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Yes, yes, of course. If only people had not been provided with information that the government didn't approve, they would not have been unhappy with the government.

Anti-incumbency sentiment is really valuable to an opposition candidate that is inoffensive to voters. To an opposition candidate that can arouse strong feelings of antipathy to themselves, it often is not enough.

Narrator: and he proved incapable of doing either, so the war dragged on, much to the distress of the American people.

Trump may very well have intended to coerce UA into a deal following Anchorage. The available evidence suggests he intended to do so from Day 1. But reality is that leaders, especially elected leaders, don't have freedom of action. The tiger they ride has to be willing to go that direction.

Starlinked /ˈstɑːlɪŋkt/ adjective Held back, restricted, slowed down or controlled by someone you were paying to support you. Usage: “We were making good progress, then we got Starlinked.”

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

What this shows is that kissing Trump’s ass always fails. He reacts only to pressure. In this case terrible US polling, screaming Republicans, and catastrophic damage being done to US defense companies.

Thrill seekers. The idea of watching the world burns gives them a dopamine rush. Any thought of what they will eat tomorrow is dismissed as "tomorrow's problem".

What is interesting is that they think the Russian Army ever had any of these qualities. Russian theorists absolutely knew that what was needed, but one would be hard pressed to find a period of time where it was consistently implemented. A well trained army is a threat to the tsar.

The billionaire who's vast wealth depends almost entirely on government policy choices, whining about fictitious other people getting wealthy off of gov't contracts.

🇺🇸‼️ The top management of a US $25 billion gas project in Alaska has resigned amid suspicions that the project is secretly controlled by Russia. The former CEO of Polar Train LNG said that the export terminal is actually financed and controlled by Russia’s Novatek without Washington’s permission.

Saying this is one thing, but, if you are going to say it, you better be prepared to pay the price to make it happen. I see no evidence that Europeans are prepared to pay the price to do more than hope it happens.

He should have studied harder in school. One can read this as asking the people in Cuba who want to be disappointed, to partner with the CIA to get failed promises, corruption, and a few privileged people getting the spoils.

A pretty solid lineup to choose from IMO. More important than who represent the EU is for the EU to be united behind the negotiator (or team of negotiators) and be willing to accept the terms negotiated.

The fools will never accept that there is no "greatness" associated with being servants of the empire, there is only death. The empire feeds off the bodies of humans.

The more Trump and the US government engage in wild flailing to demonstrate that America still has its old imperial strength the more Trump's malicious incompetence and the US government's structural dysfunction make America look weak, weak, weak.

The absurdity of this is there are a lot of Americans who will disapprove of every policy choice Trump is making and still approve of his overall job performance.

This is LM seeing how the European defence is evolving and realizing that they are going to get frozen out if they don't upgrade their product line to meet the new reality.

It would be shocking if every member of the Trump regime doesn't have multiple intelligence agencies in their phones and laptops. These people are so scared of having their crimes exposed to US authorities that they don't use secure gov't devices, just commercial personal devices.

Yes, yes, details. Details like Ukrainians simply having a preference for being alive rather than the alternative. Trivial matter really.

Zelensky explains why Russia failed to capture Kyiv in 2022. And no, it wasn’t because some Russian general took the wrong road, as Trump keeps saying.

Anyone who didn't see this as the result Trump was looking for is incredibly naive. I'm sure all the military personnel involved in the effort must feel pretty good about themselves and their role in the operation. Risking ones life to enrich the Pres and his friends is what they signed up for.

Here's the political challenge for Danielle Smith. 77% of Albertans rate her government's performance on affordability as poor. 70% say the same about housing. 64% about health care. These are also the issues Albertans most want addressed. abacusdata.ca/in-alberta-...

🇳🇬 🦠 The first Ebola case detected in Nigeria is the Bundibugyo strain, which is behind a major DR Congo outbreak, and the patient is a diplomat, an emergency meeting heard on Wednesday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SCVa

This is the promise of capitalism, that entrepreneurs will find innovative ways to provide goods and services to consumers at ever lower costs. What has been delivered to society as capitalism in recent decades is wealthy people finding innovative ways to exploit consumers to grow profits.

Ouch

Conspicuously absent is the supposed host. Xi is sensitive about the image of China. Not being a central character in the planning must make one wonder whether he is going to be offended by this plan.

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

And eat digital food in their digital homes. Maybe he should talk to Zuckerberg in the metaverse to see how well that works.

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

Americans: angry about paying taxes to fund the wars they started since 1770.

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Someone has to take the blame, and it sure isn't going to Trump.

There is a credibility problem because Trump created a credibility by how he framed the issuing of the licenses. He didn't frame it as being a result of a looming deadline in the law, he framed it in terms of a "deal" with Russia.

This is why when Trump and his team post star wars themed AI images, he is portrayed as a Sith. Even if they don't use a prompt with the AI directing it towards the Sith, all the information about Trump that is available pushes the AI to identify him as a Sith.

Trump’s worldview is that it is good for evil to prevail and wrong for the righteous to resist.

A country needs to find a reason to arrest and detain him. He is a Russian official, the list of crimes he has committed is long and almost certainly well known to multiple governments. Removing this piece from the board would be advantageous.

And Putin either doesn't remember, or pretends he doesn't remember, that the territory the military claims to have captured is the same territory they claimed to have captured in 2025, twice in 2024, and 3x in 2023.

President Zelenskyy: "Starlink shuts down at speeds above 161 km/h in Ukraine, but works at speeds exceeding 180 km/h in the EU" President Zelenskyy said Ukraine had conducted tests to determine whether SpaceX was experiencing technical issues or whether this was a "deliberate operation."

This is entirely consistent with the boorish bravado of members of the Trump regime. What isn't addressed is how serious the CA officials took the threat. The threat deserved a laugh in the face as Lutnick had no ability to deliver.

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Nobody believes the US Congress will take any action. Even if the Democrats take control in January.

Elon Musk is basically pointing at Trump. He is obviously trying to protect Starlink from the economic fallout this incident created. With several European nations starting to question services by Starlink and India actively pushing back, this has become a serious problem for Musk and SpaceX.

Zelenskiy was elected President because he was able to articulate the frustration many Ukrainians felt with the situation in Ukraine. He has done a remarkable job of communicating Ukraine's position to the world during the war. His performance actually governing however, hasn't been remarkable.

Considered a "rising star" by centrist and left leaning media. The plain truth is that his skin is too brown for him to ever have been considered a "rising star" by the MAGA crowd.

This is the reality that people, especially Americans, fail to appreciate. Everybody is better off working together. The US needs the intel from allies, but those allies also need the US to process and integrate it. And, some of those allies won't share with each other what they share with the US.

The assymetry in his leg actions kept forcing him left, even when he was trying to change course towards the helicopter.