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A major divergence has opened between the stock & bond prices of the same companies.
This has historically been a MAJOR warning signal.
A thread 🧵
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Taps the sign. It’s all so stupid. Russia should have no say in Ukrainian or European security structures any more than a local burglar should have a say in your home security system. Every concession makes more Russian aggression more likely and more likely to succeed.
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He claimed starshield wasn’t shut down. Then he claimed it was shutdown but not by his orders. Then he claimed he did shut it down. 100s of Ukrainians died. His action helped an enemy of the United States. As one of Elon’s biggest vendor we have a right to know if we can trust him.
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X could stop this, but it won't. This is a pro-Russian platform.
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Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden plan to fight as one force with 250 fighter jets.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are coordinating HIMARS and building a shared defense line. Europe could deter Russia with less US help — Matti Pesu, Foreign Affairs.
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Ajatus aktiivisista vastatoimista Venäjän likaiselle operaatioillle on hyvä. Meidän pitäisi iskeä takaisin.
Ei samalla tavalla, mutta kipeästi. Venäjän pelottelu loppuu, kuin asiat viedään pisteeseen, jossa Venäjää pelottaa.
Onko näitä tehty. Kyllä, mutta matalalla tasolla. Euroopassa on maita, joiden tiedustelu kykenee vastatoimiin.
Olemme samalla ulkoistaneet suuren osan aktiivisista vastatoimista Ukrainalle, joka ei arastele käydä Venäjän kimppuun.
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Former CIA Director David Petraeus:
With Budanov now heading the Presidential Office, Zelenskyy has someone close to him who deeply understands the military situation and ongoing operations.
I know Budanov well. He is very direct in his assessments. We first spoke by video when he was near the russian border, commanding one of the first operations on russian territory.
Petraeus in an interview with SpyCast:
Ukraine has the largest and most innovative army in Europe. It is doing what NATO armies would otherwise have to do themselves if russia achieved its objectives in Ukraine. Moldova would be next, and possibly Lithuania after that.
During my recent visit to Ukraine, a russian jet-powered drone struck the locomotive of a train on the track next to ours. The passengers on trains leaving Ukraine are mostly women and children. It was terrifying for them.
Russia has suffered 1.5 million killed and wounded, more than the United States suffered during the entire Second World War. Last month alone, Ukraine estimated approximately 46,000 russian casualties, while russia recruited only around 30,000 soldiers.
New recruits receive very little training. Ukrainian forces have captured russian soldiers who had been in the army for less than two weeks. They are practically cannon fodder.
Ukraine has struck every russian oil refinery within 3,000 kilometers of its border, many of them multiple times. Russian oil production has fallen below 9 million barrels per day for the first time since 2009.
Russians now use smartphone apps to find gas stations that still have fuel. The National Welfare Fund has been redirected toward the military-industrial complex and is expected to run out by the end of the year.
It is time for Europe and the United States to seize frozen russian reserves and provide them to Ukraine.
We tend to assume that Ukrainians are far ahead in military innovation, just as we assume the United States leads in artificial intelligence. But when you look closely, the gap is not always that large. In some areas, the russians have developed capabilities before the Ukrainians.
China, North Korea, and Iran are carefully studying what is happening in Ukraine.
The West needs to learn from Ukraine much faster. Simply buying drones for existing tank units is not enough. We need to fundamentally rethink our military structures because many traditional Western weapons systems would no longer survive on the Ukrainian battlefield. And we need to do this immediately.
The Ukrainian people have demonstrated extraordinary resilience. They have been absolutely unbreakable despite enormous pressure. But they are also exhausted, and another difficult winter lies ahead.
Source: SpyCast
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Nyt on raja tullut vastaan. Venäjän hybridikampanja Eurooppaa vastaan on muuttunut yhä aggressiivisemmaksi. Eurooppa ei voi loputtomiin tyytyä vain tuomitsemaan tekoja. Reagoiminen on valinta, mutta niin on reagoimattomuuskin. Moskovassa jälkimmäinen tulkitaan heikkoudeksi.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:
Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours. Now he has decided to finance it. These are already the longest 24 hours in human history.
Witkoff called putin a humanitarian. I have interviewed hundreds of people released from russian captivity. They were beaten, raped, locked in wooden boxes, had their fingers cut off, their fingernails ripped out, and were tortured with electric shocks to their genitals. One woman described how her eye was gouged out with a spoon.
What is happening now is an imitation of a peace process.
I met a five-year-old girl in Kyiv. The russians abducted her mother because of her pro-Ukrainian views, tortured her, and repeatedly gang-raped her. They then took her to russia and fabricated a criminal case against her.
The girl hugged me, burst into tears, and began begging: “Please, bring my mommy back.” I am a human rights lawyer, but I have no legal tools to force russia to return her. I hugged the girl and promised that we would fight for her mother.
Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was my friend and colleague. She traveled to the occupied territories to tell the truth about russian crimes. She was abducted, tortured, and secretly transferred to russia. She was held without formal charges and without contact with the outside world.
She was denied medical care. She weighed just 30 kilograms. The russians refused to return her body to her parents for six months. When they finally did, several internal organs, her eyes, her brain, and part of her trachea were missing. We still do not know how she died.
Viktoriia believed that the truth could save thousands of lives. That people in other countries, once they learned the truth, would make the right decisions.
My friend and teacher, Professor Ihor Kozlovskyi, spent 700 days in russian captivity. For months, he was held alone in a small, dark basement cell without windows or fresh air. Rats crawled out of the sewer.
He gave philosophy lectures to the rats just to hear a human voice. He was tortured so severely that after his release, he had to learn to walk again.
Kozlovskyi told me: “Everything I have experienced does not make me see myself as a victim. The foundation of our existence is dignity. And dignity is action.”
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Trumpin ymmärrys Ukrainan sodasta on yksinkertaisesti alkeellinen.
CBS:n haastattelussa Trump väitti rauhan suurimmaksi esteeksi Putinin ja Zelenskyin välistä vihaa. Täysin järjetön tulkinta. Venäjä miehitti Krimin ja aloitti sodan Itä-Ukrainassa jo 2014. Vuonna 2022 alkoi täysimittainen hyökkäys. Kyse ei ole henkilökohtaisesta riidasta vaan Venäjän yrityksestä alistaa itsenäinen naapurimaa.
Trump väittää myös, ettei sotaa käyty hänen ensimmäisellä presidenttikaudellaan. Itä-Ukrainassa kuitenkin sodittiin koko tuon ajan. Väite, ettei täysimittaista hyökkäystä olisi hänen kaudellaan tapahtunut, on egomaanista jossittelua.
Alhaisinta oli Trumpin väite, että Zelensky osoitti Venäjälle epäkunnioitusta johtajien ensimmäisessä tapaamisessa. Putin ja Zelensky tapasivat Pariisissa joulukuussa 2019, jolloin Venäjä oli sotinut Ukrainassa jo lähes kuusi vuotta.
Venäjä miehittää toisen valtion alueita, tappaa sen kansalaisia, mutta Yhdysvaltain presidentti moittii hyökkäyksen kohteeksi joutunutta johtajaa siitä, ettei tämä osoittanut hyökkääjälle tarpeeksi kunnioitusta?
Trump kehuu myös olleensa Venäjälle kovempi kuin kukaan muu. Hänen ensimmäinen hallintonsa aseisti Ukrainaa, mutta Helsingissä 2018 Trump kyseenalaisti oman tiedusteluyhteisönsä arviot Putinin rinnalla. Nyt hänen hallintonsa on helpottanut venäläisen dieselin kauppaa. Kovuus on valikoivaa.
Trump ei myöskään usko Putinin pitkittävän neuvotteluja. Samaan aikaan Venäjä pommittaa Ukrainan kaupunkeja ja vaatii alueluovutuksia ja Ukrainan itsemääräämisoikeuden kaventamista. Putin on kieltäytynyt kaikista ehdotetuista tulitauoista, Zelenskyi ollut valmis niistä jokaiseen.
Trump ennakoi myös Ukrainan rajojen muuttuvan. Hän puhuu toisen valtion alueista kuin kiinteistökehittäjä tonttien rajoista.
Trumpin luulee, että kansainvälinen politiikka toimii kuin kiinteistökauppa. Kun vaikeat osapuolet saadaan pöytään ja nimet paperiin, riita on ratkaistu.
Ukrainan sota ei ole väärinkäsitys, joka korjataan yhdellä kynänvedolla. Sodan taustalla on Venäjän imperialistinen käsitys naapurimaistaan ja Putinin pyrkimys riistää Ukrainalta oikeus päättää omasta tulevaisuudestaan.
Tämän ymmärtäminen edellyttää historian, valtioiden intressien ja johtajien motiivien tuntemista. Ei riitä, että julistaa olevansa maailman paras neuvottelija.
Menestyminen liikemiehenä ei tee kenestäkään hyvää poliittista johtajaa. Kiinteistökaupassa epäonnistuminen voi maksaa rahaa. Tässä se voi maksaa kansakunnan itsenäisyyden ja kylvää seuraavan sodan siemenet.
Trumpille rauha näyttää olevan sopimus, jonka hän voi julistaa voitokseen. Ukrainalle se on mahdollisuus elää itsenäisenä ilman uuden hyökkäyksen uhkaa. Ne eivät ole sama asia.
Sodan suurin este ei ole Zelenskyin ja Putinin viha. Se on Venäjän haluttomuus luopua tavoitteista, joiden vuoksi se aloitti sodan.
Liikemiehet eivät ole kummoisia poliittisia johtajia.
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🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Imagine China invades the United States. Chinese troops occupy Alaska. Chinese missiles destroy American cities, power stations and hospitals. Beijing complains that Washington has been behaving provocatively by refusing to surrender.
President Donald Trump appears on television, desperately appealing to Europe for help.
Europe’s response?
“Donald, shut up. You don’t have the cards. You’re in a very bad position. You should be grateful we’re even talking to you.”
Then a Chinese missile strikes an elementary school in Washington. Dozens of American children are killed.
A European leader is asked whether Beijing should be held responsible.
“Look, it’s terrible. Absolutely terrible. But we must remember that people are dying on both sides. Chinese soldiers are being killed by American troops, too. We cannot simply blame China because some American children have died. We need to understand the legitimate security concerns of both countries.”
Meanwhile, reports emerge that 50,000 American children have been forcibly taken by Chinese occupation forces. Children from Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas and Texas have been transported to China, separated from their parents and placed with Chinese families.
Europe urges everyone to remain calm.
“Frankly, some of these children have been placed with better Chinese families. Very respectable people. Lovely homes. We mustn’t allow emotional arguments about children to derail the peace process.”
Trump demands their immediate return.
European leaders roll their eyes.
“Honestly, the man is exhausting. Every time we speak to Trump, it’s the same bloody thing. Anti-aircraft missiles, air defence systems, ammunition, weapons, weapons, weapons. Can’t he just shut up for five minutes? We’re trying to negotiate peace here.”
Meanwhile, Europe demands that Washington immediately stop attacking Chinese oil refineries and military infrastructure.
“American strikes are escalating the conflict and threatening global energy prices. Beijing needs reassurance that its infrastructure will be protected.”
China continues systematically destroying America’s electricity grid, bridges and railway networks.
Europe calls for restraint. From America, naturally.
European envoys then fly to Beijing to negotiate lucrative deals involving gas from occupied Alaska and a magnificent new North American security architecture.
“We must address China’s legitimate security concerns. Perhaps America could withdraw its troops from certain states and reconsider its military alliances. After all, Beijing has genuine concerns about American military forces operating so close to Chinese positions.”
The Chinese positions are in Texas.
Trump protests that nobody has asked the Americans what they think.
“Donald, we’re negotiating peace. Please stop being difficult. China’s security concerns are just as legitimate as yours.”
Eventually, Brussels announces a historic agreement with Beijing determining the future of North America.
The Americans are invited to applaud.
Now, if this sounds like foreign policy devised by a committee of spectacularly incompetent estate agents attempting to sell a house while its owners are being murdered upstairs, congratulations. Your brain is functioning.
In modern American diplomacy, the country invading its neighbour deserves security guarantees, commercial opportunities and understanding.
And the children?
Well, there are always two sides to every story.
The moral collapse of a government.
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I have a history PhD from Oxford and try to support all of my historical claims with strong evidence, particularly when regarding the president of the United States.
But based on a comprehensive review of 250 years of American history, it is simply irrefutable that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt president in U.S. history when it comes to using the office to enrich himself and his family.
Here are the facts, and why there isn’t even a close second.
Trump’s own federal financial disclosure reported more than $1.4 billion in 2025 income from family crypto ventures, including about $635 million from his meme coin and nearly $800 million from World Liberty Financial. Reuters separately estimated that the family added at least $2.3 billion to its fortune from crypto ventures after Trump returned to the White House.
The clearest example of how Trump used the office came in May 2025. The 220 biggest holders of his meme coin were invited to dine with the sitting president at his private golf club. The coin jumped more than 60 percent when the dinner was announced. To get a seat at the table, you had to buy and hold a product that made the president money. Trump turned access to the presidency into a sales pitch.
The foreign dealings raise an even more serious question. Four days before Trump took office, an investment vehicle backed by a UAE national security official agreed to pay $500 million for nearly half of World Liberty Financial. The Wall Street Journal reported that $187 million of the initial payment was directed to Trump family entities.
Trump is clearly not the first United States president to be guilty of corruption, but the size and scale of his malfeasance put him in a league of his own.
Under Ulysses S. Grant, whiskey distillers and federal officials pocketed money by cheating the government out of liquor taxes. Under Warren Harding, Interior Secretary Albert Fall took bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves. Richard Nixon had a personal tax scandal, but his defining abuse of presidential power was the Watergate cover-up, an effort to protect his hold on office. LBJ’s political connections helped turn a small Texas radio station into a family broadcasting empire.
By September 2025, less than eight months into Donald Trump’s second term, he and his family were roughly $5 billion richer than they had been around the 2024 election, according to Forbes. In comparison, a reasonable estimate is that all 44 other U.S. presidents combined added about $250 million to their wealth while in office, adjusted to today’s dollars. That puts the Trump family’s gain at about 20 times the estimated combined total for all other presidents over the course of two and half centuries.
The election results were, at least in part, a clear repudiation of this staggering and historically unprecedented corruption. Congress now has a mandate to investigate, follow the money, pursue the recovery of all ill-gotten gains, and enact enforceable safeguards so that no president can ever again use the White House as a vehicle for personal enrichment.
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- Radoslaw Sikorski:
"I suspect Trump thought that if there were no further supplemental package, Ukraine would find itself in difficulty much faster, and the war might therefore be brought to an end because Ukraine would be forced into concessions.
I think they will eventually find that, with European support, Ukraine is not falling, and that the war cannot be ended without Ukrainian agreement and without European agreement as well, because, to use a Trumpian term, US cards are not as strong as they were."
(Clash report)
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Last night, while you were sleeping or glued to the US election results, Musk spent over six hours deleting his posts and further tightening his algorithm.
Last night, we watched as Musk systematically erased all traces of the bots and trolls he used against you.
These small details don't go unnoticed by some of us.
Perhaps they do for you, since you still consider him a genius who suffers for the poor Russians sent for money to kill Ukrainians.
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So, let me flag a few things, traitor.
1. "European security architecture" is a phrase the Kremlin uses. We already have one: it's called NATO.
2. You conflate (as you always do) the victim of this war with the aggressor. The aggressor is Russia.
3. "Root causes" is Russian for "do it our way" and you know it.
4. Nothing a word about Russian withdrawal, the occupied territories, POWs or deported children. Weird.
5. Lavrov wrote this for you.
6. Fuck Putin, fuck Russia, and fuck you.
President Trump today advanced an important discussion with several European leaders about the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace.
Building on his leadership and the substantive work undertaken this week in Brussels with Ukraine, NATO, and our European partners, @SEPeaceMissions and I wanted to share some of the objectives guiding our ongoing discussions.
For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework. Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.
Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.
We are exploring five principal goals: permanent security consultations, reliable crisis communications, greater military transparency, reciprocal measures to reduce escalation risks, and an enduring framework for long-term European security and stability.
Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation. Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices. NATO will remain central to European collective defense, and this initiative would build upon existing institutions and commitments.
We will continue consultations through the Shell Bay format with Ukraine, NATO, the EU, and our European partners, expanding engagement to ensure that all relevant perspectives and ideas are considered. We will also engage Russia as part of the peace negotiations.
Next week in Abu Dhabi, the United States will convene the first trilateral peace discussions with Ukraine and Russia since February. All parties remain intensely engaged in preparing for substantive and productive negotiations. We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.
These ideas continue to evolve, and we welcome thoughtful input. Creating the right structure will be critical to ending this war and transitioning from conflict toward conditions that make possible a durable peace.
This is difficult, detailed work. There are no easy solutions. But the opportunity to help end this devastating war and build a foundation for a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Europe for generations to come makes it a challenge well worth undertaking.
We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.
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Now we'll finally learn what's in the Epstein files. Mike Johnson is no longer in a position to shut down the House in order to prevent votes on measures to force their release. It's time. It's past time.
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No wonder the mood in the Kremlin 🇷🇺 is far from jubilant. Trump is still there, that’s at least something, but the possibilities for moving forward with corrupt 🇺🇸🇷🇺 economic deals in order to isolate 🇺🇦 are now much more limited. Putin might have to conclude that he must get out of his war before 🇺🇸 policies start to change even more.
