I wonder how long it will take Trump to realize that firmly supporting a Ukrainian victory is exactly what could reverse all his political setbacks so far
I doubt Trump’s idiotic brain will ever realize that his Ukraine policy is the starting point of his permanent failure and a stain of shame he will carry for the rest of his life.
So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.
Dear MAGA America. Dear Orbán Hungary.
I have been thinking about this for a while now, and I have come to the conclusion that something has gone genuinely, historically, almost impressively wrong.
America produced jazz, the national park system, the Marshall Plan, and the men who froze at the Bulge and bled on Omaha Beach. Those men built an alliance on a simple idea. That free nations stick together and that autocrats are best confronted early rather than photographed with enthusiastically.
And then one family drove the whole thing into a wall at speed and walked away from the wreckage whistling.
Look around. Look carefully at what is actually happening.
There is a man in Washington building triumphal arches and gold statues of himself while announcing, in his own words, that he intends to take Canada, Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, and the oil of Iran. He said these things out loud, repeatedly. There is a man in Moscow rewriting borders by force. And there is a man in Budapest facilitating both of them from inside the Western alliance, with Donald Trump Jr. flying in to offer his personal congratulations.
The last time the world looked like this it was 1938. The truly unsettling thing about 1938 was not that it felt alarming. It felt like politics. Strongmen being strongmen, reasonable people making accommodations, everyone hoping it would sort itself out.
It did not sort itself out.
Germany has been replaced by the United States. The man with the triumphal arches is in Washington now, on a crusade for oil and territory, pulling the energy of the Middle East into the kind of confrontation that has a very poor historical record of ending tidily. And the checks and balances that were supposed to prevent all of this turned out, at the crucial moment, to be a paper tiger that looked at its shoes.
Every Canadian, every European, every person who has stood in a Normandy cemetery knows exactly what this feels like. We are all in the same boat. And the boat is taking on water.
Now, Hungary. The real one.
Budapest is one of those cities where civilisation genuinely tried and largely succeeded. Hungary is European in every meaningful sense, geographically, historically, culturally, always pointing in one direction. West. It rose up against Soviet tanks in 1956 with magnificent stubbornness because the alternative was simply unacceptable.
And yet Orbán Hungary is walking it back toward a 1956 moment. Dismantling courts, silencing press, rerouting the country away from the West and toward Moscow. Methodically. Quietly. Legally. Orbán Hungary is not a country. It is a project, lucrative for those running it and considerably less so for everyone else.
Hungary belongs in the West. In 2026. Not in Orbán Hungary’s 1938.
There is a choice coming. The rest of us will be watching with considerable affection for the real Hungary, which managed it once before under considerably worse conditions.
I have every confidence it can manage it again.
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@PM_ViktorOrban When you tie your political future to a filthy Russia, it already seals the fate that you and your party will be cast aside by the times. Worse still, you have brought shame upon all Hungarians.
In the photo on the left is an ordinary boy, a schoolboy from Brovary, who was only 13 years old. His name is Yelisey Ryabokon.
On the right is the hat the boy was wearing, completely riddled with bullets and shrapnel, as well as his white T-shirt, which he put on over his jacket to show the russians that he was a civilian.
However, the bullets from the russian soldiers pierced right through it.
This is a terrible reminder of what happened.
On March 11, 2022, Yelisey's family tried to escape from a village called Peremoha, which had already been captured by the Russians.
As they were driving, the Russian soldiers first waved at them, as if wishing them a safe journey.
But then, for no reason at all, they simply opened fire on the car full of people. When the column came under fire, Yelisey's mother and younger son were in one car, while the boy himself was riding in another.
The first car exploded after taking a direct hit from a shell; people started jumping out of the cabin and hiding.“I dragged the little one by the hood,” Inna recalled.
She hoped that her older son was alive and simply hadn’t managed to get out of the car. It was enough for her to glance at her son to understand: he had died instantly. The mother miraculously managed to survive and pull her younger son out from under the shelling.
At first, Yelisey was buried simply in someone’s vegetable garden in that village. Only after some time was the family able to transport his body back home to Brovary to bury him properly.
The coffin was never opened. His father Yevhen, who serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was never able to see his son one last time.
Yelisey’s mother Inna says: she wants the whole world to know what Russia has done in Ukraine. So that people remember every murdered child, every woman. So that Russia is held accountable for all these crimes.
Those who knew Yelisey say he was a very calm, polite, and always smiling boy.
In May of that year, he would have turned 14…
Source: W.a.f.Ukraine
@AfD@grok, tell me—as someone politically inexperienced—why this German political party openly chooses to support Russia? I didn’t imagine German politics could sink to something this low.
Instead of a thousand words.
This is Kyiv's central square. Each flag represents a fallen Defender who protected Ukraine and Europe from Russia.
Eternal memory and eternal glory to Ukrainian Heroes.
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16 countries and the EU have now refused to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympics-2026 at the official level ❌
Austria, Australia, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the EU joined Ukraine in this important, values-based decision.
Thank you for your solidarity! The Paralympic Games are not a place for Russian and Belarusian blood-stained flags.
Ukrainian officials will not attend the Opening Ceremony or other official Paralympic events. Suspilne, Ukraine’s public broadcaster, will not broadcast the Paralympics Opening Ceremony.
While Ukraine is still under Russian bombardment, Russia is welcomed with an official pavilion at the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most important international contemporary art exhibitions. The project is even linked to the daughter of a senior executive at Rostec, a sanctioned Russian state-owned defence company, and to the daughter of Foreign Minister Lavrov. Culture must build bridges, but it must never become a stage for regimes waging war against European values. After the Milan–Cortina Paralympics affair, the Meloni government cannot remain silent while propaganda gains further legitimacy in Europe.
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