PharmD, MBA with interests in the Russian economy and invasion of 🇺🇦. Some geopolitics and U.S. politics. Follow me on BlueSky @ukrainewarpod.bsky.social
1/ AiM propaganda has Americans at each other’s throats. And the media’s failure to account for it buries one important aspect of the Russia-China axis to go underreported:
Ukraine, a fellow democracy, has trillions in mineral riches.
@AstorAaron@JuliaManch@BarakRavid Listen, their sources say it, so they must repeat it. There’s no need to fact-check; reality is determined by the unnamed sources. This is all very simple
“Prior to this year, only two senators had lost primaries in the past 15 years — Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana and Luther Strange of Alabama. Their successful primary challengers both went on to lose the general election.”
Cornyn had never lost a race in his career. He successfully navigated the transition from the Bush era to the Tea Party era to the first Trump era ...
But the staid, even-keeled senator could not survive a challenge from Ken Paxton.
For @TexasTribune
https://t.co/suUa9HAhKz
@AstorAaron@JustR_02@SenateGOP Trump will be a lame duck with an iron grip on his own party. I don’t see Trump relinquishing his control over the Republican Party until he dies or is imprisoned and silenced.