Pete Shmigel
Writer at Freelance
Writer, 'Contours' author, bike recycler, ex CEO & political advisor, mental health advocate, Board member, Ukraine specialist, @KyivPost contributor.
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1 day ago |
spectator.com.au | Pete Shmigel
While counter-intuitive, the withdrawal by President Donald Trump of the United States from peace negotiations – and even from materially supporting Ukraine – may be beneficial to Ukraine and its allies. That is a conclusion many senior decision-makers and policy analysts in Ukraine have come to and it has several reasons.
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1 month ago |
kyivpost.com | Pete Shmigel
Valya reached for the pocket of her parka and the little sculpture of the wild horse. She ran her fingers along its shape – across its face, forehead, crest, shoulders, back, hindquarters, and four legs – and took reassurance from its presence. Behind her seat in the truck travelling westward, there were all the other works of the Great Artist.
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2 months ago |
kyivpost.com | Pete Shmigel
Their bunker was three stories below ground level in what was, before the war, a downtown car park. When people drove to their cars to their jobs and then to their kids’ soccer practice; when there was a normal. The windowless space was half a football field long and tightly packed with rows of IKEA desks, lines of laptops, joy sticks in various shapes and sizes, spare electronic components, small pliers and screwdrivers, green motherboards half dismantled, headphones, and tangles of cables.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Pete Shmigel
5 hours ago'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegratesUkrainians “couldn’t cope without American weapons and support,” Yuliya Antonyuk, a 42-year-old real estate agent, told NBC News.
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2 months ago |
kyivpost.com | Pete Shmigel
Ukraine has had democratically elected governments and presidents since its establishment of independence in 1991. Since independence, there have been seven presidential elections. Since 1994, following the adoption of Ukraine’s current Constitution, there has been a presidential election every five years. At each of those elections, Ukraine has elected a different person as president – except for 1999, when incumbent Leonid Kuchma won a second term.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were defeated when they ran out of oil. Perhaps Putin’s ruZZia will be defeated when it runs out of oil revenue. Lowest price for crude in at least 12 months. https://t.co/BGwNj6luIr
But new tariffs on Ukraine. It’s hard to know if Trump Admin members are absolute muppets or absolute puppets.
Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett says Russia was not targeted with new tariffs because of the ongoing negotiations with Russia and Ukraine: “That's not appropriate to throw a new thing into these negotiations right in the middle of it." https://t.co/wU6MurcPjU https://t.co/AIhp7qo6tV
How much does anyone wanna bet that Trump’s kids and close associates all shorted the market right before his tariff announcement? With grifters, always follow the money.
