While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

Total madness today on the Pokrovsk front — according to preliminary info, up to 150 (!) Russian motorcycles took part in a new assault. Ukraine didn't lose a single position according to Ukrainian military sources.

In a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators, William Webster, the only person ever to lead both the FBI and CIA, wrote that neither Patel nor Gabbard meets the demands of top intelligence jobs. At 100 and still at the top of his game, Webster deserves to be heeded.

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“Ukraine’s economy at large has reinvented itself to navigate wartime realities. It remains one-quarter smaller than in 2021. Yet for the first time since 2022, the start of the all-out invasion, it is healthier than its enemy’s in some key respects” www.economist.com/finance-and-...

This whole story of unconceivable hesitancy and political short-sightedness is just tragic.

A truly unique historic situation of 2022 was lost to absurd and self-consuming exercises in "escalation management," now bringing tragic results.
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On-field footage of the Michigan/OSU brawl via umgoblog/X

The guys are so exhausted they don't even mind the impacts

The 1,000 days that feel like 1,000 years.

Don't you forget that we're having the biggest Christmas party of our lives in Kyiv when the war is over, and everyone's invited.

We drink, roam the streets of Kyiv, and have snowball fights until we just can't.

Kyiv is the kind of city where one can get megatons of fun, so that will be epic.

#CLEvsN FINAL: Taysom Hill has himself a game, and the Saints go marching in victory!

Nikt nie powstrzyma Putina rozmowami telefonicznymi. Wczorajszy atak, jeden z największych w tej wojnie, udowodnił, że dyplomacja przez telefon nie może zastąpić realnego wsparcia całego Zachodu dla Ukrainy. Te tygodnie będą decydujące, nie tylko dla samej wojny, ale także dla naszej przyszłości.

Thanked Bundeskanzler for his call about Ukraine without Ukraine. Helps process of sitting down where Ukraine won’t be at table either, they’ll be on menu.

In the week since the U.S. presidential election, Elon Musk has used X, the social media platform he owns, to reiterate his support for President-elect Donald Trump. Some of X’s users have decided they want to post elsewhere. Among the largest beneficiaries of that desire is Bluesky. nyti.ms/48JtYAt

Russians have been furious at me for calling their country a wasteland so I went today to Kursk to check it out for myself.

Turns out it is a wasteland. However the Russian residents told me they finally had flushing toilets now that Ukrainians liberated it. So that’s a bonus and improvement.🤣