I just discovered their screenshot-editing feature. I can crop a screenshot without opening another app!

🤣 Elon’s feed’s going to be real crowded. Twitter’s been a good place to get reliable COVID info from epidemiologists, virologists, and other assorted real scientists. Eric Topol, from Scripps Translational Medicine, posts there. So does Eric Feigl-Deng. Also, independent journalists post there. I can’t afford to subscribe to all their Substacks. I mean, if you can’t trust the CDC or MSM, where else is there?

“Kubrakov explained that Ukraine proposed its own sea route to the Bosphorus in an appeal to the International Maritime Association (IMO), which recognizes Ukraine’s right to free commercial navigation.”

Подробнее на РБК: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/16/08/2023/64dc81379a794743bddb8cca

Isn’t about protecting russophones and access to a warm-water port that’s historically been theirs?

Also,

• Russia repeatedly said that extending NATO to their backyard would be a step too far. We (Bill Clinton) promised (Gorbachev) we wouldn’t do that. Then we did. Remember when we put missiles in Turkey then the USSR responded with missiles in Cuba? Thankfully, JFK & Kruschev were able to avoid Armageddon.
• Crimea had been Russian since Catherine the Great. Kruschev gave it to Ukraine, then part of the USSR. Crimea is Russia’s only warm-water port. It’s essential to their defense. Its population is largely Russophones, by Russian design. They voted, by referendum, to join Russia.
• The CIA has been meddling in Ukraine for a long time. https://mronline.org/2022/09/14/ukraine/
• When the USSR collapsed, we (USA) send advisors who mucked it up further. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russia/ Public assets were virtually given away to private investors. The same thing happened in Ukraine.
• The US was behind the Maidan protests in 2014. https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/evidence-of-us-backed-coup-in-kiev/
• Ukraine’s economy is based in agriculture. (Their flag symbolizes blue sky over yellow fields of wheat.) With a US puppet regime in power, large corporations moved in on agriculture. https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/war-and-theft-takeover-ukraines-agricultural-land https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/blog/who-owns-agricultural-land-ukraine Remember when Victoria Nuland (yes, the same person just promoted to #2 at the US State Dept) said “fuck Europe” and “we want Yats?”
• Land “reform” is ongoing, further consolidating ownership. https://www.trade.gov/market-intelligence/ukraine-adopts-land-reform https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/blog/who-really-benefits-creation-land-market-ukraine
• Western news has been disingenuous about the Black Sea grain deal. Ukranian grain was supposed to travel freely through the Bosporous Strait in exchange for easing of export restrictions on Russian grain and fertilizer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/20/what-was-the-black-sea-grain-deal-and-why-did-it-collapse https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/eastern-europe/ukraine/who-are-winners-black-sea-grain-deal Ukrainians sold grain. Russians not so much. Russia withdrew. In the west, it was reported as demon Putin depriving poor countries of food and Ukraine of income. (It’s beyond me how we expect Russia to enable Ukrainian economic activity when we’re involved in serious economic warfare against Russia.) During the recent Russian-African summit, Russia pledged free grain to poor countries and grain commerce to countries with money. A bumper harvest enabled this. https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+free+grain+africa+&sca_esv=556891977&source=hp&ei=rKbaZPfaIuOl5NoP7aqumAE&iflsig=AD69kcEAAAAAZNq0vL5ezguVSSyPaCUZalFhqtJsYDGi&ved=0ahUKEwj34PrNld2AAxXjElkFHW2VCxMQ4dUDCAo&uact=5&oq=russia+free+grain+africa+&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhlydXNzaWEgZnJlZSBncmFpbiBhZnJpY2EgMgYQABgWGB4yCBAAGIoFGIYDMggQABiKBRiGAzIIEAAYigUYhgMyCBAAGIoFGIYDMggQABiKBRiGA0ilG1DPDVjPDXABeACQAQCYAWygAWyqAQMwLjG4AQPIAQD4AQL4AQGoAgrCAhAQABgDGI8BGOoCGIwDGOUCwgIQEC4YAxiPARjqAhiMAxjlAg&sclient=gws-wiz In fact, all of eastern Europe has much more grain than they need. https://archive.ph/777Vr The Russian Federation need not be the only country donating grain.
• Lastly (at least for now), modern borders between European states are just that–modern. They’ve moved over time, and some of that time isn’t in the distant past. a. While Russians and Ukrainians are culturally and linguistically different, and eastern and western Ukrainians are culturally and linguistically different, they are also similar. They all claim descent from the Kievan Rus.
  b. Poland and western Ukraine used to belong to the same principality. Poland’s stance toward Ukraine is becoming increasingly belligerent. c. Wikipedia is so accessible. It has a wealth of info on history in that part of the world. We’d do well to begin to comprehend it.