Poor Ukraine. Looks like it may soon have to feed thousands of Russian soldiers who risk being trapped in a pocket north of Lyman.
If the Ukrainian pincers close, this Russian force will face a simple choice: break out, die, or surrender.
War is war, but POWs still have to be fed. 😏
THIS IS ABSOLUTE CINEMA 🔥
🇺🇸Trump at 5:00 PM: "We're taking them on. Lake Ontario, it's Lake America. It's time to teach Canada."
🇨🇦Canada at 6:00 PM: "You have all the time to rename geographical places but have no time to unredact names in the Epstein Files."
Canada is literally cooking Trump. 🤣🔥
Former MI6 Christopher Steele: I think the main beneficiary of Trump 2.0 won’t be Russia in the end, it will be China.
Russia is a declining power in many ways, it's a very weak country. China, on the other hand, is a rising power.
What will happen is that Xi will play Trump. He will know how to handle him. He will know how to flatter him.
Steadily, gradually, little by little, China’s influence in the world, and particularly in the Global South, will grow.
China has very powerful economy and very powerful military, although untested, which is quite important.
China will be able to "con" a lot of the world into believing that it’s the force for stability, it’s a predictable power.
It’s the one in favor of the international order, not United States. And this is where Trump 2.0 is such a disaster.
And a disaster not just for the United States, but for any Western democracy, for any ally of United States.
Because basically Trump is scragging its whole reputation, its soft power, and also its influence in the world.
Kyle Kulinski: “I heard that Trump was demanding in these trade negotiations basically that French Canadians drop all of their French cultural shit. Stop speaking French, stop with the road signs in French. Who the fuck are you? You are a fat terrorist pedophile war criminal conman rapist cunt”
JUST IN: 🇩🇪🇬🇧 Germany Could Help Defend Britain’s Nuclear Arsenal
A major shift may be taking shape in Europe.
Germany is considering helping fund Britain’s nuclear deterrent and deploying German air defence forces to protect critical UK nuclear facilities.
The reason is strategic: Europe is preparing to take greater responsibility for its own security as allies plan for a future with less dependence on the United States.
🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷 Britain, Germany and France are increasingly discussing a stronger European defence architecture, with London and Paris’ nuclear capabilities potentially becoming central to Europe’s future deterrence.
One reported proposal could involve German Patriot systems helping defend Faslane, home of Britain’s nuclear armed submarine fleet.
That would be extraordinary.
Germany could potentially help finance and physically protect Britain’s nuclear deterrent, a dramatic evolution in European defence cooperation.
🇪🇺 The old European security model is changing.
🇬🇧 Britain’s nuclear shield could be emerging as a key pillar of Europe’s next defence era.
❗️❗️🇺🇦⚡️🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces have launched localized counterattacks across three sectors of the front, pushing Russian troops back and recovering positions in several areas. Recent battlefield assessments have also recorded Ukrainian localized advances on multiple axes, even as Russian forces continue offensive operations elsewhere.
On the Kupyansk axis, Ukrainian forces have liberated the northern part of Zapadne and advanced north of Kupyansk, southwest of Dvorichna. Elsewhere, Ukrainian troops have reportedly liberated Katerynivka and Nove, advanced east of Novomykhailivka and continue to hold Novyi Myr.
Ukrainian forces also launched a counterattack yesterday along the Ridkodub-Nove sector, attacking Russian positions from the north in an effort to contain further Russian advances. These actions remain localized rather than a full-scale Ukrainian offensive, but the broader pattern is increasingly important: Kyiv is exploiting sectors where Russian forces are stretched thin to regain tactical initiative and force Moscow to react rather than advance uninterrupted. Earlier Ukrainian counterattacks have already forced Russia to redistribute forces between sectors, illustrating the pressure that even limited Ukrainian gains can create on Moscow’s constrained reserves.
Greenland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs posted this on Facebook this morning:
“—The work of the working group between Greenland, Denmark and the United States continues.
From the beginning, our message has been clear: Greenland is ours. We are not for sale. We decide our own future.
The latest public statements from the U.S. side show that the desire to gain control over our country has not disappeared. Quite the opposite. Despite this, we continue to work constructively to find diplomatic solutions. But our red lines will not move, even as the pressure increases.
We have always wanted good and closer cooperation with the United States and our other allies. But cooperation requires respect.
We will not be pressured into giving up what is ours. We stand firm. 🇬🇱”
Im Internet kursieren Gerüchte (und auch die Russen selbst berichten darüber), dass sich dieser Schlag gegen den Gefechtsstand der 51. Armee in Donezk richtete, wo gerade eine Besprechung stattfand.
Die Führung einer ganzen Armee ausgelöscht- wer bekommt jetzt Ärger?
Few read all 1,051 trades in Trump's June disclosure. Elizabeth Warren did.
17 pages later, she wants to know who is actually running his accounts—and why 30 of those trades line up with things the Govt was about to announce.
She gave him until Friday.
https://t.co/Vzmsf0a5Wb
BREAKING: In a shocking moment, two Texas Republican voters just went on CNN to announce they're voting blue for the first time in their lives because of Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton's data center corruption.
A Russian "Shahed" drone struck Romania today and exploded.
One probably shouldn't hold one's breath for a reaction from NATO...
Once again, a Russian drone has exploded in Romania. Such incidents are becoming more frequent—and therein lies the danger.
If Putin can repeatedly violate NATO airspace without facing tangible consequences, the risk grows that Moscow will continue to test the limits of what it can get away with.
⚠️ Deterrence only works if red lines are credible.
Any hesitant response could be interpreted by Moscow as an invitation to go even further next time.
Guten Morgen liebe Demokrat*innen☕️
Der siegessichere #Siegmund von der AfD gab ein sehr schwaches Bild im TV-Duell ab. Außer Parolen kam da nichts. Was heute aber kommt, sind Gewitter. Gebt auf euch acht, bleibt positiv und habt einen entspannten Donnerstag😊
🏭 Europas Top-Industrienationen in Zahlen:
🇩🇪 Deutschland: ~800 Mrd. €
🇮🇹 Italien: ~350 Mrd. €
🇫🇷 Frankreich: ~290 Mrd. €
💡 Obwohl Frankreich viel Kernenergie hat, hat das kleinere Italien trotz wesentlich höheren Strompreisen mehr industrielle Wertschöpfung.
🚨 SAVAGE: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker reveals he completely neutered Trump’s attacked on worker protections:
“What about those worker protections that Trump took away from you? I enacted a law that reversed all of that.”
Illinois is showing exactly how Democrats fight back.