Dave Troy

Withdrawal from NATO. Abolishing the Federal Reserve. Terminating aid to Ukraine. These are the positions of both Vladimir Putin and Rep. Thomas Massie. Epstein transparency is good — Massie is not, and shouldn’t be given power. america2.news/thomas-massie-…

Bob Mueller, who transformed the FBI after the 9/11 attacks and served as special counsel investigating Trump, Russia and the 2016 election, dies at 81. @Folly_and_Glory nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/…

This looks really serious. Russia has closed down the internet even in Moscow. GPS does not work, not even for taxidrivers. Modern Russians live of and with the internet. This Stalinist nonsense suggests that the authorities sense they are losing political control.

Chudley McFuckstick here was paid $25,000 by Russian Intelligence Services to star in an anti-FBI Russian propaganda film in 2024. He has a QAnon challenge coin. The idea that he’s protecting us from the Russians would be hilarious if he wasn’t a stone-cold traitor.

Mmm-hmm.

I'm sure Whiskey Pete will quickly rectify the situation, in the wake of this court finding. 🫡 🇺🇸 nytimes.com/2026/03/20/bus…

Killing him would make him a martyr. Hospitalizing him gives them control over his person while also watching who speaks out in support of his positions. Diabolical.

Multiple sources report that Trump’s Federal Reserve Chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, is included in the Epstein files. It’s essential that the public fully understand the extent of any interactions or relationship he had with Jeffrey Epstein. I’m pushing for answers.

"Svetlana Pozhidaeva [was] one of a handful of Russian women in Epstein’s inner circle with direct links to Russia’s security services and/or political elite."

While we are all watching Iran, something strange is happening inside Russia. Putin hasn’t been seen at the Kremlin in over a week, internet blackouts are spreading, and even loyalists are disappearing. My latest… olgalautman.substack.com/p/putin-missin…

The travails of Remeslo, the Russian pro-Kremlin lawyer who led the charge against Navalny back in the day, who recently came out with all barrels blasting against Putin, and who is now cooling his heels at a psychiatric hospital in St. Petersburg. First, let's just say how out of whack it is for this sort of thing to come out from Russia these days. This is not some random blogger who finally had it with the Internet blocking and who let it rip. It's a prominent establishment figure who was a very vocal supporter of Putin's regime for many, many years. Second, he was offered an easy way out when people started suggesting that perhaps his account had been hacked, but he doubled down, and not just in writing. He actually recorded videos to ensure that everyone knew he had written the posts and that he was not drunk either. Third, it's sort of odd that he has not been hauled into court on some trumped up charges (discrediting the Russian military or something) but that might be in part because he's a lawyer and so was careful to phrase his criticisms to focus specifically on Putin. The fact that he hasn't fallen out of a window (yet) but got hauled into a psychiatry could also mean that he has some powerful protectors who had given him the green light to voice what might be an increasingly widespread opinion of Putin. This is the most interesting possibility as it would constitute an attempt to make opposition to Putin in the corridors of powers common knowledge. It's not for nothing that Remeslo specifically refers to the well known tale about the Emperor's New Clothes: recall that the fable is about a situation where everyone knows the truth but because nobody says it, nobody knows who else shares that opinion, and so everyone remains quiet. The power of making a privately shared truth common knowledge is substantial in authoritarian systems, which is why rulers expend a lot of energy suppressing it through propaganda, intimidation, and coercion. Let me translate his original posts so you see what's going on. After reading these, read the translation of a panicked post by Anastassia Kashevarova, from the pro-Kremlin propaganda show Solovyev Live. Her reaction is telling me that this is no mere outburst and that regime supporters are very, very nervous indeed. 1/6

Good article, but this is not a newfangled phenomenon.

“Too” is le mot juste.

Extraordinary report from Swedish V-Dem about US democratic backsliding: 24% decline in democracy index last year, world ranking dropped from 20 to 51/179 nations, with worst recorded level since 1965 (when civil rights laws adopted). v-dem.net/news/press-rel…

Holy shit.. Trump just opened up the Russian war machine to cash flows from the US. Putin's puppet state of Belarus, a nation with a GDP the size of Vermont will now be a conduit for Russia to/from the US. Trump is Putin's whore.

It's hard to top my meeting with Pope Leo, but there was another very exciting development for OPUS this week Gaumont, the team behind hit shows like Narcos and Lupin, will be adapting my book for the screen! @Gaumont @SimonBooks @Ed_Critica variety.com/2026/tv/global…

And in Moscow, mobile internet is being shut down, pickup trucks with machine gunners are appearing on the streets around the Kremlin, and there’s a major scandal involving an ultra-loyal Z-blogger who has openly called for Putin to be tried as a war criminal…

The GRU are already in Budapest, now Vance is coming too

Putin is evil and wants to destroy America. Anyone that argues otherwise is either a fool or a liar. wsj.com/world/russia-i…

Important context — the account pretending to be “Dugin” on here is run by a fanboi in Brazil, per this research. Another important reminder not to take everything you see online at face value.

A mysterious story is unfolding in the Russian blogosphere. A popular blogger who has a history of participation in state propaganda campaigns and anti-opposition operations posted a scathingly critical post about Putin, his entourage, and family. In Russia, people are routinely jailed for far less. He confirmed that he was not hacked and it wasn't a drunk outburst. Conspiracy theories have their field day...