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@sherrilee77 Good post w/ yet another example of use of Truth Sandwich

Anne Applebaum: "Steve Witkoff has no experience with Russia or diplomacy. I fear he imagines a US-Russia pact where he, his son, Trump's family or their circle benefit personally. It's disturbing that American foreign policy conducted not for the US, allies or world peace, but for private interests. Putin knows Trump is vulnerable to such deals - that's why he keeps suggesting them. Witkoff and Trump's entourage behave like Russians: capture the state, use it for personal wealth."

Repressive policies against civilians continue in occupied Crimea. Russian authorities are illegally detaining 224 people, according to @ppu_gov_ua. In addition, more than 1,650 cases have been recorded for so-called “discrediting the Russian army.” In 1,542 cases, courts have imposed fines or consolidated proceedings into cumulative rulings. @UNHumanRightsUA confirms that mass detentions in the occupied territories violate #InternationalLaw. This is not justice but systematic persecution, as detainees are subjected to Russian legislation and are effectively deprived of the right to a fair trial.

@NikkiHaley justice.gov/opa/pr/justice…

The U.S. caught Russian government–backed hackers attacking U.S. infrastructure. They damaged water systems in multiple states and forced a meatpacking plant to evacuate because of an ammonia leak. Putin is trying to destroy us from within. If he is not held accountable, he will keep doing it. Never forget, Russia is not our friend.

This is Kherson. Under hourly fire, without power and heat, people care and stand up for animals. True humanity. Stand up for Kherson: humansafari.org Global rally. 13-14 December. #SaveKherson #StopHumanSafari

If your country is run by a power hungry toad, this becomes the norm as all people with very dark intentions get a signal: if they tolerate HIM, they will tolerate me too.

A Moscow court has ruled that the @IntlCrimCourt prosecutor and eight ICC judges “knowingly and unlawfully” pursued Russian nationals. The case concerns individuals suspected of committing #InternationalCrimes, for whom the #ICC issued arrest warrants. According to the Russian prosecutor’s office, the ICC prosecutor was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison, while the judges received between 3.5 and 15 years, and all were placed on a so-called “international wanted list.” From a legal perspective, such decisions are irrelevant, as they carry no genuine legal effect. What matters is recognizing yet another attempt to undermine confidence in #InternationalJustice – not the first, and almost certainly not the last.

Since when does the U.S. vote alongside Russia, Belarus, China, Cuba and North Korea at the UN? How the fuck is that America first? Where are your principles? Morals?

Oh no. Not a Moscow court. Anything but a famously unbiased Moscow court. Those weak Europeans have been told and will surely fold. A Moscow court.

Didn't they campaign on law and order?

"Mr. Trump, I am from Donbas - why should I give my home and my region to Russia?" Ukrainian soldier @Vit_Ovchar sends a message to President Trump from Dobropillia, near Pokrovsk.

This is brilliant. On November 20, russian general Sergey Kuzovlev reports to a russian führer, Putin, that Kupiansk is completely under russian control. On December 9, Putin awards Kuzovlev for “capturing” Kupiansk. On December 12, President Zelensky sends greetings to Ukrainian soldiers from Kupiansk. Sometimes, it feels like russians live in an alternative reality.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina: "We have 1,6 million children under Russian occupation. Their identities are being erased. They are militarized starting from kindergarten. Their parents are forced to send their children to camps where they wear military uniforms, line up, live in barracks, and are taught how to use weapons. Russia is preparing the new generation of Putin's soldiers from these 1,6 million Ukrainian children because at the age of 14, they will receive the Russian passport. At the age of 18, they will be forcibly recruited to the Russian army, which means that they will go to fight and to die in any country that Russia sends them to fight and to die. Because Russia is an empire, and an empire has a center but has no borders. An empire always tries to expand. And that is why when we speak about deported children, children under Russian occupation, it's not just a human rights problem. It's a security problem."

🇺🇦 The leader of the free world leads from the front. In this case, literally. Meanwhile, Putin hides and orders more bombings of Ukrainian civilians and free world leaders dither over the money of the terrorist dictator that’s attacking Europe.

Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.

President Zelenskyy is in Kupyansk, Kharkiv region today ‼️🤯 ​The town, declared "liberated" by russian propaganda, remains a fierce battleground. In reality, our forces destroyed the majority of the invading troops. Yet a few pockets of fighting remains. Our President is present on the ground a move utterly unthinkable for Putin, who maintains a 300-kilometer buffer from genuine active combat. "Today – the Kupyansk direction, where our warriors are achieving results for Ukraine. Many Russians talked about Kupyansk – we see the reality. I was there, I congratulated the guys. My thanks to every unit, to everyone fighting here, to everyone destroying the occupier. Today it is critically important to achieve results on the battlefield so that Ukraine can achieve results in diplomacy. That’s how it works: all our strong positions inside the country become strong positions in the conversation about ending the war. Thank you to every soldier! I am proud of you! Thanks to all our Ground Forces – today is entirely your day. Thank you, guys. Glory to Ukraine!"

@IuliiaMendel Nope he has already attacked Europe by attacking Ukraine. Also his word and signature are worthless. See below his signature held in the UN agreeing his border with Ukraine. Not worth a Dime,

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They are aware that Russians quite literally wrote the capitulation document that some people in the White House and sadly many people in the media refer to as a peace plan. nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/…

Real talk. I have trained Ukrainian troops for three years straight, and saying we “owe them nothing” is not just wrong, it is dangerous. People forget very quickly. Ukraine stood with us in Iraq and Afghanistan. They sent troops, bled beside our soldiers, and never asked for anything in return. They did it because they believed in the West, in democracy, and in the idea that free nations stand together. And now, for four years, Ukraine has been fighting the enemy that has openly wished death on the United States many times. The same enemy that still keeps nuclear weapons pointed at every major American city and every piece of critical infrastructure we depend on. How anyone can say that their fight has nothing to do with us is beyond me. This kind of talk is exactly what Americans were saying before World War Two. We called it “not our war.” We insisted Europe’s problems were not our problems. Yet we still sent equipment. We still had volunteer pilots fighting for the United Kingdom. And it took Pearl Harbor to finally wake us up and show us that isolation and indifference were mistakes that cost countless lives. When will we learn that in the world we live in today, everything is connected. There is no isolation. Not when dictators are reshaping borders by force. Not when war criminals hold nuclear stockpiles. Not when democracies fall one by one if no one helps. Appeasement does not stop tyrants. Appeasement encourages them. I have trained thousands of Ukrainian soldiers. I have watched them fight for their land, their families, and frankly for the rest of us. To pretend that their struggle does not affect the United States is to ignore every lesson history has ever taught us. The red line where this “becomes our problem” was crossed a long time ago. Thinking otherwise only helps the people we should be standing against. This kind of thinking is not realism. It is the beginning of another disaster we will regret later. If America actually wants stability and peace, we cannot abandon a nation fighting the front line of that global struggle. We either help now, or we will pay a heavier price later.

This is a transcript of Steve Witkoff and Yuri Ushakov Putin's foreign policy adviser. Discussing how to manipulate President Trump Psychologically with Putin. Steve Witkoff: Hi Yuri Yuri Ushakov: Yeah Steve hi, how are you? SW: Good Yuri. How you doing? YU: I am ok. Congratulations my friend SW: Thank you YU: You made a great job. Just a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you SW: Thank you Yuri and thanks for your support. I know your country supported it and I thank you YU: Yes, yes, yes. Yes. You know that’s why we suspend the organization of first Arabic summit SW: Yes YU: Yeah, because we think that you are making the real job there in the region SW: Well listen. I am going to tell you something. I think, I think if we can get the Russia-Ukraine thing solved, everybody’ll be jumping for joy YU: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you need to solve only one problem. [laughs] SW: What? YU: Russian-Ukrainian war SW: I know! How do we get that solved? YU: My friend, I just want your advice. Do you think that it will be useful if our bosses will talk on the phone? SW: Yes, I do YU: You do. And when you think it could be possible? SW: I think as soon as you suggest, my guy is ready to do it YU: Ok, ok SW: Yuri, here’s what I would do. My recommendation YU: Yes, please SW: I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the president on this achievement, that you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace and you’re just, you’re really glad to have seen it happen. So I would say that. I think from that it’s going to be a really good call Because let me tell you what I told the President. I told the president that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That’s my belief. And I believe the question is the issue is that we have two nations that are having a hard time coming to a compromise and when we do, we’re going to have a peace deal. I’m even thinking that maybe we set out like a 20-point peace proposal, just like we did in Gaza. We put a 20-point Trump plan together and I’m thinking maybe we do the same thing with you. My point is this... YU: Ok, ok my friend. I think that very point our leaders could discuss. Hey Steve, I agree with you that he will congratulate, he will say that Mr. Trump is a real peace man and so and so. That he will say SW: But here’s what I think would be amazing YU: Ok, ok SW: What if, what if... hear me out.. YU: I will discuss that with my boss and then I come back to you. Ok? SW: Yeah because listen to what I’m saying. I just want you to say, maybe just to say this to President Putin, because you know I have the deepest respect for President Putin YU: Yes, Yes SW: Maybe he says to President Trump: you know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace and that could be something that we think might move the needle a little bit, we’re open to those sorts of things to explore what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done. Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere. But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal YU: I see.. SW: ...so if we can create that opportunity that after this I talked to Yuri and we had a conversation I think that could lead to big stuff YU: Ok, that sounds good SW: One more thing: Zelenskiy is coming to the White House on Friday. YU: I know that. [laughs] SW: I will go to that meeting because they want me there, but I think if possible we have the call with your boss before that Friday meeting. YU: Before, yeah? SW: Correct YU: Ok, ok. I got your advice. So I discuss that with my boss and then I come back to you, ok? SW: Ok Yuri, I’ll speak to you soon YU: Great, great. Thank you so much. Thanks you SW: Bye, bye YU: Bye [Call Ends]