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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...
by quaoar
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There will be stories of the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war that will do justice to its wartime leader. Sadly it has yet to be written as not the biography of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, but as histories of his presidency dominated by a war,...
by annieli
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin likes to fancy himself a scholar of both proto and modern Pan-Slavic history. In his twisted historiography, all things Slavic find their genesis in Moskva Rus. To him and his ilk like Alexandr Dugin, Kyvian Rus, the...
by Decimus
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Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...
by thomhartmann
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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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Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine, crafted by Witkoff and Dmitriev, has hit a dead end, The Atlantic reports. Vance bet Kyiv would cave after a corruption scandal, but Zelensky held firm. General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Operational...
by annieli
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Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social In a devastating new report —Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption — the House Judiciary Committee staff paints a portrait of a presidency...
by Meteor Blades
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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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Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 25 and 26. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and 90 Shahed-type,...
by annieli
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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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