Ukraine's cards are:
-> a combat-hardened military with experience in modern warfare,
-> battle-tested and constantly upgraded technology,
-> a resilient society that has just survived the hardest winter of this war.

That's more cards than most countries around the world have.

Why Russia cannot help but invade The planned Trump-Putin summit in Budapest has been shelved. The White House says there's no point meeting unless "we're going to make a deal." Some view this as a setback for diplomacy, but it may we...

Tomorrow marks one year since Ukraine accepted the unconditional ceasefire proposed by the Trump administration.

For 365 days since, russia has rejected even a halt to hostilities and chosen WAR. Every. Single. Day.

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Too many push ups?

Because they are not your assets, they are already russian assets.

Scot free and the huge advantage the russian regime has is that they don't care for human life.
No democracy could tolerate even a fraction of the casualties they are takling nor get away with meat assault attacks.

I agree that russia will continue to be agressive unless it is actually defeated by Ukraine. But I dont think they will send tanks over the border into Poland. They will attack by fomenting internal problems in Poland, supporting extremists of all kinds etc. Look what they have done in the US...

Everything Orban does in the next month is purely to ensure he gets re-elected.
He would love pushback now so he can spin himself as the defender of Hungary.

There is no point in having a nuke unless people think you can use it.

When the US involvement ends depends on what Putin and Netanyahu want.

And neither are in a hurry to end it.

It should a massive wakeup call that Ukraine is outproducing the entire EU when it comes to cruise missiles.

Europe currently holds a fraction of the long-range arsenal required for real deterrence.

The potential is there. We just need to truly step up and build

It wouldn't surprise me one bit.

But there is no reason not to go to lowest price tender when buying autos when you can specify what you want.

Though they could also draft the conditions so tight that only one guy complies (eg chevy with a service centre in city X).

It doesn't matter if they get good drones or not.

They will get the contract, a big fat contract.

That's corruption.

Bottom line is that, for whatever reason, Trump is scared of Putin.
Real scared.

It's even simpler than that. Trump is afraid of Putin.

Why doesn't matter anymore.

Trump works for Putin. Plain & simple. I don’t know why, by now, anyone has a hard time saying that. Call Trump a Putin puppet, call him a Russian asset, whatever. The truth is the same. Trump works for Putin.

Some questions.... Did this deal go out to tender?

And just thinking if not...... perhaps the design and wrapping of the cars was an excuse to avoid competitive tendering...

Lets hope so. Putin will not be able to survive missiles raining down on Moscow in quantity.

That a very specific question/denial.

How would the US secure nuclear material in Iran?

Ship it out?
Permanently occupy a US enclave in Iran?

Nothing makes any sense.

And thats not even asking the "Why?" question.

Trump will never do anything meaningful against Putin.

We can guess why that is. Perhaps he has his reasons.

But the stooges that support him in both parties in Congress don't have those reasons. They could make this good if they wanted to.

But they won't.

All this focus on the Middle East is exactly what Putin wants.

Europe's absolute main priority must be helping Ukraine defeat Russia.

A victory for Ukraine secures our continent.

We cannot afford to look away while a war rages on our borders

Classic middleman grift operation.

Yeah. 50% of Americans have below average intelligence.

It's something else.

Yes, but a year late.

Tell me this is a joke...

How dare her!! 🧐🤨

"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

Lack of education, lack of objective media but above all lack of social cohesion.
Get wealthy yourself and if others are poor and lack education or healthcare, it's their own fault.
Why wouldn't they vote for Trump?

Don't forget that regional chaos might suit Netanyahu. But he didn't tell Trump that.

I say Trump is a clairvoyant….

Fine if Labour want to get tough with tech but they are still posting on X themselves so I doubt they are serious about fixing the toxic algorithms.

If the string was taut the vibration was supposed to carry the sound. Of course it never worked but that wasn't the point. We made things with our hands and then experimented to try to make them work. And built a game around it. A learning process ))