What Kremlin doesn’t want you to see. Nearly 4 years after the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives while sustaining losses not seen since WW2. Now using Washington to try to get what it couldn’t on the battlefield.
www.csis.org/analysis/rus...
⚡️Ukraine liberates 300 square kilometers in southern counteroffensive, Zelensky tells AFP.
"I won't go into too many details, but today I can congratulate our army first and foremost —all the defense forces — because as of today, 300 (square) kilometers have been liberated."
🔴 12 years ago russia invaded 🇺🇦
🔴 12 years ago russia upended the post WWII order
🔴 12 years ago russia began committing heinous crimes in 🇺🇦
🔵 12 years of the Free World failing to stop russia; failing to call the moscow centered terrorist organization by its name
White House abandoning Ukraine and parroting Putin’s demands for territorial concessions is Moscow’s wildest dream come true. The silver lining is that leverage is roughly proportional to aid. As Washington’s aid shrinks, so does its capacity to impose its will on Kyiv.
12.02.2026 02:47 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
⚡️3 toddlers, 1 other killed in Russian strike on Kharkiv Oblast.
A Russian strike on Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Oblast, killed four people, including three toddlers, and injured two others, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported overnight Feb. 11.
The Trump administration continues to hack away at the soft power branch that US hegemony sits on. Alienating America's most loyal European ally is as self-destructive as it gets.
06.02.2026 22:58 — 👍 171 🔁 37 💬 19 📌 6A reminder that those who took for granted that Trump victory would be the end of Ukraine were wrong. Ukraine continues to hold Ru off despite the fact that Trump ended US aid. Ukraine has innovated and developed its military capacity, Europe has stepped up, and Ru is weaker than many assume.
31.01.2026 20:34 — 👍 428 🔁 126 💬 15 📌 4
“Golden Age” is literally how Turkmenbashi & his enablers referred to his rule over Turkmenistan. The man was so fond of gold that he had multiple golden statues of himself erected all over Ashgabat. To hear the U.S. Secretary of Commerce use these exact words when addressing Trump is disorienting.
31.01.2026 04:57 — 👍 37 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0
What Kremlin doesn’t want you to see. Nearly 4 years after the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives while sustaining losses not seen since WW2. Now using Washington to try to get what it couldn’t on the battlefield.
www.csis.org/analysis/rus...
Americans know our health care system is broken.
A recent poll found that 70% of Vermonters support a Medicare for All single-payer system.
Congress must understand that health care is a human right — not a privilege.
We must pass Medicare for All.
Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.
29.01.2026 00:27 — 👍 15199 🔁 4114 💬 653 📌 250“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
24.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 4775 🔁 1639 💬 176 📌 46Trump's relentless bullying of Ukraine presented as a "peace process" is making us sound like broken records. Like, how many times do we have to say that asking Ukraine to withdraw from its most fortified region in exchange for another useless Budapest memorandum offer is a dumb proposition?
28.01.2026 04:54 — 👍 505 🔁 130 💬 15 📌 4
⚡️Russia has suffered 'more losses than any major power' since World War II, report says.
Russian forces have sustained nearly 1.2 million casualties since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, paying a steep price for limited gains, a new CSIS report finds.
Why “post-Soviet” is an outdated concept: We rarely describe contemporary politics as “post–Cold War”; instead, we treat the Cold War as a distinct historical period that ended in 1991. By contrast, “post-Soviet” continues to define societies primarily in relation to the Soviet past. 1/2
24.01.2026 05:18 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
24.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 38737 🔁 9578 💬 1114 📌 894
Great to see my latest op-ed on the digital front page of The Hill's opinion section
putin lies. ALL. THE. TIME.
everyone knows that.
But why?
My two cents here: thehill.com/opinion/inte...
Trump’s vanity and chaos are no longer shocking for anyone who has been paying attention. What is shocking is the speed with which the covetous opportunists around him have descended to levels of sycophancy that are painfully recognizable for anyone who lived in personalistic authoritarian regimes.
21.01.2026 22:14 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1“The failure of self-knowledge, and the inability to see your own limits — or worse, seeing yourself as exempt from these limits — is what destroys great powers. If there’s one timeless lesson of history we can extract…, that would be it. But it’s not the lesson Trump or Miller have internalized.”
21.01.2026 21:58 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Apparently, quite a few Cabinet secretaries felt they couldn’t let January 20 pass without making the requisite statements on X. Naturally, the official WH account reposted them. It’s hard to shake the feeling that they tried to outdo one another. There are many more there but my top 4 are below:
21.01.2026 06:36 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump loves Saudi Arabia. It’s an authoritarian society, which punishes dissent and is owned by the wealthiest family on earth.
Trump hates Europe. The governments there are democratically elected.
The future of America must be a vibrant democracy. Not Trump’s authoritarianism.
🇰🇿🇺🇦The 'Yurta of Indomitability' operates in Shevchenko Park. It's a care center in Kyiv, established by the Kazakh diaspora.
Here, people can recharge, warm up, drink tea, and taste the signature Kazakh bread, cooked over a fire.
Zelenskyy and Ukrainians are at fault in the same way that an assault victim who refuses to stop resisting a serial killer is at fault. Predictably, Kremlin already stated that "Moscow agrees with Trump."
16.01.2026 06:52 — 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
⚡️ Norway announces $400 million emergency package for Ukraine's energy sector, budget.
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
Venezuela may seem like a tactical loss for Russia, but in fact it's a strategic win for Putin's vision of the world. new essay:
hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth.
This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
An absolute dream come true for the Kremlin. apnews.com/article/denm...
06.01.2026 04:44 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Robert De Niro sent Ukrainians a holiday greeting — a simple public gesture of solidarity at a time when silence is too common.
Symbols don’t stop missiles. But they keep Ukraine visible, remind people what’s at stake, and push back against fatigue and indifference.
