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This is not just a loss for Trump and the US, it is a catastrophe, most of the world will not play "Trump's games". Interview with Bezsmertny

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Donald Trump

and Vladimir Putin have had another phone conversation – officially their second since Trump took office as US president and began implementing his plan to end the war in Ukraine .obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/don…

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Horror for Russian air defense: what is special about Ukrainian Long Neptune missiles and what are they capable of?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, following the report by General Oleksandr Syrsky, stated that the Long Neptune missile had been tested and successfully used in combat, but did not provide any additional details. At the same time, a version emerged that the successful destruction of the Tuapse oil refinery was this use.

What is so good about this missile and why it can become one of Ukraine's main arguments in the matter of its own defense capability - in the material.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, following the report by General Oleksandr Syrsky, stated that the Long Neptune missile had been tested and successfully used in combat , but did not provide any additional details. At the same time, a version emerged that the successful destruction of the Tuapse oil refinery was this use.
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Let's find out what makes this missile so good and why it can become one of Ukraine's main arguments in the matter of its own defense capability.

SCRC "Neptune"

The need to create a domestic anti-ship missile system in Ukraine appeared practically immediately after the collapse of the USSR, since at that time the country mostly had morally and technically obsolete Rubizh complexes with P-15M missiles to protect its maritime borders. But despite the existing Ukrainian SCRC projects, none of them was ever implemented.

In 2014, after Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine lost the outdated Rubezh missiles that remained in its arsenal, and it was then that it was decided to give impetus to the Neptune project.

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Significant problems for Europe - a great opportunity for Ukraine: how Trump is destroying Western solidarity and #NATO

In an ideal world, the United States remains a large-scale "pillar of security" in Europe, making it clear to Russian dictator Putin that drastic steps are not worth taking.

- But we have US President Donald @realDonaldTrump and his vision of an "ideal" world in which Europe and Ukraine "robber" the United States, therefore have no right to help, and Russia is a reliable partner and friend who can be trusted.

Trump will withdraw the US from the Alliance, and Europeans will be responsible for their own security.

Given the increasingly loud statements coming from Washington during Donald Trump's second term, this statement no longer seems fantastic.

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The US withdrawal from NATO would be a strategic mistake of colossal proportions, but influential politicians in the Republican Party and the new administration are actually discussing this step. Thus, Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin recently stated:
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"NATO does not always act in our interests. And if the Alliance no longer serves America's interests, we should reconsider its necessity."

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Russia maintains maximalist demands on Ukraine, there is a "nuance" with the ceasefire: ISW assessed the risks

The aggressor country, the Russian Federation, maintains its maximalist territorial claims to all temporarily occupied areas and significant parts of unoccupied #Ukraine.

- #Kremlin officials have given no public indication that they are prepared to make concessions on their territorial or security-related demands to #Kyiv.

The actions of Russian officials demonstrate the unlikelihood of Russia abandoning its ambitions even after a ceasefire, analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have pointed out .
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It is noted that senior Kremlin officials, including dictator Vladimir Putin, have consistently demanded that Ukraine hand over all of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions, including those areas not occupied by Russian troops.

- They have been repeating these demands in recent weeks, while Russian state media have also amplified similar sentiments from #Kremlin mouthpieces

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Fighting back isn't a choice
Steve Schmidt
Mar 16

"Donald Trump has been president of the United States for 55 days".

These long days have been a glimpse into the disaster ahead for the American people, the American economy and America’s allies.

What is the story at hand?

What is happening?

First, everything taking place is entirely predictable and completely in line with what Donald Trump said that he would do. Nobody in America should ever be made to feel foolish over this.

The American media did everything in its power, at every turn, to amplify the voices of people around Trump.

They said he didn’t mean it, buying into the flimsy argument that there were good people who fenced him in, while diminishing voices that said he did mean it. 2/
The American people watched for 10 long years as if the next day coming had no attachment to those past.

Now, clearly, every day is building towards a collapse.

MAGA’s tentacles are expanding quickly now. There should be no doubt that Donald Trump’s aggressiveness and democratic fecklessness are deeply linked.

Donald Trump’s aggressions are being driven by the appeasement that he faces and the complete, total and absolute lack of fighting spirit amongst the lackadaisical, corrupt, dishonest and feeble Washington, DC, Democratic Party.

Some might take umbrage with “corrupt” being applied to DC Democrats, so let me ask a question: what word should be used to describe this statement by Chuck Schumer

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after he found out that New Jersey US Senator Bob Menendez had been arrested with gold bars sewed into the lining of his suit jackets?

Bob Menendez has been a dedicated public servant and is always fighting hard for the people of New Jersey. He has a right to due process and a fair trial.

Senator Menendez has rightly decided to step down temporarily from his position as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee until the matter has been resolved.

“Corrupt” doesn’t begin to describe it

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Second in Europe or in the world? Concerns are growing in the US about the strengthening of the Turkish army: how serious is its potential

According to a number of Western media outlets, the US Congress intends to raise the issue of recognizing Turkey as a Middle Eastern country, rather than a European one, in the near future - thereby demonstrating its geopolitical attitude towards Ankara as an antagonist.

There are also growing concerns in the United States about the strengthening of the Turkish army in recent years, with a number of experts calling it not just the second in Europe, but the second in the world. Is this really so? Let's try to figure it out .

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According to a number of Western media outlets, the US Congress intends to raise the issue of recognizing Turkey as a Middle Eastern country, rather than a European one, in the near future – thereby demonstrating its geopolitical attitude towards Ankara as an antagonist.

Ratings problems:

Today, there are many ratings in the world that try to reflect the military potential of certain countries, but almost all of them are fundamentally incorrect and do not correspond to reality.

The thing is that all these pseudo-ratings are based and formed with a degree of pretentiousness on an extremely limited set of dry data, which consist in an elementary comparison of quantitative components.

That is, whoever has more tanks is stronger, whoever has more soldiers, whoever has more artillery, whoever has more aircraft...

But a separate column that introduces a distorted idea of ​​the potential of a particular country has always been the gradation by the presence of nuclear weapons.

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Nine top companies have announced that they do not plan to return to the Russian market

The authorities of the aggressor country have stated that they are already allegedly negotiating with Western companies that want to return to the Russian market. But in reality, the largest Western companies that left Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine have no intention of returning.

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The Bell
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asked more than 60 foreign companies whether they had plans to return to the Russian Federation.

The companies selected for the survey were the largest in terms of revenue from those that had left the Russian market.

"We received a total of 21 responses, and none of them mention any clear plans to return to Russia. Nine companies directly stated that they would not return to the market under any conditions," the publication noted:

The Bell:
Following Donald Trump's foreign policy U-turn, Russian officials are acting as if the return of Western companies to Russia is inevitable, and there is already a queue of those wishing to return.

The Bell decided to check how things really are and sent inquiries about their desire to return to Russia to 60 of the largest Western companies that left the country after the start of the war. Not a single company responded positively.

'Conditions for Ukraine's surrender' — Why Putin's demands for ceasefire make no sense

By:
Oleg Sukhov

Russian President Vladimir Putin's conditions for a ceasefire are unrealistic and tantamount to demanding that Ukraine disarm itself and surrender, analysts say.

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Putin said on March 13
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that Russia was ready to agree to the U.S.-backed 30-day-long ceasefire in Ukraine but then followed by listing a number of demands — a ban on Ukrainian mobilization or training of troops and a halt on Western military aid for Kyiv.

Putin also hinted that Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk Oblast must surrender.

Later the same day, U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, met Putin in Moscow.

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Podiatrist's daughters say bone spur diagnosis that helped Trump avoid Vietnam draft was 'favor'

Two daughters of a New York podiatrist say that 50 years ago their father diagnosed President Donald Trump with bone spurs in his heels as a favor to the doctor's landlord, Fred Trump, The New York Times reported
Dec. 26, 2018

Trump received five deferments from the draft for military service during the Vietnam War. He received four education deferments while he was a college student and a fifth deferment in 1968 for a medical exemption after he graduated.

Larry Braunstein, who died in 2007, rented a ground floor office in a building owned by Trump in Jamaica, Queens. His daughters, Elysa Braunstein, 56, and Sharon Kessel, 53, told the Times that their father's role in Trump's diagnosis had become "family lore."

"It was something we would always discuss," Elysa Braunstein told the Times. She and her sister are both Democrats who oppose Trump, according to the newspaper
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Elysa Braunstein said their father made the diagnosis to gain access to the landlord and that she didn't know if her father even examined the junior Trump.

"I know it was a favor," Elysa Braunstein said.

"What he got was access to Fred Trump," she told the Times. "If there was anything wrong in the building, my dad would call and Trump would take care of it immediately. That was the small favor that he got."

The women did not offer any documentation to back up their claims. They said their father's story also involved a second podiatrist, Manny Weinstein, who died in 1995. Weinstein's landlord was also Fred Trump.

The White House did not make Trump available for a follow-up interview to the New York Times and did not respond to written questions about his service record.

In October, the Times reported on how much Fred Trump helped his son through the years, giving him what today would be more than $410 million
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Trump's Chaos:

- Planes Falling, Inflation Rising. Time to Impeach.

America is in crisis, with deadly plane crashes linked directly to Donald Trump’s reckless decisions, like dismantling the FAA and firing key safety personnel.

Meanwhile, inflation is skyrocketing.
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Johnny Palmadessa
Mar 10
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Welcome to America, the land where our planes are crashing out of the sky, but inflation? That’s soaring higher than ever.

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Just today, another plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Another one. Five lives are now hanging in the balance, all because of Donald Trump’s incompetence.

These aren’t isolated accidents. The crashes we’re seeing are directly tied to Trump’s reckless, deadly decisions.

From Arizona to Pennsylvania, every recent disaster can be traced back to his dismantling of the FAA and his complete disregard for safety.

Let’s break this down. This isn’t just negligence—it’s a catastrophe.

Trump dismantled the FAA, the very agency that ensures our skies are safe.

He fired the Aviation Security Committee, gutting the oversight that protects us.

He terminated hundreds of FAA employees who were the backbone of flight safety

These aren’t just mistakes—they’re deadly choices. And rather than fix the damage he’s caused, Trump’s content to let planes fall from the sky

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The MAGA Exit Strategy: Why Trump’s Followers Can’t Leave—And How We Can Break His Spell

By:
Jason Egenberg
Mar 8
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It’s easy—comforting, even—to believe that Trump’s most ardent supporters are simply political extremists, swept up in a wave of bad faith and worse ideas.

That if we could just present them with the right facts, the right evidence, the right moral argument, they’d snap out of it.

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Because MAGA isn’t just a movement—it’s a personality.

It’s not about policy or governance. It never has been. It’s about belonging. It’s about the human need to feel seen, to feel important, to feel like you’re part of something bigger than yourself.

And for millions of Americans, MAGA has filled that need

MAGA as an Identity, Not Just a Political Choice
We talk about Trump’s base as if they’re just die-hard voters, but the reality is closer to religious conversion. He didn’t just sell them a political ideology; he sold them themselves:

You’re not just a Republican—you’re a patriot, a warrior in a battle for America’s soul.

You’re not just frustrated by the system—you’ve been betrayed by it, and Trump is the only one who sees the truth.

You’re not just supporting a politician—you’re defending your very identity against those who want to erase it.

This is why the usual tactics—fact-checking, debunking, arguing—fail. Because what you’re really asking someone to do is question their entire sense of self.

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Called Putin a war criminal:

- The Guardian showed how Rubio "changed his ways" under Trump....(son does what "baba" sayes)

After being appointed US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio dramatically changed his stance on Ukraine and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

His rise to the top of the State Department appears to have forced him to embrace baba Donald Trump’s agenda and abandon his long-documented support for Ukraine.

Despite the fact that Rubio previously advocated a tough policy towards Russia and called Putin a "war criminal" and a "bandit", his rhetoric has changed.
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Despite the fact that Rubio previously advocated a tough policy towards Russia, calling Putin a "war criminal" and a "bandit", his rhetoric has changed. The Guardian writes
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about this .

During the meeting at the White House, Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing him of not being grateful enough to the United States, and called his actions "playing with World War III."

- Rubio,

who a few years ago advocated for increased sanctions against Moscow, sat silently on a yellow couch.
His behavior caused a flurry of reactions on social networks: -users joked that he looked like "a man who realized he was on the wrong side of history," "a man who sold his soul to the dumbest people on the planet," and some called him -

"a corpse on the couch."

And comedians on the television show Saturday Night Live, during a parody of the events in the Oval Office, compared Rubio to "Homer Simpson hiding in the bushes."

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Trump’s Worst Nightmare: How Elon Musk Could Blow Up the GOP From the Inside"
By: Jason Egenberg
Mar 8

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There’s an old adage in politics that goes something like this:

- If your opponent is setting themselves on fire, don’t hand them a hose—hand them gasoline.

And right now,

- in Donald Trump’s second term, the fire has started.

It’s burning in the Cabinet Room of the White House, where Elon Musk—the world’s richest man and Trump’s largest financial backer—just tore into Secretary of State Marco Rubio, demanding to know why he hadn’t slashed more jobs. 2/
It’s burning in the hallways of government, where Trump’s cabinet secretaries, normally a docile lot, are quietly seething at Musk’s brazen, unchecked power—his reckless dismantling of federal agencies, his handpicked “efficiency” squads gutting departments with a chainsaw instead of a scalpel, and his habit of treating seasoned officials like incompetent interns.

And it’s burning in Trump’s own hands, as he realizes that his billionaire ally, who helped bankroll his reelection and wields a social media empire as a weapon, is becoming more liability than asset.

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Organized filtration camps and purchased crematoriums: the Central Intelligence Agency gained access to documents of a top Russian official involved in crimes against Ukraine

The Center for National Resistance has gained access to the email address of Igor Sosunov, head of the Department of Civil Defense and Population Protection of the Russian Ministry of National Defense.

The documents found there confirm his direct participation in the creation of filtration camps for Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories of our country.
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These documents also confirm the purchase of mobile crematoriums by the Russian MNS for the occupied territories of Ukraine and give an idea of ​​the scale of the destruction in Mariupol, which was captured by Russia. .

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Some documents were made publicly available by the Central Emergency Situations Ministry.
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"The Center for National Resistance, thanks to caring citizens, has gained access to the email of Igor Sosunov, head of the Department of Civil Defense and Population Protection of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

The documents received contain numerous evidence of war crimes committed by the Russian army and the occupation administration against the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine," the Center noted.

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US continues to share defense intelligence with Ukraine – CNN

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The United States continues to share intelligence with Ukraine that could help its Defense Forces defend themselves on the front lines .


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Trump's Lifeline to Putin: Cutting Ukraine's Aid Amid Russia's Collapse.

Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, and their ilk will spend the rest of their lives avoiding Ukrainians for fear of being spit on
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As the war in Ukraine reaches its third year, it is undeniable that Ukraine is not just surviving but winning.

What was supposed to be a three-day war for Russia has instead turned into one of the greatest military failures of the modern era.

The Russian military has suffered over 800,000 casualties—dead, wounded, and missing—gutting its combat effectiveness and forcing it into increasingly desperate tactics.

Gone are the days when Russia could conduct complex maneuvers with well-equipped forces. Instead, it has reverted to crude human-wave attacks, sending poorly trained convicts and conscripts to be slaughtered in the trenches.

This is not the behavior of a victorious army—it is the last gasp of a military that has been bled dry.

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A thread👇

Caught in the Net:

- Star Wars Tactics and Geopolitical Struggles in #Kherson

An exclusive Byline Times interview with Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration

Do you think Russia is escalating attacks near Kherson ahead of possible peace negotiations?

There is no large-scale Russian troop buildup for a full crossing and offensive. The Russian command knows that increasing their numbers would trigger Ukrainian countermeasures

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Yet,

- Russian offensives have intensified in the Kherson region since the US presidential election. Intercepted Russian military conversations reveal they are being ordered to advance on the right, Ukrainian-controlled bank, despite heavy refusals, as the mission is seen as suicidal.

Yet many still go and die.

Russia relies on sending waves of troops, many of whom are killed daily—15 were eliminated in such attacks yesterday. Every day, heavily armed Russian forces, mostly arriving by boat, storm islands in the Dnipro, trying to secure positions on the right bank.

When retrieving Russian bodies, our military observes a mix of new recruits and long-serving soldiers.

Young draftees in brand-new uniforms are killed alongside veterans with over two years of service. Special forces and marines are also present.

While their equipment varies, their objective is the same: establish a foothold by the end of the month

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The Russians want to reach the logistics roads, fighting continues on the border: the Central Military District spoke about the situation in Sumy region. Map

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As of Wednesday evening, March 5, Russian occupation forces continue to wage battles in the border areas of #sumy region .


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Donald Trump,

Your address to the nation tonight was nothing short of disgraceful, and it only further exposes the hollow weakness that defines you.

Your words didn’t serve to unite this country—no, they only served to stoke division, to inflame anger, and to distract us from the very real and catastrophic failures you’ve inflicted upon this nation.

You want us focused on fighting amongst ourselves while you dismantle the very fabric of this country.

But we see through your thin facade. Your deception is as transparent as your fragile ego, and your temper is as childlike as it is destructive. You are not a leader, Donald.

You are a coward in a suit—a puppet in Vladimir Putin’s game, and your actions tonight made that clearer than ever.

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You cower behind your bigotry, tossing marginalized communities in front of you as though they be pawns in your desperate attempt to escape legal accountability.

You sought to overturn the 14th Amendment by executive order.

But let’s speak truth:

- You can attempt to evade the courts by wasting time on ridiculous executive orders all you want. Inevitably, the courts will catch up to you.

Tonight, you celebrated your so-called "victories." But make no mistake—you have no victories. You’ve delivered nothing more than catastrophic consequences for your reckless, traitorous behavior.

You’ve sabotaged our economy.

You’ve gutted our institutions.

You’ve trampled on the very ideals this nation was built upon.

And you have the audacity to stand before us, unashamed, as if the destruction you’ve caused is somehow worth celebrating.

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Trump's tough tariffs have collapsed the stock market: US stocks have lost $3.4 trillion – Bloomberg

The US stock market has reacted with a collapse to the imposition of tariffs by President Donald Trump on Canada, Mexico and China. American stocks have lost $3.4 trillion. Investors are selling assets en masse due to concerns about Trump's tariff policies.

This is reported by Bloomberg. The publication named the industries that were affected, with Elon Musk's business suffering particularly badly.

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- American stocks have lost $3.4 trillion. Investors are selling assets en masse due to concerns about Trump's tariff policies.
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Trump ❤️ CCCP
Look at the evidence and decide
Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
Mar 5

( He served one term in the United States House of Representatives for Illinois' 8th congressional district. He served from January 2011 through January 2013, after defeating three-term incumbent Democratic Representative Melissa Bean by a margin of 291 votes in a surprising upset.
He is a member of the Republican Party)
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As many of you probably know, I spent most of the fall campaigning for Kamala Harris.

I did it not because I’m a Democrat, but because, like you, I’m a patriotic American.

I believe in the Constitution, the separation of powers, the rule of law, and liberty and justice for all. Pretty basic American stuff.

Or so I thought.
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A lot of MAGA folks believe they’re patriots too, but no American patriot would back this traitorous president, his corrupt administration, or the party that supports them.

One of the Red Hatters’ favorite insults is that old standby—“commie”—and we heard that out on the trail with Vice President Harris from time to time.

Nothing could be more ironic.

Because here’s the reality: -Donald Trump is not only trying to be a king, he’s using the Soviet playbook, and Republican electeds are cheering it on.