Many residents of Kaliningrad are pushing to break away from Moscow, restore the name Königsberg, and establish a new Baltic republic.
"The Kremlin's current policies are severing our connections with Europe. We cannot remain hostages to its imperial agenda."
@SecBlinken
@albinkurti
The equivalent of condemning the US congressional certification of the 2020 elections and legitimizing the 6 January insurrection. US support for Vucic is destabilizing the region. Time to back a democratic revolution in Serbia and recognition of Kosovo by all European states.
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"Frontrunner to join the EU" Serbia just signed an agreement to coordinate its foreign policy with Russia's MFA.
Serbia refuses to align its foreign policy with the EU and join US & EU sanctions on Russia.
If Serbia cannot recognize reality then EU and US must cut off financial aid, emplace NATO troops on the border, and confiscate all weapons from Serb separatists. Moscow's proxy Vucic is trying to manufacture a Donbas scenario in Kosova.
Serbia's A. Vucic accuses western powers of “pressure" to recognize Kosovo”.
His "most important message" to the west:
"We will never recognize yours independent Kosovo. You can kill us all. You can do whatever you want but we will never recognize yours independent Kosovo."
🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US will support Ukraine "until they win this war," - Biden said.
Biden has finally used the word “Win” when talking about Ukraine and not just “as long as it takes”
The Biden administration fears Russia’s defeat and has no strategy for managing Russia’s rupture and the emergence of new states. Much like the strategic blindness before the USSR collapsed.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Biden Admin is required by law (5th Ukraine Supplemental) to present Congress w/ a detailed strategy outlining how the United States will support Ukraine to defeat Russia.
It still hasn't been provided, over 10 weeks past the deadline to submit. Congress isn't happy.
This must be a joke. Ukraine is burning, Russian and Serbian regimes are destabilizing Europe and the EU is negotiating license plates? Time for Kosova and Bosnia to enter NATO.
In the meantime, expert delegations of Kosovo & Serbia met in Brussels today for the 6th meeting of the WG on Licence Plates. EU experts assisted both delegations in identifying all existing options & their technical implications. It’s time now to engage in finding common ground.
@olex_scherba
Unfortunately, many Serbs denied Belgrade's genocide of Bosnians and Albanians in the 1990s as well. Time for Ukraine to recognize Kosovo.
Russian military is very similar to the Serbian military during the collapse of Yugoslavia – retreat and run when faced by a professional fighting force
Serbia is the only country in Europe that supports the war criminals in imperial Russia. Even in Belarus, held hostage by Moscow, there are no pro-war demonstrations.
Russia in its current size and structure has minimal chance of becoming normal. Only comprehensive de-imperialization through military defeat, economic decimation, and state rupture will provide an opportunity for new states to establish peaceful relations with neighbors.
The best chance, the only chance for the world to see russia become something like a normal country, is for russia to lose its imperial war.
A Ukrainian victory over ruscism is good for Ukraine 🇺🇦, good for Europe, good for russia
Ask
@TimothyDSnyder
if you’re not convinced!
@SamRamani2
What they are really afraid of in Moscow is that Poland and Ukraine will form a strong security partnership, include Balts and CEE states in a regional union, forge tight military ties with the US, attract Belarus, and encourage Russia's fake federation to disintegrate.
Kosova është Evropë!
A powerful speech from MP
@GoncharenkoUa
on Kosovo's right to sit amongst fellow Europeans at the Council of Europe.
Kosovo and Ukraine both stand on the side of freedom, democracy and human rights. 🇽🇰🇺🇦
The EU needs a total ban on all Russian agricultural imports, enable Ukraine to integrate into the EU market, as Poland did despite initial French-German protests, and root out the provocateurs on Poland’s borders paid by Moscow to undermine European security.
"Europe is flooded with Russian grain and this is causing huge problems. Almost 15% of the grain currently delivered to the EU comes from Russia." - Wojciech Staniszewski, mayor of Brzostek, Poland.
Putin uses grain prices as a weapon to destabilize the internal policy of
Appeasement of pro-Moscow leaders in Belgrade, support for Serbian separatism in Kosova, fueling of Bosnia’s ethnic divisions, and backing for amateur politicians in Montenegro will lead to violent conflicts. Biden’s Balkan policy is failing and needs major overhaul.
@MiroslavLajcak
So when will you meet with members of the Albanian community in Serbia to listen to their grievances? Does the EU only listen when outright violence is threatened?
@mrsorokaa
So the lesson German governments have learned is that it was only Hitler's war, not the huge Nazi state apparatus and the majority of citizens who voted for him.
@ivanastradner
Typical bully tactics from Belgrade dating back to the 1990s. Push them back and they cower and run just as they did from Croatian forces in 1995 and from NATO in 1999. Stay tough Ivana!
In that case, the EU should not waste time with Serbia's accession. Focus on states that want EU membership - Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, B-H, Kosova.
For the first time, a majority of Serbs are against joining the EU - poll
Vucic has been instructed by his patron Putin to destabilize the Balkans. Fast track to NATO membership for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosova is essential to deter war.
A sophisticated Chinese anti-aircraft system was delivered to Russian ally Serbia in a veiled operation this weekend, amid Western concerns that an arms buildup in the Balkans during the war in Ukraine could threaten the fragile peace in the region.
@LinkeviciusL
All EU funds for Hungary should be frozen and allocated to Ukraine. Why should European tax payers bail out a corrupt pro-Moscow regime in Budapest.
With an overwhelming majority of delegate votes from
@NATO
member states, 🇽🇰 is now an associate member of NATO's Parliamentary Assembly. This news is especially fitting, as it comes on the cusp of the 25th anniversary of Kosova’s liberation, one of NATO's greatest achievements.
Polish President Andrzej Duda with an excellent speech at Ukraine's Peace Summit in Switzerland.
“Russia, called the ‘prison of nations,’ is home to 200+ ethnic groups, most acquired through colonial methods.
Unlike European powers, Russia never decolonized and remains the
@McFaul
Russians did not simply defend their homeland from Invaders. Moscow collaborated with Berlin and then conquered and oppressed Europe’s East for 45 years. Time to discard Russophile delusions that enabled the attack in Ukraine
@MiroslavLajcak
Stop the nonsense language and wishful thinking. No one believes this facade any longer. Belgrade and Moscow are playing you for fools. Is that how you want to be remembered when the next Balkan war ignites?
Russia's anti-Western "humanitarian" spy and paramilitary center in Niš, Serbia must be immediately closed. Otherwise, Belgrade is directly collaborating with Russia's war against Ukraine.
The real dichotomy is between those who appeased and encouraged Russian imperialism with “resets “ and those who actually understood Moscow’s ambitions.
The false, distorting, lazy, othering dichotomy between “hawks” versus “doves” when discussing US foreign policy really needs to be retired from journalism and analysis.
@EHunterChristie
For many years prior to the invasion of Ukraine, Rand "experts" argued that Russia was not an imperial state and that Putin was a pragmatist. In any other profession they would be sacked and barred from media and publications.
@elbegdorj
Buryats, Tuvans, and Oyrats imprisoned in the Russian empire have a historic and democratic right to independence and even union with Mongolia.
”Russian” identity is a fake construct. Invented by Moscow to subjugate its neighbors and steal their history, territory, and resources. Russia’s rupture will liberate all the subject nations.
Lavrov is back from vacation and made a compilation of his lies for the state owned International Life magazine.
His key lies:
Washington and Brussels have openly unleashed a hybrid war against everything Russian, dropping their masks after decades of pretending to be
Lajcak must have the easiest job in the EU. Just travel between capitals and keep repeating the same hollow phrases. No accountability for EU diplomats based on results. Failure to deliver has become the EU’s normalization.
In Belgrade today, I discussed the way forward on normalisation of relations as a follow-up to the last Dialogue meetings with
@predsednikrs
@avucic
. We also spoke about current issues, including return of Kosovo Serbs to Kosovo institutions, Energy Roadmap and missing persons.
"The Republic Srpska will only destroy itself and those around it (Serbia?) pursuing the will-o-wisp independence." Strong statements must be backed by strong action to uproot Russia's tools of destabilization in the Balkans.
@officejjsmart
Navalny and his retinue are essentially Russian imperialists whatever their conflicts with the Kremlin. They claim Crimea as Russian and oppose sovereignty and independence for repressed republics and regions inside the colonial federation.
Need to expose and blacklist all the journalists, academics, ex-officials, and institutions in Europe and the US who received Russian state-connected money over the past two decades and in effect promoted Muscovite imperialism.
In Germany, star journalist Hubert Seipel was exposed for receiving €600,000 in secret payments from Moscow. This appears to be the tip of the iceberg of Russia's well-established influence networks, says counterintelligence expert Nathalie Vogel. Watch the whole interview! ⬇️
As Belgrade fully embraces the Kremlin, time to dump the farcical talks between Kosova and Serbia. Four NATO members (Greece, Slovakia, Romania, Spain) must recognize Kosova and demonstrate that they support NATO not Russia in the Balkans.
Slobodan Milosevic's former propaganda minister, the country's incumbent near-autocratic president, faces off against a former career military official decorated by Slobodan Milosevic with an Order of Merit. Serbia's elections in the year 2022.
Happy Independence Day to Kosova. You are on NATO's internal front line against Muscovite subversion and its Balkan proxies. You are on your way to NATO - the only Alliance that effectively defends independence and democracy.
@randymot4
Kyiv is correct: taking back all Ukrainian territory is insufficient - Russia needs to be demilitarized, its army decimated, and the imperial state irreparably ruptured.
@berlin_bridge
The core problem is that the Biden admin is riddled with "Russia experts" who have never understood Muscovite imperialism, tremble when the Kremlin mentions nukes, and have little clue that wars are won by destroying the logistics of the aggressor.
@ulrichspeck
@vonderleyen
German leaders are determined not to learn the main lesson from their Hitlerite history - that dictators must be defeated and their empires dismantled.
@lavern_spicer
Very simple. Kosovo was liberated by NATO to prevent genocide. Russia captures territory in Ukraine to commit genocide. If you are interested in an education, just published:
Backed by the UK, Japan and Canada, the US has proposed G7 working groups start preparatory work to be ready in time for the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Precisely. Funding Ukraine to defeat Russia boosts the US economy and national security. The MAGA mob are more interested in Biden losing than America winning. This is the opposite of making America great again.
U.S. arms exports were $238 billion in 2023 as Allies scramble to arm against Russia & China.
This is ~ triple the US aid to Ukraine over 2 years.
It's never been easier to stop the bad guy: no American lives and a net benefit to the US economy.
But MAGA idiots oppose this.
@yasminalombaert
It took thousands of Ukrainians lives to finally convince Paris and Berlin that Russia is an imperialist menace that must be defeated. Let's see if their words are matched by action to arm Kyiv.
No surprise that Vucic got a free ride from the Biden administration. Time to appoint uncorrupted envoys who actually understand the Balkans and can deal with Russia and its proxies in Belgrade and Banja Luka.
Gabriel Escobar Dismissed as US Envoy
After a report released on March 22, 2024, scrutinising the diplomatic integrity of 🇺🇸 US DAS Gabriel Escobar, he has been dismissed from his role as the envoy to the Prishtina 🇽🇰-🇷🇸 Belgrade dialogue.
A picture of Ukrainian resilience - growing cabbage and pumpkins around a destroyed Russian tank, the tank itself used as a compost pit. There’s even a flower bed next to the old turret! Having been through so much, people are finding hope in these daily acts of care for the land
@MiroslavLajcak
Time to end this farce that enables the Vucic regime to keep the Balkans off balance for Putin. Slovakia, Romania, Greece, and Spain should recognize Kosovo and deprive Moscow of a second front for destabilization.
#AirSerbia
подвоїла прямі рейси до🇷🇺в той час як авіакомпанії країн🇪🇺припинили сполучення з🇷🇺й закрили повітряний простір для🇷🇺авіакомпаній & приватних осіб. Сербія-єдина в Європі з відкритим для🇷🇺небом. Наживатися на крові 🇺🇦 негідне для країни-кандидата в 🇪🇺
#StandWithUkraine
@MBudzisz2
Poland and Ukraine will form an alliance that will include other independent states between the Baltic and Black Sea to preclude any future Muscovite imperialism. Intermarium is back on the agenda.
Anyone who buys into the russian narratives is simply an idiot. Period.
During the recent press conference, Putin said that russia invaded Ukraine to protect it from Poland. He went on to say that: "only russia could guarantee Ukraine's territorial integrity."
1/n
Vucic is either a Russian hostage or a willing accomplice. Serbia under his regime will not enter the EU unless it frees itself from dependence on Moscow. Time to develop a plan for Serbia's liberation.
#Serbia
🇷🇸: On 7 June, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov 🇷🇺 will come to Belgrade for a meeting with Serbian President
@AVucic
.
This visit will be preceded by a phone call with the Russian president 🇷🇺. On Sunday, Putin and Vucic will discuss the extension of the favourable gas contract.
Moscow first claimed Zelensky was not a real Jew to justify its "anti-Nazi" campaign. Then it claimed Jews collaborated with Nazis, and now it asserts that Jews are Nazis. Russian history is a twisted narrative of lies and deceptions.
Putin going full antisemitism: “Western curators put an ethnic Jew in charge of today’s Ukraine. In so doing, I believe, they are covering up the anti-human essence that lies at the Ukrainian state.”
Abhorrent even by his standards.
@Dpol_un
The Soviets were the biggest Nazi collaborators in murdering and deporting millions of Poles, Ukrainians, and Balts during WWII. Time to expose all the Russian pro-Nazis who helped Hitler and Stalin.
The protest for dignity and identity took place today in Bujanoc. Due to the ongoing discrimination of the Albanian🇦🇱 minority in 🇷🇸, by the 🇷🇸 regime, many people lose their basic rights. The policy was named by the Helsinki Committe for Human Rights in 🇷🇸 as ethnic cleanse by
The Kremlin views "Open Balkans" as a useful tool for subverting and dividing Europe. Pro-Western governments should abandon the scheme and not follow the Moscow-Belgrade agenda.
Russia's MFA Lavrov says NATO countries closed their airspaces to him because "they don't want us to express support for Belgrade's 'Open Balkan' initiative."
Lavrov says NATO countries support "Closed Balkans."
"Open Balkan" is a Russo-Serbian project.
Cannot imagine Serbia getting into the EU. No country near Russia would endorse their entry under Putin's lackey Vucic. Maybe Serbia will join the Russian Federation?
Serb players of Crvena Zvezdas refused to hold a banner “STOP WAR”, Lithuanian fans responded as a choir: “F*** you Serbia”
#UkraineWar
#StopPutinNOW
#StopWar
@markodjuric
Belgrade seeks ethnic apartheid because of fear that Serbs will accept Kosova's independence. It also exposes the weakness of EU negotiators while promoting Moscow's agenda for Balkan instability.
@albinkurti
Good opportunity for NATO and Kosova to work together and hunt down the terrorists. The Putin-Vucic war crimes tandem wants to provoke another war.
Two Ukrainian lessons for vulnerable states seeking to avoid invasion: acquire military deterrents and join NATO. Kosova and B-H must be able to defend themselves from Russia's little brother.
❗️
#Serbia
’s MoD states the real goal of arms purchase: achieve primacy in the region and develop military capacities to fight battles.
Therefore Serbia isn’t buying arms to defend itself, but to dominate countries of the region.
Our region needs less arms and more development.
@McFaul
How about Ronald Reagan, Lech Wałęsa, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher? Gorbachev was trying to save the empire - they dismantled it. Now it's time to dismantle the inner empire
@USAmbKosovo
US/EU policy has strengthened Vucic and we now see the consequences. Time to support the democratic revolution in Serbia and deinfestation from Muscovite influence throughout the Balkans.
@usambserbia
The results of diplomacy can also be tragic - eg half of Europe surrendered to Stalin, Ukraine blocked from NATO and self-defense for two decades, and now the Western Balkans allowed to drift toward conflict due to diplomatic appeasement of Serbia's revanchist pro-Kremlin regime.
Give Belgrade the 1 September deadline for mutual recognition or deny Serbia EU taxpayers funds. Mutual recognition should also result in increased EU funding to both states as it will help stabilize the region.
The Russian elite is the collective Putin and has been engaged in genocides for generations. Russia’s dissolution is the only guarantee that attacks in neighbors will not recur
Every attack on Russia's military facilities saves civilian lives in Ukraine. The best way to achieve peace is to decimate Russia's military wherever it is deployed.
In Russia tonight there was a new attack by an unknown drone on the Khalino military airfield in Kursk. As a result of the attack, an oil reservoir near the airport caught fire.
Wasn’t Medvedev a “pragmatist” for team Obama? Utter failure of US policy toward Russia since Reagan left the White House and Ukraine is living with the consequences.
“Bastards and geeks”: Medvedev “exploded” with threats due to attacks on Russian ships.
He threatens to strike Ukrainian cities against the backdrop of successful attacks at sea.
“Bastards and geeks understand only cruelty and power.
Apparently, they haven't had enough blows
@Gerashchenko_en
Moscow will blame outside powers as the country starts to fall apart due to internal contradictions - Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Japan, and of course NATO.
@JosepBorrellF
@albinkurti
@predsednikrs
You will continue going round in circles unless you resolve the fundamental problem - Serbia's non-recognition of Kosova as an independent state. Belgrade is also a gateway for destructive Kremlin influence. Non-recognition and Moscow's penetration ensures regional instability.
@pg_mayor
Montenegro, the model of multi-ethnicity, peaceful development, NATO solidarity, and European integration, will prevail over Serbian nationalism and Russian subversion. Time for US and EU governments to demonstrate who they support.
In its anti-Western offensive Moscow expects Belgrade to be more regionally assertive. NATO must be ready to respond to any destabilizing provocations in BH, Kosova, or Montenegro.
Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik says he’ll join Vucic-Lavrov summit in Belgrade on the 7th but also claims he will meet w/ Putin on the 17th in Moscow. This represents a major potential escalation in Russo-Serbian threats to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia.
@CounselorDOS
@albinkurti
“Normalization” is a misleading term. For Belgrade “normal” means non-recognition of Kosova’s independence and provoking conflicts to prevent mutual recognition. Without full equality between Serbia and Kosova US and EU will be putting out fires indefinately
Great timing for the civil war. The Russia edition of my book Failed State: A Guide to Russia's Rupture is on its way and chapter 5 details the scenarios. Recommended for all citizens of Russia.