Andrew Stroehlein

Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

"How much longer will the Russian people tolerate their mass-murderer dictator-president?"
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"Slop" - as in, "AI slop" - has to be the word of the year.

Donald Trump’s restitution scheme is among the greatest heists in US history Bogus claims of malicious prosecution could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions.

The Republican Party really only has one core principle now: Everything the government does must either benefit Donald Trump and his allies or punish his enemies.

Elon Musk @elonmusk • 6год. X The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people 18 тис 2] 26тис 146тис 1l 18млн Д 企 Dmitry Medvedev • @MedvedevRu... . 5 год. ... Exactly

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

Tariffs are raising consumer prices?

You mean, like everyone said tariffs would raise consumer prices?

Tower of London closes after apple crumble thrown on crown jewels display Four people arrested after apparent protest against UK inequality claimed by civil-resistance group Take Back Power

"They have been taken into custody."

Not, "custardy"?

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Europe’s fateful moment The EU faces a historic choice: whether or not to unlock frozen Russian assets and save the Ukrainian war effort

See also: "Donald Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise."
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FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd “Peace Prize” With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up peace prize to the increasingly violent US president.

In all of history, I can't think of anything that made so many people around the world laugh out loud while an emperor wannabe took it seriously.
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The thing is, most of us knew the essence of the stories about Farage many years ago - but the media still had a complete love-in with him, and the BBC built him up relentlessly.

See also, how the Obama administration refused to prosecute anyone in the Bush administration for torture.

An insult to toilet ducks, which unlike Farage, can be useful.

Russia ‘ready’ for war with Europe, Putin says, as US peace talks end without progress Kremlin aide says Ukraine crisis is no closer to resolution after Witkoff talks, as Russian president accuses European powers of sabotaging peace

“They are on the side of war” says wanted war criminal who sent his troops to invade neighbouring countries, occupy foreign lands, and commit mass atrocities.
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Trump’s Marine Murders We don’t need courts. We don’t need trials. The government should simply decide who is guilty and execute them immediately. That is the Trump regime’s policy towards people it accuses of drug smuggli...

It's murder by the government. Plain and simple.
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Or "pogrom"?

The Trump regime decides which judges' rulings it accepts. If they don't like what a judge says, they declare them an "activist judge" and do what ever they want. Respect for the law is out the window...

US Fumbling, Alliance Crumbling, Putin’s Empire Stumbling Westward Over the past week or so, there’s been a lot of important news about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And there are lessons to learn. The kickoff was the release of a 28-point “peace plan” by the Trump ...

A 28-point Trump admin “peace plan” "resembl[ed] a Russian document; it was essentially a Kremlin wish list that would result in Ukraine’s capitulation," writes @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social

"Ukraine’s government was not impressed."

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The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection

See also: "Depressingly for Europe, that means that no matter how frequently it managed to push the Trump pendulum away from Russia, the pendulum reverts back to a natural position of sympathy for Putin."
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I hope so.

Middle-class suckers giving their hard-earned dollars to a billionaire snake-oil salesman...

It's murder by the government. Plain and simple.
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Russia: Government Designates Human Rights Watch “Undesirable” (Berlin, November 28, 2025) — Russia’s designation of Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public by the Justice Ministry on November 28, is yet another mark of the Kremli...

If a mass murderer attacks you for exposing his atrocities, you must be doing something right.
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US Fumbling, Alliance Crumbling, Putin’s Empire Stumbling Westward Over the past week or so, there’s been a lot of important news about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And there are lessons to learn. The kickoff was the release of a 28-point “peace plan” by the Trump ...

Europe reluctantly but rightly preparing for wider war with imperialist Russia. My latest newsletter...
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Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation Dutch public broadcaster NOS on Tuesday said it had stopped posting on Elon Musk's social media platform X, as it said it did not want to facilitate the spreading of disinformation.

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It's a green machine.

Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage

The relationship between culture, genetics, and identity is not simple. Anyone who thinks it is should try casting the first stone. My opinion of his book “The Inconvenient Indian” has not changed - it’s very good.
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I don't want to get too nostalgic - you know, given all the death threats - but it was more human-led, for sure.

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I'm absolutely sure that if we just vote the way the dictator-wannabe wants us to vote, everything will be OK.

Dear Americans, You can trust your doctor and decades of science - or you can trust politicians. You're smart. You know what's right for your health.