To avoid the dangers of a two-front war America chose 50+ fronts instead. Bold strategy. Let’s see how it plays out.

The real question is: Does Trump not realize that adding 40MN very liberal Canadians to the US voting pool would mean the GOP will never win another federal election given 63ish more electoral college seats? OR does he realize this and is planning to run it as a colony / dictatorship?

“The US has not really underwritten European security for decades. *No matter what happens next*, European defence depends on Europeans themselves. The choice is to accept and shape that reality, or to keep chasing a mirage until it is revealed as such at the worst possible moment.”

The crash of Azerbaijan airlines makes no sense. The flight took off in Baku and flew to Grozni. Reports have it that it hit a flock of birds while on approach to Grozny. Let’s ignore the bird vs missile issue. The plane crash landed in Aktau, Kazakhstan. That’s a 450km flight across the Caspian!!

Zelenskyy with the big burn against Europe: “Security guarantees solely from European countries, without US involvement, will not be “sufficient”

I’m sure it won’t be enough to wake anyone in Europe up but clearly Europe does not matter militarily anymore.

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EU states have relinquished sovereignty on matters of direct national interest -- pushing back against the Kremlin -- without fully even realizing what they've done.
Essentially, they've abdicated their future, and put it into the hands of Viktor Orban.
It's unforgivable if this drift continues.

Photographers from Anadolu have been following The White Helmets inside Sednaya prison.

In a chilling echo of Holocaust images, they have found rooms filled with hundreds of shoes and discarded clothes. Many blood-soaked nooses have been found too.

Unimaginable depravity. #Syria