Thank you for your clear-eyed analysis. Can you share some books that would help educate me and others about Russia and Ukraine? So many comment about what is happening whose knowledge goes back 3 days to what they read in Social Media. Would love to learn what an expert reads and recommends.
"Anything he could have done differently?" That presumes a lot about who came out on top from that meeting. I haven't seen this much unified momentum in Europe in quite some time.
I listened to your interview. Thank you for your forthright commentary. I just wish it could be aired on national TV. How is the US ever going to stop Trump from his demonic agenda of ingratiating himself to Putin by helping to subjugate Ukraine?
Great piece but sadly your last comment about Americans being ashamed of Trump/Vance behaviour might be giving a number of Americans too much credit. I spoke to an American family member yesterday who was steadfast that Zelenskyy deserved what he got. I think many Republican voters love it/him
This was fantastic, David. The comparison to Alger Hiss is hauntingly accurate when you compare the dangers increasing as he rose up in our own government.
You were brutally frank. I hope your interview is posted all over hell's half acre. Fox, the 'bros', and the White House are winning the sycophant war of words and you blow them out of the water.
OK. I don't use web browser replacement ctrlapps when I can avoid them. They lack features I need to read content comfortably -- like large fonts and zoom.
Despite the naked alliance Trump displayed w/ Putin, somehow mainstream media analysts still cannot say: Trump is a Russian asset. He has been for a long time. They installed him, they run him, they have invaded & taken control of our country & are rapidly, brutally destroying us.
I am so glad he put this link on BlueSky. I wasn't watching CNN, and this is an excellent explanation of what is going on with Trump and Putin. Also, to help us all reset our expectations.
Thanks David, I still feel not saying Trump wants to be the leader of a fascist America...is just normalizing him. He appears to want to divide up the world with Xi and Putin...Panama to Greenland is the USA stake.
Very well said David! I think people also need to be reminded of the savagery, mass graves, rapes, hospitals and apartment buildings bombed by Russia. We have a very short memory it seems. Thanks for standing up for what’s right.
Conservatives aren't paying any attention to that. They just pay attention to their little propaganda networks to check in for whatever half-baked talking point they are using this week.
Totally agree, especially the part about his subs having a lack of masculine identity. I can’t imagine how sick you have to be to look at Trump and see anything but a weak, insecure, petty little coward.
Very good interview. We should not believe Trump is being "manipulated" by Putin any more than we should believe Mussolini was "manipulated" by Hitler. Trump is pushing for what will be a brutal dictatorship in the U.S. He will use Putin until he doesn't need him anymore.
Thank you for the excellent analysis of Zelinsky's response to being bullied by - in my words - 2 Russian assets. Our country needs voices like yourself and other experts from all other past administrations to speak out loudly to save our democracy.
Great! Caught the end of it and you blew me away! Couldn't agree more! Hope you don't mind that I shared a 'transcript' of the bit I heard 👍 Suffice to say, you have a new follower from Scotland! Well said on that Shamfest, I can only hope more people speak out
The message of sub-human slime Trump and his minions after the botched Zalensky meeting is total attempted gaslighting: You didn't see and hear what you just saw and heard.
You very successfully disavowed the notion that Trump wants anything good for Ukraine. What people seem to forget about Trump is that his initial stance on any issue is what he believes to the end. In this case, he took Russia's side, and he will now double down on that stance.
Great interview. We saw what we saw - a bully trying to exert pressure on a country at war to effect economic extortion, no more/no less. No promise of help, no security guarantees, no peace process. And Republicans gaslighting the country with identical insulting, flimsy, incoherent takes.
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Four 🐾🐾 up for you from this 🇨🇦 pooch.
PS Hi Ringo! 🩷
every true American watching that scene in the Oval Office, felt shame
They get their news from Nazi Mother Goose.
Having lived 67 yrs, I never once have thought it could happen here in this country.