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Demotikos. Fair warning: I have zero tolerance or sympathy for autocrats or oligarchs. My views on them may be “extreme.”
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Good article, capturing some of my loathing for the posturing but ultimately spineless response of most European “leaders.” What’s a leader anyway? To me, it’s not a person who waits to see what the other “leaders” do, or for polls, or who wilts at every threat. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The fascists doxxed Abrego Garcia's family. JFC! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Thus spake Serena Joy! It’s unfuckingbelievable that in 2025 such lunatic followers of a Bronze Age cult have a public platform to spout their faith-based nonsense.

Krasnov’s apparent “deal” making strategy: “If you won’t surrender, I will”!

Excellent post + good excerpts. I’ll have to get Mr Miller’s book. Contrast dire condition of 🇺🇦 in 2014 w/ situation today. This nation’s resilience & fortitude are nothing short of astounding! Shows what a democratic people & government can accomplish. The People are the lever that moves the world!

Another worthwhile read from Krugman. Krasnov has economic & fiscal disaster well on its way. Political too. Next up: military, environmental catastrophes. All preconditions for revolution falling into place. The big question: What system to replace the Republic? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

This would be a good idea . . . If 🇺🇸 were a democracy. As a criminal, fascist oligarchy-enterprise, the last thing I want to see is a 🇺🇸 re-arming.

These bastards should be given a “warm” welcome.

Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons!

As they say, “ good riddance to bad rubbish”!

Just his 1971 memo to the US Chamber of Commerce, laying out blueprint for corporate takeover of 🇺🇸. All as backlash to the “left” anti-war counterculture of 1960s. Too much liberty, too much equality; the oligarchs couldn’t take it. It’s easily found in internet; worth a look! In solidarity!

Here’s the “deal” with Krasnov’s “art.” Liberal bankruptcy laws in 🇺🇸 were intended to encourage, not punish, entrepreneurial effort. They were never meant to encourage or shield corrupt grifting. And that’s all Krasnov’s ever done: Grift or extort. And that’s what 🇺🇸 picked to be commander-in-chief!

“Ick,” thy name is Donald J Trump.

Should we start a pool on (1) whether Krasnov survives to the end of his term, and (2) how soon that ending arrives?

Obviously the Pope sat on a couch contaminated with Vance spooge and paid for his mistake with his life. #anti-trump #EatTheRich #resist #TeslaTakedown #anti-maga #UkrainianView #fucktrump #Ukraine #NAFO #fellas #SlavaUkraini #ElbowsUp

Now Krugman agrees w/ me! Though I wasn’t aware of gross conflict of Bessent secret briefing to JP Morgan investors. My wife asked why 🇺🇸 stock market was up today: My answer was Krasnov’s about face on 🇨🇳. Again, now that Krasnov’s retreating, 🇨🇳 should double down. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Whatever happened to “a long drop & a short stop”? Assuming this is proven after due process, of course.

“Me too” from Phillips O’Brien. Question for 🇺🇸 military/intel services: If you don’t act quickly to remove the Krasnov threat to the nation, just what fucking use are you? This is a totally serious question. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Another favor 🇺🇦 has done for the world!

There were 3 signatories to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum (🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇧). Two of those signatories have now violated their commitments & are now conspiring to harm the agreement’s intended beneficiary (🇺🇦). 🇺🇸🇷🇺 actions go far beyond mere breach of the Memorandum. Does Europe think 🇺🇸 still in NATO? Think again!

With the 🇺🇸 peace “deal” now reduced to writing, reneging on its commitments under 1994 Budapest Memorandum, America has certified its faithlessness. No sane nation or leader will ever accept America’s security pledges or “commitments” again. The arc of 🇺🇸 history is complete; the final act nears.

Such a deal: 🇷🇺 gets everything it’s illegally occupied since 2014, save some areas where it’s currently being pushed back (fuck you Budapest Memo, says 🇺🇸). 🇺🇦 gets unspecific security “promise.” While 🇺🇸 gets ZNPP and 🇺🇦 minerals. Its win-win for 🇺🇸🇷🇺, lose-lose for 🇺🇦! Not just “No,” but “fuck you no”!

A golden opportunity for President Zelenskyy, on behalf of all the citizens of 🇺🇦, to tell Putin & Krasnov to both take a flying fuck at the moon. Not an inch of land ceded to orcs, reparations and all abductees returned home. Nothing less will do. Oh, and shove that mineral deal up Krasnov’s ass.

Biden’s senile. Probably has been since before 2020.

What a pussy! Krasnov’s already starting to backtrack. Now’s the time for 🇨🇳 to increase tariffs & extend export ban! Krasnov will collapse the the empty suit he is. If 🇨🇳 doesn’t, he’ll be back to try extorting again. And again. Xi knows; they’ve got his number.

Really thought-provoking article in the New Yorker by Timothy Snyder about Trump the fascist, and the characteristics of fascism then & now. Fascism today is much less mass movements and much more “anomic.” With no mass movement, it’s less violent but more diffuse. www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...

This is precisely the danger that President Zelenskyy’s repeated overtures for unconditional ceasefire present, in my opinion. If Putin accepts, he locks in 17-18% of 🇺🇦 being lost, potentially forever and frees 🇷🇺 to rearm, reload to come back for a third round of war later. Better to fight it out.

1/ I trust President Zelenskyy, but I wish he would stop proposing an unconditional ceasefire & just get on with winning the war. My concern is that, at some point, Putin is going to accept, locking in 🇷🇺’s illegal occupation of Ukrainian territory. And then Krasnov will deliver all the goodies to 🇷🇺.

Yep, reason why. I thought much better of him early on; on 🇺🇦🇷🇺 war and 🇷🇺genocide, he was a near total loss.

Farewell Francis. My enthusiasm for the Pope waned in his later years as he waffled on 🇺🇦 and seemed increasingly captured by Church orthodoxy. But he was an improvement over his predecessors. www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-f...

Having grown up in N Michigan, we all learned about Pontiac and his rebellion. Heck, at summer camp, I was in the Ottawa boys age group (we also had Huron & Chippewas). Much respect and admiration for Pontiac and all the Native Americans.