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2/ Horseshoe theory - an idea that the far left and right, rather than being at opposite ends of a straight line, actually curve toward one another like a horseshoe. They mirror each other in their rejection of the center and willingness to excuse or enable authoritarian regime.
2/ Because once the war ends, russian troops will not simply disappear — they’ll move. The garrisons now pinned down in Eastern Ukraine will redeploy to Finland, to the Baltic borders. And make no mistake — russia will keep producing weapons and expanding its military complex.
2/ There soon may come a time when the U.S. military will invite Ukrainian women to train their Marines — because these women have already proven what true courage looks like.
2/ There are two reasons for this:
2/ All the best and most convincing words, all the expensive suits and red ties are worth nothing if the enemy flies unpunished around your bases, cuts your cables, seizes whole countries across the globe, while you play at being Darth Vader and lecture about beards.
2/ But here’s the reality: America’s media landscape is too vast, too diverse, and too resilient to be brought under one man’s control. Trump may win short-term skirmishes, but he cannot silence the free press.
2/ Zelensky recently observed:
2/ In fact, the Helsinki Final Act (1975) and the Paris Charter (1990) – both signed by the USSR – affirmed that every country has the sovereign right to choose its own alliances.
2/ If you want to know how Trump would have acted when russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, just look at what he is doing now: nothing.
2/ On NBC, you said, “We've got to turn the rhetoric down, we got to turn the temperature down in this country, we need leaders of all parties on both sides to call that out.”
2/ Research consistently shows that education reduces crime. More schooling lowers the likelihood of arrests, convictions, and incarceration for violent offenses, including homicide.
2/ Sometimes it’s hard to even recognize your own friends when they openly call for violence — and that’s happening on both sides.
2/ Now, reports suggest that it was not the CIA, not British divers — but an elite Ukrainian team that carried out the sabotage in September 2022.
2/ GAO audit: Just four Mar-a-Lago trips in 2017 cost U.S. taxpayers ~$13.6M total (~$3.4M per trip) when you include Air Force aircraft, Coast Guard boats, and overtime.
2/ Ideally, Moscow wants to prove the North Atlantic Alliance’s inability to act as a collective institution. This test is aimed personally at Donald Trump, who has repeatedly expressed skepticism about U.S. commitments to its allies.
2/ It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat — if someone has a record like that, they should never be back on the streets. Period. Every release was another roll of the dice, and this time it cost Iryna her life. That is unthinkable. That is unacceptable.
2/ At least now I understand how most Germans, including a Christians, in the 1930s ended up supporting Hitler.

2/ “Last night, I went to bed hoping for a quiet night.
2/ Then came the pandemic crash of spring 2020: 1.4 million jobs lost in March, 20 million in April.
2/ Soon after, russian authorities arrested her father, Oleksii.
2/ No more illusions about russian “guarantees.”