'Ukraine has sunk more than 20 percent of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, but more to the point, they've damaged critical infrastructure associated with its sustenance and its maintenance ...we do not see Russian surface ships, west of Crimea, ever anymore.'
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Politicology: How to demoralize America - and liberal democracies more broadly. Ron Steslow 🌻 discussing Dark Shining Moment youtube.com/watch?v=XI9lZ-… , Russian influence on US Republicans, and the 'democratic mind' with chrizap and Molly McKew
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It’s pretty much right there in front of us.

We — and I mean America we, not just a vague “the west” we — must defeat Russia in Ukraine.

Road to secure Europe goes through secure 🇺🇦. Principle understood by all the participants. Ukraine is fighting for the security of whole Continent.

Great thread about a great man.

So many layers in this

Had to

“And you’re drinking my blood, which I’m not even charging you for”

Kind of perfection, this

In Ukraine, everything actually depends on if we get off our butts, provide necessary weaponry immediately, revamp our broken mindset about Russia, and stop believing the war is only about Ukraine and will stay there.

The power to decide the outcome is with *us*, now Moscow. FFS

And now, a stripey kitten belly

Ukrainians are hitting targets that launch attacks against them — mostly using tools and strategy of their own innovation

It’s tempting to hold back, leave it up to fate and pretend we can’t influence the outcome, but that’s no way to honour our historic responsibilities. The only way is this: we choose to change course, choose to get serious and choose to help Ukraine achieve a full victory. 🧵

In March, Russia significantly increased the intensity of attacks against Ukraine, targeting critical infrastructure, civilian people and homes.

Since #PatriotsSaveLives , the decision to provide them for Ukraine to save people is needed now.

MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦

It’s always astonishing to me how bad the congressional websites are for committees and individual members. The search functions seemed designed to provide useless results from badly organized webpages like an intentional hurdle for transparency.

Just, sigh.

Seriously this is going to be the dumbest election cycle

Russia has one primary strategy for winning in Ukraine: getting America to self-immolate

We’ve proven soft targets, unwilling to defend ourselves, in fact weakening our defenses further because too many Americans think they gain advantage from American chaos

Sometimes it’s best just to acknowledge that Russia does crazy things and figure out how to best protect Americans from them. Everything else ends up looking like dereliction of duty, by multiple administrations.