The Russia-backed Trump regime lifted another sanction on the aggressor state: Alexandra Buriko was deleted from the Treasury Department's "Specially Designated Persons" list. The notice was buried in a bulletin about Iran. Buriko contributes to Russia's war against Ukraine.

It's interesting to see a country once proud of being "world's largest democracy" deciding that the defence of democracy against authoritarianism isn't in its interest. It definitely isn't in Modi's interest, for sure.

No one wants to admit it but if Three Days to Kyiv had really happened as planned it would have been business as usual with Russia no later than July with American and European leaders urging a budding Ukrainian insurgent resistance to “accept reality and stop the bloodshed”

Small country leader=valid military target, don’t fuss about it Big country leader=sacrosanct and invulnerable, balls must be gently cupped like baby bird as a show of good faith for peace negotiations

🤣🤣🤣🤣 US humiliates yourself.

By this day in 2002 all Russian soldiers in Moldova and Georgia were promised to be removed. They were not. But please believe us when we negotiate now about our soldiers in Ukraine.

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

Would have thought the obvious issue is the ghoul lurking in the Kremlin’s bunker, sending drones and cruise missiles to kill kids; Putin.

Flooding has become the world's 'foremost climate hazard', according to experts. So what do we do about it?

While some world leaders fret over a fictional attack on the Russian dictator's residence, a reminder that Russians have NEVER stopped their attempts in targeting Ukraine's highest offices.

BBC News - Israel to bar 37 aid groups from Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is not a movie, this is my beautiful Odesa right now after Russia bombed it . Tell me more how Russia wants peace I dare you

🤬 Massive strike on Odesa. A fire is raging in the city.

🤬Russia wants to cut off the Odesa region from the rest of Ukraine in terms of infrastructure, — Zelensky. “They are hitting port infrastructure, targeting people and economy, and reducing our export opportunities through the sea corridor. We are recovering, we are doing it as quickly as possible."

‼️ Zelenskyy on alleged attack on Putin's residence: Russia is looking for pretexts to strike government buildings in Kyiv

The "I Want to Live" project of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reports that two Russian servicemen shot dead seven civilians who were hiding in the basement of a residential building. t.me/c/1616052141...

The Prime Minister of India has never once criticised a russian missile attack on civilians and civilian objects in Ukraine. Yet he takes this opportunity to spread russian lies. Even the russian ministry of defence was unaware of any supposed attack. Go fuck yourself, Modi.

It’s the end of 2025. If, after everything that has happened since 2014, you still don’t understand that russia wants the whole of Ukraine, not PEACE in Ukraine — you are either morally bankrupt or openly siding with russia.

"Where is their condemnation of the fact that our children are being bombed and people are being killed all this time? I don't hear India, frankly, nor the United Arab Emirates," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 30. kyivindependent.com/where-is-the...

So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela. And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

It is not possible to negotiate with Russians. The concepts of mutual understanding, give-and-take or win-win are not a part of the Russian imperialist way of thinking. The only possibilities are defeating the Moscow empire like free people or submitting to it like slaves.

India's foreign policy is built on sucking Putin's dick for cheap oil.

K-shaped politics.

NYT: A jazz ensemble and a New York dance company have canceled New Year’s Eve performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, intensifying the fallout at the arts center after it was renamed to include President Trump.

“It is necessary to continue SMO: full control over the city of Zaporizhzhia must be achieved,” — Putin. So much fir peace negotiations, such peaceful aspirations, right? RIGHT??

No, physics happened. By that I mean mostly gravity.

I agree that it's very dangerous. But I don't quite see another feasible strategy for Zelensky while his European allies maintain the hope that they can keep Trump on board and are committed only to a compromise solution to the war, not to Ru's defeat.

Pu's cheap lying stunt exposed the uselessness of any US security guarantees to Ukraine (or to NATO members fwiw). If Trump believes the aggressor immediately and unconditionally without any evidence, Pu can accuse Ukraine of violating the terms of any peace settlement and voila, no help from the US

THAT IS THE POINT: Russia could attack Ukraine at any time, regardless of any "security guarantees". A a fake genocide of Ukranians who speak a bit of Russian, a fake border incursion, a fake attack on Putin. Russian did attack Ukraine under false pretense, it does so now and it will do it again.

Europe should invade Israel then. I think together we could make it happen.

The fundamental bargain, from the Putin-Lavrov perspective: Russia gets Ukraine, China gets Taiwan, Trump gets Greenland and Venezuela.

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #GEÓRGIA 🇬🇪🇪🇺 DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT #UKRAINE 🇺🇦🇪🇺 WE ARE EUROPE 🇪🇺

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

I received a school contest diploma from the Polish PM Cimoszewicz.

The Russian fake news story about Ukraine’s alleged attack on Putin’s residence near Lake Valdai appears to have been a spontaneous response to reports of a positive outcome from the Trump–Zelensky meeting at Mar-a-Lago last Sunday. 1/6

“There was a conversation (between Zelensky and) Trump that was positive for Ukraine. The Kremlin had to respond somehow, and this strongly resembles a defensive reaction on its part," says Dmitry Oreshkin, a Russian-born political analyst.

US-Congressman Don Bacon absolutely torches Medvedev. This is exactly how you communicate with the Russian regime.

Everything regarding this unfortunately rather clever propaganda theatre is sick. German prime news at 20:00 opened with what the Kremlin claims, and I have already people saying "See? Zelenskyi wants to drag us into World War III!" Timely podcast below. @joerglau.bsky.social @golod.bsky.social

This is sickening.

In high school we read this book as one of the best examples of satire ever written. Mentioning "traditional Irish meals" reminded me of the book's suggestion of solving the famine problem by eating all the children. EPIC satire! (and parallels today's callous ruling class in the USA)

"Russia mobilizes 43,000 people every month, but this year the size of its army has stopped growing for the first time." - Zelenskyy. He stated that this year the size of the Russian army has, for the first time, ceased to increase, which could become a prerequisite for ending the war in 2026.

🤥 Residents of Valdai in Russia's Novgorod Oblast say they neither saw nor heard any drone strikes or air defence activity on the night of 28-29 December, despite Russian authorities' claims of a drone attack on Russian leader Vladimir Putin's residence.

President Donald Trump’s cheerless social media posting spree on Christmas wasn’t just sad, it was also chock-full of posts from foreigners cosplaying as red-blooded MAGA Americans.

Nigel Farage would bring back fox hunting… Britons support trail hunting ban by 50% to 29% (including Reform UK supporters)

Excellent piece on that in the paper recently:

krytykapolityczna.pl/gospodarka/f... O Gierku i "Gierku".

The story of Katalin Karikó and her work on mRNA is a great example of why free societies with market economies will always out-innovate centrally controlled societies.

AO Citibank, which conducts the company’s remaining operations in Russia, will be sold to Renaissance Capital.