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So all these US lawmakers who were in Moscow in July are making statements supporting Trump's stripping of Brennan's clearance. This doesn't look like collusion. This looks like a hostile takeover
War is hell, and the US military is far from perfect, but I can guarantee you that if American soldiers castrated a POW and put the video all over social media they would be prosecuted to the fullest. Not in Russia. These war criminals are more likely to be given a medal
I'm tired of listening to people who've underestimated Putin for 20+ years now say they think Putin is sick or has gone insane. Nope, this is the culmination of everything he's done his entire life and you just weren't paying attention because the truth was so inconvenient
Ukrainians are fighting Russia so you don't have to. Every tank, aircraft, and ship they destroy makes the world a safer place. If Poland and Estonia and Finland are still free in 20 years thank a Ukrainian
Bam! The Biden administration just massively outmaneuvered Vladimir Putin by buying 81 Soviet era jets from Kazakhstan for only $2.26 million, about $20,000 each, all of which could be used by Ukraine against Russia in short order.
I just lost my 1st friend to
#covid19
, a strong giant of a man in his mid 30s who had treatable cancer. 24 hours before he died he was posting about how those with weakened immune systems are vulnerable to this disease. Please for the love of God take
#coronavirus
seriously
Huge scoop. Massive security problem if true. Remember that by law the FSB has backdoor access to all data stored on Russian servers, and by law any Russian company has to have their servers based in Russia. The GOP is heavily compromised
Whoa. Is this the Mother Russia of all MotherLodes? Is this why
#MoscowMitch
got so under McConnell's skin?? Along with other prominent Republicans, Mitch has been using a subpoena-resistant (Yandex?) email server in Russia. Does this also mean Putin has major GOP kompromat??
Jim Jordan is also lying. The aid to Ukraine was freed up because the State Department released it, not the White House, because they determined they had no legal cause to withhold the aid. Trump tried and failed, but the law won
Elon Musk thinks he is above the law and rules don't matter. The EU disagrees and it could shut
@Twitter
down if things keep going the way they're going. What's the fastest way to lose $44b? Stay tuned to find out
This great parody channel succinctly summarized Putin's strategy years ago. Remember this when we see race riots in the UK, based on fake info initially spread through Gazprom-owned media, clashing with police who wear far-right punisher stickers. It's really very simple
How I will "win"
1 -Bomb civilians to create millions of refugees that Europe can't handle.
2 -Have far-right, anti-refugee parties I've spent 22 years funding demand an end to the refugees I am making.
3 -Get my "anti imperialist" useful idiots to manufacture consent
4 -Repeat
Ukraine may take Luhansk & Donetsk first before pressing on to Crimea!
So many in the West have pushed Ukraine to trade its own territory for peace. It's always been folly: Putin does not do "peace" even when he does "pause." But now we see the complete shortsightedness of it
Me on
@KCBSRadio
last week: "In February the idea that Ukraine could retake Crimea would have been crazy. In May even after the Ukrainian victory near Kyiv, it would have been crazy. But if Ukraine retakes Kherson, Russia will be defending Crimea." I'm calling it, it ain't crazy
What this massive leak of RNC docs show is Trump & most of his senior officials were unfit for office, the RNC & Trump's team knew it & put these people in the highest positions of power anyway. They put the country in danger & knew they were doing it
The thing about Trump's Iran tweet is that even when the dangers of sharing this info are explained to him he's either too stupid or too arrogant to care. This is the kind of behavior that gets everyone killed exhibited by one of the few with the power to get everyone killed
It's ok, Ukraine is going to fight this battle for all of us and they will win. The tragedy is that they shouldn't have to. We should have stopped this a long time ago
If I wrote a novel where the main villain was in cahoots with a business called "Fraud Guarantee" and owned a club called "Mafia Rave," any lit critic who didn't pan it would immediately be fired by their editor
Agreed wholeheartedly. Let's not mince words, Hawley and Cruz are guilty of succession and invoking a riot, and the entire GOP is guilty of giving material support to this terrorism
The merits and well-known dangers of fentanyl aside, the US President just ordered private companies to stop delivering a drug that is legal for prescription use. And he did so via tweet.
....your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,....
"tired of writing the same story over and over again" is why I've taken a break from journalism. We ignored the Russian threat. We're ignoring the White Supremacy threat. We're ignoring the gun violence threat. I'm not sure what I can write that we haven't already written
"The vast majority of U.S. Ukraine-related funding does not go directly to Ukraine; it stays in the U.S. economy, subsidizing the production of weapons in at least 31 states and 71 cities.
"While Ukraine gets most of the aid in the form of old American weapons pulled from U.S.
"Some Democrats tend to believe that almost every election confirms the need to lurch to the left, when in fact the 2020 election should be a reminder that Trump would have beaten anyone left of Biden." By
@RadioFreeTom
This reminds me of stories a friend of mine tells. She is Russian, lived in Ukraine in 2014. Her friends and relatives in Russia were telling her that Euromaidan activists were killing Russians in the streets. She couldn't convince them otherwise
Since this is getting a lot of attention, it doesn't matter if these can fly. Ukraine can use them for parts, decoys, or other inventive uses. But my guess is they could get many of these working, and some of these weapons systems are indeed still in service
Two things to keep in mind right now:
1. We should all be paying attention to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
2. It's way too early to freak out and we have no idea what's going on at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
This is the 1st evidence that the Russian GRU was directly involved in a Russian military intelligence operation to undermine the USA's civilian electoral system. The GRU exists to counter our military. Now its new mission is to destroy our way of life
The USSR's collapse wasn't the triumph of capitalism over communism. That's 12 year old boy scout analysis. It was the triumph of a free system over a corrupt system. Our current system and this President are incredibly and increasingly corrupt. That's an existential threat
Russia has been completely outmaneuvered here. Instead of isolating Ukraine by cutting them off from the larger Church, Russia appears to have isolated itself by alienating Constantinople. A huge win for Ukraine an a harbinger for peace
Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall. He has been found dead at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip. They went to India to celebrate his birthday.
Assad visits Iran on the same day Russia starts pulling troops from Syria. This is not a coincidence. Putin is losing Ukraine. He has never been more vulnerable
It was Assad's second visit to Iran since the start of the Syrian civil war 11 years ago. The Islamic republic, along with Russia, were major wartime allies of Syria and have supported the continuation of Assad's rule.
Kyiv residents surging supplies to the children’s hospital hit by Russia this morning. An amazing Ukrainian solidarity we’ve seen so many times since this invasion began.
The images of the pure destruction across parts of Ukraine are disgusting.
@France24_en
just played 5 minutes of raw footage with no commentary and it was the most powerful 5 minutes of television I've seen all week. We keep doing nothing as Putin does this again & again & again
Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in the shadow of the Kremlin 5 years ago today. He was killed because he exposed the corrupt Sochi Olympics. He was killed because he had just released a damning exposé on the invasion of Ukraine. He was killed because he was Russia's next president
After violent pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol, a growing number of GOP leaders & Cabinet officials believe Trump should be removed from office before Jan 20. Four called for the 25th Amendment to be invoked, and two said he should be impeached.
China spent the crucial first days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak arresting people who posted about it online and threatening journalists via
@businessinsider
I'm an expert on the Iranian protest movement in 2009-2010. Followed every minute. I'm an expert on Arab Spring. This feels like that. This one is different. And for the 1st time in my life, I think the US government has more in common with the dictators than not.
It looks like the Russian assault on Kharkiv has very little chance of success and it's still not clear whether they can resist Ukraine's offensive on Kherson. We are going to learn a lot about how weak Putin really is by watching these two cities
#Russian
forces have resumed localized ground attacks northwest and southwest of
#Izyum
and may be setting conditions for offensive operations further west into
#Kharkiv
Oblast or toward Kharkiv City. /1
Full report w/
@criticalthreats
:
@RadioFreeTom
I was thinking of compiling every quote Trump has said about Putin. It would be amazingly compelling data journalism, and a total waste of time. The experts know the results. Half of America knows. Everyone else doesn't care
From what I can tell the Ukrainian military is putting up a hell of a fight in the Donbas, where they've been dug in for nearly 8 years, and very little resistance every else. Elsewhere Russia carefully advancing slowly in areas UA isn't holding