In 2022, Ukrainian civilians barricaded the road to the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (Europe's largest NPP) to defend it against Russian forces. They faced Russian tanks totally unarmed. NATO nations are afraid to shoot down UNMANNED Russian drones & missiles in Ukraine.
1/5 Instances of Ukrainian civilians standing down Russian tanks - even columns of them -with nothing but their bodies abound. Yet NATO nations won't even enlist their PROFESSIONAL ARMIES to do even things which avoid direct confrontation with RU, like protecting Ukrainian skies.
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Russian aggression and genocide were largely ignored from 2014 until 2022 when the images of Russian missiles striking Kyiv, and of mutilated civilians scattered about the streets of Ukraine with their hands bound behind their backs finally shook people up. Temporarily... 🧵

https://twitter.com/BohdanaKurylo/status/1943300239135330366

Those who didn't care about Ukraine, or whose russocentrism, russophilia, and general anti-UA bias prevented them from giving two shits about Ukraine even professionally had to jump on the bandwagon to be relevant. But now bombing Ukraine into oblivion is old hat and not sexy.🧵

Canada has announced $2 billion in new military support for Ukraine.

Canada will count this toward its NATO defence spending target.

This is huge. Let me explain:
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canada.ca/en/treasury-bo… Counting military aid to Ukraine as part of NATO defence spending is tacit acknowledgement that Ukraine's defence against Russia is a shared, collective responsibility for NATO. It is a tacit acknowledgment that Ukraine is defending NATO nations. That UA is doing NATO's work.
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People who say Ukraine should be "grateful" to other nations for their support forget to be grateful to Ukraine for doing NATO's job.

Without Ukrainian resistance to fascist Russia, Russian tanks would be in a NATO nation by now.
1/4 Ukrainians are sacrificing life and limb, experiencing immeasurable devastation and loss of every kind, to protect not only themselves and their nation, but democracy itself. They are safeguarding democracy, thereby protecting the free world.
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The "I don't hate Russians" people will sing an entirely different tune when Russia invades THEIR country and starts killing THEIR parents, siblings, children, cousins, grandparents, friends, colleagues, artists, doctors, mechanics, musicians, dancers, writers, plumbers, etc.
1/6 Maybe, after Russians gang rape your wife, son, daughter, and mother, you won't be so enamoured with the "mysterious soul" of those barbarians. Maybe, after they bomb your children's school and local playground, you'll feel a little less self-righteous.
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Today, the "Coalition of the Willing" of France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom walking in the streets of Kyiv to much applause and excitement. But we need to ask, WHAT exactly is this coalition willing to do?
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president.gov.ua/en/news/spilna… In a joint statement, France, Germany, Poland, the UK, and Ukraine said that the Coalition is committed to calling for a "full and unconditional ceasefire" that "lasts for at least 30 days" as a "foundation" for "peace".
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In 2022, Russia under Putin chose to cross the rubicon to open, unadulterated evil. Moscow is devoted to its path & embraces it fully

In the same fashion, the US under Trump is moving rapidly towards crossing the rubicon to openly abandon support for intl & humanitarian law
1/17 The United States is on the precipice of crossing the rubicon to openly supporting and ENABLING the destruction of international law. DC's course is allowing an evil, aggressive, genocidal, fascist regime to grow unchecked. To let authoritarianism spread and kill democracy.
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The U.S. should be grateful to Ukraine for all the sacrifice Ukrainians have made to help keep the free world safe from Russia. Trump and his admin can go piss up a rope with their demands of "gratitude" for insufficient aid, trickled in, and extortionist demands for payment.
1/4 And let's stop ignoring the obvious: From 2022, the Trumpist Republicans were actively promoting Russian propaganda lies about Ukraine, and maliciously blocked essential and critical military aid to Ukraine in 2023-24. It was calculated.
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Trump wants Canada because of its abundance of natural resources -from water to minerals & lumber- & all that access to the Arctic. I hope that those who think he's just a "tough business talker" today see that he isn't. He's a dangerous bully colluding with fascist Russia.
1/10 Trump isn't making idle threats. He is telling us very clear what he wants and intends to do - annex Canada. The one thing I do NOT believe is that he isn't prepared to use military force against us if economic warfare won't suffice. I have good reason for this:
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Reality: Europe is not opposed to forcing Ukraine into a negotiated agreement with Russia - which I must again emphasize necessarily entails making concessions to Moscow. EU just wants to be part of the process to ensure it serves not only US interests, but also its own.
1/11 For all the talk of "just and lasting peace" for Ukraine, Europe on the whole is STILL focused not on helping Kyiv defeat Russia mitarily and politically, but on achieving some mythical "containment" and "deterrence" as though it will be just, durable, or even achievable.
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A Russian military aircraft violated Polish airspace over territorial waters. Russia flew 6.5km into Poland and Poland did nothing. "Not one inch of NATO territory" really means, "many kilometres and we'll still do jack shit."
1/7 Polish officials confirmed they were in contact with the Russians, which said the airspace violation was due to a "navigation system failure". Will they use the same "navigation system failure" BS excuse when they drop a bomb on Polish territory?
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NATO has as its members nations which are overtly PRO-RUSSIAN. Slovakia and Hungary are working AGAINST the interests of NATO and the EU. Meanwhile, Ukraine is doing NATO's job for it and is still not even invited to be a member of the alliance.
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pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/… NATO recognized Russia as a threat. Slovakia and Hungary are ACTIVELY undermining the security of their NATO allies.
Slovakia & Hungary are ACTIVELY undermining the principles upon which NATO is supposed to be built on, namely democracy, the rule of law, respect for intl law.
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The Biden admin didn't choose Russia advisors for their wisdom, accuracy, or ethics. The WH chose people who push Russia-favourable policies in order to rationalize and spin their pre-determined policy of protecting Russia from the legal consequences or its heinous crimes.
1/15 It has NEVER been the plan to save Ukraine or preserve international law. The plan has always been to save Russia from the consequences of its actions, and to keep Russia alive as a counterweight power to the United States.
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The talk of "peacekeeping troops in Ukraine" makes clear that western nations intend to continue to try coerce Ukraine into making concessions to Russia. The theory is that in exchange for concessions, Ukraine will be "rewarded" with western peacekeepers on the ground. BUT
1/9 1. One can only imagine the concessions Ukraine would have to make to Russia for Moscow to even begin to agree to any western peacekeepers on the ground in Ukraine. It would have to be tantamount to Ukrainian loss of territory AND sovereignty.
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“Everything we're doing on the border with Russia - & will do with Belarus & Ukraine - is aimed at discouraging & deterring an eventual aggressor. It's an actual investment into our peace"

Polish PM @donaldtusk on the construction of "Shield East" on Poland's eastern borders
1/7 Poland will build a defensive military infrastructure on its border with Ukraine. What this tells us is that Warsaw believes it is highly probable - if not likely - that Ukraine will be occupied and controlled by Russia right to the border with Poland.
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https://x.com/donaldtusk/status/1862790533258661947

This is what happens when Western weakness invites aggression.

What weakness? Just a few examples:

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https://twitter.com/golub/status/1861849759280984140

Weakness:
When Russian drones & missiles enter NATO airspace to attack civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, NATO’s response is denial, suppression of information, dismissal, & an immoral defence of its inaction: “those missiles aren’t meant for us, but destined for Ukraine”.
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It seems to me that most people do not understand that Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is now nearly 11 years long - NOT 3 years. Eleven.

Russia didn't only occupy Crimea in 2014, it also militarily invaded Ukraine's Donbas region - but did not declare so.
LONG🧵1/17 Moscow used the transparently false and absurd lie of "supporting" a "pro-Russian Ukrainian separatist uprising" in Ukraine. But let's be clear about this: it was Russian invasion of the country. Crimea and Donbas were part of ONE and the SAME Russian war effort.
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All the disillusionment & rage many are expressing today about US policy toward Ukraine and Russia is the result of DENIAL of what DC has consistently and clearly conveyed by every policy and action since 2014. People needed to fight for better instead of swallowing shit.
1/4 I cannot express how much resistance and outright REFUSAL to accept ugly facts about US policy @RomanSohn and I encountered, with people preferring to ignore reality, and to fall for the fantasy lies fed to them by dishonest politicians, diplomats, analysts, and journalists.
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If NATO nations cared about national and collective security as they proclaim to, we would be helping Ukraine defeat Russia militarily and politically, not insisting it isn’t a NATO nation so we have no obligation to help as if it were. We endanger Ukraine & ourselves otherwise. If you care about your national security, you don’t obscenely deny the fact of Russian missiles and drones violating your airspace on their way to destroy Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and kill Ukrainians, YOU SHOOT THEM DOWN.

So much confirmed in Polish General Andrzejczak's statement:

1. Rather than helping Ukraine defeat Russia today, Poland is prepared to allow Russia to defeat and occupy Ukraine - right to Lviv - and THEN fight Moscow when it militarily attacks a NATO nation.
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1844774323795697748

2. They are hoarding weapons for "when Russia attacks" instead of helping Ukraine defeat Russia today to ensure that Moscow cannot militarily attack a NATO nation tomorrow.
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There is an overlooked and ill-understood fact of what Russian victory in Ukraine means: a bigger Russia, with more people to use to wage future wars.

More territory + more people = more powerful Russia. A more powerful Russia poses an even larger threat than it does today.
1/8 Every proposal that sees Russia continuing to occupy even some Ukrainian territory is not only a proposal of sacrifice of Ukrainian land and people, but a proposal to strengthen Russia.
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