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  • Country That Allegedly Had No Cards to Play Keeps Finding New Cards to Play

    06/04/2025 6:34:27 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 82 replies
    National Review ^ | June 2, 2025 | Jim Geraghty
    President Trump, angrily, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, February 28: “You don’t have the cards! You’re buried there! Your people are dying! You’re running low on soldiers!” Since that time . . . In March alone, the Russians suffered an estimated 41,000 combined killed or wounded in action, with 272 Russian tanks, 1,644 artillery systems, and 607 combat armored vehicles destroyed or disabled. (Since the start of the war, Russia has lost an estimated 12,835 tanks and armored vehicles, 305 aircraft, and 22 naval vessels.) Without anything resembling a manned navy, Ukraine has largely nullified the...
  • Scoop: Trump admired Ukraine's "badass" attack, but worries what's next

    06/05/2025 3:37:19 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 50 replies
    Axios ^ | 6/5/2025 | Marc Caputo, Barak Ravid
    President Trump thought Ukraine's surprise drone attack over the weekend was "strong" and "badass," sources who discussed it with him tell Axios, but he's also concerned it will make his ceasefire mission even harder. -snip- He has been surprisingly mum in public when it comes to his personal feelings about Ukraine's attack. In private, though, he marveled at the operation. Behind the scenes: "Pretty strong," Trump told one confidant, who relayed his remarks to Axios. "He thought it was badass," a second source said of Trump's reaction. One Trump adviser said: "From an international perspective, you've got a chihuahua inflicting...