Cormac Smith
@kozakcormac
Former:🇬🇧civil servant & advisor Foreign Minister 🇺🇦, charity, pundit, media trainer, contributing editor: Defence on the Brink Ex international bobsleigh brakeman Truth well told
“The key to Ukraine’s victory is holding the feet of the Russian people to the fire” youtube.com/shorts/s5pAZ4z…
‘Moscow this morning as Russians get a taste of their own medicine’ Ukraine did not ask for this war but they may finish it. Meanwhile Ukraine kills up to 8;1 at the front, is taking back land & decimating Russia’s logistic chain where 400-500 fuel & other logistics trucks are destroyed daily.
Who’s got the cards? I’m hearing Zelenskyy originally refused to sit down with Trump today in Evian, in margins of G7, and only relented when persuaded by Macron!
Happy Vyshyvanka day to all my Ukrainian friends; and to the magnificent Ukranian people. You all are the reason that Ukraine will win this war 💙💛
‘Zelenskyy grants Putin permission to hold annual victory day parade in Red Square’ Following a reported grovelling request from Trump, President Zelenskyy has graciously agreed that Moscow’s annual Victory Day parade can go ahead today, unmolested. Slava Ukraini
‘Dnipropetrovsk oblast fully liberated as of today’ Can we focus on Ukraine a little more please? Against all the odds & Donald Trump Ukrainians are doggedly winning this war, inch by bloody inch! Ukraine matters more to us in Europe than Iran; let’s get our priorities right.
‘Our government is not being honest with us about defence’ Our (@DefenceBrink) letter to the PM makes front page of today’s @dailymail.co.uk, also covered in @telegraph.co.uk & @thetimes.com. Happy to have collaborated & added my name to such an auguste list. Our PM & government must now act!
‘Bravery is born out of hardest times’ From the warmth of my London home I’m not brave, I can only imagine: Friends in Kyiv tell me daily of freezing homes, no electricity & burst pipes. Diplomat friends tell me of freezing elderly parents back home. This is Genocide, yet Ukraine will not break!
“Show me your friends & I’ll tell you what you are” This was among the many indelible life lessons my late parents drilled into me growing up. Hopefully after Trump reached new depths of gibberish & utter depravity this week the decent Brits duped into supporting Farage will come to their senses.
‘Standing room only in committee room 9’ Delighted to be in packed committee room in parliament for the launch of this critical report into Russian disinformation to which I contributed. NATO caused Russian invasion myth still prevalent & people have very short memories - just two of the findings.
‘Washington DC has 20 times the murder rate of London’ Yet Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk lives rent free in Donald Trump’s head. And far right malignant creatures like Rupert Lowe who doesn’t think foreigners like me should vote are urging Trump’s people to interfere in the UK. Ya couldn’t make it up!
What was really discussed in Alaska? Quid pro quo? “Tell ya what Vladimir, I’ll take Venezuela; you take Ukraine”
“Russia lies on an industrial scale” It’s almost ten years since I helped MFA Ukraine coin this phrase. We didn’t do it to be smart or get clicks; we did it to tell the world what Russia is, because to defeat disinformation you must first understand its source. Few listened then, will they now?
See below for pure hate, greed arrogance and hubris combined into one post by a criminal kleptocratic fascist and wannabe autocrat.
‘Ukraine has no cards’ Ukraine just took out a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk, with a long-range sea drone. This particular sub regularly launched cruise missiles that targeted hospitals and housing estates in Ukraine.
‘Spoiler alert, a peace deal for Ukraine before Christmas, is not very likely’ “Definitely it should not be a deal, at the moment we have to talk about (Ukraine’s) surrender” Andrey Kelin, Russia's Ambassador to London.
Great conversation with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning. His exam question: Why are we late to party in grasping Russia threat? 3 reasons: Wandel durch Handel, the failed German policy of change through trade Assuming Russia would embrace democracy in 1989 Not listening to Ukraine & others
‘Russia - the irony is off the charts’ To date over 205,000 Russian war crimes have been registered in The Hague. Entire cities have been wiped off the map, with at least 25K, likely many more murdered in Mariupol in just 7 weeks. But now Russia wants to sue Europe for freezing their money!
‘America’s new National Security Strategy’ “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu” And Europe is definitely on the menu!
London is my home & quite possibly the greatest city on earth. I first moved here in 1987 & it keeps getting better. It’s vibrant & truly diverse, 40% immigrants like me & my partner & guess what; we get on pretty well together. Big shout out to: @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning on @lbc.co.uk
‘Lest we forget’ Today I shall join my friend @PhilipIngMBE in the @TimesRadio Frontline Studio to discuss the latest on a war that we risk forgetting, Russia’s war on Ukraine. And on this armistice day we will also reflect on all those who paid & are still paying the ultimate price for freedom.
‘The most resilient people’ (Re upping this photo from 19 months ago) When this photo was taken there were an estimated 20,000 amputees in Ukraine, victims of bastard Russia’s genocidal war. By current estimates the number of amputees in Ukraine is now at least 35,000 & may be as many as 100,000.
Not three more Reform councillors expelled from their flagship council in Kent- ah Jaysus!
‘The Ukraine’ Ireland has elected a far left ‘Tankie’ peace monger who spouts Kremlin talking points: 1.Insists on referring to ‘The Ukraine’ 2.Railed against EU & industrial military base. 3.Has likened Germany’s recent rearmament to that of 1930’s Nazi Germany. She does not want Europe defended
‘Approximately £1,500 every year for every man woman & child in the UK’ “What price freedom” Farage used to say Well now he has his answer, we all have his answer! (Not that Farage will miss £1,500, it’s pocket change to him, many others are missing it. What Price Freedom👇 youtu.be/CtRabaX2f2g
Dear fellow blueskyers I’m finally giving this platform the attention you all deserve. I’m staying in the other place also but it has become a sewer where Musk is promoting worst of humanity & I estimate my visibility has been cut to 10%! Posting mainly on🇺🇦so gis a follow 🙏& I’ll follow ye back.
‘People who live in London are less likely to be victims of violent crime than anywhere else across England and Wales.’ @mrjamesob.bsky.social Office of National Statistics I sometimes wonder not it’s anything to do with the fact that 40% of us are immigrants. We are truly happily multicultural!
‘A face like a well slapped arse’ On hearing His Majesty the King say the following at dinner apparently: “Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine to deter aggression.”
I’m sick of idiots telling me Ukraine will have to concede land for peace What part of their countries would they be willing to give up for no good reason? How many of their fellow citizens would they be willing to abandon to systematic rape, looting, torture, murder & kidnap?