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

Europe is prolonging Putin's war through its reluctance to act strategically & suffer any pain at all.

Teetering Russian economy is so dependent on China. Europe needs to brave up & join US economic/diplomatic campaign for Xi to exercise his power over Putin to halt his war. China supplies almost half of RU imports including 80% of RU defense industrial base & buys 1/3 of RU exports mostly oil.

If this wasn't so stupid it'd be scary

It is a screamingly obvious that getting rid of Putin is the best security guarantee for Ukraine, Europe & Russians. Future historians will be aghast at the cost of so much blood, treasure & time on a war to salvage one man's hubris.

👀 Limits to China's friendship with Russsia. "Best Russia expert you never heard of" @delfoo.bsky.social - bilateral trade volume fell 18% yoy in August. Xi is attuned to developing joint Western economic threats & exponentially more cautious than Putin, whom China won't take economic bullets for.

how long can they squat on the denial stage of their grief

Indeed we did. US economic leaders made a joint statement independent from the agreed #G7 Finance Ministers communique. Calls it an emergency meeting, & "if they are truly committed to ending the war in Ukraine, G7 partners should join US in imposing tariffs on countries purchasing oil from Russia."

This is straight up the most encouraging move from Trump on peacemaking strategy so far. Xi is exponentially more risk sensitive than Putin, & clear signals of rapid convergence on forms of increased joint Western economic pressure may cause China to finally call in their chips on their vassal.

After Trump said on 9/11 that 🇷🇺drone incursion into 🇵🇱 could have been a mistake, Bill O'Reilly sat with him at Yankees game, & told Hannity they discussed "Bad Vlad,"Trump said "enough is enough," US & NATO response will be "fairly soon" "deliberate & surgical" bec "Putin would use nuclear weapons"

lmao how they're all like hold on let's not rush to judgement he was a groyper

This aged well

Kash Patel has the look of a guy who got the job *because* of his lack of qualifications

The year is 2025: Owning guns is not illegal Charlie Kirk is dead But at least Ukraine still exists & Utah Republicans never passed a red flag law!

Them on X: clowns with Ukraine flags in their bios are ignoring the brutal & senseless murder of a Ukrainian asylum seeker Me on Bluesky figuring out why they're concerned for once

Unfortunately his base only cares when the politics are domestic & the killer is black

The lives of millions of Ukrainians? You mean Trump's base might empathize now that a horde of Russian murderers is wilding through Iryna's country every day & night, & that's why she was still a refugee here despite Trump's deportation plans?

Hear hear! Seconded by @michaelkofman.bsky.social

Always has been, always should be

I mean it

Dom Nicholls flagged this on today's Ukraine The Latest pod so I listened to Chief of General Staff Czech Armed Forces reveal NATO has member unilateral but not (?🤫) clear alliance options for RU use of tactical nukes in 🇺🇦 (it should but CoNsEnSuS) & endorse the 💪 🇹🇷 model of escalation management ✈️💥

Former career diplomat Boris Bondarev knows #1 goal is keep Putin's grip on power to preserve the luxurious corrupt lifestyles of his clique. That FSB is in charge of hostage prisoner swaps is ☢️🚨 about Witkoff's selection *by the Kremlin* as Trump's envoy in their existential Ukraine war resolution.

Apart from aircraft, which airbase assets most valuable for UA to hit asks @atpgeo.bsky.social Aircraft don't need controllers to operate but they do need 1 Runways (but only big bombs do lasting damage) 2 Fuel (but can bring fuel trucks) 3 Maintenance hangar (but maintenance poor already) 4 Pilots.

In Ukraine of all places why a high profile political assassination would not be via a much more untraceable drone weapon just goes to show that old adage again

Trump revoking @kamalaharris.com Secret Security protection is so small-minded & petty I wonder if he even grasps what a dangerous signal he's sending. He's a nasty piece of work.

JD Vance says that Trump & Witkoff have skillfully narrowed the list of peace obstacles to "security guarantees & territorial concessions." Clue phone: That was only ever the list Despite what Kremlin propaganda says about denazification of Ukraine & other red herrings

Because Putin, Ukraine needs NATO & NATO needs Ukraine, but it's not happening, because Putin

Putin is escalating his reckless & brutal air attacks after Keith Kellogg concluded his visit to Kyiv to try to intimidate Ukraines's allies from further planning & commitment to security guarantees.

In Greenland 🤦 www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

President Trump wants more checks and bigger balances youtu.be/MpNe45_-XWY?...

Dr. Strangetax or: How Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

He keeps saying Putin is bad for us but he can't help himself bsky.app/profile/kyiv...

So to end the killing in this horrible war & prevent future ones we're machinating for regime change in *checks notes* Ukraine??!! www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

If Putin is made to fear a color revolution in his own capital he'll be far less interested in mucking about trying to undo one in another nation's capital

Dems didn't fucking switch sides on the Russian war on Ukraine because Dear Leader waffled from Eurasia to Eastasia & then back again with his daily Two Minutes of Hate

If Dems can stay clear & strong for so long on helping Ukraine defeat war criminal Russians surely we can do the same for political criminal Trumpists

As good an idea as letting him into the Girl Scouts

Actions speak louder than words Putin responds to escalating diplomacy with larger & larger attacks He needs to be forced, not invited, to stop

Putin speaks softly and carries a big dick head

Think about how inexcrable our ratings would be if Faux went ALL in on STOP THE AGITPROP

What Weird Stephen doing?

European leaders & Zelenskyy played Trump like a violin concerto compared to Putin's crude fiddling

No red carpet, no suit Real leadership doesn't require props

Trump got suckered by Putin in Alaska selling him the notion that a peace deal would be quicker than a ceasefire deal. Also asking Ukraine to give up territory to Russia that it currently holds, an obvious no, will now push Ukraine into making other real concessions that Russia really wants.

That Putin would deliver his precious self & Kremlin leadership right into the arms of the US military kind of undercuts his narrative that Russia is in an existential war with the West.

The Drone by Vladimir Munchkin #FinalShot

Trump's food fights How it started: Feb 28 Zelenskyy says Putin won't actually ceasefire & Trump cancels his luncheon How it's going: Aug 15 Putin says he won't actually ceasefire & Trump cancels his luncheon & I get Trump as a Crème brûlée fan but green salad & asparagus? 🤔