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Joni Askola

@joni_askola

Sep 5, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

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1/7 Trump has shown us — again and again — that he won’t pressure russia.

Putin has rejected every ask: ceasefires, diplomacy, meeting Zelensky.

And Trump still acts like there’s a reason to hold back.

It’s pathetic

2/7 Let’s be clear: Trump is the weakest president in US history.

But weakness is just the start.

He’s also the most corrupt, dishonest, unqualified, and openly traitorous.

He’s not defending America — he’s sabotaging it

3/7 Trump isn’t going to pressure Putin.

Putin is his idol.

Instead of confronting russia, Trump is copying it — authoritarian style, propaganda, attacks on institutions.

He’s importing Kremlin politics into the US

4/7 Waiting for Trump to “do the right thing” is a waste of time.

He won’t.

He’s not confused. He’s not cautious.

He’s aligned.

It’s time people stopped pretending otherwise

5/7 Europe has tried to play Trump’s game — staying quiet, avoiding confrontation, hoping he won’t openly back russia.

But that strategy has limits.

russia is watching.

Ukraine is bleeding.

And Trump is not on our side

6/7 Europe must step up.

More military aid to Ukraine.

More investment in defense industries.

More sanctions on russia.

Not just because Trump won’t — but because Europe must

7/7 This is the moment to stop hedging.

Trump won’t pressure russia.

So Europe must.

Ukraine is fighting for all of us — and it’s time we help Ukraine win

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Feb 10

1/12 EU regulation is like kryptonite to our enemies🧵

2/12 There is a reason why Putin, Musk, Trump, Vance, Thiel, and Xi all spend fortunes to attack Brussels.

They do not hate the EU because it fails.

They hate it because of its potential.

Our unity is their nightmare

3/12 Think about the strategy. Why do they fund anti-EU movements?

Because they can bully Italy. They can buy Hungary. They can pressure France.

But they cannot bully a unified bloc of 450 million people.

When we stand together, their leverage evaporates

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Joni Askola

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Feb 2

1/11 The war is far from over, but Ukraine is still winning.

Here is how we can make sure that it defeats Russia 🧵

2/11 Russia’s 2022 invasion is a genocide.

They use genocidal rhetoric to justify erasing Ukraine's identity. They kidnap children and commit daily war crimes to punish civilians for simply refusing to be Russian.

This is a systematic attempt to destroy a nation

3/11 The human cost is massive.

In Mariupol, the death toll in 3 months potentially exceeded the total deaths in Gaza throughout the entire war, despite a much smaller population.

People underestimate this scale and don't see that Russia is committing genocide in Europe

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Joni Askola

@joni_askola

Jan 23

1/12 “Value-Based Realism” was a major theme at Davos.

It is being sold by Stubb and Carney as a smart, pragmatic path for the West, but I think it is a strategic trap.

Here is why this new realism might actually lead to managed decline 🧵

2/12 The concept is the latest intellectual fashion.

@alexstubb and @MarkJCarney are pushing it as the ultimate manual for "middle powers" like Canada, the UK, and the EU.

It sounds sophisticated to be principled yet pragmatic, but we need to look a bit closer

3/12 The logic is simple: stop waiting for a perfect world and deal with the brutal one we have.

It is an honest description of how we behave right now, post-Biden.

That is exactly the problem.

It takes our current failure of will and rebrands it as a high-level strategy

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Joni Askola

@joni_askola

Jan 21

1/5 Europe needs a reality check.

The strategies that worked during Trump's first term are useless now.

We tried playing nice, and it failed.

It is high time to stop the appeasement and start facing reality

2/5 The time for Europeans to appease Trump is over.

We have spent the last year watching our tactics from "Trump 1" fail miserably in "Trump 2."

Flattery and silence do not work anymore.

He sees them as weakness, not respect

3/5 Trump lives in a bubble of total confirmation.

He is surrounded by sycophants who are too afraid to tell him the truth or challenge his worst impulses.

Because no one in his inner circle dares to confront him, he believes he can bully Europe without consequence

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Joni Askola

@joni_askola

Jan 20

1/8 Europe is sleepwalking into a forever war because we are too afraid to actually win.

We need to stop managing the conflict and start ending it.

Here is how 🧵

2/8 Europe has the power to end the war in Ukraine much faster but it requires a total shift in strategy.

We need to stop managing the conflict and start winning it.

Here is the roadmap to force a Russian collapse👇

3/8 We must help Ukraine scale its domestic defense industry in every possible way.

This means direct funding and technical advice.

A Ukraine that can build its own weapons is a Ukraine that can sustain the fight without relying solely on foreign logistics

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Joni Askola

@joni_askola

Jan 15

1/7 Trump is no isolationist:

He is a show interventionist, a cowardly form of imperialist interventionism that is also meant to entertain the world

2/7 Trump's entire campaign was built on the lie that he would end wars and stop regime change operations.

It has been a year since he promised to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and the fighting continues

3/7 While he appointed isolationists to his administration, his actions tell a different story.

He claims to have ended eight wars but he hasn't ended any. In reality it looks more likely that he will start eight new ones before his term is over

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