1. I have gathered from private donations of Romanians 451.000 euros so far and donated them to Ukraine in various forms of help. In this picture is a fire truck that i drove into #Bakhmut last month, picture taken entering Donetsk Oblast. Cost 28k eur with tansport. Thread:
2. Bought 4 of decommisioned DAC Romanian Army Trucks, repaired them, painted them and donated them to the #ZSU. The total cost of those (with repair and transport) 36k euro. @ChuckPfarrer maybe you'll like those :)
3. Purchased 17 4x4 SUV and repaired other 4 for Armed Forces of Ukraine. Total cost of those: 127.500 euro.
4. Purchased 30 generators in December that reached the villages from the eastern front. So people could charge their devices, Starlink batteries etc and even to heat the water. Total cost: 30k euro
5. Purchased 4 various kind of drones and delivered them to the Armed forces of Ukraine. Some are more special than others and the total cost: 19.500 euro.
6. Over 40 tons of humanitarian aid delivered since september to Bakhmut, Sloviansk, Izium, Oskil and other places from eastern front and Donbas. Total cost = 40k euro
7. Medical help for multiple brigades on eastern front that i considrler humanitarian aid. This picture is taken after the liberation of #izyum with some of the soldiers that participated at the counter-offensive.
8. Oleg Gubal (Ukrainian Hero and my friend that died in November in the battle) Mobile Hospital. Almost finished. Invested 70.000 euro so far. It will save lives on the front lines. @domenpresern how do you like this? Polish doctors will operate along ukrainians.
9. War is not finnished. So i am starting a new campaign. I stil lhave about 60.000 euro left and i want to purchase as many ambulances as they need in Ukraine. If you want to donate and help, go to my facebook page (link in bio) and in the pin post you can find all details.
10. It's almost a year. We need to pressure our politicians to help more Ukraine. We have to donate more, cause this is a war effort like never seen before from all around the world. This thread was not for bragging, but to show that we really can. I am only one guy.
11. But if more of us will do the same or donate to NGOs that really help Ukraine, we can really make a difference in the lifes of civilians and soldiers. Donate to @NorwegianAidUkr@georgian_legion@MriyaAid and listen to @MriyaReport
What Cristian Diaconescu, the head of the Chancellery of the President of Romania's Office, conveyed yesterday is no less than a historic event all NATO states that acceded NATO after 1997. On this occasion, the whole of our society should be aware of what Cristian Diaconescu said.
Firstly, the fact that the head of the presidential chancellery was able to make the following statements means that he had the approval of the President of the Republic.🧵
2/24 Secondly, the content of these statements have major implications for the future of each and every one of us, regardless of our social status, level of education, ideology, political affiliation or the appreciation of any candidate or party.
The Romanian state has received information from allies (most likely from the American side) about the talks in Riyadh between the US and Russia on the peace negotiations in Ukraine.
3/24 What interests us is the following statement:
"Their expectation [russian's] is that at some point the US would induce within NATO the European partners to withdraw NATO's security guarantees on the 1997 alignment. So that we, those who joined after 1997, would no longer benefit from these security guarantees, and then, with regard to the situation in these areas, we would enter into a negotiating context in which we would not be involved, as at Yalta, and which would obviously lead to the recognition of a Russian zone of influence.
I stated at the beginning of the war that Russia's interest was first and foremost to get back to the table of the big players. To do that it needed to regain its sphere of influence, i.e. to be in control or indirect control of large enough populations/nations and large enough economies that it could effectively interoperate with the two big super powers (the US and China). This is the only way to get Putin back in the picture and thus deliver a victory for the population dreaming of Russia's long-gone power.🧵
2/13 I was also saying at the beginning of the war that in addition to the strategic political objective of decapitating Ukraine in order to control it and from there project power and divisiveness throughout Eastern Europe (directly affecting the Baltics, Poland and Romania and thus effectively blocking the functioning of the European Union), they also had the strategic political interest of weakening European cohesion in the hope that Europe and the US would give in before Russia reached the end of its strength.
3/13 Russia is very close to the end of its strength from a conventional military perspective, according to absolutely all visually documented data (so not those officially presented by either Ukraine or Moscow).
This month we will enter the 4th year of war in Ukraine, which means we have reached the halfway point of the duration of World War II.
There are, keeping the scale, some similarities with WW2:
1. The aggressor's leader has imperialistic visions and considers himself on a mission to restore the nation's lost glory due to the world occult:
- Hitler believed that Germany was the providential nation and he had the mission to save it from the oppression of the world occult (then and now, Jews). 🧵
2/13 He had a fascination with Roman emperors and considered himself the last emperor of a Germany continuing the Western Roman Empire;
- Putin believes that Russia is an indispensable nation in defending certain values (such as Orthodox Christianity) and that it needs to regain its lost status due to the West. He has a fascination with former Russian leaders like Peter the Great and wants to restore Russki Myr (Russian World);
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2. The aggressor conducts a robust campaign of manipulating its own population, based on fear of an external adversary and the promise of historical greatness:
- Hitler used the radio, a technological innovation, to convince his population that they were oppressed by the Jewish world occult and that they needed to fight against it;
- Putin uses the internet and many other propaganda techniques (some borrowed from Nazi Germany) to convince his population that Russia could be great if it weren't constrained by the Collective West;
Did I ever tell you how I was a neighbor of Prigojin? Exactly two years ago, on January 20, 2023, I was in the heart of Bakhmut. 700 meters away were the first Wagner troops, as Bakhmut was already partially occupied by the Russians.
To make a long story short, I got there because I personally delivered a fire truck to the Bakhmut brigade after Vice dot com USA did a story🧵👇👇
2/8 sometime in the fall of 2022 about the only functioning fire brigade that had a shrapnel-drilled truck in its equipment, which they used to put out fires and rescue wounded from under Russian-caused rubble.
@DefMon3 posted a photo from the Vice footage appealing to international organizations to help the fire brigade. I volunteered and after consulting with two large organizations in Sweden (@BlagulaBilen) and Norway (@NorwegianAidUkr) to find out what I should buy.
3/8 I got in touch with the 8th Fire and Rescue Brigade in Bakhmut, the last functioning brigade.
I was a guest on Cătălin Striblea's show on Radio EuropaFM (the most listened to radio program in Romania) when someone called me to tell me that he had a fire truck for 28,000 euros, imported from Germany. My Facebook followers donated.
1/16 Shawn Ryan, a former Navy SEAL and CIA bodyguard, betrays the common interests of the US and Romania by the deliberate actions he takes to propagate lies in the public space.
@ShawnRyan762 interviewed pro-Putin candidate for the Romanian presidency, Călin Georgescu, where the Romanian candidate said that the Romanian-NATO-US Mihail Kogălniceanu Romanian-NATO-US Base in Romania would be used as a base to attack Russia.
2/16 This is a falsehood, a lie, but what Shawn Ryan has done betrays the common strategic interests of the US and Romania and I accuse him directly of this.
Background:
Shawn Ryan: is a former US Army elite, part of the famous Navy SEAL teams. He was later a CIA contractor, which translates to being part of the CIA's armed wing. That doesn't make him a CIA officer, but rather a bodyguard for CIA officers and staff. He became known for his Youtube podcast "The Shawn Ryan Show" where he has exceptional guests like the real heroes of 13 Hours of Bengazi.
3/16 Călin Georgescu: is a candidate for President of Romania, who won the most votes in the first round of the Romanian presidential election - Nov 24, 2024, following a hundreds of thousands of dollars TikTok campaign, with TikTok's involvement and with (as revealed in official documents declassified from the Supreme Council of the Country's Supreme Defense Council) the help of interference from a state actor, which Romanian President Klaus Iohannis clearly indicated as Russia.
Patrushev's statement on Romania and the Republic of Moldova is of extreme importance and it is serious that 24 hours after its publication, the Romanian state has not responded.
I want us to understand the context of this statement, because that is the only way to understand its seriousness:
The interview is given in Komsomolskaia Pravda, a former USSR office, Putin's current office, a tabloid publication with a very large audience in the Russian press.🧵👇👇
2/18 So the interview is meant to reach as many people in Russia as possible, therefore it is an indicator that this interview is (ALSO) meant to convey a message to the people.
The interview is about foreign policy, Trump's second term, Ukraine, upcoming peace talks, Romania, Moldova and the European Union. This is an indicator that the interview is (ALSO) for foreign use.
The interview is given by Nikolai Patrushev, Putin's senior advisor, former head of the FSB, former head of the Russian Security Council, still a full member of the latter.
3/18 Patrushev is NOT Peskov nor is he the drunkard Medvedev. He is not a mere mouthpiece. He is an architect of policies, especially those of internal and external security. He is one of the architects of the power structure that Putin now controls.
The fact that Patrushev spoke so trenchantly and harshly means not only that Vladimir Putin considers the approach to be correct, but also that he supports it, and when Patrushev says something and Putin supports it, the statements, the words, materialize into deeds.