I will be speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team this week to discuss Starshield, sanctions, and other matters pertaining to the defense of our strong ally, Ukraine. I will be assuring President Zelenskyy that anyone who attempts to limit the use of Starshield for Ukraine will be fully investigated and will be held fully accountable, to include public congressional oversight hearings, and immediate harsh and punitive budget cuts to any responsible agency or agency head. Congress will unequivocally reaffirm that Ukraine is an indispensable ally to the United States, that Russia is a self-declared enemy of the United States, and that the United States will 100% support and defend the people of Ukraine in their fight for their own freedom against this brutal, illegal, and unprovoked Russian invasion. The United States must provide any and all defensive equipment that Ukraine needs to defend itself. The United States must not import a single drop of Russian oil. Sanctions against the Russian regime must be harsher and stronger than they’ve ever been before. Each and every one of these items will be brought to the House Floor—and each and every one of these items will pass on the House Floor by an overwhelming margin. This is, after all, what Ronald Reagan would do. And this is what we will do now. Ukraine can, and will, defeat Russia. #PeaceThroughStrength

Amazing speech! 👏👏👏

ZELENSKYY HAS BEEN BETRAYED!!! ...by Trump. By MAGA. By the Republicans. By everyone who supports Trump. But WHO is Zelenskyy?? Zelenskyy is the man who stood fast in the face of russia's entire armed might, and said, 'I need ammunition, not a ride.' THAT is Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy is the man who sits in the Oval office and listens patiently to Trump's horrific, brutal talk... because he knows his people depend upon him. THAT is Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy is the man who goes without sleep. Who ages by the day as the world watches. Who carries the pain of a nation. And who - I feel - is unlikely to survive much beyond the end of this war... because he will be burned out. THAT is Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy is the man who turns the other cheek when STUPlD savages like Trump and Vance - men not worthy to tie his bootlaces - insult him. Because he loves his people, and sacrifices himself for them. THAT is Zelenskyy. He is a MAN. A man as men were meant to be. As Donald Trump is NOT. As Donald Trump CAN NEVER BE. And THAT is why Trump HATES him. (1/)

To Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States From Viktor Yushchenko, 3rd President of Ukraine Mr. President, I write these words without diplomatic formulas or ceremonial language. I write simply, from one human being to another, and from one president to another—two men who understand that there are moments in history when decisions determine not only the fate of nations, but the fate of freedom itself. For Ukrainians, freedom is not an abstraction. It is not a slogan written into a political declaration. Freedom is in our blood. It comes to us through generations — from our Cossack forefathers, from ancestors who valued above all else their liberty, their dignity, and the land God gave them. We are a nation rooted in the soil. Our identity grew from love of our home, our field, our village, our city, our church, our family, and the sky above us. Ukrainians have never sought what belongs to another nation. But neither have we ever willingly surrendered what is ours. Mr. President, look at what is happening in Ukraine right now, at this very moment. Every day and night, our cities shudder under Russian ballistic missiles, Iranian Shahed drones, and aerial bombs. Russia strikes ordinary residential buildings in ancient Kyiv, sleeping neighborhoods in Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and towns across our country. Families are killed in their homes. Millions live under the threat of another siren, another explosion, another night wondering whether their children will still be alive in the morning. And when there is talk of “concessions” or deals with Putin, the Kremlin’s answer is more missiles, more drones, and more bloodshed. Ukrainian families pay the price. Behind every statistic is a human life. A mother buries her child. A child stands beside the grave of a father. A family returns to what was once its home and finds only broken concrete and photographs scattered through the ruins. This is not a distant “conflict.” This is the daily reality of millions of Ukrainians. And against this reality, Ukrainians hear calls that Ukraine should stop. That Ukraine should restrain its strikes against the infrastructure that finances and sustains Russia's war. That trade in Russian energy can somehow be separated from the missiles and drones Russia sends against Ukrainian families. It cannot. Money paid for Russian fuel is not an abstraction called “commerce” It finances an economy geared toward total war. Russia needs resources to wage this unjust war and Ukraine is fighting to deprive Russia of those resources. There is a profound moral difference between the aggressor and the nation defending itself. Mr. President, America knows this distinction better than most nations. It knows how dangerous it is to believe that trade can tame an aggressor or make the threat disappear. History taught us that lesson at a terrible price. Before the United States entered World War II, America traded extensively with Imperial Japan, including in strategically important materials. Washington hoped for years to avoid a wider war in the Pacific. Ultimately, economic pressure and diplomacy could not prevent catastrophe and on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked. History may not repeat itself exactly, but it does raise the same questions again. What price do free nations pay when aggression is rewarded rather than stopped? Ukraine once placed extraordinary faith in the international order led by the United States. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine inherited one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. In negotiations with our allies, we agreed to give it up. We did so because we believed that a world governed by agreements was safer than a world governed by nuclear weapons. In 1994, the United States of America, along with its partners, signed the Budapest Memorandum, providing Ukraine with official assurances of security, sovereignty, and the inviolability of our borders. They pledged not to threaten or use force against Ukraine. America assumed a moral responsibility toward Ukraine. So how can anyone today, when a treacherous enemy has attacked us, forget America’s signature on this document? Ukraine kept its word. Russia broke its word. That history matters today. Because when a nation gives up the most powerful weapons on Earth in return for international commitments, and is later invaded by one of the very states that made those commitments, the consequences extend far beyond Ukraine. Every nation in the world is watching and asking whether agreements with great powers mean anything. They are asking whether giving up nuclear weapons makes a country safer—or more vulnerable. And they are watching America. Mr. President, our nations are connected by more than treaties and diplomacy. We have stood together many times before. One of the six Marines who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima was Sergeant Michael Strank, whose family came from Lemkivshchyna and who gave his life fighting for the United States. When American and Soviet forces met at the Elbe in April 1945, American Lieutenant William Robertson was first embraced by a Ukrainian boy from the Cherkasy region — Oleksandr Silvashko. Ukrainian soldiers served alongside American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, today, Ukraine continues to share its hard-won military experience with its American partners, including expertise in countering Iranian-designed drones. Ukrainians and Americans have shed blood together in defense of freedom against tyranny. Mr. President, above all, there is one thing I want you—and the world—to understand. Do not mistake the Ukrainian desire for peace for a willingness to surrender. The Ukrainian spirit cannot and will not be broken. No people wants peace more than a people whose children are being killed. But peace cannot come by asking the victim to pay the price for the aggressor’s crimes. We cannot agree to a peace that will later cause the deaths of many more of our children and grandchildren. We are a people with deep roots, bound to our land by love, labor, and the spirit of freedom. We will never yield our land willingly to anyone. This is our home, given to us by God. We were here, we are here, and we will always be here. We cannot be intimidated by missiles, and we cannot be forced to surrender. Ukrainian identity has been forged through centuries of attempts to erase it. The Russian empire tried to silence our language, destroy our culture, starve our people, imprison our leaders, and rewrite our history. And still Ukraine survived. We survived because our roots are deep, and because the blood of a free people flows in our veins. Russia can destroy our buildings. It can terrorize our cities. It can kill our people. But it cannot destroy who we are. It cannot compel Ukrainians to cease being Ukrainian. Mr. President, America’s greatness was not built by accommodating tyranny, but by understanding, at decisive moments of its history, that freedom must be defended before the price of defending it becomes immeasurably greater. Ukraine is defending that principle today with the lives of our people. Today, the free world faces questions larger than Ukraine itself: whether borders may be changed by force; whether agreements between nations still have meaning; whether aggression will be rewarded; and whether the free world will stand beside those who choose freedom. One does not negotiate with tyrants—one stops them. Mr. President, I believe America understands this. With faith in truth, freedom, and the honor of the free world, Viktor Yushchenko President of Ukraine 2005-2010

Tento Texasan natočil video speciálně pro MAGA Amíky. Speciální je v tom, že v něm mluví hodně pomalu, aby byli schopní to pochopit😁. Snaží se jim pomalu vysvětlit, jak to je s ruskou naftou, kterou Amerika nepotřebuje, ale Putin potřebuje peníze, aby mohl vraždit Ukrajince.

🔥 russia: “NO PLAGUE” Irkutsk maternity wards hand out "plague checklists." A second death claimed. 🧵

We’ve Been Here Before Scroll through social media right now and you’ll see it everywhere. “I’m an American, and Russia is not my enemy.” “I’m British, and Russia is not my enemy.” Dutch. German. Canadian. Pick a flag. Same line, same format, same smug little video, over and over, like somebody handed out a script. Because somebody did. And you know what? Fine. Believe it if you want. But don’t you dare tell me this is new, and don’t you dare tell me it’s organic. We have been here before. February 20, 1939. Madison Square Garden. Twenty thousand people packed under a giant portrait of George Washington with swastikas hanging on either side of him, cheering and telling each other that Germany was not their enemy. That the Nazi Party was not their enemy. That the real enemy was right here at home. They called it patriotism. They wrapped it in the American flag. And not long after, Americans were dying by the thousands fighting the very regime those people had stood up and cheered for. It didn’t stop at rallies, either. Germany paid a man named George Sylvester Viereck to write speeches and articles for Americans who were happy to say them, and then got them mailed all over the country on Congress’s own free postage. Foreign money. American mouths. That was the playbook in 1940, and it’s the playbook right now. The only thing that’s changed is the delivery system. They don’t need the Post Office anymore. They’ve got Twitter. It’s amazing what you can do with people when you make them feel like they’re part of something. Some of them are paid. Some of them are bots. Some of them are content farms on the other side of the planet cranking out whatever gets clicks. And some are just angry, lonely people who hate this country and finally found a crowd that hates it with them. Doesn’t matter which. They all carry the same message, and that message was written in Moscow. And don’t tell me that’s a conspiracy theory. In 2024 the Justice Department charged Russian state media employees with funneling nearly ten million dollars to American influencers through a front company. Ten million dollars to get Americans to say what Russia wanted said. That same year, our government seized dozens of fake websites Russia built to push “this isn’t your war” into Western feeds. They got caught. They didn’t stop. They never stop. Now look at who’s carrying the message. Ayden, the milblogger on X, swears Russia is not his enemy. That’s his right. Scott Ritter says the same thing, and there’s a convicted sex offender lecturing the rest of us about who our friends are. Think about that for a second. The country he’s defending would never have put up with him. If he lived there, he’d either be in a trench in Ukraine or rotting in a Russian prison. Then there’s the great Ivan, pumping the same line out day after day. Ask yourself who benefits every time that message spreads. It sure isn’t us. So before you share that slick little “Russia is not my enemy” video, do one thing. Look at the accounts pushing it. Scroll back a month. Read their posts. Do they ever say one good thing about America? About Britain? About the Netherlands? Or is every single post about how rotten the West is and how strong and noble Russia is? You’ll have your answer in five minutes. These aren’t people who love their country and have questions. These are people who hate their country and found a new one to worship. Here’s the part that makes me laugh, though. Every ruble Russia spends on paid influencers, bot farms and fake news sites is a ruble it can’t spend on a drone, a shell or a tank. So go ahead, Moscow. Spend it. Pour it into Twitter. Pour it into YouTube. Buy every washed-up contrarian you can find. Every dollar you burn on propaganda is a dollar that never reaches the front. This is a classic psyop, the same one the Nazis ran on this country in 1939. It didn’t save them then. It won’t save you now.

I’m a chicken, and KFC is not my enemy