Steven Pifer
@steven_pifer
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Affiliated with Stanford's CISAC & Brookings. Retired FSO; former US ambassador to Ukraine. Interests include nukes, Europe & mountains. Views are my own.
Morgan Hill, CA
Joined June 2013
Zakharova displays her ignorance of role that King Charles plays in UK.
Russia snaps back at Biden's 'no kings' statement 'Someone woke Biden up, and he literally said: There are no kings in a democracy. The UK's King Charles is about to learn from Biden that there is no democracy in Britain' — FM Spox Zakharova said
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Don't believe it. Biden did not start #Russia-#Ukraine war. NATO did not start Russia-Ukraine war. Ukraine did not start Russia-Ukraine war. Putin and Russia started Russia-Ukraine war. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Trump blames Biden for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: “Biden actually pushed for that war to happen. If you can believe it, nobody can believe it.”
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If GOP does, don’t whine when Dems do not restore it.
Should the GOP nuke the filibuster and just GET SHlT DONE?!?
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Better to make Sikorski's assumption and then be happily surprised if proven wrong... ...then to assume #Russia would not be tempted to go further after #Ukraine and unhappily be proven wrong.
"Russia has established an expansionist new imperialist state ideology with which it has brainwashed its soldiers, its children, its population. If Russia were to prevail in Ukraine, it would be tempted to go further." –Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland 🇵🇱
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Another reason to justify my @washingtonpost subscription cancellation.
Democracy certainly dies in Darkness. The Washington Post editorial board inexplicably defended Donald Trump’s scheme to steal five seats in Texas. They are now hypocritically attacking Maryland’s effort to ensure a fair national map. Get lost.
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Did Duffy not realize he was not at Cabinet meeting? 🤔
Sean Duffy: "Can I make one other point about the president before we're out of time? I have never seen someone work so hard. All day long he's moving, he's meeting, he's thinking. Then he goes into dinner, and dinners he's usually meeting with people. And then at night he's
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Interesting. Calls Europe "declining continent" but bemoans fact that it is difficult for Russians to go there.
Will you do the same to Israelis and Americans for starting countless wars, or only Russian nationals? Stop the act, this has nothing to do with morals, rather an agenda. And what do you mean traveling to Europe is a privilege? What's special about a declining continent.
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Crimea Tartars were in Crimea long before Russians were there.
“Crimea belongs to the Crimean Tatars”? That’s a favorite Western talking point, but the Tatars weren’t even native to Crimea. They were brought there by the Mongols after their conquest of the region in the 1200s, when Mongol and Turkic groups settled on the peninsula and later
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#Russia's Economic Development Ministry reports declining GDP growth: 2025 Q1: 1.4% 2025 Q2: 1.1% 2025 Q3: 0.6% Ministry estimates growth could turn negative in Q4.
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Seems odd that @SputnikInt would boast about #China's Fujian aircraft carrier rather than #Russia's Admiral Kuznetsov. Oh.....
🇨🇳China just dropped the mic on US naval supremacy in the Asia-Pacific. The Fujian — it’s new 80,000-ton super carrier with electromagnetic fury — is now commissioned. 📹 Watch till the end… the numbers are insane. 👇
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Anyone understand why RT and pro-Russia accounts are boasting about this? Boeing and Airbus jets have been flying through rain pretty much since they first started flying.
Russias fully domestically built "Superjet" with Russian PD-8 engines has successfully passed water protection tests — an important step to ensure safety during takeoffs and landings No Microwaves or Dishwashers were harmed making this video.
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Great! Boeing and Airbus passenger jets have been flying through rain for decades.
🇷🇺SJ-100 shatters Western sanctions with 100% domestic parts The fully import-substituted Superjet aced water-ingestion tests in a special 70 m pool, proving its Russian-made PD-8 engines can handle harsh conditions
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An earlier, better political era.
President George W. Bush 2007 State of the Union Address: "Thank you very much. And tonight, I have a high privilege and distinct honor of my own -- as the first President to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker."
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Hope US does not test this. However, these the same S-3000s as Iranian S-300s that Israelis took down in one weekend? https://t.co/e5F3U5MsxY
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The apparent destruction of the last three Iranian S-300s would pave the way for expanded Israeli airstrikes. The apparent destruction of the last three Iranian long-range S-300 systems would help...
🚨⚡️ Can Venezuelan air defenses repel a U.S. airstrike? 🇻🇪✈️🇷🇺 Venezuela's skies are protected by a layered network of Russian S-300 missiles, mobile Buk systems, and more than 5,000 shoulder-fired rockets. The myth of American air dominance has been shattered by outdated
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Actually, he probably thinks it is pretty funny today. Grand jury declined to indict him on felony charge. Today, he was found not guilty of misdemeanor.
Assault a law enforcement officer, and you’ll be prosecuted. This guy thought it was funny—well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged him with a felony.
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Nonsense.
🚨 Rumors swirl: Will Zelensky flee to Poland? ⚠️ Col. Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) reveals whispers of a government-in-exile already being prepared. 💥 “He may climb into his plane and vanish”—leaving Ukrainians to face the consequences of his decisions. 📉 As the war
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#Russia's army withdrew from Kyiv and northern #Ukraine in 2022 for same reason German army withdrew from Moscow in 1942. It was beaten.
The Ukroscammers know its true. Watching them twist themselves into knots trying to avoid reality is so sweet. The Russians withdrew. They weren't defeated. They simply left. The Ukrainains know it too.
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Hard to believe that #Russia, largest country in world with world's largest nuclear arsenal. is so paranoid.
‘There is all this talk about decolonizing Russia, but this amounts to splitting Russia apart’ — Putin ‘There is even this term, post-Russia Russia, deprived of its territory and its sovereignty’ Russia would be in ‘fragments that would be subjugated by the West’
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Perhaps #Russia violating Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by deploying 9M729 intermediate-range missile and causing Treaty's demise was not Kremlin's smartest idea?
Where’s all that brave swagger now, huh? Why so gloomy? In the video, Putin’s defense minister Belousov says the US plans to deploy missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region that could reach central Russia from Germany in about 6–7 minutes. Looks like they’ve hung their
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