Donald will @jd-vance-1.bsky.social to represent him at Uday's wedding. Says he hopes he's not too busy to attend his next one.

OTD in 1948 operation Vesna began in Lithuania. 40,000 people were deported to Siberia and replaced by Russians. Imagine that kind of thing happening today. Imagine selectively opposing it.

Geniuses of Russian marketing. An ad for the Russian military contract reads: "A job for real men." The name of the bus stop: "Meat Processing Plant." Perfect.

The further Putinisation of America. The government has TV shows which hurt the Dear Leader's delicate feelings cancelled.

Fake. There's no button that says "drink"

Weeks-260 Casualties-1,350,000 Victories-0 Economy-🚽 Moscow-🦩💥🔥 Perm -🦩💥🔥 Syzran -🦩💥🔥 Norsi -🦩💥🔥 Ryazan -🦩💥🔥 Astrakhan -🦩💥🔥 Tuapse -🦩💥🔥 Novokuibyshevsk-🦩💥🔥 Ufa-🦩💥🔥 Kirishi-🦩💥🔥 Ust Luga -🦩💥🔥 Shadow fleet -🚤🔥💥 Xi -🤣 I remain a master strategist.

🧵War correspondent James Verini has covered several conflicts over the decades. What he sees in Ukraine is clear: Ukraine is winning the war, and Putin has no good options in a disaster of his own making.

Today (and this is true) is "International Tea Day". Be careful out there folks.

OTD in 1935 Nazi German defence minister Werner von Blomberg renamed his department to "The Ministry of War".

Delighted China & Russia issued statement condemning reckless US policy of illegally invading countries thinking it would get a quick win but instead ending up stuck in a quagmire that achieves none of its goals & causes misery for millions.....

Asked Xi to clarify remarks to Donald that "Putin might come to regret starting Ukraine war" Xi: 🇨🇳 has recovered many territories taken by foreigners like Hong Kong, Macau, etc VVP: Indeed Xi: But not yet the Amur or Vladivostok VVP: What do you mean "yet"? Xi: I mean you might yet regret this war

Arriving today in Beijing: Customs: Name? Me: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Customs: Occupation? Me: No, just here to pay homage to Emperor Xi.

One major drone assault on Moscow of the type every city in Ukraine has had hundreds of times and the people "who can endure any sacrifice for the motherland" are talking about giving up.

“for the longest time the question of European strategic autonomy has been a French obsession, a German embarrassment, a British irritation — and that today, nolens volens, it has become a European necessity.” franziska-brantner.de/news/the-lon...

The word "might" is doing *a lot* of lifting here.

Day 1546 of my 3 day war. Russia never loses wars*. Ukraine is Russia and Ukrainians are Russians. Therefore, Russia is winning this war whilst losing it. I remain a master strategist.

I'll say it's Ukraine's fault for defending themselves.

If anyone doesn't understand how Russia's demographic system works, it's simple: people from territories that aren't yet part of Russia are used to repopulate Russia, and Russians are used to populate the territories that will become part of Russia.

My only hope now is that one of the fires start emitting white smoke and I get summoned to the Vatican to be the next pope.

Using a food analogy to describe a system that never eradicated hunger is irony that escapes my hammer and sickle friends.

OTD in 1944 Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars began. On Stalin's orders, over 191,000 were forcibly sent to Uzbek SSR. 8000 died en route & 88,000 died with 3 years. Imagine mass deportations happening in 21st century...

It seems Donald's plan of helping Russia win will not be as consequence free for the USA as he hoped.

Sanctions that will allow Donald to do something he won't.

I smell smoke....

OTD in 2002 Prez said it was Ukraine's decision to join NATO if it wanted. Which is *very* strange thing to say if you got a promise from NATO that Ukraine wasn't going to be allowed to even apply. Or maybe the idea we got one is bullshit.

Time to pay homage to the emperor.

No.

This is aging well.

Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been fucked up for so many by so few.

The further Putinisation of America. Intelligence which displeases the Dear Leader is dismissed.

For some reason as soon as you mention Russia's genocide, a particular crowd automatically assume it means you support Israel's. It has no basis in fact, reason or logic. But those are the tools of imperialism

Good time to remind everyone of @zackpolanski.bsky.social's wise words, based on his knowledge of acts that constitute it... "Putin has never threatened genocide" kyivindependent.com/explosions-r...

OTD in 1955 the Warsaw Pact was formed. A Russian led ‘defensive' alliance that repeatedly attacked itself, its members mysteriously left as soon as they could.

An aircraft carrier that doesn't produce more smoke than an erupting volcano? What imperialist MI6 wizardry is this??

OTD in 1901 Witold Pilecki was born. He voluntarily entered Auschwitz to prove its existence and was later shot by Stalin's secret police for “working with foreign imperialism”.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, and that it won't shit on your grass anymore if you just give it your garden to shit in, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆

The precedent goes back much further than 1997. In 1774 we signed the treaty of Kucuk Kaynara which recognised Crimea as Ottoman. We violated it in 1783 and invaded.

All of them bar the Molotov Ribbentrop pact.

🤔 Who is Gerhard Putinovich Schröder? My two cents 👇 www.bylinesupplement.com/p/europes-pe...

OTD in 1997 negotiations to end the 1st Chechen war began. As a result we promised to not use force, or the threat of force, “forever”. 2 years later we staged some false flags & invaded & killed over 100,000 civilians. So you can trust us in negotiations now.

In Ukraine, Vovchansk today is nothing but scorched ruins on the frontline. Russia destroyed schools, churches, neighborhoods, and homes—stealing lives and dreams for nothing. These scenes remind me of Syria when Russia helped destroy it.

Would this be the Palestinian refugee camp which Assad (supported by us) surrounded and starved into submission killing hundreds with famine? A cynic could suggest several reasons why this is memory-holed..

While it was a legit response to serious accusations, this is a nobler response than has been on Prez's TL in a good while, if ever.

On 23 Nov 2004 German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder called me a "flawless democrat" A statement that has stood the test of both time & special military operation & clear evidence he'd be an honest peacemaker.

More Russian women each year get a "double holiday" on May 9. Instead of carrying grandfathers' photos, they now march with pictures of sons and husbands sent to their "special operation."

Your Prez was accused of deleting pro Israel tweets. No posts have been deleted but here is🧵on tweets Prez made which were accused of being "pro Israel" TLDR. Asking for intellectual consistency from some folks causes false accusations. ..

Your Prez is accepting questions for the next show, to be recorded soon. vvp.

This sounds like an implicit acceptance that Russia will collapse.

Day 1537 of my 3 day war. From this day forward, the Moscow Victory Day Parade will take place only by the consent of the President of Ukraine. I remain a master strategist.