A critic of the CDC gets to lead the CDC. Another attack on America’s disease prevention.

Hope you victim-blaming cowards are voted out in April. I’m sick of you blaming the consequences of russia’s war on Ukraine and punishing us for being invaded. (He is Hungarian MFA)

Oh, how the tables have turned. Ukrainian soldiers will be instructing NATO troops now.

Hi Hungarian voters, Why would you want this again - seems to be Orbans wet dream?

🇭🇺❌🇺🇦 Hungarian Foreign Ministry: Diesel fuel shipments to Ukraine have been completely stopped. Diesel fuel shipments to Ukraine will not be resumed until the Ukrainians resume crude oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline to Hungary.

@kajakallas.bsky.social Why on earth would the comission decide that. Talking about shooting yourself in the foot.

🇭🇺🇭🇷 Hungarian company MOL has signed the first contracts for the supply of oil from Russia to Croatia for further transit to Hungary, - Foreign Minister Szijjártó

1/ An ongoing epidemic of murder and extortion in the Russian army has reached such a level that Russian warbloggers say the army has become a "gangster supermarket". "Extortion under the threat of death has become an entire shadow industry", says one Russian blogger. ⬇️

I can't believe that even our President has to spell it out, but pressure must be applied to the aggressor, not the victim.

⚡️Russian war profiteers are hiding billions in luxury assets across Europe. 🔗 united24media.com/world/where-...

More than 50 F-35, F-22 and F-16 fighter jets have moved to the Middle East region over the last 24 hours, according to open source flight radar data and a U.S. official.-Axios

OTD in 2022 the culmination of the western misinformation campaign was witnessed about Russia's mythical "invasion" of Ukraine. This was caused by the West deceitfully quoting Prez's own words by promising a military-technical solution to Ukraine.

OTD in 2022 TASS reported that western media, who are the ones who really control the Russian military tried hard to trigger a war. The Russian military then invaded as part of their plot to improve the value of our enemies defense contractors.

“Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed. It has entered the “death zone” — surviving by consuming its own future. Growth at 1%. Budget deficit rising. Military sector expands while civilian industry shrinks. Interest payments > education + healthcare. No climber survives this altitude forever.”

❗️❗️Reuters: China's Russian crude imports surge to record high Russian crude shipments in February are expected to reach 2.07 million barrels per day, up from 1.7 million in January. Kpler estimates that India's Russian crude imports will fall further in February to 1.159 million barrels per day.

🇪🇪🇪🇺 Any Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine can still apply for a Schengen visa or obtain a residence permit in the EU under normal procedures. This must be prevented, — Le Monde citing Estonian Foreign Minister

Yeah, it's never DJT, it's always his advisors and underlings. God commits no sins or mistakes.

🇩🇪🇺🇸🤯 "The Orange Plague" in Munich, Germany.

An alley of Russian servicemen stripped naked and tied to trees in the freezing cold. Tying up their own comrades in sub-zero temperatures and leaving them strapped to trees remains one of the most widespread punishments in the Russian army this winter.

⚡ German-made parts are still turning up in Russia’s attack drones. Deutsche Welle reports transistors from Germany were found inside “Geran” UAVs, despite EU sanctions. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response. Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓

🇩🇪🇺🇦 “The lesson for us, ladies and gentlemen, must be that we must not allow another ‘paper tiger’ like Budapest Memorandum,” — Pistorius. ❗️“We would win every single battle with Russia if they were to attack us now,” — Rutte. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/security-gua...

Leading Russia's delegation once again Medinsky said that Russians are "ready to lose millions and live on bread and water for the SVO" according to Russian media. If true that says all you need to know about the February 17-18 talks.

OTD in 2022 Russia's MOD announced that all Russian troops near Ukraine were returning home. And seeing as we weren't lying then, you can believe us in negotiations now. In most cases the "withdrawal" placed the units closer to Ukraine.

I agree. European naivety vs US Realpolitik. We're a partner that doesn't want a leave an abusive relationship. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

OTD in 2022 George Galloway released one of the absolute, all-time classics. He has yet to delete it, show humility, or confirm/deny if this means he in fact being paid to act like an idiot, or if he just does it free. #JustAskingQuestions

YouGov US poll 👀🇺🇸

Fully engaged.

🇫🇮 Finnish President Stubb to Putin: He wanted to make Ukraine Russian. It became European. He wanted to prevent the enlargement of NATO. He got Finland and Sweden. And he wanted to keep our defense expenditure down, and it’s now going up to 5%.

The Olympics should stand for peace and sportsmanship. Instead, from promoting Nazi Germany to “neutral” Russians, from “Chinese Taipei” to disqualifying Ukrainians, the pattern is the same: the IOC chooses victim-blaming and accommodating dictatorships over Olympic ethics. 15/15

Europe needs ‘emergency mindset’ to survive, warns Danish PM ft.trib.al/CIhDD0T

"No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas." - Rule 50.2, Olympic Charter. Wearing a helmet commemorating people killed in a war is not political propaganda. Banning someone from wearing one is, however.

China will provide Ukraine with an additional package of humanitarian energy assistance, Ukraine’s foreign minister said after meeting China’s foreign minister. Meanwhile, China provides billions to Russia in equipment and components for the production of drones and missiles.

🇵🇱 Sikorski: Russia had a strategic choice: become an ally of the West — or become a vassal of China. China must be very pleased — Russia is spending its national wealth on Chinese goods and becoming weaker.

The Trump administration is literally going to kill its supporters, and still they cheer the circus.

Donald Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files more than a million times, according to Rep Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who reviewed the Justice Department’s unredacted version of the files. #OpDeathEaters #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles

Only the oddest of flexes for RFK Jr.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

IOC President Kirsty Coventry maintains that sport is neutral and remains open to discussions about allowing Russia to return to the Olympics. Meanwhile, Ukrainian athletes have been disqualified for honoring those killed by Russia. 🧵 1/2 ⬇️

US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, NY Fed says ft.trib.al/RPVjBCa

In other words, he’s telling you to abandon Ukrainians to be slaughtered AND to actually finance russia’s murders by buying their oil and gas. What an utterly monstrous ghoul.

Listen folks, Pam Bondi was Attorney General of Florida from 2011 to 2019 so she's been covering up Epstein's crimes for a loooooong-ass time

Remember when Donald Trump yelled at Marjorie Taylor Greene and said releasing the Epstein files "Would hurt my friends!" so loud on speaker phone that her entire office heard him say it? I remember

This is what happens when you have the former Fox News morning team running our government…..🤦‍♂️ A U.S. official confirms to Fox News that earlier this week the U.S. military shot down a party balloon near El Paso, thinking it was a foreign drone, leading to the unexpected airspace closure.

Europe’s best bet for financial sovereignty is a true safe asset ft.trib.al/n4bVTkx | opinion

🇫🇷 Macron: Cheap Russian energy stopped in 2022. There is no way back. We cannot wait. We have to accelerate our decisions. We have to take some measures that sometimes are not part of our European DNA, but we are living in totally different new times. Let's move and let's act.

Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: “Putin would already have lost were it not for the Chinese support he has garnered. Xi is behind Putin.”

WATCH — @balint.house.gov on the unredacted Epstein files: “There’s a bunch of sick fucks… so many people knew…. Trump never kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago. That’s a lie.” (From @dropsitenews.com )

Nearly two-thirds of Germans see the US as a major threat to world peace in the coming years, a poll shows . (Deutsche Presse-Agentur)