🧵1/ They called Azov Nazis.
They call MAGA the same.

Turns out it was another “Russia Russia Russia” hoax.

Ukraine has warriors Trump—and America—would love.

Like this Azov fighter who lost an arm, still fights, and is a loyal @benshapiro fan.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Meet my friend Gandalf.👇 2/ For years, Russia smeared Ukraine’s Azov brigade—and Western media helped.

To tyrants and uber-leftists, the virtues of faith, family, and freedom are “far-right.”

But forget the noise: Ukrainians are willing to fight for what America’s heartland still honors. ⤵️

🎾From one of the greatest upsets at Wimbledon … to the trenches of Ukraine.

Sergiy Stakhovsky beat Roger Federer in 2013.
Now he fights in Ukraine’s special forces.

And maybe … he should be the next ambassador to the U.S. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Here’s his story 🧵⤵️
At Wimbledon in 2013, he did the impossible.

Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky —ranked 116 — defeated Roger Federer, the defending champion.

It was Federer’s earliest Wimbledon exit in a decade.

Wimbledon is on now. But this tennis ace isn’t watching.
He’s fighting, in Ukraine. ⤵️

🧵 Why Ukraine must break from Biden—if it wants to win:

A lot of people don’t understand why I keep focusing on Joe Biden.

So let me explain why this is ESSENTIAL. It could mean the difference between reluctant aid … and Donald Trump saying: Let’s win.👇⤵️ 2/ Even Democrats are fleeing Biden.

The New York Times says top Democrats are trying to “Etch A Sketch away their past endorsements" of Biden.

Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, told Politico he had “no doubt” Biden suffered cognitive decline while in office. ⤵️

📸: NYT

🧵Ukraine won’t say this — but this American tech investor will.

“Most of NATO’s drones are WORTHLESS in Ukraine because they can’t keep up with development speed.”

That’s what Deborah Fairlamb sees every day in wartime Kyiv. Here is her warning for the West. 🧵⤵️ 2/ “Ukrainians will not tell you this because they do not want to piss off anyone who is providing support,” Deborah wrote on her LinkedIn today.

“But as an American who lives in Ukraine and watches this space every. single. day., I can call this out.” ⤵️

1/ 🧵 Dear @realDonaldTrump, happy Fourth of July eve from an AMERICAN in Kyiv, a city dedicated to ST MICHAEL ARCHANGEL, under Iranian drone and Russian missile attack.

Some who work for you maybe know me a bit. I have a question that the FAKE NEWS media will never ask you 🧵⤵️ 2/ How many have tried to stop you, and to stop the American people, from reasserting the will of the people against the Elites?

It's not been not easy, eh? They've even tried to kill you.
Well, that's what Russia is doing to Ukraine. ⤵️

🧵 Never assume others know the simple truths that are obvious to you. 🚨

⚫️ The White House doesn’t know Ukraine’s strengths.
⚫️ Zelenskyy’s team doesn’t know the White House doesn’t know.
⚠️ In that confusion, lives and freedom are lost.

Here's what they don't know 🧵⤵️ 2/ 🇺🇸💰 The $300 billion myth

► Trump says Ukraine got $300B.
► Zelenskyy says: Seems like a lot of money was lost.

They’re both wrong—because Biden’s comms failed.
Most of that money was spent on U.S. programs, not Ukraine.

But Ukraine got blamed for the bill anyway. ⤵️

🧵 In the 1920s, a brilliant philosopher named Edith Stein, later murdered at Auschwitz and now a Saint, asked the question that might save us from AI:

"How can I truly know that someone else is a 'self' like me?"

Stein's analysis is urgently needed. Here's why: 🧵⤵️ The tech bros building our AI future want us to abandon empathy.

Because empathy is the firewall: Without it, we become programmable objects in an economy that profits from stealing our most sacred resource: our attention. ⤵️

🧵 Did the U.S. Constitution Begin in Ukraine? 🇺🇦📜🇺🇸

It sounds wild. But follow this fascinating thread: from a Ukrainian hetman-in-exile in Sweden ... to Voltaire ... to Montesquieu... to Philadelphia 1787. 🧵⤵️ 1. Pylyp Orlyk was born in 1672 to a Kozak noble family.

Educated at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy (📸), fluent in Latin, he became chief advisor to Ivan Mazepa — Hetman of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhian Host, which was the Kozak free state in the wild steppes. ⤵️

🧵 10 Things I’ve Learned Reporting From Ukraine (That No One Wants to Say)

➡️ Azov isn’t Nazi.
➡️ Ukrainians try harder for peace than anyone.
➡️ The White House is in the dark — and Kyiv doesn’t know it; and more!

Let's take a look! Strong responses welcome! 🧵⤵️ 1. The places closest to Russia in Ukraine are the most defiantly Ukrainian.

Kharkiv, 30 miles from Russia, where people once spoke Russian every day, is where you will find the strongest daily resistance to Russian tyranny. ⤵️

Did you know Ukraine has majestic castles that guarded the gates of Europe? Here are 11 story-laden fortresses🏰 🧵

1. Kamianets-Podilskyi, "The Stones of Podilia," 14th c.: It blocked Tatar and Ottoman sieges. In 1672, it briefly fell to the latter. 📍 Khmelnytskyi region ⤵️ 2. Palanok Castle, Mukachevo (14th century) 🛡️
Once held by the Transylvanian princess Ilona Zrínyi, who resisted a Habsburg siege in 1685, it's built atop an extinct volcano in quaint Mukachevo. It secretly held the Holy Crown of Hungary for a few months in 1806. 📍 Zakarpattia ⤵️

The beautiful Catholic churches of Lviv, Ukraine. 🧵

1. The Greek-rite Church of the Holy Eucharist (1749). Under Moscow Soviet control until 1991, it was the Museum of Atheism. ⤵️
2. The Latin Cathedral (1360): the seat of the Latin-rite archbishop of Lviv. ⤵️

🧵 Ted Cruz vs. Tucker Carlson on Ukraine was a disaster, for Ukraine.

Cruz supports Ukraine in the main — but failed to make the case. And in doing so, made Ukraine look weak.

So here are the answers I wish he delivered. 🧵👇
I’ve spent the past 1100+ days reporting from Ukraine.
If I knew nothing about this war, and only watched the Cruz-Tucker interview, I’d think Tucker won.

That’s how bad Cruz was, in the style of American elites who just blab without making the effort to be accurate.

But Tucker’s questions matter — because they reflect what many Americans believe.⤵️

Ukraine supporters: You're sabotaging the cause by misunderstanding America and Trump.

Just look at how his MAGA base has revolted when he backs Israel and the Iranian opposition against the mullahs. Imagine if he backed Ukraine—the backlash would be 10x worse!

You think you just need to convince Trump. You're wrong. Here's what you're missing 🧵1/6 ⤵️ You assume Trump operates like establishment politicians—top-down, ignoring voters. You come up with conspiracy theories that he is Putin's pup.

That thinking is WHY you can't persuade him.

Trump won by channeling and respecting his base's mood. And the mood toward Ukraine is not good. ⤵️

1/ In January 2022, even Ukrainians didn't believe Russia would launch a full-scale invasion. So why are we surprised when Americans don't care today?

Three years in war have taught me something few want to hear. But understanding this reality will illuminate the path to persuasion.🧵 1/12 ⤵️ 2/ January 2022: American intelligence screamed "RUSSIAN INVASION IMMINENT"

But Ukrainians by and large shrugged their shoulders. I remember it well. I was here, in Ukraine. It's hard to remember now but the pandemic was still raging—and I'd stayed put here because it was one of the healthiest places to be. I was ready to return to the USA, but I knew the war was coming—and I chose to face it.

💥 Russia’s Endgame Was Foretold 🧵 A thread about Fatima, Francis, Ben Shapiro… and the battle for Ukraine. Russia claims to be the "last word on earthly history." Here's why Ukraine and America stand in the way! ⤵️ 1️⃣Starting on May 13, 1917, three shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal, said the Virgin Mary appeared and gave them a warning:
“If Russia is not converted, it will spread its errors throughout the world.”

If Trump understood these 7 points, it would change his view on Ukraine.
Watch this vid or read the thread 🧵1/9⤵️ 1. Ukraine’s 2014 revolution was a movement of the people. They did a DOGE on the Soviet-minded pro-Kremlin deep state that controlled them and they reset state institutions to null. 2/9 ⤵️

Elon Musk says empathy will kill us. American Christian pastors now call it a sin. Is empathy a lethal “mushy” emotion? Let’s see how a 20th-century philosopher murdered at Auschwitz revealed empathy to be a rigorous tool protecting human freedom in our an AI-driven, tyrant-filled age. [apologies for any errors, posted under air-raid alarm in Kharkiv] 1/17 🧵⤵️ Enter Edith Stein, a Jewish-born philosopher who became a Catholic nun. Killed in an Auschwitz gas chamber, today's she's one of six patron saints of Europe. Far from “fuzzy feelings,” she saw empathy as a discipline—a systematic way to perceive another’s inner life without confusing it for your own. 2/

🧵 Did you know Ukraine’s Greek Catholics are part of the Roman Catholic Church?

Western media assume the crowded churches of Lviv are Orthodox—but they’re not. They're Catholic. And they’ve survivors of a long persecution by Moscow. 🧵⤵️ Most people in Lviv, Ukraine, are Greek Catholics. Their liturgy and ritual follow the Eastern Byzantine tradition—icons, chant, even married priests.
But they are in communion with the pope in Rome. It's just as Catholic as your Chicago or Los Angeles parish.

The American opposition to helping Ukraine against Russia-China-Iran derives from a combination of the following. This opposition is curable if you start by understanding these points, in no particular order, but time is ticking insanely fast. 1/ Of course, Russia is at fault for the whole shit-hell of this, but we who have agency to fight back have made mistakes. Here are sources and causes that together contribute to MAGA's opposition to Ukraine: 2/

Zelensky meets Trump today. Let’s remember their first famous interaction.

That July 2019 phone call changed everything. But what happened on that call is not what you think. 🧵⤵️ In summer 2019, both The New York Times and The Washington Post were investigating Biden’s Ukraine ties.

Yet when Trump asked the same questions, he was impeached.

That impeachment was never about Ukraine—it was about people who did not want Trump and Zelensky to work together. ⤵️

21 Ways Joe Biden Fucked Over Ukraine

This matters because every conversation I have with Trump allies reveals that their view of Ukraine is still controlled by Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan. If Trump wants to ditch Biden’s policies, why not ditch his weak worldview too? 🧵1/22⤵️ F-16s: For years, Biden blocked Europe from sending its own F-16s to America-loving Ukraine, even while some "shithole" countries that hate America had this prize tech from the USA. The little kingdoms of Europe wanted to do more but Biden, or his masters, said: No, Ukraine doesn't need F-16s.

A few weeks ago by the way, Kyiv's skies were protected by a few of the F16s that Biden finally allowed Denmark and the Netherlands to send. But cities like Odesa and Kharkiv remain largely vulnerable. Biden approved just enough to shut up the critics.🛩️ 2/22 ⤵️