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Stand Up To Bullies 🇩🇰🇺🇦🇪🇺 @redlineforex.bsky.social · 1h

I doubt it will work. The only thing it may do is avoid getting him to work against Ukraine. The question is if the nauseating flattery is necessary for that.

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Stand Up To Bullies 🇩🇰🇺🇦🇪🇺 @redlineforex.bsky.social · 1h

Isn't it ironic that the colors of both the Russian flag and the American flag are the same, now that these countries are more alike than ever. Both enemies of freedom and democracy.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

Looks like people showed up in DC

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AJ @ajswfl.bsky.social · 3h

NO KINGS @collierdems.bsky.social

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Stand Up To Bullies 🇩🇰🇺🇦🇪🇺 @redlineforex.bsky.social · 2h

Let me translate that. "Trump is a traitor and Ukraine and Europe cannot trust the US."

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 2h

🇵🇱 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk:
📌 "Following Zelenskyy's talks at the White House yesterday, it became absolutely clear—Europe's solidarity with Ukraine against Russian aggression is more important today than ever before."

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Stand Up To Bullies 🇩🇰🇺🇦🇪🇺 @redlineforex.bsky.social · 2h

That is a lie, Stubb, and you know it. Trump is only thinking about Trump. He doesn't care about right or wrong. The only way to get Russia to the negotiating table is if Europe makes them. We can not count on the US and it is a mistake to think so.

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Stand Up To Bullies 🇩🇰🇺🇦🇪🇺 @redlineforex.bsky.social · 3h

Isn't it ironic that the colors of both the Russian flag and the American flag are the same, now that these countries are more alike than ever. Both enemies of freedom and democracy.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 4h

Turn off your Face ID and Touch ID if you are taking your phones to the protests. Keep it in airplane mode and use encrypted apps where possible. Protect yourself.

#3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 3h

Europe should bypass Washington and sign direct defense deals with Ukraine, says ISW analyst Mason Clark

NATO debates Trump's PURL plan using allied money to buy American weapons—Europe could fund Ukraine's production instead
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/18/e...

Europe must build weapons for Ukraine independently of Washington, says ISW analyst

Direct European-Ukrainian defense production partnerships would prove more effective than repeated requests to Washington that often go unfulfilled, according to Mason Clark

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 7h

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Oct. 18, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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proBR0 @probr0.bsky.social · 8h

The great diplomat Trump, holding other countries's fight for their existance hostage as leverage to make himself seem relevant.

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exercice-de-style.bsky.social @exercice-de-style.bsky.social · 8h

Stop your criminal neutrality! Putin alone started war & refuses to stop it. He wants capitulation of UKR!

UKR awaits sanctions/ actions from partners to stop war & asks only weapons to protect its own people WITH DIGNITY but notes that DT invariably says & does:

"I saved RUS from many bad things"

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 8h

Repair work on damaged power lines to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has begun under local ceasefire zones after a four-week disruption.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10h

👀 Over 25,000 Russian soldiers and officers have deserted from Russia’s Central Military District in the past nine months, Ukraine’s military intelligence reports.

HUR also recorded more than 30 cases of desertion with weapons or even combat vehicles in 2024–2025.

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 10h

🇹🇷🇷🇺 🇭🇺 Turkish Air Force fighters will escort Putin’s plane to Budapest for a meeting with Trump, likely via a southern route (Caspian Sea, Turkey, Mediterranean, Montenegro, Serbia, Hungary). Russian and Turkish jets will ensure security against drone and missile threats. — Air Live.

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Jacob Kaarsbo @jkaarsbo.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve argued this for a long time. 🇺🇦 contribution to NATO security is increasing by the day. If it hadn’t been for Biden’s handwringing and now autocratic Trump, 🇺🇦 would be on the path into NATO!

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

The British and German defence ministers have acknowledged that #Ukraine is a "contributor" to European security and should have a place within NATO.

"Ukraine is increasingly recognized and understood to play a part in the training of other NATO nations' forces.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 12h

Russian losses per 18/10/25 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff

+1150 men
+1 tank
+2 AFVs
+41 artillery
+2 MLRS
+1 aircraft
+498 UAVs

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 11h

Ukraine successfully struck the 500 kV Veshkama substation, an node linking the Urals and central Russia's power grids. Explosions were also reported overnight in the Moscow region. Airports in Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Samara, Tambov, Sochi, Kaluga, Ulyanovsk, and Ufa temporarily halted air traffic.

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Anita zx @omi684.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a fantastic day at the Chicago marathon/music festival

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23h

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡
#BeThere

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 23h

Trump’s fixation on the idea that Pu wants to end the war leads to this endless cycle of trying to set up another meeting to talk it out. He’s wasting everyone’s time, including his own. In the meantime, Ukrainians are dying. Morbid irony given his insistence he wants to save lives.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

"Trump has an opportunity today to do something that could genuinely make sure that a quiet night is as quiet as those we knew before the war."

"All he has to do is not fall for Putin's bullsh*t."

Editorial: President Trump, don't fall for Putin's bullsh*t — again

We've been here before. Multiple times. Not even that long ago. President Donald Trump has appeared to be on the verge of taking a decisive step that could genuinely put pressure on Russia to make it...

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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