Happy Soviet Union Collapse Day!

To all the Ukrainian warriors in trenches tonight on Christmas defending freedom in Ukraine, Europe, and the world, thinking of you. In awe of you. #SlavaUkraini !

I didn't know I had a body double...Russian TV clearly thinks I do. At Vladimir Putin's press conference a reporter did a live interview with 'Steve Rosenberg' (but it wasn't me).

The WSJ conducted an investigation and found that Witkoff is not just Dmitriev's friend, but a direct Russian agent. The article “How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA” explains that Witkoff's appointment as head of the US negotiating team was a direct assignment from Putin to the Russian special services, which they carried out flawlessly. It was extremely important for Russia to get rid of the pro-Ukrainian Keith Kellogg. Moreover, Witkoff has become so close to Russia that he does not communicate with the CIA — unlike the FSB. You know, I have said many times that Ukraine and Europe cannot rely on the US. But now everything is different: we must be prepared for the US to start helping Russia directly, because in some places the Kremlin's hand is so deep that you can see it when you open your mouth. I have hope for the Americans and that the old democracy will work sooner or later. But we must be aware of the reality. Quotes from the article: “Vladimir Putin was interested in meeting Witkoff—so interested that he might consider releasing an American prisoner to him.” "The Russian president had been studying psychological profiles of the officials around Trump, including Keith Kellogg, the retired three-star general Trump had named as America’s envoy to Russia and Ukraine. Putin’s intelligence-agency reports stressed that Kellogg’s daughter ran a charity in Ukraine—a red flag signaling he might be hostile to Russian demands during coming peace talks, people familiar with the documents said. Kellogg had also shrugged off an appeal from television personality Tucker Carlson, who told him before Inauguration Day that Moscow was ready to start talking." "Ten months later, Kellogg is out and Witkoff and Dmitriev, two businessmen with strong personal connections to their respective presidents, are sketching a new economic and security order for Europe. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has pitched in to help negotiate where Russia’s borders will end, the shape of Ukraine’s army and how quickly Trump could tear down the new Iron Curtain of sanctions blockading Russia’s troubled economy.“ ”Today, those structures are virtually absent. America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff’s foreign meetings. Longtime allies in Europe also feel left in the dark, and worry that Washington no longer has their back, while Middle East monarchies are ascendant." "Dmitriev asked Prince Mohammed to deliver a message to Witkoff. Putin wanted to talk to the new Middle East envoy, and there was a deal to be done: Russia might be willing to negotiate a prisoner exchange as a gesture of good faith." "The prisoner in question was Marc Fogel, a high school history teacher serving a 14-year sentence in Rybinsk penal colony for carrying cannabis—medically prescribed for his chronic back pain—into Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. At the U.S. Embassy school in Moscow, the Pennsylvania native had taught the children of several U.S. ambassadors, including future CIA Director Bill Burns." “Now Dmitriev was sending a message that Witkoff could bring Fogel home.” “Kellogg later learned from a reporter that the Kremlin had complained to the White House about his daughter’s support for Ukraine, he said. If he ever writes another book, he joked, he might put Russia’s complaint on the cover. He plans to leave his post Dec. 31.” "For decades, senior American government officials visiting Russia would be briefed from a book of guidelines known as “Moscow Rules.” The document outlines the myriad ways the country’s security agents would try to surveil, entrap, compromise and recruit American visitors. It had been recently updated to reflect the security services’ increasingly aggressive posture, particularly the unit responsible for tracking Americans, the Department for Counter Intelligence, or DKRO. One important rule, say the officials who helped craft it: “There are no coincidences.” Ahead of his trip, the CIA offered to brief Witkoff; he declined. Nor was he accompanied by an interpreter: He had been told that Russia’s president wouldn’t allow him to bring another person into the meeting." "On Feb. 11, Dmitriev met Witkoff at the airport and reassured him as they raced toward the Kremlin in a government car. For three hours, Putin hosted Witkoff, who took notes as the president gave a lecture on the 1,000-year history of Russia. Putin was assessing whether the man in front of him was as open to the Russian perspective as his profile suggested, two people with knowledge of the meeting said. If so, a gift had been prepared for him to take home. Fogel had been transported more than four hours to Moscow." "Witkoff’s heart skipped a beat when he saw Fogel waiting for him at the Moscow airport." “This month, after Witkoff finished his sixth round of meetings with Putin, a Russian company sent him home with 11 pounds of red caviar, according to the country’s Trade and Industry Ministry. In fact, it was a mid-tier brand of roe that the company now wants to market as “Trumpovka.” A White House official denied any caviar changed hands." "Dmitriev, meanwhile, posted a photo on X of a bottle of Trump-branded vodka on a table overlooking Red Square and the Kremlin: “Make Vodka Great Again.”"

We put Putin's 19 December speech next to Hitler's 1939 Reichstag address. Seven steps. Same sequence. Same wording. "I wanted peace." "They rejected everything." "I was forced to act." The formula aggressors use to make conquest sound like self-defense hasn't changed in 86 years. Will the response? euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/…

ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus: "What Christmas has taught me is, above all, to be grateful. Grateful that I can celebrate it in peace with my family. And that makes me think about all the brave Ukrainian men and women who are fighting tonight to defend their country against the ruthless Russian aggressor. And remember that when they are defending their liberal democracy, they are, in fact, defending ours as well. And that they deserve all the support that they can have from us." Thank you! ❤️‍🩹

Izskatās pēc akcijas "Make Krollis great again" 👑

Again Trump lies to the American people and insinuates Zelensky started the war. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine. How much longer will the American people deal with this. Why is no one doing anything to stop him?

🇺🇦 The leader of the free world leads from the front. In this case, literally. Meanwhile, Putin hides and orders more bombings of Ukrainian civilians and free world leaders dither over the money of the terrorist dictator that’s attacking Europe.

Today, I am in the Kupyansk sector, with our warriors who are getting the job done for Ukraine here. The Russians kept going on about Kupyansk – the reality speaks for itself. I visited our troops and congratulated them. Thank you to each and every warrior! I am proud of you! And I thank all of our Land Forces – today is your day!

Fearing war, the Western powers made a deal with Hitler and sold Czechoslovakia. Instead of peace, they got a world war. Trump's concessions to Putin are just as dangerous!

Brālis atņēma brālim uzvaru 🤯

Never, ever, ever, ever in the entire history of humanity has one human being’s ego needed to be stroked so much. It’s so fucking pathetic. And shame, shame, shame on all the ego strokers.

This is how we treat Russian sympathisers in the UK. Absolutely laughable zero tolerance. These people literally get laughed at. It’s just embarrassing.

1: Let’s talk about Steve Witkoff, because I think the narrative of him being a “useful idiot” is a dangerous trap to walk in. It’s darker than that. Witkoff has spent three decades swimming in russian money, russian mob circles, and russian real-estate pipeline. A thread 🧵

This is a Ukrainian soldier that lost both arms, both eyes and his hearing defending us all. To tell this man that due to the US electing a mentally unfit imbecile for president he has to give away the land he sacrificed so much to defend, cannot stand. To tell the hundreds of thousands that have seen their children, their parents or their spouses mutilated, raped or killed for 4 years and counting at the hands of Russian soldiers that they will never get any justice, cannot possibly stand. To tell Ukrainians that they'll just have to accept that the butchers of Irpin and Bucha will never be trialed for their crimes, all because the US could not care less and Europe finds it too legally intricate to give Ukraine all the frozen Russian billions, cannot stand. With or without the United States, Europe cannot allow Ukraine to be forced into a so called "American peace deal" that will bring no justice and a very short lived peace. Europe must now finally use every means at its disposal to enable Ukraine to seek whatever justice and peace they see fit. We owe this man at least that much.

This is the closest Mamdani has ever been to pork

I’ve been in the room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same. Clip from this weekend's talk with @AVindman at the 2025 @TexasTribune Festival.

Jimmy Kimmel to Trump tonight: "I'll go when you go, okay? We'll be a team. Let's ride off into the sunset together like butch Cassidy and the suntan kid. [ Laughter ] And until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you: 'quiet, piggy.'"