Notices by João Costa 💚🇵🇹🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 (joaocosta@mastodon.social)

The state of urgency in defence boosting at home, and defence support to 🇺🇦 #Ukraine transpire clearly from the heads of state of 🇩🇰 #Denmark 🇪🇪 #Estonia 🇫🇮 #Finland 🇱🇻 #Latvia 🇱🇹 #Lithuania 🇳🇴 #Norway and 🇵🇱 #Poland

Together, after the 🇺🇸 #US, they're the top contributor to Ukrainian defence.

Investment in national #defence is top of the list too.

This is what #leadership in #Europe looks like.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/Jwcl2UTQocY

Sir Richard Dearlove, Former Head of #MI6:

"We have to face up to the fact that russians think they're in a state of #war with us. Donald Tusk has referred to it as a "pre-war" situation. I think he is wrong. I think it's an actual war. That doesn't mean, in the russian mind, a military conflict. But it means hybrid conflict, different types of conflict in different areas of interest."

#ArmUkraineToWIN #US #UK #France #Germany #Italy #NATO #Ukraine #Europe #security

https://youtu.be/CIlo5UyWKec

@noelreports

No one cares about American condemnation. It comes across as weak and pathetic.

For the idiots who still don't get #Putin after 24 years in charge of an expansionist russian colonial empire (aka russian federation), if they start calling him now, without simultaneously INCREASING military supplies to #Ukraine as winter sets in, and doubling down on #sanctions as russia+DPRK #fascism is strengthened, Putin will interpret those calls as proof of a successful campaign of #terror, sabotage and subversion, and intensify his colonial imperialist #war

#NeverAgain #ArmUkraineToWIN

Feeble politicians asking for "realism" in the #Ukraine #war display their ignorance of the very same powerful Ukrainian edge that kept them alive since 2014

#Democracy is about striking realistic compromises among friends. But it should absolutely be about smashing totalitarianism, imperialism and authoritarianism to the ground.

#russia is out to destroy us. Being realistic means defeating them and achieving a resounding #victory for democracy, #freedom and real, just #peace

#ArmUkraineToWIN

Foolish #Biden is still NOT allowing #Ukraine to use Storm Shadows / SCALP and ATACMS to strike military targets in #russia.

The election has happened and #Trump won. Don't be a coward, @potus. Lift the stupid red lines you have forced upon Ukraine and #LetUkraineStrikeBack now.

European leaders support Trump now despite profound differences for the same reason the Allies supported Stalin in WWII: to defeat a greater threat.

That alone tells us all we need to know about the danger of what russia has been doing.

European countries must scale up industrial defence readiness and be honest with citizens.

#Europe #US #NATO #Ukraine #war #defence
#ArmUkraineToWIN #StopRussianAggression #StopRussianImperialism #StopGenocide #ArrestPutin #UkraineInNATO #StandWithUkraine

Phillips O'Brien:

"There is a very good chance that the North Atlantic Alliance, which has dominated much of the globe since 1949, will become dysfunctional in fewer than 3 months. #Trump doesn’t have to withdraw from the alliance to do that—all he has to do is remove the #US from the military command (which is what De Gaulle did with French forces in 1966)... no US forces will fight to protect #Europe if Trump doesn't want them to."

#NATO #Germany #UK #France #Ukraine

https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-usa-is-trumps-now-europe-must

@NeonPurpleStar

Same here. 🤝

If you haven't left fascist Twitter/X yet, now's a great time to do so and stop offering oligarch Musk your valuable data on a silver fascist platter.

@MAKS23

That'll be all the russian bull💩 erupting out in the open

#Ukraine is not only fighting against the violence of the Axis of Evil led by #russia

It is also fighting against the red lines of the Axis of Cowards

It is also fighting against the vetoes of the Axis of Subverted

It is also fighting against the collusion of the Axis of Hypocrites

It's a hell of a fight.........

#ArrestPutin #NATO #EU #US #Germany #Slovakia #Hungary #Spain #UN #ICC #BRICS #GlobalSouth #China #DPRK #Iran #Belarus #India #Brazil

Video: #Trump and #Ukraine: a voter's guide

By Timothy Snyder

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/trump-and-ukraine-a-voters-guide

From a fascist russian perspective, the #US is approaching harvest season, with the election only a few weeks away.

Sadly, as it has become apparent that the #election is in itself a deterrent against effective #ForeignPolicy on countering #russia's invasion in #Europe, we should expect further escalation from the eastern orcs, now with reinforcements from #NorthKorea

This is a tragic state of affairs...

#UN #NATO #EU #UK #Germany #France #Italy #G7 #ArmUkraineToWIN #StopRussianAggression

We are told that #russia does not have a say on sovereign nations' right to apply to NATO membership, and NATO #policy on admitting new members.

But #US #Germany #Hungary #Slovakia and other members continue to express alignment with #kremlin red lines, resulting in the imposition of related red lines on NATO policy and non-NATO allies such as #Ukraine.

#putin has already successfully defeated #NATO's founding mission of defending #Europe against invasion. Now, #NorthKorea joins the invasion.

According to russian #propaganda:

#russia is invincible but depends on #NorthKorea

#sanctions aren't working but demand their immediate removal

#Ukraine isn't a country but its existence threatens russia

Ukrainian #language doesn't exist but everyone is forced to speak it

Ukrainians are really russians, while also being anti-russia russophobes

Ukrainians are nazis but elected a Jewish president and support #LGBTQ+ rights

#NATO is at war with russia but NATO troops haven't arrived yet

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@MAKS23

Great. Meanwhile, #NorthKorea is sending tens of thousands of soldiers to help #russia. How can heavily-sanctioned North Korea not be afraid of an alliance of 50+ countries? Because the #US is complying with putin's demands, aka "red lines".

Cowards aren't feared by anyone, so even the weakest of countries will dare to attack... I can't believe how stupid this administration is...

@kravietz

Their only superiority is in infinite level of ignorance.

Ursula von der Leyen

"The world has witnessed the atrocities of #russia's war. And yet, there are still some who blame this #war not on the invader but the invaded. Not on #putin's lust for power but on #Ukraine's thirst for freedom.

I want to ask them: would they ever blame the Hungarians for the #soviet invasion in 1956? Would they ever blame the Czechs or Slovaks for soviet repression of 1968? Would they ever blame the Lithuanians for the soviet crackdown of 1991?"

https://www.youtube.com/live/zarC6qM143Q?si=Hot3gPCH5m5VHVHO

Ursula von der Leyen:

"We #Europeans may have different histories and different languages. But there is no European #language in which #peace is synonymous with surrender, and #sovereignty is synonymous with #occupation.

The people of #Ukraine are freedom fighters, just like the heroes that freed central and eastern #Europe from soviet rule. And there is only one path to achieve just peace for Ukraine and for Europe: we must continue to empower Ukraine's resistance"

https://www.youtube.com/live/zarC6qM143Q