@OlenaRohoza@marshalotis Best I can offer…
Canada and EU Countries are proudly standing with Ukraine.
US Pres & Sons potentially in the process of ripping off Ukrainian ingenuity & technological prowess to ENRICH THEMSELVES which may lead to the ultimate betrayal of Ukraine and its brave people
@WatcherGuru@CxlTheClownShow This seems familiar…
Trump EXCELS at debt - he once named himself “The King of Debt.”
Why didn’t Americans take his statement at face value??
Ossoff: "The president apparently promised pardons for the entire WH staff, which I guess is the kind of thing you do when you run the WH like a casino. Now, maybe the West Wing is too busy placing Kashi and Polymarket bets on the war to care, but American are getting hurt ... in Donald Trump’s America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices."
APPLEBAUM: What JD Vance said is affront and outrage because war in Ukraine is not about 'few kilometers'. The war is about whether Ukraine gets to exist as a nation. And Russia never said they want ceasefire.
Russia has never given up their main war aim, which remains the conquest or control of all of Ukraine. They've never conceded that Zelenskyy is the legitimate leader of Ukraine. None of this has ever happened.
Whew!
Hillary Clinton this morning on the U.S.-Iran talks that fell apart:
“This is hard work. You don’t just show up in Geneva or Islamabad, talk for a bunch of hours, and go away. This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”
"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"
This isn’t even capitalism. It’s medieval lordship.
Father starts a war. Sons sell the weapons to countries that need his protection to survive. Buyers know the purchase is tribute.
Saddam Hussein would have recognised it instantly.
The US isn’t a democracy right now. It’s a protection racket with a flag.
Britain needs to face that fact - and build something different with Europe before it’s too late.
“With everything we do, we are undercutting the laws of war,” says former NSC official Gary Sick. At 91, he reflects, “I would never have believed that we would find ourselves in the position that we’re in, as the rogue nation in the world.”
France just got free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Why? Because Macron did the one thing no one in Washington could manage. He picked up the phone and didn’t sound like an idiot. 🇫🇷🔥
That is called leverage.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Pete Hegseth has fired twelve generals. Between them, five hundred years of military experience. Desert Storm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Gone. No reason given. In the middle of a war.
These weren’t pen-pushers. They were the men who actually know what a ground invasion of Iran looks like.
Perhaps they also know something else. That the man now running the Pentagon spent his career behind a Fox News desk rather than a command post. That his qualifications for managing the world’s most powerful military were, broadly speaking, strong opinions and good hair.
Funny how they’re exactly the ones Hegseth just removed.
Their replacements come with one qualification: complete loyalty to the vision.
Five hundred years of hard-won, blood-soaked knowledge. Shown the door by a television presenter.
What could possibly go wrong.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
#BREAKING: Sen Whitehouse: “…today Donald Trump issued an executive order to the postmaster general and DHS, his DHS, ordering the postmaster general, who he appointed, to seize control of mail-in ballots and invent a method with DHS, for delivering mail-in ballots only to people Donald Trump’s DHS believes should receive mail-in ballots. Yes, you heard that correctly.”🤦♀️
Absolute bombshell on CTV News. A prominent retired Major General confirms the Pentagon is in absolute chaos. Pete Hegseth is actively purging top generals just because he refuses to listen to their expert military advice. The Trump administration is completely out of control.
BOMBSHELL: CNN's Christiane Amanpour confirms Washington had a real chance for peace, but threw it away to adopt Israel's psychotic "mowing the lawn" strategy. The Trump Administration intentionally chose endless bombing over diplomacy.