Everybody is using that the EU is not one voice. Now they talk to Merz, Marcon etc. The EU is responsible itself for this non-sense.
The EU must have one voice, and not all separate foreign ministers.
The EU is played out against each other and has a fraction of the power it should have.

Helpful that Russian marked it as one of theirs.

Salaries not paid is in some very specific industries( coal mining for example). It is not a general problem.

What powers do congress and the senate have to overrule these orders and stop it?
The main problem seems to be that there is no one trying to stop the orders.

Off road equipement? Pot hole detector? Falling debris early warning system? Drone detector?

I would really suggest to Ukraine to send some stuff to Moscow. Doesn´t need guidance or explosives, just send them in the general direction. Their air defense will do the job.

Well, we see what air defense is doing. Are they hitting anything else then their own buildings?

Great video. It seems there is a new geo location challenge on the internet.

Is it known which components are the bottleneck?

True, but Moscow is not some Russian dump provincial town. The salaries there should be sufficient not to roll over from 0.8 dollar cent a liter.?

And gave access to all systems to an unvetted South African whose father is singing the praises of Putin.

They use the power of positive thinking. If you want it so, it will be so.

Funny they worry about less then a cent, while I pay nearly 2 euro per liter.

Highly likely. Trump will now feel stung because his peace proposal was booed away.
So he will create an incident with his loyal Himmler JD Vance.

Amnesty for crimes is probably important for Trump given his history.
He and his supporters will love amnesties once the investigations into his presidency start.

If you put clowns in the cabinet, you can expect a clown show.
Now it will be interesting who Trump will throw under the bus and shift blame to. That will reveal his real position.

So it was not obvious to them that the first test to what was coming was Trumps clown cabinet?
And they all voted for these nominations.
They deserve all that is coming to them.

2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal - Wikipedia

Sounds a bit like the Moldovan bank scandal. Russia might be indirectly steering these events to create chaos/instability. Russia's default tactic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Mo...

Not the only men to read just the first or first 2 sentences.
Although, he might not come further then the headline, as he does not need to read, he knows it already.
Remember: he is the absolute expert in everything. He knows more then anyone is frequently heard.

Most likely he just said yes when Witkoff told him this was the max Russia would agree with.
Trump just took that at face value.
Now that the blowback starts to hurt Trump, it will be interesting to see if he throws Witkoff under the bus and blames him for all that has gone wrong.

Trump is rumored to refuse to read briefings etc. but watches Fox all day. This is why Tulsi Gabbard thought of doing nat. sec. briefings in video format.
It is highly unlikely that Witkoff presented his list and Trump went point-by-point to look at it.

He is clinically insane. And he is leader of the most powerful nation on earth. What could go wrong.

I have done some random google map street view tour of random places in Russia. Just pick something where there is street view, move slightly away from the center and be amazed.
Words fail to describe it.

To put this more bluntly, Europe has largely outsourced its foreign policy to America since WWII. This has created the illusion within the EU that foreign policy remains a national “competency.” It’s not. So if Europe wants a bigger voice it needs to speak as Europe.

A political bitchslap if I ever saw one. Brilliant.

Christo Grozev on X: "I happened to see an early version of the "peace plan" , about 6 months ago. It was a purely Russian concept and was nearly identical to what we see today (certainly the 50/50 Russian assets + EU investment in Ukraine reconstruction was there). However two items are glaringly" / X I happened to see an early version of the "peace plan" , about 6 months ago. It was a purely Russian concept and was nearly identical to what we see today (certainly the 50/50 Russian assets + EU investment in Ukraine reconstruction was there). However two items are glaringly

For those still on X: Christo Grozev posted this: x.com/christogroze...
For those who do not know him: he is an amazing investigative journalist. One of the reasons for me to still have my account on X

Renovating these old wrecks will be much more expensive then building new.
All wiring will be eaten by mice(if not stolen), the engine is all garbage. Rust everywhere from being in the open.
That they still choose to do it seems to indicate that they cannot build new( components).

Putin or Kyrill would be the best start

The always helpful Russian bloggers providing damage assesment

It seems this Russian plan is however going to spectacularly backfire.
Now that all this came out, they may have damaged their greatest intel coup ever: owning the US president.
Now the it has become clear Trumps clown nominations are basically Russian servants, it will not be well received.