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Dominion Underground retweeted
Yuri Ushakov is an old-school diplomat. He spent a decade as Russia's ambassador in Washington and has been Putin's foreign policy aide since 2012. He chooses his words with care.
Western media quote him as saying "we need to talk with Europe" and read it as Moscow reaching out to Europe. However, there is a catch. There is no "we" in the original. Here is what he actually said.
He was asked why Washington can't simply dictate peace terms to Kyiv. Ushakov answered that after Anchorage it looked like Washington could. It didn't work, because Europe backs Kyiv. So it is necessary to talk "not only with Kyiv, but also with Europe."
Any Russian speaker understands who this impersonal "it is necessary" is addressed to. Moscow is not talking to Kyiv right now. Washington is. And Washington's "talking" to Kyiv means pressure. Ushakov's message to Washington: you pressure Kyiv, now pressure Europe too, or you won't get Kyiv to accept the terms.
He put it in an impersonal form so Washington doesn't feel it is taking orders from Moscow. That is how professional diplomats speak.
So Russia's position stays exactly where it was. Moscow still wants Washington to force its terms on Kyiv, and now on Europe as well.
Dominion Underground retweeted
The root cause of the war in Ukraine is Russian imperialism. A majority of Russians truly believe they have a God-given right to expand their empire and rule over others
Dominion Underground retweeted
“Do you understand who you are dealing with? This is America. Back up.”
A United Nations meeting was dramatically suspended yesterday after US ambassador Mike Waltz and Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla both ignored the chair’s plea for order in the chamber.
The problem started when Waltz blamed Cubans for the shocking US embargoes and blockades that are causing huge suffering to the people of the island.
Cuban representatives, astonished at the way Waltz blamed the victims for the crisis, in their eyes, stood up and objected, citing Rule 71, which allows listeners to raise a point of order.
Ambassador Waltz responded that the Cubans didn’t like the substance of his speech, so were not raising a point of order.
But when complaints continued, this caused Ambassador Waltz to lose his temper and shout “Back up! Back away. Do you understand what you’re dealing with? This is America.”
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INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY
The rest of the United Nations was outraged by this attitude, as the UN building is legally international territory.
When Waltz refused to stop his tirade, Khalilur Rahman, chair of the 81st session, ordered that the meeting be instantly suspended. Waltz ignored him.
The meeting was then resumed, but footage of the argument created a huge storm on social media.
Some people in the US defended Waltz’s narrative, blaming Cubans for the suffering caused by the US embargos.
But much of the commentary from the rest of the world said that the United Nations, for the safety of the delegates and the organization itself, should no longer be situated in New York.
When New York was originally chosen as the site, the US pledged not to politicize US visa access to meetings—but has regularly broken the pledge, such as refusing to allow visas for Palestinians.
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Dominion Underground retweeted
Trump on solar panels: "They kill all the animals. The animals jump on them and they fry."
Dominion Underground retweeted
The trip highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a tycoon with a criminal record who has close ties to Vladimir Putin’s personal security service. Intelligence experts say such connections are ripe for manipulation. ft.trib.al/p0LBRYI
Dominion Underground retweeted
OH FFS. And here we go again!
Putin verbrachte den größten Teil seines Telefon-Gesprächs mit den Regierungschefs Finnlands und Norwegens damit, ihnen einen Vortrag über die mittelalterliche slawische Geschichte zu halten — FT
Dominion Underground retweeted
⚡ Wow... ❗Alarming news has appeared on X (formerly Twitter). If this is true, it is a huge facepalm and a fiasco for Elon Musk 🫢
According to an investigation, the owner of SpaceX blocked a US and NATO satellite to help Russians intercept it following the paralysis of Ukraine's air defense.
US researchers uncovered a reality that Musk carefully conceals and does not want anyone to know about. It turned out that on October 13–14, SpaceX not only restricted Starshield/Starlink during a massive Russian attack involving 39 missiles and hundreds of drones—reducing Ukrainian drone interceptions by 23% and even leaving US personnel in Kyiv without communication 👀
48 hours later (October 15), the owner of SpaceX also blocked a US-licensed orbital radar satellite, ICEYE-X36 (used by the NRO, US Space Force, and NATO), using his satellite so that the Russian military satellite COSMOS 2612 could intercept it (posterior probability of 99.89%–99.98%).
🔥 The Pentagon, the US Space Force, and NATO are simply furious over this betrayal of national interests. From now on, the US military cannot rely on "cooperation" with Musk or feel secure amid such absurd blunders, nor can partners from other countries.
Wonder how this might end? 🤔
Dominion Underground retweeted
Offenbar will Russland nicht zulassen, dass die Evakuierten aus Oleshky über den wenige Kilometer entfernten Fluss Dnipro in die freie Ukraine gehen können, sondern sie auf die besetzte Krim bringen - in die Unfreiheit und Unterdrückung.
Dominion Underground retweeted
Russia is not being more reasonable by approaching the Europeans, just more realistic. The Russians have the maximalist demands, not the Europeans or the Ukrainians. Putin/Russia has realized that they cannot coerce Ukraine via the US alone since the US has limited leverage over Ukraine and Europe is providing all of the funding for Ukraine at this point.
Dominion Underground retweeted
BREAKING: The Dutch spies who monitored Jared Kushner's phone want everyone to remember that they were just piggybacking off a Russian hack, and that the Russians also saw everything Jared did, said, and jerked off to on his phone.
Dominion Underground retweeted
Heftige Nacht in Kyiv. Zwei Wellen ballistischer Angriffe mit mind. 20 Raketen, abgefangen keine, da keine Patriot Abfangraketen vorhanden. Getroffen wurden: ein Universitätscampus mit Studentenwohnheimen, der Bereich der Metrostation Lisowa, mehrere Wohngebäude und ein dreigeschossiges Gebäude. Außerdem wurden zwei medizinische Einrichtungen beschädigt. Treffer wohl auch an kritischer Infrastruktur.
Die bisher gemeldete Opferbilanz: ein Toter und mindestens zehn Verletzte. Unter den Verletzten Studenten und Rettungskräfte.
Dominion Underground retweeted
BREAKING: TRUMP BETRAYAL! Zelensky reveals he offered the U.S. THREE OPTIONS to halt Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries — but Trump accepted NONE.
President Volodymyr Zelensky just provided stark evidence of Donald Trump’s betrayal of America’s commitment to defend Ukraine from the Russian invasion of its sovereign territory.
Trump has been pressuring Zelensky to unilaterally stop taking out Russia’s oil refining infrastructure, but the Ukrainian leader said in an interview with the Kyiv Post that the United States has met none of the three conditions he says his country requires before agreeing to a stop to its successful campaign to cripple Russia’s revenue-generating energy businesses. Therefore, the strikes continue.
Here are the conditions that Zelensky said that Trump can choose from to convince Ukraine to impose a ban on blowing up Putin’s petroleum refineries:
Option one: an “energy truce,” where Russia stops hitting Ukraine’s power infrastructure. “That is fair,” Zelensky said, and it’s hard to argue with that. Expecting Ukraine to stop hitting Russia, while its opponent continues to bomb away, makes no sense at all.
Option two: enable Starlink coverage over Russia so Ukraine can show the U.S. where Russian ballistic missile launchers are and destroy them. Zelensky noted that Trump’s team has said Elon Musk doesn’t want to. Who the f@#k cares what Elon Musk wants? If Musk continues to be an obstacle, the U.S. should nationalize Starlink on security grounds and turn Ukraine’s spigot back on.
Option three: if Starlink is off the table, give Ukraine missiles for its Patriot systems, something that “doesn’t depend on Musk or Putin.” Given the fact that the American military has blown through a significant portion of its arsenal in the misbegotten Iran war, this last option might be the toughest for Trump to fulfill.
“Ukraine had received none of the three proposed forms of support,” he said. “That is why the reaction is what it is. We are fighting for our lives.”
Zelensky also argued the refinery strikes can’t move global prices much, since Russia accounts for only 2% of global diesel exports and the other 98% comes from elsewhere.
Zelensky smartly warned against lifting sanctions on Russia before negotiations, saying they were imposed in response to aggression, “not as a price for the mere opportunity to talk.” He said lifting them early would leave Ukraine without leverage and that rebuilding support for new sanctions after more than 20 packages would be hard, a warning that lands after Trump waived sanctions and tariffs on Russia. “I do not want us to find ourselves without any leverage,” he said.
Meanwhile, the U.S. delegation went to St. Petersburg after talks in Oslo and then gave Kyiv a briefing. Now a broad meeting between Ukraine, the U.S., the EU and NATO is planned in Brussels this week. As long as Trump is in Vladimir Putin’s pocket, however, the prospect for successful negotiations is slim to none.
Of course, the Kyiv Post is only reporting Zelensky’s point of view. The White House has not responded yet to his comments. But one of his points is hard to dodge: Ukraine is being asked to hold back while the other side keeps firing. Only a fool like Donald Trump would expect any invaded country to agree to a deal like that.
Please like and share if you think Russia should end the war by withdrawing its forces from Ukrainian territories!
Hey @grok , kannst du meinen gesamten X-Account analysieren und mir sagen, wo ich politisch auf einer Skala von 1 bis 100 liege? 1 ist die extreme Linke und 100 die extreme Rechte.
Dominion Underground retweeted
Once again, I live in Ukraine, and I have never met a soldier or a civilian who is fighting for Zelenskyy.
Ukrainians resist because our country was invaded, because russian occupation means kidnapped children, executed civilians, torture chambers, mass graves, rape, and looting. Our soldiers defend their families, their culture, their civilians, and their future, not the president.
Dominion Underground retweeted
Eine afghanische Frau wurde vom Ehemann ihrer Cousine vergewaltigt. Da er verheiratet war, wurde sie wegen „Ehebruchs“ ins Gefängnis gesteckt. Sie gebar im Gefängnis und heiratete schließlich, um das Leben ihrer Tochter zu schützen, den Vergewaltiger.
So funktioniert der „Ehrenkodex“ dort, wo die #Scharia gilt.
Dominion Underground retweeted
How many Americans know that for eight straight years after September 11, Japanese warships stood in 120-degree heat in the Indian Ocean to pump 135 million gallons of free fuel into the U.S. Navy?
After the twin towers fell in 2001, American carrier strike groups raced to the Arabian Sea to strike terrorist strongholds in Afghanistan.
Why could American warships not simply pull into Middle Eastern ports to refuel? Because just one year earlier, suicide bombers in a small boat had blown a forty-foot hole in the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen. Entering port meant risking ambush and losing days off the front line.
Within weeks of 9/11, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force dispatched its fleet oilers, including JS Towada, JS Tokiwa, and JS Mashu, ten thousand miles from home.
Sailing side by side with U.S. destroyers and cruisers at twelve knots across heavy ocean swells, Japanese sailors shot steel cables across the water and winched thick rubber fuel hoses into American tanks without spilling a single drop.
From December 2001 to January 2010, Japanese crews completed 939 underway refueling operations. They delivered 510,000 kiloliters, roughly 135 million gallons of fuel, plus 11,000 tons of fresh water, entirely paid for by the Japanese taxpayer.
On the final day of the mission in January 2010, American sailors lined the rails of their warship in the blazing sun, took off their caps, and saluted the Japanese crew as the hoses were uncoupled for the last time.
True loyalty does not ask for a camera. It holds the line for eight years in the sun.
🤖 Made with AI
Dominion Underground retweeted
Nächste Niederlage für einen autoritären Machthaber:
Vucic räumt seine Niederlage bei der Parlamentswahl in Serbien ein.
Und ich freue mich!🍾
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Dominion Underground retweeted
🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth just got absolutely humiliated by Senator Tammy Duckworth!
Senator Tammy Duckworth, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who lost both legs while serving in Iraq, challenged Hegseth:
"I'm glad you brought that up. Can you name a single country that belongs to ASEAN and explain what agreement we have with it? And, by the way, how many countries are in ASEAN? Frankly, I'm not sure you even know who our allies are."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:
"Well, I can't give you the exact number, but I certainly know our allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia..."
Senator Duckworth:
"None of the countries you just mentioned are members of ASEAN. I suggest you do your homework before engaging in these discussions."
And this is the kind of clueless bullshit running the Pentagon. Absolutely unbelievable.