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www.stidmatt.com Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run, it is everything. #NAFO Any country or group that attacks civilians is no ally. It’s international law. Slava Ukraine

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Trump’s Tariffs Are STILL Gutting the Farms That Backed Him
YouTube video by The Logical Leftist Trump’s Tariffs Are STILL Gutting the Farms That Backed Him

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Donald Trump promised to protect American farmers with tariffs but instead of protection, it resulted in higher fertilizer costs and lower grain prices, severely impacting farm finances.
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03.03.2026 21:03 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair, we did promise security guarantees to Ukraine. We have no such ironclad security guarantee to any Middle Eastern country, excluding Turkey, if they.

03.03.2026 21:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shouldn’t Trump bring Saudi Arabia and Iran to the table for a peace agreement instead of closing the skies over the Gulf?

03.03.2026 21:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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TRUMP ON RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: "There is this tremendous hatred between Putin and Zelenskyy. I've seen a lot of hatred in my life, but I think this is about top scale."

Putin hates us because we refuse to die quietly. Zelenskyy hates Putin for trying to murder us all and erase our state.

03.03.2026 18:03 — 👍 251    🔁 49    💬 16    📌 2

The big grift

03.03.2026 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So… why not Putin?

03.03.2026 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would ask why you think Iran is more fragile than, say the Islamic State or the Taliban.

03.03.2026 15:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

After 30+ years, thousands of lives and trillions of wasted dollars, most Americans know this much.

Stay the hell out of the Middle East.

Watching the most delusional and incompetent administration in our lifetimes try to convince us otherwise, would be comical if it wasn’t dangerous.

03.03.2026 14:48 — 👍 2113    🔁 500    💬 80    📌 18

Now imagine if there was a way to hit two birds with one stone… perhaps by… sending Ukraine the military aid they need to win the war instead of appeasement which leads to Russia regrouping every time Ukraine makes a significant advance?

03.03.2026 15:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Newspapers that told their readers austerity, Brexit, Johnson & Truss would be brilliant are attacking the British Prime Minister for not unquestioningly following a lunatic President into an illegal attack. And on social media, he gets attacked from the other 'side' for doing the precise opposite!

03.03.2026 08:57 — 👍 3822    🔁 892    💬 262    📌 30

Hold on… is Chris Hayes mindlessly echoing the administration’s talking point here?

I believe Senator Gallego is telling the truth.

03.03.2026 14:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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70% of Ukrainians skeptical US-Ukraine-Russia talks will bring lasting peace, poll shows Only 25% of respondents said they rather believe in the talks' potential success, while 5% remained undecided, according to a poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

This is unsurprising. Ever since Trump retook the presidency last year he has proposed appeasement talks every few months. The talks eat away at Ukraine’s progress, allow Russia to regroup, and then the human safari continues. No reasonable person would expect anything good from it. #SlavaUkraine

03.03.2026 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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North Carolina and Texas have primary elections Tuesday. Here's what you need to know The midterm elections are officially underway and contests in Texas and North Carolina will be the first major opportunity for parties to hear from voters about what's important to them in 2026.

The midterms are here… wow our election season lasts forever…

03.03.2026 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

I’m confident the main reason Trump won is because Democrats were too open to children setting up their own computers. Really solving the real problems here, great job!

03.03.2026 01:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You couldn’t make this up.
And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

02.03.2026 20:14 — 👍 10906    🔁 3017    💬 666    📌 192

That lack of solid evidence makes predicting what will happen after this revolution, assuming it succeeds, extremely difficult.

Only time will tell.

02.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is relatively little available information about Iran compared to OECD countries. Getting reliable polling data is immensely difficult.

We know the Ayatollah was a dictator.

We have little solid evidence on exactly what Iranians want compared to OECD countries or even Russia.

02.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe Iran is different. Maybe being Shia which makes it relatively immune from Saudi influence will make a difference. Hard to know.

Even once a democracy is established, it must last, which is difficult as we see in Tunisia which suffers from backsliding.

Who knows…

02.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I remember the war in Libya which was meant to bring democracy, and the War in Gaza which was supposedly going to “Kill Hamas” now we have a war to topple the Iranian regime.

So far neither of those wars have succeeded.

I want to see a stable Middle East. It will not come from American actions.

02.03.2026 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Russia cannot survive another 10 months of Ukraine destroying their military bases and oil infrastructure. There will be nothing left at that point.

For this reason, I will be surprised if the war continues for another year.

Putin is trapped.

02.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only possible path at this point is a maximum victory for Ukraine and a demilitarization of Russia. If Iranians successfully topple their government, Russia loses another major ally. Russia’s military weakens.

02.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As Ukraine continues to destroy Russia’s energy and military capability, the ability of Russia to supply their troops at the front line diminishes. As Russia has fewer drones, we will get to a point where they won’t have supplies to continue their disgusting human safari.

Then Ukraine wins.

02.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you study political science or history, there will be no discussion of “red lines” because the very idea is moronic.

But there will be quite a lot of discussion about tipping points, which is how regimes fall.

I think Russia is close to a tipping point.

02.03.2026 15:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

02.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 7563    🔁 2225    💬 101    📌 108
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Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency The "anti-war" candidate has bombed seven countries and launched a new regime-change war in Iran.

💥“No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, 3 of which — Iran, Nigeria & Venezuela — had never been targeted by US strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in 4 years.”💥

02.03.2026 12:39 — 👍 550    🔁 240    💬 16    📌 38

This is a policy of genocide.

02.03.2026 01:21 — 👍 1969    🔁 838    💬 13    📌 10

Foreign militaries never “deliver” democracy.

Democracies emerge when domestic legitimacy + organized civil power + a credible transition plan converge.

I want nothing more than Iran to be free.

I hope they are allotted the dignity of self- determination.

Hands off Iran.

🙅🏻‍♀️🙏🏼✊🏼

01.03.2026 23:41 — 👍 33    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: We have survived this winter, the most difficult in all the years of the war. The Russians wanted to turn this winter into the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians. But Ukraine did not break. We have preserved our energy system.

01.03.2026 18:26 — 👍 727    🔁 169    💬 26    📌 7
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The Real Reason Putin Targets Schools?

Since the beginning of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, one in every seven schools has been destroyed or damaged.

Russia’s war crimes are documented fact and geopolitics is not a team sport. One country’s crimes do not cancel out another’s. (3)

www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/re...

01.03.2026 08:51 — 👍 223    🔁 53    💬 3    📌 2

1/ Khamenei was a brutal far right tyrant — whom America installed btw. The world is better off without such a dictator.

That is true.

But so is the following:

28.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 96    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 8