Calvin Freiburger ✝️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦

Independent-minded Christian conservative writer longing for a return to sanity, decency, and results on the Right.

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

MORE: Russian occupation authorities are fully responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Oleshky and have repeatedly and deliberately blocked evacuation and humanitarian routes into the settlement since the beginning of Russia’s occupation.

Russian occupation authorities stopped the delivery of food and other critical supplies into Oleshky in late December 2025 and have failed to deliver any food or medicine to Oleshky since May 2026.

The Kremlin rejected three local humanitarian ceasefire proposals from Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets in May, July, and September 2026, after which Ukrainian forces conducted an operation to provide food to Oleshky residents via drone drops in September 2026.

Russian authorities have long refused to address the humanitarian crisis in Oleshky, and Gerasimov’s October 23 statement is the first instance of a Russian attempt to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Since the White House is now plagiarizing Oren Cass's stupid chart, here is the corrected version.

[Stephen S. @Stephen08425890]

@DLoesch @pianoman7163 Holding Republicans to any objective standard is too stupid for Dana to respond to.

[David Reaboi @davereaboi]

This is a perfect lesson in the potency of information warfare. Of course, we should not be surprised that the most stupid, malevolent and corrupt among us (like Tom Barrack) repeat this bullshit.

Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeline Albright pushed it in 2000, and in his infamous Cairo Speech June 2009 said: “the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.”

It was always foreign enemy agitprop bullshit, but when it reaches the Secretary of State and the President it’s total institutional capture.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov, an adviser to the President of Ukraine and one of Ukraine’s leading military experts in radio technologies:

“It is very strange that Elon Musk is unaware of the restrictions on Starlink operations in Ukraine.

Since the winter of 2026, all Starlink terminals operating over Ukrainian territory (including Russian-occupied territories) have been subject to a movement speed limit of 70–90 km/h.

Starlink does not operate over Russian territory.

Therefore, we PHYSICALLY CANNOT USE COMMERCIAL STARLINK for deep strikes or medium-range strikes.”

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

Living in the post-truth era never gets any less wild. These sociopathic vomit roaches just say shit like that, confident that there' no lie flagrant enough that it won't be defended by their moron fans.

Yes, FuckTuck. Totally. Nobody ever explained why Putin is bad. Nailed it.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

Latest inane bullshit rationalization attempting to retroactively justify the unjustifiable has dropped. This would be number 37.

Starlink by default can only be used by Kyiv defensively. It's geofenced not to work over Russia. Ukraine only uses, CAN only use, it over Ukraine

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.

As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.

In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.

In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.

We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

This is more evidence for Congress, which can easily determine if Ukraine violated any terms of service. It also constitutes a tacit admission by Musk that he played a part — if not the central role — in throttling Starlink.

[r pro @rjp1208]

@PowerOwn45 Number one a man died number 2 it’s needles kiss-assery number 3 stop with the vulgarity in public this is what I’d expect from maga inc not the top governor

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

This is such bullshit.

For how many months or years did Ukraine use Starlink for drone strikes, which themselves are part of its DEFENSE of an invasion of Ukraine that was initiated by Putin, not by Ukraine.

Why is it "immoral" for Ukraine to use Starlink for drone strikes against the invaders (mostly military and industry targets), but not immoral to deny Starlink in defense of Putin’s missile strikes against civilians and mostly civilian targets?

Elon might be a brilliant engineer, but his general reasoning skills outside of his fields are worse than that of the average 8 year old.

[ExtraordinaryOpinions.com @OrdinaryMan1776]

Sorry, gang. The RDS we knew and loved is long gone. I knew he had the intellect and competence to be the leader of this nation one day, but does not have the strength and tenacity to stand up to bullies like Trump. He never recovered from the DeSanctimonous treatment. Sad.🙄

[james tweets @james_ptweets1]

This is a pretty weird way to announce you are retiring from being a candidate for future office

[AT @notelpmeTy_A]

@d_h_sanders I welcome a steelman explanation of why, if the west was so interested in attacking or otherwise boxing in Russia *prior to its invasion of Ukraine* we have not yet done so in the wake of it.

[james tweets @james_ptweets1]

Just like Trump voters the toxic DeSantis voters start calling names when they can't defend his nonsense

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Trump has always been a bullshitter, inflating numbers, etc. But that has transformed into full-blown psychosis. This is not Trump being Trump. He lives in a sealed alternate reality—“the hottest country in the world”—and expects the rest of us to live in it with him.

[Bill Carter @wjcarter]

@ByronYork Most ppl don't fully understand what's going on w him. He CAN'T accept a neg approval rate; his psyche DEMANDS that he be not just supported but IDOLIZED (hence fawning cabinet meetings). Thus he MUST deny loss in '20. It's not a character flaw, it's an all-consuming illness.

[Henry Olsen @henryolsenEPPC]

Very problematic if the President actually believes his job approval is at 60 percent.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

This would be much more persuasive if you hadn’t formed a partnership with the dictators in Venezuela to freeze out the democratic opposition.