yup that's the universally acknowledged definition
Replying to @EdwardGLuce
Imbecility is failing to understand the difference between engaging in effective diplomacy and writing a punchy FT column
Steve Witkoff's an imbecile. In addition to the million plus dead, Putin hunts and kills Russian dissidents & has abducted thousands of children from their families.
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"Realism" is an empty doctrine - and "realists" are just mimicking Moscow talking points, says @EdwardGLuce
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Gift link to full 28-minute conversation w/ Edward Luce about what he learns when talking to Trump on the phone.
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What explains Trump's increasingly erratic behavior and bizarre public remarks? His rallies now feel like stand-up comedy, as he rambles about unimportant things during a disastrous war.
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"Mearsheimer merits attention because he lends academic respectability to those blaming the west for Russia’s bloody war of conquest. At a moment when the US has swung behind Russia's attempt to snuff out Ukraine, such cover is invaluable." ft.com/content/f2261796-20d1…
Mearsheimer: "Ukraine Isn’t being abandoned, It’s being managed. Trump can't abandon Ukraine because the deep state just won't let him do that." For a prime example of Trump sane-washing watch this.
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.@realDonaldTrump
Here is YOUR OWN WIFE @MELANIATRUMP saying ON CAMERA that Russia kidnapped children from Ukraine (reportedly 18,000 to 20,000) and that she is working to return them to their families.
This is the Russia you are aiding + supporting????
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Сегодня Петербург подвергся массированной атаке беспилотников.
Для меня это удары по сердцу. Петербург – мой родной город, где остаются почти все мои родные, друзья и близкие. Я искренне тревожусь за них, за любимый город, за каждого мирного человека, чья жизнь и безопасность оказались под угрозой.
Но при всей этой боли и тревоге мы должны ясно понимать главное: основной виновник происходящего – Владимир Путин.
Именно он развязал подлую, бессмысленную, кровавую и преступную войну против Украины. Именно он принес войну на украинскую землю, а теперь ее последствия приходят и в российские города.
Украина защищается. Украина имеет право защищаться от агрессии и наносить ответные удары по военным объектам и инфраструктуре, обеспечивающей путинскую военную машину. И она будет продолжать сопротивление, пока продолжается российская агрессия.
Можно и нужно переживать за Петербург, за его жителей, за своих близких. Но нельзя позволять этой тревоге заслонять правду о том, кто начал эту войну и кто несет главную ответственность за ее продолжение.
Не Украина принесла войну в Россию. Это Путин принес войну в Украину – и теперь она возвращается в Россию, в Петербург.
Я хочу, чтобы мой родной Петербург жил в мире. Чтобы его жители не боялись ночных взрывов. Чтобы никто не погибал – ни в Петербурге, ни в Киеве, ни в Харькове, ни в Одессе.
И путь к этому только один: прекращение путинской агрессии, вывод российских войск из Украины и окончание этой преступной войны.
У этой войны есть имя. Кровавая кремлевская чмоль Владимир Путин. Путин не из Петербурга.
Он из КГБ.
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Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?
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This was how Trump spent his Saturday night. At Mar-a-Lago with corporate leaders and wealthy donors throwing millions of dollars at his super PAC because they want things in return, and are getting them. This is the overt decline of the United States!
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Mearsheimer is a prophet in the same vein as Nostradamus.
Both are completely useless for reliably predicting the future, but have devoted followers who selectively reinterpret past statements to fit events only after they’ve happened, while ignoring the many, many predictions that fail.
Mearsheimer couldn't even predict what would happen when he tried to buy a coffee in Moscow with his US credit card.
His defenders point out that he warned back in 1993 that Russia would try to recapture Ukraine, as if that was somehow against the established view at the time.
Many people, especially here in the Baltics, have spent decades warning that Russia is an unreformed imperial power.
The difference is that the Baltics have consistently taken that threat seriously, while Mearsheimer has spent years justifying Russian aggression, taking the pro-Russian position that keeps proving to be wrong - including saying Russia wouldn’t launch its full scale invasion and saying every month for the past four years that Ukraine is about to surrender - and now insisting there is no evidence of imperial ambitions.
The people who love Mearsheimer are the pro-Russian commentators who tried to ridicule people for being concerned about Russia’s full scale invasion and are now pretending to be experts on the war that they insisted would never happen.
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This will now become a stampede, I predict
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It’s “new” insofar as it’s an escalation of behavior that people with eyes to see could tell you is a logical progression. Considering how terrible your judgement has been, perhaps you should refrain from calling the people who were right hysterical and just admit you were wrong.
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Latest: Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone."
He says Ukraine has done tests to determine whether SpaceX is truly facing technical issues, as has been told Kyiv by the US side, or if this is a "deliberate operation... to restrict us, cut us off, and prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people, both at the front and among the civilian population."
He says Ukraine "sent a couple of vehicles equipped with Starlink terminals into European Union territory."
"They moved at speeds exceeding 180kph, and the Starlink systems worked perfectly. We have the relevant logs and evidence to prove this."
He adds: "The conclusion is clear: the restrictions are in effect within Ukraine but do not apply within the European Union. In other words, this is a planned operation."




















