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1/As we move well into the 3rd week of this conflict here are the main things to watch. 1. Russian operations will concentrate on 3 goals: resupply, land bridge to Crimea, encircling Kiev
#SaveUkraine
2. Any diplomatic breakthrough for a ceasefire, talks resume currently. 3. China. If China supplies Russia, especially with military support this conflict widens and deepens immediately. 4. Putin to make more erratic domestic moves (already detaining his intel ppl)
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand why Al Franken had to resign for a joke photo he took years before he was a senator, but the elected officials who participated in or encouraged an armed insurrection to overthrow our democracy are allowed to stay in government?
There's a bill in the Ga legislature that prevents cities from using fed COVID money to build shelters for the homeless. Imagine being a lawmaker with the power to introduce legislation that would do almost anything & being like 'let's keep homeless people from getting shelter!'
The GOP's so-called "Rescue America" agenda would raise taxes for 75% of those earning under $55,000 annually. 99.9% of households earning under $28,000 would see a tax hike. Meanwhile, more corporations would pay $0 in income taxes.
Maybe some people think it’s no big deal to let Trump off the hook for trying to overturn the election. His attempt failed, after all. By that logic, attempted murderers would all go free. Why not wait till they succeed? Because then it’ll be too late to protect ourselves!
Please NATO leaders, send all MIG fighter jets that we have -- 70 altogether, 27 alone in Poland -- to Ukraine right now. NOW! And once Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia send these planes, other NATO countries should send air reinforcements to these frontline states.
Perhaps the biggest risk-calculation/moral dilemma of the war so far. A massive Russian convoy is abt 30 miles from Kyiv. The US/NATO could likely destroy it. But that would be direct involvement against Russia and risk, everything. Does the West watch in silence as it rolls?
There are a couple of things to keep in perspective. The University of Michigan has a stadium that holds 107,000 people. That means all of the Russian troops invading Ukraine would fit in two stadiums. The Ukraine is the size of Texas and has 42 million people. Putin has erred
In #Dnipro crowds of women spent Saturday making Molotov cocktails. Teachers, lawyers, housewives, all crouched on the grass, filling bottles. They told me they try not to think about what they’re doing. They didn’t choose this. But they have to be ready to defend their city
We endured a homegrown terrorist attack and a year of dangerous, traitorous nonsense, all because a really insecure man was incapable of simply admitting he lost—and tens of millions of people were willing to destroy their nation to shield him from reality.
Failure in American history. The US Capitol Police abs their leadership have disgraced and dishonored themselves. There need to be a full accounting of their cowardice. Incompetence, malfeasance and complicity. #totaldisgrace