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A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

Late stage kakistocracy.

Future historians are going to spend years debating whether the key driver was honest stupidity vs. cynical corruption. My working hypothesis: why can't it be both?

1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Russia does not want peace. They want to control Ukraine, then other European countries. This helps them achieve that goal.

Only so far you don't have two extreme candidates in the second round, which looks increasingly likely with Melenchon on the rise on the far-left and a splintering center

Det bliver spændende om præsidenten, der i sidste uge truede sine politiske modstandere med dødsstraf, er ham, der kan stoppe den politiske vold.

The US, the UK and France have terrible electoral systems to deal with a far-right party that gets more than 25 percent of the vote.

What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do? Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.

Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Trump would be the most popular leader in Europe

Yes, he would be the most popular leader in Europe

Trump has a surprisingly high approval rating considering that he is an extremely bad president

Legislators talk less about the future as they age | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

NEW ARTICLE: @palesl.bsky.social, Vesa Koskimaa and I have an letter out in JOP, "Politicians talk less about the future as they age" doi.org/10.1086/739406 (1/10)

What happens when you combine @jacobnyrup.bsky.social fondness for turning dictators into Pepper Pig characters with my PowerPoint slides for the course I teach, Way of the Dictator. You get one of the greatest collaborations in the history of comparative authoritarianism 😆

@chknutsen.bsky.social

Haha, I am happy to see that my hard work using ChatGPT has been turned into something useful!

The war is Ukraine’s fault because they haven’t shown enough “gratitude” to Donald Trump. This is like watching a Godfather sequel where the Don has advanced dementia.

That sounds about right!

I guess they can’t really negotiate much with the Russians because Trump doesn’t know what is in the plan or doesn’t care, and the American team is a bunch of amateurs with little knowledge, so they just accept whatever the Russians come up with

Do you think Trump even knows what is in his “peace plan”?

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

According to the FT, the US Chargé d’Affaires, Julie Davis, told the Europeans that “as much as we can support Ukraine continuing the war, there are limits”

But it is Europe that supports Ukraine. If anything, the US is making a profit from selling weapons.

www.ft.com/content/f411...

It's even worse. The US is making a profit on the war right now, and apparently they are willing to give up that in order to force through this Munich thing.

»Some of the phrases in the US’s “peace proposal” for Ukraine appear to have been originally written in Russian. In several places the language would work in Russian but seems distinctly odd in English.« (aus: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...)

for senior citizens it can mean so much to spend quality time with a young person, even if it's just a few minutes

US politics is insane

“USA-peace proposal - go fuck yourselves” - støt den danske Ukraine komité på MobilePay 924084 - og del! Det er nu, det gælder.

The US is extorting Zelenskyy to sign away territory Russia doesn't even hold, as well as Ukraine's ability to defend itself, on the basis of Putin's word he'll honor a peace and Trump's word the US will make him.

Just so we're clear what's happening here.

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!

Insanity

The average dictator is close to 40 year older than the median person in their country - and it is increasing.

The average democrat is less than 25 year older than the median person in their country - and it is decreasing.