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There are still some sensible Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/politics/video/don-bacon-trump-criticism-russia-ukraine-digvid
Yep the main obstacle seems to be Lagarde who invented bullshit reasons not to hand over Russian assets
But cracks are starting to appear
Interesting twitter thread this .. about TRUMP being a possible russian agent of old. Here is the UNROLLED version:
Starts with:
July 1987, Moscow, USSR — Trump, 41 years old, flies to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Yuri Dubinin.Upon returning from Moscow, the bankrupt Trump suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and, without negotiation.
This is the original tweet thread:
https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1898714233384181912
@aidanodr
yes, but will no doubt end up relevant here when Trump blames it on his enemies (Ukraine/EU/UK)…
not gonna lie that was thought 1.5…..
@AndyBoBandy Seperate thread on this here:
Or….these days….Ukraine! Will be interesting to find out the crew nationalities of the Solong!
Very hard to believe, with all the aids to navigation and safety, and relatively close to coast/port, that one ship ploughs into another at anchor, completely by accident!
I ran across an article describing the connections between Orban and the Heritage Foundation / Project 2025, here:
There are definitely well resourced organisations within the EU, especially Poland and Hungary, that are aligned with The Heritage Foundation, and they have been looking to destroy the EU for decades. For sure the EU may need to eject Hungary if Orban insists on working in Russia's interests instead of the EU's.
Now this is interesting…
A U.S. tanker, the 'Stena Immaculate', one of a fleet of 10 with a contract to supply the U.S. Armed forces with fuel, which was at anchor off the coast of The Humber estuary on England's east coast was T-Boned by a Portuguese container ship 'Solong' at full speed (15kts) and as a result, both ships went on fire.
https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2025/0310/1501216-tanker/
Even though there was some light fog, it should be incredibly difficult for something like this to happen by accident!
1st thoughts were Russia, then 2nd thoughts were the U.S. (false flag)… but conspiracies aside, a very odd event.
Funnily enough that's where I heard it… as I didn't finish listening over the weekend and only managed to finish this morning… but yeah, sounds like we need to move fast as the next renewal is July, by which point Hungary & Slovakia might be told to block it…
There was a very interesting interview with Sir Bill Browder of the Magnitsky act fame on this subject last week
There were reports yesterday from Ukrainians on front that anytime they switch on starlink terminals Russian drones arrive at location
Which has disturbing implications as that POS Musk cant be trusted
The EU extend the freezing of the assets for 6 months, every 6 months, and requires unanimous approval from all EU states to do so.
To date even Hungary & Slovakia were a part of that unanimous decision, but now with Trump running the show, perhaps they might be emboldened to not agree…. And if they do the funds are unlocked and Russia can get them back immediately.
Delightful
Looks like Mr Musks X is down
IRISH VERSION - https://downdetector.ie/status/twitter/ INTERNATIONAL VERSION ( Loads of comments ) - https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
HEATMAP:
Just trying it on my desktop system and getting THIS SITE NOT REACHED
EDIT - its back again, but looks like its been dropping since about 9am according to downdetectors chart above
Its up but iffy:
Seems to be treason season.
Okay but the question remains as to what those staging the scene are hoping to achieve. If they are actors I actually think it's even more likely the thing is some sort of F.U. to the West and Ukraine…
Anyways, interesting tidbit on newstalk this morning, they said Irish central bank is sitting on 2bn euro of Russian assets
Yes, it looks like Maxar is supplying images to the Orcs they shouldn't, but some sources claim Ukraine can still get images by paying. They are also getting images from multiple other sources, such as French and UK military satellites.
I suspect the biggest issue is likely to be image analysis tools I surmise the US have that others don't.
Ukraine retains access to Maxar satellite images: what is known about the new conditionsThe TVIS company, which is the official distributor of the American company Maxar in Ukraine and a supplier of high-resolution satellite images, continues to provide services to authorized Ukrainian users. But only for money.Thus, Ukrainian intelligence, which previously received such photos for free (or rather, they were paid for by the US government), may continue to receive them - subject to payment.
Ukraine retains access to Maxar satellite images: what is known about the new conditions
The TVIS company, which is the official distributor of the American company Maxar in Ukraine and a supplier of high-resolution satellite images, continues to provide services to authorized Ukrainian users. But only for money.
Thus, Ukrainian intelligence, which previously received such photos for free (or rather, they were paid for by the US government), may continue to receive them - subject to payment.
Plus the Ukrainians have been fighting this war since before the first Trump presidency. The difference now is that Trump II's deference to Putin has ignited a coordinated military European effort to fill the void left by the USA.
Edit to add, although losing US support now might be a setback, having a solidified European posture against present and future threats from Russia is far better than relying on a USA that could have been pulled away in the even of another middle east adventure.
Trump removing the Kursk card from Ukraine while empowering Russia. Putin will be happy to agree a pause if it means he keeps current territory and next time a democrat gets in he'll go for more.
Tbh Ukraine with the Trump situation might settle for a ceasefire during his term and wait it out until a pro Ukrainian US president returns.
Obviously best scenario would have been a US president helping now to turn the tide but that's not the reality.
US satellite companies stopping supplying Ukraine data and information that is already bought and paid for.
US satellite companies instead supplying the bought and paid for by Ukraine sat access to the Russian and North Korean military to use against Ukraine.
Is that where we are now?
that was the time when NATO , etc, etc, etc, was VERY pro Europe , etc, etc, etc,etc and everything was going ‘ swimmingly’ in that direction
Poland was very pro-Trump in 2016-20 and Trump even addressed a huge rally of tens of thousands of Polish people on one of his visits there. This is really cretinous behaviour.
It's also possible that they're not actually the mothers of soldiers but party actors, there for the staged shoot.
whoda thunk it would take a gang of extreme capitalist pigs (Trumpy the carnival show man, fascist tech oligarchs, mega rich Republican politicians) to make wildest dreams and fantasies of European "Commie" pro Putin nuts left over from the Cold war come true.
Throwing Ukraine to Russian wolves, and (IMO) holing a US led NATO / US military involvement in European defence below the waterline as well…all of their Christmases come at once.
I they think Ukraine is going to have to negotiate a peace treaty with Putin.
Trump is on putins side he has stopped even giving satellite data to Ukraine They, would have to get massive aid from the EU to even stand a chance of keeping the land they have now .eg billions of aid missiles bombs that's probably not going to happen
900k Russian troops have died and putin is launching new attacks in ukraines power infrastructure
Crazy how only just recently we were thinking Kursk would last another 6 months. The Trump effect. Pity he didn't want to turn Kursk into the Riviera of Russia.
I don’t think it’s trolling, I think they are deliberately trying to manipulate search engine algorithms
As the word “meatgrinder” they themselves coined for their own “meat” (another word they themselves coined for their own) one could say … cuts a bit close to the bone
and there lies the problem for Trump, Russians won’t negotiate as they have no intentions of wrapping up the war they started and for Ukrainians negotiations means complete capitulation now followed by decades of poverty, rape, and millions exterminated
I said few pages earlier by giving everything to Russia trump just lost any leverage he might have had
All stick and zero carrots and guarantees of future stick is not a recipe for peace
Indeed- look where “cosying up” has got us.
The rule book for international relations is being rewritten - Europe needs to identify its true friends now - IF the Ukraine war ends or a truce is implemented- far from certain - I reckon Trump will then concentrate on opening markets with Russia again - something the EU won’t be in favour of- I think that’s when the sh1t will really hit the fan
