This year, I marked 37 years with HIV.
37 years with an illness that was to have killed me in 2.
Here by the grace of God, and nothing less.
Speaking THE Truth!
🇺🇲 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Delhi and asked, "Where is everyone?" At the airport, he was only greeted by the commander of his own plane, and not a single Indian government official came to meet him.
🔥🔥 BOOM — Ukrainian drones just turned Putin’s prize oil refineries into bonfires again!
Poor lil’ Vlad is watching his war piggy bank go up in flames.
Cry harder, Moscow. This is what karma looks like.
#SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦💥
@PontistGirl However
Aztecs arrived as nomadic migrants (Chichimeca) in the 13th century, learned from and conquered predecessors, and created a powerful empire by the time the Spanish arrived in 1519.
Their capital, Tenochtitlán, was built on the ruins/inspiration of earlier sites.
Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, now says “the tide has turned” and “we need Ukraine more than #Ukraine needs us.” Zelensky is no longer pleading for help on behalf of his people. Kyiv now offers the world weapons that work.
Hot off the press 👇
https://t.co/VeoO5rVpEF
🇷🇺🇮🇷 Turns out there's more than one way into Iran.
Russia is shipping drone components and everyday goods to Iran via the Caspian Sea, bypassing both the U.S. naval blockade and the Hormuz closure entirely, per U.S. officials.
Two things drove this. Ukraine kept hitting Russian ships in the Black Sea, pushing Moscow to the Caspian. Then the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports closed off Hormuz for good.
Iran lost roughly 60% of its drone arsenal in the war. The Caspian is how it rebuilds.
One expert called it a geopolitical black hole.
The U.S. has no naval presence on the Caspian. And everyone knows it.
Source: NYT
This is the quintessential definition of FAFO!!
We’re mired in a conflict that will not end like Venezuela, and now TACO wants help.
How’s that great negotiator working out for you now?
Trump on Strait of Hormuz: "Really, I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory ... you could make the case that maybe we shouldn't be there at all, because we don't need it. We have a lot of oil."