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[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

https://t.co/qyNfNomKq0

[Garnett Genuis @GarnettGenuis]

Liberal Minister Contradicts Herself in 90 Seconds

Blames job losses on trade, then admits that the greatest job losses in the last month were in sectors that are not trade exposed.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Dear Americans, remember this on November 3.

Mariupol. Mass graves. Thousands of innocent Ukrainians.

“Frankly normal” to your leader.

What does your vote say about you?

[Franco Terrazzano @franco_nomics]

The federal government doubled the debt in 10 years.

Carney is borrowing tens of billions of dollars every year.

Your kids and grandkids will be making payments on that debt for the rest of their lives.

We need spending cuts!

[Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag]

Putin has this week once again attempted to justify the invasion of Ukraine by claiming to be recovering "historical Russians lands." He even insisted that the Ukrainian lands seized by Russia were never really Ukraine's to lose. In addition to Ukraine, a further fifteen countries were also part of the Russian Empire in 1914. It is dangerously delusional to think Putin's imperial ambitions end with Ukraine. On the contrary, if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, Putin will be emboldened by victory and strengthened by the capture of Ukraine's considerable military-industrial might. This is a recipe for more war

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

SPECIAL REPORT: Russian military victory over Ukraine is not inevitable. It is extraordinarily unlikely, in fact, unless Western support for Ukraine collapses.

There is simply no inevitable correlation between the relative size of combatants and the outcome of a war — particularly when the war is existential for the smaller state but not for the larger one, as is true today.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is nevertheless trying once again to breathe life into the myth of inevitable Russian military victory in order to persuade the United States and other supporters of Ukraine to compel Kyiv to surrender.

Ukraine, not Russia, has actually held the initiative in key sectors of the frontline for much of the year and has developed a number of ways of offsetting the overall Russian manpower advantage.

Russia’s population and relative (but diminishing) wealth will let Putin continue his war for a long time, to be sure. But Ukraine can also continue fighting for its existence as long as Western support continues.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there. The speed has not been restored. And the delivery of interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles is still delayed. We’re waiting for interceptors that were already agreed on. But they are still not coming. This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every single day.

All of this is happening while we continue our quite successful operations on the front. We keep defending positions. Things have become harder – partly because of the Starlink and Starshield policies and speed limits. But our frontline is still holding and I am proud of how strong our people are.

From an address at the Hudson Institute. (2/3)

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

No, @elonmusk, the U.S. stopped funding Ukraine last year. In fact, U.S. companies make money on American weapons for which we Europeans pay.
The more you meddle in our politics and the more you play politics with your products, the more you damage your brand.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Czech President Petr Pavel said the U.S. diesel deal with Russia derailed peace progress with Ukraine and gives Moscow “new hope.”

“It will be much harder now,” said Pavel.

🔗 https://t.co/l6n5GxtwEt

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

UK rejects Witkoff’s description of Putin as a “humanist”: He has killed thousands

The UK has pushed back against describing Russian dictator Vladimir Putin as a “humanist,” as US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff did.

The statement was made by UK Prime Minister’s spokesperson Kate Simmons during a briefing with journalists.

She stressed that Britain “certainly does not agree with this characterization.”

“Putin has killed thousands of people — both innocent Ukrainians and his own citizens, Russians whom he has sent to their deaths on the front lines. He is depriving children and elderly people of heating and systematically attacking critical national infrastructure,” the spokesperson said.

[EUvsDisinfo @EUvsDisinfo]

Throughout its illegal invasion, Russia has damaged or destroyed 155 churches, more than 4,200 educational institutions, and over 1,800 medical facilities in Ukraine. Last month alone, 328 civilians were killed and 2,105 injured as a result of Russian attacks.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

In Kharkiv today, russia struck an ordinary commuter train.

Killing kids, striking markets, Killing dogs, burning trains - everything is possible if you are a great "humanitarian"

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Once again, I am personally convinced that the only right way to deal with this administration is a firm, confident, calm, and utterly non-negotiable “no.” And to calmly, methodically call things by their names in public. We call betrayal betrayal, lies lies, and truth truth.

Let him rage and spew whatever vile, lying curses and threats he wants, foaming at the mouth if he likes. If he thinks it will be easier to bully Ukraine into committing suicide for the sake of his own absurd whims of the moment and his itchy little hands, he is deeply mistaken. All that sickening groveling, crawling on our knees, and kissing his ass only makes him climb onto our heads, try to solve his problems at our expense, and go on pleasing his idol in the Kremlin.

Ukraine has the extraordinary heroism of its soldiers, Europe, basic common sense, and American public opinion on its side. And has no cards in his deranged attempt to collude with the Kremlin.

[jacopo iacoboni @jacopo_iacoboni]

Ovviamente, ovunque all'estero stanno notando che le proteste italiane gridano lo stesso slogan espresso da Maria Zakharova (" soldi per le armi a Kyiv e niente alle scuole"), e c'è un forte sospetto di interferenze e operazioni russe

https://t.co/Rz3sossmJU

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

“Zelensky said the throttling of Ukrainian use of Starlink is still going on today. And if you listen to Secretary Hegseth, what he said was, ‘Well, that's just Starlink's terms of service.’ And what he seems to be saying is that Starlink has a speed limit on its use of its service and the Ukrainians were exceeding that.”

“But of course they were exceeding it, because people were dying and they're trying to save those lives. It would be like telling an ambulance they have to drive the speed limit even though the patient might die. So that's a terrible situation.”

“if Hegseth was for the Ukrainians having the ability to fight Russian drones, he would have said, ‘Oh my God, turn that back on.’ He didn't say that. He said, ‘Well, nothing I can do about it. I'm only the Secretary of Defense.’ He didn't say, ‘Oh my God, Elon, turn it back on because people are dying.’ That's what he could have said, but he didn't say that. So obviously he's okay with it, even if it wasn't his decision.”

“And going into negotiations, it gives Putin the upper hand, which is terrible for the for the Ukrainians. And if you were the Russians and you were getting all of this support from the Americans, including diplomatic support, a diesel deal, financial support, an invitation to the G20, the only conclusion you could draw is that Trump is on your side. And in that situation, the chance that Putin's going to make any real concessions is slim to none.”

[InformNapalm @InformNapalm]

“America First, always”? That's a bold claim, Mr. Hegseth, given the growing questions about whether President #Trump's #Russia policy serves American interests or gives Putin the upper hand.

In 1994, Ukraine agreed to relinquish the nuclear weapons on its territory. The United States, Russia and the United Kingdom pledged to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and existing borders.

Russia violated those commitments by invading Ukraine.

Today, Trump's pressure on Kyiv, alongside sanctions relief for Moscow, raises serious questions about Washington's commitment to those principles.

Our international volunteer intelligence community includes Americans who share the concerns expressed by Ukrainians and other Europeans about this policy.

So here is a question for the Secretary of Defense:

How does pressuring a country that gave up nuclear weapons, while easing pressure on the country that invaded it, serve America's national security interests?

And what message does that send to every other nation considering nuclear disarmament?

[Steven Bonk @StevenBonkMP]

Since 2015, the Liberals have spent more than every other government in Canadian history COMBINED.

What's really scary is that all that borrowing was done at extremely low interest rates, and now those bonds are rolling over into new, and more expensive, debt.

That's not stopping Mark Carney. He's spending more, and faster, than at any time outside of World War II and COVID.

The combination of massive deficits and a large national debt, with ever-increasing costs to service that debt, is a genuine threat to the economic future of this country.

We've seen this all before too. Guess who pays when the bill comes due? You.

[5 канал 🇺🇦 @5channel]

🇺🇸🇳🇱Нідерландська розвідка зламала смартфон зятя Трампа Джареда Кушнера та роками відстежувала його мільйонні транзакції з лідерами Близького Сходу, а також кілерами, очільниками хунт та найманцями — Vanity Fair

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[Garnett Genuis @GarnettGenuis]

He Doesn't Know What's In His Own Bill

This Liberal MP doesn't know what's in his own bill, makes a false claim about what's in the bill, and then is contradicted by a public servant in his own government.

The core job of legislators is to legislate. You have one job, and you have at most one opportunity in each Parliament to bring a bill through the process.

It's hard to make sense of how this could happen.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

More reporting suggesting that Musk does indeed have his finger on Starshield's operability. Quite a lot of power for a ketamine-addicted trillionaire in bed with hostile foreign regimes. You might even say this endangers U.S. national security. https://t.co/rGcOIzFv0z