Chrystia Freeland: "Inside the United States, the pressing question is whether the country will remain a democracy. That matters to the rest of us, too" "Mr. Trump has made his view plain. His Washington doesn’t have allies. It has only satraps, enemies and equals..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

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Daily Beast: "Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker" We must not overestimate Putin's remaining staying power. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...

Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed on Live TV After Leaving His Bunker

Vladimir Putin ventured out in public for the first time in months and walked smack dab into an ambush during a televised meeting that went off the rails. Fresh off a tightly controlled publicity stun...

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@FT: "Brazil has denied visas for two senior US envoys over fears they intended to interfere in upcoming elections..." US foreign policy has become the spreading of lies under Trump. What a disaster! www.ft.com/content/fa78...

Brazil denies visas to US officials over alleged election interference

Government claims Trump envoys sought to cast doubt over integrity of voting system to aid ally Flávio Bolsonaro

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@FT "Why the world trusts China more than America" Today, the US is one man: Donald Trump. We all know that Trump = the US always lies. Therefore, nobody can trust the US as long as Trump is US president. Why don't republicans understand anything so simple?

My recent article in the Kyiv Post: "The Ankara NATO Summit: A Minor Respite for NATO" No major achievement was reached, while no immediate disaster occurred. www.kyivpost.com/opinion/80364

The democrats should make Trump's corruption the main theme of the midterms. Every day, the party as such should come out and specify a major Trump corruption case. There are so many. Present one in detail every day!

Incredible that the extreme rightwingers on the US supreme court think they could transform SCOTUS to a purely political body without encountering any relevant counterreaction. They appear to be completely detached from all reality.

Gideon Rachman: "Rampant crime, poverty and weak institutions make Latin America susceptible to Trumpism. But in the more prosperous and established democracies of Europe, the Maga message is falling flat." www.ft.com/content/2304...

Trump’s plan for Europe is falling apart

The US president has a genius for alienating existing and potential allies

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The Wall Street Journal criticizes JD Vance: "Equally naive and misinformed is his view that the government can revive a more traditional American culture with trade protection and industrial policy and by retreating from the world." THAT IS TRUMP'S VIEW. Say so! www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-v...

Opinion | JD Vance and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

His ‘understanding’ with Iran is in tatters, and Trump has diverged from him on arming Ukraine.

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It is just unreal to read the NATO Ankara Summit Declaration. Nothing is true. 1. "We...reaffirm our ironclad commitment to our collective defence under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty". Trump disputes that all the time, so it lacks credibility. /1

Russia's giant size is no longer strategic depth, but an enormous weakness. Long transportation is needed & can be attacked anywhere. Russia can only defend a few spots. Ukraine has invalidated Russia's whole strategy since the Napoleonic wars. kyivindependent.com/will-ukraine...

Will Ukraine's 'long-range sanctions' decide the war?

The Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv in early July 2026 were the largest such state terrorist attacks to date against civilian infrastructure in the Ukrainian capital. Yet, these acts by the ...

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Trump's interference in FIFA's decision making shows that the US under Trump is unable to host a major international competition. Trump does not respect any rule of law. The rest of the world needs to figure out the consequences.

"Fifa will allow Folarin Balogun, the star striker of the US men’s national team, to play its knockout World Cup match against Belgium on Monday after a complaint from Donald Trump to football’s governing body." Trump disqualifies the US (as expected). www.ft.com/content/a858...

Fifa reverses suspension of star US striker after call from Trump

Belgium cries foul after governing body clears Folarin Balogun to play World Cup match

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"Alexander Volfovich, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, advised Belarusian citizens to refrain from traveling to Russia, particularly to border areas, citing security risks." www.kyivpost.com/post/79490?u...

Note that the pro-Putin Trump administration never condemns Russia's terror bombing of Ukrainian civilians, churches, hospitals and schools. Trump supports Putin.

The most ridiculous claim today: Henry Olsen: "Europeans typically do not understand how deeply Americans of all parties care about free elections and democracy." Give us a break! The US, especially the GOP, is not very democratic: /1

The Putin circle appears to be breaking up: 1. May 12, 2024, Defense Minister Shoigu was sacked. 2. Four deputy defense ministers have been arrested and given long prison sentences for corruption. 3. May 14, 2024, KGB General Nikolai Patrushev ousted as national security advisor. /1

Nobody has suspected any previous US president of selling secrete information to other countries, but Trump is personally taking huge amounts of money from foreign countries, while we don't know what he gives. Trump is the main US national security threat.

"Gasoline Prices in Annexed Sevastopol Jump 30% in One Week" www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/02/g...

Gasoline Prices in Annexed Sevastopol Jump 30% in One Week - The Moscow Times

Gasoline prices in the port city of Sevastopol surged by a dizzying 30% last week, according to new government data, though Russian media reported that actual prices at the pumps are rising far higher...

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Ukraine has greatly benefited from the US getting out of Ukraine: 1. Ukraine can now pursue its own wiser military strategy. 2. Now Ukraine successfully bombs Russian oil refineries & terminals, causing a shortage of gasoline. /1

The verdict of Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board: "Charges of GOP corruption will resound through 2028. This will feed the left’s class warfare and facile narrative that billionaire “oligarchs” are getting rich off government." www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Opinion | The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’

They are profiting off the Presidency in ways that demean the office.

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We all know that Trump is the most blatantly corrupt leader in the world. Everybody knows that Trump is on the take. They also know that he is amazingly cheap, considering the great state values he sells. Outrageously the US state is too weak to stop this larceny.

"Zelensky Mocks Putin’s 15 Failed Deadlines to Capture Donetsk Region" Another similarity between Putin & Trump: Setting deadlines that are no deadlines. It has consequences to always lie: You lose all credibility. www.kyivpost.com/post/79231?u...

Usually Europe and Latin America dominate the World Cup in football. Out of 32 advancing countries, 13 are European and 8 American, while Africa has done far better than previously with 9 countries advancing. The remaining 2 are Japan and Australia.

Trump is the greatest enemy of the US: 1. His unjustified claim to Greenland has effectively ended NATO. 2. His support of Putin has ended all claims to the US supporting democracy. 3. His end of all US international aid has ended US soft power. /1

I was there the other day. What luck that I did not touch the water. I did not know that it was prohibited.

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We are not a serious country 🇺🇸

US media need to reconsider how they report Trump statements: 1. Should it be reported, given that Trump lies all the time? 2. If reported, it should be accompanied with the caveat that Trump lies all the time. 3. Alternatively, each time a credible observer could be asked to judge its veracity.

Will Trump realize that Putin is a loser?

How will the war in Ukraine end? The only natural end is that the Kremlin ousts Putin & blames him. We cannot know how or when that will happen, but Ukrainians will never give up. Europe stands firm with Ukraine. Trump is too weak to be able to betray Ukraine to Putin's advantage. /1

Trump has made himself the laughing stock of the world by his persistent lying. He has also concentrated all power in his own hands, while refuting all competence. As a result, the US has become unable to pursue international negotiations.