That will be Trump’s mantra for the next nine months - voter fraud, voter fraud, voter fraud - the cause of every problem and the response to every question.

Yes, it’s all going according to plan. 😉

The AFU have set themselves a target of killing 50,000 Russian military personnel per month. Meanwhile on the battlefield the Russians are being pushed back in some sectors.

Zelensky will politely and respectfully continue to play along with Trump’s diplomatic theatrics until such time as Putin, or whoever is charge in the Kremlin, gets real.

Fortunate indeed that Russia has proved to be not nearly as powerful as we all thought it was before Putin pooped the bed. And Xi, it seems, is engaged in a power struggle with a faction that doesn’t think invading Taiwan is a good idea.

The history books will not be kind to today’s Congress. It remains to be seen whether future Americans will be allowed to read such books.

The new territorial realities seem to be somewhat ill defined at the moment.
Slava Ukraini. Heroyam Slava.

Bring it on indeed. Lance the boil.

I think Nige needs to get himself a new dictionary.

How in the legislation would an extreme criminal protest group be distinguished from a run of the mill criminal protest group? In fact if any group, protesting or otherwise, is engaged in criminal activity the authorities would appear to already have an ample array of legislative responses.

Until an effective counter to battlefield drones becomes available, current NATO combat infantry training is literally out of date, though NATO conventional air superiority should counter to some degree the disadvantages that its infantry would otherwise face.

The US Secretary of Health, folks.

Surely the media have squeezed every last indignant frontpage headline out of this saga by now.

‘Inappropriate’. Typical Canadian understatement. 🙂

If they had spent the past years diversifying like Czechia and Austria they wouldn’t be complaining today, but then complaining is what Orban does best.

There’s an old adage, every nation has the government it deserves.
Too harsh or on point?

Last year’s bipartisan sanctions bill on Russian oil is still sitting in Trump’s in tray.

More gullible idiocy from the former leader of the free world.

No doubt that’s the kind of reaction the Administration loves to hear.

There is much to be proud of.
Slava Ukraini.

A rare piece of good news, but 211 Republican House members still in Trump’s pocket.

Her nomination should never have been approved in the first place. The consequences of the DOJ serving at the pleasure of the President, this President, have been and continue to be sobering, and there is no realistic prospect of a correction for at least the rest of this year.

Credit where credit is due; decades of Euro-bashing from the right wing UK media, including false reporting from former journalist Boris Johnson, was a major contributor.

If Woodhouselee is correct, Brits must be very slow learners.

To pick up on a point that Churchill made a very long time ago, messy though democracy may be there isn’t a better alternative, and it’s not as though just about every conceivable alternative hasn’t been tried at some time.

Inhibitions fall away and the real Donald Trump becomes more visible as his cognitive decline continues apace.

There is at least an acknowledgement that a ‘settlement in Ukraine must take into account Ukraine's security interests’. Is this a first from the Russian Foreign Ministry?
It’s certainly a far cry from - Ukraine doesn’t exist, it belongs to us and it’s full of Nazis we have to get rid of.

And as for the ‘realities that have emerged’, they are constantly changing and not generally in Russia’s favour.

In Trump-world any election he doesn’t win has to be rigged. How could it be otherwise with an ego the size of a planet, an entourage of sycophants and an intellect just a couple of notches above moron. And that was all before he became trapped in an accelerating physical and mental downward spiral.

And, by definition, Orban voters will vote for a Orban.