➡️ Russia continues to try and set conditions for any ceasefire in Putin’s war against Ukraine.
As Col. @jonsweet.bsky.social, U.S. Army (ret.) & I warn at @thehill.com, it’s crucial that Team Trump not give into them.
Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants Ukraine. ↖️
thehill.com/opinion/nati...
13.03.2025 13:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
➡️ Goals change in wars. Especially when you start to lose them as Russia is doing in Ukraine.
Tomorrow, in a special piece for @thehill.com at 7AM EST, Col. @jonsweet.bsky.social, U.S. Army (ret.) & I argue what Putin now hopes to be his primary end state.
He must be deterred. ↖️
16.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
➡️ Conquering Ukraine, for now, is beyond Putin’s reach. However, as Col. @jonsweet.bsky.social, U.S. Army (ret.) & I warn at @thehill.com, destroying NATO from within has become the new goal of his sputtering ‘special military operation.’
If done, he will return to Ukraine.
Link below. ↖️
17.03.2025 11:07 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
➡️ It’s not a coincidence that as Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire gained momentum that the Houthis announced they were going to resume attacks against Israeli shipping.
At the @kyivpost.com, @jonsweet.bsky.social & I urge to recognize he is at war with Putin’s Axis of Evil.
Link below. ↖️
18.03.2025 10:25 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Lockdowns made us rude, MAGA vs. the ‘realists’ and other commentary
“If the world seems to you a little nastier and more confrontational than it was just a few years ago,” notes Reason’s J.D. Tuccille, “you’re not alone.”
➡️ Shout out to the @newyorkpost.bsky.social’s editorial board for citing my piece with Col. @jonsweet.bsky.social, U.S. Army (ret.) at @thehill.com — Putin’s real goal: Destroy NATO
Grateful. Especially given the importance of this message re: Putin’s designs on NATO. ↖️
nypost.com/2025/03/17/o...
18.03.2025 11:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
➡️ Putin & Khamenei continue to use the Houthis to distract Team Trump from Ukraine & Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
As Col. @jonsweet.bsky.social, U.S. Army (ret.) & I urge at @thehill.com, it’s time for Donald Trump to adopt Admiral James Stavridis’ plan. ↖️
thehill.com/policy/natio...
20.03.2025 11:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
➡️ Team #Putin is playing Team #Trump for time in Saudi Arabia. As @jonsweet.bsky.social & I warn in a special piece at @thehill.com, #Russia isn’t interested in a ceasefire in Ukraine save where Moscow gains battlefield advantages.
Meanwhile, Putin keeps killing Ukrainians.
Link below. ↖️
25.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
➡️ @jonsweet.bsky.social & I are honored to have been picked up a 14th time by the Drudge Report for our piece that is running in @thehill.com.
This time is especially meaningful as we highlighted an upcoming documentary entitled Faith Under Siege & the Bazylevych family.
Links below. ↖️
25.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
➡️ In our latest for the @kyivpost.com, Col. @jonsweet.bsky.social, U.S. Army (ret.) & I take a deep dive into the fallacy of #Putin & the so-called ceasefire negotiations.
Putin isn’t interest in peace or in pieces of #Ukraine. He wants it all.
Link below. ↖️
26.03.2025 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Opinion: The Putin Fallacy
Anyone who has been studying the Kremlin’s methods over the years can recognize exactly how Putin is stringing the Americans along so that Washington winds up pressuring Kyiv.
"The fallacy now is that there is some sort of “ceasefire” in Ukraine – and that Russia is adhering to it while Zelensky continues to resist."
@marktoth.bsky.social and I explain in the @kyivpost.com
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/49605
26.03.2025 13:52 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Europe’s Thin Red Line in Ukraine
Europe is facing an existential crisis.
➡️ Grateful as well to Real Clear World for citing my latest w/ Col. @jonsweet.bsky.social, U.S. Army (Ret.) at @thehill.com — Europe’s thin red line in Ukraine. ↖️
www.realclearworld.com/2025/03/06/e...
08.03.2025 05:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by ПЕРШИЙ ЗАХІДНИЙ
Jon Sweet and Mark Toth on US military options in Ukraine
Privilege for @marktoth.bsky.social and I to join Daniel Tkiie on News Channel 24 and First Western TV in Ukraine to discuss the post-Oval Office meltdown and Europe's way ahead.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkYe...
08.03.2025 19:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
Jon Sweet and Mark Toth - For Reasons that Partially Align, Trump & Putin Need Zelenskyy to be gone.
Trump and Putin need Zelenskyy to go, for reasons that align in certain respects and differ in others. Justice and security are getting in the way of 'the big deal'. They may use any means available to force Zelenskyy out. @marktoth.bsky.social - @jonsweet.bsky.social - youtu.be/wco3jpmidwU
04.03.2025 18:35 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
➡️ Always an honor to appear w/ @jonsweet.bsky.social on one of @siliconcurtain.bsky.social’s podcasts.
If you are not familiar with Jonathan Fink’s work, check out his other podcasts. He has a huge array of impressive guests including retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges. ↖️
04.03.2025 21:10 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
Jon Sweet and Mark Toth - For Reasons that Partially Align, Trump & Putin Need Zelenskyy to be gone.
@marktoth.bsky.social and I had the honor to join Jonathan Fink again on the @siliconcurtain.bsky.social to discuss the 2nd and 3rd order effects of the Oval Office version of Tombstone's O.K. Corral last Friday.
Is Zelensky in the way?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wco3...
04.03.2025 21:28 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
➡️ Trump’s U.S. foreign policy has taken a sharp right turn.
As @jonsweet.bsky.social & I note at @thehill.com, it’s arguably become mafia-like in its construct & execution.
If so, a turf war looms. Putin as well is intent on being the Don of the Donbas. ↖️
27.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"Washington is devolving into a mafioso world. This deal is the equivalent of Ukraine paying protection money."
As Henry Hill said in Goodfellas: “F**k you, pay me.”
@marktoth.bsky.social and I explain in @thehill.com
thehill.com/opinion/nati...
27.02.2025 15:08 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
YouTube video by No Delusion Zone
Will America Withdraw From NATO? #nato #trump #nodelusionzone
@marktoth.bsky.social and I return to the No Delusion Zone with David Debatto to talk about the war in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq92...
24.02.2025 11:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by ПЕРШИЙ ЗАХІДНИЙ
Jon Sweet and Mark Toth on Trump’s next steps on Ukraine
@marktoth.bsky.social and I join News Anchor and TV Host Daniel Tkiie at News Channel 24 and First Western Television in Ukraine to discuss Trump’s next steps in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qop7...
01.02.2025 16:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Putin still believes he can win. He just needs the U.S. and NATO to stop supplying weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.”
@marktoth.bsky.social and I document in @thehill.com
Vladimir Putin is trying to pull a snow job on Trump thehill.com/opinion/nati...
30.01.2025 13:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"The “root cause” of the war in Ukraine is Putin ... Trump’s message ... should be to leave Ukraine or risk losing your army and your country."
@marktoth.bsky.social and I explain.
What part of Putin’s capitulation demands don’t you understand? thehill.com/opinion/nati...
24.01.2025 12:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“It is Trump’s world now. The self-defeating passivity of the Biden Administration is gone … for better or worse, he is asserting himself on the global stage.”
@marktoth.bsky.social and I explain in @thehill.com.
thehill.com/opinion/nati...
23.01.2025 12:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by No Delusion Zone
Trump 2.0 and Russia, China and Iran: Reality vs Campaign Rhetoric
@marktoth.bsky.social and I return to the @nodelusionzone.bsky.social show with host David Debatto to discuss Trump 2.0 and Russia, China, and Iran: Reality vs Campaign Rhetoric and few days before the inauguration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWY...
21.01.2025 19:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by TVP WORLD
Biden ‘hands over’ Ukraine to Trump | Ukraine This Week
Great to be back on @tvpworld.bsky.social "Ukraine this Week" with Don Arleth to discuss the Biden handover to Trump. But what will the strategies of 'weaken Russia' and 'just enough' transition to under the Trump Admin? We discuss.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGVO...
20.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion: It’s Time for Trump to ‘Super Size’ Ukraine
Donald Trump gets sworn in for his second term today and inherits Russia’s war against Ukraine. He needs to have a plan to end it. What should the new administration do?
"Without sustainment [Russian] assaults grind to a halt. If the AFU severs that connective tissue, then the Russian forces in Ukraine will wither on the vine."
@marktoth.bsky.social and I explain in the @kyivpost.com
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/45699
20.01.2025 11:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trump must end the permissive environment Joe Biden is leaving behind
President Biden’s assertion that he is “handing over” a stronger country to President-elect Donald Trump is false, as the world is a more dangerous place due to a ‘permissiv…
➡️ Apolitically speaking, Trump must end Biden’s permissive environmental that began as a result of his disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Or, as @jonsweet.bsky.social
& I warn at @TheHill, Trump can make the same mistake by abandoning Ukraine. ↖️
thehill.com/opinion/nati...
16.01.2025 12:10 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
