Wes Andrews
@wesandrews.bsky.social
Int’l & Sec Affairs, GeoStrategist, Business Innovator, Asia Addict, China Hand, Fmr @Cuse Sprinter & AFG Vet |@HarvardHBS |@MIIS |@ColumbiaSIPA |@EngineeringSU
Trump, Vance, Rubio, Witkoff ALL get 💯% ‘played’ yet again by a BOSS negotiator…as Putin ‘peace’ feint removes all pressure—U.S. conceding: oil sanctions @LindseyGrahamSC tee’d up AND EU frozen Russian asset transfer plan to pay for Ukraine weapons and winter aid.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Trump, Vance, Rubio, Witkoff ALL get 💯% ‘played’ yet again by a BOSS negotiator…as Putin ‘peace’ feint removes all pressure—U.S. conceding: oil sanctions @LindseyGrahamSC tee’d up AND EU frozen Russian asset transfer plan to pay for Ukraine weapons and winter aid.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
💔 when ‘peace’ looks like self-dealing, capitulation & enemy abetting—as we plan to abandon our allies to join Afghanistan, Belarus, Syria & Venezuela in recognizing Putin’s Ukraine invasion spoils—💯% contrary to core 🇺🇸 doctrine & est int’l law since WWII. #StopTheDoubleDeal🙈
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
💔 when ‘peace’ looks like self-dealing, capitulation & enemy abetting—as we plan to abandon our allies to join Afghanistan, Belarus, Syria & Venezuela in recognizing Putin’s Ukraine invasion spoils—💯% contrary to core 🇺🇸 doctrine & est int’l law since WWII. #StopTheDoubleDeal🙈
Like the 2020 debacle Doha ‘deal’ that delivered Afghanistan back to Taliban ctrl 6-mos after he left office (the 1st time)—we again see the ‘great’ deal maker on the precipice of poss facilitating yet another historic unjust peace.
#WeirdWinning️🙈
en.protothema.gr/2025/11/28/t...
#WeirdWinning️🙈
en.protothema.gr/2025/11/28/t...
Telegraph: Trump prepares to recognise Russia's occupied territories in Ukraine - ProtoThema English
The US president will send Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner next week to discuss Russia's territorial gains, according to the British newspaper, without taking European concerns seriously
en.protothema.gr
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Like the 2020 debacle Doha ‘deal’ that delivered Afghanistan back to Taliban ctrl 6-mos after he left office (the 1st time)—we again see the ‘great’ deal maker on the precipice of poss facilitating yet another historic unjust peace.
#WeirdWinning️🙈
en.protothema.gr/2025/11/28/t...
#WeirdWinning️🙈
en.protothema.gr/2025/11/28/t...
“The damage Trump’s done by talking about w/drawing American power & acting in ways contrary to U.S. interests by causing our allies to back away from us—in hopes authoritarians will make [good] ‘deals’—is about as naive a FP approach as [one] can imagine.”—fmr AMB Bolton on Trump FP
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“The damage Trump’s done by talking about w/drawing American power & acting in ways contrary to U.S. interests by causing our allies to back away from us—in hopes authoritarians will make [good] ‘deals’—is about as naive a FP approach as [one] can imagine.”—fmr AMB Bolton on Trump FP
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
From “Quiet Piggy” to Catherine Lucey of Bloomberg News on AF-1 RE: Epstein to “You’re a Stupid Person” to Mireya Villarreal of ABC News on Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago RE: AFG asylum vetting…can’t ever recall condescending disrespect as a sign of true confident leadership.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
From “Quiet Piggy” to Catherine Lucey of Bloomberg News on AF-1 RE: Epstein to “You’re a Stupid Person” to Mireya Villarreal of ABC News on Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago RE: AFG asylum vetting…can’t ever recall condescending disrespect as a sign of true confident leadership.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
It’ll be an intolerable/catastrophic failure if Trump delivers Putin a victory thru diplomacy he cannot achieve in war—the U.S. must retain its role as a defender of just causes, not b/c driven solely by pure transactional ‘what’s in it for us’ greed.
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
Opinion | ‘We Are Going to Have to Fight Three Wars’
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It’ll be an intolerable/catastrophic failure if Trump delivers Putin a victory thru diplomacy he cannot achieve in war—the U.S. must retain its role as a defender of just causes, not b/c driven solely by pure transactional ‘what’s in it for us’ greed.
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...
Made in China 2025 #中国制造2025 w/its primary goal to transform the 2nd largest economy into a global "manufacturing superpower" largely succeeded—via subsidies, preferential treatment of its firms, forced tech transfer & other wily tactics. What’ll Made in China 2035 look like? #中美关系 #贸易战
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“When institutions start censoring themselves…THAT is the moment we all need to pay attention. Democracies don’t collapse overnight, they grad erode in acts of fear.”—Rutger Bregman, Reith Lecturer whose censored piece describes Trump as “the most openly corrupt POTUS in 🇺🇸 history”
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“When institutions start censoring themselves…THAT is the moment we all need to pay attention. Democracies don’t collapse overnight, they grad erode in acts of fear.”—Rutger Bregman, Reith Lecturer whose censored piece describes Trump as “the most openly corrupt POTUS in 🇺🇸 history”
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
“Without a course correction, [Trump] may soon preside over the 1st negotiated defeat of a modern democracy at the hands of an aggressive autocracy in the heart of Europe—an area 🇺🇸 presidents have declared as vital to [our] nat’l interests for 80yrs.”—Fareed Zaharia on Ukraine
#StandWithUkraine🌻
#StandWithUkraine🌻
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“Without a course correction, [Trump] may soon preside over the 1st negotiated defeat of a modern democracy at the hands of an aggressive autocracy in the heart of Europe—an area 🇺🇸 presidents have declared as vital to [our] nat’l interests for 80yrs.”—Fareed Zaharia on Ukraine
#StandWithUkraine🌻
#StandWithUkraine🌻
To be a fair arbiter between conflicting parties one must be seen as a trustworthy, impartial actor—also probably one seeing authoritarianism, revanchism and imperialism as ‘juvenile’ throwback state pursuits of the 19th century that run counter to the modern international order.
#StandWithUkraine🌻
#StandWithUkraine🌻
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
To be a fair arbiter between conflicting parties one must be seen as a trustworthy, impartial actor—also probably one seeing authoritarianism, revanchism and imperialism as ‘juvenile’ throwback state pursuits of the 19th century that run counter to the modern international order.
#StandWithUkraine🌻
#StandWithUkraine🌻
The reality of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains: “Russia has been fighting aimless for [3.75yrs]…with the support of the EU, Ukraine is in a position to fight and WIN…and we [must] cont to supply weapons to NATO [+ Ukraine] to do what they want with them.”
#StandWithUkraine🌻
#StandWithUkraine🌻
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The reality of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains: “Russia has been fighting aimless for [3.75yrs]…with the support of the EU, Ukraine is in a position to fight and WIN…and we [must] cont to supply weapons to NATO [+ Ukraine] to do what they want with them.”
#StandWithUkraine🌻
#StandWithUkraine🌻
A domestic intelligence operation is being built out under Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts—CBP is poised to get more than $2.7B, to build out surveillance systems such as a license plate reader program layering in AI & other emerging tech. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A domestic intelligence operation is being built out under Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts—CBP is poised to get more than $2.7B, to build out surveillance systems such as a license plate reader program layering in AI & other emerging tech. apnews.com/article/immi...
Like arresting dime bag dealers in the infamous ‘drug war’—going after ‘illegal’ immigrants (the supply side) doesn’t really ‘fix’ the problem, as the demand-side of the equation (businesses knowingly hiring illegal immigrants to cut costs) remains fully intact.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Like arresting dime bag dealers in the infamous ‘drug war’—going after ‘illegal’ immigrants (the supply side) doesn’t really ‘fix’ the problem, as the demand-side of the equation (businesses knowingly hiring illegal immigrants to cut costs) remains fully intact.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
Reposted by Wes Andrews
Yes, Tom, Trump has a long history of maintaining superlative control over himself, like back in 2005 when he admitted to being a serial sexual assailant on a live mike with Billy Bush—who he did not know well—and several other people who were strangers to him
Great personal self-control, the BEST
Great personal self-control, the BEST
“Donald Trump seems to have lost control over the one thing every person, and especially those with immense power, should always maintain control over: himself,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Yes, Tom, Trump has a long history of maintaining superlative control over himself, like back in 2005 when he admitted to being a serial sexual assailant on a live mike with Billy Bush—who he did not know well—and several other people who were strangers to him
Great personal self-control, the BEST
Great personal self-control, the BEST
Meanwhile in the land of shilling for Moscow—ahead of his travel to Geneva, we find SECSTATE Rubio attempting to reassure U.S. Senators about the ‘ridiculousness’ of the 28-point Russian plan, despite its circulation by the Trump admin.
#StandWithUkraine🌻
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
#StandWithUkraine🌻
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Meanwhile in the land of shilling for Moscow—ahead of his travel to Geneva, we find SECSTATE Rubio attempting to reassure U.S. Senators about the ‘ridiculousness’ of the 28-point Russian plan, despite its circulation by the Trump admin.
#StandWithUkraine🌻
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
#StandWithUkraine🌻
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Post “Quiet Piggy” the now-infamous AF-1 moment last Fri where Trump responded crudely to Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg News asking about Epstein—a subsequent OpenAI Sora meme music 🎶 track attributed to TayTay (aka Taylor Swift) captured da sentiment.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Post “Quiet Piggy” the now-infamous AF-1 moment last Fri where Trump responded crudely to Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg News asking about Epstein—a subsequent OpenAI Sora meme music 🎶 track attributed to TayTay (aka Taylor Swift) captured da sentiment.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
From ‘Sieg Heil’ salutes to classifying the Nazi-era swastika, a fascism & white supremacy emblem—as “potentially divisive” to calling for political opponents to be HUNG…maybe it’s time🇺🇸thought more about who we are?
Do we step back from our global role—only to embrace hate at home?
#WeirdWinning🙈
Do we step back from our global role—only to embrace hate at home?
#WeirdWinning🙈
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
From ‘Sieg Heil’ salutes to classifying the Nazi-era swastika, a fascism & white supremacy emblem—as “potentially divisive” to calling for political opponents to be HUNG…maybe it’s time🇺🇸thought more about who we are?
Do we step back from our global role—only to embrace hate at home?
#WeirdWinning🙈
Do we step back from our global role—only to embrace hate at home?
#WeirdWinning🙈
Americans who’ve served➕faced combat, watching the harsh behavior of this admin—detaining 🚺🧑🧒👶🏼♿️ &👴🏽👵🏽 ppl in👺 masks, willingly violating 14th Amend protections for expediency…we don’t see warrior-honor or integrity in these acts—but autocratic cowardice.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Americans who’ve served➕faced combat, watching the harsh behavior of this admin—detaining 🚺🧑🧒👶🏼♿️ &👴🏽👵🏽 ppl in👺 masks, willingly violating 14th Amend protections for expediency…we don’t see warrior-honor or integrity in these acts—but autocratic cowardice.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
When thinking of our legacy, Constitution & founding fathers in this age of authoritarian populism—recall Thomas Jefferson's motto: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." A motto unused for the Seal of the United States—but later adopted for Jefferson’s own seal.
#Resist💪🏼
#Resist💪🏼
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
When thinking of our legacy, Constitution & founding fathers in this age of authoritarian populism—recall Thomas Jefferson's motto: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." A motto unused for the Seal of the United States—but later adopted for Jefferson’s own seal.
#Resist💪🏼
#Resist💪🏼
Not the 1st time an 🇺🇸 populist mistook punishment for policy. Hoover tariffs deepened the Depression. Reagan war on unions froze wages for decades. Trump follows the same script—the price reflected in 🇺🇸’s grocery cart. h/t @tonywriteshere.bsky.social
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.facebook.com/share/p/1AAH...
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.facebook.com/share/p/1AAH...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Not the 1st time an 🇺🇸 populist mistook punishment for policy. Hoover tariffs deepened the Depression. Reagan war on unions froze wages for decades. Trump follows the same script—the price reflected in 🇺🇸’s grocery cart. h/t @tonywriteshere.bsky.social
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.facebook.com/share/p/1AAH...
#WeirdWinning🙈
www.facebook.com/share/p/1AAH...
Our democracy requires sacrifice for its greatness…while some might assume they have inalienable rights that are self-evident—there’ve always been those uniquely willing to defend them. Raise a toast today—to those willing to make those sacrifices…as they are truly the very best of us.
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our democracy requires sacrifice for its greatness…while some might assume they have inalienable rights that are self-evident—there’ve always been those uniquely willing to defend them. Raise a toast today—to those willing to make those sacrifices…as they are truly the very best of us.
#VeteransDay
#VeteransDay
Meanwhile as we watch America growing greater by the day with Presidential pardons—we see many celebrating the grand victories of our democratic processes:
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Meanwhile as we watch America growing greater by the day with Presidential pardons—we see many celebrating the grand victories of our democratic processes:
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
First pardoned all (>1500) involved in Jan 6th, and now all (77) of his 2020 campaign legal team & admin, incl Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, Sydney Powell & Mark Meadows—involved in seeking to alter state electors that voted against Trump in 2020.
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
First pardoned all (>1500) involved in Jan 6th, and now all (77) of his 2020 campaign legal team & admin, incl Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, Sydney Powell & Mark Meadows—involved in seeking to alter state electors that voted against Trump in 2020.
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Beaverton, OR in 15 July 2025—Mahdi Khanbabazadeh (38), an Iranian national & his 🇺🇸 wife were awaiting green card approval after completing an interview w/immigration authorities—seems a crude ICE trend to target immigrants following legal American immigration procedures.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Beaverton, OR in 15 July 2025—Mahdi Khanbabazadeh (38), an Iranian national & his 🇺🇸 wife were awaiting green card approval after completing an interview w/immigration authorities—seems a crude ICE trend to target immigrants following legal American immigration procedures.
#WeirdWinning🙈
#WeirdWinning🙈
Despite high-minded talk about turning Twitter into a free speech paradise—findings suggest the now obvious conclusion: Since the Oct 2022 purchase…Musk’s spent years turning the once-vital social media platform into a propaganda machine.
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.avclub.com/twitter-x-am...
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.avclub.com/twitter-x-am...
Read this: A new report shows X is amplifying far-right accounts
Read this: A new report shows X is amplifying far-right accounts
www.avclub.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Despite high-minded talk about turning Twitter into a free speech paradise—findings suggest the now obvious conclusion: Since the Oct 2022 purchase…Musk’s spent years turning the once-vital social media platform into a propaganda machine.
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.avclub.com/twitter-x-am...
#WeirdWinning🙈 www.avclub.com/twitter-x-am...