1) This picture bodes ill for the future of America understanding its betrayal of Ukraine. Obama very much operated on the notion Ukraine was within the Russian sphere of interest. He also had little understanding of the Ukraine Russia dynamic.

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1923356422919581844

2 However, Trump, corrupt fascist though he may be is continuing the Obama policy in his own crude manner. Here is Obama: “The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-nato country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do,”

1 Ladies and gentlemen it is time to introduce a new concept to IR, the American Russian State Entity or ARSE. A shitpost because the ugly truth of this time deserves no better. The flatulent beat is apt because Trump is slang for breaking wind and @potus is a big Russian fart. 2 The ARSE emerged when Russia was able to work with its long cultivated asset Trump to place him in the White House. He was initially spotted by Czechoslovakian intelligence theguardian.com/us-news/2018/o…

1 It is very sad that we are compelled to campaign against the USA but the military adventures of the past three decades can be viewed as an escalating pattern of violence. Trump is the final iteration of a collapsing empire 2 Can America be saved? Yes, but only by a re imagining of the country which sheds the exceptionalism driving its alternations between trying to be the bedrock of an international framework

1 Americans have to look at the policy trajectory from Budapest to the inflicted disarmament of Ukraine and Trump's genocide facilitation and what its says about their attitudes and culture. They like Russians have a supremacist attitude to the lesser peoples 2 The mule metaphor deployed by Kellog to Ukrainians is very similar and identical in spirit to the language used by Russians previously, albeit now they want to slaughter their intransigent Ukrainian livestock

No one noticed the destruction of the Ukrainian library in Moscow and the piles of burning Ukrainian books in occupied Ukraine but when Ukrainians begin removing a RusSian cultural hegemony imposed on them by genocide the Economist has a chauvinist Russian whinge about it. I realise people will balk at such a characterisation but really no Russian, given the collective effect of their discourse on Ukraine, should be criticising Ukraine for tackling their collective very ugly legacy.

Trukhanov, mayor of Odesa and the mobster investigated for laundering money through London is discrediting Ukraine in his speeches in Europe in this instance Regensburg.

https://twitter.com/DarkaHirna/status/1854786602448327095

He quoted Pushkin and has driven a local campaign, supported by clueless Rusdophone locals and western Russophiles to manipulate opinion against decolonising Russia. The info op will portray Ukrainian govt as philistine zealots

The news from the US is terrible but we have to act now in a sense as we act with Russia to strip away all illusions and perceptions and see the country as it is, however many decent and good volunteers there are. Americans are by no stretch akin to Russians who have a collective hate of Ukraine and a desire to dominate the globe. However, enough of them actively supported a very ugly fascist politician and enough of them have passively accepted a Russian takeover

This comment is from a long standing supporter of Ukraine (I am Stefan Sass on FB) and I am still struggling to process it. It is blatantly untrue. Important point is that these people still feel emotionally that Ukraine is part of a Russian cultural space. With a shared suffering and shared heroes, stuck in the totalitarian model of seeing Russia as controlled by a dictator with oppressed masses and a joint Russo-Ukrainian literary community.

Looking at the coterie of Odesites supporting the Trukhanov initiative to shit stir issues around Decolonising imperialist monuments they are Russophones wanting to preserve Russian cultural dominance but under a blue yellow flag It is true that some Ukrainian speaking cultural figures support this abuse of UNESCO to stir up political controversy out of naïveté, self interest, always a driver for self Russifying Ukrainian careerists.

I keep pointing out how Russia will confuse understanding of its genocides, which we are yet to fully unpick from last century, by centring myths of its own martyrdom and suffering, simply because I know what happened last time, Navalny is not a Messiah.

https://twitter.com/MSnegovaya/status/1848924972808282260

He may be the Trotsky of our time another would be Russian saviour idealised by self deluding westerners, who aspired to be the human face of the genocidal empire as it pursued world domination.

1 One interesting exception to the Russians circling to protect Durov- Osechkin, once an odd combination of jingoistic joy at the return of Crimea combined with championing prison reform has become a conduit for security services leaks. 2 The Channel devoted to posting some of these on Telegram, Slyvy (plums but a play on words leaks is an equivalent in English) was opened in mid September last year and closed by the end of that month. I attach his account.

1 Two hours ago while Russians were targetting the Kyiv dam, putting thousands of lives at risk and aiming to destroy a city they pretend is sacred to them Russian oppositionist Pivovarov was posting about a meet and greet in Prague. 2 Yashin posted about meeting a fellow oppositionist and the new democratic Russia they would build- as if the murderous population of Russia would be transformed by changing the names on the plaques of buildings

1 While we are seeing an entirely bogus storm of outrage about Durov Russia has prepared legislation to allow blocking of the internet ng.ru/politics/2024-… 2 Putin has already signed legislation allowing the blocking of mirror sites, copies of illegal sites, as determined by the regulator vedomosti.ru/technology/new…

as noted by Shekhovtsov but to draw out further, the supposed Ru opposition outlet Meduza, and politician Yashin, the Navalnist, the Russian government and Tucker Carlson unite to condemn the arrest of Durovt.me/meduzalive/111… This shows the utterly bogus nature of the liberal Russian opposition and the naïveté of western readings of Russian society that fail to perceive collective imperial interest.

I will not circulate the Russian prison videos but note it is another sign that Russia is fragmenting. Ukraine’s destabilisation of its foe may well cause the empire to fracture but there seem to be no plans to deal with the aftermath. The Russophiles who sold you a fake russia Have left senior politicians, planners, whole societies, unable to see the real Russia, a genocidal feudal empire which has crises of succession and state faith: a monarchy without a monarchy and hereditary crown.

We will see a whole industry churning out analyses of Russia at present with lofty conceptualisations but Ukrainians must keep it simple. Russians engage in the mass killing, assimilation and cultural erasure of Ukrainians. Their intentions are their actions, So Ukrainians must ensure they dismantle Russia so it cannot destroy them again and above all ensure they are armed to the teeth and have a demographic and economic surge that renders any future Russian onslaught impossible,

The riots in the UK are connected to a network of influencers linked to Russia and a failure post 2016 to address the radicalisation of the UK by Russian subversion and western oligarchs inc the owners of online platforms. This issue can no longer be left to fester. We know who many of the influencers are but they laugh at prosecution and destabilise the UK from within on the brink of global war, and during the ongoing genocide of Ukraine. The UK and other countries must legislate to tackle them.

1 Albert Demchenko, medal winning Russian Olympian, is a captain in the Russian army- sport, the military and oligarchy are closely intertwined in Russia. He is also a member of Putin's "United Russia" party. 2 While he will not be competing anymore his posts reveal the widespread support for the genocide war against Ukraine in Russian society and its athletics community.

1 "Neutral" Russian athlete M. Andreeva is playing in the women's doubles today. Like her partner (see thread) she has also violated the IOC rules on neutrality according to research by Global Rights Compliance.

https://twitter.com/komarnyckyj/status/1818261545740026059

2 On her Instagram account,39 Andreeva publicly “liked” a 17 March 2023 post by the user @my.volua. 40 It features a video with stitched speeches of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

1 "Neutral" Russian athlete D Shnaider is playing in the women's doubles today. However, research presented by Global Rights Compliance shows that she broke the rules on neutrality. 2 On her Instagram account,24 Schnaider publicly “liked” a 25 February 2022 post by the user @_m_simonyan_. posted the day after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Horrible orthodox Fascist Malofeev has just posted details of the Russian World forum in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea. The forum endorsed a draft presidential decree and legislation on the triple unity of the Russian people. During the early part of this century when Putin was spun as a "pragmatist" holding nationalists in check this movement would have been presented as extremist.