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Sep 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Finally, Trump's tax returns have surfaced! Thank you, @nytimes!
How outrageous: "Mr. Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that The Times examined. In 2017, after he became president, his tax bill was only $750."
What a tax cheat!
nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/…
"The financial pressure on him is increasing as hundreds of millions of dollars in loans he personally guaranteed are soon coming due."
I wonder whom he might have turned to?
"Even while declaring losses, he has managed to enjoy a lavish lifestyle by taking tax deductions on what most people would consider personal expenses, including residences, aircraft and $70,000 in hairstyling for television."
"As president, he has received more money from foreign sources and U.S. interest groups than previously known. The records do not reveal any previously unreported connections to Russia."

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Jun 15
How to look upon Putin's Russia:
1. Putin needs permanent war to stay in power. It gives him imperialist legitimacy & a cause of repression. Therefore, Putin is today's Hitler. He will not stop, so the only end to his war can be his ouster or death.
2. The sooner Putin dies or is ousted, the earlier the war will end. Therefore, the West needs to do everything to make sure that Ukraine wins (not only "prevails") and that Russia is defeated (not only "fails").
3. This means that the West needs to give Ukraine all the arms it needs asap & allow Ukraine to hit whatever they care to hit in Russia.
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May 21
For months, the Biden administration has rightly blamed Trump & his GOP for blocking aid to Ukraine, but with the wonderful US Congress decision to support Ukraine with $61 billion, the tables have suddenly been turned. What is the Biden administration doing?! /1
Russia is attacking Kharkiv, Ukraine's 2nd biggest city close to the Russian border, but the US is loudly prohibiting Ukraine to defend itself by using US arms to bomb the Russian bases on Russian territory.
Who was dumb enough to insist on this policy?
Jake Sullivan...?
In parallel, the US has called on Ukraine not to bomb Russia in any way - no factories, in particular no oil refineries (that produce diesel & fuel for the Russian armed forces), while it says nothing about it with regard to Iran & Israel. /3
Read 7 tweets
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May 15
Since 2004, the Putin group has lived on Gazprom money. Nemtsov and Milov assessed that they embezzled $60 Billion during the four years 2004-7. Their revelation sank the Russian stock market in 2008.
But Gazprom made a loss of $6.9 billion in 2023.
What can Putin steal now? /1
The obvious answer is the arms procurement funds. That requires a change of guard & Shoigu's larceny must be contained.
The loyal Belousov can neutralize the Defense Ministry leadership so that it costs less & does not interfere in Putin's new business. /2
The FSB is cleaning out the top military cadres that stole more than they were supposed to, led by Shoigu & Timur Ivanov. Logically, Shoigu should be arrested, though not necessary. /3
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May 14
Excellent @washingtonpost article about Russia's new Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, but let me add a few things since I knew him quite well in the 1990s and early 2000s. Belousov belonged to the circle of liberal economists around late Yevgeny Yasin...
washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/…
...at the Higher School of Economics, which also included Elvira Nabiullina, but he was always the most Soviet among them. He could stay in this liberal circle by being soft-spoken, cautious & courteous, focusing on politically neutral forecasting.
However, I knew his father Rem (Revolution+Engels+Marx) Belousov, who was a very conservative Marxist Leninist Professor of Economics at the Academy of Sciences & Andrei was a very loyal son. I could not understand how the tolerant & fine Yasin could accept him with his views.
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Apr 27
A few thoughts on what a Western strategy on the war in Ukraine should look like:
1. Clarify the goal: Ukraine must win, recover all its territory from 2013 & defeat Russia.
2. Therefore, Ukrainian attacks on all Russian strategic & military assets must be welcomed.
3. While it might not be stated as an explicit goal, regime change in Russia must be welcomed. Putin is today's Hitler & he appears to have opted for eternal war, which will only end with his demise.
4. Russia has a larger population & economy, so it might benefit from a longer war, which will in any case cost everybody more. Therefore, the West should favor shock & awe in Ukraine's victory over Russia.
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Apr 16
Right now we are watching the moral & intellectual collapse of US foreign policy (not the first time).
1. The US (the Biden administration & all the more so the GOP) fails to stand up against Russian aggression against Ukraine without any real argument.
2. Clown @SpeakerJohnson has visited Trump & kissed his ring. He must not allow any funding to Ukraine. He intends to hinder it through complications not to seem guilty.
If Johnson allows any Ukraine funds, Trump's loyal Putinist executioner @RepMTG will oust him as speaker.
@SpeakerJohnson @RepMTG 3. Meanwhile, the hapless Biden administration focuses on admonishing the Ukrainians not to bomb Russian oil refineries in the flawed belief that it would boost global oil prices. What about the Israeli war? Is that irrelevant to the oil price? Try to get serious!
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