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Mar 6, 2025 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Rubio: Ukraine is a proxy war, and we asked Ukraine not to sabotage diplomacy. Zelensky tried to undermine Trump. Russia is ready to talk - Ukraine wasn’t. That changed when the U.S. applied pressure.

1/
Rubio: Zelensky challenged Trump’s push for diplomacy, undermining the plan. That led to the dustup.

Now, there’s a shift. Both sides need to make concessions. Ukraine and Russia must come to the table. Only Trump can make that happen. 2/
Rubio: We asked Russia - are you interested in ending the war. Because there can’t be a change in our relationship if the war doesn’t stop. They said yes.

But Ukraine signaled no interest in peace. Hopefully, that’s changed. Now, we’ll see if a deal is possible. 3/
Rubio: Trump wants to be a peacemaker. Ending wars should be a good thing.

But when Trump pushes for peace, somehow it’s a problem.

This war has cost billions, taken hundreds of thousands of lives, and left destruction that will take generations to fix. 4/
Rubio: No prenegotiations—Ukraine and Russia will have their demands. Diplomacy must bridge the gap.

Every war that ended in a truce took hard diplomacy. This is no different. The question is: will both sides engage? 5/
Rubio: Peace talks only work if both sides engage. Russia won’t be easy, but we need them at the table.

Ukraine resisted talks before—now that’s changed. If true, there’s an opening. Ending this war benefits Ukraine, Russia, the U.S., and our allies. 6/

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Jan 19
There is no good Russians on the screen of a thermal scope — Daria “Hilka”, commander of the Ukrainian all-women Typhoon drone unit.

Those who come onto our land with weapons are only temporarily alive.

Their thoughts or dreams don’t matter to me.

They must get out. 1/
Hilka: We’re seen as a curiosity because we’re a female crew.

We work the same way, with the same principles and equipment. There’s no open sexism — but the ‘they’re girls’ attitude exists.

We deal with it by doing the job and proving we’re at the same level as men.

2/
We organized an exhibition “Unissued Diplomas” in uni, to honor students killed by Russia.

Not long ago we were skipping classes and drinking coffee together. Now we’re honoring them - Oleksandra “Smakolyk” on one of the moments that motivated her to join the army. 3X
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Jan 19
Sikorski: The way Putin has treated people on occupied territories is unbelievable.

Cruelties, stealing children, arresting at the slightest sign of resistance, russifying the culture.

Ukrainians understood that this is an existential war for them. 1/
Sikorski: When Putin continues to say Zelenskyy is the problem, he wants to create a political crisis in Ukraine, which would allow him to place someone in charge that would follow his wishes.
It's not just about territory, it's about the geopolitical orientation of Ukraine. 2/
Sikorski: Putin has sent us death squads. People have died [killed by Russian agents] in Germany, Britain, Qatar.

They recruit one-time agents on social media, pay them to photograph a target and then to set fire to it. All over Europe, we've had a number of such incidents. 3/
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Jan 19
Military historian Phillips O’Brien: Ukraine understands this war will not be won by a large tank counteroffensive. That kind of warfare is over.

The battlefield no longer works that way. Ukraine’s aim is to inflict heavy losses on Russia while keeping its own losses down. 1/
O’Brien: Ukraine’s way of taking the war to Russia is by hitting the Russian economy with long-range strikes, instead of smashing against Russian forces on the front line.

Kyiv sees the Russian economy as the weak point of the war machine. 2/
O’Brien: The Ukrainians are often more adaptive, but Russia copies those adaptations and builds them in large numbers.

One of the benefits Ukrainians have is a society with young, technologically conversant people like Fedorov, willing to take risks. 3X
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Jan 19
Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Fedorov is not a crony or an old Soviet insider tainted by corruption - Military historian Phillips O’Brien.

O’Brien: He is a different kind of politician — a Maidan-generation Ukraine. He also is technologically fluent. 1/
O’Brien: Fedorov has overseen drone production, one of the most dynamic parts of Ukraine’s economy.

He is not stuck in an old Soviet mindset. He understands the technological battlefield and how important it is to win the adaptation race. 2/
O’Brien: Fedorov gets things done. He’s not hidebound. He’s not going to be worried about offending different people or taking time to do something.

He’s going to get it done. He seems to be very clear-eyed. 3/
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Jan 19
John Bolton: The damage that Trump is doing to America's reputation is just impossible to state.

This is so extraordinary to threaten the invasion of a NATO ally, to seize territory from a democracy. The impact in Europe, you cannot calculate how bad this is for us. 1/
Bolton: There is nothing that we need in terms of security in Greenland that's not amply provided in a 1951 treaty with Denmark called the Defense of Greenland Treaty.

I think diplomats between the two countries and with other NATO allies could resolve this very quickly. 2/
Bolton: Russia and China are a threat in the Arctic — we’ve known that for decades. The U.S. has been just as lax as other NATO allies in responding.

But we’ll do whatever it takes to defend our interests in Greenland, Northern Canada and Alaska — that’s why alliances exist. 3/
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Jan 19
Fukuyama: Trump is a bully who wants to dominate everyone around him. Trying to placate him with concessions is a fool’s errand. He despises weakness.

As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop. 1/
Fukuyama: Europeans think conceding Greenland will mollify Trump. It won’t. He will come back for more later. Europe says it still depends on the U.S. to deal with Russia.

But Trump’s America has abandoned Ukraine and declared Europe secondary to the Western Hemisphere. 2/
Fukuyama: Countries that stood up to Trump’s threats — Brazil, India, China — have done well. They boosted domestic support, and China forced the U.S. to back down.

Trump is not the United States: most Americans are dismayed by his policies and likely to vote against him. 3X
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