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Stand with Ukraine: Global events mark 3 years since Russia’s full-scale war. Key gatherings worldwide ⬇️

submitted 127 days ago • 5 comments

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

submitted 128 days ago • 78 comments

Here's a riddle: one country has a dictator with no real elections, the other one doesn't. Which is which?

submitted 129 days ago • 22 comments

Zelensky was elected with a majority of Ukrainian votes. His presidency was extended per the Constitution during the war. It’s odd to hear him called a dictator by someone who led a failed coup and is now expanding the executive branch in violation of American norms and processes

submitted 129 days ago • 141 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 131 days ago • 2232 comments

It’s hard to communicate the crisis that’s unfolding and the dangers ahead because a lot of superficial things won’t change. The Netflix will still turn on. Your sports teams will play. You’ll see movies. But the things that make liberal democratic life uniquely stable, secure, & vibrant will decay.

submitted 134 days ago • 70 comments

Be a Hagan Scotten. You can refuse.

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Have told Trump to write his peace proposal on 2 ply toilet paper so my copy will be of some use.

submitted 134 days ago • 21 comments

Time for an end of year 🧵. Apologies for the enormous length.

submitted 180 days ago • 8 comments

basically all the hardest-line anti-china guys have signed up for a politics which ensures america is so incompetently governed that its no longer capable of great-power competition

submitted 182 days ago • 7 comments

All the bellicose rhetorical gestures about Panama, Greenland, and Canada are what Pat Moynihan called “boob bait for Bubba,” tough-sounding nonsense to disguise a Trump foreign policy of retreat and appeasement.

submitted 186 days ago • 22 comments

Ukrainians know Russia better than anyone; they know Russia's strengths and weaknesses. Ukrainians know what deters Russia and what doesn't and therefore know best how to secure peace. @glandsbergis.bsky.social - Gabrielius Landsbergis speaks with absolute clarity - youtu.be/fqTiprQYjMs

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment