In case you had other ideas…

And this is how you end up at “everything is genocide”

Cities often are war zones. Where do you think wars take place? Out in the special part of the Earth marked “War zone only?”

"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."

“It’s worth noting that Karnaukhov’s certainty about regime thinking is well-founded. His senior editors are among those attending weekly sessions at the Kremlin, where they are directed by senior Putin aide Alexy Gromov on how to cover the news.”

“The partisan movement has become an integral part of the Ukrainian military's successes, acting not only as its eyes but also its hands deep inside enemy territory.“

“Trump was oddly eager to castigate his predecessors for being weak: Crimea, he said, was handed over to Russian President Vladimir Putin by Barack Obama “without a shot fired.” (Should Obama have fired some? No one asked.)”

I beg to differ. Quite a number of units seem to be near the White House.

“This war can be brought to an end. The United States has the power to help, but that power must be consciously directed to the benefit of the side that is defending itself, and in accordance with what we know about successful negotiations. “

I understand people are looking for someone, some institution, to step in and fill a leadership role. Once the military is politicized it is hard to go back. George Washington resisted using the Continental Army and transferred power peacefully. We can, too, but the military is not an answer.

Voters, Congress, SCOTUS, et al. are guardrails, not the U.S. military. They have not turned on the people. This is a reckless article. We are not 20th Century Turkey so if you are looking for the military to step in you’re equally culpable in unconstitutional means and need a rudder correction.

Or, Trump's a bully who's afraid of tougher bullies.

What a butt hurt whiny ass piss-frosted dickdrip. Lots of presidents "inherit" wars. Biden didn't star the war - Putin did. And Biden inherited a disastrously mismanaged pandemic, record unemployment and a world laughing at us & wondering if they should ever trust us again. Which they should not.

“Unless there are secret protocols, perhaps some business deals, that we haven’t yet learned about, Anchorage will probably not be remembered as one of history’s crime scenes, a new Munich Conference, or a Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. But that’s a very low bar to reach.”

A must-read. “In truth, some of the changes seem designed not so much to shape U.S. foreign policy as to shape U.S. domestic policy. Christopher Le Mon, a former DRL official, told me he thinks that “the domestic political agenda is really the organizing principle here.”

We’ll be back to supporting Ukraine again…

This just got more interesting

He’s SECSTATE but he’s no Statesman. Just another bobble head who’s sold out, an empty suit, a simp.

This is a reckless piece from two, and the NYT, who know better The U.S. military is: - not a buttress to bad governance - a guardrail - not a branch of govt to provide ✅ and balances - Voters asked for this - Congress has sworn fealty - SCOTUS has cowed www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

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"Putin is in love with a legend. Historically speaking, this is very familiar: new regimes, such as Putin's, seek compensation in myths of ancient origin."

Yep

“The military is the most powerful, coercive tool our country has. We don’t want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law.”

“Mr. Putin has made it clear that, among other things, he wants a formal promise that Ukraine will not enter NATO or any other Western military alliances, host Western troops on its territory or be allowed to build up a military that threatens Russia — making Kyiv perpetually vulnerable.”