Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦
@andrewchak.bsky.social
Ukrainian-American in NL🇳🇱. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim” -Elie Wiesel #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 https://linktr.ee/andrew.chakhoyan
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Free World accounts for 50% of global GDP; russia less than 2%. It’s no superpower, just a declining empire throwing a tantrum.
russia's foundation (economic, moral, demographic) is rotten to the core.
And the only thing more dangerous than an aggrieved dictator is a world too afraid to confront him
russia's foundation (economic, moral, demographic) is rotten to the core.
And the only thing more dangerous than an aggrieved dictator is a world too afraid to confront him
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💔 Two killed in Kherson Oblast: one blown up by explosive device, another killed by Russian drone
Two killed in Kherson Oblast: one blown up by explosive device, another killed by Russian drone
Two elderly men have been killed in Kherson Oblast. One was killed by an explosive device he found, while the other was killed by a Russian drone.
www.pravda.com.ua
January 7, 2026 at 4:05 PM
💔 Two killed in Kherson Oblast: one blown up by explosive device, another killed by Russian drone
exactly right!
To make "post war" plans is all well and good, but a failure to abandon a pointless slogan "with Ukraine as long as it takes" and replace it with "a defeat of ruscism as soon as possible" speaks volumes.
To make "post war" plans is all well and good, but a failure to abandon a pointless slogan "with Ukraine as long as it takes" and replace it with "a defeat of ruscism as soon as possible" speaks volumes.
Talk of postwar security guarantees for Ukraine will continue to ring hollow until Western leaders demonstrate their readiness to increase the pressure on Putin and force Russia to the negotiating table, writes Peter Dickinson
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
Ukraine security guarantees are futile without increased pressure on Putin
Western leaders have hailed progress toward "robust" security guarantees for Ukraine this week, but until Putin faces increased pressure to make peace, Russia will remain committed to continuing the w...
www.atlanticcouncil.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
exactly right!
To make "post war" plans is all well and good, but a failure to abandon a pointless slogan "with Ukraine as long as it takes" and replace it with "a defeat of ruscism as soon as possible" speaks volumes.
To make "post war" plans is all well and good, but a failure to abandon a pointless slogan "with Ukraine as long as it takes" and replace it with "a defeat of ruscism as soon as possible" speaks volumes.
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"If we truly want to see the end of Russia’s war on Ukraine, we must retire the language of “as long as it takes.“ Every Western half-measure and failure to act can be traced back to this counterproductive phrase."
https://chakhoyan.substack.com/p/why-russia-begs-for-the-gift-of-defeat
https://chakhoyan.substack.com/p/why-russia-begs-for-the-gift-of-defeat
Why Russia begs for the gift of defeat
The Kremlin’s legitimacy rests on aggression towards neighbors and subjugation at home. Until that logic is shattered, peace is impossible.
chakhoyan.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
"If we truly want to see the end of Russia’s war on Ukraine, we must retire the language of “as long as it takes.“ Every Western half-measure and failure to act can be traced back to this counterproductive phrase."
https://chakhoyan.substack.com/p/why-russia-begs-for-the-gift-of-defeat
https://chakhoyan.substack.com/p/why-russia-begs-for-the-gift-of-defeat
Fascinating visual, but also a reminder of how the “salt water fallacy” distorts discussions of colonial conquest in Europe.
For why this creates the false impression that European de imperialization is largely finished, see Russian Colonialism 101 by @maksymeristavi.com
For why this creates the false impression that European de imperialization is largely finished, see Russian Colonialism 101 by @maksymeristavi.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Fascinating visual, but also a reminder of how the “salt water fallacy” distorts discussions of colonial conquest in Europe.
For why this creates the false impression that European de imperialization is largely finished, see Russian Colonialism 101 by @maksymeristavi.com
For why this creates the false impression that European de imperialization is largely finished, see Russian Colonialism 101 by @maksymeristavi.com
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⚡️ Anti-Ukrainian remarks by Czech parliament speaker boost donations from Czechs for Ukraine's Armed Forces
Anti-Ukrainian remarks by Czech parliament speaker boost donations from Czechs for Ukraine's Armed Forces
Anti-Ukrainian remarks made in the New Year address by Tomio Okamura, the speaker of the lower house of the Czech parliament, have led to a significant increase in donations by Czechs for weapons for ...
www.pravda.com.ua
January 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM
⚡️ Anti-Ukrainian remarks by Czech parliament speaker boost donations from Czechs for Ukraine's Armed Forces
👀 what do you see?
January 7, 2026 at 10:09 AM
👀 what do you see?
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Remember Vasyl Stus.
Freedom has a price. And it always starts with courage inside a human being.
Freedom has a price. And it always starts with courage inside a human being.
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Remember Vasyl Stus.
Freedom has a price. And it always starts with courage inside a human being.
Freedom has a price. And it always starts with courage inside a human being.
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For his words and actions, the Soviet regime imprisoned him and ultimately killed in a labour camp. Yet they never broke his spirit.
Today, as Ukraine defends from the same russian imperialism, Stus' legacy remains painfully relevant — reminding us that empires fear truth, resilience, and dignity.
Today, as Ukraine defends from the same russian imperialism, Stus' legacy remains painfully relevant — reminding us that empires fear truth, resilience, and dignity.
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
For his words and actions, the Soviet regime imprisoned him and ultimately killed in a labour camp. Yet they never broke his spirit.
Today, as Ukraine defends from the same russian imperialism, Stus' legacy remains painfully relevant — reminding us that empires fear truth, resilience, and dignity.
Today, as Ukraine defends from the same russian imperialism, Stus' legacy remains painfully relevant — reminding us that empires fear truth, resilience, and dignity.
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Where are your poets, Ukraine? Your artists, philosophers, statesmen?
Tortured. Killed. Assassinated by russia.
Today, we mark the birthday of Vasyl Stus — a moral landmark for Ukrainians, a poet and dissident who refused to trade truth for safety, language for silence, dignity for survival.
Tortured. Killed. Assassinated by russia.
Today, we mark the birthday of Vasyl Stus — a moral landmark for Ukrainians, a poet and dissident who refused to trade truth for safety, language for silence, dignity for survival.
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Where are your poets, Ukraine? Your artists, philosophers, statesmen?
Tortured. Killed. Assassinated by russia.
Today, we mark the birthday of Vasyl Stus — a moral landmark for Ukrainians, a poet and dissident who refused to trade truth for safety, language for silence, dignity for survival.
Tortured. Killed. Assassinated by russia.
Today, we mark the birthday of Vasyl Stus — a moral landmark for Ukrainians, a poet and dissident who refused to trade truth for safety, language for silence, dignity for survival.
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Telegram founder's problems continue mounting as crypto currency losses turn a $400M 2025 1H profit into a -$222M loss.
Meanwhile, $500M in his Russian bonds are now frozen, worthless, sitting in Russia.
Meanwhile, $500M in his Russian bonds are now frozen, worthless, sitting in Russia.
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Telegram founder's problems continue mounting as crypto currency losses turn a $400M 2025 1H profit into a -$222M loss.
Meanwhile, $500M in his Russian bonds are now frozen, worthless, sitting in Russia.
Meanwhile, $500M in his Russian bonds are now frozen, worthless, sitting in Russia.
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Born in '96 | My fam is 🇪🇺/🇺🇲
Ashamed Of My Generation
If 🇺🇲 decides to take Greenland, I'll be there 🪧
I protested against Putin-Trump-Musk in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹 We financially support UNITED24🇺🇦 / Dems🇺🇲
What about you? Action over tweets! Tweets aren’t enough! 🪧☎️✉️🗣️
Better is possible #DEFENDDEMOCRACY
Thread 1/3🧵
Ashamed Of My Generation
If 🇺🇲 decides to take Greenland, I'll be there 🪧
I protested against Putin-Trump-Musk in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹 We financially support UNITED24🇺🇦 / Dems🇺🇲
What about you? Action over tweets! Tweets aren’t enough! 🪧☎️✉️🗣️
Better is possible #DEFENDDEMOCRACY
Thread 1/3🧵
January 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Born in '96 | My fam is 🇪🇺/🇺🇲
Ashamed Of My Generation
If 🇺🇲 decides to take Greenland, I'll be there 🪧
I protested against Putin-Trump-Musk in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹 We financially support UNITED24🇺🇦 / Dems🇺🇲
What about you? Action over tweets! Tweets aren’t enough! 🪧☎️✉️🗣️
Better is possible #DEFENDDEMOCRACY
Thread 1/3🧵
Ashamed Of My Generation
If 🇺🇲 decides to take Greenland, I'll be there 🪧
I protested against Putin-Trump-Musk in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹 We financially support UNITED24🇺🇦 / Dems🇺🇲
What about you? Action over tweets! Tweets aren’t enough! 🪧☎️✉️🗣️
Better is possible #DEFENDDEMOCRACY
Thread 1/3🧵
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Occupied Donetsk. Russian occupiers left the city without water, but instead dragged there their inflatable missile on a rusty "Lada".
January 6, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Occupied Donetsk. Russian occupiers left the city without water, but instead dragged there their inflatable missile on a rusty "Lada".
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Fareed's take is correct
Fareed Zakaria nails it, as per usual👇
The fate of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 might get decided in 2026, and the consequences will be seismic for the international system (read: for America, for Europe, for you and me personally)
Aggressors’ appetites are set to grow. Will we let them consume the world?
The fate of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 might get decided in 2026, and the consequences will be seismic for the international system (read: for America, for Europe, for you and me personally)
Aggressors’ appetites are set to grow. Will we let them consume the world?
January 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Fareed's take is correct
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Who is your favorite faux-realist?
Dear I say russialist?
If you find these questions confusing or don’t recognize the faces in these timeless memes, check out my latest op-ed for The Hill
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
Dear I say russialist?
If you find these questions confusing or don’t recognize the faces in these timeless memes, check out my latest op-ed for The Hill
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Who is your favorite faux-realist?
Dear I say russialist?
If you find these questions confusing or don’t recognize the faces in these timeless memes, check out my latest op-ed for The Hill
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
Dear I say russialist?
If you find these questions confusing or don’t recognize the faces in these timeless memes, check out my latest op-ed for The Hill
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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If only it were that easy...
January 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM
If only it were that easy...
Fareed Zakaria nails it, as per usual👇
The fate of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 might get decided in 2026, and the consequences will be seismic for the international system (read: for America, for Europe, for you and me personally)
Aggressors’ appetites are set to grow. Will we let them consume the world?
The fate of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 might get decided in 2026, and the consequences will be seismic for the international system (read: for America, for Europe, for you and me personally)
Aggressors’ appetites are set to grow. Will we let them consume the world?
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Fareed Zakaria nails it, as per usual👇
The fate of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 might get decided in 2026, and the consequences will be seismic for the international system (read: for America, for Europe, for you and me personally)
Aggressors’ appetites are set to grow. Will we let them consume the world?
The fate of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 might get decided in 2026, and the consequences will be seismic for the international system (read: for America, for Europe, for you and me personally)
Aggressors’ appetites are set to grow. Will we let them consume the world?
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦
How foreign policy realists lost touch with reality on #russia (Andrew Chakhoyan)
> Traditional realism emphasizes national interest, balance of power and hard constraints. Realism, properly applied, demands we see the world as it is rather than as we’d like it to be. But the realistm of […]
> Traditional realism emphasizes national interest, balance of power and hard constraints. Realism, properly applied, demands we see the world as it is rather than as we’d like it to be. But the realistm of […]
Original post on agora.echelon.pl
agora.echelon.pl
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
How foreign policy realists lost touch with reality on #russia (Andrew Chakhoyan)
> Traditional realism emphasizes national interest, balance of power and hard constraints. Realism, properly applied, demands we see the world as it is rather than as we’d like it to be. But the realistm of […]
> Traditional realism emphasizes national interest, balance of power and hard constraints. Realism, properly applied, demands we see the world as it is rather than as we’d like it to be. But the realistm of […]
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" #NATO threatens the #Kremlin only as a deadbolt threatens a criminal. "
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thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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thehill.com/opinion/inte...
How foreign policy realists lost touch with reality on Russia
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is being met with a double standard by some scholars, who suggest that the West is to blame and that restraint should be demanded of the victim, rather than rec…
thehill.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:09 AM
" #NATO threatens the #Kremlin only as a deadbolt threatens a criminal. "
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thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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A lot of ink has been spilled trying to divine Moscow’s motivations to invade 🇺🇦, commit innumerable war crimes, and burn the remaining bridges with the West.
Why? God knows, the largest landmass on our planet, russia, doesn’t need any more territory..
My two cents
open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
Why? God knows, the largest landmass on our planet, russia, doesn’t need any more territory..
My two cents
open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
The bloodsoaked lexicon of Russian imperialism
Seven phrases that encapsulate Moscow's violent obsession with conquest
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A lot of ink has been spilled trying to divine Moscow’s motivations to invade 🇺🇦, commit innumerable war crimes, and burn the remaining bridges with the West.
Why? God knows, the largest landmass on our planet, russia, doesn’t need any more territory..
My two cents
open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
Why? God knows, the largest landmass on our planet, russia, doesn’t need any more territory..
My two cents
open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
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Is there anyone in this room who thinks there will be a cease-fire soon?
& no one raised their hands.
Trump doesn't have a strategy. He doesn't think strategically or geopolitically.
The previous Pope, picked a fight with Vance.
-Anne Applebaum-
Thread 1/8🧵
#InternationalLaw
#Venezuela
#Europe
& no one raised their hands.
Trump doesn't have a strategy. He doesn't think strategically or geopolitically.
The previous Pope, picked a fight with Vance.
-Anne Applebaum-
Thread 1/8🧵
#InternationalLaw
#Venezuela
#Europe
January 4, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Is there anyone in this room who thinks there will be a cease-fire soon?
& no one raised their hands.
Trump doesn't have a strategy. He doesn't think strategically or geopolitically.
The previous Pope, picked a fight with Vance.
-Anne Applebaum-
Thread 1/8🧵
#InternationalLaw
#Venezuela
#Europe
& no one raised their hands.
Trump doesn't have a strategy. He doesn't think strategically or geopolitically.
The previous Pope, picked a fight with Vance.
-Anne Applebaum-
Thread 1/8🧵
#InternationalLaw
#Venezuela
#Europe
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Guter Beitrag:
"Ukraine is not asking America to fight Russia. It is asking the West not to sabotage transatlantic security by persistently miscalculating the cost of inaction."
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
"Ukraine is not asking America to fight Russia. It is asking the West not to sabotage transatlantic security by persistently miscalculating the cost of inaction."
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Guter Beitrag:
"Ukraine is not asking America to fight Russia. It is asking the West not to sabotage transatlantic security by persistently miscalculating the cost of inaction."
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
"Ukraine is not asking America to fight Russia. It is asking the West not to sabotage transatlantic security by persistently miscalculating the cost of inaction."
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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A world ruled by force rather than law is a world where no one is safe. That's exactly where this train is heading.
January 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM
A world ruled by force rather than law is a world where no one is safe. That's exactly where this train is heading.
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How foreign policy realists lost touch with reality on Russia: When Western realists promise stability through concessions, they are not advancing the cause of peace, they are gifting Moscow time to rearm and repeat — all but inviting a bigger war. thehill.com/opinion/inte... @andrewchak.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 8:41 AM
How foreign policy realists lost touch with reality on Russia: When Western realists promise stability through concessions, they are not advancing the cause of peace, they are gifting Moscow time to rearm and repeat — all but inviting a bigger war. thehill.com/opinion/inte... @andrewchak.bsky.social
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"Every time Russia wages war, a familiar chorus rushes in to explain why the aggressor isn’t to blame and why restraint should be demanded of the victim or those who dare support the victim." Andrew Chakhoyan writes.
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:30 AM
"Every time Russia wages war, a familiar chorus rushes in to explain why the aggressor isn’t to blame and why restraint should be demanded of the victim or those who dare support the victim." Andrew Chakhoyan writes.
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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“Scholars” like John Mearsheimer, Samuel Charap, and Stephen Walt can truly go fuck themselves
They think we are all stupid and don’t see their “realist” nonsense for what it really is: spreading russian narrative, poison, and lies thehill.com/opinion/inte...
They think we are all stupid and don’t see their “realist” nonsense for what it really is: spreading russian narrative, poison, and lies thehill.com/opinion/inte...
thehill.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 AM
“Scholars” like John Mearsheimer, Samuel Charap, and Stephen Walt can truly go fuck themselves
They think we are all stupid and don’t see their “realist” nonsense for what it really is: spreading russian narrative, poison, and lies thehill.com/opinion/inte...
They think we are all stupid and don’t see their “realist” nonsense for what it really is: spreading russian narrative, poison, and lies thehill.com/opinion/inte...