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How many people actually know this bit of history? Just another treaty Russia broke.

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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“The Krasnov File” is Michael Sellers' ongoing project to analyze the 40 plus years of history between Donald Trump and Russia, and in particular to evaluate allegations of Trump being an “asset” of the KGB. open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...

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Love this! Rauch educates us on 'patrimonial regimes' - where “The state is little more than the extended ‘household’ of the ruler..." - or the family business. Calling out the gangsterism and corruption is his strategy for taking it down. But are we up to persistent and disciplined messaging?

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Straight talk by David Brooks: "Donald Trump sees the world as a place where ruthless mafiosos get to do what they can .... " www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Just as jarring as Trump's pro-Russia foreign policy pivot has been his embrace of Putin-like tactics at home, unfolding with a speed and ferocity far different than what Trump was able to pull off in his first term. Call it the Putinization of America. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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German satire? Who knew. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

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My 25+ years as a public servant tell me THIS is the reason Musk's project to undo our government won't be fixable. "All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again"

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How's this for a complicated truth that will never breakthru to the public: "If USAID is a secret left-wing plot, leftists themselves have not been let in on the secret. Actual Marxists despise USAID, which they consider a tool of American imperialism." (In The Atlantic)

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