Tag: war

Russian troops mass near Poland as Putin plans to co-opt Belarusian army to threaten NATO

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Belarus is partially controlled by Russia, and could be fully controlled soon. Putin has said that he sees Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians as one people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hM-OhDBHsc

The ‘Big Tactical Error’ in the Russia-Ukraine Negotiations

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“Putin doesn’t want a deal — Putin doesn’t want a deal that Ukraine can accept. Putin wants a deal where Ukraine would essentially, now or in the future, cease to be an independent, sovereign country with ties to the West. So, I am skeptical in the extreme that a lasting peace could be negotiated.

Also, Putin’s made it clear that, at a minimum, he wants all sorts of territorial transfers. Well, it’s one thing for Zelenskyy to recognize that Russia occupies Crimea and much of the Donbas. It’s something very different for Zelenskyy to sign away Ukraine’s title and rights to these areas.

The biggest difference then, between a ceasefire and a peace is that in a ceasefire you don’t sign away your rights to anything. You simply agree to stop the war. In a permanent peace, you’ve got to sign away rights, potentially to territory, to populations, you name it.

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If you go back to the summer of 2021 and Putin’s so-called essay or op-ed, he obviously sees Ukraine as central to Russia’s future. It’s part of the Russian Empire identity and central to his own legacy, which makes it extraordinarily difficult for him to agree, in a permanent way, that Ukraine will be separate and different from Russia. So yes, it makes it very hard for Putin to agree to a final status or a permanent agreement that doesn’t give him a great deal. It ought not to rule out a ceasefire, because then he could say, this is simply a tactical pause.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/21/trump-ukraine-russia-negotiations-interview-00517411

‘Clearly a low moment’: US-India relationship sours as new tariffs kick in

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“The new levies — imposed, in part, to pressure Russia to end its war on Ukraine by punishing one of its largest oil buyers — will raise the country’s tariff rate to 50 percent and are likely to inflame tensions between the world’s two largest democracies.

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The Indians, meanwhile, have shown little sign of budging on their Russian oil purchases, which the government has framed as purely an economic decision.

Now, India’s 50 percent tariff rate will be nearly as high as the 55 percent levy Chinese goods face.

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For much of this century, U.S. presidents have sought to pull New Delhi into closer strategic ties — and pry it away from its traditional relations with Moscow — through India’s membership in the China-countering group known as the Quad, which also includes Australia, Japan and the United States.

Those efforts appeared to be bearing fruit as recently as January following a meeting in Washington with top diplomats from Quad countries when India’s Foreign Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told reporters that New Delhi was willing to nudge the grouping toward a greater defense and security focus. That initiative is likely dead as long as the Trump administration’s tariff punishment continues.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/clearly-a-low-moment-u-s-india-relationship-sours-as-new-tariffs-kick-in-00527196

Inside the Nasser Hospital Strike: The Propaganda That Changed a War

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Cameras are a legitimate target in the Gaza war because Hamas tries to record their attacks. However, hospitals are protected and a very good justification is needed to hit one and minimal force should be used. Two tank shells is not minimal force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-sJxZpAGT0

JD Vance’s Tour in Iraq Taught Him His Government Lies

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“Trump may have been “unfit for our nation’s highest office,” Vance wrote in his first column in April 2016, but at least he was willing to say what other Republicans were not: “That the war was a terrible mistake imposed on the country by an incompetent president.””

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/22/jd-vance-marines-iraq-tour-00504879?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nname=politico-toplines&nrid=37ccbc38-e661-44ca-901f-692f3af1c3bf

Turmoil at C.D.C., a School Shooting in Minneapolis, Israel’s Exhausted Soldiers

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Trump damaging the CDC, which is losing key employees due to the administration not understanding scientific evidence.

Some Israeli military units are exhausted and not showing up for the new invasion of Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtLQNCgagQ

Lisa Cook Tells Trump She Won’t Quit, Abrego Garcia Detained Again, Inside North Korea’s ‘Waikiki’

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If Trump successfully destroys the Fed’s independence, he will have eliminated the country’s ability to manage the economy with limited influence by short-term election cycles.

Israel hits hospital and kills five journalists, then says they will investigate what happened.

Trump is preparing to send the national guard to more cities. The national guard is not designed to enforce crime. Trump focuses on cities run by Democrats even though several high crime cities are run by Republicans. If Trump mostly or only sends troops to “crack down on crime” in Democrat run cities, that indicates that this is political intimidation and U.S. democracy is dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLmiwzOxaaA

Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein

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Treating the Israelis simply as settler colonialists that inherently need to genocide the people they stole their land from gives the Palestinians no agency. It ignores that Palestinians really could have had a Palestinian state but some Palestinians have repeatedly made that not possible by acts of terror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_ppEHXs3w