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MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
BREAKING: China has explicitly informed the US that it recognizes Iran's "exercise of sovereignty" over the Strait of Hormuz, contradicting the White House readout of the Trump-Xi summit that claimed Xi opposed Iranian "militarization" of the Strait and any "toll" for its use, per a source close to Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf.
More than 10 Chinese ships have successfully transited under Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority permit system in the past two days.
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Wow. Chinese citizens are commenting what they think about Donald Trump to the media and it’s humiliating.
Sounds like Trump’s trip went really well. 🙄
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Now that we are officially 1/3 if the way through Trump’s Presidency, lets look back at how he is doing on his campaign promises:
No new wars ❌
$2/gallon gas ❌
Reduce the debt ❌
Drain the swamp ❌
Mass deportations ❌
Balance the budget ❌
Release Epstein files ❌
Lower cost of groceries ❌
End Ukraine/Russia war ❌
Release healthcare plan ❌
Lower cost of healthcare ❌
Cut taxes for the working class ❌
Bring domestic manufacturing back ❌
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
“‘Decline is a choice,’ Charles Krauthammer famously said. Donald Trump has chosen decline for the United States, and his trip to China was confirmation of that fact.”
thebulwark.com/p/youre-getti…
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Asking all US citizens to leave Russia is a blow that leaves Russian society more isolated. But it's the right call: Americans in Russia are potential hostages. Relations are at levels not witnessed since Stalinist times. It's Putin's doing.
Congrats #Finland. Welcome to the alliance. NATO is stronger with Finland a member.
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
"The Pentagon will issue playing cards featuring 52 different NATO weapons systems to help the Ukrainian military quickly distinguish between friendly and enemy vehicles" - The New York Times
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Kirby: Depleted Uranium Is "Commonplace Munition," If Russia Is Worried About Their Tanks, Move Them Out Of Ukraine
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
This single tweet puts all the arguments about Ukraine to rest. “Do what we want or we’ll destroy you” is the clear message to Georgia. It was also the clear message to Ukraine.
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
This is what professional armies do…train, train, train. More sweat in training, less blood in combat. Thank goodness we still have US training centers at Grafenwöhr and Hohenfels.
🇺🇸🇺🇦@SecDef Lloyd J. Austin III & @USArmyEURAF CG Gen. Darryl A. Williams met w/units supporting #UkrainianArmedForces battalions training in 🇩🇪. The 1st Ukrainian bn finished training on M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles last week.
#StrongerTogether #StandWithUkraine️
@USNATO
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Nixon ordered new royal-looking uniforms to be designed and manufactured and then worn by White House guards until he and they were held up to public ridicule, 1970:
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
I've long used the Ireland/UK history as a metaphor explaining Ukraine/Russia recent history. (A longer history requires using India/UK as a metaphor - Ukraine has a far longer history than Russia.) Here is a good help for those who has to explain what is Ukraine to Russia...
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
7 November 1941 is #AmericaSavedrussiaDay when it made soviets eligible for $180B in Lend-Lease. Hitler would have crushed his former soviet allies if it hadn't been for America's help.
Rare national geographic photo of an endangered Olaf engaged in its favorite activity of blocking a tank.
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Western countries are so worried about sending tanks to Ukraine, they’re arguing about what is and isn’t a “tank.” We offer our humble suggestion.
MrDeathAndTaxes 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
In a Russian ceasefire, they cease and we fire.
Путин поручил ввести режим прекращения огня по всей линии боевого соприкосновения сторон на Украине с 12:00 мск 6 января до 24:00 7 января, сообщили в Кремле:
bit.ly/3VOGYfR
