Developing Vladimir Putin has demanded Ukraine withdraw from the eastern Donetsk region as a condition for ending Russia's war but told Donald Trump he could freeze the rest of the frontline if his core demands were met

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USA ranks 1 in Russian sanctions

Rubio recognized it months ago Rubio described the Ukraine War as a proxy war between USA and Russia

Maria Avdeeva Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський Ukrainians Lose Appetite for War, Support Negotiated Peace ▶️ 69% Favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible ▶️ 24% Support continuing to fight until victory

Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي Trump invited all of them

Europe’s humiliation ritual Started Going

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 Huns are Germans

George Kennan 1998 ▶️ “Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era” ▶️ “I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely…I think it is a tragic mistake”

Macron is past the mirage stage “The mirage of victory which lured him on, which he seemed so often on the point of grasping, had once more eluded him. He determined, however to keep pursuing it” ‘Defeat-Napoleon’s Russian Campaign’ - Philippe Paul De Ségur 1824

A new Chinese study finds that a lab technician in front of a BSL-2+ biosafety cabinet has an up to 19.9% chance of infection by a leaked bioaerosol, even with protective measures. For context, BSL-2+ was the biosafety level used in Wuhan for the research on that caused COVID.

750 HHS employees have short memories “The House report on HHS covid propaganda is devastating. The Biden admin spent almost a billion dollars to push falsehoods about covid vaccines, boosters, and masks on the American people” —Dr Jay Bhattacharya 10/24

“Customer #1 was getting nothing related to the origins” But that information never reached Trump's Presidential Daily Brief in January or February 2020

Nixon had no faith in Reagan’s diplomatic overtures to Gorbachev Nixon instinctively viewed events in the Soviet Union as a continuation of the past. Reagan searched for fundamental changes

According to Third Way, Dems avoiding certain words is the way forward for Democrats Democrats blacklist certain terms h/t Adam Wren

Russia is winning the war Russia is dictating terms “Ukraine will need to accept a deal largely on Russia's terms” — White House official NBC: Ukraine War has claimed 1.5M casualties on both sides