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Only the Trump regime would fuck up the entire air traffic system for 5 hours then yell at us like it’s our fault and demand we give them $50 billion
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When Russia talks about a new European security architecture, this is what they have in mind: a return to Europe’s Cold War division. And US negotiators are now carrying Moscow’s water by linking the end of war in Ukraine to building a ‘new’ European architecture. Shameful.
The NYTimes has obtained a copy of a position paper that Russia presented at Abu Dhabi setting out its broader requirements around the European security architecture, which it has now placed at the centre of the negotiations with (about) Ukraine. The main points are as follows:
▶️ NATO must pull troops and bases back to positions held in 1997 (before its eastward expansion). This would sharply reduce or eliminate the alliance’s military presence on its eastern flank, including in Poland and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).
▶️ No further NATO expansion and a ban on “any military activity” by NATO in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia.
▶️ Cessation of “the supply of any type of Western weapons and military equipment and products to Ukraine.”
▶️ Ukraine could join the EU only if it does not participate in the bloc’s common defense policy.
▶️ Assurances that Britain and France would not use their nuclear weapons to protect other European countries (beyond ending NATO nuclear-sharing arrangements).
The paper frames these as necessary to address the “root causes” of the war (Russia’s grievances with NATO expansion and Ukraine). In the talks, Russian officials pointed to Cold War-era spheres of influence (e.g., the Warsaw Pact period) as a model that reduced conflict risk through mutual understandings and divided zones.
nytimes.com/2026/11/13/us/po…
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Over the course of Saturday, harsh remarks by Biden about Netanyahu were published, taken from his new memoir:
“I was frustrated by his inability to think like a statesman and safeguard Israel’s long-term interests, rather than just his own political needs. Bibi had no problem making promises that he had neither the ability nor the intention to keep.”
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There are three reasons this is wrong.
First, the argument is entirely derived from the fact that a land invasion of Russia from the West has to go through Poland for reasons of simple geography. That’s where Napoleon went through, and where the Germans did, twice. The problem for the argument is that nobody in the West has the capability or will or reason to invade a nuclear-armed Russia. The notion that Moscow is afraid of NATO at its borders always fails this very simple test: why would anyone in the West try to invade Russia? There’s never an answer and the historical analogy fails because of nukes and because if we did come to blows, the nukes can be delivered by ICBM and SLBM without being anywhere near and invasion route.
Second, the Russians themselves know this very well. Their entire force is organized to deter NATO with nukes and fight regional wars like the one in Ukraine. They are not organized like the Soviets were, for a massive land war against NATO. Actions always speak louder than words: you can blab shut NATO that into you’re blue in the face but when you organize your defense in a way that shows you are not afraid of a NATO invasion, then, yeah, you are not actually afraid of it. You don’t have to take my words for it: just read what the Russian military has said.
Third, even if the Russians had some concerns about this, it does not mean that we have to accommodate them to their satisfaction. Deterrence and containment work better than appeasement. Russia has repeatedly demonstrated that it would use whatever excuse it can to extend its territorial control, and this includes not just Ukraine but the Baltics, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, and anywhere essentially where they are not stopped by force. Before the Russians were “protecting” oppressed Russian speakers in Ukraine, they were protecting Slavs in Eastern Europe and Christians in the Ottoman Empire. The script is always the same: it’s always about security and protection but somehow it always ends up with Russians trying to take other people’s lands and subjugate them.
Everyone who knows history would understand this. It’s the superficial read and silly analogies that give you Danielle’s “argument” there.
Anyone who knows even the barest bones of European history should know that Russian security concerns and anxiety over NATO expansion are very real and don’t exist in a vacuum.
You don’t have to endorse all of Moscow’s policies or actions in Ukraine to acknowledge this.
Dismissing it as paranoia or propaganda isn’t the sophisticated ‘strategy’ Kaja Kallas and her ilk seem to think it is. It’s a dangerous, ideology-driven refusal to engage with history - and a recipe for perpetuating conflict.
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💥Desperation is the mother of invention: The man here begging for "unity" with Eisenkot is the same man who also claims the elections were stolen and the results are fraudulent.
💥New Netanyahu video in which he again warns Israelis that Iran is about to nuke them, then falls to his knees & begs Eisenkot to hold his hand. "Let us enter a room, with no preconditions, set aside all disagreements and boycotts, and reach agreements for the sake of Israel’s security and future…"
#Whosgonnatellhim?
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"We need one complete system."
There is historical evidence regarding replacing entire complex software-intensive systems all at once: it will be a failure.
"We need someone to come in..."
Mr. Mullin, what has your administration been doing with your time and money?
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Putin gained a lot of experience bombing hospitals in Syria. Now applying it in Ukraine. Bastards
We were on the scene minutes after a Russian drone slammed into a hospital last night in central Kyiv. I found a burning building, dazed patients & firefighters. The attack came after Ukraine reported that @SpaceX had again throttled the Starshield system theguardian.com/world/2026/n…
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I think it's worth remembering what America looked like before NEPA and the Clean Water Act.
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The Russian business economy continues to disintegrate, increasingly becoming nothing more than a terrorist petrostate, just as Putin always wanted. Such a dictator doesn’t need to listen to the people, in fact, doesn’t need people at all.
Положение российского бизнеса стремительно ухудшается. Такой вывод можно сделать из данных мониторинга РСПП. Главными проблемами в третьем квартале стали падение спроса (с ним столкнулись 38% опрошенных компаний) и нехватка оборотных средств (36%). Тогда как во втором квартале на первом месте стояли неплатежи контрагентов. За три месяца проблема отдельных должников превратилась в общий дефицит ликвидности.
Параллельно растет долговая нагрузка. На нее указывают почти 20% компаний, хотя до этого показатель ни разу не превышал 10%. При этом корпоративное кредитование, по данным ЦБ, в III квартале росло ускоренными темпами. Если сопоставить эти данные, получается, что компании берут кредиты на закрытие кассовых разрывов, а не на развитие. При ключевой ставке 14% такая модель долго не продержится.
Самое заметное изменение касается инвестиций. Сохранить или нарастить инвестиционные программы планируют 7% компаний против 19% кварталом ранее, сократить - 18%. Доля компаний с цифровыми проектами снизилась на 8 процентных пунктов. Сокращать расходы собираются более 80% опрошенных, причем экономить на сырье и комплектующих теперь планируют 40% против 25%. Это означает снижение выпуска продукции в ближайшие месяцы.
Если дефицит оборотных средств продолжит расти, в 2027 году высока вероятность цепочки дефолтов в среднем бизнесе. Последствия же сегодняшнего отказа от инвестиций проявятся позже, в виде еще большего отставания по производительности и технологиям. Впрочем, это уже не новость, поставив войну на первое место, Путин похоронил гражданскую экономику и обеспечил технологическое отставание на десятилетия. И это только часть справедливой расплаты за агрессию.
David Diaz retweeted
And there you have it
The US has lost its measles elimination status
It took 35 years to achieve
Undone by just 2 years of RFK Jr and MAHA
Absolutely pathetic
EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. has lost its measles elimination status.
with @JenCalfas - free link: wsj.com/health/u-s-loses-mea…
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Europe has a representative. It’s Kaja Kallas. As long as she remains High Representative, she — and no one else — should be the one talking to Russia.
Why? Because Putin and Trump need to be forced to deal with the EU as an institution.
David Diaz retweeted
Hard to imagine stronger evidence that we need to move away from the privatizing national security to tech bros model than the twin debacles of NVIDIA and Starlink happening simultaneously.
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“Nová bezpečnostní architektura Evropy”, kontinentu s půl miliardou lidí, 3. největší ekonomikou, 7,5 tis voj letadel, vyjednávaná žebráky z ruSSka, neschopnými dobýt Donbas a dvěma chmatáky chromé kachny Donalda ze země, neschopné porazit Írán, je nejabsurdnější věc dneška.
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It's inspiring to see an Israeli leader who is speaking about coexistence and embracing the Arab minority in Israel. This should be the norm. This is a welcome message to begin to bring Israel back to what it historically was, to have a vision for an Israel that is positive, where politicians don't feel that the only messaging they can have is negative and incitement, where they don't feel they need to cater to the "base" by being hateful and extreme. That also sends a powerful message to supporters of Israel that they can also embrace all the people of Israel, and that abroad they can also coexist with Arabs and Muslims;
Unfortunately over the last several years there has been an attempt to normalize incitement against the Arab minority. This was so normalized that in the recent elections people were openly inciting against Arabs voting, posting fake images of women in niqab lining up to vote (as if they shouldn't be voting); and then bashing the Arab politicians and pushing stories of voter corruption; all designed to delegitimize the electorate. Years ago when a similar election day campaign had claimed Arabs were "streaming to the polls" it had been seen as controversial; but it became normalized, normalized to attack a minority group on election day.
Recent years have been dark with language of hate; calls to get people in Gaza to leave, to do the same to the West Bank, Lebanon, even Syria; no sense that there are redlines in hate speech; even the swearing in of the new Knesset became another anti-Arab speech. Politicians need to offer more than just "anti" and negatives.
An Israeli leader who bring back the normal Israel sends a message. It's a message that one doesn't profit from division. That there are no political gains for incitement. And that message filters down. Politicians became afraid to embracing others; and speaking humanely.
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Russian Olympic jackets, just in case you still weren’t sure which team they are on.
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🇷🇺 Putin is killing Russia.
Russian war deaths are projected to reach 650,000 by the end of 2026
Nearly 500,000 are already estimated dead.
More than 800,000 Russians have left the country since the invasion.
Depleted liquid reserves, a widening deficit and a stagnant economy.
All to serve Putin’s imperial ambitions.
Putin is willing to sacrifice millions of Russians to pursue them.
The worst part is that he could end this tomorrow by stopping his invasion.
One of the most brutal criminals of our generation.
renaissanceeurope.org/insigh…
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We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. Since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country.
So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves, or about security guarantees for Russia – they are hardly talking about real security. And peace.
What they really want – is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries, and to use force whenever they want, and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and, in many ways, simply fascist views to the next generations.
From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (3/3)
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This reads like a dystopian nightmare.
The barbarism of the Russian government knows few bounds. Forcing abducted Ukrainian children, who have since reached military age, to fight against their own country is savagery that goes beyond the pale.
And yet Witkoff and Kushner are in Moscow, negotiating with the same brutal government over Ukraine's future and Europe's security architecture, while smiling for the cameras and accepting gifts.
Trump's role in this should not be forgotten. By appeasing Putin and encouraging him to believe that he will ultimately prevail, Trump weakens Russia's incentives to end the conflict sooner, allowing Putin to continue his butchery.
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This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
reuters.com/business/energy/…
