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Hanse Mina<p>In an echo of the Yalta Conference in 1945, the American and Russian leaders will talk on Tuesday about who gets what in the process of ending the war in Ukraine.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-putin-ceasefire-negotiation-ukraine-concessions.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-putin-ceasefire-negotiation-ukraine-concessions.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1898909/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1898909/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Opinion | To Europe’s shock, Trump is bringing back great power geopolitics <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/america" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>america</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AmericaFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericaFirst</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanUnion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreatBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatBritain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nato</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/potsdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potsdam</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthChinaSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthChinaSea</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SovietUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SovietUnion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UsaPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UsaPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VolodymyrZelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VolodymyrZelensky</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a></p>
Ciarán Fahey<p>Good read on Trump’s overtures to Putin and what it means for the future of Ukraine – and Europe. </p><p>“Europe will also need to remind Trump, with no doubt a degree of flattery, that if he wants a legacy as a peacemaker - and a dealmaker - then he cannot railroad Ukraine into a capitulation on Russian terms.”</p><p>(RTÉ) <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2025/0215/1496896-trump-putin-ukraine/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comme</span><span class="invisible">nt/2025/0215/1496896-trump-putin-ukraine/</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EugeneMcParland</span></a></span> Arguably Yalta doesn't represent "post-war peace" as much as "imperial post-war arrangement just short of hot war".</p><p>It was less about 'peace' — or the lack of active war, which would result when *one* of the belligerents (Nazi Germany) would be entirely occupied and eventually reconstructed — and more about the three remaining major powers (soviet russian imperialist dictatorship, early-democratic *imperialist* Britain and the partially democratic USA) negotiating over pieces of the pie i.e. their post-war spheres of influence or worse. </p><p>I'm not entirely sure that represents any type of "symbol of post-war peace" to all the other nations who had no say in the proceedings... 🤷🏻‍♂️</p><p>It was <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a> where the UK and USA essentially rubberstamped the post-war enlarged soviet empire that only (mostly) dissolved in the 1990s.</p><p>Imagine if the orange WH resident gets a whiff of this "yalta thing". Imagine that person sitting down with CCP china and putin/russia to strike a great maga deal for America today; over <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> and other nations under threat?</p><p>-- <br>Update # 1: On 12/Feb/2025 trump unveiled his "kremlin pact" with putin, entirely ignoring the key *existential* interests of the very victim of russia's invasion, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>, and all other free nations in russia's crosshairs, particularly the EU.</p><p>I'm not looking forward to re-editing this innocuous Yalta post with another update where <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> hashes out a deal with the Chinese CCP greenlighting their intent to "do whatever the hell they want" with <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> in near future, but here we are... 😬</p>
Putin's IBS<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Crimean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimean</span></a> Telegram channels report that a third vessel is drowning in the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Black_Sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black_Sea</span></a> today.</p><p>In the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a> area, a floating crane sustained serious damage from the huge waves and wind, and its boom reportedly went down.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/putinisamasskiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putinisamasskiller</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/putinisawarcriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putinisawarcriminal</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@kardinal691" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kardinal691</span></a></span></p>
Kailee ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms<p>First two tankers literally broke apart, spilled 8,000 Tons of oil and sank, and now a russian floating crane has also tipped over into the sea near the coast of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a>.</p><p>Poseidon, the god of the seas, is particularly angry with the russians today.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LetUkraineStrikeBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LetUkraineStrikeBack</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Nato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nato</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GreenFire</span></a></span> </p><p>&gt;&gt; we made a mistake protecting the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThirdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdReich</span></a> and should have just continued on from Berlin to Moscow in order to help rid the world of more fascists</p><p>After <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> was defeated, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> still needed the help of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Soviets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Soviets</span></a> to fight <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> in the East, as discussed at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a> in Crimea.</p><p>It was only later that the development of Atomic Bomb allowed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Truman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Truman</span></a> to give a unilateral ultimatum to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Potsdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potsdam</span></a> in occupied Germany, while USSR was still neutral</p>
Hanse Mina<p>"If the allies jointly shoot down missiles and drones in the skies of the Middle East, why is there still no similar decision on the joint shooting down of Russian missiles and Iranian "shaheeds" in the sky of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>? Moreover, this is not done even when missiles and drones are heading literally to the territory of our neighbors."</p><p>- Ukrainian President Volodymyr <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zelenskyy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zelenskyy</span></a> at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a> European Strategy (YES) Forum</p><p><a href="https://www.president.gov.ua/news/vijna-maye-stati-suttyevo-vazhchoyu-dlya-rosiyi-vistup-prezi-93241" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">president.gov.ua/news/vijna-ma</span><span class="invisible">ye-stati-suttyevo-vazhchoyu-dlya-rosiyi-vistup-prezi-93241</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>
David August<p>Steamboat Willie got involved with diplomacy. It’s said he and fellow actor Shirley Temple (who became Chief of Protocol of the United States) were good friends. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SteamboatWillie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteamboatWillie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FDR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Roosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FranklinDRoosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FranklinDRoosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FranklinRoosevelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FranklinRoosevelt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JosephStalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JosephStalin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WinstonChurchill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinstonChurchill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/YaltaConference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YaltaConference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWII</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/diplomacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diplomacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ShirleyTemple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShirleyTemple</span></a></p>
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦<p>Krykhitka — Yalta</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Yalta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yalta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/%D0%AF%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ялта</span></a> is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. It been temporarily occupied by the russian Federation since 2014</p><p>Thank you Krykhitka for the track "Yalta", which is part of the Brave Cities project</p><p>(3 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 <a href="https://youtu.be/_lOFZ1ELAmk?si=AO8io6oS_Iufs3kI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/_lOFZ1ELAmk?si=AO8io6</span><span class="invisible">oS_Iufs3kI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> 🇺🇦 <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SlavaUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlavaUkraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RussiaIsATerroristState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaIsATerroristState</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%97%D0%BD%D1%96" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>СлаваУкраїні</span></a>! <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/StandWithUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithUkraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SlavaUkraini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlavaUkraini</span></a></p>
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