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I have a question: if Russia is an untapped Eldorado for American businesses, a prospect that supposedly justifies sacrificing Ukraine, how come the Chinese haven’t taken advantage of their current privileged position to make massive investments and profits there? Over the past

"respected Russian leader"

This is someone who is said to have influence in Putin's presidential administration.

Put it this way... nine of the folks announcing scripts on the 2025 Black List tomorrow were nominated for Golden Globes this morning (and another one directed a 3x nominated film even though he himself didn't get nominated individually). Don't miss it.

Why guess when you can know?

That's a very strange idea to press Ukraine into having presidential elections. First, Zelensky will handily win any election - in Ukraine, there are no non-freak polticians who'd run against him in the war-time. Second, suppose hypothetically that someone - Zaluzhny or

🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped. Results? • 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 • 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality • No increase in 4-year mortality • Vaccinated people had lower risk of death

What is a commander to do with an order that may be illegal? Said one retired judge advocate, "That requires a set of balls, because the next thing that might happen is you’re fired and the secretary says, ‘Who’s the next man up?’ That’s a risk. And if you don’t like that risk,

Did Pete Hegseth greenlight a war crime—or just find someone else to blame for it? @juliaioffe traces the finger-pointing inside the Pentagon’s boat-strike scandal:

I guess it depends on who the commander in chief is?

How does the Kremlin see Steve Witkoff? “Witkoff sometimes works like a broken telephone,” the source close to the Kremlin said. “He doesn’t like being precise, doesn’t like anyone writing anything down. He gets upset when people try to write down what he says.” My latest.

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RUSSIA insight for @SecRubio : @juliaioffe on @npr reminds us Putin thinks we are obsessed with money and therefore SOFT and WEAK. He will bear any cost (on the backs of Russians) to win. He doesn't think he needs to compromise. Sanctions @LindseyGrahamSC @SenBlumenthal pls.

How does the Kremlin see Steve Witkoff? “Witkoff sometimes works like a broken telephone,” the source close to the Kremlin said. “He doesn’t like being precise, doesn’t like anyone writing anything down. He gets upset when people try to write down what he says.” My latest.

How does the Kremlin see Steve Witkoff? “Witkoff sometimes works like a broken telephone,” the source close to the Kremlin said. “He doesn’t like being precise, doesn’t like anyone writing anything down. He gets upset when people try to write down what he says.” My latest.

News on the war economy front: The Kremlin wants to spare Vladimir Putin from criticism that his war economy is starting to hurt ordinary Russians. So it's blaming the usual culprit for his unpopular decisions: the west! with @NastyaStognei https://t.co/nL5pQvI0DK

All of a sudden, Dan Driscoll, Secretary of the Army and friend of JD Vance, is in the news. Who is he? (It won't surprise you to know that we at Puck wrote about him first.) https://t.co/dGi31la5ai

The Russian community world-wide is overjoyed that Diana Loginova, a 18-year-old street musician, is free. The dominant feeling is of course deep embarassment. A kid who spent a month in jail for singing an anti-war song is now "safe", which in year 2025 means "out of Russia".

I’m told that to criticize a proposed deal that initially hewed closely to Russia’s preferred outcome is to misunderstand or misstate “some critical reality on the ground.” So let’s talk about reality on the ground (1/4):

Fascinating grievance from an unnamed House Republican to @JakeSherman: "This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL. ... They don’t even allow little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies."