Dr. Jim EllsworthThe truth is that HRH #QueenMailorderBridesky hits him across the hands with a ruler whenever he does something his boss #VladTheInvader doesn't like.
"The EU, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada have responded by capping the price at which their tankers may sell Russian oil to third parties at $47.6 a barrel. But the US has not followed. Nor has it followed through on a threat to punish buyers of Russian oil with secondary [tariffs]."
Trump continues to do the job #VladTheInvader hired him for. Make Russia Great Again! Yeah!
@florencewarren The longer #VladTheInvader's war is allowed to drag on, the more a smaller country like Ukraine starts to run into available manpower issues within the eligible demographics as they take casualties. Lowering the conscription age is, in some sense, eating their seed corn. But it's increasingly going to be all they have left to eat.
Plus, the older age minimum makes it all too easy for young Ukrainians (and their parents) to rationalize a trip abroad "for college, so they can do EVEN MORE to help defend the motherland!" as a strategy for "incidentally" getting them outside conscription's reach (or the reach of "stray" Russian missiles). Which puts the burden of Ukraine's defense overwhelmingly on the working classes who CAN'T AFFORD that escape hatch.
Hard choices for hard times. 😢
May Allah (and the voter!) humiliate our #AmericanOligarchs, and their brothers in the #BillionairesInsurgency led by #VladTheInvader around the world. 🤲
#BillionairesAreAPolicyFailure #YeetTheRich
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/hot-commie-summer-zohran-mamdani
#VladTheInvader wants all of Ukraine.
#KingBibiAntipas wants all of Palestine.
Both are willing to commit #genocide and annex occupied territory in violation of international law to fulfil their #EthnicCleansing ambitions.
Once upon a time, the world pledged not to allow that again. But #NeverAgainIsNow.
@401matthall @SueDiOh Its a little of both. We (U.S. Intelligence Community) actually WATCHED him be bought--by the Kremlin via the Russian mob via Deutsche Bank--when his business incompetence had left him bankrupt with no honest lender willing to touch him, and he was terrified of actually being POOR. Because our due-course MISSION involved monitoring the Russians he was talking to, and he was too stupid to think that would necessarily expose HIM on the other end of the negotiations.
But youre absolutely right that his only real interest is in whatever his addled mind thinks will benefit him (malignant narcissist, remember), and as a native New Yorker, I've watched him screw friends, contractors, patrons, supporters, etc. FOR HALF A CENTURY, so I have no doubt that if he's reached the point where he thinks his new taxpayer-funded #craptocurrency scams will keep him rich for his remaining years, and his cult is beyond caring about ANY dirt they might release, he may get tired of having to be #VladTheInvader's beta all the time.
He might want to get checked for #PoloniumAllergies, though. Vlad doesnt have a lot of tolerance for oligarchs who start thinking they're independent....
Ironically, the main thing this war is demonstrating is why its absolutely essential THAT IRAN OBTAIN a nuclear weapons capability, ASAP.
Iran TRIED appeasing the West for decades, but while Europe and America were (pre-Trump) prepared to be satisfied with the results of a rules-based negotiation (the JCPOA), Israel responded first with a disinformation campaign AGAINST the agreement--and then with a long AND ESCALATING series of unprovoked attacks against Iranian sovereignty and a program that, for a long time, IAEA monitors & western intelligence agencies affirmed to be in continued, unilateral compliance.
Tragically, without a credible nuclear deterrent against the (illegally) nuclear-armed #IsraelAtWarCrimes, Iran has been unable to show the Zionist bully any reason why it shouldn't continue to do whatever the hell it pleases. And with America & its permanent UNSC veto standing resolutely--under both the #Donjjal AND #GenocideJoe Biden before him--as #GenocidesBodyguards as it advances the #EthnicCleansing of Palestine, it's all too clear they can't rely on anybody's strength but their own, and Allah's--notwithstanding the ineffectual protestations of a Russia that #VladTheInvader has mired in an unsolvable military mess of its own.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/23/nx-s1-5442317/israel-iran-russia-conflict
An important reminder that the #BillionairesInsurgency at the root of Trumpism, Brexit, and #VladTheInvader's "Kleptocrat International" has exploitable seams TOO, and a more strategic resistance needs to be thinking about how we set THIS enemy at each other's throats the way we did ISIS at the end....
Again, all of this #DoGEshit makes more sense when you understand that THE CRIPPLING DESTRUCTION IS THEIR MISSION from #VladTheInvader. THE WHOLE POINT of the Trump presidency; from Vlad's perspective, IS TO CRIPPLE THE UNITED STATES AS A MEANINGFUL WORLD POWER for the remainder of the century.
Anything else is gravy. #BenedictDonald #ApartheidClyde #TRE45ON
https://interisle.substack.com/p/death-by-1000-paper-cuts-how-foreign
