Ukraine
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Winston Churchill visiting the White House during WWII. Love his suit.
A quip about the staged fracas in the WH ...
"A reporter who's dating a woman in Congress who looks like a Neanderthal takes issues with a man who isn't wearing a suit while fluffing for the two men wearing makeup in the Oval Office."
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@Piano-Dad said in Ukraine:
If there exists anyone who does not already know Tim Snyder, he is arguably America's leading expert on central and eastern Europe.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office
Everyone should listen to Snyder's remarks. Sadly the people who most need to hear them probably won't.
Snyder has included some links to organizations that benefit Ukraine, for those inclined to lend their support.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Not a response to what happened yesterday, but it sure is another sign of Trump walking away from Ukraine.
State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration
The USAID initiative had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in helping Ukraine's energy grid recover from attacks from Russia.
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An Oval Office confrontation where President Donald Trump shouted at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and threw him out of the White House on Friday has left U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski “sick to my stomach” about concerns Trump is openly “walking away from our allies,” she stated in a social media post Saturday.
“This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine,” she wrote. “It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine. I know foreign policy is not for the faint of heart, but right now, I am sick to my stomach as the administration appears to be walking away from our allies and embracing Putin, a threat to democracy and U.S. values around the world.”
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Senator Collins is concerned and yet reckless at least so long as she can come out of the business looking as if she might have given consideration to the matter at hand and then acted to the extent of her most idiotic selection.
Senator Collins is the worst of the worst. She puts out the pretense that she has some valuable contribution to manage and then fails to do the right thing. One has to look to Senator Lindsay [sic] Graham to find much of any means to challenge her degree of willing indifference to what is in the best interest of her Nation.
From a comment at NYTimes a while back. This is the best characterization I've ever read about the perpetually concerned one from Maine.
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JD went skiing at Sugarbush. Vermonters turned out to say howdy.
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Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced it will cease supplying fuel to U.S. military forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.
In a strongly worded statement, the company criticised a televised event involving U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, referring to it as the “biggest shitshow ever presented live on TV.” Haltbakk Bunkers praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his restraint, accusing the U.S. of “putting on a backstabbing TV show” and declaring that the spectacle “made us sick.”
As a result, the company stated: “We have decided to immediately STOP as fuel provider to American forces in Norway and their ships calling Norwegian ports. No Fuel to Americans!” Haltbakk Bunkers also urged Norwegians and Europeans to follow their lead, concluding their statement with the slogan “Slava Ukraina” in support of Ukraine.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fuel-supplier-refuses-u-s-warships-over-ukraine/
How long before war breaks out?
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We still haven't circled back to the history of the western front of Ukraine supporting Hitler, and soldiers in this part of Ukraine having worn Nazi uniforms and valorized fascist ideas throughout this war.
Well, now, we have done it.
I don't want any more money going to Ukraine. We have more than enough domestic needs, all of which are conspicuous by the fact the US government has not addressed them in any serious way, and by the fact they have been getting worse not better.
This war is over. Trump's attempt to get minerals and not give security guarantees was bizarre, but Ukraine is a bleeding wound. It should focus on its own cauterization, for the good of those still living, to put it bluntly.
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Things look like they're moving...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said the UK and France were working on a one-month truce in Ukraine “in the air, at sea and on energy infrastructure,” in an interview with a French daily. His comments came after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ended a London security summit with a call for Europe to “do the heavy lifting” in Ukraine. Read our liveblog for the latest developments.
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Link to video
Piers Morgan was bought and paid for a long time ago.
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Rubio on the Budapest Memorandum. That was then, I guess.
https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3ljfvogoqus23
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The Finnish president. A lesson in leadership and diplomacy that a
couplebunch of someones in the US need to see and learn from, but of course won't.Totally inspiring.
video and transcript:
Made my day. There's hope for the world.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Why Putin may be ready to negotiate.
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Many of us thought that Russia would have more trouble with its economy than it has had, given the financial sanctions that it has faced. Russia has hung on as long as it has in part because it has sold its soul (and future) to China, and gone hat in hand to North Korea and Iran. Putin has also had skilled leadership at the Russian central bank (Elvira Nabiullina). As this article demonstrates, Putin has also been able to kick the financial can down the road a bit by hollowing out Russia's financial system in ways that will potentially bankrupt millions in the future, no matter what happens in this war over the next year or two.
Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.
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