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#StandWithUkraine

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Eliot Cohen is professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Cohen is a veteran diplomat and foreign policy expert.

In this article, he delivers a blistering denunciation of the Trump foreign policy, explaining in excruciating detail how the US officials (#Hegseth, #JDVance, #Rubio, #Waltz, #Bessent, #Witkoff, et al) are malignant, incompetent, stupid. And evil.

#StandWithUkraine #ForeignPolicy

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

The Atlantic · Incompetence Leavened With MalignityBy Eliot A. Cohen

European leaders are working on a #military #aid package for #Ukraine — worth at least €20B — to bolster Kyiv as the #UnitedStates increasingly aligns with Moscow, 3 EU diplomats told POLITICO.

The planned package comes after #Trump blamed his Ukrainian counterpart, #Zelenskyy, for the #war in Ukraine, calling him a “dictator” who had tricked the US into spending billions of dollars in military aid.

#geopolitics #Russia #Putin #StandWithUkraine
politico.eu/article/eu-war-in-

POLITICO · EU leaders plan €20B Ukraine aid package as Trump turns against ZelenskyyBy Nicholas Vinocur

Anyone putting their hopes on criminal Trump striking a #Ukraine deal should remember that he has a track record of never paying up or honouring his agreements, throughout his entire life.

Trump is a compulsive liar. He's lazy, manipulative and an opportunist. He demands the world, and then NEVER delivers.

No one should make any deals with him before having received his side of the bargain. His promises will be broken otherwise. Guaranteed.

Focus.
#StandWithUkraine, now more than ever before.

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@OlgaPatlyuk It is easy for me to write this but still:

“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

Winston Churchill

I hope Europeans will finally truly rally and come to our senses and start supporting Ukraine for real 🙏🏻
#StandWithUkraine #Europe

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…The original rare earth #minerals“deal” focused on compensating the #US for PAST #aid to Kyiv, & specified the natural resources that would form part of the deal on over a dozen pages…. #Zelensky said Wed the contract asked for the US to own, or receive revenue from, 50% of #Ukraine rare earth mineral mining & other natural resource sectors. The sources said the document said it asked for compensation not for future US assistance to Ukraine, but for previous aid.

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…The clash over the rare earth #minerals agreement comes amid a serious deterioration of #US relations w/ #Zelensky, driven by #Trump’s adoption of #RussianPropaganda on the war, including the false charges that the Ukrainian leader started the conflict & that he is a dictator. The autocrat in this situation is #Putin, who has run #Russia for 25 years, imprisoned his opponents, crushed the #FreePress & held sham elections. And he started the #war.