Classic Friedrich Merz: “We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war”, he says. And then invites over Netanyahu.
He is a terrible person.
And they all are saying that on X! Oh the irony…
painful ain’t it?
Goes to show the stickiness of social networks imo, I doubt any of them have even heard of bluesky
This is just perfect levels of trolling after Vance accused him of not being grateful
He shouldn’t thank anyone because he doesn’t need to.
His country is carrying a whole continent on their shoulders. We should thank Ukraine. We are in deep debt to them.
You’re not wrong by any means, but this show of good faith is how he garners the support he needs to continue being our Frontline. I wish they didn’t have to be, but I’m glad they have such a dedicated and competent leader to guide them through this
He doesn’t have to, but it’s a kind gesture and is good for publicity.
He’s working tirelessly for every bullet and is thankful for every one.
Slava Ukraini…
If Trump tried to make all his “deals” like the one yesterday, it’s no wonder that he failed so often.
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One can only hope that without the US, Ukraine can still hold out long enough for Russia to implode. One must unfortunately further hope that the US doesn’t start helping Russia e.g by undoing sanctions or even sending over money and troops.
the day my country starts helping russia destroy Ukraine is coming soon, i fear. all this has been prelude to us, softening us up for the concept. wearing us out until we no longer have the energy to stand up and fight for what is right. our treatment of our ally will be a permanent bloodstain in the tapestry of history, and our turn towards russia a permanent singe.
If your country starts supporting Russia, the whole fucking world is going to be very puzzled if you’re not rioting by that point.
Maybe take some lessons from the people who gave you the Statue of Liberty.
The statue of thoughts and prayers.
Just a reminder that if you’re conscripted to fight on behalf of whatever stupid war the US is going to be initiating, sabotaging your troop transport on the way over is potentially a moral decision.
Trump wasn’t joking about gambling with ww3 unfortunately. He indeed has the cards but is stupid enough to play it wrong.
He inherited a straight flush but threw it all away to play an 8 high card hand.
It’s already started. Trump is emboldening Putin with his attempt at brokering a peace deal and making concessions from the start without involving Ukraine. His threats to encourage Russia to attack NATO countries.
He’s doing Putin’s political dirty work.
The US could likely have a second civil war because of Trump aligning with Putin.
Through the whole of 2024 the Russia was advancing faster than anyone expected.
During that year, they managed to occupy 0.7 % of Ukraine’s territory. Which basically rounds to zero.
the Russia now works mainly without military vehicles. Even if there was a complete collapse of the Ukrainian front, the Russia would be less able to exploit it than they were able to advance in northern parts of Ukraine in spring 2022. I’d say that the best the Russia can do is to advance about ten times as much as in 2024. That is, they could maybe occupy another 7% of Ukraine’s territory. USA can of course try helping by lifting the sanctions, but EU won’t coöperate with that.
If USA blocks Ukraine from getting air defence missiles, the Ukrainian electricity distribution will be in deep trouble. Not the end of the world right now, when it’s already spring in Ukraine, but the next winter might get seriously bad even if the Russia has already lost by that point.
If the EU stays supporting Ukraine, it won’t lose before the Russia does. But it might be in for its most painful year in this war 😢
💛💙 Дякую, Україно! 💛💙
If we exclude number of nukes, because if they become the main factor of a war everyone loses, Europe (EU+UK) has more active military… everything… than Russia and China. In most metrics Europe surpasses the US, and if we include Ukraine then it surpasses the US in everything except spending.
The only thing holding Europe back is Europe. If our politicians get their shit together and put their national egos aside for a bit, then the only thing we need from the US is for them to get the fuck out of Europe.
What would happen if Europe joins the war though? Who would join Russia? China? India?
North Korea is already involved but for some reason that didn’t get Europe involved and there must be a reason why.
America: The war should have ended in 3 days.
Zelensky: You sound like Russian propaganda.
America: How dare you! We used the American translation!
Poor Donald Tusk. Having to have a name so close to the more (in)famous leader who seems to be your almost exact evil counterpart.
It’s still crazy to me how there is a prime minister whose name is a perfect merge of the names of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It really makes me wonder if we are in some kind of simulation and one of the devs was being cheeky.
A world leader who has almost the direct opposite view on geopolitics as well. We truly live in clown world
Waiting for Elon Mrump next.
You can’t imagine the first time I was reading news about Slovakia, and I saw the PM called Robert Fico. I was like, Roberto Fico (Italian politician) did what now?!
I wonder if anyone else has ever felt this feeling in history, if this is what citizens of Coruscant in Star Wars felt when the Death Star blew up, or citizens of the Fire Nation when Aang started kicking ass…
Knowledge that the powers that control where you live are failing, and satisfaction because you realize that’s a GOOD thing
There needs to be a word for this Anti-Patriotism
I’m sorry Trump is such a shit bag.
and Vance too!
Vance is so much worse than I initially thought. And my standards were already super low thanks to the unambiguously racist villainizing of Haitian migrants in Ohio at the VP debate, but holy shit this was grotesque. Literal schoolyard bully shit.
yeah man Vance is like a super Christian cult member who wants to be the leader. Like forget about separation of church and state, JD Vance would burn books just as quick if it had anything other than white pages on it.
What’s really weird about all this is Vance is married to an ethnically Indian woman. But he does the Christian nationalist white supremacist schtick.
I have to imagine that the Silicon Valley style tech bro culture that Vance was inculcated into is so full of high skill Indian and Asian people that he has something of a blind spot to what his political rhetoric will do to those people, too. I honestly don’t know how he squares any of his beliefs. Or if he even bothers to try to have a consistent set of beliefs in the first place.
He assistant to the regional manager
Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians are bearing the weight in the frontline of the war between Democracy and Autocracy. They have my sword!
I’m sure they’ll make good use of it, and return when they’re finished - if possible.
(and my axe, too.)
Get off Twitter
Yeah, that will save Ukraine!
Why do people make these unhelpful comments? He’s stuck on X because that’s where all the world leaders are. Zelensky is in no position to spearhead a move away from it while his country is being invaded
I was thinking the same earlier, but you can be sure that if there is a targeted campaign against Zelensky, Musk will tank his engagement, just as he cut off Starlink to Ukrainian military. Leaving X-crement is not purely aesthetic, it is a good safeguard
If Musk was to tamper with Zelenskyj’s visibility on Twitter, it would get noticed. It would probably backlash quite big time.
Still, it would be awesome if world politicians could please migrate to Bluesky or even Mastodon. Maybe write all messages in two systems until the migration is reasonably ready.
His real allies will meet him where he is.
Seriously! On the platform of a traitorous piece of shit half responsible for this mess…
That’s what world leaders are using, though.
In this case Ukraine gaining support by communicating using a medium used by international diplomacy outweighs the cons of Twitter getting more visibility.
Politicians should migrate to other platforms as well, but Zelenskyj is about the last person to have to take the first step!
Unfortunately that is how it is. I wasn’t directing my comment to Zelenskyy though but to everyone else, especially those reading here.
Exactly. Only thing here bothers me that why so many state reps still are on this shit platform.
Zelensky has no choice but to play ball on Twitter. If that’s where other world leaders are, that’s where he must be too.
Now for the rest of us…yeah get off Twitter.
How long before Musk starts kicking those leaders off because they don’t have a Trumpian attitude? And of course most of the residents of those countries will follow their leaders to a new platform, making twitter completely irrelevant.
He doesn’t need to kick them off. Its more advantageous for him to keep them on his platform, where he can influence who sees their posts; and for how long; and in what context. He can suppress messages that he doesn’t like; and twist narratives; and promote messages he does like - all while making “X” seem like a useful platform to get news and to reach followers.
The high engagement numbers of X do make it look like a place worth staying on. But make no mistake, Musk can (and does) use his control of the platform to change what people see there for his own benefit.
Of course we all know those “high engagement” numbers are greatly fueled by bots. I wonder what would happen if all news organizations just suddenly stopped posting anything on X and moved over to Mastodon/Bluesky? Seems like you would see real quick who actually wants to follow the information and who just wants an echo chamber.
Turns out a number of the good reps are on Bluesky. Yesterday I even found Tim Walz has an account there and I’ve seen many from other states tagged in comments.
Move to Bluesky.
lol, see that Vance? You a lil removed.
I hope Friedrich Merz will not flip flop on that. You can’t rely on the guy.
Hey, that’s not fair. Bring him a little black suitcase now and then and you’ll find you can rely on him without any worries.
undiscernible blurping from the likes of Vance
Zee: Thanks, I guess? So much for the global superpower.
