@randahl yes. Whatever little bits he's thrown Ukraine's way have been more than counteracted by the irregularity and unpredictability. He's compromised, he has feet of clay. And it's up to us.

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Trump has never ever kept his word, he is a con man and a serial liar with no vision beyond the day of tomorrow. Despicable. We are on our own, it is that simple.

@randahl #VladTheInvader #Putin is *very* pleased with his puppet #POTUS in the #WhiteHouse. Inside the #Kremlin #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump is referred to as #AgentKrasnov.

#Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica - and #Europe.

#StandWithUkraine
#SlavaUkraini

@randahl Ah come on, it was just some few hours since he's been president. Give him some time! He said clearly "24 hours".

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I just want to stop the killing*

*) of my friend Putins soldiers.

@randahl Europe should have fully committed a long time ago. The war might have been over a while ago if they had.

@randahl #tRump forgot

COMLOG facility Schrobenhausen, Bavaria (60km N of Munich) Construction of the expanded production facility began late 2024, making it the first large-scale Patriot missile production site outside the USA. It will manufacture PAC-2 GEM-T interceptors — up to 1,000 missiles under NATO contracts, including a $3.7 billion deal for Ukraine.
Schrobenhausen production line is expected to begin deliveries from 2028 onward, in support of a NATO-signed $5.5 billion PAC-2 contract

@randahl it's #Putin's #CrimeOfAggression and a test of the resolve of #EU & #NATO.
#Russia|n propagandists already made it clear that even if they got #Kiyv on a silver platter they'd not stop at #Ukraine, but aim their neo-czarist ambitions straight against #Finland, #Estonia, #Lithuania and #Latvia…
- And that's not even accountng for Ultranationalistic Demands like "From Dublin to the Yukon"…

#Europe must decide whether it wants to be bossed around or decide it's own fate and stick with it!

@randahl Ukraine could start demolishing expensive Russian apartment buildings, a one-for-one exchange. They can give an advance warning to allow safe evacuation, simply add each building to a list and announce that it will be attacked at some unspecified point in the future.

It would be fair enough, given that Russia has decided that rules against attacking civilian infrastructure don't apply in this war.

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But it *is* Europe’s neo-liberal proxy war designed to bleed Russia dry! It could have been ended shortly after Russia’s invasion but Boris Johnson (among others) told Zelenskyy to abandon the almost-concluded peace talks in Istanbul on the basis that the war was “winnable” with full-throated US/ NATO backing! Now, millions of Ukrainian & Russian dead later, Russia is manifestly winning the war! Surely even you can’t deny the military facts on the ground???

“NATO expansion ‘lit the fuse’ on the Ukraine war”

by Andrew Latham in The National Security Journal

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/nato-expansion-lit-the-fuse-on-the-ukraine-war/

I can easily imagine that Trump expects and intends to profit here by bargaining for more money or resources.

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@randahl it sucks, Trump only cares about real estate, exhausting our weapons supply while China laughs, building a better mouse trap with US AI. With Russia, China and Iran joining forces, it pretty much makes US support across the pond trivial at this point, whether our president grew a conscious overnight or not. We'll need it to defend our own borders soon enough. That is, if our military isn't used to quell the mob, angry over his authoritarian take on elections. Instead of helping David defeat Goliath, he chose to light the fire that has no end. And, for what, so Israel could expand its borders? Blinded by greed. At least his family is securely in the Billionaires Club now, thanks to all the "hardworking American people."

@randahl Trump is just a tool for warmongers like Putin, Lindsay Graham even (on Iran). A stupid rich-kid stooge saying whatever the next episode of ”The Apprentice” script writers have for him.

@randahl We should have stopped in 2016 already... if not under Bush Jr. already and his illegal war in 2003.
We as European (incl. Ukraine!) should watch US and China go at war and do nothing but reap the benefits by providing the US (and Russia?!?, who knows) a new Lend-Lease.

@randahl Lessons for Richard Marles, “you can never trust a Seppo”

@randahl ...and Canadians.

@randahl You are so right. The US is fading away and becoming a shadow of what it used to be.