Sean, thanks to you, we know what a true friend of Ukraine is.
You have stood with Ukraine since the first day of the full-scale war.
This is still true today.
And we know that you will continue to stand with our country and our people.
Poseł Franciszek Sterczewski @f_sterczewski został porwany przez Siły Okupacyjne Izraela na międzynarodowych wodach podczas legalnej, pokojowej misji humanitarnej Globalnej Flotylli Sumud.
Wstawcie się za Franciszkiem i jego towarzyszami u polskich władz!
#globalsumudflotilla #emergency #solidarity #flotilla #gaza #palestine
🔥🔥 Putin should not be given a way out. Some argue that offering him an exit from Ukraine would bring stability. The truth is, there is no stability with Putin in power. His grip on Russia is slipping, his economy is crumbling, and his military is bleeding out. Giving him a lifeline now would only guarantee future wars.
Russia’s economy is running on borrowed time. While high oil prices temporarily softened the impact of sanctions, cracks are showing. China and India continue to buy Russian oil but at steep discounts and with reduced long-term commitments, signaling a shift away from dependence on Moscow. Meanwhile, military spending now consumes 40% of Russia’s budget, forcing the government to raise taxes, cut social services, and drain reserves. Skilled workers are fleeing, conscription is disrupting industries, and long-term technological stagnation is setting in. Russia can still fund the war today, but its economic model is unsustainable.
On the battlefield, Russia’s losses are staggering. More than 750,000 troops have been killed or wounded, and its military is increasingly reliant on convicts, outdated Soviet equipment, and imports from North Korea and Iran. While Russia has adapted to Western-supplied weapons, it is burning through its best troops, artillery, and armor at unsustainable rates. Meanwhile, Ukraine is being rearmed and trained by NATO. Each passing month further depletes Russia’s ability to sustain the fight.
Diplomatically, Putin is losing ground. Syria’s Assad, once heavily dependent on Russian support, has fled, throwing Moscow’s Middle Eastern strategy into disarray. Russia’s influence in Africa, particularly through Wagner Group operations, is now a growing liability. The Russian Ministry of Defense has taken over Wagner’s operations under the new “Africa Corps,” but its long-term effectiveness remains uncertain. In the Central African Republic, Wagner forces face increasing resistance and scrutiny over human rights abuses, while Russia’s broader reliance on mercenaries, disinformation, and electoral interference has made its presence on the continent increasingly unstable.
Putin’s remaining alliances—North Korea and Iran—offer little strategic advantage, while longtime economic partners like China and India are carefully managing their engagement to avoid entanglement in Russia’s growing instability. Moscow is more isolated than ever, with its geopolitical influence eroding.
History shows that authoritarian regimes rarely fall when given an easy exit—they collapse when pressure is sustained. Instead of offering Putin a way out, the West should double down on military aid, tighten sanctions, and exploit fractures within Russia’s leadership.
Putin bet that he could outlast Ukraine and the West. He was wrong. Now is not the time to let him regroup—it is time to ensure his defeat.
#Russia #Ukraine #Geopolitics #Sanctions #Putin #EnergyCrisis #Military #GlobalEconomy
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.
I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.
My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.
That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.
Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.
It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.
I want to tune out.
But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.
And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.
That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.
For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.
The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.
It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!
But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.
It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.
We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.
That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.
Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.
And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H
@ZelenskyyUa Both Europe and the US must acknowledge that our fear of provoking Moscow is what ends up reliably provoking Moscow.
https://t.co/Z0m9naxnnY
May 🇷🇺 pay for generations to come for everything they brought upon this people, criminals, r@pists and looters notorious due history! 🇷🇺 Fed from h€ll should be dismantled, denuclearised and humili@ted so to be the last time destroying yet another nation!!! (Source @nytimes )
Force deportation of children by Russian Federation from h€ll is still continuing….kidnapping as a matter of fact! While 🇷🇺 propaganda try to paint themselves as saviors…God knows what this children are experiencing there!!! May 🇷🇺 b in h€ll (From @vicenews ) @IntlCrimCourt