“Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them...” - Czech President Petr Pavel. President Petr Pavel, delivered an absolute masterclass on how to handle the world's biggest bullies. He completely shreds putin’s murderous, unhinged invasion of Ukraine, and then turns right around... to put Xi’s feet to the fire for quietly enabling the whole thing while pretending to be neutral. He basically calls out both regimes for holding global security hostage and acting like international law doesn't apply to them. Pavel: “Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them. When rules are cast aside, raw power fills the vacuum. A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time. It is a world where a single spark can ignite a fire. Instead, we should insist that with greater power comes greater responsibility. Responsibility in the use of force, responsibility to exercise restraint, but also responsibility to use one's influence to prevent force from becoming necessary in the first place. This applies particularly to permanent members of the UN Security Council. China has the power, influence and responsibility to help prevent conflicts, to escalate tensions and contribute to ending wars. This includes using its influence to help bring Russia's aggression against Ukraine to an end. That aggression was launched and continues to be waged by another permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia, in violation of the UN Charter and fundamental principles of international law. Russia's aggression continues to inflict enormous suffering on the Ukrainian people. Civilians and civilian infrastructure continue to be attacked indiscriminately. And risks are growing day by day. Russia's aggressive posture poses a direct threat to European security as a whole. The immediacy of that threat was starkly illustrated by the recent attempted Russian drone attack on Leipzig Halle Airport in Germany, only 150 kilometers from the borders of Czech Republic.”show more

@JohnCleese Thank you sir @prezidentpavel 👏👏 How I wish someone or someone’s would stand up to @POTUS He does not represent the values of many Americans. His priority is money. May greed be his downfall

It's amazing that Russia hasn't been expelled from the UN. waging war on your neighbour should result in immediate dismissal.

These are not points for formal speeches only. He stresses them in every debate he takes part in, even at elementary schools. He has like 18 public/school debates a year in total at minimum and he answers questions about war in UA in a similar fashion patiently every time.

The following happened in Ukraine in the run-up to the war: The pro-Russian President Yanukovych (considered the most corrupt politician in the Eastern Bloc, with a private zoo and gilded bathroom fixtures) campaigned on the basis of a planned rapprochement with the EU and emphasized this with numerous EU flags at all his campaign appearances. Until 2013, Ukraine's EU orientation was met with understanding in Moscow. Only in 2013 did Putin, who previously officially had no problem with it, change his mind about Ukraine's association with the EU and turned against it. Against the will of the majority of citizens, Yanukovych, at the behest of the Kremlin, therefore abandoned Ukraine's European integration, thus breaking his most important election promise. The result was anger among the betrayed voters. In this situation, the Ukrainians did not need any covert intervention from the USA. Is it any wonder that Ukrainians throughout the country took to the streets in protest? And not just a few thousand in the capital, but millions, in all the cities and villages of the country. In 2014, Yanukovych fled the people's wrath to Russia and was then removed from office in a democratic vote by the freely elected parliament, in accordance with the constitution. However, this did not fit Putin's plan. In April 2014, Russia began a covert armed invasion of the Ukrainian Donbas region. Nevertheless, some politicians, journalists, and even some academics still adhere to the Russian propaganda narrative of an alleged "civil war" in eastern Ukraine at that time. In reality, provocateurs appeared in the Donbas who were unfamiliar with the area and had to ask locals for directions to the demonstrations. Then came the so-called "little green men," who were Russian soldiers in green uniforms, but without insignia. They arrived, just like in Crimea, and occupied and looted police and border guard posts. The anti-Ukrainian insurgents in Sloviansk were led by former FSB officer Igor Girkin (alias "Strelkov"). Girkin's group played a crucial role in transforming a regional civil conflict in the Donbas into a proxy interstate war between Russia and Ukraine. In an interview for the Russian far-right weekly newspaper Zavtra (Tomorrow) in November 2014, Girkin admitted: “I started the war. If our [armed] unit hadn't crossed the border [from Russia into Ukraine], everything would have turned out the way it did in [the northeastern Ukrainian] city of Kharkiv and [the southern Ukrainian] city of Odesa. [...] The impetus for the war, which continues to this day, came from our [armed] unit. We reshuffled all the cards that were on the table. All of them!” ‘Little green men’-commander, FSB Colonel Girkin, claimed in 2014: ‘Of 4 million inhabitants of Donbass, not even 1,000 were ready to fight for Russia. Furthermore, almost exclusively tank types appeared that were not even in the inventory of the Ukrainian army, such as the T-72B3 and also the T-90A. Russia was shelling Ukrainian positions from Russian territory at that time. This culminated in the downing of MH17 by a Russian BUK-M1 system of the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade from Kursk. This brigade had demonstrably been deployed to the Donbas region and returned to Russia after the downing of the Malaysian passenger plane. This highly complex BUK-M1 system, in particular, requires a well-trained crew, something absolutely impossible with self-proclaimed "separatists". The argument formulated as the goal of the war, namely the "protection of the people killed in the Donbas over the past eight years," was misleading insofar as 90 percent of all deaths occurred in 2014/2015, when Russia had sent mercenaries and its own military units into the region. Extracts of: Russians claiming to be separatists 2014 in Luhansk Girkin interview:

Trump is the one helping Russia.

Again Putin didn't start the war. Ukraine had been warned 100 times to leave the Donbas alone. They didn't so Putin stopped drawing lines in the sand and invaded.

Well said. But what about calling out Trump and his administration as party to destabilizing the international rules-based order and destroying the rule of law and democracy at home.

What an articulate and well structured condemnation of the diabolical situation of the unjustified invasion of Ukraine by Russia under Putin. What a contrast to the unhinged UN address by Russian asset Trump on the state of affairs in the world and his diabolical threats to Iran

Well said sir! Thank you @prezidentpavel .

And responsibility is nothing without the power to BALANCE it. Like no veto in UNSC w/o majority in UNGA to offset and balance it. Recall fairness in a game: one decides on the portions and rules, the other has the first pick... 🙂

Ахаха. Россия и Китай, только они нарушают правила. Какой же лицемерный хуесос

Great! A real man!

Не хулиган а преступник путин

The Chinese Communist Party government wants the world to remain in chaos so that other countries can rely on it, thereby buffering its internal conflicts and prolonging its rule.

🎯💯

Like NATO/USA in Serbia, Iraq, Libya, etc. What a hypocrite! Luckily, nobody cares about his opinion. He’s just a vassal.

Say it LOUD!!🖕🇷🇺

It’s still just talk (vs action).

He has exceptional values. As a bolshevik agent, working for communists , his wife too! He also know how to appriciate invaision since he was saying that it was friendly visit in 1968

Wy Czesi macie Prezydenta, my, Polacy krzykacza, gangusa silnego wobec słabych.

He deftly jumped on the pendostan suzerain. 😄

Tohle je můj prezident! 🇨🇿

Чехия и Европа как всегда ни в чём не виноваты.

Only you forgot about those rules in 1999, 2003, 2008, 2015, 2025 and 2026

@KaderkovaIva Proud of my president. 🥹🦁

He’s a communist NATO puppet.

Czemu polska ma debila a nie prezydenta??

@hrabenka1 So proud of HIM!!! 🥹🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️🇨🇿