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I want to tell you a story. In 2015, I was in the small Lithuanian city of Panevežys, standing with the locals, watching a military parade. But this was no ordinary parade, because marching alongside the Lithuanian troops were our American allies.🧵1/17

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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 23 hours ago • 336 comments

Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 21 hours ago • 599 comments

Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty. Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free. The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ... 1/2

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

'War in Syria was a watershed moment that made Russia's invasion of Ukraine possible. President Obama was threatening red lines, but they were never enforced, and Putin decided he can get away with anything' - Ukraine's ex foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba

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But Republican Senators seem cool with it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It may be worthwhile to understand that while us Finns are experts at hating, knifing and axe-murdering each other, like many other small countries we close ranks VERY fast against outside threats - especially Russian ones. Or Russian quisling ones.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

You know who Trump never calls a dictator? Putin. And he actually is a dictator. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

Using our “global strength” to force an invaded country into concessions with an invader makes us complicit with the invader. It’s like returning an abuse victim to the abuser’s home. Shameful. Wrong. Un-American.

submitted 3 days ago • 344 comments

Does Congress still exist?

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Ironic that Trump is talking about buying Greenland or making Canada the 51st state while he himself is busy making the U.S. a Russian Oblast.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Instead of the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump will receive the Hero of Russia star from Putin (the highest award in Russia)

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

It's Russia's war of aggression. If Russia stops invading the war will end. If Ukraine is forced to stop defending the war will escalate and the battlefront will move west.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

russian occupation is not peace, it is a death camp. #Izium

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

The only thing Russia has truly never done is tell the truth. The U.S. proposed banning strikes on energy infrastructure between Russia and Ukraine. Russia claimed it has never attacked Ukraine's energy system. My God, who did they even sit down at the negotiating table with?!

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

The terms of the deal, which arrived in Volodymyr Zelensky's office a week ago, mean the indefinite economic colonization of Ukraine by the US, — The Telegraph The agreement stipulates that the US and Ukraine should create a joint investment fund.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

submitted 5 days ago • 340 comments

Article 5 has only been invoked once in NATO's history, by the United States 🇺🇸following the September 11, 2001, attacks. And we all stood by you!

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

I don't think Olaf, Jake and Joe are getting the credit they deserve for allowing me to hang on for long enough to have Trump surrender to me.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

I’d like to remind you that there was no deal or agreement on that. However, Ukraine did sign a written agreement in which the U.S. provided "security assurances" in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons. We would now like our nuclear weapons back

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 7 days ago • 312 comments

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

submitted 7 days ago • 198 comments

Cathy Newman, "President Macron is calling an emergency summit" General Wesley Clark, "You need to meet. Re-adjust budget on a war time sense of urgency.. We know Putin is preparing to continue the war" Cathy Newman, "And potentially, a wider war in Europe?"" General Wesley Clark, "Yes"

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Destroying the civil service is just the beginning, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to replace America’s political system. theatln.tc/gGJvwKDJ

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

80 years ago, American power was needed to demilitarize Germany in order to defend the values of the free world. Today, German militarization is required to defend those same values from American power!

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A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.

submitted 8 days ago • 178 comments

The audacity of Vance scolding Europe for having annulled Romanian election results due to Russian interference, representing a president who violently physically attacked the US system of governance and refused to acknowledge his defeat, still claiming the elections was stolen, is simply disgusting

submitted 8 days ago • 183 comments

Zelensky has handled negotiations very well so far. Despite indirect extortion, he hasn’t caved to giving up resources for nothing and made it clear the US has no plan. The only way for Trump to achieve peace is through a fair agreement with guarantees for Ukraine

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

US envoy Ric Grenell was photographed shaking hands with the leader of (in Rubio’s words) a “criminal narco-regime.” This confers de facto U.S. recognition on Maduro, even though vote tallies show that he overwhelmingly lost last year’s election. wapo.st/4hXDV0j

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

“Signing a peace agreement in Munich is impossible. We remember what was signed here—I won’t repeat it.” - Zelensky 👏

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