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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦

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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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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 6h

NEW POLL: More than 2/3 of Americans are in favor of arming Ukraine. This includes 73% of Republican voters, 1% ahead of Democrats. Supporting Ukraine is one of the few issues that most Americans seem to agree on right now

LINK: harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/u...

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 4d

🇪🇺 keeps waiting for invasion, meanwhile, 🇷🇺 is already inside the house.
Not with conventional forces, but with: influence operations poisoning civil discourse, targeted assassinations, strategic corruption subverting politics, lawfare stalling 🇪🇺’s collective defense
open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...

Three reasons Russia is poking NATO

Moscow can't beat the West on the battlefield. So it's waging a different kind of war.

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 4d

Three reasons russia (read: moscow-centered terror enterprise) is poking NATO

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white_rabbit @bianconiglio.bsky.social · 16h

Io la chiamerei "guerra discognitiva" nel senso di avanzare una distopia in Occidente che porti a dividerlo creando sacche di russismo soprattutto in Europa, per il resto completamente d'accordo 👇👇👇

www.linkiesta.it/2025/10/russ...

Guerra cognitiva | Tre ragioni per cui la Russia provoca la Nato, con la speranza che il mondo libero ci caschi - Linkiesta.it

Mentre l’Occidente continua a immaginare un conflitto convenzionale con trincee e carri armati, la Russia ne conduce uno invisibile, fondato su paura, manipolazione e propaganda

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 14h

Grazie voi 🙏

Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 14h

No worries at all, many thanks for sharing it with your community

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Cristian Pilo @cristianpilo71.bsky.social · 19h

"obiettivo di Mosca non è combattere, è farci svegliare un giorno e scoprire che le garanzie della Nato sono nulle, le istituzioni dell’UE rovinate e la solidarietà transatl. scomparsa Non c’è bisogno che la Russia spari un colpo se riesce a convincere gli europei"

www.linkiesta.it/2025/10/russ...

Guerra cognitiva | Tre ragioni per cui la Russia provoca la Nato, con la speranza che il mondo libero ci caschi - Linkiesta.it

Mentre l’Occidente continua a immaginare un conflitto convenzionale con trincee e carri armati, la Russia ne conduce uno invisibile, fondato su paura, manipolazione e propaganda

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Mitì Vigliero @mitivigliero.bsky.social · 19h

Tre ragioni per cui la Russia provoca la Nato con la speranza che il mondo libero ci caschi
Mentre l’Occidente continua a immaginare un conflitto convenzionale con trincee e carri armati, la Russia ne conduce uno invisibile, fondato su paura, manipolazione e propaganda - di @andrewchak.bsky.social

Guerra cognitiva | Tre ragioni per cui la Russia provoca la Nato, con la speranza che il mondo libero ci caschi - Linkiesta.it

Mentre l’Occidente continua a immaginare un conflitto convenzionale con trincee e carri armati, la Russia ne conduce uno invisibile, fondato su paura, manipolazione e propaganda

www.linkiesta.it

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 20h

Mentre l’Occidente continua a immaginare un conflitto convenzionale con trincee e carri armati, la Russia ne conduce uno invisibile, fondato su paura, manipolazione e propaganda

My latest for Linkiesta (in Italian 🇮🇹)

www.linkiesta.it/2025/10/russ...

Guerra cognitiva | Tre ragioni per cui la Russia provoca la Nato, con la speranza che il mondo libero ci caschi - Linkiesta.it

Mentre l’Occidente continua a immaginare un conflitto convenzionale con trincee e carri armati, la Russia ne conduce uno invisibile, fondato su paura, manipolazione e propaganda

www.linkiesta.it

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Linkiesta @mm-linkiesta-bot.bsky.social · 22h

Tre ragioni per cui la Russia provoca la Nato, con la speranza che il mondo libero ci caschi
https://www.linkiesta.it/2025/10/russia-nato-occidente-guerra-ibrida/

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

Meta ruscism

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 1d

euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/07/u...

Ukraine has already identified how to launch Tomahawks to strike deep Russian rear

Ukrainian officials confirm land-based launchers already exist.

euromaidanpress.com

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

P.S. Let us not self-deceive for soon we, the so-called Free World, might have to self-destruct having failed to recognize the threat of #ruscism
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kyivindependent.com/five-lies-eu...

5 lies Europe tells itself about Russia’s criminal war

Editor's note: This opinion first appeared in German in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Russia’s President — a wanted war criminal — Vladimir Putin failed to show up in Istanbul for the “direct talks” with Ukra...

kyivindependent.com

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

#russianColonialism feeds on conquest. The vacuum of European inaction and projection of weakness pulls moscow's violence westward.
If Europe fails to help Ukraine win, it will have invited the next war, not prevented it.
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

Because I can tell you with 1,000% certainty:
if russia gets its way in 🇺🇦, it won’t bring its army home, it never does.
It’s already training kids in the occupied territories.
What do you think comes next if a stronger 🇪🇺 lets a weaker 🇷🇺 occupy all of 🇺🇦?
🇷🇺 will merge 2 armies & march on Europe
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

They genuinely believe that if the West stops helping Ukraine 🇺🇦 defend itself, everything will somehow “go back to normal.”
If you run into such a person, ask them how much military training they have, and how ready they're to be mobilized and/or to see their children mobilized
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

Those who refuse to grasp what’s at stake inevitably get others to pay the price.
To the "make it all go away" and "let there be peace" crowd, russia & Ukraine are one and the same, so what’s the fuss all about?
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

It just occurred to me is that there are people in Europe who aren't evil or pro-russian, but they blame #Ukraine 🇺🇦 for causing problems by not surrendering.
They neither understand the nature of russian aggression, nor want to.
Well, history has a way of waking the willfully blind.
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks for taking the time to read it and for standing with Ukraine

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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 1d

Recommended reading

(Thank you, @andrewchak.bsky.social)

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Three reasons Russia is poking NATO

Moscow can't beat the West on the battlefield. So it's waging a different kind of war.

chakhoyan.substack.com

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 1d

Many thanks 🙏
The application process was fair and straightforward and I'm thrilled to have my account verified

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 2d

For the sake of lasting peace in Europe, russia must be defeated.

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 3d

russian culture visualized

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 3d

russian culture visualized

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