Within hours of WGN cancelling my daily report, which I had made for free, by the way, because I didn't want to do anything to lose those 10 minutes, the station was flooded with text messages from listeners:

📩 “Nooo! Joe was our only lifeline to the truth in Ukraine!”
📩 “This is a disgrace. WGN is abandoning real reporting.”
📩 WGN is dropping daily reports from Joseph?!!! That is absolutely the wrong thing to do.
We need his unfiltered reports to let us know what is really going on in Ukraine
📩 No, no no. It is very important that in 2025 we hear Joes reports about the Ukraine
📩 Do NOT stop with the Ukraine reports! WHO decided this? Joseph is a highlight of the
show and my mornings. Wrong decision. given President Trump viewpoint on the war. It'll be important for us to really know
📩 I can't believe WGN is abandoning Joe Lindley's daily reports from Ukraine.
Disappointing, disheartening, disgusting!
what's happening in 2025

📝 And this is just a fraction of the messages…
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Feb 8
When Biden finally let Ukraine fight back, the war changed overnight. Then he stopped.

What can a Trump White House learn from the Kharkiv Blitz? It’s the same old story: some people use words to hide problems—others use action to solve them. 🧵⤵️
Just 30 miles from Russia, Kharkiv is a major city with a grand metro, beautiful parks, and low crime. Since 2014, Moscow has tried to control Kharkiv's Russian-speaking population. But even under missile fire, Kharkiv people have refused to surrender.
Then, in May 2024, hell came to Kharkiv. Moscow launched a brutal bombing campaign to destroy the city. But Biden refused to let Ukraine use precision American weapons to strike the Russian missile launch points—just a few miles away. It seemed Moscow's goal of breaking Kharkiv by making its resident flee was closer than ever ...
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