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Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris and guest Jeffery Sachs discuss Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.From the video: Jeffery Sachs: (Putin discusses) "a remarkable truth. The end of the Soviet Union did not at all end the US pressure and attacks on Russia. "And, I think this is the real lesson of this -- it wasn't actually anti-communism, it was anti-Russia. And, it goes back two centuries, I would say, to British Russophobia..a century before communism. "And the reason is Russia is big and powerful. And, in the British and US grand strategy, that, per se, is a threat,...

Aidan McLaughlin @aidnmclaughlin Vivek in his 2022 book: "It was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the last election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is running for executive office again."

DC_Draino @DC_Draino Vivek announced on Twitter Space he wants America to enter into Obama’s TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) Said Trump got it wrong by pulling out Translation: He wants to outsource more middle class jobs to Asia 5:10 PM · Jul 28, 2023

Regarding mobilisation, Putin can declare it, indeed. But it will be a risky decision. The USSR maintained a massive infrastructure for the total mobilisation which has been mostly dismantled in post-Soviet Russia. Mobilisation is more likely to trigger political chaos short🧵 Imagine, the government declared a total mobilisation and millions of young males are drafted into the army. What next? Now you need to: 1) test & allocate them (who goes where) 2) train & arm them 3) quarter & feed them 4) place them under the capable officers and NCOs In order to execute 1-4 in case of the...

A leftist prosecutor, supported by far-left billionaire activist George Soros, has lost his bid to be returned to his job while his court case over his suspension develops. The former prosecutor, Andrew Warren, had been suspended by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after he openly announced he would not do his job. WND had reported only days ago that Warren “openly announced he would defy state law regarding child sex changes.” DeSantis said Warren, who was the Hillsborough County state attorney, had “indicated his intent to refuse to enforce laws in state related to abortion and child transgender surgery.” Just the...

Russian Orthodox Church opposes adoption of children from Russia by citizens of countries that support LGBT. Metropolitan Leonid of Klin, the Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, believes more work should be done on a bill banning adoptions of children from Russia by citizens of unfriendly countries. "This morning I looked through the list of friendly countries again. And if the political attitude of some of them suits us, their attitude toward marriage (which is a union of a man and a woman), their governments’ approval of gay parades and support for aggressive LGBT communities, etc., make it absolutely impossible to raise...

Former Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren is campaigning for his job back and asking for donations. In a video released Sunday morning, Warren, who was recently suspended from his position by Gov. Ron DeSantis, stated, “Ron DeSantis is trying to overthrow democracy in Florida,” adding that the action DeSantis took against him “violates the most fundamental basis of our democracy.” “His plot to suspend me lately violates the most fundamental basis of our democracy— your vote. He’s turned to overturn the results of a fair and free election,” said Warren, who claims that crime in the jurisdiction he once...

Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves (file photo) Serving as president of Estonia between 2006 and 2016, and foreign minister before that, Toomas Hendrik Ilves has always been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin's Russia. Speaking by Zoom from Estonia, Ilves pours water on the idea of negotiating with Russia and says that Georgia's position on the war in Ukraine is "absolutely despicable." RFE/RL: There are many people who think that the roots of what is going on now in Ukraine, and what happened in Georgia in 2008, go back to the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest and the refusal...

He was a good student. In Ukraine’s first years as an independent nation he earned a place studying law at Kryvyi Rih Economic Institute, the local campus of Kyiv National Economic University. But it was his talent as a performer that was clear to fellow high school student Irina Shport, who starred alongside Vova in a production of Marriage by Nikolai Gogol – a play about a botched matchmaking. Among a high-calibre cohort, “he was always No. 1”, she says. One of the few creative outlets in Soviet times was the live television comedy KVN (Klub vesyólykh i nakhódchivykh or...

Appearing Sunday on NBC News’ Meet the Press, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged the West to “double down” on its pressure against Russia as its military invasion of Ukraine drags on.

Russian state television has broadcast an extraordinary rant about the state of the war in Ukraine, warning Vladimir Putin’s regime faces “final and complete defeat”. Yakov Kedmi, an Israeli-Russian pundit and former diplomat, is usually a reliably pro-Kremlin voice. But in an appearance on the prime time show Tonight with Vladimir Soloviyev, he was remarkably negative about the situation in Ukraine. Mr Kedmi said Russia could not afford to compromise on the initial goal of its invasion, which was to take major Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, and overthrow the government. In his view, anything less than that –...

Discussion on the potential deescalation of the war in Ukraine with all security implications it has illustrates the difference between the goal- oriented and the system-oriented thinkingFor example if you want to deescalate the war in Ukraine, what would your best strategy be? Goal-oriented people understand that the only person who could stop the war immediately is Putin himself. Thus they suggest focusing on negotiations with him and persuading him to back offSounds reasonable. And yet, this approach ignores the factor of human will. And goal-oriented people lowkey admit it. For example, when justifying Putin's actions they often point out...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Sunday suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin should not be allowed back into the "world order" and that the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine should be a moment in which the globe rethinks its dependence on Russian energy.

Filling in for regular Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt, Campos-Duffy repeatedly claimed that Russia’s “red line” was the possibility of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO, suggesting that the U.S. had brought this upon Ukraine by considering expanding the alliance. “If you look at that map and the areas that have say could end up in a peace agreement, that’s true,” she declared. “That’s why we should have never provoked them. They made very clear there was a red line. The red line was a neutrality for Ukraine. That they could not enter NATO.” Moments later, she once again...

Monday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on President Joe Biden to “go after anybody and everybody who tries to prop up the war criminal” that is Russian President Vladimir Putin. To prevent China from partnering with Russia in its invasion of Ukraine, Graham suggested sanctioning China. He also warned Russia taking over Ukraine would be a “death sentence for Taiwan.”

UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s “illegal, unprovoked” and “cruel” war against Ukraine is underscoring the many different ways in which peace, security and a stable climate are linked, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday. The United States is responding by banning the import of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas and coal, “and many other nations are now rethinking their reliance on Russian energy sources,” Kerry said. The “instability, conflict, death destruction” in Ukraine is happening in the context of “a global existential crisis” of global warming that scientists have warned about for decades, he said. “We are actually living through...

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw was caught on video snapping at a young girl at a Texas Tea Party event on Monday evening, earning furious heckling from GOP voters there. One angry audience member shouted that the girl was just 10 years old. She had asked the veteran-turned-lawmaker about recent comments he made suggesting Jesus Christ was not 'real' despite publicly declaring himself a devout Christian, during a question session at the at the Montgomery County Tea Party meeting. 'The important thing is that we societal hero archetypes that we look up to. Jesus is a hero archetype, Superman is a...

MADISON — John Chisholm’s reputation for injecting politics into prosecution precedes him, and that might be reason enough why no Milwaukee taxpayer has yet to file a complaint (as of Wednesday night) against the Democratic Milwaukee County district attorney on charges of prosecutorial misconduct, legislative sources say. Republican lawmakers, among others, are urging Gov. Tony Evers to fire Chisholm after his office recommended a mere $1,000 bail for the man suspected to have killed six people and injured some 60 more in the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre. As Empower Wisconsin reported Wednesday, Evers will not even consider opening an investigation...

Darrell Brooks is the career felon who killed five people and injured over 40 by purposely barreling through a barricade and driving through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Sunday. Not only does Brooks have the proverbial rap sheet a mile long, but he’s apparently a BLM supporter general hater of white people.Not the perpetrator for which the left was hoping. Despite the MSM’s accomplished and accustomed lying, Brooks is a tough customer for them to make into a saint. If they can’t do that, they’ll try to make sure he is forgotten as quickly as possible, much like...

Darrell Brooks was busted in March 2007 for calling in a bomb threat to the $43-per-night Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada, ... He was put on probation after being convicted of conspiring to disturb the peace - a gross misdemeanor - and was banned from the casino for life.. His rap sheet also includes a conviction for statutory sexual seduction – the term for sex with a minor aged 16 or under in Nevada law - in January 2007.. Brooks was also charged with failing to inform the police of a change of address while a registered sex offender.....