Meanwhile, MEK bought Tymoshenko. Pompeo who was in their pocket already got a seat on the board of KyivStar. Pahlavi denounced the invasion in 22’ but instead lobbied at NatCon amongst the pro-Russia wing of conservative parties. Why would Trump not pressure the Kurds? Pahlavists have no soldiers.
Every time I pointed out that it made no sense to not field a militant wing or to at least make trips to Kyiv to build solidarity the conversation always shifted to Europe not supporting them & Pahlavi. I can think of exactly one non-separatist liberal opposition guy who came to Kyiv from London.
Oppositions without an armed wing have no cards if their state backers decide regime change isn’t in their interest. Mobilizing massive numbers to protest simply isn’t enough if the otherwise is willing to massacre you. I have talked to many Monarchist activists about this over the years.
Iran used Ukraine as a laboratory to test their weapons and yet none of opposition factions fielded volunteers to train against Shaheds. I cannot think of a single Persian speaking fighter in Ukraine who wasn’t part of Ukraine’s Afghan diaspora besides possibly some of the Israeli volunteers.
DoD didn’t ignore the Ukrainian War for Independence, it affirmatively decided to discard it.
Just incredible that at no point in the Biden White House when Galaxy Brain Sullivan said, "if we make our Foreign Policy Trumpian enough he won't be able to attack us" did anyone reply, "but Jakey, what if he just lies about it the way he does about everything all the time?"
The idea that if you abandon enough of your principles you can make yourself too small a target for the right wing to bludgeon assumes a fidelity to reality on the part o their messaging that's simply not in evidence.
Trump is on TV pretending Biden gave Ukraine F-35s and space lasers.
Elbridge Colby is the blobbiest nepo baby to every nepo for the blob and everyone who convinced themselves he was a maverick standing up for a coherent strategy for a Pacific Pivot got ludicrously bamboozled
Anyone who refers to an entire immigrant group as “gusanos” and “leeches” is a piece of shit.
I knew I made the right decision not to add him on Duolingo (I’m not kidding he popped up as someone to follow for me).
Have to transit through Magyar lands to do these regular trips. He’s got his election coming and we won’t budge on the Druzhba pipeline. Orban and Fico don’t want to buy from anyone else but Russia. They have other options and reject them. It was timed with his trip to Moscow.
Hungary seized a Ukrainian bank convoy transporting $80 million in cash and gold from Austria. Including taking 7 employees of Oschadbank hostage.
Tucker already knew about us unfortunately.
I feel about this the same way I feel about White Rex & RVC. Let them take out their own trash for once.
Undisputed Reverse Noticing Champion of Jewsky
Thorough debunking by an actual professional genealogist of that ridiculous Ryan Grim post about Platner's wife being Jewish (sourced from a highly speculative post by the VDARE guy). Wife's ancestry is Bavarian Catholic, Platner's own is Palatine Calvinist, no Jews anywhere to be found.
“Platner’s wife is Jewish” appears to be a rumor started by a white supremacist, which, Ryan, if I were you, I would take as a massive red flag about my own ability to detect white supremacy
I went to high school with a Korean guy named Holmes
Ukraine’s Paralympics team jackets that were deemed “too political” for including the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine
The banned Ukrainian Paralympics jackets are so cool. I need one.
This is what happens when you build the entire brand of your party around the idea that any semi-normal journalist is part of some "fake news deep state lying press" that exists solely for the purpose of persecuting Republicans by accurately reporting what they say and do.
Average Ryan Grim fan
I actually haven’t slept since Purim last night so I needed a moment to figure out the halachic part
Spent too long arguing with him this morning but I had already placed my trades
Four years of “oh there’s still a war in Ukraine”’now these same people are asking me about drone warfare
Hamid Bendaas @HBendaas X.com 2026 is the year Americans hopefully learn about the Iranian, Cuban, and Venezuelan gusano leeches that parasitically feed off their host country, fixated on the single demand that Americans sacrifice their sons to their psychotic quest for revenge
This person is deeply unwell and has no business running comms for a rights org
And where did all of this lead you? Back to me.
The ones I know who feel this way are all Christians
The short version is getting bombed by Shias hits different.
They should hear how the 39% of Arab voters in favor of it talk about Iran & Hezbollah. Some Haifa Palestinians I know sound indistinguishable from the Soviet boomers.
Very easy for people in the West (who mostly saw Six Day War and subsequent operations as an Arab v. Israeli conflict) to forget this, since they were not directly involved. Much harder in Ukraine (and other ex-Soviet states) where people actually died fighting the Israelis.
