“We turn everything into shit. Wherever we are - there is war. Fighting is all we do.” — A brave Russian pensioner who survived the siege of Leningrad didn't hold back words when talking to the cops.
Lyudmila Nikolaevna also asked the cops not to remove the flowers she brought to the monument to the Gulag victims to honor Boris Nemtsov’s memory.
The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as President Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow and stop the war in Ukraine, a US official and another person familiar with the matter told Reuters https://reut.rs/41ryrEq
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You
may not have heard about it over the weekend, but a short statement by
the Kremlin spokesperson released on Sunday left me almost unbelieving. I
had to triple-check the quote, which said:
“The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely aligns with our vision.”
– Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary for Vladimir Putin
Let that sink in. A spokesman for a murderous dictator says that American and Russian visions now align.
Of
all the things to worry about in a second Trump administration, a
radical restructuring of U.S.–Russia relations at the expense of an
80-year alliance with the democracies of Europe seemed among the least
likely.
But here we are.
In
one week, Donald Trump has effectively scrapped decades of U.S. foreign
policy and upended European geopolitics in the process. This leaves the
United States and most of the rest of the free world more vulnerable
than they have been since World War II.
A
guiding force of U.S. foreign policy, including its policy toward
Russia, has traditionally been to protect freedom and democracy,
America’s founding principles. That through line has been usurped by
Trump’s desire to cozy up to Russian president Vladimir Putin, who by
any measure is a dictator.
After
Trump and JD Vance’s stunning Oval Office sucker punch of Ukrainian
president Volodomyr Zelenskyy on Friday, reaction in Moscow was euphoric
for the Russians, sobering for us.
One Russian official praised Trump for his “pragmatic, rather than enemy-like approach,” according to The Washington Post.
Trump’s humiliation of Zelenskyy on live television was just the latest “alignment.”
Mimicking
Putin, Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator and claimed that he had
started the war, when in fact, Putin invaded Ukraine, a sovereign
nation.
Trump
has said he will not allow Ukraine to join NATO, nor will he give
security guarantees to the Ukrainians once the war is over. Putin wants
neither.
Trump engaged in talks with Putin about ending the war in Ukraine without Zelenskyy present.
On
February 24, Trump ordered his United Nations ambassador to vote
against a resolution demanding that Russia withdraw from Ukraine. The
resolution passed easily, but 18 nations voted against it, including
Russia, North Korea, Belarus, Syria, and … the United States of America.
A new low.
“It’s
like attending the funeral of something you have loved your whole life,
the United States of America. With a single vote, the highest authority
of the country has allied itself with some of the most vile enemies of
humanity,” observed Igor Lukes, Boston University professor of
international relations and history.
How did we go from referring to the Soviet Union as “the evil empire” to aligning with its successor?
At
the end of World War II, the United States was helping to rebuild
war-torn Europe while the newly formed Soviet Union was expanding
communism to much of the eastern part of the continent, ushering in the
Cold War. Because the Soviet Union was our biggest rival militarily, the
United States spent trillions of dollars and millions of man-hours to
defend the U.S. and other countries against the Soviets and encroaching
communism.
With
the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, relations softened but never
thawed completely. Then Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency
in 1999, when Boris Yeltsin resigned.
Putin
was democratically elected in 2000. By law, Russian presidents are
allowed two six-year terms. So Putin changed the Russian constitution to
allow him, and only him, additional terms. (Is there any doubt that
Trump savors this fact?)
Putin
sank into authoritarianism, illegally trying to expand Russia’s borders
by annexing the Crimea and invading Ukraine. U.S. relations became
strained to the point of breaking. Then Trump was reelected, and all was
not just forgiven but excused.
Trump’s
love of Putin might be eclipsed only by his loathing for Zelenskyy. In
2019, Trump was impeached for trying to force Zelenskyy into
investigating the Biden family. He blames the Ukrainian president for
that humiliation.
Trump
doesn’t like that Zelenskyy is popular and considered a true leader and
a hero. Zelenskyy’s approval ratings are 13 points higher than Trump’s,
and he won the Ukrainian presidency with 73% of the vote to Trump’s
49.8%.
When
you come down to it, as with most things involving Trump, you have to
follow the money. Trump recently said he is “trying to do some economic
development deals” with Moscow. That includes opening up mining of rare
earth metals. Just last week Trump tried to strong-arm Zelenskyy into
signing over mineral rights worth three to four times what the U.S. has
given Ukraine in aid, which by the way was never a loan.
“For
the next four years at least, the America you knew is over. The bedrock
values, allies and truths America could always be counted upon to
defend are now all in doubt — or for sale,” Thomas Friedman wrote in The New York Times.
Today,
United States foreign policy is no longer about saving democracies; it
is about extorting them for the benefit of a dictatorial superpower. No
wonder the smirking underlings of Putin are celebrating.
“Happy days are here again.” Who’s got Moscow on for their summer travel plans?
Depends, do they tax tips if I need to pick up a waiter job when I move there and what are egg prices like right now?
Every foreign arrival receives 3 egg laying hens at the airport upon arrival, 4 if you’re ’Murican. Tips? What are tips? If you give a geo coordinate tip on zelensky’s location and subsequent actions are successful, you’ll be tipped with a dacha and an annual stay in the presidential suite at the Ritz.
At least 100 Russian special forces were killed in a 1.4m diameter gas pipeline on the outskirts of Sudzha, Kursk Oblast, they attempted to flank Ukraine defenders.
This is the biggest special forces catastrophe since August 6, 2011 when the US lost 15 Navy seals in a helicopter crash.
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Russian state media reported on the recent failed operation where Russian soldiers crawled through a methane pipeline to infiltrate Ukrainian positions in Kursk.
They accidentally showed images of Russian soldiers wearing blue tape to pretend to be Ukrainian troops which is a war crime.
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BREAKING: The captain of the Solong - the container ship involved in the crash in the North Sea - is a Russian national, the vessel's owners has said. -SkyNews
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BREAKING: The captain of the Solong - the container ship involved in the crash in the North Sea - is a Russian national, the vessel's owners has said. -SkyNews
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The ship's captain arrested in connection with a crash into a U.S. flagged tanker off the coast of England is a Russian national, says the German company which owns the vessel. British police arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, a day after the vessel crashed into a tanker carrying U.S. military jet fuel off the east coast of England, leaving both vessels badly damaged.
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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has come at enormous cost to human life. Our charts show the latest casualty figures and territorial gains https://econ.st/3DGKUw8
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Russian state media reported on the recent failed operation where Russian soldiers crawled through a methane pipeline to infiltrate Ukrainian positions in Kursk.
They accidentally showed images of Russian soldiers wearing blue tape to pretend to be Ukrainian troops which is a war crime.
That’s almost like accusing someone of jaywalking because they crossed the street illegally after murdering 3 people. This whole invasion is a war crime.
"every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"
The plane of U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has crossed the Russia border, TASS news agency citing flights-tracking service Flightradar (CGTN)
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Russia's energy giant Gazprom will lay off 1,500 employees at the Lakhta Center — 40% of its workforce there.
The cuts are due to the loss of the European market. The company also plans to sell the Gazprom Export building in St. Petersburg, where only a few dozen employees remain out of 600. In 2023, Gazprom recorded a net loss of of 629 billion rubles ($6.9 billion)1 billion — the first in 25 years.
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Vladimir Putin said Ukraine must surrender after Pres. Trump urged the Russian leader to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, following ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Russia in Moscow. https://abcnews.link/SGPPiue
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“The New York Times reported in recent days that U.S. intelligence warned the White House that Russia was planning to smuggle incendiary devices onto cargo planes heading to the U.S. The White House, according to the Times, warned the Kremlin to stop the operation.”
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A New Arm of the Kremlin
As Trump’s gaslighting goes global
You may not have heard about it over the weekend, but a short statement by the Kremlin spokesperson released on Sunday left me almost unbelieving. I had to triple-check the quote, which said:
“The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely aligns with our vision.”
– Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary for Vladimir Putin
Let that sink in. A spokesman for a murderous dictator says that American and Russian visions now align.
Of all the things to worry about in a second Trump administration, a radical restructuring of U.S.–Russia relations at the expense of an 80-year alliance with the democracies of Europe seemed among the least likely.
But here we are.
In one week, Donald Trump has effectively scrapped decades of U.S. foreign policy and upended European geopolitics in the process. This leaves the United States and most of the rest of the free world more vulnerable than they have been since World War II.
A guiding force of U.S. foreign policy, including its policy toward Russia, has traditionally been to protect freedom and democracy, America’s founding principles. That through line has been usurped by Trump’s desire to cozy up to Russian president Vladimir Putin, who by any measure is a dictator.
After Trump and JD Vance’s stunning Oval Office sucker punch of Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskyy on Friday, reaction in Moscow was euphoric for the Russians, sobering for us.
One Russian official praised Trump for his “pragmatic, rather than enemy-like approach,” according to The Washington Post.
Trump’s humiliation of Zelenskyy on live television was just the latest “alignment.”
Mimicking Putin, Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator and claimed that he had started the war, when in fact, Putin invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation.
Trump has said he will not allow Ukraine to join NATO, nor will he give security guarantees to the Ukrainians once the war is over. Putin wants neither.
Trump engaged in talks with Putin about ending the war in Ukraine without Zelenskyy present.
On February 24, Trump ordered his United Nations ambassador to vote against a resolution demanding that Russia withdraw from Ukraine. The resolution passed easily, but 18 nations voted against it, including Russia, North Korea, Belarus, Syria, and … the United States of America. A new low.
“It’s like attending the funeral of something you have loved your whole life, the United States of America. With a single vote, the highest authority of the country has allied itself with some of the most vile enemies of humanity,” observed Igor Lukes, Boston University professor of international relations and history.
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How did we go from referring to the Soviet Union as “the evil empire” to aligning with its successor?
At the end of World War II, the United States was helping to rebuild war-torn Europe while the newly formed Soviet Union was expanding communism to much of the eastern part of the continent, ushering in the Cold War. Because the Soviet Union was our biggest rival militarily, the United States spent trillions of dollars and millions of man-hours to defend the U.S. and other countries against the Soviets and encroaching communism.
With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, relations softened but never thawed completely. Then Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency in 1999, when Boris Yeltsin resigned.
Putin was democratically elected in 2000. By law, Russian presidents are allowed two six-year terms. So Putin changed the Russian constitution to allow him, and only him, additional terms. (Is there any doubt that Trump savors this fact?)
Putin sank into authoritarianism, illegally trying to expand Russia’s borders by annexing the Crimea and invading Ukraine. U.S. relations became strained to the point of breaking. Then Trump was reelected, and all was not just forgiven but excused.
Trump’s love of Putin might be eclipsed only by his loathing for Zelenskyy. In 2019, Trump was impeached for trying to force Zelenskyy into investigating the Biden family. He blames the Ukrainian president for that humiliation.
Trump doesn’t like that Zelenskyy is popular and considered a true leader and a hero. Zelenskyy’s approval ratings are 13 points higher than Trump’s, and he won the Ukrainian presidency with 73% of the vote to Trump’s 49.8%.
When you come down to it, as with most things involving Trump, you have to follow the money. Trump recently said he is “trying to do some economic development deals” with Moscow. That includes opening up mining of rare earth metals. Just last week Trump tried to strong-arm Zelenskyy into signing over mineral rights worth three to four times what the U.S. has given Ukraine in aid, which by the way was never a loan.
“For the next four years at least, the America you knew is over. The bedrock values, allies and truths America could always be counted upon to defend are now all in doubt — or for sale,” Thomas Friedman wrote in The New York Times.
Today, United States foreign policy is no longer about saving democracies; it is about extorting them for the benefit of a dictatorial superpower. No wonder the smirking underlings of Putin are celebrating.
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This is the biggest special forces catastrophe since August 6, 2011 when the US lost 15 Navy seals in a helicopter crash.
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They accidentally showed images of Russian soldiers wearing blue tape to pretend to be Ukrainian troops which is a war crime.
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Meanwhile, yet another shocking video has surfaced online, showing Russian troops executing unarmed Ukrainian POWs.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/48840
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Russia's energy giant Gazprom will lay off 1,500 employees at the Lakhta Center — 40% of its workforce there.
The cuts are due to the loss of the European market. The company also plans to sell the Gazprom Export building in St. Petersburg, where only a few dozen employees remain out of 600. In 2023, Gazprom recorded a net loss of of 629 billion rubles ($6.9 billion)1 billion — the first in 25 years.
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Trump-Putin "Immediate ceasefire across all energy sectors" is working.
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