CA TenWolde

The choice of Rutte over Kallas for NATO head was a clear signal that the preferred course of the entrenched European leadership was appeasement of Trump over the strengthening of sovereignty.

Someone needs to be the first to use the phrase "unconditional surrender", and then rally Europe towards the pursuit of victory, not the maintenance of conflict.

Fixed your statement: "The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund is reportedly set to meet U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to discuss what bribes are needed to maintain Trump's tacit support of Russia."

Damnatio Memoriae

De Wever's name will forever be tainted by cowardice and corruption.

That man should drink free in every bar he ever enters. Well done indeed.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

1) the Traitor 8 should be stripped of all posts and committees, and frozen out. This is the only thing that will affect their cushy lobbying money, and would send a loud message. 2) It's long overdue for Schumer to resign. He's too weak to hold the Senate together, too weak to fight back.

Shameful weakness.

Ok - what the heck are those gold discs next to the phones? Coasters for gold-plated Diet Cokes? Super-sized Donald Coins for his Fascist Fun Meals?

This. Phillips has left out a rather important bit of context to the race.

Her time has passed, fair or not. Loud voices pushing comprehensive reform are needed, not the old order.

You're right about the media reaction. My feed is full of usually critical people reacting as if this was a major development that would pressure India and China into giving up their support of Russia, and crediting Trump for "better late than never".

This is the great mistake of establishment Democrats, thinking that things can just go back to "the way they were". There has to be an uprooting, root and branch, of the corrupt system that the far right has insinuated into our democracy over 40 years. Complete, comprehensive, revolutionary reform.

As a Michigander ex-pat living in Helsinki, Chicago is probably the one place I would move back for. And a big part of that is the fighting spirit of the governor and the city.

This is a long-standing weakness in reporting on European multi-party elections. "Wins" (which are often in the 25-35% range) by a single party are portrayed in the same way as 50+% "victories". Americans in particular simply don't understand the multi-party systems.

Although it would be an intensive operation, close monitoring of the east and west choke points (Petersburg and the Vik) and physically boarding all Russian connected ships for inspection would be an excellent start.

Can nothing be done to stop this?

What resistance has been raised to the boat strikes? I have been looking for signs of such and haven't seen any.

And we call on Hungary to evict its Russian lapdog leaders and turn back towards Europe to find better long term solutions.

Hungary and Slovakia had three years to change their energy regime, and they chose to side with Russia. Unfortunate for their people, but they need to rise up and throw out their corrupt leaders and rejoin the West.

The narrative on this was always that "Trump won't be so bad, because the army and police won't go along with his fascist impulses." That has proved to be woefully misguided.