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Q: What would it take to force Zelenskyy and Putin to sit down together, maybe with you?

Trump: It’s going to happen, but it should have happened 3 months ago. 1/
Q: Are you closer today to secondary sanctions on Russia?

Trump: We're looking at that whole situation. It could be that we'll have to put secondary sanctions.

Q: Sooner than 50 days?

Trump: Maybe, yeah. 2/
Trump on the expiring nuclear arms reduction agreement between the U.S. and Russia in 6 months:

That's a big problem for the world when you take off nuclear restrictions.

That's not an agreement you want to expire. We're starting to work on that. 3/
Trump: Hamas pulled out of negotiating in Gaza. It was too bad. Hamas didn't really want to make a deal. I think they want to die, and it's very bad. 4/
Q: Macron said France will recognize the Palestinian state. Is it counterproductive?

Trump: What he says doesn't matter. It's not going to change anything.

He's a very good guy, I like him, but his statement doesn't carry any weight. 5/
Q: What do you think of the trade deal with the EU?

Trump: We have a 50/50 chance, maybe less, of making a deal with the EU. It'll be a deal where they have to buy down their 30% tariffs. 6/
Trump: We made a deal with Japan. Japan is putting up $550B to lower their tariffs, and they are also open for free trade with the U.S.

Maybe we get such a deal with the EU. 7/
Q: Do you think that the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity would apply to Obama?

Trump: It probably helps him a lot. He's done criminal acts, but he has immunity. 8X

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Jul 26
Russia has failed every major ally in the Middle East - Syria, Hezbollah, Iran.

Moscow offered no military aid, no retaliation when Assad fell, the US bombed Iran, and Israel hit Hezbollah.

Putin offers nothing beyond oil and gas, writes McFaul & Milani in Foreign Affairs. 1/ Image
When Assad’s regime collapsed in December 2024, Russia offered asylum but gave no support. Rebel forces entered Damascus without resistance. Russian troops withdrew from their bases in days. 2/
In June 2025, Israeli and U.S. forces bombed Iran’s nuclear sites. Iran sent its foreign minister to Moscow. Putin condemned the attack — but provided no weapons, no defense systems, no intelligence sharing. 3/
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Jul 26
China doesn’t want Russia to win the war in Ukraine. Nor does it want it to lose.

Alexander J. Motyl in The Hill: Beijing benefits from a Russia that is isolated from the West, and subordinate to China. It supplies cheap energy, accepts trade terms and poses no regional risk. 1/ Image
If Putin wins, he could start new war — against Kazakhstan or a NATO state. China would face a stronger, more assertive Kremlin.

If he loses, Russia risks elite infighting, separatism in the Caucasus or Siberia, and instability across China’s border. 2/
Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, told EU’s Kaja Kallas that China can’t accept Russia losing.

But a prolonged war in Ukraine that weakens Russia suits Beijing. It drains Russian resources, and keeps Moscow too preoccupied to pursue its own foreign policy. 3/
Read 5 tweets
Jul 26
Oleksii Sobolev is Ukraine’s new Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture.

Trusted by international partners, respected by business, and effective in getting things done.

Also, he teaches at KSE — and we’re proud of it.

1/ Image
Sobolev, 42, is from Kyiv. He holds a degree in Finance from Kyiv National Economic University. He started his career at Ernst & Young and later managed assets at Dragon Asset Management.

2/
He entered public service after the Revolution of Dignity. In 2018, he became head of — a platform for transparent state asset auctions. After the full-scale invasion, he joined RISE Ukraine, a coalition for transparent reconstruction.

3/Prozorro.Sale
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Jul 25
Elon Musk ordered a blackout of Starlink coverage during Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Kherson in Sept. 2022.

SpaceX engineer Michael Nicolls: We have to do this. 100+ terminals went dark.

Drones died. Comms failed. Ukraine failed to encircle Russians at Beryslav, Reuters.

1/ Image
The blackout hit Kherson and parts of Donetsk around September 30, 2022.

Ukrainian troops lost contact, lost drone feeds, and failed to encircle Russians at Beryslav.

A frontline officer: The encirclement stalled entirely. It failed.

2/
Musk acted days after Putin threatened nuclear retaliation in September 21. He feared Ukrainian gains would trigger escalation.

He spoke with U.S. officials. Then gave the order.

3/
Read 10 tweets
Jul 25
Russia is forcing kidnapped Ukrainian teens to prepare to fight Ukraine

Times: Vlad Rudenko was 16 when Russians raided his home in Kherson. They sent him to re-education camp in Crimea, then naval school

For 18 months, they made him sing Russian anthem and train with rifles 1/ Image
Russians gave dummy rifles to 16- and 17-year-olds and live ammunition to older teens.

Vlad: The more it went on, the more I worried they were going to send us to fight. The Russians didn’t manage to take anything from me - they just deprived me of my childhood. 2/
Yermak, Zelensky’s chief of staff, told The Times: We have facts that Putin is building soldiers to fight against the country where they were born.

Ukraine has recovered teen bodies from battlefields and found conscription papers. 3/
Read 7 tweets
Jul 25
FT calls Zelensky's signing of the NABU and SAPO bill a power grab and his biggest political crisis.

Protests erupt in Kyiv as western allies urge to rethink move against anti-corruption bodies.

But Zelenskyy heard society and EU, US partners and rewrote the law. 1/ Image
Zelenskyy signed legislation bringing Ukraine's two main anti-corruption bodies NABU and SAPO under control of his handpicked prosecutor-general, sparking the biggest political crisis of his wartime presidency. 2/
Over 2,000 protesters gathered outside Zelenskyy's office chanting "Shame!" with hundreds defying military curfew in rare wartime defiance. 3/
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