Given the Trump administration’s recent statements and policy pronouncements, European leaders no longer have any excuse for failing to map out their own long-term security strategy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/30/world/decision-time-for-europe-on-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #volodymyrzelenskyy #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #europe #eu #nato #us #donaldtrump
For over a decade, the West has been pondering how to manage Ukraine’s inevitable subordination to Russia. It is time to change the half-hearted paradigm, Chrystia Freeland writes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/31/world/give-ukraine-back-future/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Kyiv was discussing with Washington a possible presence of U.S. troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/world/politics/zelenskyy-trump-us-troops-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy #vladimirputin #us #donaldtrump #usmilitary
New Year's Eve revelers will toast the end of 2025 on Wednesday, waving goodbye to 12 months packed with Trump tariffs, a Gaza truce and vain hopes for peace in Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/31/world/2025-trump-truces-turmoil/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #2026winterolympics #russiaukrainewar #space #israelhamaswar #australia #massshootings
Russia has accused Ukraine of trying to attack President Vladimir Putin’s residence and vowed retaliation, providing no evidence for a claim Kyiv dismissed as baseless. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/world/ukraine-russia-putin-residence-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #vladimirputin #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
U.S. President Donald Trump said he made "a lot of progress” in talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over a possible peace deal, but that there’s no set timeline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/world/trump-zelenskyy-no-breakthrough/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #us #eu #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy #donaldtrump #vladimirputin
Donald Trump is a profoundly disturbed, acute narcissist *and* a confirmed, serial, pathological liar
Even when it's possible to believe that Trump might know what he's talking about, always take anything he says with several handsful of salt
#worldnews #ukraine #russia #us #eu #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy #donaldtrump #vladimirputin
U.S. President Donald Trump said he made "a lot of progress” in talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over a possible peace deal, but that there’s no set timeline. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/world/trump-zelenskyy-no-breakthrough/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #us #eu #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy #donaldtrump #vladimirputin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy consulted with allies on Saturday and won renewed expressions of support ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/world/ukraine-zelenskyy-trump-allies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #canada #russia #us #eu #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy #donaldtrump #markcarney #vladimirputin
Russia has accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump this weekend, of seeking to "torpedo" a U.S.-brokered plan to stop the fighting. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/27/world/russia-accuse-ukraine-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #volodymyrzelenskyy #vladimirputin #donaldtrump
Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus, two U.S. researchers have found by studying satellite imagery. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/27/world/russia-missiles-belarus-airbase/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #belarus #missiles
Most Russians expect the war in Ukraine to end in 2026, a state pollster VTsIOM said, in a sign that the Kremlin could be testing public reaction to a possible peace settlement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/world/russia-war-end-2026-pollster/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #russia #ukraine
Ukraine has said its drones have struck the largest Russian gas processing plant in the Orenburg region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/world/ukraine-strike-russia-energy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #energy
In so many acute conflicts, from the Middle East and Sudan to Ukraine, we know it will take countries working together in partnership to overcome our shared challenges rather than letting them divide and defeat us. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/25/world/building-peace-together/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #uk #us #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #russia #sudan #gaza #israelhamaswar #warcrimes #peacekeeping
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is willing to pull his troops back from areas of the eastern Donetsk region still under Kyiv’s control and turn those areas into a demilitarized zone as part of a peace deal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/25/world/ukraine-talks-demilitarized-zone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the latest version of a plan to end the Russian invasion would freeze the front line, but still pave the way for Ukrainian withdrawals and the creation of demilitarized zones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/world/ukraine-war-draft-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #volodymyrzelenskyy
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Now #TheAmericanFascist has appointed an 'envoy' to help convince Greenlanders to ditch Denmark and join the USA. Denmark is shocked and angered, as they should be. Greenlanders are wholly opposed.
There is poetic irony of a Louisiana politician being tapped to lead a "Greenland Purchase" by America. I very much doubt the result will be the same. But there are some interesting parallels.
Lousisiana Purchase (1808)
a) Made possible by squabbles and warring in Europe.
b) involved purchase of 2.14 million km2 of North America for $380 Million in 2024 dollars. Greenland is 2.17 million km2.
It's difficult to fathom just how undervalued the Louisana Purchase was...nevermind the whole — selling Indigenous Lands without Treaty — issue. But hey... that would be another parallel with today's Inuit and Greenland Peoples.
Back in the modern context, America's Fascists just want to do Fascist things like take over sovereign countries and oppress nations, not unlike Hitler, the Kaiser's Germany, the Napoleans, Imperial Britain, Conquistador-ist Spain, and Tsarist-Stalinist-Putinist Russia.
This all needs to be kept -- forefully if need be -- in the past. We cannot allow these regressive dictators to come back.
He must be stopped.
United States of America!
Americans!
Stop prancing around with Christmas presents as if nothing is happening and DEPOSE YOUR PRESIDENT ffs! This is ON YOU first and foremost!!
#USAPoli #Denmark #Canada #Imperialism #TheWorld #UN #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Louisiana #LouisianaPurchase #Greenland
Christmas celebrations in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital under constant threat from Russian missiles and drones, showcase the city’s split reality. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/world/society/ukraine-wartime-christmas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #christmas
Now #TheAmericanFascist has appointed an 'envoy' to help convince Greenlanders to ditch Denmark and join the USA. Denmark is shocked and angered, as they should be. Greenlanders are wholly opposed.
There is poetic irony of a Louisiana politician being tapped to lead a "Greenland Purchase" by America. I very much doubt the result will be the same. But there are some interesting parallels.
Lousisiana Purchase (1808)
a) Made possible by squabbles and warring in Europe.
b) involved purchase of 2.14 million km2 of North America for $380 Million in 2024 dollars. Greenland is 2.17 million km2.
It's difficult to fathom just how undervalued the Louisana Purchase was...nevermind the whole — selling Indigenous Lands without Treaty — issue. But hey... that would be another parallel with today's Inuit and Greenland Peoples.
Back in the modern context, America's Fascists just want to do Fascist things like take over sovereign countries and oppress nations, not unlike Hitler, the Kaiser's Germany, the Napoleans, Imperial Britain, Conquistador-ist Spain, and Tsarist-Stalinist-Putinist Russia.
This all needs to be kept -- forefully if need be -- in the past. We cannot allow these regressive dictators to come back.
He must be stopped.
United States of America!
Americans!
Stop prancing around with Christmas presents as if nothing is happening and DEPOSE YOUR PRESIDENT ffs! This is ON YOU first and foremost!!
#USAPoli #Denmark #Canada #Imperialism #TheWorld #UN #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #Louisiana #LouisianaPurchase #Greenland
Nearly a million young Ukrainians are still living in an eternal lockdown, doing either all or part of their lessons online. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/world/ukraine-lost-generation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #schools #mariupol #donetsk
Jared Kushner is finding himself very much in the political spotlight — a far cry from the future the president’s son-in-law envisioned just last year, when he said he’d stay out of government affairs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/world/politics/kushner-breaking-vow-avoid-politics/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #jaredkushner #donaldtrump #us #corruption #russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #saudiarabia #netflix #warnerbros #paramount