Stand with Ukraine: Global events mark 3 years since Russia’s full-scale war.

Key gatherings worldwide ⬇️

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

Here's a riddle: one country has a dictator with no real elections, the other one doesn't. Which is which?

Zelensky was elected with a majority of Ukrainian votes. His presidency was extended per the Constitution during the war. It’s odd to hear him called a dictator by someone who led a failed coup and is now expanding the executive branch in violation of American norms and processes

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

It’s hard to communicate the crisis that’s unfolding and the dangers ahead because a lot of superficial things won’t change. The Netflix will still turn on. Your sports teams will play. You’ll see movies. But the things that make liberal democratic life uniquely stable, secure, & vibrant will decay.

Be a Hagan Scotten. You can refuse.

Have told Trump to write his peace proposal on 2 ply toilet paper so my copy will be of some use.

Time for an end of year 🧵. Apologies for the enormous length.

basically all the hardest-line anti-china guys have signed up for a politics which ensures america is so incompetently governed that its no longer capable of great-power competition

All the bellicose rhetorical gestures about Panama, Greenland, and Canada are what Pat Moynihan called “boob bait for Bubba,” tough-sounding nonsense to disguise a Trump foreign policy of retreat and appeasement.

Ukrainians know Russia better than anyone; they know Russia's strengths and weaknesses. Ukrainians know what deters Russia and what doesn't and therefore know best how to secure peace. @glandsbergis.bsky.social - Gabrielius Landsbergis speaks with absolute clarity - youtu.be/fqTiprQYjMs

The Russian far-right supports
the American far-right, which supports
the German far-right.

This is the global alliance we need to combat.

One of the biggest lessons from Syria is that, just a month ago, almost no one could have predicted the Assad regime would fall today. The "realities on the ground" crowd would have denied such a possibility. A reminder of why people in Ukraine fight rather than surrender.

There’s a live risk that the global order is breaking. And while it wouldn’t happen all at once, if it breaks it will not bounce back.

My piece on Patel is up. (Gifted here. Thanks, Bluesky folks.)
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