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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
The US is once again deliberately allowing Ukrainian civilians to be killed
We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory – in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine. The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour – that’s 100 miles per hour.
This directly affects our ability to intercept Russian jet-powered “shahed” drones. These drones come from those areas, and because of the speed restrictions, we simply cannot catch up with them in time.
Near the frontline, we cannot use our aircraft. Only drone interceptors can operate there. And without the speed we need, shooting down these “shaheds” becomes much harder.
This means more Russian strikes get through, and more of our people are killed by Russia. We are trying to get the details from the American side, but so far, we know very little.
If someone in America is making decisions that basically treat Ukrainian territory as if it is not Ukrainian, then this tells us where things are going. We need to be clear and never recognize Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory in any way.
From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (3/3)
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Thanks so much, @ProfPaulPoast! I feel like at this point there should be an “IR Book of the Week” sticker for book jackets
IR Book of the Week! "The Realist" by David Sacks.
There is arguably no important thinker in the international relations thought that Hans Morgenthau. And there is, without question, no better book on Morgenthau's life and work that this new biography.
amazon.com/dp/B0G76XYWT6
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
My sources confirm what appears to be another deliberate throttling of Starlink Starshield. At speeds above 160kmh. They noticed it happening immediately after this week’s negotiations, which predictably went nowhere. “They are trying to train us,” says one source.
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Trump on Iran on Nov. 9: "I hope we're going to be able to make a deal with them." "They wanna make a deal."
Trump on Iran on Nov. 12: "We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed."
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
More evidence of Russian war crimes, while Kushner and Witkoff meet with the Russians, yet again.
Footage exclusively obtained from Ukrainian authorities and analyzed by CNN reveals new details of how Russia struck an underground shelter and aid hub in southeastern Ukraine with a massive bunker-busting bomb.
Russia, which consistently denies targeting civilians, has not commented on the strike itself. In a statement to state media, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had attacked Ukrainian military units in the area that day. cnn.it/3WBpTMC
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
"There could be some unexpected bipartisan agreement to reorient U.S. foreign policy in a direction that most Americans can support," @MaxBoot writes. wapo.st/4esNhC9
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Going to go out on a limb here and say there is zero change Donald Trump actually wrote this.
NEW
The New York Times has obtained the letter President Trump left for President Biden in the Oval Office in 2021.
The letter — which Trump wrote by hand using his signature black Sharpie — is printed in Biden’s forthcoming presidential memoir.
Full Story: nyti.ms/4zbXc6m
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Even with Republicans in control, there is little support for a 50% increase in defense spending to $1.5 trillion. Not when the federal debt has surpassed the size of the economy for the first time since WWII. Both parties should work together to trim the fat, beginning by eliminating Trump boondoggles such as the “Golden Fleet” and the “Golden Dome.” Oh, and Congress could end the costly efforts to redesign aircraft carriers to accommodate Trump’s eccentric preference for obsolescent steam catapults. wapo.st/4BSnqNO
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
There is a bipartisan, perhaps even a veto-proof, majority to support Ukraine and oppose Vladimir Putin’s aggression, given that only 3% of Americans side with Russia. Congress could pass additional aid to Ukraine, ensure that Starlink stays turned on, send Russian funds frozen in the US to Kyiv and strengthen sanctions on Moscow without any presidential waiver. Congressional leaders can offer Trump a deal: They’ll give him money to finish the White House ballroom in return for more Patriots to Ukraine. wapo.st/4BSnqNO
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Even among Republicans, there is little support for annexing Greenland, seizing Venezuela’s oil, waging a cold war with Canada, cutting off Ukraine, insulting and indiscriminately tariffing allies, fawning over authoritarians, buying diesel from Russia, launching a war on Iran, blowing up alleged drug boats and making lucrative deals abroad that benefit the first family.
It’s just possible that out of the wreckage of the MAGA party will emerge a chastened group of lawmakers who are willing to work with Democrats to reorient U.S. foreign policy in a direction that actually puts America, rather than Trump, first. wapo.st/4BSnqNO
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
It’s depressing but likely correct that lawmakers who care about the interests of the US and the free world, which include defending Ukraine, could trade for the only thing Trump cares about, which is self-enrichment and aggrandizement. His loyalty to Putin must be pressed.
There is a bipartisan, perhaps even a veto-proof, majority to support Ukraine and oppose Vladimir Putin’s aggression, given that only 3% of Americans side with Russia. Congress could pass additional aid to Ukraine, ensure that Starlink stays turned on, send Russian funds frozen in the US to Kyiv and strengthen sanctions on Moscow without any presidential waiver. Congressional leaders can offer Trump a deal: They’ll give him money to finish the White House ballroom in return for more Patriots to Ukraine. wapo.st/4BSnqNO
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Let's count the ways in which Stephen Miller is like Roy Cohn. Trump yelled in frustration during his first term: "Where's my Roy Cohn?". Stephen Miller wants to fill the shoes of Trump's mentor, but it won't be easy.
nytimes.com/2026/11/09/opini…
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
OLD GUY’S CAUTION: Since Watergate comparisons of ‘74 & ‘26 are widespread, it’s worth remembering that after ‘74 anti-Nixon landslide, it was simply assumed Dems would win White House in ‘76. Despite major D advantages (unelected R POTUS who pardoned Nixon and was nearly denied R nomination—& much more), Carter only beat Ford 50-48%—and Electoral College nearly tipped to Ford. Two years is two eternities (esp. with Trump), and nothing is ever guaranteed. Choose wisely, Dems.
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
The outcome of Tuesday’s elections may have been staggering, but it’s not the first time a president or party has been upbraided at the ballot box.
@MaxBoot, @KateAndrs, @keithrichburg and @kathleenparker reflect on historical midterm waves and what lessons they have for the present: wapo.st/4iFs5de
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
The problem, Mr. Kushner, isn't that we don't have principles for European security. The problem is that Russia has singularly violated every one of the principles and ignored or withdrawn from every treaty and agreement that implemented them. /7
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Hegseth is caught fighting a two front information/ perception war
First, he has to convince his boss not to fire him - seemingly by becoming even more adversarial to congress
Then he will have to turn around and convince those congressmen not to impeach him after spending his days telling them how much they suck
Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
He still doesn’t know which side is invading and which one is defending itself.
