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Michiel Nijk's avatar

The New York Post is not only calling Hippo Don a fool, they are goading him to take action against Putin:

"it won’t be pretty when Trump finally moves to dispel that delusion."

Hippo Don would rather die than put a knife to Putin's throat...

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

That was a brutal take down. But nicely covered though.

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Terentev Valerii's avatar

It won't help. A paper cannot be abnormal on 99 cases and normal on 1 (Russia) case. Trump belongs to Putin, and he is busy attacking European allies and India, but never China and Russia.

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Rosemary Dill's avatar

TREASON

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jack spirtos's avatar

Well said.

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Lisa Unger's avatar

Trump will move against Putin in two weeks (never).

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jack spirtos's avatar

It's always another two weeks....Trump is back to his standard dodge again.

We Americans aren't fooled just out maneuvered by the traitors controlling our government.

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Marie's avatar

It’s now ‘the week after next’ 😀

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Ksenia Maryniak's avatar

The Ukrainians are rolling their eyes. *They* invented this meme: "two-three weeks, maximum one month"... and now agent K has gotten a new script.

What with Manafort managing Yanukovych's Party of Oligarchs — oops, Regions as a dress rehearsal for Trump I, Ukraine is a veritable _place d'armes_ cum laboratory for political propaganda schemes.

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Christy Jones's avatar

He doesn’t want Russia to call in all the debt that he owes

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jack spirtos's avatar

Like he would pay them. He stiffs everyone. That is Trump's red line, honoring obligations.

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Michiel Nijk's avatar

True. My guess is, he doesn't even want us to know he owes debt. He's not a billionaire? In fact, he has even less money than the MAGAots he fleeces?

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Alice K.'s avatar

Sounds like they’re still trying to portray trump as strong, and that he won’t fooled. Ha!

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Julian Dodds's avatar

Could you do a piece on how much Ukrainian land has been taken by Russia over time. Starting I guess with Crimea in 2014, then the progress of the non-Russian Russian masked invasion of the Donbas and then of course the "Special operation", together with the re-take of the Northern section that Ukraine had an early success with followed then I guess by the slow, slow forward progress of the frontline over the past 24 months or so. We often hear about the 20% of Ukrainian territory that Russia holds but they must have held quite a bit of that before the "Special Operation" began in 2022. It would be interesting to know how much land they have taken since taking over 1m casualties

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

Ok. I will include it this week.

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Julian Dodds's avatar

Excited to see what you come up with Shankar! Hoping that the data will show that since the early Russian wins following the 2022 invasion that Russia actually hold less territory now than they did back then following the counter offensives in the North West and later around Kherson.

I guess theres also a figure that might make an interesting headline along the lines of how many men Russia has expended per square meter of territory gained since certain dates. The figure I presume could be negative dependent on the start date!

Anyway. Over to you. thanks

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Peter a.k.a Peterb TheMasses's avatar

As a 🇺🇦🇨🇦 this analysis makes me very happy. The time to ignore and isolate the USA in NOW!!! The time to bomb the life out of Ruzzia is long past due. Thank you EU!!! Canada is your best friend and the US empire is over.

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Stephanie Desmeules's avatar

Check out understandingwar.org .. it’s the Institute for the Study of War website. It’s a fantastic resource!! I am a military buff and I go to this website often enough to fill in articles I have read.

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Marie's avatar

You’re right - just checked it out - thanks

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jack spirtos's avatar

Please

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Leigh Horne's avatar

Wow. And I was just about to pour myself a libation to celebrate what promised to be the death (or at least downsizing) of our industrial military power brokers and by association their congressional enablers. Aw, shucks. However, in any case the rise of European awareness that they have chops of their own is good news. Not for the MI folk, for sure, though. Here's one other thing: Who in their right mind would accept US intelligence about a war involving Putin's Russia with the likes of Tulsi Gabbard in charge?

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Agreed, on the Gabbard part and overall comment. That said, you’re going to pour yourself a “libation”? Seriously, where do you live? It’s 11:25 in Miami, although it is Happy Hour somewhere…:)

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

She is more like me.

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Leigh Horne's avatar

Time is fluid in my world, if the proper occasion arises. And I am not above having a 'ladylike sip of wine' if the occasion veers into celebratory or mournful terrifory. Not all day long and not everyday. No worries. (And this time I was just joking.)

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Leigh, I was only joking. Let me know the next time you’re ready for a morning spirit and I’ll make the toast…:)

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Valerie McDermott's avatar

So glad to read this - if the cankels and the black hands are as bad as some of the reports then it may beJD Vance and Thiel that are the players sooner rather than later - and I do how they would deal with Ukraine - the sooner Ukraine and Europe doesn’t need their help the better

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billy mccarthy's avatar

ukraines ambassator to the uk, refused to accept a call from vance last sunday, that is telling

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Travis Hightower's avatar

This is bitter sweet. I love that Ukraine is more and more independent. But I'm an old soldier who can't shake his ideals, and I also want to go all in - close the sky, troops on the ground . . .

If I could share enough truth to show people why all of that is possible to end this war, and that it is the ONLY way it will end, I would. We must defeat and rid ourselves of this MAGA cancer so we can move forward and be at least somewhat trustworthy again.

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

I hear you. One day at a time.

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Travis Hightower's avatar

Thanks for letting me rant lol 😎

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Duncan's avatar

UK has to abandon Trident and build its own independent nuclear deterrent. USA has become a chocolate teapot

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

Yep. No choice. One day it will deliver a whole lot of hurt if nothing is done.

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Leigh Horne's avatar

Nice metaphor, Duncan, even if it did whet my appetite for Forbidden Things...

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billy mccarthy's avatar

uk is too involved with the us to do so

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jack spirtos's avatar

Not true anymore. They had their Lord Chamberland moment wth Hitler.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

“Treating Trump like a sucker? Fool-Sucker-Humiliating. Wow.”

I’d say it’s a combination of both; a double entendre. Trump has been played for a fool, while Putin has been stringing Trump along like a disposable marionette.

In addition, they’re warning Putin that once Dear Leader, I mean Trump finally wakes up from his drunken stupor, he’ll put Russia in its place; with a question mark or asterisk next to their veiled threat; almost challenging Trump to act like a president and warning Putin of the consequences of his deceit when Trump does.

Furthermore, this theme would lend nicely to the criticism’s The Wall Street Journal has been leveling at Trump for his overreach at the Federal Reserve, firing the Director of BLS and other bone headed moves Murdoch doesn’t agree with.

In a nutshell, Murdoch is trying to rein in Trump and show him he still has power; they made him, they can break him. Either way, Murdock could be a thorn in his side; at the very least. IMHO….:)

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Shankar Narayan's avatar

Agree. Murdoch is trying to put some brakes.

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Leigh Horne's avatar

Trump IS a disposable marionette and it seems likely his strings are about to be severed. Watching and waiting, here.

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K Sullivan's avatar

Trump isn't going to do anything.

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Paul Boyd's avatar

'Washington also knows that Europe and Ukraine cannot currently match the scale of U.S. intelligence capabilities. That dependency is what makes intelligence sharing the most critical lever of American influence."

So true.

Yet, there's nothing more fleeting than military technology advantages. These all tend to run their course and then be eclipsed by the next innovation. Ukraine's moving away from its dependency on US intel is beyond necessary. The US's "first mover" advantage in these technologies is a function of US will, and lack of same among the US's own allies.

It's good to learn that Ukraine has cut the "bro gang" out of where and when it uses its own weapons. It shows both confidence and will.

As the EU slowly releases the US's military ankles and stops bleating "save us, save us!" their vision should clear. The will to survive and thrive should follow, and the tech gap should close. Whether this will be on Ukrainian time is an open question. Strategic use of the FP-5 in the coming months may be a useful indicator of whether Ukraine is at the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end of Putin's War (hopefully the latter!).

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Elizabeth's avatar

As an American I will continue to support the sovereignty of Ukraine. There are many more like me. We vote and we will not cave to Nazis.

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jack spirtos's avatar

How bout our Nazis here in the US?

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Sara Frischer's avatar

Thank you Shankar. This should be the billboard:

"The time has come for the UK, France, Germany, and Ukraine to build their own joint intelligence network — one that is not only independent of Washington, but fully supported by European satellites, sensors, and HUMINT capabilities. Europe already has the industrial and technological base: France has proven space-launch capacity, Germany has the industrial weight, the UK fields world-class SIGINT, and Ukraine brings unmatched battlefield intelligence against Russia."

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Baxter Wilson's avatar

It is imperative that Ukraine and Europe build its own intelligence web-the US may talk but brain fucked Trump won’t deliver. I would also say that other nations should go in and assist in the defense.

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Nan's avatar

Musk is also a Russian asset.

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jack spirtos's avatar

Musk is his own planet, as he loses his mind to ketamine and the chip in his head short circuiting.

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Carol Berman's avatar

The value of US intelligence will become increasingly useless as Trump fires the brains behind the operations and replaces them with cosplaying sycophant morons. The same is true for any advice that the US could give the Ukraine military. Ukraine, Canada, and Europe would do well to scoop up this knowledge base.

I believe that there is a high probability that we will end up in a Spanish style civil war between fascism and democracy. (I have not given up the fight, but I think we need to be prepared in case we are not successful. And thanks to the meek old school Dems who didn't do their jobs when they had the opportunity, we missed our best chance for success.) We will need the help of these new world leaders. So it is in our best interest, too.

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Robot Bender's avatar

Sadly, I have to agree with you. Invading multiple US cities at once with the NG for no reason could well set it off.

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Judith Auerbach's avatar

Sadly, I have ro agree

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

Excellent. I am all for Europe and Ukraine separating from the US and becoming independent. The less money for US weapons manufacturers, the better.

You make an excellent point. 3x as many people fighting compared to the start of the war and they are losing territory. The Russian army is in danger of being routed, as artillery, drones, and long range drones come online.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

And still Putin hasn’t gotten the memo…:)

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

May he get the memo via express drone delivery :)

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Touché!…:)

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

Thanks once again.

Hurray for Ukraine and Europe! Freedom from the U.S. is devoutly to be wished. With Trump saying a smaller country should never go to war against a bigger one because they will always lose or Vance pulling some fancy anti-Zelensky maneuvers, the U.S. does not have Ukraine’s best interests at heart. (The regime does not have US best interests at heart either.) The sooner Ukraine is ably to work freely with Europe and Canada and ultimately on its own the better. Trump is absolutely unreliable and will always have a soft spot for Putin. This makes him extremely dangerous.

Putin has serious plans. Europe and Ukraine must win this battle. And if Trump succeeds in partly nationalizing Lockheed Martin, all bets are off.

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Keith Williams's avatar

Europe has already built their own GPS and they already have their own intelligence satellites in place.

I really liked the line "Leader of the Free World" in the NY Post's article... not any more, that leadership has moved elsewhere while Donny Retaliation lives in the white house.

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