Author: Dal Stanton
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2/18/2025 — Thank you, Timothy Snyder, for the validation…

From: Bria Blessing — Thank you, Timothy Snyder, for the validation. I’ve had so many people, friends, try to lecture me on the evils of war. Friends who have never experienced war. Never lost people to war. Never been awakened in the middle of the night by sirens and explosions. Never stood at the graves…
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2/18/2025 — Is honourable to treat a victim nation in this fashion after it has held the battle line for the liberal democracies at enormous sacrifice for three years?

From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (1091st day) The Telegraph published a draft of the “partnership” agreement that the United States offered to Ukraine. No wonder, even not knowing all the details that become known now, we all felt that our country was being violated for the second time on the day when the US Minister…
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2/17/2025 — DON’T BE FOOLED…

From: Ukraine — The cheapest way to abandon Ukraine is the most expensive way to lose. Don’t let Russia fool you. Peace on the aggressor‘s terms doesn’t stop war, it postpones the war.
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2/17/2025 — What Munich means for Ukraine peace talks
By Atlantic Council GET UP TO SPEED The table has been set. In the coming days, US and Russian negotiators reportedly will meet in Saudi Arabia to try and strike a deal to end Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. The news broke at the Munich Security Conference, where the war’s future dominated discourse among world leaders at the…
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2/17/2025 — Europe must prepare to defend itself in an increasingly multipolar world

From: Atlantic Council By Mykola Bielieskov US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has yet to be made public, but it is already abundantly clear that he expects Europe to play a far bigger role in the continent’s future security and the fight against Russian aggression. With the United States now looking to scale back…
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2/17/2025 — Timothy Snyder: “It was humiliating, at Munich, to keep hearing Americans holding microphones tell Ukrainians that war is bad….”

From: Roman Sheremeta (Professor of Economics, Board Member, Founding Rector of American University Kyiv) “It was humiliating, at Munich, to keep hearing Americans holding microphones tell Ukrainians that war is bad. Every Ukrainian listening has lost someone. Some of the Ukrainians listening were combatants who had lost limbs. They know that war is bad. Ukrainians…
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2/17/2025 — Why? “This war is of a genocidal nature, which means they want the ultimate destruction of Ukraine and the elimination of anything Ukrainian.”

From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1089) Do not forsake me, O Lord!O my God, be not far from me!Make haste to help me,O Lord, my salvation!Psalm 38:21-22 I was reading to my son tonight. It is a children’s book written a few years before the full-scale invasion. The story is about a city being…
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2/15/2025 — Ukraine declines US proposal for 50% ownership of rare earth minerals in exchange for aid without security guarantees

The US is also considering to deploy American troops in Ukraine to secure these natural resources following a peace deal with Russia. From: Euromaiden Press BY VIRA KRAVCHUK The Trump administration proposed to President Zelenskyy giving to the US 50% ownership of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as reimbursement for military support, but the Ukrainian president…
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2/15/2025 — Ukraine erased from Russia’s rewritten history of WWII and Victory over Nazism

From: Human Rights in Ukraine 🇺🇦 by Halya Coynash Any world leaders who stand with Putin on Red Square on 9 May will be complicit in Russia’s rewriting of history and attempts to compare Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with victory over Nazi Germany While claiming to be ‘fighting distortion of history’, the current Russian…
