Steven Seegel

Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?

News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.

In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
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Sham dialogue: the Istanbul talks between Ukraine and Russia On 16 May, the first direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine since 2022 took place in Istanbul.

And on and on - www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacj...

Important.

Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.

An exhaustive and utterly damning assesment. "In sum, there is simply no plausible argument that the reported killing of two survivors clinging to the burning wreckage of their stricken vessel could be anything other than an extrajudicial killing." www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...

OTD in 1918 USSR invaded Latvia. This is how Russia became the world's largest country. We keep peacefully attacking our neighbours.

Deeds, not words. Do something finally

Too late. Marco Rubio already spilled the truth. The so called peace plan was Russia’s wish list, not something the US drafted. He’s trying to walk it back but the damage is done.

He’s scrambling.

US plan for Ukraine-Russia peace calls on Kyiv to cede land under its control Ukrainian officials say President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being pressed to agree to terms negotiated by the US and Russia

foreseeable crap aside, the first item on Trump’s plan for Ukraine’s reconstruction is investing in AI data centers. NOt rebuilding the electrical grid infrastructure and the damaged power plants without which people are freezing in the dark www.ft.com/content/6ea9...

White House Ukraine envoy to depart in January

Why Russia cannot help but invade The planned Trump-Putin summit in Budapest has been shelved. The White House says there's no point meeting unless "we're going to make a deal." Some view this as a setback for diplomacy, but it may we...

Why russia cannot help but invade?
Been pondering this question for a decade now...
🇷🇺 didn’t “return” to dictatorship under POO-tihn. It never left.
Rusich is crowdsourcing war crimes, Navalnaya is asking 🇪🇺 to fix 🇷🇺 for russians, and I try to make sense of it all
kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...

photographer Tyler Hicks - www.pulitzer.org/finalists/ty...

AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that. The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.

This - www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

I wish I were half as productive as they are as scholars. Both of them are living libraries.

Born in Dnipro(petrovsk). Yes. Watch out for those AI deep fakes floating around. Let’s not surrender ourselves or our brains yet to the robots. Please.

Weird. That’s not Plokhy. Check your photo.

I believe it’s called “strategic ambiguity” a la Merkel, which translates as “We will ingratiate ourselves to everyone, and do business with basically anyone no matter how evil until they come to our homes and places of business and try to kill us. Then we’ll readjust.” Shameless and spineless.

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna died in Russian custody in September 2024, investigation finds Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023 while reporting in Russian-occupied territories. Russian authorities confirmed her detention the following year.

⚡️Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna died in Russian custody in September 2024, investigation finds.

Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023 while reporting in Russian-occupied territories. Russian authorities confirmed her detention the following year.

Very interesting. Trump seems to finally be getting intelligence that Russia is not doing well and Ukraine has actually started to gain an upper hand in some areas. The narrative of Ukraine failure, which was always overblown, might be ending in Washington.

That is indeed the point.

1 killed, 13 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 20, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others, officials reported.

⚡️Update: 1 killed, 13 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities.

In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, regional Governor Serhii Lysak reported that one person was killed and 13 others injured amid the large-scale attack on the country.

The US ceased to be a reliable NATO ally on January 20, 2025. The last week has simply made that undeniable. The only question now is whether European leaders accept it.

The USA will not now defend Europe from Russia. That is reality. Everything else is hopes and dreams.

Ukraine reportedly strikes oil refinery in Russia's Saratov Oblast, explosions reported deep inside Russia Ukrainian drones reportedly struck an oil refinery in the Russian city of Saratov overnight on Sept. 20, Russian Telegram media channels reported, citing resident accounts.

⚡️Ukraine reportedly strikes oil refinery in Russia's Saratov Oblast, explosions reported deep inside Russia.

Ukrainian drones reportedly struck an oil refinery in the Russian city of Saratov overnight on Sept. 20, Russian Telegram media channels reported, citing resident accounts.

Not only the Saratov refinery, which produces annually over 7 million tons in oil products, was hit by Ukrainian drones last night, but also the Novokuybyshevsk refinery in the Samara region, Russia, the latter producing 7.9 million tons in oil products, annually.

Against the backdrop of Russian jets violating the airspace of Estonia and Poland earlier today, I find it odd that so many sensible people, including Lithuania’s Defence Minister, invoke Turkey’s response to a Russian attack aircraft in 2015. 1/7

In which case, my liberal arts college could learn a lot from you ;)

I'm sensing a need to add "power, money, and corruption" to course titles

I have heard this view many times and interestingly, I am hearing it more now than in the past. Often it is little more than a convenient excuse to sit back and do nothing. Even when it isn't, the distance from here to complacency is short. "Kyiv in 3 days" is history but Russia might as well win

Zelensky calls for tougher US sanctions, warns Russian drone strikes on Poland are 'Putin’s war' Zelensky remarks come days after Russian drones violated Polish airspace and were shot down in what marked the first known instance of NATO forces directly engaging Russian aerial assets during the fu...

⚡️Zelensky calls for tougher US sanctions, warns Russian drone strikes on Poland are 'Putin’s war.'

Zelensky remarks come days after Russian drones violated Polish airspace and were shot down in what marked the first known instance of NATO forces directly engaging Russian aerial assets.

Romania scrambles jets, Poland closes airport over Russian drone alerts "Russian military personnel know exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can stay in the air," President Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the attacks. "The routes are always calc...

⚡️Romania scrambles jets, Poland closes airport over Russian drone alerts.

"Russian military personnel know exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can stay in the air," Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the attacks. "This cannot be an accident.”

'This is just the beginning' — Pro-Ukrainian partisans claim strike on Russian air defense factory Communications were disabled after a strike on an air defense factory in the Russian city of Tula, the pro-Ukrainian Atesh partisan group claimed.

⚡️'This is just the beginning' — Pro-Ukrainian partisans claim strike on Russian air defense factory.

Communications were disabled after a strike on an air defense factory in the Russian city of Tula, the pro-Ukrainian Atesh partisan group claimed on Sept. 11.