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This French election candidate is NOT Putin's puppet, so Musk's algo crushes his visibility.
Do what you can to boost him.
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💥 Denmark's prime minister is convinced Putin won't stop at Ukraine
“This war is about Russia's imperial ambitions. Putin wants to make Russia bigger. And the only way to do that is to seize territory from other countries,” says Mette Frederiksen.
The Danish leader does not rule out a NATO country becoming the Kremlin's next target.
And now Europe has only one option — to become stronger than Russia.
What do you think — how close are we to drawing historical parallels with Nazi Germany? After all, Hitler also started with territorial claims and annexations, while European powers made concessions to the Führer in an attempt to avoid a major war. We all know how that ended.
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Pete Hegseth not signing off on air defence interceptor deliveries to Ukraine that Europe has already paid for is going to cost more Ukrainian lives for every day that these shipments don't arrive.
Outgoing pro-Ukraine Republicans have the chance to act.
teapawt.net/ralexdc/status/2120119…
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Ben Hodges: I think Trump has been bribed. US President Donald Trump is likely in the pocket of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. This was stated by the former commander of US forces in Europe, retired General Ben Hodges, during an appearance on the German political talk show *Maybrit Illner* on ZDF. “I think he [Trump] has been bought,” Hodges suggested. He added that he could not confirm this in writing, but believed it was obvious anyway.
According to him, Trump can now either confess to everything and confirm that he ‘belongs to Putin’, or try to evade responsibility, counting on his successor to defend him.
Hodges noted that, as an American, he could say that the US has never had a perfect president. However, he said that having a president who is not only corrupt himself but also allows those around him to be corrupt is an “incredible disgrace”.
Elmar Thewessen, ZDF’s US correspondent, suggested that, following the Republicans’ defeat in the congressional elections, investigations into the Trump administration could escalate into criminal cases. Several media outlets have already reported, citing Democrats, that such cases are in the pipeline.
In October, following Trump’s ‘diesel deal’ with Putin, Hodges stated that ‘the US had abandoned Ukraine on the eve of a harsh winter’.
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I see the term “European security architecture” making its way back into discussions about Russia and Ukraine.
The obvious translation: The Kremlin wants to redraw spheres of influence in Europe, secure a de facto veto over its neighbours' security choices, and make sure NATO is the only side expected to compromise.
I've heard this language before. From Medvedev's 2008 security proposals to Russia's December 2021 ultimatum, Moscow has repeatedly used the same argument: Europe's security order needs to be renegotiated because Russian interests are supposedly being ignored.
Now Moscow is trying to revive that discussion, this time hoping to seal a broader security arrangement directly with Washington.
I think Europe should be extremely cautious here. We have seen this playbook before. What Moscow presents as a discussion about mutual security is often an attempt to formalise its own sphere of influence at the expense of its neighbours' sovereignty.
Europe should not reward Russia's aggression by offering or accepting concessions it refused to make before the invasion.
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The next Democratic President should cancel Elon Musk’s government contracts and bring Starlink under government control if they have any intention of repairing Washington’s standing in Europe.
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Iran werd Trump's Waterloo. Eerst op het slagveld, nu bij de verkiezingen. De gevolgen op lange termijn: Vertrek vd VS uit het M-Oosten, opkomst van Iran als regionale supermacht en de isolatie van Israel. Ongelooflijk hoe slecht Trump en Netanyahu hun kaarten speelden na 7 okt.
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Wie vandaag de straat opgaat voor meer koopkracht, betoogde enkele jaren geleden nog voor degrowth.
Ze kregen wat ze vroegen. Alleen het verband zien ze niet.
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Well, of course.
Why on earth would Emperor Xi need any of this? Why get dragged into discussions, commitments over Ukraine that he has no use for, or cheap publicity stunts for Putin's benefit?
It's only in Putin's head and on Kremlin television, in late 2026, that some grand "new Yalta Conference" could take place, where the "three superpowers" -- China, the United States, and Russia -- gather around a table to pompously carve up a new world order among themselves, without asking anyone else's opinion, in a magnificent display of their absolute power.
Back in the real world, here on the sinful earth beneath our feet, these "three superpowers" are not meeting on the brink of some grand victory that will divide human history into a before and after, as was the case in 1945.
In reality, the man arriving to meet the Chinese emperor will not be Stalin, but Putin, who spectacularly failed with his triumphant blitzkrieg against Ukraine, has been hopelessly bogged down in a war for years, and whose oil industry is being blown to pieces night after night.
His only "victories" exist on the bullshit maps produced by his own General Staff and in the deafening noise of bot-farm hordes running wild.
And the other guest will be, to put it mildly, no Roosevelt either, who suffered a crushing fiasco in his own little victorious war against the Iranian regime, derailed the global economy, spectacularly wrecked relations with his own allies, has historically low approval ratings at home, and has (as of now, likely) just suffered a devastating electoral defeat on top of it all.
And Emperor Xi himself, with his mounting economic troubles, is hardly in a position to start "dividing up the world" alongside those two suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Like it or not, we no longer live in a world where someone can simply issue orders to Ukraine and Europe and expect them to obey their "masters" without question, however convenient that fantasy may be for Kremlin propaganda and Donald Trump's primitive understanding of how the world works.
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France is showing the world what real accountability looks like. Paris prosecutors have launched a major criminal investigation into Elon Musk’s X, raided its Paris offices and summoned Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for questioning.
The allegations are staggering, political manipulation through algorithms, child sexual abuse material, sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok without consent, Holocaust denial, unlawful data extraction and election interference.
While Musk parades around pretending to be a defender of free speech, his platform faces allegations involving the exploitation of children, the sexual abuse of women through AI-generated imagery, the manipulation of political discourse and threats to democratic elections.
Bravo, France! This is what standing up to billionaire arrogance looks like. Democracy is not a billionaire's personal playground, social media platforms are not above the law, and Elon Musk does not get to buy himself immunity from accountability. France is making it clear that the rule of law still matters, and the rest of the democratic world should be paying attention.
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"Putin will wage war. I don’t know when, but he will. And you, Europeans, will be surprised to discover that this war is aimed at you, too... You think that what is happening in Moscow has nothing to do with you—that it’s our problem.
Putin hates people like me, certainly. But through us—in Russia, or through the revolutionaries in Ukraine or Georgia—it is you he hates: your democracy, your society, your freedoms.
Do you think his regime is merely a threat to us? Your awakening will be brutal."
Anna Politkovskaya, in Paris, 2005.
She was assassinated in the lobby of her apartment building on October 7, 2006—Putin’s birthday.
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🧵Three blacklisted supertankers holding 140,000 tons of Russian fuel are drifting in circles in the Atlantic because the White House begged US traders to buy Putin's diesel, and literally zero buyers answered the phone. 1/🧵
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So, Russia is working with the Houthis to target Saudi oil infrastructure and drive up world oil prices to help the Russian economy. And Trump is not helping the Saudis defend while also threatening to escalate his war--which also increases price of oil.
It all helps Russia--funny that.
understandingwar.org/researc…
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Deze invloedrijke Emiratische politieke commentator luidt de noodklok over het feit dat de Nederlandse regering de Moslimbroederschap nog altijd niet heeft verboden, terwijl de Tweede Kamer in maart een motie aannam waarin het kabinet werd opgeroepen dat verbod in te stellen.
The Netherlands has a Muslim Brotherhood problem, and its own security reports act like it does not exist. The AIVD's annual report for 2025, published in April, names Russia 58 times and the Brotherhood zero times, and the NCTV terror threat assessment from June 2026 runs page after page on jihadists and online radicalisation without a single line on the Brotherhood either.
This is the same country whose parliament voted on 17 March to ban the Brotherhood and the organisations linked to it. Seven months later there is still NO ban, and last Friday MPs had to ask the justice minister what the government knows about these networks.
You cannot ban what you refuse to write down.
BTW, the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in the UAE.
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This is Nagasaki in 2026. Imagine if they spent the past 80 years wallowing in self-pity and blaming the US? It's incredible what you can accomplish when you decide to pick yourself up, move forward, and take responsibility for your own outcomes.
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Finally, members of Congress seem to grasp that the President of the USA needs to be treated like a Russian agent, who is trying to use the power of the US government to protect Vladimir Putin as part of a criminal enterprise. That’s where we are.
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❗️Czech President Petr Pavel stated that Trump’s “diesel deal” derailed a near ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia: sanctions were putting pressure on Moscow, but the lifting of restrictions on Russian diesel fuel gave the Kremlin “new hope” and time to breathe, making it much harder to restore that pressure now.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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"Don't you dare build your own European satellite network. You must use the American one that can be shut off by a single deranged billionaire."
Quite the pitch from the US ambassador to the EU
