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Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas," Pavel Gubarev, confirmed that the so-called "uprising" in Ukraine's Donbas in 2014 was entirely funded and coordinated by Moscow and carried out with Russia's military involvement.

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

For someone who’s so obsessed with winning all the time, Trump is a fucking pro at losing

Under Trump, the US being in NATO is entirely symbolic. He won't defend Europe. He starts wars without consulting allies. He threatens to annex allied territory. He helps russia. So if he leaves, what exactly does Europe lose?

Who has destroyed more Christian churches and religious sites in the last 20 years?

How long until the inevitable exception for Russia?

It was open before, dummy.

This is a masterclass in gaslighting. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. No regime change. Yet we’re told it’s a “victory” while the world pays the price for Operation “Epic Failure” The real beneficiary of this calamity of course, Putin.

The. Strait. Was. Already. Opened. When. He. Started. This. Shit. You. MAGA. Dummies.

Weaken NATO. Give Iran Hormuz. Bailout Russia. Empower China. It’s the weakest and most Anti-American foreign policy in the history of the Republic.

What test? Joining the US in being stupid?

Rutte is at the White House today. On the agenda: whether America stays in NATO. For the first time, I find myself thinking: maybe it’s fine either way. Trump’s America is not the America that built the alliance. This version threatens its oldest friends, lies compulsively, and calls the countries that housed its troops and buried its soldiers freeloaders. That America is a nasty, corrupt, dishonest place that has spent a year spitting on everyone who ever had its back. Europe will be fine. It is rearming. It is unifying. Russia has been ground into pieces and bled white. NATO can do this job without Washington if it has to. So if Trump wants to leave, the door is open. Au revoir. Auf Wiedersehen. Ha det bra. You came. You bombed Iran for 40 days. You ran out of missiles. You called it a masterclass. You lost. And with Trump you look weak. A banana republic with aircraft carriers. What a way to go. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American who genuinely believed Europe and Canada would help the United States in its war with Iran. I asked him why he thought that, given that Trump had spent months threatening to annex Canada and seize Greenland. He went quiet. Then he said he had never heard of any of that. Not that he disagreed. Not that he thought it was exaggerated. He had simply never encountered the information. It had never arrived. This is worth pausing on. Because in every other functioning democracy on earth, that information would have been impossible to avoid. Not because Europeans are smarter or more curious. But because of how news works outside the United States. The BBC and The Daily Telegraph hate each other. Le Monde and Le Figaro disagree on everything. Aftenposten and Dagbladet have been arguing since before most of their readers were born. But they all cover the same events. A threat to annex Canada is not a left-wing story or a right-wing story. It is a story. It runs everywhere. You hear it on the radio driving to work. You see it on the newsstand. Your colleague mentions it at lunch. Facts are not a channel you choose. They are the weather. You step outside and they hit you. The only media ecosystems on earth that work differently are not political opposites of each other. They are North Korea and Russia. Not because the content resembles MAGA content. But because the architecture is the same. In all three cases, outside information does not get filtered or reinterpreted. It gets blocked at the door. A completely parallel reality is built inside, maintained by repetition, and sealed from correction. This is why the rest of the world does not just disagree with MAGA voters on foreign policy. It finds them genuinely disorienting to talk to. Not offensive. Disorienting. Like speaking to someone who is absolutely certain the building has two floors when you are standing on the third. Which brings us to today’s masterclass. And this screenshot says everything. A Trump supporter posted: “Absolute masterclass by Trump. He got the Strait open without any help from Europe and without any boots on the ground.” That post was written on the same day a refinery on Lavan Island burned for hours after the ceasefire was announced. On the same day Iran’s own official statement read “this does not signify the termination of the war.” On the same day Iran kept its toll system, its uranium program, its protocol over the strait, and walked away with sanctions relief and reconstruction aid. The post is not stupid. It is not written by a bad person. It is written by someone who received a completely different set of facts than the rest of the world did. And from inside that information environment, with only that data, the conclusion is perfectly logical. That is what makes it so unsettling. It is not ignorance. It is a sealed universe, doing exactly what sealed universes do. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Americans want us out of way so they can make money with russia. Thats their peace deal.

Reading through Szijjarto’s leaked conversations with Lavrov is vomit-inducing on its own, but when Lavrov reveals how the American side wants to get ‘Ukraine out of the way’ to resume business with Russia… I can’t. I feel despair. They are killing us, and you say this?

He’s right, it’s Russian influence. He’s just the delivery boy.

Simple geopolitics. The U.S. and Israel are at war with Iran. Iran is supported by russia. But the U.S. and Israel are friendly with russia. Ukraine is at war with russia. Logically, Ukraine is not friendly with Iran, which supports russia — a country the U.S. is friendly with, while also fighting Iran. China also supports russia. But the U.S. is not friendly with China. Yet it is friendly with russia. Try not to get confused. Europe supports Ukraine. The U.S. is not friendly with Europe; instead, it is friendly with Orbán, who opposes Europe and aligns with russia. Arab monarchies are allied with the U.S. They are attacked by Iran, which is at war with the U.S. Ukraine supports the Arab monarchies, which are attacked by Iran — the same Iran being attacked by Israel, with whom they are not friendly. Still following? China supports russia, but is quietly consuming it. India opposes China, yet remains friendly with russia, which China supports. China isn’t really friendly with anyone. I hope you managed to keep track and didn’t mix anything up. Source: translated from Valeriy Pekar

Do you know what reason Soviet russia gave for attacking Poland in 1939? The same reason it gave for invading Ukraine in 2022: “to protect russian minorities.” By the way, it is also the same reason the Nazis gave for invading Poland and other countries.

CONGRATULATIONS TO TRUMP ON OPENING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, ESPECIALLY SINCE HE'S THE ONE WHO GOT IT CLOSED. IT TAKES A REAL MAN TO OPEN AND CLOSE THE SAME DOOR. ALSO, CONGRATS TO DONALD ON THINKING HE'D LOSE THE WAR IN 4-6 WEEKS BUT INSTEAD LOSING IT IN 38 DAYS. AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!

Tonight, the United States threatened to erase a civilization. Ninety minutes before its own deadline, it blinked. The deal, announced by Tehran, not Washington, reads as follows: safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces. In China’s currency. On Iran’s terms. At Iran’s price. The US didn’t contest it. The US didn’t rebut it. The US went to bed and it handed operational control of the world’s most strategically critical waterway to the country it just spent 38 days bombing, settled the bill in yuan, and called it a victory. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1