ChrisHD7 🇺🇦 🇸🇪

The migration to #Bluesky has begun. I’m spending my day copying the list of people I follow here, hoping to find most of you there (about 1.3K). 15 years on Twitter, I refuse to call it anything else, just like I refuse to like corrupt ppl.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

WHAT A FINALE IN KUPIANSK! TOTAL SURRENDER OF THE CITY — THE ARMY ENCIRCLED! Putin has been informed of the defeat. Troops have completely sealed the pocket around the city. The Russian army in Kupiansk has capitulated. Entire units have laid down their arms, thousands of occupiers have come out with their hands raised. The streets are filled with prisoners, and abandoned equipment stands in rows. Russian commanders surrendered the city without a fight. Putin has already been notified of another humiliating defeat.

🚀🇸🇪Ukrainian Navy appears to have shown launches of anti-ship missiles from Swedish RBS-15 Mk.III/IV systems. Sweden announced the transfer two years ago, this is their first public appearance in Ukraine.

@DefenceU As a Swedish tax payer, it pleases me to see the money being put to good use! 🇸🇪🇺🇦

@MaMLSod @DefenceU As another Swedish tax payer, I second that. Proud that we supply new technology, not just old stuff from the barns…

🇺🇦🤝🇸🇪 Sweden is supporting Ukraine in bolstering its air defense. The Defense Forces will receive advanced Tridon Mk2 air defence systems as part of a €1.2B aid package—€400M allocated for procurement. Mobile, all-weather, and cost-efficient, Tridon Mk2 is designed to counter Shahed drones, cruise missiles, and more. Read more: mod.gov.ua/en/news/sweden…

Easter Monday. Killed by Russians. Photo of the mother and her 2.5-year-old daughter, who were killed today in Odesa in a Russian attack.

The Swedish Coast Guard boarded and detained Russian "shadow fleet" tanker Flora 1 on suspicion of environmental crime, it said in a statement. Early on Thursday, a Coast Guard surveillance aircraft detected a mineral oil spill east of Gotland, which was over 12 kilometers long at the time. Flora 1 was identified early on as being of interest to the investigation. The vessel, with 24 crew members on board, is now anchoring south of Ystad. In addition to being on the EU sanctions list, several unclear circumstances surround Flora 1, including its flag status.

Ukraine just opened its first drone production plant in Britain. That matters for 3 reasons: • it moves part of Ukraine’s war industry into NATO space • it creates industrial spillover inside Europe • it shows Ukrainian defense tech is no longer just “surviving” — it is scaling 🧵👇

Finnish president tells Trump a 'more European Nato' taking shape (Reuters) ca.news.yahoo.com/finnish-presid…

The French President Just Reminded The World What Class Looks Like Donald Trump stood in front of a camera and did what Donald Trump does. He mocked Emmanuel Macron’s wife. He put on a fake French accent. He told the world that Brigitte Macron “treats him extremely badly” and that the French president was “still recovering from a right hook to the jaw.” It was the geopolitical equivalent of a man shouting at clouds. Macron was in South Korea when someone asked him about it. He paused. He considered the question with the expression of a man who has just been informed that a golden retriever has urinated on his Bentley. Then he said this: “Neither elegant nor up to standard.” Seven words. That was it. Seven words delivered with the quiet, devastating calm of someone who genuinely does not need to raise their voice because the staff will handle it. It was the verbal equivalent of a single raised eyebrow from a man in a perfectly fitted suit, looking down at someone who has just spilled red wine on the carpet at Versailles. Consider the man on the other end of that eyebrow. A man who wears a red baseball cap to diplomatic meetings and a white one to funerals. A man who arrives at the most solemn occasions in the world looking like he has just wandered in from a golf buggy. A man whose morning routine apparently involves industrial quantities of spray tan applied to a face that has, at various medical estimations, the cardiovascular profile of a blocked Manhattan sewer. A man whose idea of a state dinner is a quarter pounder eaten alone in a motorcade. This is the man who decided to lecture the world about Emmanuel Macron’s marriage. Trump called NATO a “paper tiger.” He mocked a head of state’s wife. He uploaded the whole embarrassing performance to the White House YouTube channel, briefly, before someone in the building apparently remembered that diplomacy exists and pulled the plug. Macron’s response landed like a white glove placed gently on a table. Not thrown. Placed. “Neither elegant nor up to standard.” In French diplomatic circles, that sentence is a declaration of war. In English, it translates roughly to: I have noticed your behavior, and I find it beneath comment, which is why I am commenting on it once, quietly, before returning to matters of actual importance. There is a man in this story who has spent eighty years on this earth and still cannot find a suit that fits, a tie that stops at his belt, or a shade of foundation that occurs anywhere in nature. And there is a man who responded to being publicly humiliated by the most powerful person on earth with seven words and a expression that could freeze the Seine. Macron has something Trump has spent his entire life trying to purchase and never quite managed. Class. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

UK Prime Minister actually talking some sense.

🇯🇵 Former Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba just dropped the truth about Trump. I met him three times. If you tell him he is wrong, he gets angry right away. You cannot say that. You have to say you are absolutely right and flatter him to save face. That guy judges everything by loss or gain. This is not a secret. This is how the US operates. Flatter the leader. Stroke the ego. Pretend he is always right. That is not diplomacy. That is servitude. Japan has been doing this for decades. Bowing to Washington. Flattering US presidents. Ignoring its own interests. Ishiba is speaking the truth that Japanese politicians usually hide. Trump cannot handle criticism. He cannot handle being wrong. He judges everything by what benefits him. Not what benefits the US. Not what benefits Japan. What benefits him. The world knows this. The US knows this. But no one says it out loud. Ishiba just did. The mask is off. The empire is run by a man who cannot be told he is wrong. And the world is expected to bow. Japan is waking up. The rest of the world is watching.

@Its_ereko @Rand341367 Actually, I think most Europeans agree. We might “move slowly”, but if you listen carefully the shift in Europe occurred more than a year ago. It’s now clearly visible after the US got entangled in yet another war.

So if tomorrow let's say Finland will try to return the occupied Karelia, the US will be "willing to stand with them" in a war against RU, correct?

Trump has destroyed the White House, "the People's House," decimating the East Wing and leaving a giant crater of dirt — which is a perfect metaphor for what he has done to America and the world. 😳👇

🚨 BREAKING ​Saudi Arabia's Bin Salman has terminated the defense agreement with the US following insults from America and has entered into a defense pact with Europe without informing the US.

"It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path, our long-term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union," PM Keir Starmer says Follow live: bbc.in/4sJOIkB

Good decision to have the May meeting of @nato Foreign Ministers in Helsingborg 🇸🇪. Looking out of the windows they might see ships of the 🇷🇺 shadow fleets passing by through Öresund, although the tankers normally use Store Bält 🇩🇰. nato.int/content/dam/na…

We can no longer pretend that Viktor Orbán is simply a 'difficult' EU partner. He has fundamentally broken his contract with the European community. Transcripts reveal a shocking level of subordination to the Kremlin that is utterly disqualifying for any EU member state. Recordings capture Szijjártó reporting to Lavrov during breaks in EU Council meetings. In these exchanges, Szijjártó is heard providing "direct reports" on confidential EU discussions and even asking for "patience" while he completes specific tasks. These recordings don't just suggest a preference for Russian interests. They prove a master-servant relationship that compromises the security of the entire European Union. There is a word for a government that takes orders from a foreign aggressor while reaping the benefits of European solidarity: betrayal. Polish PLDonald Tusk: "What we heard today, and what we had already suspected, is merely a confirmation of a very disturbing political dependency—the dependency of Viktor Orbán’s government and his Foreign Minister, Mr. Szijjártó, directly on the Moscow authorities. It has been a long time, if ever in my life, since I heard something so sad. What these recordings revealed is not just the fact of a political dependency between the government in Budapest and Moscow, but it also showed how unacceptable and how peculiar this relationship is. Just listen: the Foreign Minister of a European country, a member of the European Union, reports to the Russian Foreign Minister on the completion of a task and asks for patience because he knows he still has a few more tasks to perform. I mean, one could not have expected anything more disgusting. This is absolutely disqualifying. And I have the impression that while the Hungarians—you know, Poland loves Hungary, Poles love Hungarians. This is a friendship that has survived decades and centuries. And that is why it is so important to me that everyone in Hungary also hears that nothing has changed here, and that we are happy to be members of the European community together with the Hungarians. What is sad is that Viktor Orbán’s government—certainly Viktor Orbán and Minister Szijjártó—left that European Union a long time ago."

My Favorite sign of all time at a No Kings Protest. So F--king True!