Tell us you're war criminals without telling us you're war criminals

And most stressful for Putin is that Trump's #SVO was an inside job: Stanislav Kucher "He thinks, damn it, they bribed Maduro's entourage."

Special Vladimir Operation #SVO LFG

Most humiliating for Putin is Russians comparing his Ukraine #SVO to Trump's Special Venezuela Operation

tRUmp admin only aids Ukraine now with intelligence &, as @adamentous.bsky.social NYT Dec 31 long read makes clear, CIA Director Ratcliffe is Ukraine's only effective DC ally. Brilliant move by Zelenskyy to choose Budanov as his new "Green Cardinal" for high stakes negotiations with naifs & knaves.

Ukrainians "extremely dissatisfied & disappointed" that this 'drone attack' on one of Putin's palaces happened only in his (& now Trump's) imagination. Russia's Commander in Chief is not only a legitimate military target (unlike Ukrainians), he should be priority #1. @starskyua.bsky.social yday 👍

My word of the year - Dronophobia. Unlike rage bait, only part of the world was traumatized by it in 2025, but this will spread as weaponized drones replace guns & overall drone use becomes common.

Here's some evidence of an attack on Putin's residence

If Putin didn't actually say *concede* everyone but Trump knows that's what Russia wants to see

Putin's Russia is a nuclear #mafiastate with no rule of law, exponentially more reckless, ruthless, & brutal than Trumpistan (so far)

Finally a respectable American billionaire

Navy just couldn't sell him on Trump Baby class sea drones

With DOGEy Josh Gruenbaum, Gaza Project Sunrise author, parachuting into the Ukraine peace negotiations as Witkoff & Kushner's third musketeer, is Donbas destined to become the "Riviera of Eastern Europe"? 😵‍💫

Our gazillion dollar military industrial complex is powerless when Kremlin hacks into the White House “You take Ukraine," Trump told Keith Kellogg. “I’ve got Russia.” Wall St Journal (gift link ⬇️) No, Russia's got Trump

The Wall Street Journal (🎁🔗⬇️) bombshell report on Putin's #SpecialWitkoffOperation has fascinating details, but its intent to controlled crash US natsec policy via a Trump quasi-official potentially crypto-corruptible conduit was obvious right from the beginning & still is.

End of history @frankfukuyama.bsky.social hasn't happened yet because in the heads of these geriatric nuclear tyrants with delusions of grandeur the past is more alive than the future - make America great *again*, Russian empire "Novorossiya," reunification for Chinese national "rejuvenation"

1/6 🧵 Rubio: “Ultimately the decisions have to be made, in the case of Russia, by Putin alone, not his advisors. Putin – only Putin can end this war on the Russian side." As Kurt Volker says 1st step is get Putin to *stop* 🛑 Getting him to leave, pay & reckon can only come after.

Putin won't stop his war but his war will stop him, one way or another

Putin's agitprop really gets up your nose

As unsubtle as possible for Dumkoff & Poshner who need to understand the extortionate price Putin plans to demand to do business

Word: Ukraine is a healthier democracy than we are

This should be a *ceasefire* process, & if we get there through what Russia insisted on framing instead as a peace process -- fine, just don't make our usual mistake (with the Putin mafia regime) of taking the piece of paper too seriously. 👍 Kurt Volker with @philipingrammbe.bsky.social

The closer we get to peace the more desperate warmongers become. ⌯⌲

Neither 🇺🇦 nor 🇷🇺have officially confirmed presence of their delegations in Abu Dhabi. The source added that Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukrainian intelligence, is currently in Abu Dhabi where he's meeting with American officials & *might meet with Russian officials as well* abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...

It is so typical Kremlin troll to blow up the peace process by immediately getting caught trying to jam it @atpgeo.bsky.social youtu.be/YFkaRNrqlt4?...

Ukraine suffers far worse from the horrors of hot criminal war than Russia & justice may be a dish best served cold. Ukraine is better equipped & organized to extract payback via hybrid war on Putin & his perpetrators. Kremlin's mass & nukes are no match for stealth, ingenuity & motivation.

No sign of serious US diplomatic engagement in peace talks despite Witkoff Dmitriev hot air & breathless reporting says Adrian Karatnycky Atlantic Council senior fellow youtube.com/watch?v=WrpT...

Ukraine is planning for another three years of war: @radek-sikorski.bsky.social on The Rest is Politics youtu.be/Fy3-L3pCadM?...

we're so cooked

If Trump breaks the Sino-Russian axis, he will defeat Putin once and for all Opinion by Con Coughlin in @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it

They came to his party but not his funeral

"America is in a winner-takes-all game show in which Trump is both the host and the main contestant. There will be one winner." @edwardluce.bsky.social 🎁 www.ft.com/content/1377...

fauxKing Trump carpet bombed Zelenskyy with bullshit Putin propaganda www.ft.com/content/7960...

Trump: "the economy of the paper tiger fighting a special military operation not a war is doing great"

1/2 Reading the tea leaves, @scottlucas.bsky.social on @thetimes.com radio thinks Ukraine delegation might have had a pretty good week in DC

Master manipulator Putin shat the bed in Alaska with history rant: Financial Times archive.ph/2025.10.17-1...

Trump's approach to judicial redress for the unpresidented 2016 criminal Kremlin election interference op is to try to make his apparatchiks pretend he was the victim not the abettor & beneficiary

If knowing nothing about Ukraine, Russia & politics are the qualifications for negotiating with nuclear war criminal Putin, too bad James Cagney is no longer with us, straight outta Central Casting all American Great Guy in the era of bloodthirsty dictators

I was just looking for a map of 🇺🇦 strikes on 🇷🇺 oil infrastructure! Here's clip of @hartreefock.bsky.social on yday's @tochnyi.info show. Some of his preliminary findings: 🇺🇦 strikes executed to impact both general economy & also military logistics, supported by a campaign against 🇷🇺 air defense

"This network of the Polish Military Organization..." @timothysnyder.bsky.social Blood Lands

"Things that were routine are no longer routine at all." "Stalin could see, as he later put it, that he & Hitler had a common desire to get rid of the old equilibrium." @timothysnyder.bsky.social Blood Lands

Westies let's use all our diplomatic & economic tools & work together now to convince Xi to do to Putin what Trump did to Netanyahu.

With all the talk of Trump's turnaround on Ukraine support & understanding that Putin is unserious, good time to repost @thetimes.com Manveen Rana months ago saying that pre-election natsec wing of team Trump was pledging full military support to Ukraine if/when Putin rejected their peace deal.

-If I'm not mistaken, you did once study law? -Yes, & I heard something about state self-defense there. A Social Democrat shot 2 paramilitary SA officers. -That allows the state the justification of self-defense against any other citizens? Against me & you? -Not against me, but perhaps against you.

Here's a sweet little remix of the Peanuts theme, happy childhood memories of hearing this music & running to the TV, "It's on!" youtube.com/watch?v=kDLZ...

Out with the old white males & in with the dead white males

Not platforming Loomer but she's a good example of the thought box Americans are still stuck in, drones to stop guns. We are lucky it hasn't flipped yet because we are nowhere near Ukraine tech & societal mindset.

I'm sure that Putin would not use foot soldiers, which he's fast running out of, but instead the many nuclear ICBMs still aimed at us despite the fall of the Soviet Union. Also that Boston isn't high on the strike list.

Hmm maybe he does know of what he speaks for once