Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦 (@StasOlenchenko) / X

Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦

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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦

@StasOlenchenko

Thinking about the human-technology feedback loops. Ukrainian. European.

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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Oct 26, 2023
As a Ukrainian person looking at everything that’s been happening in the world lately, here’s what I really, REALLY need people living in liberal democracies to understand as soon as possible. This isn’t a pleasant conversation. A thread. 1/
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Feb 12, 2025
Funnily enough people who voted for Trump because they wanted the US to be strong don’t realize now that today Trump made the US look like Putin’s bitch in front of the whole world.
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Feb 11, 2025
When Russia banned our language, Ukraine didn’t become Russian. When it stole our history, Ukraine didn’t become Russian. When it starved 4 million Ukrainians to death in 1930s, Ukraine didn’t become Russian. No matter how the war ends now, Ukraine will never become Russian.
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Feb 18, 2025
ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
@RobertKennedyJc
Feb 16, 2025
Dear Zelensky, The American people will not accept hard-earned tax dollars fueling endless conflicts. We demand an end to these forever wars. It's time for peace! The perpetual funding is over!
Readers added context
Context needed - this is a parody account, not a real RFKJ. Here is the real account: x.com/RobertKennedyJr
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Nov 21, 2022
Exactly 9 years ago today, I was in a pub with my uni pals when we heard the news that then-president Yanukovych would not sign the association agreement with the EU, crushing Ukraine's European hopes and locking us to Russia. We were not buying it. Here's what happened next 🧵
Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Oct 26, 2023
Replying to @StasOlenchenko
You can’t afford to take democracy for granted. It may feel like your countries’ democratic institutions have been there forever — but that’s just because you were born after generations of your compatriots had given their lives to defend and develop these institutions. 2/
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Nov 2, 2022
So I spent some time thinking about why this tweet made me so sick and full of rage — on a scale that no Russian propaganda piece ever managed to enrage me. Let me explain in this thread.
Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Oct 26, 2023
Replying to @StasOlenchenko
The fact that Russia can still buy practically all military tech components from European companies to keep bombing Ukraine into rubble is a clear signal for me: most Europeans still don’t understand the threat we’re all up against. 7/
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Oct 26, 2023
Replying to @StasOlenchenko
You’ve lived your life in the comfort of your ancestors’ victories, but you may be the last generation that can feel this comfort while growing up. Things are changing, and democracies around the world are struggling to defend against internal and external threats. 3/
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Apr 30, 2022
The language context of Ukraine can be a tricky topic for any outsider. In this long and personal thread, I’ll illustrate the relationship between 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺 languages in Ukraine using my family’s history. I’m a bilingual Ukrainian raised in a Russian-speaking family in Kyiv.
Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Mar 10, 2024
Scott Ritter made it absurdly easy.
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Oct 26, 2023
Replying to @StasOlenchenko
Now, there are actors in this world whose main aim is to crush your countries’ democracies. These actors are your direct enemies — it’s as simple as that. I know that you don’t want to have enemies or fight wars. Ukraine also didn’t choose to have this war — Russia did. 4/
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Dec 18, 2024
It’s all “fuck the rules, be the alpha” until your favorite war criminals get hurt.
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Stas Olenchenko 🇺🇦
@StasOlenchenko
Oct 26, 2023
Replying to @StasOlenchenko
If you want the next generation to live in the comfort of your democratic institutions, it’s time to take security matters seriously and act now. There is no time left — many forces are already at war with you even if you choose not to see things this way. End. 14/14
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