"The 1980's are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68056939

https://bsky.app/profile/jonasolsson.bsky.social/post/3kjoegbhr6o23

The UN condemned shelling by Ukraine apparently targeting a market in Donetsk. 27 civilians killed.

Link

Meaningless

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At least 27 people were killed on Sunday by shelling at a market on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine, local officials reported.

Moscow-installed officials claimed the alleged Ukrainian attack wounded 25 others.

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Euronews could not independently verify these claims.

Orban signals he'll support Sweden joining NATO. Hungary is the last holdout. Orban is now urging parliament to pass the resolution, which is expected in March.

https://www.politico.eu/article/in-a-u-turn-orban-now-says-he-backs-swedens-nato-bid/

Probably something to do with the EU telling Hungary that there was a mechanism to kick them out of a voting seat in the EU if they continued to try to block EU policy.

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-hungary-voting-rights-rule-of-law-viktor-orban/

The US Ambassador also is tired of Hungary’s shit and has been touring EU funded ‘projects’ in Hungary.

https://x.com/usambhungary/status/1749843329108386199

Hungary and Turkey should be expelled from the EU, and NATO. Hungary is in bed with Russia, and the Turks are murderers.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4426738-seize-russian-assets-ukraine-senate/

https://apnews.com/article/un-us-russia-korea-japan-war-lavrov-63d967578093723a106113cfc75da5a0

Finns go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president at a time of increased tension with Russia

It appears we sold out the Kurds to save Ukraine.

Biden administration approves F-16 sale to Turkey

https://kyivindependent.com/telegraph-us-to-deploy-nuclear-weapons-in-uk-to-counter-moscows-threat/

https://x.com/prune602/status/1751478492833755624?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Ukraine says it has uncovered major arms corruption

We’ve been selling out the Kurds for a long time. They’re the Bajorans of our era.

Thirty years old but still good/horrible:

What did Saddam and Little Miss Muffet have in common?

Joe Biden Is Arming Greece So Greece Can Arm Ukraine—And Pro-Russia Republicans Can’t Stop Him
‘Excess defense articles’ is a powerful authority

Forbes ain’t pulling any punches, and this isn’t a Forbes Sites blog.

EU leaders unlock €50bn support package for Ukraine

This needed to be unanimous so I wonder how they got Hungary onboard.

I bet they got pissed off at Vicky Hungary and told them to shape up.

Maybe he just he’d rather not go back to being a Russian puppet state.

I posted this upthread:
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-hungary-voting-rights-rule-of-law-viktor-orban/

They threatened to remove Hungary's voting rights in the EU. The majority of MPs supported a non-binding resolution to invoke this little known rule if Hungary continues to block aid.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraine-sinks-russian-navy-missile-corvette-in-drone-boat-attack

Slava Ukraini.

Gotta sting that a non-naval power's taking out the navy.

Ex-Google CEO’s secret startup to build Ukraine AI-powered $400 kamikaze drones

https://apnews.com/article/hungary-...en-nato-vote-4357681b8ca9aa20d594d4d71a447027

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-...nal-soldiers-07b5cb7949bd10234e7456f9c1c20b08