Benjamin 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼

Polish-American
“When words lose their meaning, people will lose their liberty.”
Ronald Reagan was the greatest President. Not MAGA!

[Benjamin 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼 @supersteak]

Crimea is burning and Putin’s grip is weakened.

Ukraine is causing a crisis for Russians in the peninsula as it ramps up strikes against the occupied territory.
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[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

More details have emerged regarding the struck and now burning factory in Voronezh, Russia. The Semiconductor Devices Plant produces parts for air defense, ballistic and cruise missiles, so basically the only products Russia is currently manufacturing.

Devastating for them.

[Benjamin 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼 @supersteak]

China sanctions 10 US firms over Pentagon blacklist.

The new export controls come "in response to the US government's egregious act of adding to its so-called 'Chinese military enterprise list'", said China's commerce ministry.

https://t.co/uWtGoExxHd

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.

The visuals from Switzerland:

• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.

• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.

• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

Yes. Can be done. Air-ground US campaign. Three division Corps. 150,000 troops. 90-180 days of fighting. Serious combat. 200,000 IRGC troops. 600,000 soldiers. Iran can interdict throughout Persian Gulf …. not just the Strait. THEN WHAT?

[Benjamin 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼 @supersteak]

America Spent a Fortune Shooting Down Cheap Drones. Now the Missile Stores Are Bare.
https://t.co/fYrg7iXoXr

[ProPublica @propublica]

Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
https://t.co/QwHUod4Ffy

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

@LarryBoorstein @Grok is this true, would the Sika Control 40 watertight concrete make it harder for RhinoCoat EP primer to stick?

[Haley Britzky @halbritz]

"Soon Mr. Hegseth was pulling officers from nearly every active duty and reserve officer promotion list ... Hegseth has removed a total of 32 officers from Air Force and Navy one-star and two-star promotion lists, defense officials said. The only Black officer and the only female officer were removed from a Marine Corps promotion list."
https://t.co/S9TEA4sXi4

[Benjamin 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼 @supersteak]

What? 🫨
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says James Talarico will “go to hell” for his view of the Bible.

A GOP leader, Patrick has been a staunch advocate for conservative Christian values in his role presiding over the Texas Senate.
https://t.co/hmUKZiuRDf

[Non-Hyphenated American @NHAunleashed]

Pathetic

Actual conservatives do NOT support Trump

We have always seen him as a New York leftist

We have also called out this MOU as a total capitulation by the United States.

Oh and don’t confuse the pro Islam groyper adjacent woke right weasels with actual conservatives like me.

[Benjamin 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼 @supersteak]

@petlor @JayinKyiv That's already happening.

[Warren @swd2]

Trump finally got his dream ride: a shiny $400M Qatar Force One, gifted by his oil buddies. Because nothing says ‘America First’ like flying around in a foreign prince’s hand-me-down jet while taxpayers foot the retrofits.

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world.

Through this secure platform, allied governments, labs, and defense tech manufacturers gain access to deep technical data, reports, and vulnerabilities. Users can also request physical equipment for testing, significantly shortening the development cycle for countermeasures.

What was meant to be the enemy's secret advantage is being dismantled to defend democracy. Join the platform:
🔗 https://t.co/xoeCfXsIy3

[Pete @splendid_pete]

📚 Russian disinformation strategy across the United States and Europe is fundamentally opportunistic. The primary objective is not necessarily to persuade Western citizens to adopt pro-Russian views, but to paralyze NATO and the European Union by exacerbating existing social, racial, and political fractures. By fueling both extremes of the domestic culture war, the strategy aims to convince Americans and Europeans that their true enemy is their neighbor or their own government, thereby degrading social cohesion, institutional trust, and the ability to maintain unified support for Ukraine. 

The Transatlantic "horseshoe".

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union utilized "active measures" to exploit social unrest. Modern Russian intelligence agencies and proxy organizations, such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and the Social Design Agency (SDA), have modernized this approach using social media, bot networks, and generative AI.

The defining characteristic of these campaigns is that they do not pick a side; they play both sides simultaneously across the Atlantic. In both the U.S. and Europe, they exploit a "horseshoe" dynamic, targeting both the far-left and far-right because both extremes share a utility: skepticism of NATO, hostility toward institutional establishments, and a vulnerability to polarized outrage.

Left-Wing / Anti-Imperialist:

Institutional corruption, systemic hopelessness, framing the cessation of Ukraine aid as "pacifism," and anti-NATO sentiment.

Right-Wing / Nationalist:

White replacement fears, anti-immigration panic, "traditional values" under attack by "woke" establishments (Washington/Brussels), and election denialism.

The tactical evolution:

Russian operations have continuously adapted to evade platform detection while exploiting the Western media ecosystem, moving from human troll farms to sophisticated, AI-driven subversion.

➥ Internet Research Agency (IRA) Infiltration. 2016.

Troll farms created thousands of fake accounts posing as both right-wing "patriots" and left-wing activists to artificially inflate domestic hostility in the United States.

➥ The Doppelgänger Campaign. 2022 - 2023.

The Russian IT firm Social Design Agency (SDA) launched a massive campaign cloning legitimate Western news sites (like The Washington Post, Le Monde, and Der Spiegel) to spread anti-Ukraine and culture war narratives simultaneously in the U.S. and Europe.

➥ Electoral Subversion via Deepfakes. 2024 - 2025.

Operations pivoted heavily to releasing "leaked" audio deepfakes and forged documents during critical European elections (e.g., Moldova, Romania, Hungary) to manufacture last-minute scandals and discredit pro-Western candidates.

➥ AI and the ATAFIMI/Matryoshka Operations. Early 2026.

Cross-border investigations revealed Russia heavily utilizing generative AI to exploit international crises and European protests, rapidly tailoring wedge issues to specific national audiences across NATO and the EU to force "war fatigue."

The feedback loop.

Russian operatives frequently utilize a "firehose of falsehood" approach, prioritizing volume and rapid dissemination over consistency. When a domestic issue arises, such as an immigration crisis, a controversial police shooting, or EU agricultural protests, Russian bot networks flood the zone. 

Agitation: Fake left-wing accounts post inflammatory rhetoric demanding extreme institutional overhauls or violent protests.

Reaction: Fake right-wing accounts immediately capture those posts and present them as mainstream left-wing thought to stoke fear and existential threat.

Amplification: The algorithm rewards the high engagement of this manufactured outrage. Real domestic users, politicians, and media outlets adopt the talking points and carry the culture war forward organically.

This dynamic exhausts Western citizens with constant domestic outrage, making the political and economic cost of transatlantic solidarity too high for elected officials to bear.

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

🇷🇺 The Root of the Russian Malignancy

The problem with Russia did not begin with Putin. Russians have always been like this mentally. Russians have always hated others; Russia has always been a country of lies and aggression, and Russia loves to kill, masking it as grand missions.

Historians like Richard Pipes and Alain Besançon have long argued that the nature of Russian autocracy—whether under the Tsars, the Soviets, or the current regime—is predicated on the total erasure of the individual in favor of the State. This creates a psychological environment where "the other" is inherently seen as a threat to the messianic, expansionist project of the "Empire."

As the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev noted in his analysis of the "Russian soul," there is a recurring tendency to oscillate between extreme nihilism and extreme religious-political expansionism. The "mission" provides the moral anesthesia necessary to commit atrocities; by framing the destruction of neighbors as a "holy" or "civilizational" duty, the perpetrator absolves themselves of individual guilt.

When a society consistently defines its identity through the negation and subjugation of its neighbors, it becomes trapped in a perpetual cycle of violence. As the philosopher Karl Popper warned in The Open Society and Its Enemies, closed societies built on myth and aggressive ideology are inherently incapable of peaceful coexistence until they are forced to confront the reality of their own moral bankruptcy.

The question remains, can Russia be cured? The situation here is not at all the same as with Nazism in Flight 3, because Nazism there arose in one historical period and disappeared within one generation, while in Russia the disease has been present for centuries - from the very beginning of the founding of Russia by a Ukrainian...

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Disagree 100%. The Russian people need to feel the war, and Moscow-St. Petersburg are the seats of power in Russia. One of the key factors in winning this war is imposing political costs and inconvenience on these areas. Also, Russia has already “expanded” the war. Fight to win.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "G7 used to be G8. They should have kept the G8. You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did."

FACT CHECK: Russia was excluded from the G8 in March 2014 as a direct response to its illegal invasion and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s crusade to purge women and people of color from our Armed Forces has never been subtle.

But today, a New York Times exposé revealed exactly how far he’s gone to dismantle the careers and achievements of our finest servicemen and women.

More than a dozen military insiders — both active duty and those already purged — spoke to the Times anonymously to unmask a horrific ongoing attack.

They detailed a process used by Hegseth and his team to halt senior officer advancements for reasons completely unrelated to merit, job performance, or fighting wars.

Hegseth’s efforts are part of a quest to advance his white-and-male centered worldview, facts, history, and actual service be damned.

In the absence of any such evidence, insiders confirmed that he has used his position to withhold promotions from qualified, decorated veterans. The Times cited several enraging examples:

• Last fall, Hegseth ordered Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll to remove two Black and two female officers from a 29-person promotion list. Driscoll repeatedly refused, citing their decades of exemplary service. In March, Hegseth bypassed him, removed their names, and sent the modified list to the White House.

• In total, Hegseth has removed 32 officers from Air Force and Navy one- and two-star promotion lists. He also pulled the only Black officer and the only female officer from a Marine Corps list, leaving their promotions in limbo.

• Vice Adm. Sara Joyner, a highly decorated three-star fighter pilot, saw her advancement stalled over a 2021 Navy recruiting ad where she said, "I’m not just a girl with a dream. I’m a sailor with one." Hegseth deemed the line a "big problem." Joyner has since retired.

• Rear Adm. Stephen D. Barnett was recommended for a promotion after successfully managing the aftermath of a massive Navy fuel spill in Hawaii. Hegseth blocked his advancement after Barnett participated in a Navy-sponsored Pride event back in 2018.

It is an outrage to watch a media personality whose greatest battles have been with hangovers intentionally harm the careers of people who risked everything to keep America safe. Hegseth’s actions are insult to all who have served and a risk to national security.

[Image: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov]

[Benjamin 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇹🇼 @supersteak]

Senate Republicans in somber, pessimistic mood over Trump deal with Iran.
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