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@wweldon

international relations/democracy/Ukraine - formerly worked in the political risk field. Tufts MALD alum, current MBA student.

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Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

05.03.2026 21:09 👍 3646 🔁 1709 💬 381 📌 337
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More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine is ready to provide drone interceptors in exchange for missiles, though he did not specify which countries could be involved.

This is a fucking travesty.

“In just three days of fighting in the Middle East, more than 800 Patriot missiles were used — more than Ukraine has received throughout the entire Russian full-scale invasion.”

(A year’s worth of production or more, btw)

kyivindependent.com/over-800-pat...

06.03.2026 17:32 👍 342 🔁 163 💬 17 📌 12

You couldn't make this up

Putin is supporting Iran with intelligence in the war

Yet Trump is considering unsanctioning more Russian oil according to Bessent

A clueless US Administration, in way over its head

06.03.2026 22:40 👍 242 🔁 79 💬 17 📌 7
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[Q]: It sounds like Russians are now helping Iran attack Americans now.

[President Trump]:
That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here.
What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else.

07.03.2026 08:56 👍 180 🔁 60 💬 31 📌 14
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Can Ukraine help defeat Iran’s drone swarms? Thousands of Shaheds are raining down on the Gulf

Ollie Carrol, Anshel Pfeffer & I wrote last night on the challenge of intercepting Iranian Shaheds. More than 2,000 fired, some hitting important targets, including radars. This is a problem that Ukraine understands well. Understandably, it wants something in return www.economist.com/internationa...

07.03.2026 09:29 👍 139 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

06.03.2026 23:31 👍 5411 🔁 1399 💬 253 📌 46
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Poll: A majority of Americans opposes U.S. military action in Iran Most Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of Iran, and a majority sees Iran as either only a minor threat or no threat at all, an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds.

"Just 36% approve of how Trump is handling Iran, and a majority (55%) thinks Iran either represents a minor threat or no threat at all to the United States." www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

06.03.2026 20:34 👍 84 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 5

This comes soon after reports that Russia is helping Iran with the targeting and locations of US forces, so…..

06.03.2026 18:52 👍 226 🔁 90 💬 21 📌 6
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Leavitt on reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to help them target US assets: "Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter"

06.03.2026 18:08 👍 1574 🔁 569 💬 492 📌 263

New issue of Russian Analytical Digest with an analysis by ZOiS political scientist Sebastian Hoppe:

He dives into Russia's economic strategy of buying time through targeted brokerage and so-called ‘patronal repurposing of institutions’ 👇

05.03.2026 15:54 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Is there a nickname we can give him that isn’t racist?

06.03.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Orban raising the heat with first round of elex a little over a month away. US November elex extraordinarily consequential IMO but Hungary pretty darn important as well.

06.03.2026 15:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe this is just me, but I kind of think massive military operations, in which we're demanding unconditional surrender as the outcome, probably should be authorized by Congress.

06.03.2026 15:00 👍 3416 🔁 589 💬 125 📌 33

Trump will call this fake and defend Putin. Watch.

06.03.2026 15:02 👍 171 🔁 43 💬 7 📌 1
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate.
In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate.
A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership.
"Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

06.03.2026 06:12 👍 4309 🔁 865 💬 102 📌 227
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We bombed a girls elementary school.

06.03.2026 03:01 👍 7034 🔁 2380 💬 869 📌 216

Our policy toward Ukraine is not only shameful but also very, very stupid.

06.03.2026 01:17 👍 125 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 2
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In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

"The United States is the only place we surveyed where more adults (ages 18 and older) describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad (53%) than as good (47%)."

06.03.2026 00:27 👍 198 🔁 75 💬 18 📌 10

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

05.03.2026 23:26 👍 8839 🔁 2129 💬 361 📌 59

In all seriousness, did Venezuela have a choice?

06.03.2026 00:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean, what else is there to say. Christian Nationalism is a scourge.

05.03.2026 23:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It implies exactly what you think it implies

05.03.2026 23:37 👍 405 🔁 83 💬 9 📌 0

We should abolish the United States Senate. It serves no purpose.

05.03.2026 21:41 👍 4688 🔁 938 💬 585 📌 134

Make American Sicker Again keeps pushing their agenda of killing as many Americans as possible.

05.03.2026 22:39 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Fallout From Mideast Swirls Over the War in Ukraine

“Fallout From Mideast Swirls Over the War in Ukraine:
Three-way peace talks are on hold, and Kyiv fears that U.S. air defense systems it needs to counter Russia could be diverted to the Iran conflict.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

05.03.2026 15:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We spent four years taking about how Joe Biden blew up the debt with the ARP & about how we couldn’t afford things like student loan debt relief.

Republicans, however, will continue to enjoy the deficit hawks & fiscal conservative labels, as they have since Reagan. It is an Iron Law of 🇺🇸 politics.

05.03.2026 14:56 👍 160 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 2

“I’ve asked God to forgive me, which he has.”

Psychos.

05.03.2026 13:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She sucks man.

04.03.2026 21:35 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Things that barely move for 1000, Alex.

04.03.2026 21:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

04.03.2026 21:08 👍 7613 🔁 2690 💬 367 📌 125