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Good news! Germany sends another Patriot battery. The third out of its existing 12! Ukraine desperately needs more air defenses and it’s high time all of the allies chip in and deliver additional patriots and other missile defense systems!!!

would go as far as to argue that Kharkiv’s cultural scene at least is superior to London’s right now, every time I’m in the city there are more theatres, clubs, galleries open and the art and music is consistently just so, so good AND affordable for locals!

Every day, Ukraine is losing its people, its territory, its electricity. I ask Congress to vote now on Ukraine aid. It’s vital to US interests that Russia is stopped from taking a country of 40M by force. We lived this history in Europe before & we know the cost of failing to act

Už třetím rokem umírají nevinní lidé kvůli ruské agresi, Ukrajina proto stále potřebuje naši pomoc. Ujistil jsem prezidenta Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський, že Česko bude i nadále podporovat Ukrajinu všemi možnými prostředky. Tedy nejen dodávkami munice ve spolupráci se zahraničními partnery, ale i…

Congress must let Ukraine Win. Together we call upon Congress to do the right thing.
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Important appeal from ⁦Timothy Snyder⁩ Sean Penn, Barbra Streisand, Imagine Dragons tell Congress to fund Ukraine | CNN cnn.com/2024/04/10/opi…

From our author now on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. They need aircraft and ammunition to defend our values. We have what they need but would not give. What happened to our values?

Valentina, who used to work in the newspaper kiosk down the road, sent me this greeting from Kursk. Thank you Valentina, and thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes last week. #ValentinasKiosk

It's my birthday today and I'm so blessed to spend it in Kyiv . It's a warm and sunny day, there were no air raid alerts yet. I won't be celebrating, I decided to fundraise for Ukrainian frontline medics instead. If you wish me well, you can donate here: leleka.care/donate

It looks like @swedeninlatvia has taken its soft power mission most seriously. The Ambassador herself in white in an appropriate leadership role.

Devastatingly fair from ⁦Jonathan Freedland⁩ . After six months, the war in Gaza is making Israel a pariah state… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This academic article shows how German experts warned our government and the public from November 2021 onwards - and were never heard.

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You've probably seen this video of a Jewish man and woman offering Muslim worshippers dates outside the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Ramadan. This beautiful gesture shows the possibility of coexistence between the two people at an individual level - I mean, it's incredibly…

Very good .. and very slick…

75 years of NATO, 1949-2024. Then, according to its first secretary general (Ismay): to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down. Now: to keep the Russians out and the Americans in we need the Germans UP. (Doing more to strengthen the European pillar of NATO).

🕵️🇷🇺As Slovakia's presidential election run-off is nearing, let me recommend our recent investigation into how Peter Pellegrini, the Fico government's current candidate, has secretly asked for Russia's help in the final weeks of the 2020 election campaign. vsquare.org/slovakia-elect…

Please meet #Hungary ’s strongman, #ViktorOrban ’s new small-sized, modest countryside manor house in #Hatvanpuszta approx. 40 km from downtown Budapest. Still unfinished,but larger and nicer than ever. I must feel grateful for the opportunity to contribute to it 😁