Optimistic Truth

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[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

Putin is sealing Russia's fate by invading Ukraine.

In the near term, more relevance, more headlines, and some strutting.

In the medium term, oops this didn't turn out so well for Russia.

In the longer term, Russia further weakened and irrelevant, and bye bye Putin.

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@Acyn @zteca72 LOL

Sounds like Trump

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Amazon paid $40 million for the rights to the Melania documentary.

$28 million goes directly to Melania Trump.

Meanwhile, Amazon and Jeff Bezos have huge financial stakes in decisions pending before the Trump administration.

This reeks of a corrupt pay-to-play arrangement.

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@FurkanGozukara Trump also wants to throw a hail Mary lifeline to save Putin who is losing badly in Ukraine and who, without the recent dramatic rise in oil prices, would soon have no army and would experience regime change up close and personal

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@RpsAgainstTrump Yep

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

please, God, let it be so

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“Russians, go home!", chants today in Budapest.

Polls show that corrupt, Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is very likely to lose next month’s election.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey says Donald Trump is the "most corrupt US president ever"

"On Iran, I think he was manipulating the markets in order to make money for him and his cronies. I think there's a real whiff of insider trading... and we should call him out"

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@CalltoActivism Trump attacks those who speak the truth

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The day before the Iran War, a flurry of big prediction market bets were placed - likely from Trump staff - that the war would start the next day.

That's outrageous, and today @RepCasar and I introduced legislation to ban these corrupt prediction markets.

[Vanessa Robbins @brideofChrist83]

@GenXGirl1994 Ok that was easier than I thought to find. Here ya go. Probably not the only one. Most mega church pastors are compromised IMO. With money usually comes selfish ambition & corruption unfortunately. But symbols they dont hide knowing most have no clue.
https://t.co/hEYLLijXPQ

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@RpsAgainstTrump True

Putin desperately needs Orban to win

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@Acyn LOL

Trump only appoints shameful bootlickers with zero integrity who are happy to insincerely lavish praise on Trump on command no matter how stupid Trump's decisions and actions are and no matter how harmful the effects are for the country

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

$1 billion of our tax dollars to kill a clean energy program that creates jobs, just so Trump's Big Oil donors can make more profit.

The most corrupt presidency ever — and it's not even close.

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

still true

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

Putin is sealing Russia's fate by invading Ukraine.

In the near term, more relevance, more headlines, and some strutting.

In the medium term, oops this didn't turn out so well for Russia.

In the longer term, Russia further weakened and irrelevant, and bye bye Putin.

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@OccupyDemocrats even better if special treatment ended permanently

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@NancySinatra The Republicans in Congress are

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Wounded Ukrainian soldier "Tanker" escaped Russian encirclement on an e-bike dropped by drone after 5 days alone behind enemy lines, The Telegraph.

Rescue team had to calculate the right time of day and weather conditions to make it. 1/

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

NEW: Ukrainian forces struck an oil depot in Krasnodar Krai on August 3. Geolocated imagery shows a fire at the Rosneft Kubannefteprodukt Oil Depot in Adler, Krasnodar Krai. Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev acknowledged that a Ukrainian drone strike caused the fire and that the fire engulfed several fuel tanks at the depot. A Ukrainian Telegram channel also published a photo on August 3 purportedly showing an oil refinery on fire in Kstovo, Nizhnyi Novgorod. Nizhnyi Novgorod Oblast Governor claimed that Russian forces repelled a Ukrainian drone strike on the night of August 2 to 3.

Other Key Takeaways:
Russia is reportedly preparing to expand its use of occupied Ukraine to launch Shahed-type drone strikes against Ukraine.

Russia appears to be trying to better protect its air bases after multiple years of Ukrainian strikes against the Russian rear.

Russian intelligence services appear to be reassessing and possibly innovating their sabotage operations in Europe.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Lieutenant General Anatoliy Kryvonozhko as the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force on August 3.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced in western Zaporizhia Oblast. Russian forces recently advanced in the Lyman, Pokrovsk, and Novopavlivka directions. (1/2)

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Russia, China conduct joint drills in Sea of Japan.

Russia & China are conducting joint military exercises in the Sea of Japan, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of nuclear submarines in a show of force toward Moscow.
https://t.co/hcV1VKUANF

[Optimistic Truth @TruthOptimistic]

@its_The_Dr WJ