Valerie

Native NY'er from CNY➡️ WNY ➡️ NC. Elections Precinct Party Judge. Paralegal with a passion for God, law, politics, and geopolitics. Views are mine.

[Valerie @4ever2runval96]

📚I love the depth of your thoughts.❣️📚

[George Szamuely @GeorgeSzamuely]

The Gaggle Live Stream, June 11, 2026, 3 p.m. ET https://t.co/1287HoSJYe

[Khaled Elgindy @elgindy_]

The head of a major DC think tank that has the ear of the president is effectively calling for assassination of an American journalist whose views he doesn’t like. This is where we are now.

[George Szamuely @GeorgeSzamuely]

Um, no demand that Israel end its "nuclear program"? No demand for security for Iran? It's one-sided demands such as this that has brought us to this crisis.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Iran has the upper hand

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

It is no small point of anguish to me, as an American, to realize that we cannot take at face value a single word that comes out of President Trump‘s mouth or from his social media keyboard.

It’s unlikely he even knows what’s true anymore.

[Valerie @4ever2runval96]

Elensky curse hits UK, threatens Kallas & entire EU foreign office. Pira... https://t.co/8oCEXanlAd via @YouTube

[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

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[The Duran @TheDuranReal]

If this is Trump's intention, it would mark a fundamental shift in the objectives of the conflict. Taking Kharg Island and assuming control of Iran's oil and gas markets is not deterrence, defense, or nuclear diplomacy - it is an attempt to control the economic lifeblood of a sovereign state. The strategic, legal, and geopolitical consequences would be enormous.

[Alan Watson @DietHeartNews]

Obama’s CIA coup in Kiev in 2014 toppled Viktor Yanukovych. The Poroshenko regime (2014-2019) began attacking Donbass, a Russian-speaking region historically close to Russia. After 2014, Kiev turned against Russia, the Orthodox faith, and the shared history of the two peoples.

In 2019, campaigning on uniting the ethnically divided former Soviet Republic, Zelensky won a landslide election. Once elected, however, under the thumb of the Banderites, he changed his tune. He could have told Biden, "I won’t sacrifice my country for your war against Russia," but decided differently.

December 2021, Biden rejected Putin’s proposed mutual security accords that would have left “neutral” #Ukraine intact. Biden told Putin, “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.” Once again, as in Minsk I and II, Russia’s legitimate security concerns were brushed aside.

According to ex-Biden adviser Amanda Sloat, senior director for Europe on the National Security Council, Ukraine could have avoided war in December 2021 with one step: “Ukrainian declaration of neutrality,” she said, “would have prevented the destruction and loss of life."

On 18 February 2022, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) reported that Ukraine had ramped up artillery attacks along the civil war Line of Contact. (Since 2014, NATO-armed Ukraine and neo-Nazis thugs had killed thousands of ethnic Russians in the Donbass.)

21 February 2022, Russia captured a Ukrainian soldier, killed five others, as they crossed over the border into Rostov. The Kremlin learned the invasion of Donetsk city was imminent. Three days later, with about 100,000 troops, Russia launched its “Special Military Operation” - not a "full scale invasion."

Putin did not wake up on 24 February and decide, “I think I’ll invade eastern Ukraine today," nor was the US campaign to expand NATO into Ukraine a last-minute maneuver. US State Department documents show Ukraine’s future membership was discussed as early as 1994.

Citing the UN principle, “Responsibility to Protect,” #Russia intervened in the eight-year Donbass conflict after all prospects for diplomacy had failed. Putin had learned growing up in the tough streets of St. Petersburg, “If you know there’s going to be a fight, throw the first punch.”

[Valerie @4ever2runval96]

Prof John Mearsheimer LIVE Today 12:30p et https://t.co/ik5jZX3eHs via @YouTube

[Valerie @4ever2runval96]

@cmolnick @YouTube 📚He is such a treasure❣️
One of my favorites as
well.

[Valerie @4ever2runval96]

Is Trump Running Out of Time? (w/ Alastair Crooke) https://t.co/JGDrvjXaMk via @YouTube

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

There is a growing crisis inside Israel, former British diplomat Alastair Crooke says. This crisis has been compounded by the recent shift in the war, in which Iran bombed Tel Aviv in response to Israel attacking Southern Lebanon. This has placed Netanyahu — who is potentially facing prison time for corruption charges — in a dark tunnel with seemingly no way out, stuck between the inevitability of Israel's failing military objectives and the Israeli public's fervor for more war and attacks against its regional neighbors. On my show, Crooke breaks down this growing crisis inside Israel:

https://t.co/80plnlbSar

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

“My preference has always been to take Kharg Island… I don't know that America has the stomach for it… You'd make a fortune."

He’s talking about sacrificing thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of American soldier’s lives. So he and his buddies can make a fortune. That’s what he thinks we don’t have the stomach for.

[Responsible Statecraft @RStatecraft]

Friends of the national security state get slapped on the wrist while those who actually challenge the system pay the real price -- just ask John Bolton and David Petraeus. @jackhunter74
https://t.co/hfgnIvHL1g

[Kelley B. Vlahos @KelleyBVlahos]

Shortly after Trump threatens to invade Kharg Island which @Harrison_J_Mann has called a "suicide mission" Trump wonders if America has "the stomach" for it.
NEW @connor_echols
https://t.co/a6HFN4xSjO

[Responsible Statecraft @RStatecraft]

A durable peace for Ukraine will require several interlocking agreements, each of which will be incredibly difficult to negotiate, but all of which will be vital if we are to avoid a general war in Europe, writes @proud_diplomat

https://t.co/zf96EicS9i

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

There’s nothing “conservative” about this. What would the Founders do?

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

You are not anti-America if you are against current American foreign policy and its neocon promoters. Our foreign policy is controlled by people who actually hate America. So cheering for them to lose in their foreign adventurism is actually pro-America.
We are the patriots.