Gary A. Marx

President, Madison Strategies, Jesus-follower. Host of Peace & Power Ukraine podcast.

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

Oleksandr Usyk, Ukraine’s undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of the world, met with @realDonaldTrump at the White House today alongside @mobbs_mentality and @generalkellogg. The meeting was warm and lasted longer than expected.

[Peace & Power Podcast @PeaceAndPower_]

Is Vladimir Putin actually winning the war in Ukraine—or does the reality look very different from the headlines?

Host @Garymarx welcomes back @MooreUSA, founder of the Ukraine Freedom Project @UKRAINEFREEDOM7 and a leading advocate for Ukraine’s fight for freedom, for a wide-ranging discussion from Kyiv on the state of the war, Russia’s mounting challenges, and the resilience of the Ukrainian people.

Moore provides updates from the ground in Ukraine, discusses recent Russian attacks on Kyiv, and explains why he believes the war is increasingly exposing weaknesses within Russia despite the Kremlin’s efforts to project strength.

[Gary A. Marx @Garymarx]

Zelensky is clear: Ukraine wants peace, but Putin chooses terror. While Russia hits civilian targets, Ukraine responds by precisely targeting militarily strategic sites. Every attack on Ukrainian life will face a just and calculated response. https://t.co/uQaX5ouQyB

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

It's particularly hard to stomach Candace Owens praising Russia's commitment to family and children when Russia has kidnapped more than 20,000 Ukrainian children, transferred into Russia, placed with Russian families, and subjected to programs designed to assimilate them into Russian society.

But no, America and the West bad. Russia based.

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

37 years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party set the military against its own people, killing & injuring thousands. Xi Jinping can try his hardest to erase this history, but we will never forget - and we will always stand with the people of China who seek freedom.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

We are not impartial mediators in that war. We don't provide weapons to Russia.

We only provide weapons to Ukraine. We don't impose sanctions on Ukraine. We only impose sanctions on Russia.

So we have clearly taken a side. We continue to sell weapons to Ukraine, by the way, through the PURL Program, unimpeded by what's happened in the Middle East or anywhere else.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

Thing of beauty

[Alliance for a Better Future @BetterFuture_AI]

The clock just ran out on Big Tech as federal enforcement of the Take It Down Act officially begins. Tech companies face fines of over $53,000 per violation if they fail to remove deepfakes targeting minors within 48 hours of being posted. Help us hold them accountable!

[Carrie Severino @JCNSeverino]

Justice Thomas is a fearless defender of the Constitution.

Under his tenure, we have witnessed a welcome shift from previous eras, with the Roberts Court embracing originalism and constitutional limits.

Imagine a judiciary of courageous constitutionalists like Clarence Thomas.

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

Candace Owens and her husband claim to be Catholics. And yet they are this week in Moscow, praising the Kremlin, which is the world’s current biggest oppressor of Catholics.

Catholics are persecuted in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. Listen to the testimony of these Ukrainian Catholic priests who endured Russian captivity, as reported by the Faith Under Siege project.

Russia is not religious, just like radical Islamists are not God-fearing. They are all nihilistic tyrants who hate the good, true, and beautiful.

https://t.co/0OqCEk5ob2

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Bloomberg News exclusive:

Vladimir Putin has been told by senior Russian officials that the war in Ukraine is becoming unaffordable, the most serious sign of internal division in Moscow since the full-scale invasion began

https://t.co/gpk6OChdlC

[Peace & Power Podcast @PeaceAndPower_]

How is the Russia-Ukraine war different from previous wars? Hear from @oleksiireznikov, former Minister of Defense of Ukraine, with host @Garymarx.

[Alliance for a Better Future @BetterFuture_AI]

NEW: A Fox News poll shows Americans aren't asking for fewer AI safeguards. They're demanding more.

• 80% say protecting the public should take priority, even if it slows AI innovation

• 77% say AI regulation is needed urgently

• Majorities believe both Big Tech and government have a responsibility to establish guardrails

The message is clear: Americans want AI that serves people, not the other way around.

[Gary A. Marx @Garymarx]

A Levada Center poll shows that 62 percent of Russians favor peace talks with Ukraine. Only 27% want the war to continue. No wonder the Kremlin is resorting to every authoritarian technique to silence dissent. https://t.co/wxqnSi3CQY

[Gary A. Marx @Garymarx]

#60 was an emotionally powerful episode

[Gary A. Marx @Garymarx]

Russia struck the Kyiv School of Economics (@KyivSchool), where I serve as a board member. Incredibly powerful defiance from Tymofiy Mylovanov and his team. "We are not closing."

[Gary A. Marx @Garymarx]

Time is running out for the Kremlin. ​Estonia’s spy chief reports Putin has just 4–5 months before losing the upper hand. Russia is losing 1,000 troops a day, while Ukraine has reclaimed 590+ sq km this year alone.

https://t.co/ZV6Xp229Sk

[Gary A. Marx @Garymarx]

As usual Justice Thomas has hit the target dead center.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In a recent speech, Justice Clarence Thomas made clear what he thinks of Progressivism, saying it  “was the first mainstream American political movement—with the possible exception of the pro-slavery reactionaries on the eve of the Civil War—to openly oppose the principles of the Declaration.” He went on to link Progressivism to the worst crimes of the 20th century, claiming that it “led to the governments that caused the most awful century that the world has ever seen. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Mao all were intertwined with the rise of Progressivism, and all were opposed to the natural rights on which our Declaration are based.” Numerous scholars of the Progressive Era argue that Thomas offered up a distorted version of the movement. Read more about Thomas’s claims and the subsequent scholarly backlash: https://t.co/1qr5UiM9Rt

[Gary A. Marx @Garymarx]

While Putin continues to devalue human life and send endless waves of soldiers to die in Ukraine, Ukrainians keep showing the opposite: innovation, courage, and determination to rescue every wounded soldier they can.
The contrast could not be clearer.

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

A Ukrainian robotic evacuation vehicle equipped with an armored capsule successfully rescued a wounded soldier from a frontline position.

During the extraction, the vehicle struck two mines on its return route. Despite the blasts, the armored capsule protected the wounded serviceman from shrapnel, allowing the mission to be completed successfully. The soldier was evacuated and transferred for further medical treatment.

Mission:
• Duration: 2h 13m
• Distance covered: 36.5 km
• Average speed: 15 km/h
• Top speed: 70 km/h

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

This is a wise move by the president. Suspending the planned deployment to Poland would have been a gift to Vladimir Putin.