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JD Vance is actually right -- Russia is not the biggest threat to Europe. What's even bigger as a threat is irresponsible and infantile demagogues running for quick and easy-peasy solutions to matters of war and peace.

⚡️Over 150 Ukrainian war prisoners may be held in Chechnya, Kyiv says. Some 36 Ukrainian POWs are being sought and may be in the city of Grozny, Chechnya, according to Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of POWs.

⚡️Over 6,000 cases of Russian use of chemicals recorded over 2 years, Ukraine says. Two laboratories of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed that Russian munitions contained riot control agent known as CS.

Russian oil companies are preparing to start forced production cuts as they are unable to sell millions of barrels of oil, Reuters reports, citing three oil executives and more than 10 traders, refining executives, and port agents.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier: "We must not freeze in fear, or as the English saying goes,let's not be deers caught in the headlights. It is clear that the new American administration holds a world view that is very different from our own. One that shows no regard for established rules."

US Senator Linsey Graham: ◾️You've [Ukrainians]taken our weapons&you kicked their [the Russians']ass.That's why I'm very proud to have you as an ally ◾️How do you deter Putin?U arm this guy [Zelenskyy]to the teeth.U give them a bunch of F-16s,u give them ATACMS,u give tanks, because they will fight!

The largest steel mill in Russia (near Moscow) has been knocked out by Ukrainian drones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmo0...

Chemical Weapons Watchdog Says Found Banned CS Agent in Ukraine-Supplied Samples www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/14/c...

@SkyNews: US Vice President JD Vance has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Munich. Sky's @DominicWaghorn gives his analysis on the meeting 👇 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/60UXuFGSbl

Law enforcement officers of Ukraine and Moldova conducted a special operation during which they detained three mercenaries of the Wagner PMC and other illegal armed groups #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Moldova

Konstantin Samoilov explores Putin's motivations for attacking Chernobyl and Ukrainian cities. We ask whether Putin does not want peace - but may need temporary peace, to rearm and restock his economic war chest? youtu.be/7sSb9zFCDuA

Konstantin Samoilov explores Putin's motivations for attacking Chernobyl and Ukrainian cities. We ask whether Putin does not want peace - but may need temporary peace, to rearm and restock his economic war chest? youtu.be/7sSb9zFCDuA

Just despicable and disgraceful. The US government is now indistinguishable from the mafia.

Gov. Hochul will have to remove the Mayor. This is unconscionable.

Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)

Look at that. Shaotran already knew Musk when he was building the ballot software program. They built the program for a hackathon (at Georgia Tech) that Musk sponsored.

Must read by Nataliya Gumenyuk: "...most Ukrainians see continuing to fight as incomparably better than the terror of Russian occupation...failure to recognize how Russia is using Ukrainian territory to undermine and destabilize the whole country risks making a cease-fire even more costly than war."

Must read by Nataliya Gumenyuk: "Even now, most Ukrainians see continuing to fight as incomparably better than the terror of Russian occupation. For the West, failure to recognize how Russia is using Ukrainian territory to undermine and destabilize the whole country risks making a cease-fire […]

#Ukraine

Zelenskyy: Significant damage inflicted to shelter of 4th power unit of Chornobyl NPP by enemy drone with high-explosive warhead #Ukraine

#Breaking Russia launched a kamikaze drone strike on the Shelter facility protecting the 4th power unit of the #Chernobyl #Nuclear Power Plant. Russia is a nuclear terrorist! #terrorism #warcrimes #stoprussia #stopbusinesswothrussia #Ukraine #ArmUkraineNow

Wow. JD has his own fluff writer at NY Times.. look at this. It’s likely his response to Trump saying NO, JD will not be his successor in ‘28. This is not a happy white house…they are feuding. 🍿

An Air Force plane carrying Marco Rubio and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jim Risch, to Germany for the Munich Security Conference was forced to return to Washington late Thursday due to a "mechanical issue". Will miss a Friday Zelensky meeting with Vance. Nothing to see here.

I have begun calling them the Triumvirate. Musk is Emperor; Trump has been demoted to Jester; and sadly JD Vance is their dog. The world of politics in the States of America has been turned on his head and shaken like a snow globe. It is heartbreaking and I am helpless. Canadian. Can only watch.

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Do people not understand what’s happening with the Eric Adams thing? The memo instructing the prosecution to be dropped explicitly said it was because he was carrying out the president’s agenda. It was “you’re working for me, so we’re letting you go.” It was an explicitly corrupt bargain

Ahaha…. JD is definitely not going to win any new friends in Europe. What a dope. He’s criticizing them for their framing of Russian disinformation..like they don’t know wtf they’ve been dealing with for centuries. What an idiot. Oh, and about Ukraine??😂😂💯🤣. These jokers are fucking up..😂

JD Vance refuses to meet with German Chancellor in Munich. MAGA trashes diplomatic customs to show their low class, vicious nature.

Also: "European security not a priority for the US." JD Vance leaves security conference before Leyen speaks - right after he finishes speaking. US threatens Europe over Greenland. So: US is still an important partner but not at present an ally to Europe, and doesn't speak for us. Am I wrong?

Pope Francis ‘takes aim at every single absurd theological claim by JD Vance’ in scathing letter

JD Vance’s inexperience and inability to do anything other tweet like a school shooter is a really underrated part of the Trump administration. He was a Senator for like 40 seconds! Before that all he did was write a shitty book and give Peter Thiel shoulder massages.

New from me in @wired.com: Donald Trump's cabinet is full of conspiracy theorists who think COVID-19 is a bioweapon, and that the doctors and scientists who now report to them helped create it. Those scientists are worried about the coming military tribunals. www.wired.com/story/reveng...

Future historians -- if there are any -- will be shaking their damn heads. Not least over the kid as human shield for President Musk.

Musk gives Trump $10 million. meidasnews.com/news/twitter...

The last guy married CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp molested weighs in on today’s new story that he did it again.

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

Pete Hegseth at the NATO summit: “President Trump will not allow anyone to turn Uncle Sam into Uncle Sucker.” What an embarrassment.

"But whether we like it or not, reality has caught up. Europe now faces a choice: stand up to Russia in Ukraine or risk facing it on the battlefield."

NEW: Ukraine's European partners announced new military assistance to Ukraine amid the February 12 Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the Ramstein format) meeting. isw.pub/UkrWar021325 Details ⬇️🧵(1/6)

Pushback works.

Forever, the courts have been an important arbiter of what a President can, and can’t do. That is under threat now: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trump-like...