Alex Braeburn
@dchope2018.bsky.social
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🇺🇦✈️ Two Major Air Fleet Agreements in 2025
🇫🇷🇸🇪 Ukraine placed an initial order for 100 Rafale fighter jets. Ukraine and Sweden signed a letter of intent covering the potential purchase of up to 150 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets.
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🇫🇷🇸🇪 Ukraine placed an initial order for 100 Rafale fighter jets. Ukraine and Sweden signed a letter of intent covering the potential purchase of up to 150 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets.
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/two-major-ai...
Two Major Air Fleet Agreements in 2025
This autumn, Ukraine made two significant moves to strengthen its aviation capabilities: a letter of intent with France for the supply of Rafale fighter jets an
theukrainianreview.info
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
🇺🇦✈️ Two Major Air Fleet Agreements in 2025
🇫🇷🇸🇪 Ukraine placed an initial order for 100 Rafale fighter jets. Ukraine and Sweden signed a letter of intent covering the potential purchase of up to 150 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets.
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/two-major-ai...
🇫🇷🇸🇪 Ukraine placed an initial order for 100 Rafale fighter jets. Ukraine and Sweden signed a letter of intent covering the potential purchase of up to 150 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets.
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/two-major-ai...
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On Thursday, I instructed to prepare the Staff meeting. I am preparing several necessary legislative initiatives and principled swift decisions that our state needs.
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
On Thursday, I instructed to prepare the Staff meeting. I am preparing several necessary legislative initiatives and principled swift decisions that our state needs.
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🇹🇷 Tomorrow, I will hold meetings in Türkiye. We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations.
Doing everything possible to bring the end of the war closer is Ukraine’s top priority. We are also working to restore POW exchanges and bring our prisoners of war home.
Doing everything possible to bring the end of the war closer is Ukraine’s top priority. We are also working to restore POW exchanges and bring our prisoners of war home.
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🇹🇷 Tomorrow, I will hold meetings in Türkiye. We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations.
Doing everything possible to bring the end of the war closer is Ukraine’s top priority. We are also working to restore POW exchanges and bring our prisoners of war home.
Doing everything possible to bring the end of the war closer is Ukraine’s top priority. We are also working to restore POW exchanges and bring our prisoners of war home.
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🇪🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today, I am holding meetings in Spain. We expect that another strong country will increase its support.
We are working to ensure that the meeting with Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain results in agreements that will give us greater strength.
We are working to ensure that the meeting with Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain results in agreements that will give us greater strength.
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🇪🇸🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today, I am holding meetings in Spain. We expect that another strong country will increase its support.
We are working to ensure that the meeting with Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain results in agreements that will give us greater strength.
We are working to ensure that the meeting with Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain results in agreements that will give us greater strength.
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US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Turkey tomorrow to meet with Zelensky, according to Reuters. The Ukrainian president earlier confirmed his Wednesday trip to Turkey, aimed at ramping up negotiations, tied to ceasefire talks and prisoner exchanges.
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Turkey tomorrow to meet with Zelensky, according to Reuters. The Ukrainian president earlier confirmed his Wednesday trip to Turkey, aimed at ramping up negotiations, tied to ceasefire talks and prisoner exchanges.
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🇺🇦🇹🇷 Zelensky said he planned to go to Turkey on Wednesday in an attempt to revive talks with Russia on how to end the war in Ukraine, - Reuters
🇺🇸❗️Witkoff would also visit Turkey on Wednesday and join the planned talks there with Zelenskiy.
🇺🇸❗️Witkoff would also visit Turkey on Wednesday and join the planned talks there with Zelenskiy.
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🇺🇦🇹🇷 Zelensky said he planned to go to Turkey on Wednesday in an attempt to revive talks with Russia on how to end the war in Ukraine, - Reuters
🇺🇸❗️Witkoff would also visit Turkey on Wednesday and join the planned talks there with Zelenskiy.
🇺🇸❗️Witkoff would also visit Turkey on Wednesday and join the planned talks there with Zelenskiy.
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Logistics, rotation, and medical evacuation have become deadly because drones spot and strike anything that moves, forcing soldiers to spend weeks on the zero line and wounded troops to crawl kilometers for help.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Logistics, rotation, and medical evacuation have become deadly because drones spot and strike anything that moves, forcing soldiers to spend weeks on the zero line and wounded troops to crawl kilometers for help.
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🐝🇺🇦 Drones have erased the idea of a fixed front line in Ukraine, - POLITICO
Instead, a 20-kilometer “kill zone” has formed where swarms of surveillance and attack drones hunt soldiers, cut supply routes, and make evacuations nearly impossible.
Instead, a 20-kilometer “kill zone” has formed where swarms of surveillance and attack drones hunt soldiers, cut supply routes, and make evacuations nearly impossible.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🐝🇺🇦 Drones have erased the idea of a fixed front line in Ukraine, - POLITICO
Instead, a 20-kilometer “kill zone” has formed where swarms of surveillance and attack drones hunt soldiers, cut supply routes, and make evacuations nearly impossible.
Instead, a 20-kilometer “kill zone” has formed where swarms of surveillance and attack drones hunt soldiers, cut supply routes, and make evacuations nearly impossible.
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US is the biggest recipient of Chinese loans, study shows reut.rs/3LTM9vL
US is the biggest recipient of Chinese loans, study shows
The United States is the biggest recipient of China's lending activities globally, according to a study which tracked Beijing's credit activities and found it is increasingly lending to higher-income countries over developing countries.
reut.rs
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
US is the biggest recipient of Chinese loans, study shows reut.rs/3LTM9vL
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Feels like we're at the stage where Nixon caved to the pressure and released transcripts of the Oval Office recordings, which turned out to have been heavily edited and misleading.
We might be jumping ahead to the 18 1/2 minute erasure, though.
But I'm not sure the 1-to-1 comparison really works?
We might be jumping ahead to the 18 1/2 minute erasure, though.
But I'm not sure the 1-to-1 comparison really works?
Attention, historians of Watergate! I'm getting flashbacks from the months of back and forth, reversals and blunders over release of White House records. What stage are we at with the Epstein Files? Drip, drip, drip, as we used to say. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Feels like we're at the stage where Nixon caved to the pressure and released transcripts of the Oval Office recordings, which turned out to have been heavily edited and misleading.
We might be jumping ahead to the 18 1/2 minute erasure, though.
But I'm not sure the 1-to-1 comparison really works?
We might be jumping ahead to the 18 1/2 minute erasure, though.
But I'm not sure the 1-to-1 comparison really works?
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A consistent theme of the current era is that if you appoint unqualified people to do important jobs so they will follow your orders, they may do what they are told to do, but they will also be very bad at those very important jobs.
BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A consistent theme of the current era is that if you appoint unqualified people to do important jobs so they will follow your orders, they may do what they are told to do, but they will also be very bad at those very important jobs.
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As Ukraine focuses its main forces on defending Pokrovsk, Russia is intensifying its offensive in the southeast and pushing toward Zaporizhzhia
If Russian troops get close enough, they could begin hunting civilians with FPV drones, as they already do in Kherson euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/17/w...
If Russian troops get close enough, they could begin hunting civilians with FPV drones, as they already do in Kherson euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/17/w...
“We saw this near Vuhledar. It ended with Kurakhove’s fall”: Same Russian pattern now unfolding on another front, as Ukraine diverts forces to Pokrovsk
While 170,000 Russians pin Ukraine at Pokrovsk in Donbas, 70 trucks daily infiltrate the neighboring region.
euromaidanpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
As Ukraine focuses its main forces on defending Pokrovsk, Russia is intensifying its offensive in the southeast and pushing toward Zaporizhzhia
If Russian troops get close enough, they could begin hunting civilians with FPV drones, as they already do in Kherson euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/17/w...
If Russian troops get close enough, they could begin hunting civilians with FPV drones, as they already do in Kherson euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/17/w...
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Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
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Everybody is talking about the new reporting on DOJ corruption today. Please note this as well: The Trump Murder Memo was also produced by DOJ. It's another window into how badly DOJ has been corrupted.
This is arguably worse than the Bush torture memo. Liberal commentators should talk about it.
This is arguably worse than the Bush torture memo. Liberal commentators should talk about it.
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Everybody is talking about the new reporting on DOJ corruption today. Please note this as well: The Trump Murder Memo was also produced by DOJ. It's another window into how badly DOJ has been corrupted.
This is arguably worse than the Bush torture memo. Liberal commentators should talk about it.
This is arguably worse than the Bush torture memo. Liberal commentators should talk about it.
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From mid-century woodwork to bold gold drapes, here is how every President has decorated the Oval Office.
How Every President from Taft to Trump Decorated the Oval Office
www.newsweek.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
From mid-century woodwork to bold gold drapes, here is how every President has decorated the Oval Office.
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I am going through the transcript of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s interview on CNN on Sunday.
I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the most remarkable interviews I have ever seen a politician give.
Stay tuned for my full breakdown on my Substack later today!
chriscillizza.substack.com
I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the most remarkable interviews I have ever seen a politician give.
Stay tuned for my full breakdown on my Substack later today!
chriscillizza.substack.com
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November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I am going through the transcript of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s interview on CNN on Sunday.
I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the most remarkable interviews I have ever seen a politician give.
Stay tuned for my full breakdown on my Substack later today!
chriscillizza.substack.com
I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the most remarkable interviews I have ever seen a politician give.
Stay tuned for my full breakdown on my Substack later today!
chriscillizza.substack.com
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November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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One down. I predict more resignations to come.
"FEMA head resigns. Richardson had been hard to reach during Texas floods.
David Richardson resigned Monday after a brief tenure leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency."
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
David Richardson resigned Monday after a brief tenure leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency."
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
FEMA head resigns. Richardson had been hard to reach during Texas floods.
David Richardson resigned Monday after a brief tenure leading the Federal Emergency Management Agency
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
One down. I predict more resignations to come.
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JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan says the expansion of the SAVE system by DHS is probably illegal but can't immediately block it because plaintiffs failed to show irreparable harm.
She set an expedited schedule instead.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
She set an expedited schedule instead.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan says the expansion of the SAVE system by DHS is probably illegal but can't immediately block it because plaintiffs failed to show irreparable harm.
She set an expedited schedule instead.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
She set an expedited schedule instead.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This opinion demands to be read in full.
Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings:
* The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment.
* Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.
Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings:
* The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment.
* Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This opinion demands to be read in full.
Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings:
* The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment.
* Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.
Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings:
* The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment.
* Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.
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A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
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"The fact that JD Vance has openly cited Curtis Yarvin as an inspiration and that Thiel is the person most responsible for creating Vance as a politician should be viewed as a national emergency."
My comments to @thorbenson.bsky.social
madness.ghost.io/we-need-to-t...
My comments to @thorbenson.bsky.social
madness.ghost.io/we-need-to-t...
We need to talk about JD
Not nearly enough news coverage has focused on JD Vance's influences and his extreme views.
madness.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"The fact that JD Vance has openly cited Curtis Yarvin as an inspiration and that Thiel is the person most responsible for creating Vance as a politician should be viewed as a national emergency."
My comments to @thorbenson.bsky.social
madness.ghost.io/we-need-to-t...
My comments to @thorbenson.bsky.social
madness.ghost.io/we-need-to-t...