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Tonight, Washington has done something that every Kremlin propagandist and every European far-right influencer could only dream of. In black and white it tells Europe this: You are weak. You are decadent. You are on the brink of “civilisational erasure.”

The tone, structure and approach of the US side is wrong. It doesn't align with what the victim needs, or the aggressor wants. This isn't a fractious meeting of a geriatric condo board in Florida, but a set of decisions that will affect millions of people. https://t.co/kuuBqGNz8Y

Trump’s only objective is to make a deal, any deal, in Ukraine. Witkoff’s characterization of Trump’s mindset confirms that Trump has no substantive, policy red lines.  His real objective is the Nobel Peace Prize.   https://t.co/fvcfi4BK9e

So, if Belgium won’t allow the use of frozen Russian assets, the US has stopped payments, and the ECB has now refused to backstop a €140 billion loan payment, how is Ukraine to be funded next year? One for the virtue signallers to ponder

Today is the 5th time we've captured Pokrovsk. A major defeat for the american empire.....

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Russian economic collapse: Russian Railways has urgently requested 200 billion rubles because it's out of money. The government is afraid to give them money though because so many other state companies are in equally deep trouble and need money too. Start making popcorn.🍿🍿🍿

Stephen Kotkin – the leading expert on Russia – demolishes the Kremlin-backed, yet still fashionable in the West, idea that NATO's enlargement “created” Putin’s Russia. “The argument assumes that had NATO not expanded, Russia wouldn’t be exactly the same – or very likely close

Witkoff and Kushner’s ‘diplomacy’ offering Moscow a highly favourable Ukraine ‘peace’ deal in return for dubious business contracts is incompatible with democratic values and Western interests. It also seems destined to divide the US and Europe, one of Putin’s key strategic aims.

Sea Baby naval drones delivered a punch to the Kremlin’s oil lifeline. But raised a political dilemma for Western states that are nominally pro-Ukraine but get squeamish when it treats this like the existential war it is, and takes the actions it must. https://t.co/q4PRDiPeBt

Oh the irony.

Z-patriots, Telegram war-bloggers and Kremlin talking heads are denouncing each other. This isn’t dissent versus the regime, but the regime’s own shock-troops turning their knives inward – “eating each other like spiders in a jar.”

Putin Wants War - Why This Invasion is Not Over - conversation with Jason Jay Smart @officejjsmart - https://t.co/MRLB3OGXOz

"Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked 19 different countries — some of them 3-4 times — and none of these countries, including Ukraine, has ever attacked Russia." - EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.

The civil war has broken out in Russia – but not the one you may have imagined. It’s between objectionable characters – inside the pro-war camp of Z-Patriots (“turbo-patriots”) and propagandists, who are turning on each other, and it's delicious to behold.

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Why would Kirill "🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️" Dmitriev, who believes in peace, love, and understanding block me? Is it because my arguments reveal how he is trying to deceive @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @marcorubio ?

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

What happened in that room yesterday, when Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 shouted that the only real question is “Are you willing to fight and die?”, echoes painfully in France this week. Because the controversy around general Mandon, who warned that Russia has already laid the