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The author claimed that every euro received from Europe would be used to equip the Russian armed forces for a war against the future Europe. He also opposed granting financial incentives as a reward to a person he referred to as a mass murderer and assessed that the EU would therefore not agree to the proposal. #Eurooppa #Venäjä #EU #EU #FI #RU (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that he appreciated that Volodymyr Zelensky had said Trump pressured Ukraine to surrender to Russia. According to Vanhanen, this was not about individual statements but a series of decisions from 2025–2026. Vanhanen listed Trump accusing Ukraine of starting the war, halting military aid and intelligence sharing, demanding territorial concessions, and reducing the delivery of Patriot missiles. He stated that Trump also demanded Ukraine stop striking Russian oil refineries, loosened sanctions on Russia, and did not demand similar concessions from Putin. Vanhanen mentioned that Putin had proposed a summit with Trump and Xi regarding Ukraine’s future without Ukraine and European countries. He described Trump’s Ukraine policy as contradictory: according to him, Trump aimed to end the war but reduced pressure on the aggressor and increased it on the defending Ukraine. According to Vanhanen, it would suffice for Putin if Washington started to consider Ukraine’s resistance an obstacle to peace and Russia’s demands a starting point for negotiations. He assessed that this could help Russia achieve negotiating goals that it had not attained on the battlefield and encourage Moscow to continue the war in hopes of new concessions. https://t.co/r10fKzP3r3 #Ukraina #Trump #Putin (translated)

The author assesses that Russia sought superpower support for the war it waged against Ukraine. According to him, the meeting with Russia's ally China, which Trump also attended, forecasted a forced solution instead of a sustainable situation for Europe. #Ukraina #Venäjä #Sotapolitiikka #RU #UA #CN #US #EU (translated)

The author emphasized the importance of the interview with writer Julia Kuokkanen, in which she discussed, according to her, how Russians are raised from childhood to have a worldview that justifies war. The author noted that it is still possible to break away from this, as Kuokkanen had done. https://t.co/KtqQgKu7Sj #haastattelu #kirjallisuus #sota #FI #RU (translated)

Saara Huhtasaari assessed that Ukraine could not win the war and that this should have been clear as early as 2022. She considered supporting the war foolish from the beginning and wrote that hundreds of billions had been spent on Ukraine while corruption and abuses in military procurements continued. According to her, the money had disappeared and politicians had become richer. Huhtasaari believed that Trump's diesel agreement would not change the outcome of the war, claiming that Ukraine would lose regardless. She blamed the West for maintaining a narrative for four years that victory would require only more weapons and time. In her opinion, this was a war of attrition, in which Russia was enduring better and Ukraine's personnel reserves were dwindling. #Ukraina #sota #historia (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Europe should take a greater role in defining the peace terms for Ukraine. According to him, Donald Trump tried to entice Vladimir Putin to peace with concessions, even though Russia continued the war and new flexibilities were expected from Ukraine. Vanhanen pointed out that Europe spent tens of billions of euros to defend Ukraine but largely let Washington direct the negotiations. Vanhanen demanded Germany resolve the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine and for other countries to strengthen Ukraine’s long-range strike capability. He also suggested that Europe should find a way to more broadly utilize Russia’s frozen state assets of about 200 billion euros, increase pressure on Russia’s oil revenues, and boost military support for Ukraine if the war of aggression continued. He argued that Europe should ensure that Trump’s diplomacy is not based solely on offering new concessions to Russia. https://t.co/pilGKhN9F1 #Eurooppa #Ukraina #Trump (translated)

Ramón Espinar stated that the Broad Front was recovering from the supposed wound after holding a packed rally in Usera, a popular neighborhood in Madrid. He also accused Podemos of meeting in a basement to spread lies and urged not to waste votes on November 29, referring to what, he said, they had already endured. #FrenteAmplio #Madrid #Elecciones29N (translated)

At the same time that Russia carried out large-scale attacks on our energy infrastructure, unfortunately, a decision was made in the United States to completely disregard Lindsey Graham's bill. Russia attacked over 15 energy sector targets across western and central Ukraine last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. #Ukraina #Venäjä #sota (translated)

Henri Vanhanen considered it shameful that, according to him, Donald Trump had decided not to implement actions approved by Congress that would have enabled tariffs of up to 100 percent on Russia's oil and gas for its largest purchasing countries. According to Vanhanen, Trump justified his decision with the national interest of the United States, and in Vladimir Putin's inner circle, the solution had already been described as a historic achievement. Vanhanen wrote that Russia's energy exports were significantly financing the country's war economy. He also reported that Ukraine had reported a shortage of Patriot missile defense systems, that Russia had continued bombing cities and killing civilians, and that Trump had demanded Ukraine stop attacks on Russian oil refineries. Citing sources from The Telegraph, Vanhanen wrote that Elon Musk had suggested to Trump limiting military-important Starshield satellite communications for Ukraine, which Trump had accepted. According to him, the restrictions would also hinder Ukraine's defense against Russian drone attacks. According to Vanhanen, Trump's negotiators were said to believe that concessions could bring Putin back to peace talks, even though, in his view, Russia had not shown a similar willingness to give up its military objectives. He assessed that concessions could strengthen Putin's perception of the profitability of continuing the war and that peace talks would require concessions from Russia as well. https://t.co/tTVKB82aQB #Trump #Ukraina #Venäjä (translated)

Arkady Moshes, program director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, states that Ukraine could indeed lose the war if the situation continues to deteriorate and serious internal issues, such as disputes within military leadership and corruption, hinder the receipt of international support. #Ukraina #Venäjä #sota (translated)

Saara Huhtasaari asked whether Finns had begun to wake up to the fact that, according to her, Trump had said that Volodymyr Zelensky was ruining Ukraine and that Alice Weidel's support for Ukraine from Germany should be stopped. She criticized the ongoing discussion in Finland, in which, according to her, the use of tax money for Ukraine was justified, and it was suggested that the war in Ukraine was Finland's war and Ukraine was fighting on Finland's behalf. Huhtasaari believed this was not the case and stated that Finland should remain neutral and only offer peace negotiations. She mentioned that she was still waiting for Finns to understand this. #Suomi #Ukraina #Politiikka (translated)

Henri Vanhanen wrote that Trump has repeated Russian propaganda by blaming Ukraine, claiming that Volodymyr Zelensky is unwilling to make peace, and depicting Vladimir Putin as an easier negotiating partner. According to Vanhanen, Trump called Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries shameful, even though Russia continued to bomb Ukraine's energy infrastructure. He also referred to a Reuters report on the restrictions imposed by the United States on the Starshield satellite system used by Ukraine. Vanhanen said he did not remember Trump condemning Russia's systematic winter attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in the same way. He described the consequences: according to him, newborns had to be warmed with hot water bottles, and elderly people had been trapped in their apartments as elevators stopped working. He also mentioned the murders, rapes, and other war crimes committed by Russian troops against civilians and assessed that Trump was particularly concerned about the price of diesel and the global availability of oil. According to Vanhanen, Trump could not credibly act as a neutral peace broker if he only pressured one side of the conflict, the victim of the attack, rather than the aggressor. He wrote that Russia started the war and continued it, and he believed that peace would not be achieved by weakening Ukraine's defense capabilities and rewarding Russia for the attack. #Ukraina #Trump #Venäjä (translated)