There are two fundamental reasons and one tactical reason for Viktor Orbán’s escalation of tensions with Ukraine: the lingering “phantom pain” of Treaty of Trianon, strategic corruption, and the desire to remain in power.
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Did you know that Robert William Cumberbatch, the great-great-grandfather of the famous actor Benedict Cumberbatch, served as the British Consul in Berdiansk (now Ukraine)?
Did you know that the great-grandfather of Benedict Cumberbatch was born in Berdiansk?
And they criticise Ukraine for not willing to have the FSB branch AKA russian “Orthodox” “church” in Ukraine.
Therefore, let us — people of goodwill, wherever you are — remain strong, resilient, humane, determined, and resolute, and act with purpose throughout 2026
We owe an immense debt to ordinary men and women of the Ukrainian Defence Forces who proved to be true Heroes.
Slava Ukraini!
Happy New Year!
The battle rages on — a battle for Ukraine, for Europe, for Western civilisation, and for an idealistic, rules-based international order.
Our adversaries are neo-Nazis, fascists, neo-imperialists, and communists.
1/2
We may never know the exact number of those murdered and buried in mass graves.
3/3
5. use those to invade further territories and repeat 2-5.
Russians are savages, and have always been.
PS russian savages deliberately dropped bombs on the theatre despite there being a sign “CHILDREN”. They murdered 300-600 people sheltering there.
3/2
It's a very russian way:
1. invade, murder, torture, rape, loot,
2. (re) build something
3. replace locals with illegals; brainwash the remaining population
4. dance on the bones, claims #Mariupol (place any other name) was always russian/russian speaking.
3/1
Witkoff advised Ushakov on how to talk to Trump.
Putin advised Trump on how to talk to Zelensky.
1 vs 2
It’s what I call teamwork!
Ukraine and Europe are missing on the other side.
Ask no more why the guy admires russia.
He sees the world through Putin’s lenses.
His talk is similar to the old concept of the Lebensraum.
The Christmas wish of millions for the Soviet Union to collapse came true on 26 December 1991.
When will President Zelensky’s Christmas wish come true — when the führer of the so-called “Russian world” is gone, along with his Reich?
There’s no chance of peace anytime soon.
www.lbc.co.uk/videos/2JsSd...
Reade has clearly failed to read a history book. Had she done so, she would know how many foreign “useful idiots” once moved to Soviet Russia, only to perish there or be sent to the Gulag.
Good riddance.
2/2
A Russian propagandist-influencer is celebrating the granting of Russian citizenship to Tara Reade, a former US citizen.
1/2
Процветание стратегической коррупции
Право чинить насилие в россии и где угодно
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Путин: Никаких других «военных операций» не будет, «если вы будете относиться к нам с уважением»
Список уважения:
Аннексия постсоветского пространства
Развал НАТО и ЕС - постоянная уязвимость Европы
Марионеточные правительства в Старой Европе
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"It's a huge blow to Putin."
Ukraine is deliberately targeting Russia’s oil exports to "coerce Russia into a ceasefire," while Europe hesitates over using frozen Russian assets
The EU's €90 billion for Ukraine is a blow to putin and a pinch for Trump
Here is why.
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Barbarians Against the Greeks. Ukrainian History
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My take on the negotiations, the US NSS, and more for Times Radio.
youtu.be/dIsiQK17V3A?...
I highly recommend this great talk about Ukraine’s geopolitical thinking by Volodymyr Yermolenko and Danylo Lubkivsky.
youtu.be/Ysvnq8nFA18?...
Ukraine fights against russian imperialists, supported by Chinese commies, Iranian mullahs, Western Nazis, and American profiteers.
#Kyiv outskirts wabi-sabi style
Putin’s peace plan:
Move your aggressive border away from russia’s peaceful tanks!
The U.S. peace plan:
Give up the territory and sovereignty now, and get “trust me, bro” guarantees later.
PANEL I
In partnership with the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social | This Friday 12:15–13:00.
What Long-Term Peace in Ukraine Requires Now?
Speakers:
@annwieanna.bsky.social @alexanderkhara.bsky.social @tacanildem.bsky.social; John Foreman.
Moderator: @sylviekauffmann.bsky.social
conference.gssc.lt
If a russian Nazi threatens to kill you, take his words seriously. The Nazi “philosopher” is right, “it’s not Putin's war. It is Russian people war.”
Cheng Li-wun, the new chair of the KMT, said to DW News that "Putin is not a dictator. He is a democratically elected leader... Russia has democratised for many years... It's unreasonable and unfair to say Putin is a dictator."
She went on to blame NATO for the Ru aggression against Ukraine. 2/2
It’s a pity that the leader of the major party in Taiwan has a view which is not just wrong but also not different from that of Moscow and Beijing. 1/2
focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: "We grieve over the continuing fratricidal war against Ukraine by the Russian Federation. We must stand against using our Holy Faith for purely political gains.”
archons-of-the-ecumenical-patriarchate.visitlink.me/Is_lEK
