Hunter Johnson

A herald of woe. Oh and a contributing TV/general writer for @dallasnews.

[Hunter Johnson @HunterJDallas]

I wrote this a year ago today for @dallasnews and it's still one of my favorite TV articles I've done. It's been tough returning to the show since the end, but I still agree with what I wrote here | Why #GameofThrones is much more than its ending https://t.co/9jhB2GcFV5

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Ask Angela Merkel how energy cooperation with Russia resulted in a durable peace.

[Joe Wilson @RepJoeWilson]

Russia is attacking NATO ally Poland with Iranian shahed drones less than a week after President Trump hosted President Nawrocki at the White House. This is an act of war, and we are grateful to NATO allies for their swift response to war criminal Putin’s continued unprovoked aggression against free and productive nations. I urge President Trump to respond with mandatory sanctions that will bankrupt the Russian war machine and arm Ukraine with weapons capable of striking Russia. Putin is no longer content just losing in Ukraine while bombing mothers and babies, he is now directly testing our resolve in NATO territory. Putin stated that “Russia knows no borders.” Free and prosperous nations will teach Russia about borders.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

This should anger every American.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

Says the man who is backing a felon who tried to overthrow a free and fair election.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Russia invaded Ukraine.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Stephen A. Smith to Hannity: "I know you're not talking about someone being lucid and cogent and enunciating their thoughts with clarity and you're bragging about Donald Trump. We can't be watching the same stuff if that's what you're doing!"

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Musk - a major U.S. defense contractor whose SpaceX is backbone of the U.S. space program - speaking regularly with the U.S.’s strategic adversary. https://t.co/GoFrjlrI7p

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

This is not isolated. It’s the norm. Trump consistently praises the leaders of the US’s biggest strategic adversaries while denigrating leaders of his own country.

From “The Return of Great Powers”: To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hitler “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term should he win November’s presidential election, multiple former senior advisers told CNN.

[Nigel Gould-Davies @Nigelgd1]

North Korea is at war with a major European country. This is an astonishing development, met with equally astonishing silence from Europe’s leaders.
@CurtainSilicon

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I think the "imagine if Biden did X" stuff can easily get overblown, but given that age and physical stamina are supposedly one of the key differentiators in this campaign it is striking how little attention is paid to this.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Utter destruction. The Russian army’s wiping another Ukrainian city off the map. Chasiv Yar, once a peaceful little spot with a great swimming hole and surrounded by fields, is Russia’s latest target. This is happening while Republicans block military aid.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Straight from Putin’s propaganda. Is this what you believe Republicans?

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

Ukrainians could be forgiven for wondering why, if the US and UK are happy to shoot down missiles headed towards Israel, they won’t do the same for Ukraine. Or give Ukraine the means to do it itself.

[Nataliya Bugayova @nataliabugayova]

The US still does not fully grasp the nature of the Russian threat, Russia’s sources of power and weakness, and the Russian way of war – including reflexive control. This knowledge gap is reflected in the prevailing US national security assessment that, while Russia poses the most immediate challenge, China is the bigger long-term threat. This may be a valid assessment of China, but the framework is limiting for three reasons. First, it ignores the nature of the Russian threat to the US, which goes beyond military power. Second, it ignores the path dependency of the Russian threat to the US on the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine: the US will face the greatest threat from Russia since the collapse of the USSR if Russia prevails in Ukraine. Finally, it ignores the path dependency of China’s threat to the US and the future of the anti-US coalition on the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine. A Russian victory in Ukraine will empower US adversaries in many ways — the most dangerous of all, perhaps, would be US adversaries learning that the US can be manipulated into abandoning its interests in a winnable fight. More in my recent @TheStudyofWar essay 'Denying Russia’s Only Strategy for Success." https://t.co/aFaRPWjAKG

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

How Russian propaganda works: a “news story” from a nonexistent newspaper backed up by a photo taken from a 2015 music video clip. And it works!

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

It strikes me that, at the root, it is not an argument, it’s an excuse. The anti-Ukraine camp (many of whom initially backed Ukraine aid) now sees domestic political advantage from cutting it off, much of which emanates from Trump.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Johnson is killing off US aid to Ukraine
through constant delay. It’s deliberate and he will keep doing it. It serves Trump’s wishes.