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"In this White House ceremony, we were honoring the Russians that were the cause of both the occupation of Oleshky, the starvation of Oleshky, and now we're honoring them for allowing aid to come into Oleshky," Heather Conley, who worked in President George W. Bush's State Department, told NPR. "The more we create this false equivalency where the Russians and the Ukrainians are equal in this crisis, it is putting this thing upside down."
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So not only is she receiving Putin’s envoy—who is backing russia's crimes against humanity—but she is also praising a person sanctioned by the EU, the UK, Ukraine... and the US for her active role in the deportation and forced russification of Ukrainian kids—a crime of genocide.
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Crime without accountability is practice. Justice is not vengeance. When the Soviet Union collapsed, we let euphoria blind us to the need for the hard work of investigation and responsibility. Do not forgive, do not forget, and clean house.
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Get ready for the unfolding of a Russian propaganda operation, carried out with the aid of the White House, in the battered town of Oleshky. From @ZarinaZabrisky, who has been reporting from Kherson, just across the river, since 2023
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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Umm, so does this apply to the U.S. military too? SpaceX will disable Starshield when it thinks that the U.S. military defending Taiwan, for example, is using the network for “unequivocally offensive” strikes? Or does this only apply to Ukrainians?
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The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped.
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Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.
As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.
In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.
In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.
We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.
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And another.
Trump isn’t just betraying Ukraine to the Kremlin, he’s selling out America too.
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, our 400th (!), we introduce the Vatnik Archetype: the recurring character who claims to oppose war while defending invasions, claims to fight imperialism while serving Moscow, and claims to seek truth while repeating the vilest propaganda.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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Everyone should see this. Everything trump does in his administration is beginning to make a lot more sense...
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And then they would tell Ukraine not to strike Russian data centers because Lukoil assets, then not to strike military airfields because "World War 3," then not to target Russian grain exports because "world hunger," and on and on and on.
There is absolutely no point in playing these ridiculous games when the ultimate goal never changes: to protect Putin from his fiasco and make Ukraine surrender where it can't be defeated.
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The Iran War has drained America’s strategic petroleum reserve to its lowest level since 1982.
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Trump is lying again. Putin started the war and has repeatedly refused to negotiate to end it. The US spent nothing like $350 billion. Half the money is not missing. Washington and Moscow are both significantly more corrupt than Kyiv. Putin, not Zelensky, is a dictator who openly steals elections.
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At least as of now, it is becoming clear what Trump’s “energy truce” actually means. It means that both countries are supposed to refrain from striking oil-refining facilities—even though Ukraine has none.
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Huge drop in Google searches for various health disinformation topics following the Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers.
It makes you wonder how much of the “turbo cancer, ivermectin” nonsense is really fueled by Russian bots, & how many Americans they’ve killed…
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The United States is the world's largest exporter of diesel. There is no shortage of diesel in The United States since Trump continues to allow its export.
There is only the global price and global market place. Trump buying Russian diesel does not increase supply and it will not make anything cheaper for anyone.
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A Ukrainian mother and her child were murdered.
They died holding hands.
This image should on every corner of Washington DC.
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The Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List is how the United States sells weapons to Europe, which are then provided for Ukraine’s defenses. The price tag for these weapons is in the billions of dollars (upwards of $6.7 billion to date), orders of magnitude higher than what the Russian diesel deal is worth. Trump would be losing money — and costing the American defense industry revenue — for a sham deal with Russia that benefits none outside of Moscow and Miami. Just to give you a sense of his prioritized requirements.
The Trump administration is threatening to halt the PURL weapons procurement program and cut intelligence sharing to force Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries, FT reports.
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