Egil Kvaleberg 🇺🇦

I confronted the russian ambassador at Venice Biennale because no one else did. In the last 24 hours russia bombed city centres & a kindergarten. Dozens murdered in the streets. The russian pavilion here is filled with free champagne & art to whitewash their war crimes.

Dessverre ikke utenkelig at et stadig mer presset russisk regime vil gå for kvitt eller dobbelt -- og da er Svalbard en mulighet

Vår nye styreleder i Norsk-ukrainsk venneforening, Jan Ottesen, er intervjuet av Dagsavisen. Her får du vite litt mer om hva vi jobber for og hvorfor vi gjør det. Dessuten kan du bli litt bedre kjent med Jan - en kjernekar i alle henseender. dagsavisen.no/nyheter/vennef…

“Ukraine makes me proud to be a human being.” US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

@AageB @EUvsDisinfo Hvordan vedkommende som farer med denslags sludder skulle kunne være kvalifisert til å være professor ved et norsk universitet står for meg som et mysterium.

I dagens Glenn Diesen-nyheter, antyder USN-professoren (uten bevis) at noen (NATO?) står bak de ukrainske droneangrepene dypt inne i Russland. Og spår dystert at Putin vil slå tilbake mot Europa. Som vanlig er han på linje med Kreml, slik @EUvsDisinfo forklarer👇🏻

Zelenskyy: “If JD Vance is proud of not helping us, it means he's helping the Russians, and I'm not sure that strengthens the United States.” 🎯

Europe paid for the weapons. Signed the contracts. Transferred the funds. Then waited. Nothing! Washington kept them. Redirected to a war Europe explicitly refused to support, as punishment for a democratic decision made in broad daylight. Baltic nations and Scandinavian countries, within artillery range of a militarised Russia, were told their delivery was postponed. The explanation wasn't diplomatic. It was punitive. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

BREAKING 🚨: Poland PM has indirectly hinted that TRUMP is a Russian ASSET🔥 🇵🇱Polish PM Tusk: "The threat of NATO’s break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine" — it all looks like Putin’s master plan.🔥

KASPAROV: Trump keeps ignoring American public opinion to support Ukraine. It’s tragic that United States openly siding with Russia. Look at United Nations. It’s shame beyond imagination. America never votes with Ukraine and European allies. It always sides with Russia, Belarus, Nicaragua, and North Korea. America’s reputation has been damaged so badly that I’m not sure the next president alone will be able to recover it. It will probably take a long time before people restore their confidence in America — country that was beacon of hope and garden of democracy in the days when I grew up as a kid on other side of Iron Curtain in Soviet Union.

“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives,” a Ukrainian officer told me. However, “it is painful for them to lose money.”

The United States has just nuked its own arms export business. Not with a missile. With a phone call. Pete Hegseth rang Estonia’s defense minister and told him the HIMARS and Javelin deliveries are on hold. Indefinitely. Months, not weeks. No timeline. No alternative. Just: sorry, we’re busy bombing Iran. And that’s it. Twenty years of patient alliance-building, vaporized in a Monday morning call. Here’s what European defense planners now know for certain: American weapons come with an asterisk. The asterisk reads “subject to cancellation whenever Washington decides its own adventure takes priority.” You can sign the contracts. You can train your soldiers. You can build your entire defensive posture around US systems. And then one day, the ammo stops. No warning. No plan B. Estonia is already shopping elsewhere. So is everyone else, with the kind of focus that only comes from genuine betrayal. The Americans think this is a pause. Europe knows it’s a divorce.

Her har du Putins Russland. Så korrupt og gjennom-råttent at fantasien knapt strekker til. Fy dem som i sin naivitet tar disse inn i varmen igjen, i idrett, politikk eller forretningsliv. nrk.no/sport/ny-avslo…

One simple rule: anyone who says Russia is not the enemy, is the enemy

Suksess: I august 2025 skrev vi i Norsk-ukrainsk venneforening et notat til norsk UD, og fulgte opp med diverse møter, der vi argumenterte for at Norge burde gi direkte støtte til ukrainske vaktbikkjer innen antikorrupsjon, og nevnte spesifikt @ANTAC_ua. regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/nor…

Jens Stoltenberg went on Fox News this week. It did not go the way Trump would have liked. The former NATO Secretary General, now Norway’s Finance Minister, was asked about Trump’s threats to pull the United States out of the alliance. He answered with the kind of calm, precise demolition that only a Norwegian diplomat can deliver without raising his voice once. On why Europe didn’t join the war: “NATO is a defensive alliance. The strikes or the war against Iran were never an attempt to make that into a NATO operation.” On whether Europe disagrees with America about Iran: “We all agree the Iranian nuclear program is dangerous. The question is how we achieve that goal.” Translation: the problem was never the destination. It was the lunatic who decided to get there by setting the car on fire. On what Trump should have done before launching: “If you want NATO to contribute, then at least you have to sit down with NATO allies, as you did after 9/11. You cannot expect us just to be there without any consultations, any discussions in NATO before you take the decision to launch the attack.” This is Stoltenberg saying, in the most polished terms imaginable, that you do not start a war at two in the morning on Truth Social and then ring your allies for help at breakfast. On whether Europe abandoned America: “The majority of European allies have made sure that their bases and infrastructure were available for the United States. There are some exceptions, but most have contributed.” Most helped. Quietly. Without being asked to endorse a war they considered illegal. On why leaving NATO would be catastrophic for America specifically: “The United States is 25 per cent of the global economy. But together with NATO allies, we are 50 per cent of the global economy and 50 per cent of the world’s military might. So it makes the United States safer to have friends and allies — something that Russia and China don’t have at all.” And then, in a separate interview, the warning nobody in Washington wants to hear: “It’s not a natural law that we will have NATO forever. It’s not carved in stone that NATO will exist for the next ten years.” That last line was not a threat. It was a diagnosis. Trump called NATO a Paper Tiger. Stoltenberg replied, with characteristic Norwegian understatement, that paper tigers tend to be considerably less useful once you’ve set them on fire yourself. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Trump likes to claim Iran's leaders are religious nutjobs. For context, this is Trump's White House faith advisor Paula White leading a mass exorcism. 😂🤣👇

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

I can hardly believe this, but this is Day 500 of protests in Georgia! For 500 days, protesters have gathered every day in 8+ cities despite heavy fines, mass arrests, and abuse. The pro-Russian Georgian Dream regime must end.

If the United States truly thinks about withdrawing from NATO, then European security will be based solely on the European Union. But not in its current form. I think that the EU is in a situation where it needs more countries. The UK, Ukraine, Türkiye, and Norway. These are four strong countries, which are part of Europe. Together, the UK, Ukraine, and Türkiye have armies that are stronger than Russia's army. Without Ukraine and Türkiye, Europe can’t match Russia. With the four countries on board you can wrest control of the seas, have secure skies and the largest land forces. It’s not about offense, because when Russia makes the decision to have an army of 2.5 million people by 2030, Europe has to think about security and how to preserve its independence. The UK once was a member of the EU. There are concerns about agriculture when it comes to Türkiye. But you can manage all of this if you have a really great economy. But security comes first, economy second. Not vice versa. From an interview on The Rest Is Politics podcast (5/5).