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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

If you can, avoid anything with Musk behind it. It will rot your brain. And that's a feature, not a bug.

Moscow has no claims on anything within the internationally recognised borders of Ukraine. Nothing at all. They must not be granted any influence at all in any shape or form. No concessions, only punishment.

Beautiful. Call them out, all of them. Whether truly Kremlin propagandists or just criminally negligent in their research, people like Sachs are aiding the murderous Kremlin regime.

This is spot on: As I recall, the EU/US sought a transitional government with Yanukovich still involved as an end to the Maidan revolution. Typical bureaucratic diplomacy. And the Maidan protesters pulled a coffin with a murdered protester on stage & said basically "Fuck no, Yanuk has to go"

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Translation: "Just give russia what they're currently occupying. My pal Putler says he's almost done ethnically & culturally cleansing the area anyway, so it's basically russian already. Also, I'm bored & can't be bothered."

He's just producing content for TV. That's all his many meetings & calls with Putler are about. He's just stringing Ukraine - and the rest of us - along. If he wanted to end the war, he could. He doesn't, at least not in a way where his Kremlin pal loses.

Any country that allows itself to be ruled by a chaos clown like this deserves only the utmost disdain. You have given up all honor, all dignity. I'd say I hope you'll prove me wrong, but seeing how you've at this point almost entirely replaced citizenship with consumerism, I have no hope.

It’s not Ukraine’s war against Russia — it’s Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Hard to believe we still have to remind major outlets of that in 2025.

Every time I encounter a troll, vatnik or useful idiot in my comments, I donate to Ukraine, and thank the troll for "their" donation. This 1) means money for the UAF, 2) calms me no end, and 3) pisses off the trolls immensely, which is a nice bonus.

Russians themselves proudly published a video of a drone attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region — openly boasting about their “achievements” and celebrating another war crimes.

Me too. Only problem: We already know. Russians, in the tradition of empires everywhere & always, consider themselves a master race, and everyone else inferior - even when confronted with an obviously superior citizenry in Ukraine. In short: They're murderous morons.

Russia and the rise of the radical right Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

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She stressed that Moldovan citizens voted for democracy, Europe and peace, but the victory is temporary.

"If authoritarian regimes adapt faster than democracies, freedom will be lost," - the president said.

Shields matter little to an opponent willing to throw bodies at it until it breaks. Swords are the only true deterrence. Especially explosive swords that can be launched at great distances at enemy troop concentrations.

Plus, it will now be politically nearly impossible for any country that still adheres to the rules of war to take part in US led military operations.

If the war cannot be won on the battlefield, then how can russia have already won?

1/ A Russian soldier has spoken of hellish conditions on the front line in Ukraine, with no evacuations of the wounded, rotting bodies lying around, no food or water for anybody, no pay, constant Ukrainian drone and mortar attacks, and suicidal orders from corrupt commanders. ⬇️

The terror against Kherson does not cease for even a single day.
Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.

A new financial impetus for peace in Ukraine We need the mobilisation of resources on a scale that will secure Kyiv’s military resilience

Huge. Just huge. This is Eurobonds for Ukraine and it’s exactly what is needed. German leadership in Europe appears back. Credit to Merz.

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🤬 Russian drones have started dropping explosives directly onto the streets of Ukrainian cities. One such incident occurred the day before yesterday in Nizhyn.

Enig, medmindre de vurderede at der var større fare forbundet med nedskydning i form af vragrester f.eks.
Men: Det er kun fordi jeg håber inderligt på, at det pauvre resultat ikke skyldes inkompetence - eller politiske hensyn.

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Jeg håber virkelig der ligger virkeligt gode trusselsanalyser bag valget af droner, man ikke skød ned. Og at det i det hele taget var bevidst, at kun enkelte blev skudt ned. Ellers er det ikke kun en 🇷🇺 test af NATO men en afsløring af NATO inkompetence.

Merz says again that no troops would deploy to Ukraine until a ceasefire, & even then only with reservations.
@bundeskanzler thinks he’s reassuring his voters, but he’s actually reassuring the Kremlin: You have nothing to fear as long as you keep the war going. We won’t stop you.

Yes, waiting for you to come back!

They were in the hallway when a Shahed drone flew into the apartment in Kyiv: a camera captured the strike from inside the home.

Despite the extensive destruction in the apartment, bottles of champagne survived.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, and that it won't shit on your grass anymore if you just give it your garden, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆

Agree, Graham is the MAGA "safety valve", releasing the hottest air possible but never following through, thereby making it possible for Republicans to hide behind his rhetoric without actually doing anything.

The crime was committed by drone operators of the Russian group “Doomsday”, who do not even hide that they are attacking civilians.