Joni Askola

Groypers have turned on Trump

Putin has been in power for 20 years longer than Zelensky

European security is far too critical to be tied to the shifting moods and interests of American oligarchs

New article (free): Why Russia is losing the unprovoked war it started in Ukraine joniaskola.substack.com/p/why-russia...

Every time Trump, Musk, or Putin attack and try to delegitimize Zelensky, his approval rating in Ukraine goes up

Russia’s war on Ukraine is not going well. Russia is basically fighting for nothing

Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes telling his followers to stay home or vote Democrat in the midterms

These cruise missiles will help Ukraine a lot

No one comes close

Ukraine must hold maximalist demands and avoid Russia’s classic trap: making outrageous demands while refusing to compromise, forcing the other side to make concessions and give Russia more than it deserves. Russia doesn’t deserve to get anything

It’s Putin and not Zelensky who should be asked to step down

Trump's willingness to enter a trilateral summit with Putin and Xi plays right into Moscow's core geopolitical fantasy: a Yalta 2.0 where great powers carve the globe into spheres of influence. Symbolically, it would be a huge victory for the Kremlin

While Trump's failed foreign policy and tariffs made life far more expensive for Americans, he managed to double his own net worth over the last 2 years

Elon Musk is a huge hypocrite

Trump is by far the worst, most corrupt, and most traitorous president in US history

Trump's only true ideologies are grifting and imperialism. He will always try to make money for himself and always side with imperialists. Everything else is negotiable and always ends in failure

Cheap air-launched cruise missiles from the ERAM program, launched by Biden and funded by Europe, should start arriving in Ukraine soon. Will Trump dare delay or block them?

Some of the latest Russian humanitarian initiatives in the Donetsk Oblast, by Vladimir ”The Humanitarian” Putin

Trump’s support clearly doesn’t help anyone in elections

Bad news for Trump and Putin

Germany should send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine now!

Russia could easily stop the war it started

New article: The suspicious timing of Ukraine’s starlink throttling (the US sabotaging Ukraine’s Donbas advances) joniaskola.substack.com/p/the-suspic...

Not a good system

Europe is a better place now that these two have been voted out

Everything about Trump is a scam. That includes DOGE

Serbia finally got rid of Vučić, just like Hungary got rid of Orbán a few months ago. It's always encouraging to see, especially as both were supported by both the Kremlin and the White House, and still lost pathetically

Storm Shadow missiles have been extremely effective for Ukraine, despite the limited supply. It is not too late for Germany to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine

For anyone claiming to care about human life, the solution is simple: Russia, which started this unprovoked war, stops fighting and withdraws to its borders. The killing would end immediately

Oligarchy is dangerous because figures like Trump, Musk, and Thiel constantly put their personal and business interests ahead of the country. They have no problem betraying American interests when it benefits them

Putin keeps humiliating Trump because he doesn’t respect him at all

We are further from peace in Ukraine today than when Trump started negotiating, because he has refused to pressure Moscow and destroyed almost all the leverage he had

New free article: Why Russian nuclear threats signal weakness, not strength joniaskola.substack.com/p/why-russia...

Worth remembering: Trump has been US president for just over 2% of American history, but added nearly 30% of the national debt. That’s who Elon "DOGE" Musk is funding and supporting. They never cared about the public debt

Trump’s failure in Iran and inability to end Russia’s war on Ukraine show that US hegemony has already ended. He has played a major role in ending it

An ironic aspect of Russia's frequent nuclear threats is how clearly they reveal the desperation behind its failure in Ukraine

Since Tucker Carlson acts as a sort of Kremlin spokesperson for Western audiences, these nuclear threats are just the usual posturing. What is really fascinating is how this kind of rhetoric shows just how badly the war is actually going for Russia

New article (free): Starlink is back in Ukraine, but trust is gone joniaskola.substack.com/p/starlink-i...

Trump and Musk have really hurt the credibility of the United States

Ukrainians know that ceding the rest of the Donbas to Russia would be Ukraine’s Sudetenland moment: surrendering over a decade of fortified defenses for a temporary illusion of peace. Russia cannot be trusted and would only use the opportunity to advance further

Russia is farther from achieving its strategic goals in Ukraine today than it was in March 2022, just one month into the full-scale war

Putin claims this war is existential to his reign just to keep fighting, but it's a lie. Polls show that Russians would be relieved if he ended the war

One thing is extremely clear: European security cannot depend on the moods of Donald Trump and Elon Musk

This war is existential for Ukraine, but it is not existential for Russia or even for Putin’s reign, despite his efforts to convince the world otherwise to justify continuing it

New article (free): Starlink is back in Ukraine, but trust is gone joniaskola.substack.com/p/starlink-i...

A real hypocrite

Great news that starlink is back. This episode will serve as a vital warning for Ukraine and the rest of Europe to accelerate the development of alternatives

Musk thinks that he can hide his own incentives by lying about other people’s incentives

Musk is simply lying

You can always asked them what happened between 1939 and 1941