I’d be more convinced that Trump cares about supporting democracy abroad, including in Venezuela , if he didn’t cut US aid to democratic Ukraine fighting against autocratic Russia.

Venezuela should de-escalate by trading land for peace, pledge neutrality and now choose a leader Donald approves of. That's how it was supposed to work when do this to our neighbors.

BRACE YOURSELF: Emergency podcasts incoming.

From iron age tunnels to YouTube: Time Team’s ‘extraordinary’ digital renaissance theguardian.com/science/2026/j…

This is bad. May the army finally turn

Ms Mountebank A lot reporting that it was a negotiated exit between Maduro & US - if it was, that explains why it was done so quickly & smoothly. And CNN reporting that Maduro’s security was Cuban backed security forces. So might have been easy to get them to step back.

Deplorable | For sick Americans, a slick GoFundMe is a matter of life and death thetimes.com/article/0af589…

Dry January is definitely off for the FIFA Peace Prize Committee.

Actually, you don't ever have to accept the repulsive comparisons between the democratically elected Zelenskyy administration and the murderous autocrat Maduro who has rigged every election he has ever stood in. Whatever point you want to make can be made without doing that.

Unless you’re pregnant

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this

There is little that would hold back Trump from declaring US forces & bases in Greenland to be annexed as sovereign US territory, among other steps. A president who sees the world in terms of spheres of influence & resource acquisition would have little compunction about this.

insane

He is a deeply unwell, demented maniac and not one elected Republican will say or do a damn thing about how sick and twisted he is. He is getting worse every single hour of every day. Whenever you think he can’t possibly be more deranged, all you have to do is wait 5 minutes.

the most dire pre-election warnings about how Trump would damage America and the world, dismissed as hysterical at the time, were in fact understated

Putin tried to assassinate Zelensky repeatedly and failed. You could have skipped almost all four years of the war in Ukraine and have still known this.

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