Ukraine
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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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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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@Piano-Dad said in Ukraine:
Elvira Nabiullina
Looked her up. Apparently she tried to quit her job over Ukraine but Putin told her to stay put. Wonder what floor her office is on.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Meanwhile, the US is considering whether to lift some sanctions against Russia.
https://kyivindependent.com/trump-administration-weighs-sanctions-relief-for-russia-reuters-reports/
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...and has paused all military aid to Ukraine..the Toddler-in-Chief is having a tantrum...
President Donald Trump is seeking to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in peace talks with Russia by pausing military aid to Ukraine.
A White House official said Trump wants Zelenskyy committed to the ending of the war that began when Russia invaded the now war-torn country. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the assistance, added that the U.S. was “pausing and reviewing” its aid to “ensure that it is contributing to a solution.”
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Thank you, Sweden.
Link to video
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Piers Morgan was bought and paid for a long time ago.
This is the actual history of this conflict. How much of it do our threads leave out? 90%?
The US will give up its unrealistic ambition of being the globe's unipolar power or there will be more foreign policy disasters (the list is a long one) and it will continue in the degradation of its infrastructure and the impoverishment of its people.
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JD, proving once again he's not ready for prime time.
JD Vance was hit by a wave of criticism from British and French politicians Tuesday as he mocked Europe’s plan to deploy troops on the ground in Ukraine to keep the peace.
In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Vance dismissed peacekeeping assistance from "some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years" — interpreted by politicians across the divide in London as an attack on the U.K., which has been pushing such a plan alongside France.
It prompted a swift denial from Vance, who said he had not been referring to either Britain or France in his remarks — but not before politicians had piled in to accuse him of denigrating troops who had fought alongside the United States in the past.
The U.K. and France are drawing up a plan with Ukraine to present to the U.S. that would include a peacekeeping force comprised of an as-yet-unspecified "coalition of the willing."
When he's lost Nigel Farage....
Even Nigel Farage, a key British ally of Trump who has backed his strategy in Ukraine, told GB News when pressed on the remarks: "JD Vance is wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.”
He added: “For 20 years in Afghanistan pro rata our size against America's we spent the same amount of money, we put the same number of men and women in. We suffered the same losses.
“We stood by America all through those 20 years putting in exactly the same contribution. And alright, they may be six times bigger, but we did our bit. So, on this one JD is wrong."
Apparently even LePen had a few choice words about JD...
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He's easy on the eyes not that it's relevant.
The sooner we stop thinking of Putin as Hitler and Zelensky as Churchill the sooner we can pull back from the highest possibility for nuclear war since the Kennedy administration.
This was always a proxy war and the goal was always regime change in Russia.
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