Charles Flemming

We love and respect Ukraine. Real people. Real courage. A nation that stands taller than many around it. Together, we stand against the Islamic terrorist filthy regime in Iran, which is targeting civilians in the UAE and Ukraine with deadly drones. Never again

Trump thinks Zelensky is nothing more than a great salesman. In fact, Zelensky is far beyond Trump's ability to grasp. Trump simply has no understanding of honor, or decency, or morality, or courage, or patriotism, or intelligence. And he hates anyone who does understand.

"We forced Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons, cruise missiles, and strategic bombers.. We promised to protect Ukraine from Russia. We made Ukraine vulnerable. So yes,this is our war." - Bill Clinton 🫡

This Teaching Clip made me think of you. Watch Luke 19:38 by BibleProject: bible.com/en/videos/5224…

…saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Luke 19:38 ESV bible.com/bible/59/luk.1…

@KenGardner11 @ZitoSalena What's a pizelle?

@ZitoSalena Mmmm...pizelles.

This might not be the best thing that's come out of Pittsburgh – Youngstown but hard to argue what else would be. If you are a non-Yinzer marrying into a Pittsburgh family embrace the cookie table. There's no use in fighting it.

🇺🇦 Zelensky just said it again, and this time there’s ZERO room for interpretation “All temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine will be de-occupied. This includes Crimea it is our land, and we will return it.” - Volodymyr Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 That’s not messaging, that’s a clear objective, ALL territories, including Crimea, no compromises quietly slipped in And the way Ukraine keeps pushing on the ground lately… it doesn’t sound unrealistic, it sounds like a plan they actually intend to finish

Binge-watching NCIS from the beginning again. Still in the first season. Two characters talking about the virtues of a small town without a Blockbuster or Starbucks on every corner. I like period dramas like this.

As the United States withdraws support to Ukraine, President Zelensky is signing new defense agreements with Gulf States. President Trump bet on the wrong horse choosing Putin over Zelensky. An Epic Failure.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why @MorEdge_Insight has me blocked.

Some people are spinning because they’re aroused by the idea of an American defeat; others are so detached from reality that anything that takes more than 3 weeks is a quagmire. Many of these are the same people, meanwhile, who’d never draw this conclusion from Russia’s actual quagmire in Ukraine.

Don't have enough information to decide one way or another. He decided for some reason not to differentiate his foreign policy from Trump's, so he's blending in with the mass of other possibilities.

Let me give you some context as to why Ukraine as become a critical player in the US war in Iran Iran currently has three paths to winning this war and they are all based on imposing great political costs onto the US And to be clear, winning only means that the regime survives. They are not winning anything militarily and even if the US withdraws now the damage inflicted on their military, arms industrial complex and nuclear program that can still be considered a win The first is being able to inflict casualties on the US military...that is not happening so far and it is unlikely that any boots on the ground would extend beyond the islands in the strait to the mainland. So right now Iran in not able to do this The second two have to do with "burning it all down" meaning they will try to inflict as much pain on the world in order to try to pressure the US to cease military actions And there are two principle ways to achieve this 1) Closing the Strait of Hormuz is already being done, but I am fairly confident that the US and it's allies has the means to reopen the strait militarily and that's what the marines and other ground forces will be a part of 2) Destroying gulf energy/critical infrastructure because this represents significant long term pain for the region and the world. This infrastructure does not get repaired in month, but rather years. And think past just energy...think desalinization plants which would cause a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions in the gulf. The primary threat here are drones because missiles are already limited and they have no way to make more. Right now they are rationing them but it's not clear that they even have enough to cause significant widescale damage. The real problem is the drones which are cheap and plentiful and can be resupplied by Russia and China. Over a long enough timeline, these drones are difficult to deal with because current anti-drone interceptors are very expensive, limited in quantity and hard to replace. And here is where the Ukrainians come into play because they've been dealing with these Shahed drones for over four years. And faced with this same challenge, they have developed their own technical solution in terms of cheap drone interceptors working within an integrated detection system. Deployed all over the Middle East and once these layered defense scale, this becomes a game changer in terms of Iran's ability to go scorched earth and burn it all down Once you can deny Iran this last option in terms of being able to inflict heavy political costs on the US, the regime has very limited options to escalate So fittingly enough, by being a bunch of evil twats and providing Russia with drones that have terrorized Ukrainians for years...they've possibly engineered their own demise If you liked this analysis, think you learned something, and want to see more, please like and RT!

Donald Trump runs into such failures of the imagination all the time. For instance, he couldn’t understand why Mike Pence wouldn’t want to be a hero to the January 6 mob. “You’re too honest,” he harangued. “You’ll go down as a wimp.” “It doesn’t take courage to break the law,” Pence told Trump. “It takes courage to uphold the law.” Pence explained that he took an oath to defend the Constitution. When Pence said that, Trump must have shuddered with incomprehension like the guy in There’s Something About Mary when Ben Stiller suggested someone could just come out with a “Six Minute Abs” video. Trump just couldn’t grok the idea that Pence’s motivations and values were different. One of the funniest things about the Trump era is how people have realized how to appeal to Trump’s conception of self-interest. That’s why everyone is giving him awards and gold statues: He's a sucker for flattery and praise, and he’s incapable of grasping how small it makes him look. - Jonah Goldberg

Unfortunately @markomihkelson the Trump @WhiteHouse is heavily influenced by Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby @USWPColby — an academic with no experience or expertise in European much less Eastern European affairs. He holds a B.A. from Harvard 2002 and a J.D. in 2009 from Yale Law School. He was born in December 1979 — he’s far too young to remember President Reagan or the sacrifices Americans made during the Cold War. x.com/i/grok/share/e…

Topping off months of plastering Hungary's cities with Russian propaganda posters ridiculing President Zelensky, Victor Orban blames Ukraine as he's booed off the stage of his own campaign rally.

Donald Trump has a similar challenge understanding the Iranians because he thinks everyone eventually just wants a “deal.” That assumption worked out for him pretty well—so far—in Venezuela, because the Maduro regime was basically just a bunch of mobsters pretending to be socialists. But the Iranians want different things because they believe different things. And they are willing to watch a lot of the world burn to get them. In fact, they’re willing to light the matches. These are the bastards, after all, who used thousands of children to clear minefields and soak up enemy fire in the Iran-Iraq war. Indeed, just this week, the regime lowered the age for “war supporting” roles to 12. If you’re that determined, or simply that evil, closing the Strait of Hormuz and blowing up your neighbor’s oil and gas facilities is hardly a moral or strategic red line. Listening to Trump, he clearly believes that if you kill the fanatic(s) at the top, you’ll eventually find someone who wants to cut a deal. I don’t think this is logically preposterous. It’s certainly possible that you can liquidate enough Iranian leaders until you find that person. But the regime isn’t organized in a way to make that easy, particularly only striking from the air. Yes, Iran has someone called a “supreme leader” but under him are layers upon layers of true believers who are convinced this war is an existential battle, not a mere negotiation. Trump’s view of “leadership” is entirely personalized, which is one reason he rejected the idea of building support for the war in advance. It’s also why he thinks other leaders can just cut a deal, the way he thinks he can. - Jonah Goldberg

Maybe strippers don't make good Congresspeople?

Alt-war is a good word for it. Reality has no bearing, but the narrative is what matters. What happens on the ground and what appears in your newspapers/podcasts have virtually no relationship. The US loses wars not because of our military but because of our anti war press.