(Image by NEIVANMADE)
The Russians have brought their human safari attacks to Kharkiv:
Bodies lay on the ground because Russia decided to murder them.
They attacked Hoptivka village in the Kharkiv region with FPV drones.
Yes, FPV, against civilians. Two people died.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Bodies lie still on the frozen ground, the silence heavy with stolen life.
In Kharkiv Oblast, russian troops used a drone to attack and kill two civilians.
— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.
Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the Occasion of the Day of Unity of Ukraine
22 January 2025 – 09:01
Good morning, Ukraine!
Ukrainians. Our state. Strong, independent. For it is one. And united. We always keep this in mind, especially on this day, January 22, the Day of Unity of Ukraine. I am recording this address at Sophia Square. A historic place. A place of strength. A place of wisdom, passed down to us through the events that took place here over a hundred years ago and through further moments of our history, which prove: when we fight united, we certainly gain what is ours, but when we clash, we lose what is ours.
It was right here, on this square, that the Act of Unification was proclaimed. Right Bank and Left Bank Ukraine united into one state. But ambition, discord, and enemies who took advantage of them – enemies, by the way, both external and internal – prevented an independent Ukraine from existing for long. Unfortunately. Our statehood was lost. That means our own freedom was lost. For many years. For decades. It meant several generations living under other people’s flags, traditions, being told how to live, how to speak, how to think, whom to love, whom to hate. This is what it means to live without your own statehood; this is what the loss of independence means.
And every year, on this day, we have always recalled these lessons of unity, we formed human chains, we said how important it is to maintain unity and stand shoulder to shoulder. But the day came, and we had to prove it. February 24. The day that became a defining moment. It became a kind of challenge. A kind of test for unity, for maturity, for faith in Ukraine. And we united. All Ukrainians united. Not in a declarative way, not on paper, not by some order, but by an inner calling.
Millions of us – together. And together we were able to withstand, to preserve Ukraine together, we repelled the occupier, held back this great invasion together. This word – “together” – holds the hidden strength of Ukrainians. It’s about us, about what we are capable of when we choose not our personal ambitions, but Ukraine. When we choose its interests. When we choose not a feud, but a sword. To defend what is ours. To defend our own. To defend with all our might.
We remember those moments. There weren’t enough weapons for all the volunteers, but there was definitely enough courage, concern, and faith in ourselves, faith in Ukraine. We all had enough strength, all those who prove: our native land does not end at the borders of our own backyard. This is what unity means. This is the unity we need to secure what’s ours, our right to live in peace.
This is the land of every Ukrainian, this is our capital, and this square – it’s ours, of every Ukrainian. Our St. Sophia’s Cathedral. Here it is, standing for over a thousand years. And it will stand just as long. I am sure. I believe that our children, grandchildren, generations will come to this square. On the Day of Unity and on all other holidays. Under the blue and yellow flag. In our state. And we will do everything to make it that way. So that we are not ashamed in front of them, so that they know that we did not repeat mistakes of the past. And Ukraine exists. Ukraine is one. Peaceful. United.
Today, I want to congratulate everyone on this day – the Day of Unity of Ukraine! I wish us to be strong, to believe in ourselves, to believe in Ukraine. And to know for sure that Ukrainian unity is not just about the two banks of the Dnipro. It is about our entire world. This is Ukraine today. Wherever we are. All of us who were born in different cities, towns, and villages, all our warriors, our children, medics, volunteers, teachers, power engineers, all those who today, wherever they are, will say: I am Ukrainian!
I want to congratulate you all on the Day of Unity, dear and cherished Ukrainians!
Glory to Ukraine!
Georgia:
On the 56th day of continuous protest, demonstrators once again blocked Rustaveli Avenue. While there are no longer hundreds of thousands of people on Rustaveli, the protest continues both here and in other locations.
#GeorgiaProtests
— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Day 56 continuous, day 86 overall. NATO and US flags at the #GeorgiaProtests.
Georgians are by default one of the most pro-American and pro-EU nations out there. Any alternative (minority) thought is a decades-long propaganda shoved down our throats.— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The court of Georgia is fining protest participants 5,000 GEL on the pretext of “illegally blocking the road,” relying on such “evidences”👇
#GeorgiaProtests
#TerrorinGeorgia— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“May Movement” students occupy the Tbilisi State Uni exam center and want to delay the exam season until their demands are met: the release of the regime prisoners, construction of a dormitory, increase in stipends and lowering of tuition fees.
The beauty of #GeorgiaProtests is that 1/2— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
it’s a fundamental outpouring of all grievances in the country that have not been addressed in the 34 years of restored independence.
This is precisely why this protest is a watershed that simply isn’t going anywhere. 2/2.— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The students have put up barricades at the TSU exam center.
— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Two regime prisoners are on a hunger strike in solidarity with Mzia Amaghlobeli, @netgazeti.org director, who’s on a hunger strike in prison for over a week now.
The two are Revaz Kiknadze who had refused to incriminate opposition leaders and Nikoloz Javakhishvili. #terrorinGeorgia— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Back to Ukraine:
The cost part 1:
🕯️ Commander of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence assault group killed in action
— Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 (@pravda.ua) January 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The cost part 2:
Russian man entrusted his cats to Ukrainian farmer before dying fighting for Ukraine in the Foreign Legion.
“Oleg messaged me on Instagram. He wrote in Ukrainian, but from his writing, I immediately understood it wasn’t his native language.
Indeed, it wasn’t. He was Russian. So what if he had
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
been following me for a long time? Sure, he didn’t live in Russia anymore – good for him – but why should I care where he lived?
He had the audacity to write to me and even ask for a favor.
“Please don’t write to me anymore” – with this sentence I decided to end our conversation.
“I’m preparing
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
documents, settling all personal matters, and going to fight for Ukraine. Because I care.
Yulia, I need to be there. I’m on your side. I ask for one thing: I have three cats, and I have no one to leave them with. I want you to look after them.”I exhaled.
“Well, where are these cats?”
“They’re
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
with me in Georgia, in Batumi. We left Russia with them when the full-scale invasion began,” wrote Oleg.
“Then leave them with someone in Georgia!”
“I can’t… you understand, people might just abandon them. But you won’t abandon them. I know.”
And I knew that I wouldn’t abandon those cats. I’m
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
alone managing the farm, I have lots of livestock, my own five cats and two dogs – big ones. How could I take three more cats?!
A hundred thoughts raced through my head at once.
“No, no, no, look for someone else!”
“You won’t abandon them, and I can’t trust them to anyone else…”
January. The
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
farmstead is muddy. My car has been pulled out by a tractor several times already because I got stuck.
I can’t sleep. Set an alarm just in case. Only two hours left until curfew ends. Drinking coffee. Nervous.
Warming up the car.Please, just don’t get stuck again, because who would I call at
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
five in the morning? Phew, made it through. Picked up the cats in Doroshiv (a village near Lviv). Dawn is breaking.
As I drive along that broken road with those cats, I whisper a prayer:
“Lord, please let Oleg survive, let Ukraine win, let us drink ‘100 grams of horilka’ under the walnut tree and
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
let the cats go back to their home. Make it happen, you can.”
He wrote from time to time, asking about his cats. I would send photos or videos, asked if he needed any help through my blog for soldiers. We joked that since the cats came from Siberia, they shouldn’t be cold in Ukraine.
Then Oleg
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
stopped responding.
My heart sensed something was wrong.
I only knew what I needed to know. He served in Ukraine’s Foreign Legion. I believed everything must be fine with him.“Lord, please protect him. I know, and you know, Lord, that he’s a good person.”
“Yulia. I found you through my father’s
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
acquaintances from Ukraine. He died while performing a combat mission. I am Oleg’s daughter, Valeria.”
“Lord, do you hear how painful and unfair this all is? Why do you take the best ones?”
“Dear Oleg, I know you’re now with the warriors of light in heaven. Don’t worry, your cats have a home.
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Their home will now forever be at a small farmstead in western Ukraine. No one will ever abandon them; they are loved here: Douglas, Berta, and Dora.”
I believe that a piece of their owner’s soul, who gave his life defending Ukraine, lives within them.”
This is a translated version of the
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Instagram post in Ukrainian by Yulia, a farmer-blogger, who now takes care of the cats from Siberia.
📷yulia_z_hutora on Instagram
— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Okay, but I hope it isn’t forgotten by anyone that Ukraine suffered the most casualties in WW2. The frontline rolled through our entire country twice. We fought along with every other Soviet country and lost more people than the entire alliance combined.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I have seen this concept, about how the US didn’t actually defeat the NAZIs or the US and the Western allies didn’t defeat the NAZIs during WW II posted on Bluesky at least a half dozen times since Monday night. Rather, the Soviets, specifically Soviet Russia did. These are in response to Jews and non-Jews pointing out that Americans used to fight NAZIs in regard to Musk’s NAZI salute during his speech on Monday. I’ve not been looking for them, so for half a dozen or more to just be in my feed, I expect there’s a lot more. And it’s not from bots.
Also historically inaccurate – 60 million “Russians” killed in the Second World War? More like 27 million Soviet citizens, including 6.8 million Ukrainians.
Plus the Soviets help start the war by allying with the Nazis.
— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Anyhow, The Financial Times has the details.
Donald Trump has warned Vladimir Putin that the US is ready to punish Russia with a barrage of new trade restrictions if Moscow fails to reach an agreement soon to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump’s statement in a Truth Social post on Wednesday comes as the president tries to ratchet up pressure on Moscow to launch negotiations with Ukraine.
It marks his first broad statement about the conflict since he returned for his second term in the White House after promising on the campaign trail to end the war within 24 hours of returning to power.
“If we don’t make a ‘deal,’ and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries,” Trump wrote.
“Let’s get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way — and the easy way is always better,” he continued.
Joe Biden’s administration imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow after it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. US trade with Russia has since plummeted, so any additional tariffs would have a limited impact.
But Trump administration officials believe there are more ways that the US could tighten the screws on Russia financially, particularly by targeting its energy sector.
The Biden administration was reluctant to ban Russian oil and gas exports for fear of disrupting global energy markets. Under the former president, Washington imposed some restrictions on liquefied natural gas projects in Russia and set an international price cap for Russian oil, which Moscow has managed to circumvent.
During his confirmation hearing to be Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent last week told Congress that he would be “100 per cent on board for taking sanctions up, especially on the Russian oil majors, to levels that would bring the Russian Federation to the table”.
Bessent added that he believed the US sanctions on Russia set by Biden were “not fulsome enough”.
Trump, who has been sceptical of US military aid to Ukraine, said he expected to meet Putin soon and the Kremlin has said the Russian leader is ready to sit down with the US president, but no summit has been scheduled.
In his post, Trump touted his “very good relationship with President Putin” and said he was not looking to “hurt” Russia, but would be doing it a “favour” by pushing it to reach a deal.
Hours after being sworn in on Monday, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that Putin was “destroying Russia” by continuing to wage war in Ukraine.
But the president’s announcement reveals his frustration that Moscow does not appear to be listening to his calls for a settlement.
“Putin doesn’t want to end the war, and doesn’t want to be pressured to peace,” a senior Ukrainian official close to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Financial Times in response to Trump’s comments.
More at the link.
I want to highlight this portion:
During his confirmation hearing to be Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent last week told Congress that he would be “100 per cent on board for taking sanctions up, especially on the Russian oil majors, to levels that would bring the Russian Federation to the table”.
Bessent added that he believed the US sanctions on Russia set by Biden were “not fulsome enough”.
The major issue with the sanctions imposed by the Biden administration was that the Russians have been and still are evading them. This is also true of the EU and EU member state sanctions, as well as those of other allies and partners. Until or unless the evasion problem is resolved, then simply adding more isn’t going to do much good.
“There are many cases when the enemy was simply running across the field. He just walks into the dugout to the guys. He asks if his buddies are here and he is.” – Intelligence operatives of the “Rubizh” Brigade on their work.
youtu.be/BoBQx4DeeZM?…— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Here’s the full video:
Ukrinform: Former NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, speaking at the WEF in Davos, emphasised that Ukraine’s best security guarantee is NATO membership under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty. However, if NATO hesitates, Ukraine should be armed “to the teeth” to defend itself and deter russia.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
He noted past mistakes, such as NATO’s reluctance to arm Ukraine from 2014 to 2022, and stressed that military support, led by the U.S. and Europe, is crucial to forcing Russia to accept a just and lasting peace.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kharkiv:
Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Second explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ the city is under the russian drone attack right now
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
More russian drones are moving in Kharkiv direction ‼️
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another explosion in Kharkiv ‼️
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Another explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ russian drones again
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Antonivka, Kherson Oblast:
A tragedy is happening now, in Kherson.
A family of 5, including a child, lost their house to a Russian drone strike and can’t leave the drone-infested place as they won’t leave their animals.
Driving there: at least 50% death. Unrolling.
— Zarina Zabrisky (@zarinazabrisky.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Mykolaiv, after yesterday’s russian air attack on the city
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Kostyantynivka:
Russia shelled Kostyantynivka all day. According to the local prosecutor’s office, the enemy carried out nine airstrikes on the city within 15 minutes. Preliminary reports suggest Russian forces used “FAB-250” bombs equipped with the UMPK module.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Serebryansk Forest, Donetsk Oblast:
Fighters from the 107th Battalion of the 63rd Brigade carried out a complex and unique operation in the Serebriansk Forest in Donetsk region. They captured a prisoner using a loudspeaker attached to a drone.
t.me/c/1377735387…— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Kherson:
Russians attacked State Emergency Service rescuers twice while they were conducting emergency rescue operations in the Kherson region.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
That’s enough for tonight.
Your daily Patron!
There are no new Patron skeets or videos today. Here is some adjacent material.
💙💪 A new warrior in the battle formation! 🐶
— Vitalis Viva (@vitalisviva.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
J. Arthur Crank
Thanks Adam.
I have to look up FPV drones. FPV = First Person View. The operator is wearing some kind of headset and sees what the drone camera sees.
As for T***p, it is the third day and there is still no deal to end the war. Christ, what an asshole.
KatKapCC
From the beginning of the full-scale war, Zelensky has impressed me with his eloquence (among other traits, of course), such as with tonight’s address. Whenever this damn war ends, I assume that because he is now over the term limit for the office, he would then leave the presidency. And I think he will be much sought after for books and speaking engagements and classes and the like.
Gin & Tonic
Kostia Zhuk (see the Ukrainska Pravda post up top) was one of my oldest friends in Ukraine. He was a veteran of the army of the Ukrainian SSR, having risen to the rank of colonel before retiring from active duty. I got to know him some years after independence, when he had switched to conversing 100% in Ukrainian, and was a committed patriot of independent Ukraine. Since he lived in Kyiv, during the Revolution of Dignity he was constantly working, along with fellow veterans, to support the movement. Once the full-scale re-invasion started, he went back into action (at age 67!) in a volunteer detachment – the regular military wouldn’t take him back because of his age, but on a couple of photos I saw of that time he could probably have bested any current recruit in PT.
K was a man of what they call “military bearing” – spend five minutes with him, not knowing anything about his background, and you’d have guessed he was an officer. He was a man of duty but of uncompromising integrity. There was no difference, in his mind, between protecting his homeland when it was under Soviet rule and protecting and supporting it when it was independent. Steeped as my family was in western-Ukrainian (virulently anti-russian) nationalism, discussing this with him was a worthwhile challenge. His father had also been a Red Army veteran, of the Great Patriotic War, which put him on the opposite side as many of my and my friends’ ancestors, yet now, since 1991, there was common cause.
Reports are that he was killed while providing covering fire to allow his colleagues to retreat to safety. I find this completely unsurprising. He gave his life for his mates, and for his country.
Heroyam slava!
Chris
Thank you. My Spider-sense definitely went off when I read that. I didn’t remember the exact number, but 60 million was preposterous.
Yeah, I’ve heard the “well the Soviets were the ones who really won WWII” argument many times for a long while and this is why it’s always fallen flat with me. All of the Allied powers fell down on the job when it came to stopping Nazi Germany’ rise… but most of them didn’t take this to the extreme of actually allying with Hitler and coordinating joint invasions of weaker countries with him.
(Also, not to be petulant, but we shed a hell of a lot more blood to help the Soviets defeat Germany than they did to help us defeat Japan. Maybe that’s not their fault and it was simply beyond their capacities to fight two enemies at once. But the fact that they had good reasons doesn’t do much to change my view that they and their fanboys overestimate their contributions to the war by quite a bit).
Jay
Thank you, as always, Adam.
Andrya
@Gin & Tonic: I’m so sorry. Deep condolences.
Bill Arnold
@Chris:
Me too. Took about 7 seconds to type a google search and read the results. (Slow!) Trump (or whoever wrote that) presents as preposterously sloppy and lazy.
Jay
https://nitter.poast.org/Gerashchenko_en/status/1881694322514346021#m
The US can’t be trusted, under Obama, Dolt 45, Biden or Trump 47, or ever. US security guarantees are worthless for anybody other than genocidal Israel.
Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
So sorry, may his memory bring some comfort.
Ukraine is losing some of their best people while ruZZia is losing some of their worst.
KatKapCC
@Gin & Tonic: Very sorry for the loss <3
KatKapCC
@Chris: Yeah, I saw 60,000,000 and I was like…ummmmm that does not seem accurate.
Jay
@Bill Arnold:
Putin wrote it, Dolt 47 just read from the script.
Bill Arnold
@Jay:
There’s this, though only one news story found in google news.
Tigran Keosayan, the sanctioned Russian propagandist, has gone into a coma and has been declared “clinically dead.”
Wikipedia has not yet been updated as I’m typing this.
Old School
@Gin & Tonic: My condolences.
Gloria DryGarden
@Gin & Tonic: Thank you for telling us this. I am sorry for your loss. I can’t begin to imagine how this war is affecting you, when these are places and people you know, and close friends. It’s heartbreaking.
Adam, thank you, especially for the Siberian cats story, which has me in tears.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: thank you for this. I mean, holy cow! In case it wasn’t serious enough…
The need of Putin to not have soldiers return and push back hard, and thus his need to carry on with war and fighting, wherever he can,
vs the need of Europe and NATO and whoever cares, to stop this war, and prevent it from going into other European nations…
Gin & Tonic
@Bill Arnold: I hope she follows him.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: May his memory be a blessing.
Lyrebird
@Gin & Tonic: So sorry for another loss… Thank you for sharing more about this true hero.
Gloria DryGarden
Tonight, I’m thinking of the starfish story, but in reverse. A man on a beach is tossing starfish back into the sea, one by one, so they can live. Someone comes up to him and says you can’t save them all, what you’re doing is silly. First guy picks up another starfish, tosses it into the water, and says, “made a difference to that one.”
This war, these wars, these oppressed immigrants, (and all whose lives are suddenly ripped apart) touches someone you perhaps know through an acquaintance, or someone you know knows them, or in gin and tonic’s case, someone who is an old friend, possibly a best friend. It’s a very small world, and many of us are only a few degrees of separation away from some of this.
When many people die or their life is threatened, I think of how it made a difference to that one, each one, and everyone they knew and loved, mothers, sisters, friends. “It made a difference to this one.”
Adam you do a beautiful job of making this war personal, bringing us to the individual stories, as well as the big overviews.
Traveller
I would like to take a moment to thank YY_Sima Qian for his clear eyed writing an analysis on many topics. I appreciate everything he has to say…we thank Adam all the time, I have a need to thank YY_Sima Qian.
Be that as it may, and maybe contrary to most opinions here, Trump’s attitude towards Ukraine, Russia and this damned war remains better than I had feared….Mr Trump could have ordered a complete abandonment of Ukraine…or even an adversarial position towards Ukraine and actively help Russia completely destroy Ukraine. So far, Trump is not there yet…and apparently is not going there.
My hope is that Mr Trump does not want to be in a Stilwell and Who Lost China position. But with Mr Trump, who can know? I simply pray that Zelenskyy plays Mr Trump well…fuels an idea that Mr Trump saved all of Europe…not that this would be true, but would be helpful to saving Ukraine.
I don’t know, we can at this point only hope that Mr Trump will not be too terrible, (or as terrible as he could be, as terrible as I feared).
AlaskaReader
Thanks Adam
NotoriousJRT
Adam, thank you for continuing to bear witness. I appreciate it even as I am too ashamed to do much more than skim each night and review the comments. I thank those who continue to comment and offer insights, opinions, and links.
Gin & Tonic, I am sorry for this latest of too many losses that are personal to you and tragic to us all.
Aziz, light!
@Traveller: “Mister” Trump? Seriously? Shades of the FTFNYT.
Trump will abandon Ukraine as soon as Ukraine refuses to cheerfully walk away from over 20 percent of its territory (among other huge concessions), thereby spoiling Trump’s fantasy that he is the world’s greatest maker of deals. Trump will then punish Ukraine by withdrawing every bit of U.S. help, including the sanctions against Russia.
Traveller
@Aziz, light!: Do I have any choice except to hope that you are wrong in your analysis of Trump’s future moves? Maybe you are right, maybe not…time is a one way arrow and we will just have to wait and see. Best Wishes, Traveller PS there remains my hope that maybe Europe alone can carry Ukraine! (ha, but maybe…I am not ready to give up on Ukraine just because Mr Trump was elected…this may be terrible, but it remains something I have to deal with)
YY_Sima Qian
@Gin & Tonic: So sorry about your loss!
YY_Sima Qian
@Traveller: Thank you for your kind words!
However, I would not give Trump the “Mister” honorific, either…
Matt
Who do these dirty Russkies think they are, Israelis?