@lubinetzs Thank you for taking the time to speak with me and share all you did. I will never stop fighting for the children of Ukraine. They deserve to be seen, to be remembered, and to be brought home. The world must not look away.
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Meaghan Mobbs
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Meaghan Mobbs
@mobbs_mentality
President @rtw_foundation | Director Center for American Safety & Security @IWF | West Point grad, former paratrooper, clinical psych | Views: mine alone.
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American veteran and President of the R.T. Weatherman Foundation @mobbs_mentality came to Ukraine to hear firsthand from children who were returned home from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories. Their experiences became the documentary “The Stolen Children: The Search for Ukraine’s Abducted Children.”
I also spoke about Russia’s abductions, forced militarization, and other crimes — and the difficult path to bringing these children home.
I am deeply grateful to Ms. Megan for bringing their voices to the world. This documentary is a powerful testimony to Russia’s crimes against Ukrainian children.
youtu.be/MIX0MUm9ero?si…
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The bill “equips the president with the leverage needed to impose real costs on Putin and pressure him to negotiate in good faith,” remarked @mobbs_mentality, a Ukraine expert and director of the Center for Safety and Security at the @IWF. It also “highlights the enduring strength of bipartisan support for Ukraine in the Senate,” Mobbs said
Sean Durns@SeanDurns
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⚡️ A missing Ukrainian teen from occupied Krynky was identified fighting for the Russian army.
🧵 1/4 ⬇️
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THE WAIT IS OVER. "FAITH IN WAR" IS STREAMING NOW!
"Faith In War" is an award-winning documentary series following pastors, missionaries, veterans, and humanitarian leaders serving on the front lines of the war in Ukraine. Through five powerful films directed by Yaroslav Lodygin and produced by Fourthsign Productions, discover extraordinary stories of faith, courage, sacrifice, and hope.
📺 STREAM THE SERIES HERE: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
🌐 SERIES INFO: faithinwar.com
EPISODES:
⚔️ No Surrender
🚼 The Stolen Children
⛪ Even In The Ruins
🪖 Safe Ground
💡 Soldiers of Light
Watch. Share. Pray for Ukraine 🙏
#FaithInWar #AFaithUnderSiege #Documentary #Faith #Ukraine #Christian
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This is not true. Spain is a freeloader in NATO, fails to provide meaningful support to Ukraine (compared to others in EU), and is highly deferential to China.
Bruno Maçães@MacaesBruno
Spain has been leading on Ukraine, often contributing more in military and financial support than countries close to Russian border. I hope this continues but will much harder after what is felt as a betrayal from those very countries
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Maybe it's time for commentators and politicians to stop scoffing at people worried about noncitizens voting in US elections.
Philip Letsou@philipletsou
POLITICO: “There’s little to stop noncitizens from registering to vote if they want to, or even by mistake … election officials believe that the number of noncitizens being added to the voter rolls is significantly higher than the 6,600 Sherrill cited” Oh
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Tucker Carlson and Iza Bendianishvili (“Elizabeth Lane”) make a bizarre allegation: NATO secretly ran a bot army of "500,000 or something trolls, bots" out of Ukraine.
Bendianishvili then describing a published study that found the exact opposite.
Turns out that NATO StratCom bought engagement from manipulation vendors to test whether Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram would catch it. (They didn't.)
They paid €300 for the study, which ended up with 3,530 comments, 25,750 likes, 20,000 views and 5,100 followers.
And then a report came out identifying that almost all of the manipulation vendors were located in Russia.
The bots were pro-Russia!
All of this is public information that became available in 2019. There were articles about it.
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I warned about this in May. And now we are here in early August in the position that I had predicted.
Mark Dubowitz@mdubowitz
If President Trump agrees to a 60-day ceasefire extension based on vague Iranian promises to “discuss” nuclear issues, it’s game over. That pushes the crisis into late July or early August, when major military operations become far less likely ahead of the midterms. Once the military leverage disappears, meaningful nuclear concessions disappear with it. Ballistic missile restrictions will be nonexistent. Iran will get billions in sanctions relief—while repeatedly using Hormuz as a tool of blackmail. Tehran will have won at the negotiating table what it lost on the battlefield.
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🙄 My point is that multiple presidential administrations have tried to downplay the Russia threat for a whole host of reasons, this includes Trump but not only Trump. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous by @slantchev, which is par for the course for him it seems. This is a decades old problem. You get invasion of Georgia under Bush, annex of Crimea and first invasion of Ukraine under Obama, static under first Trump, full-scale invasion under Biden. America has long failed to appropriately manage this threat..
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@mobbs_mentality @slantchev "Why did the guys we oppose do what we also did" ain't much of a comeback...
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Missing from this analysis is the obvious question: why is Trump so intent on downplaying the Russian threat?
Answering this might eventually get people like Meaghan the courage to face the possibility that they have been disastrously wrong in their support for this man and admit to themselves that they have played a significant part in the decline of American power and influence instead of constantly trying to rewrite reality to avoid asking that question.
Meaghan Mobbs@mobbs_mentality
I’m going to tell everyone a story. In 2020, I worked for the Trump-Pence campaign. Proudly. And for those who have memory-holed early, pre-pandemic 2020, things looked very good for re-election. The economy was booming. Americans were largely satisfied. The fundamentals were very strong. Then COVID happened. But something else happened too. In July 2020, the New York Times reported that Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 had offered bounties for successful attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan. The administration downplayed it. The campaign downplayed it. Eventually, the Biden administration did too. But that summer I watched veteran social media erupt. This wasn’t passing outrage. It was deep, sustained anger. I flagged it for the campaign because it was obvious this issue resonated in a way many people inside politics didn’t appreciate. Then VoteVets, a major left-leaning veterans PAC, leaned into it with devastating ads. The outrage became a conflagration. President Trump still overwhelmingly won veterans in 2020. But in the states where it mattered, we lost ground compared to 2016. We should not have lost those points based on President Trump’s record over his first four years. The early polling reflected that. So the moral of the story is twofold. First, from a national security perspective, Russia is our adversary. They have repeatedly sought to kill Americans, target our servicemembers, and undermine our interests. We ignore or explain away that reality at our own peril. Second, from a political perspective, the instinct to minimize or dismiss every report of Russian hostility is a losing proposition. Americans, especially veterans and military families, take attacks on our troops personally. They should. Some of our soldiers have came home in body bags and that is not something you spin your way around, or dismiss. Our polling @IWF found nearly 9 in 10 voters are outraged by Russian military support to Iran. The administration needs to take this seriously.
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Putin is a thug. The sanctions we voted for will hold him and his regime accountable.
Nobody should be buying oil from a country that kills innocent civilians and attacks America and our allies.
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Murphy: What I'm afraid of is being forgotten. A person dies twice, once physically, and once when the last word is spoken about them.
A person can be killed. An idea can't. That's why it has to keep living. 4X
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I’m a joyful Trump supporter who isn’t fearful of getting thrown out a window for challenging foreign policy decisions. Meanwhile, you beclown yourself on a routine basis and carry water for anti-West governments. Is this you? Forgive me, I take none of what you say seriously. No one should.
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The return of the Russia-bounty canard. It’s laughable to see RussiaGate
come back among people who had billed themselves sad Trump supporters.
Meaghan Mobbs@mobbs_mentality
I’m going to tell everyone a story. In 2020, I worked for the Trump-Pence campaign. Proudly. And for those who have memory-holed early, pre-pandemic 2020, things looked very good for re-election. The economy was booming. Americans were largely satisfied. The fundamentals were very strong. Then COVID happened. But something else happened too. In July 2020, the New York Times reported that Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 had offered bounties for successful attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan. The administration downplayed it. The campaign downplayed it. Eventually, the Biden administration did too. But that summer I watched veteran social media erupt. This wasn’t passing outrage. It was deep, sustained anger. I flagged it for the campaign because it was obvious this issue resonated in a way many people inside politics didn’t appreciate. Then VoteVets, a major left-leaning veterans PAC, leaned into it with devastating ads. The outrage became a conflagration. President Trump still overwhelmingly won veterans in 2020. But in the states where it mattered, we lost ground compared to 2016. We should not have lost those points based on President Trump’s record over his first four years. The early polling reflected that. So the moral of the story is twofold. First, from a national security perspective, Russia is our adversary. They have repeatedly sought to kill Americans, target our servicemembers, and undermine our interests. We ignore or explain away that reality at our own peril. Second, from a political perspective, the instinct to minimize or dismiss every report of Russian hostility is a losing proposition. Americans, especially veterans and military families, take attacks on our troops personally. They should. Some of our soldiers have came home in body bags and that is not something you spin your way around, or dismiss. Our polling @IWF found nearly 9 in 10 voters are outraged by Russian military support to Iran. The administration needs to take this seriously.
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No, I won’t spare you.
And your argument rests on a dangerous category error. Let me walk the dog for you…
Military assistance is not morally or strategically equivalent simply because it is military assistance.
States are judged by the purpose for which force is used, the ends it seeks to achieve, and the nature of the conflict itself.
To erase those distinctions is to abandon any serious framework for thinking about war.
Russia is the aggressor because it initiated and continues the war. It chose to cross an internationally recognized border in an attempt to overthrow Ukraine’s government, seize its territory, and subordinate its sovereignty. Ukraine did not invade Russia, threaten its existence, or seek to extinguish the Russian state. It is fighting to preserve its independence against an invasion.
Therefore, military assistance to Ukraine as it defends itself against an invasion is not the same as Russia providing assistance to a theocratic regime with which the United States is in active armed conflict - a regime that has spent decades chanting “Death to America,” pursuing nuclear weapons, and killing American servicemembers.
If you can’t tell the difference between helping a nation defend itself and helping America’s enemy kill Americans, the problem isn’t my outrage - it’s your judgment.
Dave Ruggles@adiosillinois
@mobbs_mentality @EliLake So we wend hundreds of billions to Ukraine who is in a direct conflict with Russia but you’re outraged they’re helping Iran? Screw Iran & Russia but also spare us the outrage.
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Russia pounds Kyiv, kills 10 as Ukraine appeals for Patriot interceptors reut.rs/3TxTgxQ reut.rs/3TxTgxQ
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Absolutely! We should not ignore Russia’s assistance to Iran targetting American troops. Russia sent a delegation to Khamenei’s funeral, the Ukrainians did not.
Meaghan Mobbs@mobbs_mentality
I’m going to tell everyone a story. In 2020, I worked for the Trump-Pence campaign. Proudly. And for those who have memory-holed early, pre-pandemic 2020, things looked very good for re-election. The economy was booming. Americans were largely satisfied. The fundamentals were very strong. Then COVID happened. But something else happened too. In July 2020, the New York Times reported that Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 had offered bounties for successful attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan. The administration downplayed it. The campaign downplayed it. Eventually, the Biden administration did too. But that summer I watched veteran social media erupt. This wasn’t passing outrage. It was deep, sustained anger. I flagged it for the campaign because it was obvious this issue resonated in a way many people inside politics didn’t appreciate. Then VoteVets, a major left-leaning veterans PAC, leaned into it with devastating ads. The outrage became a conflagration. President Trump still overwhelmingly won veterans in 2020. But in the states where it mattered, we lost ground compared to 2016. We should not have lost those points based on President Trump’s record over his first four years. The early polling reflected that. So the moral of the story is twofold. First, from a national security perspective, Russia is our adversary. They have repeatedly sought to kill Americans, target our servicemembers, and undermine our interests. We ignore or explain away that reality at our own peril. Second, from a political perspective, the instinct to minimize or dismiss every report of Russian hostility is a losing proposition. Americans, especially veterans and military families, take attacks on our troops personally. They should. Some of our soldiers have came home in body bags and that is not something you spin your way around, or dismiss. Our polling @IWF found nearly 9 in 10 voters are outraged by Russian military support to Iran. The administration needs to take this seriously.
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Russia is not our friend, nor have they ever been.
Anyone who claims otherwise is not 🇺🇸 1st.
Meaghan Mobbs@mobbs_mentality
I’m going to tell everyone a story. In 2020, I worked for the Trump-Pence campaign. Proudly. And for those who have memory-holed early, pre-pandemic 2020, things looked very good for re-election. The economy was booming. Americans were largely satisfied. The fundamentals were very strong. Then COVID happened. But something else happened too. In July 2020, the New York Times reported that Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 had offered bounties for successful attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan. The administration downplayed it. The campaign downplayed it. Eventually, the Biden administration did too. But that summer I watched veteran social media erupt. This wasn’t passing outrage. It was deep, sustained anger. I flagged it for the campaign because it was obvious this issue resonated in a way many people inside politics didn’t appreciate. Then VoteVets, a major left-leaning veterans PAC, leaned into it with devastating ads. The outrage became a conflagration. President Trump still overwhelmingly won veterans in 2020. But in the states where it mattered, we lost ground compared to 2016. We should not have lost those points based on President Trump’s record over his first four years. The early polling reflected that. So the moral of the story is twofold. First, from a national security perspective, Russia is our adversary. They have repeatedly sought to kill Americans, target our servicemembers, and undermine our interests. We ignore or explain away that reality at our own peril. Second, from a political perspective, the instinct to minimize or dismiss every report of Russian hostility is a losing proposition. Americans, especially veterans and military families, take attacks on our troops personally. They should. Some of our soldiers have came home in body bags and that is not something you spin your way around, or dismiss. Our polling @IWF found nearly 9 in 10 voters are outraged by Russian military support to Iran. The administration needs to take this seriously.
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