Gustavo Tavares

European Council meeting. For the first time in years there are no Russians in the room. Huge relief.

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

Remember Greenland crisis? Trump's allies now run a covert influence campaign in Greenland. A network of Americans with White House ties has bribed a dogsledding association, cultivated opposition politicians, and highlighted Denmark's colonial crimes — Reuters. 1/

Microsoft's April patch puts Windows domain controllers dating back to 2016 into reboot loops. Windows needs help so bad right now. What’s the fuck is going on over there lately? Not good for a critical piece of infrastructure.

EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking. I spoke with more than 2 dozen people with knowledge of his conduct, some of whom described it as a national security vulnerability. @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

On a train right now, watching footage of a Russian drone strike on a passenger train in Kherson. They’re not hiding war crimes anymore. They’re broadcasting them to intimidate.

JD Vance, paraphrased: one if my proudest moments was making sure Ukraine is starved of air defenses.

The Vatican is two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

European Union, generally speaking, is pretty much the best humanity has done in its entire civilized history. And it's exactly for the reason the far-right hates it: Built on the foundations of the 1945 anti-Nazi victory, fruits of the best of liberalism and socialism

🚨 🚨 Russian style fraud on display in Hungary!

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?

Victor Orbán’s minister offered Sergey Lavrov to send him EU documents through the Hungarian embassy in Moscow. It’s really beyond shocking.

Has a more subtly sarcastic headline ever been written?

A group of investigative journalists, including @michaeldweiss, obtained another intercepted conversation between Hungary’s FM Péter Szijjártó and Lavrov. It appears that Moscow may have been able to access virtually any information it sought from the EU/NATO via Budapest.

BROWDER: Rubio was chastising Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, for doing defense deal with Ukraine without getting permission from U.S. They're pissed. We're in world where superpowers aren't so superpower-ful anymore, and supposed weak powers aren't so weak.

My intel is that Trump administration used Orban to help sabotage the EU’s Russian-assets-to-Ukraine deal. More Trump/Russia. politico.eu/article/operat…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said, “Can the Strait of Hormuz be opened? You need to deploy two American divisions there and prepare to stay for months. That’s how the start of the war in Vietnam looked, the start of the war in Iraq, and the same in Afghanistan. It succeeds at first. By the way, all wars, including this new chapter of ours, one must know: an initiated war starts with a brilliant achievement and impressive damage. Then comes the stage of treading water, which I believe we have entered. And if you don't know how to get out of it and cut it short in time, it ends in negotiations under conditions inferior to what existed before it all started, or in defeat. And America hasn't won a single war. It won almost every battle, but it hasn't won a single war in the last 60 years. All of this needs to be considered, and I very much hope I am wrong.”

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

Remember when 🇪🇺President von der Leyen told us that we needed to buy all that 🇺🇸LNG because it would be more stable and reliable than other options?