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@ChanceWmsToday @FeikNjyys @FurkanGozukara @Zastro72409067 And here you show your true colours. Didn't take long. Ukraine 'provoked' a war. Victim blaming at its finest.

@FeikNjyys @FurkanGozukara @Zastro72409067 You should have seen Grozny. Oh wait, you did. But you provoked a war with Russia anyway. Live with it. “Isn’t it amazing how the decisions you make affect your life?”

A prominent US expert confirms the Trump administration is secretly bypassing oversight to forge an alliance with Russia. By using Belarus as a backdoor, Donald Trump is plotting sanctions relief for Vladimir Putin to avoid domestic backlash.

@albanianking70 @BohuslavskaKate Who is the country banning books from schools and libraries? Silences universities? Bans journalists from the White House? Free speech you say?

@BohuslavskaKate The problem is that you are not allies anymore…you side with Iran..didn’t allow our troops to use our bases in Europe…you hate Christians, free speech is non existent in England and Germany

STUBB: I think, at the end of the day, United States will find themselves in quite a lonely place. I'm most pro-American president in Europe. I'm avid transatlanticist. I want relationship to work. But I also fully realize that, with certain patterns of behavior, there's going to be a feeling of, "Okay, if you treat me like that, I don't feel very good about it." We can see that with European states, Gulf states and many others. I hope that it's in interest of United States to have close friends and allies, if it wants to continue to be one of the world's hegemons.

@Inadvertantview @CodyNorthwood @BohuslavskaKate Sorry, who's the narcissist here exactly?

@CodyNorthwood @BohuslavskaKate That’s exactly how a victim of a narcissistic relationship feels. Rather to be alone and strong than to be surrounded by feckless evil people who feed off you.

@1greencandle @BohuslavskaKate By threatening to take Greenland. Such a smart national security strategy indeed.

@BohuslavskaKate I think the Europeans might actually be starting to understand the Trump US National Security Strategy. It very clearly states they want Europe to stand on its own two feet.

@Nazresistance @MedvedevRussiaE This is irony, right?

Russia is fighting imperialism! With the entire NATO! Ukraine became a prey and victim of NATO. Zelensky was a Mossad pawn, Zelensky sold his country! He sold his country's mines to America! Russia is defending itself! Ukraine was supposed to join NATO, and no country wants its neighbor to be a NATO member. Russia saved the border areas that were of Russian origin and had been harassed by Ukraine for years, and those areas actually belonged to Russia. Russia is not seeking to occupy Ukraine. Russia is not targeting civilians. It is not targeting hospitals, schools, or residential areas. It is not targeting Kiev. NATO is imperialist! Not russia!

Russian Defense Ministry’s statement must be taken literally: the list of European facilities which make drones & other equipment is a list of potential targets for the Russian armed forces. When strikes become a reality depends on what comes next. Sleep well, European partners!

@Nazresistance @MedvedevRussiaE An anti-imperialist supporting Russia, which is waging an imperialist war in Ukraine. Alrighty then.

Fight like the Persians. Fast, targeted, fearless! Within 40 days of the war with Israel and the US (NATO), we(iran) destroyed and rendered 17 US bases and became non-operational, shot down a F-35 and several F-15, 16, 18, and destroyed more than 200 of their expensive drones. We targeted petrochemicals, refineries and important facilities in Israel, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain, we targeted Israeli drone manufacturing, we targeted American companies, We killed the head of Mossad, we killed many high-ranking Israeli and American officers and spies, we found and killed their soldiers in hotels, we targeted Israel's scientific and technological and genetic research centers. we caused the price of oil to double, we hit several expensive fuel tankers at their airports, we made their all defensive missiles run out. And we did all this in just 40 days:) It is not over and we will continue:) come on!

@EvaVlaar @PM_ViktorOrban So you like corrupt, self-enriching leaders that limit freedom of speech by controlling most of the media. Got it.

With @PM_ViktorOrban losing the elections, we’ve lost our strongest fighter. Orbán built things that the rest of Europe can only dream of, and he was willing to pay massive fines to defy the EU’s replacement migration policies. Do we really think the new guy — who claims to be a nationalist — will magically continue the same path while receiving 17 BILLION Euros in EU funds and joining the Eurozone? Yeah, I don’t think so. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

@Darkdeedfiles @sentdefender It indeed did destroy a lot of diplomatic work. Old man rambling rage fits - now that's the way forward.

@sentdefender 1.2 million views on an Easter Sunday ultimatum to Iran. The whole world read it. Iran read it. That post did more diplomatic work in one hour than a decade of carefully worded State Department memos ever did.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump in a post Easter Sunday directed at Iran via TruthSocial: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

@Krisse_ @DAZN_BENL "Als je het vertraagt" - op het veld gebeuren dingen aan reële snelheid, en daar zie je zeer duidelijk dat het wél fel was, en gewoon penalty.

@DAZN_BENL Het ziet feller uit dan het in feite was. Als je het vertraagt zie je dat hij vooral valt omdat hij niet stevig op zijn benen stond.

🤔 | Verdiende STVV hier een penalty? 🔍👀 #USGSTV

@SP5ooo @bagnew8 @MilesTaylorUSA Have you read about statistics, or seen pictures about it?

@bagnew8 @MilesTaylorUSA I don’t think you understand statistics.

I remember the first piece of advice I got on briefing President Trump in 2017: He doesn’t read. Bring pictures. Only try to impress ONE thing on him. And if there has to be words, single page only.

@FDW_VB @PM_ViktorOrban Was Hongarije nu al maar zoals Rusland, hé meneer De Winter. Een echt vrij land waar stemmen niet meer hoeft.

De techniek is gekend: push één partij in de peilingen. Wanneer die ‘winnende’ partij de échte verkiezingen verliest dan is dat de schuld v/ manipulatie en electoraal bedrog. Dat is h/ scenario dat de #EU voor @PM_ViktorOrban en Hongarije in petto heeft… politico.eu/article/hungar…

@Cllr_R_Adamson @tomvangrieken @PM_ViktorOrban I think you misspelled "a leader putting his wallet first, and the wallets of his friends second".

@tomvangrieken @PM_ViktorOrban Orban is a leader putting his bation first and Party second, take note Starmer this is what leadership looks like, it is doing what is promised, not just promising and not doing or doing the oppisite.

"Who kept Hungary's borders closed when others threw theirs open? Who looked the EU elite in the eye and said: Hungary belongs to the Hungarians? Who said no to mass migration, not once, not twice, but every single time? Orbán, Orbán, @PM_ViktorOrban!" What an amazing crowd of patriots! 🤩🇭🇺

@CluelessExpat @jurgen_nauditt @FM_Szijjarto If you think that is equivalent, you truly are clueless.

@jurgen_nauditt @FM_Szijjarto I find it funny that this is coming from a German, whom country is a vassal state of the US and been providing all and every information to them, whether critical, strategic, sensetive or not. And talks about betrayal. You guys have absolutely no shame. Disgusting.

It has long been known that foreign intelligence services, with the active involvement of Hungarian journalists, have been intercepting my phone calls. Today they have made a new “major discovery”: they proved that I say the same publicly as I do on the phone. Nice work! For four years we have been saying that sanctions are a failure, causing more harm to the EU than to Russia. Hungary will never agree to sanction individuals or companies essential for our energy security, for achieving peace, or those with no reason to be on a sanctions list. However, the wiretap list is not complete. I have also regularly consulted with foreign ministers from several non-EU countries on sanctions-related matters.

@IspusniVentil @michaeldweiss @AlbertoNardelli @InsiderEng Yeah, uncovering that Russia, a country invading and destroying a European country, is influencing EU policies on Russia is the real issue here. You're so right.

@michaeldweiss @AlbertoNardelli @InsiderEng Hungary is a member of NATO and the EU. The real scandal here is that other member states are spying on the government in Budapest and distributing those recordings to journalists in order to influence upcoming election in Hungary. That’s far worse than any Russian interference.

New: We obtained phone calls between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó showing them conspiring to lift EU sanctions on Russia -- from oligarchs to banks to the shadow fleet. Full story with consortium partners at @InsiderEng: theins.press/en/inv/290911

@drwhisky1 @michaeldweiss @Copernicus2013 @InsiderEng A corrupt, nepotist government that takes orders from Russia. "Sane" - yup.

@michaeldweiss @Copernicus2013 @InsiderEng Hungary is the only sane country in the EU that tried to secure the outer borders (and got punished for that).

@marcvelitrae @getrealTim @Kasparov63 It's very clear that you believe in freedom, liberty, and common sense, indeed.

@getrealTim @Kasparov63 Alexi Navalny's own wife revealed he died of natural causes.

Sanctioned Russians arriving in DC to present another aid package to the Trump family bank accounts in exchange for continuing to cut off and pressure Ukraine into surrendering. European had better wake up.

@marcvelitrae @cowboyz1963 @Kasparov63 You are disgusting

@cowboyz1963 @Kasparov63 Well I am glad you and your mail order bride are safe in the US. Russia is simply supporting self-determination for Donbas. Just like NATO bombed the hell out of Serbia to force them to let their province Kosovo go.

@subzerov690 @RepMikeLevin But Kamala laughed strangely!

@RepMikeLevin Americans should ask themselves every day how they allowed themselves to be so stupid in voting this guy in again.

This is unhinged. The President of the United States went on a late-night rant, making clear he believes the Supreme Court justices he appointed owe him their loyalty and should always rule in his favor. The President of the United States is openly attacking the independence of the judiciary, the very institution that stands between every American and unchecked executive power. Courts don’t work for the President. They work for the Constitution. And a president attacking the judiciary for doing its job is telling you he believes he is above the law.

@Ramandu_Star @ilangoldenberg Delusional would be a friendly way to describe this idea. It seems that even after 4 years of war in Ukraine, Americans still don't understand how warfare has changed. But you keep waving your big guns. It's working wonders so far.

You seem to be assuming the situation in the straits of Hormuz is somehow settled. It's obviously not. Even if the US has to do something drastic, like deploy an extra aircraft carrier or other big-league naval assets - it can do so, and eventually it will likely establish control. It may mean a delay, because naval assets sail slowly, but it's not like the situation is stable. It's dynamic. It will look different in 72 hours time to how it does now.

Three weeks into the war with Iran, a number of observations as someone who spent years war-gaming this scenario. 1. The U.S. and Israel may have produced regime transition in the worst possible way. Ali Khamenei was 86 and had survived multiple bouts of prostate cancer. His death in the coming years would likely have triggered a real internal reckoning in Iran, potentially opening the door to somewhat more pragmatic leadership, especially after the protests and crackdown last month. Instead, the regime made its most consequential decision under existential external threat giving the hardliners a clear upperhand. Now we appear to have a successor who is 30 years younger, deeply tied to the IRGC, and radicalized by the war itself – including the killing of family members. Disastrous. 2. About seven years ago at CNAS, I helped convene a group of security, energy, and economic experts to walk through scenarios for a U.S.--Iran war and the implications for global oil prices. What we’re seeing now was considered one of the least likely but worst outcomes. The modeling assumed the Strait of Hormuz could close for 4–10 weeks, with 1–3 years required to restore oil production once you factored in infrastructure damage. Prices could spike from around $65 to $175–$200 per barrel, before eventually settling in the $80–$100 range a year later in a new normal. 3. One surprising development: Iran is still moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz while disrupting everyone else. In most war games I participated in, we assumed Iran couldn’t close the Strait and still use it themselves. That would have made the move extremely self-defeating. But Iran appears capable of harassing global shipping while still pushing some of its own exports through. That changes the calculus. 4. The U.S. now finds itself in the naval and air equivalent of the dynamic we faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a recipe for a quagmire where we win every battle and lose the war. We have overwhelming military dominance and are exacting a tremendous cost. But Iran doesn’t need to win battles. They just need occasional successes. A small boat hitting a tanker. A drone slipping through defenses in the Gulf. A strike on a hotel or oil facility. Each incident creates insecurity and drives costs up while remind everyone that the regime is surviving and fighting. 5. The deeper problem is that U.S. objectives were set far too high. Once “regime change” becomes the implicit or explicit goal, the bar for American success becomes enormous. Iran’s bar is simple: survive and keep causing disruption. 6. The options for ending this war now are all bad. You can try to secure the entire Gulf and Middle East indefinitely – extremely expensive and maybe impossible. You can invade Iran and replace the regime, but nobody is seriously going to do that. Costs are astronomical. You can try to destabilize the regime by supporting separatist groups. It probably won’t work and if it does you’ll most likely spark a civil war producing years of bloody chaos the U.S. will get blamed for. None of these are good outcomes. 7. The other escalatory options being discussed are taking the nuclear material out of Esfahan or taking Kargh Island. Esfahan is not really workable. Huge risk. You’d have been on the ground for a LONG time to safely dig in and get the nuclear material out in the middle of the country giving Iran time to reinforce from all over and over run the American position. 8. Kharg Island can be appealing to Trump. He’d love to take Iran’s ability to export oil off the map and try to coerce them to end the war. It’s much easier because it’s not in the middle of IRan. But it’s still a potentially costly ground operation. And again. Again, the Iranian government only has to survive to win and they can probably do that even without Kargh. 9. The least bad option is the classic diplomatic off-ramp. The U.S. declares that Iran’s military capabilities have been significantly degraded, which is how the Pentagon always saw the purpose of the war. Iran declares victory for surviving and demonstrating it can still threaten regional actors. It would feel unsatisfying. But this is the inevitable outcome anyway. Better to stop now than after five or ten more years of escalating costs. Remember in Afghanistan we turned down a deal very early in the war with the Taliban that looked amazing 20 years later. Don’t need to repeat that kind of mistake. 10. The U.S. and Israel are not perfectly aligned here. Trump just needs a limited win and would see long-term instability as a negative whereas for Netanyahu a weak unstable Iran that bogs the U.S. down in the MIddle East is a fine outcome. If President Trump decided he wanted Israel to stop, he likely has the leverage to push it in that direction just as he pressured Netanyahu to take a deal last fall on Gaza. 11. When this is over, the Gulf states will have to rethink their entire security strategy. They are stuck in the absolute worst place. They didn’t start this war and didn’t want it and now they are taking with some of the worst consequences. Neither doubling down with the U.S. and Israel nor placating the Iranians seems overwhelmingly appealing. 12. One clear geopolitical winner so far: Russia. Oil prices are rising. Sanctions are coming off. Western attention and military resources are shifting away from Ukraine. From Moscow’s perspective, this war is a win win win. 13. At some point China may have a role to play here. It is the world’s largest oil importer, and much of that supply comes from the Middle East. Yes they are still getting oil from Iran. But they also buy from the rest of the Middle East, and a prolonged disruption in the Gulf hits Beijing hard. That gives China a real incentive to help push toward an end to the conflict.

@Ojim7810Jim @SpencerAlthouse You didn't pay attention, did you.

The problem Spencer is there are no important Oscar speeches. Just blabberings from overpaid elites whining about how bad the world is. Their opinions are meaningless because they offer nothing but uninformed opinions. Why anyone watches or let alone admires these self-flagillating idiots is beyond belief.

this was the most important Oscar speech of the night tbh "Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. What we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity: when we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice. But luckily even a nobody is more powerful than you think."