Indeed. Almost as if Ukraine is still not an independent sovereign nationstate in the eyes of some countries but is instead some kind of colonial project where you can play around with who leads it and what its borders look like.

Precisely. The only person more popular than Zelensky would be Zaluzhny and he is a hardliner compared to Zelensky. There is no possibility of a pro-Russian puppet in Ukraine but I really do wonder if Putin realises that all hope of controlling Ukraine politically from Kyiv is no longer feasible.

How would regime change even work in Ukraine? It seems impossible. Putin’s an absolute moron as we’ve learned the last 3 years. But Ukrainians are more Ukrainian than ever, Zelensky is insanely popular, any new leader would need a vote which we know is impossible given the logistics, etc.

Zelensky should have gotten up and started an absolute fucking brawl.

It’s obvious that the world order that existed since the end of the Cold War is over. It had been in decline for years already. My only fear is that the EU won’t step up where it needs to because there will be some Member States still hoping that Trump is an anomaly and things go back to normal.

You think there is any possibility Trump is playing 4D chess with Ukraine? US appeases Russia, making huge concessions > leaves Ukraine no choice as it needs the US > but gives US some access to critical minerals all of which are in the East > US takes minerals and defends Ukraine.

Naive optimism?

“What are they fighting for?” is just plain diabolical. They’re fighting for their homes, their sovereignty, their autonomy, their freedom, their friends and families, their future. I truly wonder what the hell Musk is fighting for though.

Sometimes I am truly lost for words with the absolute verb diarrhoea that spews from his mouth. If anything, this is going to unite Ukrainians around Zelensky and the EU as well. This New York mob boss-style racketeering is not going to go down well in Kyiv nor EU capitals.

Yeah, of course. 2014 was already a discomfort. The Western Europeans were so incredibly glad that the US barely did anything in response to the Crimean annexation and incursion in Eastern Ukraine. They were glad to have it all swept under the rug.

Meanwhile Rubio just a couple years ago.

I can’t wait for all the people saying Ukraine and Europe are weak and need to shut up have their jaws drop to the floor when whatever deal the US and RU hash out ends up being rejected by the EU+UA. Look at Trump’s negotiations with North Korea and on Afghanistan. He’s no master strategist.

Interestingly though, the US side is claiming that the purpose of this is not for negotiations to begin but to figure out if the Russian side is “serious” about ending the war. The answer is absolutely fucking obvious to anyone east of Berlin.

Niekas mūsų niekada neklauso. Palaikykite spaudimą, arba kitaip mums pizdets.

Sadly though there is still this hochnäsig attitude from Western Europeans towards the Baltics and the Poles that we are somehow unequal and that we’re better off shutting up and letting the grown ups handle things. It’s going to terribly backfire at this rate.