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DaveT retweeted
The term “blown its load” comes to mind here.
Putin threw everything at 🇺🇦 & what did he get:
No gasoline in 🇷🇺, oil refineries 🔥, Wildberries 🔥, 1.5 million dead Russians, Putin wanted by the ICC, no tanks. Etc.
Ukraine is wearing them out.
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 BUDANOV SAYS PUTIN’S WAR MACHINE HAS REACHED ITS LIMITS
Kyrylo Budanov has delivered a striking assessment of Russia’s military capabilities, arguing that Moscow has depleted its Soviet-era weapons reserves and lost the professional army with which it launched its full-scale invasion.
“Russia has no military, economic or political potential to attempt a large-scale offensive anywhere in Ukraine,” he stated.
The implications of his assessment are significant.
Russia’s original invasion force has been transformed by years of attrition, forcing Moscow to rely increasingly on replacement personnel, newly manufactured equipment and alternative sources of military supplies.
But an exhausted strategic reserve does not mean Russia can no longer launch attacks. It means sustaining major operations and replacing losses become increasingly difficult.
Budanov’s argument challenges the perception of an inexhaustible Russian military machine.
The critical distinction is between having enough forces to continue fighting and possessing the resources to achieve a decisive breakthrough.
According to Ukraine’s intelligence chief, Moscow’s capacity for the latter has been severely diminished.
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DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO TRY AND STEAL ANOTHER MIDTERM. IF YOU SEE VOTER FRAUD
REPORT IT
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Only hours after I raised my suspicion that the "promised" 500 Patriot missiles might never arrive or the very least late, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy proved my point. "Only in a few years", or better never, more than enough time for Trump to conclude whatever corrupt business he wants to finish with Putin, before he has to exit the White House.
Therefore, this ploy laid out by Trump is not worth the paper on which this is written on. It only serves to draw Pro-Ukrainian crowd to vote Republican, a very transparent and most dishonest gambit. It is the same ploy he made when he "promised" to release the Epstein files, or to end the "forever wars" like in Iran. It will never happen under Trump and in reference to Iran it will escalate shortly after the midterms.
A new episode in the war in Iran will make gas prices even more unaffordable than ever, something Putin is craving for and which underlines especially why both, Trump and Putin, have taken a special interest in Alaska. Their Anchorage meeting last year where they talked about Ukraine was a facade. They and especially Trump are after the oil resources in the region.
We are getting scammed on a global scale and together with the tech-bro oligarchy in the USA, where people like Sam Altman berates us for having personal computers and make them unaffordable, we are losing more than just money. We are losing very freedom itself, so they can manufacture the future they want and where it is only them whose word count.
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I was driving home today from the store and I was thinking what one man destroyed this country almost overnight
And of course, this is the face that came to my mind
A one man wrecking ball to the whole country who shredded the constitution brought back racism divided the country more than any other time in our lifetime.
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If Trump had kept his campaign promises, the Epstein class would be getting prosecuted, there'd be no war in Iran or Ukraine, gas prices would be hitting new lows, real wages would be rising for the first time in nearly a decade, and the GOP would be adding seats in the midterms.
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There is a very specific reason why the left hates Elon Musk, and Senator Eric Schmitt just nailed it.
Musk has become the left’s number one target because Democrats LOATHE success.
As Schmitt put it, “They want to tear down everything.”
That’s what prompted his warning about the upcoming election.
Schmitt said this is no longer a debate about which party has the better tax rates.
The Democrats want to burn it down — and their warpath against Trump and Musk won’t stop with them either.
SCHMITT: “What the Democrats are willing to do with power is terrifying.”
“It won’t stop with Elon Musk, and it won’t stop with President Trump.”
“It will go to people who buy MAGA hats…we’ve seen this before.”
“It will go to Catholics who go traditional Latin mass…we’ve seen this before.”
“It will go to people who show up school board meetings who object to radical trans ideology…”
“This is what the modern Democrat party now does with power. It is about absolute control.”
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⚡️ “Putin will defeat Ukraine”: Kasparov warns Europe of its last chance to stop Russia
The Russian opposition figure published a scathing op-ed in The Telegraph, warning that unless Europe urgently increases military and financial aid to Ukraine, the consequences could be catastrophic.
“As the fifth year of fighting drags on, Ukraine faces a dire winter ahead. The situation is stark: if Ukraine does not immediately receive funding and the weapons it needs from Europe, it will lose.”
If things continue as they are, there will be no “after the war” — at least not in a world resembling the one we live in today. Putin will be dictating the terms.
According to Kasparov, there is only one option left: unfreeze Russian sovereign assets held in Belgium and use the money to arm and support Ukraine. Otherwise, he warns, Europe risks losing its ability to shape its own future.
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Another note for SpaceX attorneys and PR: There was no need to issue an alert at all. Your own internal data showed a safe 2km pass. But you issued a 400m collision alert anyway. Why? Because the alert itself is the weapon. Issuing it triggered FCC Cond 16, legally freezing ICEYE so it couldn't dodge. STARLINK-35856 didn't use its auto-evasion. It just parked there and kept the false alarm blaring while Russia sprinted in. It wasn't an accident.
SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses
The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see.
On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior)
Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable.
The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran.
SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon.
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After Elon Musk posted on X saying he had throttled Ukraine’s use of Starlink after it was used for offensive attacks, House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) says the billionaire’s ability to wield that power is “beyond disturbing to me.”
“It cannot and should not be the case that a tech oligarch, a private citizen, who has that much control over our national security, who is unaccountable, who is unelected, with zero transparency, is making life and death decisions on the battlefield in systems that our service members and our partners and allies rely upon,” he adds.
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🚨BREAKING: Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered a sharp rebuke to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision limiting nationwide injunctions by U.S. district judges.
In the majority opinion, Barrett wrote:
“JUSTICE JACKSON, however, chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to these sources nor, frankly, to any doctrine whatsoever. Waving away attention to the limits on judicial power as a ‘mind-numbingly technical query,’ she offers a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush.”
She continued:
“We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
The Court ruled that district judges generally cannot issue nationwide injunctions that block federal policies across the entire country for parties not before the court.
I was considering getting Starlink to use when traveling. Now that I see how manipulative Elon Musk’s become I am having second thoughts . I won’t invest in SpaceX stock. His unworldly actions may drive its price down significantly.
India said NO to Starlink.
Musk thought he could throw a public tantrum and bully India into handing him a telecom monopoly, but he completely miscalculated.
Thanks to Trump’s reckless betrayal of global allies and cozying up to dictators, the world is waking up to a terrifying truth: you simply cannot trust America—or its arrogant billionaires—with your national security anymore.
Fareed Zakaria:
“Elon Musk picked the wrong moment to lecture Indians.
Frustrated that Starlink had not been cleared to launch in that country, he accused the government of protecting Mukesh Ambani whose telecom network Jio will launch its own satellite service.
Musk cast himself as the champion of ordinary Indians against one of the country's richest men. It backfired. India's government dismissed his accusation as baseless.
An influential nationalist group close to the ruling party went further demanding that Starlink be kept out of India altogether citing national security. Media and online reactions were similarly hostile to Starlink.
Musk did not understand that in India as in much of the world, trust in America is collapsing. Indians have watched as Donald Trump has discarded 25 years of bipartisan outreach to New Delhi in favor of cozying up to Pakistan and its de facto dictator Field Marshal Asim Munir.
They have watched Trump essentially abandon Ukraine, where the military version of Starlink has been suspiciously restricted, thus crippling Ukraine's military response to Russian aggression.
Would India define itself in another crisis with Pakistan? Would it want its armed forces to be utterly dependent on a US satellite system controlled by Trump?”
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The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.
Though the blame game between the White House (Trump) and SpaceX (Musk) is going on, ultimately it doesn't matter. It showed the world that the USA are not a reliable partner any more. Pointing at some obscure "violation of terms of services" without providing the exact passage are just increasing that notion that this was a political move.
The explanation that Starlink must not be used for "offensive" means is nonsense, too. Starlink has never been turned on over Russia, and using it in Ukraine is by definition defensive in nature. You can even argue that hitting Russian targets in Russia is defensive, since you don't have to wait for an attack to be conducted. Even the intention is enough to warrant action and to eliminate the threat at the source. But this is a different topic.
Furthermore, SpaceX has been fully aware that its Starlink terminals are being used by Ukrainian forces. Especially when considering that Ukraine only recently had to white-list their Starlink terminals for the Ukrainian military so that Russian forces, who have been abundantly using Starlink as well, were locked out. It has always been clear that those Starlink terminals are used for and by the Ukrainian military, and Ukraine has always been thankful for that.
Coming up with this bogus story, now, three weeks before midterms is therefore as transparent as it is shameless. It is obvious for everyone that this was just figleaf statement so that a political agenda can be pushed, an agenda which runs counter to the strategic nationalist interests of the USA, both political and economic.
And this is the real scandal. It is not new that the US had to lock out its technology or supplies to nations with which it had previously good and even cordial relation. Iran under the Shah, South-Vietnam and Cuba before Castro are just three to name it. But as you can see from them, it made perfectly sense back then. Those nations switched sides or disappeared altogether.
Ukraine on the other hand didn't switch sides and even helped the US in the most recent and botched Iran war, despite being short on ammunition itself. The Ukrainian government accepted every possible compromise and offered an unconditional ceasefire from the start. Russia on the hand refused all of it and is demanding surrender. Yet, it gets this treatment? Unbelievable.
This will be noted by all clients around the globe who purchase US weapons and technology. If agreements are not honored and can unilaterally and even clandestinely be altered based on the whims of a few, who only follow their own motives or election lies, then the all concept reliability falls apart.
Whether it is Starlink, the F-35, Tomahawk missiles or HIMARS. All those systems run on software and in many cases can only properly operate with recent updates. You don't even need have a kill switch. You can only refuse to update and many of those systems lose more than 90% of their effectiveness within a short period, making worthless.
This is why we see the blame game between Musk and Trump. I'm sure that people around those guys told them how absolutely shortsighted and stupid this step was. It will fall back on the entire US industry. Not even those two guys are worth that losses and backlash. A functional US Congress would immediately start subpoenas and hearings, asking questions in order to mitigate the damage, but here we are.
Trump and Musk have given the best reason why not to buy American. Customers - governmental and private alike - around the globe will take note of this and act accordingly, and I wouldn't be surprised if this won't be limited to US military products only. An absolutely senseless and avoidable own goal.
ALT F-35 (Credit: Von U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen - http://www.dvidshub.net/image/935698/aerial-refueling-f-35-lightning-ii-joint-strike-fighters-eglin-afb-fla#.UZyEMrVU8QY, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49689165)
ALT Tomahawk Missile (Credit: US Navy)
ALT M142 HIMARS /Credit: Spc. Russell J. Good - http://www.defenselink.mil; exact source, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4233985)
DaveT retweeted
Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.
This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior.
Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly".
We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians.
The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption.
We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
