Notices by William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)

Front cover of British tabloid the Daily Star today

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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Front page of British Daily Express today

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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"So, the old world order has come to an end. The old world order, based on rules, agreements and values, no longer exists. It was never perfect, but it existed. Now it no longer exists."

~ Ukrainian analyst Valerii Pekar

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/a-letter-from-ukraine

Front page of British Daily Mail today

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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"In this 'new world without order', the USA will not protect its European or Asian allies. In this world, there are now no alliances and allies, no mutual obligations, and old treaties can be revised unilaterally. There are only big strong countries that take what they want, and small weak ones that become victims of such policies. At least, this is how the new American administration sees the world."

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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"The French prime minister, François Bayrou, said on Thursday that 'the risk of war has never been so high since 1945'. Denmark said it would rapidly increase defense spending."

~ Clea Skopeliti

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
/11

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/first-thing-trump-calls-zelenskyy-a-dictator-in-unparalleled-relations-rift

"In for a kopek, in for a ruble. That seems to be Donald Trump’s modus operandi."

~ Bill Kristol

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/to-russia-with-love-donald

"Connect these dots. The Trump-Vance-Musk regime wants to empower the nationalist far-right in Europe and side with Russia over Ukraine in order to divide European democracies and weaken the Western alliance — and strengthen Putin and the global oligarchy."

~ Robert Reich

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
/12

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/paying-off-putin

"Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC said on Wednesday evening that Trump had 'switched sides during a war.' That is the most apt, succinct description of the events of Wednesday, but does not convey the depravity of what Trump did."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/tell-the-stories-of-trumps-victims?

"For eight decades, America’s alliances with other democracies have been the bedrock of American foreign policy, trade policy, and cultural influence. American investments in allies’ security helped keep the peace in formerly unstable parts of the world, allowing democratic societies from Germany to Japan to prosper, by preventing predatory autocracies from destroying them."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/trump-ukraine-postwar-world/681745/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39S4UmOAMVFg_PknuxXJkUM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"It's no longer as if Trump is acting like a Russian asset. He has raised the white, blue, and red flag of Russia over the White House. In military terms, Trump has switched sides and begun firing from Russian lines at American troops. ...

Donald Trump has declared himself our enemy. It is past time to square the circle and fight."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-american-pantagruel-has-declared

"We prospered too. Thanks to its allies, the U.S. obtained unprecedented political and economic influence in Europe and Asia, and unprecedented power everywhere else.

The Trump administration is now bringing the post–World War II era to an end."

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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"I cannot emphasize enough the dramatic nature of this change. America has switched side, not only in Ukraine, but also more broadly in the war of ideas."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/end-of-an-era

"Over the past few days, Trump has adopted Russia propaganda as his own rhetoric, threatened Ukraine’s sovereign integrity, abandoned a longtime ally, and sided with its authoritarian invaders while gaslighting the world into thinking Ukraine itself started the war."

~ David Kurtz

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/pam-bondi-lets-acting-officials-do-all-her-dirty-work

"It's a challenge to convey the enormity of this story. Check out the Wall Street Journal's lead homepage headline right now: 'Trump's Attack on Zelensky Signals a New World Order Taking Shape.'"

~ Brian Stelter

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17400589376987931c49b9679/raw

"Trump's latest rhetoric doesn’t simply overlap with Putin's, it repeats it, blaming Ukraine for Russia's invasion and calling Ukraine's elected president a dictator while praising a Russia leader who has silenced, jailed and poisoned critics and political opponents.

It doesn't end there."

~ CNN national security analyst Jim Sciutto

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17400589376987931c49b9679/raw

"Trump is signaling the end of US support not just for Ukraine but for its treaty allies in Europe. And, even more consequentially, he is giving a warm embrace to an adversary which has demonstrated its commitment to weaken the U.S., Europe and the international order. As one foreign minister told me, US allies are now effectively on their own. This is a departure from eight decades of bipartisan U.S. foreign policy principles."

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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Trump "is parroting a regular supply of Kremlin talking points stemming from somewhere yet unknown, altering the course of the largest war in Europe since the 1940s. ...

Only one strategic interest has been served by Trump’s radical rewriting of the global order in the past fortnight. And it is that of the one adversary NATO was founded to confront."

~ Nick Paton Walsh

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/europe/analysis-trump-zelensky-dictator-intl-latam/index.html

"Under Trump, the United States is abandoning the post–World War II world it helped to build and then guaranteed for the past 80 years."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Putin #Russia #Trump #PutinsPoodle #Zelenskyy #Ukraine
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-19-2025

"You should have never started it," says Donald Trump to the Ukrainian people and President Zelenskyy.

A nation invaded by its menacing totalitarian neighbor Russia with its dictator ruler Putin….

What Trump is saying and doing is — there's no other word for it — evil. And the consequences globally will be disastrous.

#Trump #Ukraine #Zelenskyy #Russia #Putin
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/trump-ukraine-war-russia-could-have-made-a-deal