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[Jeremy London @SirJeremyLondon]

That’s the face of someone who is trying to figure out which remote island to disappear to when his inevitable chickens come home to roost

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I recommend this piece

[Michael Bohnert @mbohnert]

Ukraine just proved it can strike into Russia during prestige event—Putin’s St. Petersburg Economic Forum—hitting a major oil terminal and the Kronstadt naval base. It’s a strategy targeting Russia’s war economy and military infrastructure, but not just in the form of money

Putin tries to style the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as a peer and a non-Western alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is part of a global strategy of pushing a multipolar world order. It is intended to provide opportunities for Russia to attract foreign direct investment, engage in global investment, and garner international political support.

These strikes generate several narratives and highlight multiple gaps. The discussions tend to center around increasing Russian revenue and exports, but as I have repeatedly stated, wars are about resources not money.

Putin needs to convince global players that Russia is a reliable partner and will win the war in Ukraine. He needs political support to help counter sanctions. His war machine to import the materials and machinery to provide for the Russian army and air force. Hitting a major port city on the eve of his big economic forum counters this narrative.

Further countering this narrative is the fact that the strike happened both in the city and at a nearby naval base crippling a frigate. This highlights that with all of Russia's military capacity and technology, Putin is unable to defend his most cherished events. For this strike to successfully happen, multiple early warning radars, electronic warfare systems, and air defenses were either bypassed or not functioning. Multiple hits demonstrates there as systemic issues with air defense even in critical regions that should be receiving the best.

The net result is the message that Russia is unreliable and that Ukraine has the technical capability and capacity to strike any investments made into Russia and that Russia can't help you.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Trump has a lot of Ukrainian blood on his hands

[John Brown @JohnPokerBrown]

@joni_askola A pedophile, rapist, tax cheat, insurrectionist find autocrats and dictatorial imperialist warlords to gel with as besties. That scumbag should be considered a war criminal himself at this point, everyone of his actions have benefitted his mentor in the Kremlin.

[ChrissiV @v_chrissi]

@joni_askola It was clear from the moment he won the presidency again that he would abandon Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Paul Sweeney 🇨🇦 @PaulSweeneyYYZ]

@joni_askola Trump is a POS traitor and a Putin stooge!

[Dismayed Idaho Agoraphobe @IdahoSpud2025]

@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Sociopaths are incapable of empathy. He truly does not care.

[Julie 🇨🇦 @JulieS604]

@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Trump is a Putin puppet…full stop! He will not help Ukraine because he’s indebted to his handler. He has always wanted to hand Ukraine over on a silver platter and the Republican Party stands behind him. He will be the FALL OF THE PARTY!

[Blue Cerulean @Blue_Caerulean]

@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Always.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Burn it to the ground. (figuratively speaking)

[Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias]

New for @TPM: My look at how a recently-retired top immigration official getting celebrity treatment at a conference of outright fascists, and admitting to a friendship with a Nazi like Martin Sellner, should be a giant giant giant scandal https://t.co/V0zf1Xz0iJ

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

If you didn't know, Putin and his forces are deeply antisemitic and spend a lot of time pushing conspiracies about Jews

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

There's a word for when the president uses government power to enrich himself personally: corruption.

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Soon:

“I’m Scott Baio.”
“I’m Patricia Heaton.”
“I’m Kevin Sorbo.”
“I’m Roseanne Barr.”
“I’m Andrew Tate. Those stories, plus Tony Hinchcliffe, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

[Wally Ballou! still isn’t voting for #Genocide @Jazz_Phan]

@parismartineau @MikePrysner Trump does not permit anyone into the upper echelons of his administration unless they have been compromised—usually by the Epstein Ring.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

@parismartineau Are any of you old enough to remember when government just sort of... worked?

Not perfectly, not even well, but kinda did what it was supposed to do instead of whatever the absolute sleep paralysis demon bullshit this is?

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Marco Rubio claims that Trump never falls asleep and by way of defense says Donald has called him at 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Not the flex he thinks it is: dementia patients often can't sleep through the night and then can't stay awake during the day.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

No public events for @realDonaldTrump today. That makes it a week now since he's been seen in public.

Why?