It doesn’t take an expert in body language or diplomacy to know something went terribly sideways in Alaska at Trump’s hasty “summit” with Putin. Just listen to the descriptions from journalists. (1/2)

1/2. The phrase "land swap" is being used to mean "Ukraine concedes land illegally occupied by Russia and also concedes territory that is not even occupied." That is not a swap.

For tomorrow: US population: 340 million EU Pop. 450 M EU+UK+UKR 565 M Russia 143M US GDP 29 Trillion EU GDP 20 T EU + UK 24 T Russia 2.2 T What does neither the US nor Europe get? Trump thinks Russia is the only other superpower. Europe thinks it’s not a superpower.

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Exceptionally true, sharp, no-BS headline for a lead news story in the New York Times.

This is a one-and-a-half-year-old girl who was killed today in Kharkiv by russia. And just a reminder: the person behind all of this is still being given red carpets

Monday morning, 18 August, in Ukraine. Due to Russian strikes: Kharkiv - 7 people killed, including 2 children and 20 injured Zaporizhzhia - 17 injured Donetsk region - 3 killed and 5 injured Sumy - a university building damaged Odesa - Nova Poshta terminal and a fuel

Based on reports—including those even Fox isn’t denying—it looks like Trump’s Alaska summit went so sideways that staffers like Caroline Leavitt and Steve Witkoff reportedly left “ashen” and wide-eyed. I wasn’t in the room, but if seasoned operatives come out looking like they

Russia keeps saying that Ukraine must accept the situation on the ground. But the situation on the ground is that Russia does not control the territories it wants. It's as simple as that

Zelenskyy is going to meet Trump with European leaders — Von der Leyen, Rutte, Macron, Starmer, Merz, Meloni, Stubb. This is unprecedented. The goal is to show that Putin is trying to deceive Trump. 1/

Strange, I don't recall anyone from Fox News asking Putin, "Are you prepared to keep sending Russian troops to their deaths or are you going to call off your unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?" This game of blaming Zelensky & Ukraine for being invaded and murdered is disgusting.

Seriously The New York Times. Wtf. Russia illegally annexing territory it violently invaded is a “land deal” like a car jacking at gunpoint is a “car deal”

Ponder this. Bondi, Patel and that guy from Fox and a thousand FBI agents saw videos of men raping young girls, possibly even “the boss”. That’s a lot of people on the payroll knowing that secret

This may all end in tears but its an enormous credit to Zelensky that in barely an instant Europe's leaders flew across the world to all stand beside him at the White House.

Zelenskyy, Starmer, Von der Leyen, Macron, Rutte, Meloni, Merz and Stubb were there for Ukraine and durable peace. Trump was there for Putin and endless war.

Watch Vance’s face during Zelensky’s answer

"Before the Alaska meeting, everybody wanted a ceasefire—Trump, the Ukrainians, our European allies, etc.—except Putin. And not only did Trump fail to secure a ceasefire, he abandoned the proposal for one entirely." --Kevin Williamson thedispatch.com/newsletter/wan…

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Z planned well. Learned from the last disaster. Brought backup. Dissed Trump, then promised him money (which Trump was too dumb to realize would be impounded Putin money) made nice with the morons called the Press and then continued to fight against a murderous dictator.

Trump fired the smart people we had running Ukraine because they caught him grifting Z. Remember that Z knows Donny is above all crook. If he can pay him off with the $300 billion Europe froze and make Trump feel he fucked Z for Vlad. I'm good with that. reuters.com/world/europe/r…