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The Wall Street Journal says the Trump/Putin peace plan is all about money. I’m shocked — SHOCKED! — that they would sell out Ukraine for 40 pieces of silver. 2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law...
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I haven’t seen a word in the USA media about this story so I am putting it out here. This is a major disaster. Sri Lanka is an island about the size of West Virginia and sits off the southeast coast of India. It is home to about 22 million people....
by bgblcklab1
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A Russian missile test didn’t exactly go as planned -- but it made a pretty cloud. I have to agree. Probable missile types involved: • UR-100NUTTKh (SS-19 Stiletto) • R-36M2 / RS-20 (SS-18) Both rely on UDMH fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, which...
by quaoar
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Ukraine went after bases in Chechnya belonging to the Akhmat unit that has been fighting alongside the Russians. A Russian soldier shows why this area of Novotoretsk is called the Valley of Death. He videos a meat assault past the bodies of numerous...
by quaoar
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It is probably a safe bet that a gallon of ketchup hit the wall when Trump heard that his billionaire real estate buddy Steve Witkoff was dissing him in his leaked conversation with the Russians (see below). How many scaramuccis before Trump claims he...
by quaoar
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Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...
by quaoar
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Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 23 to 24. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 162 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other drones – of which roughly 80 were Shahed-type...
by annieli
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The Hayli Gubbi shield volcano in Ethiopia’s desolate Afar region near Eritrea unexpectedly erupted with a thunderous explosion yesterday (Nov 23) for the first time in at least 10,000 years — sending a column of ash more than 45,000 feet into the...
by Irontortoise
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All that work Steve Witkoff did to appease Putin and it’s all getting carved up. Poor Steve. Trump isn’t a details guy — unless it involves putting gold-plated crap all over the Oval Office. Trump was in a damn hurry to force Ukraine to accept by...
by quaoar
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The breaking news comes via PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin who tweeted it on X.com. According to Schifrin, Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) told him that Rubio called him and other lawmakers to make it very clear that the recently leaked 28-point...
by Mark Lippman
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